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 Admiral Mudd and Friends Site Ring Newsletter for Aug., 2006
Our Featured Members Of The Month
Trillworld : A beautiful tribute site to Dax and all her fellow Trills! In both English and German. Have fun exploring it! URL: www.trillworld.de/
DIY Sheep vs. Doctor Who and everyone else ....The best thing about being a Doctor Who fan is learning the sheer joy of taking the mickey out of it and everything else you can get your hands on. This is DIY Sheep's story... URL: diysheep.tripod.com/index.html
The Questarian: The Galaxy Quest Fandom Homepage : Do you remember this fabulous movie Valentine to science fiction fans everywhere? If it has been awhile since you've seen it, I suggest you watch it again! Best line: Jason Nesmith: "Never give up! Never surrender!" Alexander Dane, Gwen DeMarco, Tommy Webber and Fred Kwan: "Oh, shut up!" The Questarian is a fabulous fan site devoted to Quest and Questarians (GQ Fans). Fun, colorful, and updated often! Take a look, you won't regret it! URL: www.questarian.com/
News and Special Announcements
The 2006 AMAFSR/Lounge Lizards II Star Trek Caption Contest!
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Trek while testing your Trek knowledge. Who are your favorite Trek aliens? Find out by participating in our Caption Contest! Winners will receive one of four prizes (to be announced soon). This contest ends December 31st, 2006. For rules, or details on how to play, or become a sponsoring site, please contact us at kinda@msn.com, or go to: p220.ezboard.com/floungelizardsiifrm2.showMessage?topicID=1043.topic
Our First Annual Doctor Who Quiz
The Doctor Who Group , and the Doctor Who Message Board , in association with The Action Figure Theatre is sponsoring our first annual Doctor Who Quiz . First prize is a Tenth Doctor Action Figure AND a new series Sonic Screwdriver . Second prize is a choice of a TDWG, DWMB, or AFT T-shirt OR mug. Third prize is a TDWG, DW Message Board, or Action Figure Theatre Mousemat. This contest will end September 21, 2006. To find out more information, or to be sent the Quiz, please email us at kinda@msn.com.
NEXT MONTH....
Our Star Trek 40th Anniversary Edition Newsletter! Packed with EVERYTHING Trek we can get our hands on! Do you run a Star Trek site? Do you want to make a special announcement? Email us at kinda@msn.com! Remember, the 40th Anniversary is on September 8, 2006.
Editorials and Special Interest Articles
Grief Recovery by AmyLynn
I’ve suffered from depression untreated for seven years. I didn’t even really know anything was wrong until it was too late.
Thankfully after treatment and medication I hit the path to recovery. But that wasn’t the only thing that helped. I was recommended the book Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James and Russell Friedman. It’s an action program for moving on beyond death, divorce and other losses. Reading this book I discovered a whole new level to getting better. It took me through a process of creating a lifeline and those losses I encountered along the way. It’s not merely a book you read digest and put down never to think about again. You actually need a pen and paper to write things out, and a partner to communicate with. I know many churches and therapists that have used this book. And I have yet to find a person this book didn’t help. It’s not a religious book, though it’s based (like most things in life) in fact. And like the Bible (amongst many other books), it is based in fact as well. Confessing ones sins, or in this case, ones grief’s helps on the road of recovery. To finally dig deep down and pull those things up that need to be shared is not only refreshing but a cleansing experience. It’s very hard but worth it.
In my process of dealing with my grief I had thought the hardest part would be writing a goodbye letter to my mother. But indeed that was far easier than saying goodbye to my pet skunk Stinky. With my partner I sat reading the letter and though I wrote it down, I couldn’t say the words out loud. I stared at the paper my eyes full of tears at the words “Goodbye Stinky, I love you and miss you.” You see, sometimes a pet can be closer than any human. After all is a pet going to tell you to shut up or not now? You can hold them anytime you need. They are always there for you, unlike us humans.
The book also taught me that you shouldn’t shut a person down when they finally open up and want to talk about their grief. As a society we shut people down because we think that is what we are meant to do, or because we simply don’t know how to handle it because we have been blowing people off so long. Which I got so sick of at the many funerals I been to since the age of 18. “I’m so sorry, if there is anything I can do please let me know.” Yes, you can listen. But you don’t really care. Someone needs to listen and someone needs to care. Without it, as a society we will be all grievers looking for some healing and having no idea where to turn. “You got to be brave.” No you don’t, you got to grief so you can feel better. Being brave isn’t dealing with the pain. It’s not allowing your self to heal. If you had a cut you would put medicine on it and a covering it allow it to heal. You wouldn’t simply cover it up and expect it to go away would you? The same applies with grief. Allow yourself to heal.
AmyLynn is a regular contributor to the AMAFSR Newsletter. Do you have thoughts you would like to share with other science fiction fans? Email us at kinda@msn.com, and your article could be in the next edition of the Admiral Mudd and Friends Site Ring Newsletter.
Captain k'alaa's Corner : Must We Buy Fandom?
Must we go to conventions, or use money to be a true science fiction fan?
I attended WorldCon, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association of America's convention in San Jose, California, in 2002 (dubbed "ConJose" ). I got a chance to talk to many people. I sat down to rest my feet in the cavernous convention center second floor, at the only table that had a seat free, and several very interesting science fiction fans were seated at this table also. I fell into a conversation with them about science fiction and science fiction fandom.
A man at this table was complaining particularly about "media" science fiction fans, meaning those whose intro to scifi came from Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Buffy, etc. I had to tell him I was proud to be a Trekkie, and if it hadn't been for all those reruns I saw as a teenager, I never would have started reading science fiction books written by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ben Bova, Arthur C. Clark, or Poul Anderson (as well as many more). They listened and seemed to understand just what I meant. One woman at the table asked me why she had never seen me at any of the usual conventions. I told her the truth: I had big kids at the time, and they were just getting old enough to do most things without my direct supervision. Of course, that wasn't the entire truth. This was the first convention I had ever attended.
I was part of the Star Trek ground swell in 1975. My family (though comfortable), was too poor to buy fan magazines, trades, or take me to conventions. We had never heard of Leonard Nimoy's first biography (I Am Not Spock). We knew no other Star Trek fans. Yet, many weeknights around six after my father came home from work, he, my brother and I would gather around the television to watch the next rerun. We would sit and discuss -- read argue -- all the points worth making. The social implications of the topic each episode would bring up. This seemed all very natural to my brother and I. Heated discussions were normal parts of our life.
A couple years later, our television watching habits changed. We watched different televisions, and my father started watching the news at six. Not me! Network television news was boring. I started reading Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, as well as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. I kept watching Star Trek. I wrote stories about Trek. I talked to other teenagers about Trek. All without spending a cent on magazines, conventions, action figures, toys...well, wait. I exaggerate. I did buy a Tribble when I was nine years old. But that was at a time when furry keyrings were popular. We also had a set of plastic Star Trek character cups from Taco Bell. But I digress.
For everyone reading this under the age of thirty, this was also a time when there were no DVD players or PC's in most people's homes. My brother had a computer (a Tandy it took him hours to program, and he was brilliant at it, it would have taken me months). There was also no video cassette recorders (shudder!).
What is the purpose of me telling you all this? Only one: I am one of the most ardent science fiction fans I know, yet I hardly spent a cent on it most of my life, and I still love it to bits. Must we spend to enjoy? Yes, we have a much larger range of science fiction television shows and movies to choose from now, and my husband and I have bought quite a few of them. But are the only fans worth mentioning or considering those who spend a small fortune on their favorite past time?
We would be interested in your opinion on this subject. If you would like to voice your opinion in the next Admiral Mudd and Friends Site Ring Newsletter, just email it to me at kinda@msn.com, with the subject heading Must We Buy Fandom? It could be in the next edition of the AMAFSR Newsletter.
Members Announcements
This month, in The Action Figure Theatre...
DOCTOR WHO: SYMPHONY FIVE
Vienna 1805. "Ludvig Van Beethoven. You are the enemy of the Daleks. You will be exterminated!"
STAR WARS: THE INSIDIOUS THREAT chapter 9
Obi Wan discovers the shocking truth about the Seperatist control droid.
And...in SEPTEMBER...
DOCTOR WHO: PROPHECY OF SHADOWS Part 1 of 2
The Eighth Doctor, Dari and Jess and separated on a war torn world.
STAR WARS: THE INSIDIOUS THREAT Chapter 10
The Jedi take on the control droid.
TORCHWOOD: THE DEATH OF LEARNING
Milly seeks some answers at The Pinnacle, the seat of all knowledge.
Come with us and experience adventures with Doctor Who, Star Wars, Torchwood, and MORE! URL: www.actionfiguretheatre.co.uk/
The Transcendental Time Vortex is back online with a brand new look!!
It's bigger, better and cleaner looking. And over the next few weeks a whole host of stuff will be added to the site.
In conjunction with the launch of the new look site, we have also launched our spin-off site The Torchwood Files.
So please check them out at: ttv.simonswebsite.co.uk and ttv.simonswebsite.co.uk/torchwood/
   
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