Totally Devoted To You
Let me tell you a little story:
Cameron and I have offices on the Fox Studios lot in Century City. That's where we do our sound work. We are in one of the older buildings. If you look at early pictures of the studio from the 1930s you can see our building.
When we moved in in 2002, our building definitely needed some work. We spent time cleaning things up but it still wasn't great. Thankfully our amazing building manager, Mike, came up with some money to fix the place up and in July 2003, we moved out of our rooms while the entire building was redone. New carpet. New paint. New bathroom. It's looks pretty sharp now.
Cameron and I temporarily shared a large office in another building for the few weeks it took the workers to finish the job.
Let me just make a side note here that Fox Studios is home to 20th Century Fox FIlm Studios, Fox Television, Fox Home Entertainment, and the various Fox Cable News and Sports channels. Because of this many production companies have offices on the lot: Ten Thirteen Productions you might remember from "The X-Files", Steven Bochco who created "NYPD Blue", and Joss Whedon's company, Mutant Enemy, that brought us "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" and "Angel".
Now back to our story...
In a drawer in a desk in the room that Cameron and I shared, I found these. And they're awesome:
Thank you, Angelia, for your "500 Reasons I'm A B/A Shipper [Buffy/Angel Relationshipper] And Always Will Be."
Comments
I could be wrong here, and the legions of Buffy fans may descend on me if I am. But I'm pretty sure that Shipper is short for "relationshipper" and not "worshiper." As in, someone who is in favor of the Buffy/Angel relationship. I don't know thing one about the show, but I know this from my X-Files days, where the 'shippers at the fan sites would go all atwitter at the slightest Mulder/Scully innuendo.
The postcards themselves are great! My first Mac in college (it was a IIci or a IIcx) was named Ballarat after the town in Australia, which got a brief mention in what was then one of my favorite movies, Dogs in Space.
Posted by: Ariel | May 19, 2004 11:41 AM
Yes, "relationshipper" though not a word (at least I don't think it is), makes more sense. I've seen it on other forums like for "Star Trek: Enterprise" and even though I understood what they were talking about I didn't know what they were shortening.
I've updated the post to reflect your vast knowledge of 'net slang. ;)
I remember your Mac. I seem to remember it being a IIci. I think your freshmen year I was jealous because I was still working with my LCII. I hadn't bought my 840av yet.
I didn't know that "Ballarat" was from Australia. I figured it was some kind of goth thing or something.
Posted by: Jon | May 19, 2004 12:18 PM
Vast knowledge... ha.
My Macs since then have had hard-to-pronounce Irish names like Cuimhne. My new PowerBook is unnamed, but seeing the Ballarat postcard has planted an idea in my head. I buy postcards as cheap souvenirs whenever I travel. Perhaps I'll root through my collection this evening. New Zealand should provide plenty of interesting potential names.
Posted by: Ariel | May 19, 2004 6:58 PM
My laptop is called Rincewind and my Pro Tools computer is called Dibbler. Characters from Terry Pratchett's Discworld books.
Posted by: Jon | May 19, 2004 7:28 PM