Friday Fluff

[fangrrl_squees]

DALEK KEYBOARDS ARE SUPERIOR TO HUMAN KEYBOARDS. FOR A START, THEY HAVE ONLY ONE KEY.

Meanwhile...

- Fans in the FiDi-ish area of San Francisco, feel free to join me and cmdrsuzdal for an end-of-the-week drink at the Thirsty Bear (661 Howard St.), 5PM until we get bored. As I won't be there 'til 6 or so, I suspect I'll be hanging out 'til 7ish before shifting off home. cmdrsuzdal describes it as "FiDi Fandom Friday" and as soon as I can think of a synonym for "bevvies" that begins with an F, I'm sure that'll be tacked on the end, too. We're not anticipating more than, oh, the two of us, so if you want to join in, let me know, 'cos if the group goes over a certain size, I'll call the place and ask about 'reserving' a couple of the standup tables, if possible.

- I've been doing some hard thinking about Doctor Who and The Locusts Of Time and I don't think it's feasible for me to try shooting it, myself. More than anything, the casting issue is a stinker - as in finding a local one. Crew, I've got. An Eight who can act his way out of a paper bag? Not so much. I'm going to put out one more call on the blogosphere about it but I'm not optimistic. If I can't do it myself, I'll release it into the wild for whoever thinks they can manage it - although re-writing will be inevitable. Sigh.

- Meanwhile, I have a few other ideas tinkling around in my brain - an audio script, this time - but I've a question to ask you lot, 'cos you know far more about the entire body of work than I do: DW stories set during the Gold Rush in San Francisco - done before or not? There's not a few stories set in the mid-19th century in England, natch, and there's the pisstake, Minuet in Hell, but I'm damned if I can remember any story occurring in SF, during the mid-19th century. Am I right?

Bah, must pretend to work, now.

Comments

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Can't think of a Gold Rush story offhand, which is absurd, because, hello, Deadwood?

Cyberman keyboards have only one key too - "Delete".

[fangrrl-squees.livejournal.com]

*nod* I couldn't help thinking, as I was tweaking some bits on LoT that, duh, Gold Rush San Francisco (or Yerba Buena, if you like) is simply *rife* with Whovian possibilities...

[je-smith.livejournal.com]

You could always post a notice for actors at local colleges and do some auditions, or rewrite it as a "future unspecified Doctor who talks a lot like McGann"... fan Docs doing interps of established Docs always seems a bit dodgy to me, though Steve Hill does a magnificent Colin.

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

I must admit to an ulterior motive in trying to cast from the fandom crowd: I won't have to make the costume, then.

I simply don't have the money to make a decent - or even half-assed replica of Eight.

A sort-of fallback would be to borrow someone's rig, if they would loan it out (big if!) but then I'm stuck trying to cast to someone roughly that person's size! D'oh!

[jblum.livejournal.com]

If you still want to go ahead with "Locusts", you might be able to borrow a costume from an out-of-town fan, if you've got a decent actor who can fill it!

Failing that, the Original Doctor approach is often a good one...

[cmdrsuzdal.livejournal.com]

The closest I can find is the Hartnell story 'The Gunfighters' set in Tombstone.

I'm actually surprised and a little sad to see that barely anything in the show, comics, novels OR audios seems to have been set here :(

[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Hm.

Hmmmmmm.....

I might have an idea or two to bounce off ya at Thirsty Bear tonight, if you're willing to listen? ;)

(btw, I won't be there before 5:30, and that's assuming I can slope offa work at 4:45...)

[cmdrsuzdal.livejournal.com]

No worries, I put down 5pm because it's a nice round number, not because of any strict preference.

And I love bouncing ideas, especially when the actual work on them is done by someone else :D