My fannish history UNCOVERED

[sid]

I was digging through some 3-ring binders of my father's the other day, emptying and recycling the contents, when suddenly I came across one that had my name written in it, and the name of my junior high school. Based on the handwriting, I took myself to have been in the 7th grade.

I closed it up and was turning it over in my hands, musing, and I suddenly realized there was WRITING on it. Very, very faint ancient writing on the back cover!

The first words I made out (the biggest) were I LOVE UNCLE. Oh, yes, I started loving The Man from U.N.C.L.E. in grade school, so no surprise that I was expressing that love.

And then I made out the smaller letters written above that: I Love Star Trek. The September I started 7th grade was the September Star Trek premiered.

Now I had the clue to help me decipher the smallest writing, scattered all over the back cover: Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, DeForest Kelley, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy... and the one I couldn't read had to be Doctor McCoy.

I turned the binder over and took a closer look at the front cover.

A list of TV show titles, each with some sort of comment beside it. After further study, I have managed to decipher the list in its entirety:

Voyage, Bleep (The opening credits to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea began with submarine-y type bleeps)

FBI, da duh da duhhhhh (The F.B.I. theme music)

Saint, stick figure with halo

Rat Patrol, swastika (WHAT a relief this was, to figure out why I had drawn a swastika on my junior high school binder!)

Felony Squad, Briggs (Had to Google Felony Squad to determine that, yes, the cute guy was named Jim Briggs)

Fugitive, Jughead ("Jughead" was the nickname my brother and I had for Lt. Gerard, lol)

I Spy, Wow man

Star Trek, Way out

T.H.E. Cat, Purrrrfect

Avengers, cool

Mission: Impossible, neato

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What can I say? *shrugs and looks adorable*

Comments

[paian]

So cuuute!

[sid]

Aren't I? I mean, wasn't I? :-)

[less_star]

Awwww, baby!fan! So cute!

[sid]

My roots, they are deep. *g*

[marcellinafuriosa]

*grins* What, no Cinnamon Carter?

[sid]

Cinnamon totally falls under the "neato" heading. It's hard to remember at such a great distance, but I'm pretty sure I appreciated her properly. :-) Smart, cool and collected, sexy, classy, beautifully dressed. Oh, yeah.

I remember reading somewhere (maybe TV Guide) that some mail that was addressed to: 'The most beautiful woman in Hollywood' was delivered to Barbara Bain.

Neato, huh?

[marcellinafuriosa]

Gorgeous. Though I could never figure out how none of the compound guards, Soviet spies, neo-Nazis, thugs etc recognized the famous model and cover girl vamping them. I know people behind the Iron Curtain probably didn't look at Western fashion zines too often, but surely the Stateside Communist secret agents walked through a newsstand once in a while.

She never wore crazy disguises like the rest of them because she suffered from claustrophobia and couldn't breathe in the rubber masks. (And why would you cover that face, anyway?) Also, I hear people were always asking Greg Morris to fix stuff, and he was like, "That's Barney. In real life, I'm a klutz!"

[sid]

Funnily enough, there was an episode of M:I on a local station last night. I only saw the first ten minutes or so, but it was all Cinnamon being awesome and efficient... but she really shouldn't have opened that window, because a pigeon sauntered in and set off the alarm system....

[archersangel]

aaaawww!

[sid]

*curtseys in an adorable manner*

[jdjunkie]

I don't believe a word of it. You were never that cute. *g*

[sid]

I'll have you know that I spent a good portion of today going through old photographs, and I have solid evidence that I was absolutely adorable.

:-P

[sarkka]

=)

[sid]

:-D

Jr High notebooks

[(Anonymous)]

I can so relate. However I took most of my notebook with me when left home and then did not get them out of storage until most things out of parents' house. Most of my notes i have found are UNCLE, IMF and VoyTBSea. I remember writing fan letters in head to 16 for one of their give fan what want things. I wanted Whitfield's book about making ST. I had borrowed the book from fellow Girl Scout (wish my Dad had told me about his Scout badges)and by the time I had to return it I had gone from wanting to read about how a TV show was made to being a fan of a show about to be cancelled. I was very upset when local stations weeknight stip of It Takes A Thief was replaced until I saw some first season ST.

I drew a charm bracelett representing my favorite shows, crossovers and my mary-sue ish connections. It was only years later that I learned the terms for the last 2. And even though I labled the charm drawing during college I was still quite cryptic.

IMF - Dad would let me sneak past my Sunday night bedtime if I could get him interested in what plot Phelps had come up with that week - otherwise try listening from the next room and try figuring out whats happening.

Also thank you for the JD I have enjoyed over the years.

Carrie

Re: Jr High notebooks

[sid]

It's so fun to look back at where we were umpty-nine years ago, and to still be fan gurls at heart. :-)

I just watched an episode of It Takes a Thief this weekend! That was another show I absolutely loved.

I'm glad you've enjoyed my J/D offerings, and I hope my RL will settle down soon and allow me to write some more. Thank you so much for telling me!