From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V4 #228 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Friday, September 17 2004 Volume 04 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] WOW can Renee draw!!!!!! ["Xena Torres" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 18:49:19 -0700 From: "Xena Torres" Subject: [chakram-refugees] WOW can Renee draw!!!!!! I'm SERIOUSLY IMPRESSED! Renee can REALLY draw! WOW! I'm salvating here! I REALLY want the Xena card set of the women of Xena DRAWN BY RENEE O'CONNOR! This is a speciality card set that are included in the new art Xena card set coming out on Oct 20th. Although, :P looks like the Renee cards are the HARD to collect ones, as they are ONE per BOX. ARG! Course, I'd be happy with some nice scans of them even! Uh, sorry, I don't have a link. Here's an eBay listing with a sample card: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6118982376&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT And a sample of the Portrait of a Warrior: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6118810133&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT BATTLE ON XENA! Xena Torres: Warrior Writer http://www.geocities.com/bitchofrome "And most importantly, I've learned that the heart can betray, but the sword never lies." - Eve "Heart of Darkness" _________________________________________________________________ Designer Mail isn't just fun to send, it's fun to receive. Use special stationery, fonts and colors. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN. Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:51:58 -0500 From: Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] The Last Chakram I thought y'all might be interested in reading the following message I've just sent to outback@creationent.com. Creation people, I'd like you to seriously reconsider your plan to sell two fan club kits per year, at a relatively high price, and to put the Chakram newsletter online. I definitely think you will lose a lot of customers that way. First, your past customers will suspect you're trying to whip a dying horse to get the last little bit of work out of it before it collapses entirely. Yes, the Xenaverse is slowly going away. Please don't speed its demise. Second, take a lesson from the current situation with high-definition television. The government wanted to force everybody to buy expensive HDTVs so they could eventually make more money off currently-unused parts of the spectrum. They wanted to scare TV customers into buying these big, expensive HDTVs by saying that analog TVs would be phased out by a certain year. Look at what's happened. Most people have voted against this plan with their pocketbook by failing to buy HDTVs, and the government has been forced to scale back its plans to eliminate analog broadcasts. People will embrace new technologies when they are good and ready and will be really resentful if they believe they are being coerced into this. If you force people who are still using "analog televisions" to get their newsletters online, those who are unable or unwilling to use that technology will soon grow remarkably unenthusiastic about buying your products. I am asking you to continue to offer only one fan club kit per year and to mail paper Chakrams to everyone who wishes to buy one in that form. I am reluctant to see the Xenaverse dissipate any faster than it has to. A customer (so far) ******** - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:11 PM Subject: [chakram-refugees] The Last Chakram > I figured Creation was heading to an online newsletter, but I wasn't prepared > for that to happen so soon. The Chakram wormed its way into my heart in a > way that the photos or even video fan-club offerings didn't. I'd wait for its > arrival in the mail, put it aside until I could savor it whenever or wherever > I wanted, independent of a computer, inexplicable glitches, materials and > other equipment I'd have to wrestle with first. Just it and me -- a simple > pleasure in a world of complications. > > Sharon did a good job with the newsletter. It somehow seemed less > commercial, more personal and certainly more convenient than everything I'd gotten used > to reading onscreen. The paper version had a kind of permanence and warmth > that only someone of a certain age could appreciate and understand why what > comes out of our printers isn't the same. In a way, I'm grateful it's being put > to rest. I'm thinking it's an old tie that will no longer bind me to my habit > of gobbling up nearly anything Xena related. I'll miss it, though. Goodbye, > old friend. > > > "No. 28 (The Last Chakram)" > > I once read newspapers, magazines and books, > Gave computer monitors occasional looks. > Wrote letters and sometimes chatted by phone, > Used Yellow Pages and left tech stuff alone. > Didn't care much for TV or its mercurial stars, > Laughed at folks who chased celebrity cars. > > Then along came a leather-clad warrior from the past, > Whose quirky appeal couldn't possibly last. > Instead she turned time and the world upside down, > Made Lawless a "tall poppy" of international renown. > Left countless doodads and fans in her wake, > Convinced many a doubter that her fame wasn't fake. > > She led me to the internet and abbreviated media - > Like VCR, CD, DVD, and IM trivia. > Stuffed my life in a box, made its pages a screen, > Till I nearly lost what touching a story could mean. > Yet I held the last Chakram and felt surprisingly bereft. > What more to feel, with boxes and screens now all that's left? > > -- Ife ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V4 #228 **************************************