{"id":194,"date":"2007-08-19T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-18T21:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2007-08-20T07:56:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T18:56:22","slug":"fast-return-armageddiconafanalooza-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Fast Return &#8211; Armageddiconafanalooza Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/fastreturnsyllogo.JPG\" alt=\"fastreturnsyllogo.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>WE&#8217;RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT&#8217;S 1987!<br \/>\n<\/strong>Truly, we are living in a Golden Age. A Doctor Who\u00a0is touring the country with Gandalf and has made the time to stop by and see us. And <em>TSV<\/em> enters its third decade. It&#8217;s all here in our special bumber-sized bijou edition of <em>Fast Return<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>ORCINI&#8217;S CAREER SAVED BY ZEUS BLOG!<br \/>\n<\/strong>You read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=185\">here<\/a> first, folks.\u00a0 And then you probably read it <a href=\"http:\/\/nzdwfc.tetrap.com\/forums\/mb\/1009453.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IT WAS TWENTY YEARS AND A WEEK OR SO AGO TODAY!<br \/>\n<\/strong>July 1987. Where were you? Were you even born yet? On this month in history future-TARDIS anagram <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kylie_minogue\">Kylie Minogue<\/a> put her singing career into motion with, er, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Loco-Motion\">&#8216;The Loco-motion&#8217;<\/a>. The world&#8217;s population turned five billion. <em>TSV<\/em>&#8216;s readership was two. It all began there though. How did <strong>you<\/strong> mark the event? A moment&#8217;s silence? Hugging the nearest Xerox machine? Thinking of Ken Dodd&#8217;s casting in <em>Delta and the Bannermen<\/em> and clenching your fists? We camped out at the Auckland University Library to find the original photocopier that made the dream a reality, but it&#8217;s been sent to that service depot in the sky, the original photocopier bay refitted to include computer terminals. Our balloons may have shrunk, the Miami wine cooler\u00a0gone flat and the Cheezels gone stale, but the dream lives on. Happy birthday <em>TSV<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE HISTORY OF\u00a0TSV REVISED!<br \/>\n<\/strong>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/nzdwfc.tetrap.com\/forums\/mb\/1009460.html\">tantalisingly promised<\/a> on the Armageddon website, then cruelly corrected &#8211; revised, even. So in order that a few fans are traumatised as possible by this loss, here&#8217;s what our research boffins came up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first issue of <em>TSV<\/em> was actually discovered in the form of some microfilms found embedded in some glass cubes dug up in Terry Nation&#8217;s back garden. Translated by David Whittaker and resized to A5, they became the quarterly fan newsletter we enjoy today.<\/li>\n<li>The Christchurch years of the NZDWFC never existed, but were in fact a crafty way of utilising the Garden City&#8217;s lighter tax regime. It&#8217;s all obvious when you realise that Andrew Poulsen is an anagram of LAUNDER NEW SOP &#8211; that &#8216;sop&#8217; being of course the <em>TSV<\/em> coffer. Thought you&#8217;d get that one past us, eh Paul?<\/li>\n<li>Volumes 1 through to 5 (plus volume 9) of the <em>Doctor Dictionary<\/em> were in fact composed and published, but were incinerated by BBC Archives in 1974 and now rest somewhere deep underneath the Johnsonville Landfill.<\/li>\n<li>With the imminent departure of <em>TARDIS Tales<\/em> fromthe <em>TSV<\/em> roster the zine&#8217;s editorial team was put into an intense\u00a0panic. By chance during the turmoil Junior Editor Matthew Dentieth knocked over a table of <em>Banana Man<\/em> and <em>Viz<\/em> comics, and Erato was born.<\/li>\n<li>Plans for TSV 70s editorial to be made available as a podcast from the NZDWFC website were shelved at the last minute, when it was discovered that playing the audio backwards revealed the phrase &#8220;Paul is Dead&#8221; repeated throughout the recording.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>AND FINALLY&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/piechart.JPG\" alt=\"piechart.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE&#8217;RE GONNA PARTY LIKE IT&#8217;S 1987! Truly, we are living in a Golden Age. A Doctor Who\u00a0is touring the country with Gandalf and has made the time to stop by and see us. And TSV enters its third decade. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/?p=194\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fast-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeusblog.tetrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}