any other members have interesting professions/side projects

[REPO Man]

Ive painted figurines for years and I hit the canvas very occasionally.

I've been thinking of making my own action figures, and also doing painting. But the supplies are usually costly and my bi-weekly paychecks have yet to break $300, but I've been getting more hours, but I've also gotta start buying my fall/winter clothes, some DVD-Rs (might get DVD+R DL's for certain projects, like burning the NZ sci-fi teen soap The Tribe onto DVD), and a few random things (like that Daisenryaku game for the PS2 at KMart for only $10).

As for the whole action figures thing, I've been thinking of some rather unusual projects:

* RENT action figures
* pre-Zyuranger Super Sentai figures, prolly made from off-the-rack Power Rangers
* myself, possibly in jeans and a black, if not a vintage green, t-shirt. IDK for sure, but for that I may consider using a Herbert West figurine. We both have the same hairline IMO.

That and trying to do a script for film versions of the Oz books. They'd be based directly, albeit with minor changes, off the books, far more than the '39 movie. Natch, there'd be film versions of each book, but I'm currently just working on the first three books:

* The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
* The Marvelous Land of Oz (doesn't follow Dorothy)
* Ozma of Oz (Dorothy's second Oz appearance and the first appearance of the Land of Ev and the Nome King)

I'm thinking John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) as The Scarecrow (based entirely on voice and demeanor), Ron Perlman as The Lion, Lin Shaye as both the Good Witch of the North (who isn't Glinda, as the MGM '39 film will try to tell you) AND The Wicked Witch of the West (based more on the book's version, with some alterations), and Malcolm McDowell as The Wizard.

[fastbilly1]

Good luck on that, many dont care to know anything in the first forty canon of Oz (the low amount of pirates must be the cause). Not to mention trying to sell a script right now is damn near impossible, even if you are in the industry. Thanks to the writers strike there are plenty of full ideas ready to go just waiting. And I for one prefer the changes they made to the Wheelers in Return to Oz - they still scare the hell outta me.

[REPO Man]

Good luck on that, many dont care to know anything in the first forty canon of Oz (the low amount of pirates must be the cause). Not to mention trying to sell a script right now is damn near impossible, even if you are in the industry. Thanks to the writers strike there are plenty of full ideas ready to go just waiting. And I for one prefer the changes they made to the Wheelers in Return to Oz - they still scare the hell outta me.

Actually, I'd only deal with the Baum novels, which would translate into about 14 movies.

And I LOVE Return to Oz. That's actually why the first three books would be Wizard, Land and Ozma of Oz. You see, Return to Oz is actually a composite of elements from Land and Ozma.

[dsheinem]

I'm a college professor.

[Dreamstation]

I am a theoretical physicist.

[Ack]

Apart from that I have many years experience in the field of hospitality, even have a degree in it. I have been known to make parties show up out of then air and can tend a decent bar.

That's kinda funny and explains a lot

You laugh, but we did a birthday party for my girlfriend like this. Seriously, in the space of four hours we had thirty people, a full buffet, and a cake I believe.

Best part was, we did it a month early. She never saw it coming.

[disorderlyvision]

I'm working on a gothic re-imagining of the Oz books. In mine, Dorothy is a teenaged Goth chick who slits her wrists and after passing out in the ambulance, awakens in Oz. Munchkinland is a plague-ridden village, the Emerald City is a dystopian Amsterdam, the Wicked Witch is a vicious woman whose "flying monkeys" are handmade homunculi, and that's just my reimagining of the FIRST book.

I also have countless other projects in the pipeline, many of which may end up getting aborted and re-imagined in another form.

It's odd that you mention that, i am actually collecting that series of books for my mom. she is a wizard of oz fanatic. if you ever see that project to fruition you will have to let me know so i can collect them for her. I am even trying to hunt down a complete copy of the wizard of oz game (i might post this in b/s/t) for the snes for her and she doesnt have a snes just wants the game. i think i am only missing a few of the books, how many are there?

[REPO Man]

I'm working on a gothic re-imagining of the Oz books. In mine, Dorothy is a teenaged Goth chick who slits her wrists and after passing out in the ambulance, awakens in Oz. Munchkinland is a plague-ridden village, the Emerald City is a dystopian Amsterdam, the Wicked Witch is a vicious woman whose "flying monkeys" are handmade homunculi, and that's just my reimagining of the FIRST book.

I also have countless other projects in the pipeline, many of which may end up getting aborted and re-imagined in another form.

It's odd that you mention that, i am actually collecting that series of books for my mom. she is a wizard of oz fanatic. if you ever see that project to fruition you will have to let me know so i can collect them for her. I am even trying to hunt down a complete copy of the wizard of oz game (i might post this in b/s/t) for the snes for her and she doesnt have a snes just wants the game. i think i am only missing a few of the books, how many are there?

Good to hear of someone else asking for this. Well, I have part of the proposed first chapter written down in a notebook somewhere, but I may scrap that and rewrite something else. But first, I gotta organize all my ideas so I'm not just spewing out on-the-spot stuff when I write it.

And luckily for me, the books are public domain, so I don't have to pay royalties.

I've also considered a few other Oz projects:

* An Oz trilogy where a descendant of the Wicked Witch lays waste to the Emerald City and a now-powerless Ozma and Glinda, along with twin descendants of Dorothy, seek four ancient artifacts that can restore Oz
* A what-if scenario that starts in 1999, where Oz joins the United Nations and officially begins life as a part of the world community. They begin both importing and exporting goods, hosting events, and so on. But the story veers off in an alternate post-9/11 (where Sept. 11, 2001 was actually the second anniversary of Oz joining the UN) where evidence points not to the Taliban, but rather to... OZ?? And the events that follow are the beginnings of WW3, where TikToks begin to invade the capital, Glinda is now exiled and living in hiding in New York (where she adapts a "GI Jane"-style change), and nothing is as it seems.
* A tokusatsu-style series (obviously a pipe-dream) where 4 modern-day descendants of famous fantasy figures (Dorothy, Alice, Wendy, Lucy P.) join forces to stop a villain that... well, this idea was doomed before it moved past the first few seconds.
* A punk-rock reimagining of The Wizard of Oz (kinda like how The Wiz was an all-African-American reimagining of WoO)

[Kevman]

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[Zer]

I am a theoretical physicist.

Be sure to keep a crowbar handy, you never know when you'll need it.