The fine tradition of fandom

Okay, I'm reminded why I like this stuff.

In the earliest instance of fannish behavior that I've come across, Charles Lamb wrote to Coleridge about Burger's ballad "Lenore":

"Have you read the Ballad called 'Leonora' in the second Number of the 'Monthly Magazine'? If you have !!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That's fourteen exclaimation points, folks. And it's this "rec" that made Coleridge, and then Wordsworth, read this and write things like "The Thorn," which I wrote a paper about a couple years ago.

Fandom never ends.

Remus

It occurs to me that I don't think I've ever seen any Remus artwork that looks like the Remus in my head. I have serious doubts that I could draw him myself the way I see him, but I think I must try sometime.

There's a huge trend among the Japanese fan contingent that Remus is very blond with a long, thin ponytail, and I really never imagined him at all like that. I also didn't imagine him like David Thewlis, though he did a fantastic job. I was wondering if any of you more diligent fans than I out there remembers whether Remus's facial scars are mentioned anywhere in the books? I don't remember them, but I could have missed it or forgotten it.

At the car repair place today there was a sign for somethingorother, which had the brand name Sirius. Hee. The logo was a cute little white doggy with a black star over its eye.