Bette sent along today's very favorable L.A. Times Review of Donna McKechnie's cabaret act "My Musical Comedy Life" playing this week at the Orange County Performing Arts:

http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-wk-nichols27mar27,0,1275780.story



Check out these 3 words from the 2nd to the last paragraph:  "McKechnie can act". 

Angel and BtVS fans are accustomed to the infusion of pop culture references, but DS fans got a special treat on last nite's Angel.  In referring to the apocalyptic rain of fire and blotting out of the sun meant to plunge the Earth into eternal darkness and brought about by a pact between a demon (The Beast) and Angelus (vampire Angel) [are you still with me? ], Gunn fretted that the latter would be "pulling a Dark Shadows again".



OT - Willow is L.A. bound, yay!!!

While many of us are taking the time to update our profiles, while birthdates, avatars, or secret questions are completely optional, I hope everyone can verify that their profile lists a current email address.  I can't speak for MB or dom, but I'm being inundated with password requests following the conversion.  Now please understand that if someone is having a login problem I do want them to let one of us know, but the vast majority of the forum-related emails I'm receiving have to do with a problem that can easily be solved by using the Forgot password? link on the login page, which of course requires a current email addy.

Please don't forget that if you decide to change your email address, a new password will be generated by the system, and you'll be required from then on to log in with the new one in order to regain access to your account.  Oh, and I should mention that MB and I haven't had a chance to test to see if Compuserve, AOL, Netscape, and Road Runner servers accept email at our new location and with this version, sorry.

Thanks!

Woo hoo!, a members' chat will get underway tomorrow (Sunday, Feb. 16) at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 Pacific.

The entrance to the chat will appear shortly before the start time.  Just look for the link in the Info Center on the DS Forums Home page.  Hope to see you there!

Yay!, we completed our move to a new server and hope to soon reopen to new registrations and guest traffic.

In anticipation of the increased workload this will create for the mods, we feel we must strictly enforce the guideline concerning role playing and fan fiction according to the way it has always been written for DS Forums:  The purpose of these forums is to discuss DARK SHADOWS, its characters, actors and storylines. Role playing (putting oneself or another poster into the DS story) is discouraged, and repeated efforts to role play may result in removal of these posts from the board. This does not, however, refer to DS-related usernames or signatures. These forums also do not accept fan fiction and such works are subject to removal.

Effective immediately, fan fiction will be removed in a timely manner, regardless of its length.  Fan fic is any creative work of fiction, whether it be in the form of a story, script, scene, filk song, or poem.  Posting a link to the work or announcing new additions to it are welcome, as are requests for feedback ... and if space is provided alongside the work for leaving comments, encouraging your readers to take advantage of that feature would be greatly appreciated.  We don't feel this is an undue inconvenience to our users considering that there is free space available on other sites such as www.scifi.com/colony ; the latter has BBs created specifically for DS works.

Role playing is becoming a DS or DS-related character in your post and writing as if you're speaking through that character.  This doesn't refer to usernames, signatures, avatars, or personal texts.  There are sites dedicated to DS role playing as well.

If anyone has a question, please feel free to IM Dom or myself.  I hope to have my email set up by tomorrow at the latest.

Thanks!

Midnite

[backcolor=maroon]Don't forget that DS won't air on Monday, Jan. 20-- the Martin Luther King holiday.

At least it's the last pre-emption through February.[/backcolor]