Sunnydale Conspiracy

This community with all posts and comments is now transferred to Dreamwidth. If there's anything that you did not want transferred please comment here using the identity you used for the original post / comment, and I'll try to delete it if you can't.

http://sdaleconspiracy.dreamwidth.…

To prevent spamming I'll try to make the Livejournal version read-only. Again, contact me here if there's something that needs deleting.

Because minions of THE CONSPIRACY continue to make Livejournal less viable, I'm migrating this community to Dreamwidth - started the process this morning and it's still well down the queue to move posts etc., but should get transferred eventually. If you've made any posts or comments that you'd prefer deleted please contact me once the process is complete.

Although this community seems to be fairly comatose at present, I've just set the community categories to

Category Fandom / Thread-based RP
Category Entertainment / Television

This may mean we get some new posts, but don't hold your breath...

Just noticed that wandhvictim's account seems to have been deleted. He warned that this might happen some time ago, but doesn't seem to have taken his own warning to heart and made posts on his own journal to avoid deletion.

Those of you with long memories will remember him (her, whatever) as a frequent and vociferous poster to the old newsgroups which this journal was created to replace, using several names and multiple email addresses, and usually spoofing headers to avoid tracing. In particular, the long April 1st thread about Trolls in Sunnydale and the bar fight that closed the Bronze will long be remembered. Unfortunately their paranoia level was always fairly high, and he (she, whatever) doesn't seem to have taken to Livejournal very well. I have no idea if wandhvictim is still around, possibly under another name, but if not I'm sure they'll be missed.

It's 100 days to the 10th anniversary of the destruction of Sunnydale, and things seem to have gone very quiet in this community. Are there really no new developments in Sunnydale Studies, False Jonathan Memory Syndrome, etc.? Or is someone suppressing them??

Where are the survivors now? A huge number of people were evacuated in the days before the town collapsed; any interesting patterns in their movements? Is there any truth in the rumour that Homeland Security and various governments (including the EU, Canada, and Mexico) automatically track anyone claiming Sunnydale as their birthplace? Whatever happened to the passengers on the Last Bus? These and many other unanswered questions will never be solved if this apathy continues.

Let's make the 10th anniversary memorable, by finding a few answers!

Countdown clock here: http://tinyurl.com/8z4eotc

While I no longer use my old NTLworld email address it has never been shut down by the hosting company, and I check it occasionally to make sure that there's nothing important. This time I found the usual assortment of rubbish, including three fairly typical spam emails - the difference is that although they came from three different addresses, and were phrased slightly differently, all claimed to have control of "money belonging to the late mayor Richard Wilkins of Sunnydale" which they would give me if I gave them my bank account details etc. - the usual 419 scam, which the headers show originated from email addresses in Nigeria.

The odd thing here was that by an act of unusual incompetence the email was CC-d to a LOT of other addresses - several of which I recognize as posters to the old alt.copnspiracy.sunnydale newsgroup and cross-posters from alt.conspiracy.jasmine, alt.conspiracy.jonathan, alt.conspiracy.la.darkness, alt.conspiracy.wolframandhart, alt.conspiracy.bruknerassassination etc.

This makes me think that someone has decided to target posters to those newsgroups, and is probably working from a VERY old mailing list which isn't 99% spammers. Be on your guard!

I came across a reference to a web site with the word "wolfram" in its name and made a reference to W&H. To my surprise someone has pointed out that there is a very strange sort of connection - judge for yourselves!

http://ffutures.livejournal.com/68…

Without wishing to sound paranoid, can this really be just a coincidence? Does anyone know of any other W&H connection to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois?

Has anyone else noticed that the current season of the TV show NCIS includes a lawyer named Alison Hart from a strangely familiar law firm, "Wolfram, Hart, and Donowitz"?

How the hell are they getting away with this? I would have thought that by now the injunctions would already be flying thick and fast. Or is this some sort of advertising stunt by our favourite alleged evil lawyers?

Came across a nasty little scam the other day, which seems to be targetting victims of False Jonathan Memory Syndrome.

Basically, someone has apparently faked up various "Jonathan Levinson" items including a poster for The Matrix, various CDs, etc., and is offering them on eBay at inflated prices. I'm not sure where the pictures come from, the most likely answer is someone who looks a little like him plus Photoshop. Unfortunately I can't point at an example now because eBay seems to have pulled the plug on the last couple I noticed, but here's an image I copied, allegedly from Jonathan's "Live at Caesar's Palace" album:



I'm reliably informed that the background is (a) heavily manipulated and (b) not Caesar's Palace, I have no idea what it is beyond that. The songs listed were a medly that I think would mostly be Tom Jones recordings, unfortunately I didn't take notes. I think it's likely that the disk, if it actually existed, was simply a pirated Tom Jones album with a different cover and label.

Anyway, this sort of thing is probably going to happen again, so be warned - there are NO authentic examples of this sort of material!

Any other examples of fake Sunnydale-related material surfacing?