1. What is JABB?
JABB was started by Audrey, Barbara, Jarrod, and Jenni one night after a TBAA fan chat. It's purpose was to "help" Andrew/John Dye fans get over their obsession. Up until June of 2004, Audrey and Jenni served as co-presidents of the group, sending out newsletters every two weeks, and moderating the JABB YahooGroup. The newsletter is a collection of poems, stories, jokes, games, quizzes, etc. concerning John Dye, his fans, or any of his characters (mostly Andrew). The Yahoogroup is an email list for fans to get to know each other. Currently, JABB is run by Jenni and whomever is willing to help! We remain simply a group of fans who enjoy discussing John Dye's work, life in general, and just enjoying a light-hearted look at the whole fandom experience.
2. How do I join?
Send an email requesting to receive the newsletter to Jenni. You may also join our Yahoogroup which is a discussion list for fans to get to know one another. Please see the next section for more information about the JABB YahooGroup. Should you decide to leave JABB, please email Jenni.
3. How can I meet other fans?
There are countless TBAA communities on the web. Just do a search at Yahoogroups.com or your favorite search engine. JABB has it's own online community for our members to get to know one another. For more information or to join please:
4. Are you John Dye?
With the exception of our friend, Jarrod, who offered material in the past, all JABB writers are female. So in other words, no we're not John Dye. :-)
5. Can you get something to John Dye?
JABB is strictly for and by fans, we have no contact with Mr. Dye. So, unfortunately we cannot get anything to him.
6. How can I contact John?
Rent an air plane and fly it over the greater San Francisco area trailing a banner reading "John Dye: Call me." :-) Okay really we have no idea and no one we know has any idea. Again, JABB is in no way connected to Mr. Dye and cannot contact him for you.
7. Do you know what John is doing now? Is he still acting? Directing?
We honestly have no idea. In 2005, John played a corrupt district attorney in the film “Heart of the Beholder.” JABB reviewed the film here.
Beyond that, we know nothing. There had at one time been a listing for a rather mysterious project entitled "The Lesser of Three Evils" on John Dye's filmography on IMDB.com. However, as of August 2006, "Lesser" had disappeared from IMDB.com. We're not sure if the movie is in production any longer or not.
Again, we're just fans. We don't get any
inside
info. If we do find out anything it's only pure luck that we found the
article, saw the entertainment show, etc. If we do learn anything
we promptly post the information to the John Dye section of JABB News and
Reminders and mention it in the following newsletter.
8. Are you guys for real?
Yes. We are not figments of your imagination. :-) But I think what this question means is: how much of what you say in JABB is legit? Answer: not all of it. Like anything comedic we exagerrate or even outright lie. We admire Mr. Dye's work but would never attempt to find him nor would we go the lengths our fictional counterparts go to to show our devotion. That being said... Some of the stuff we say we do, we really do! It's up to you to guess which is which!
9. What the heck is Dyeland?
Like much of JABB, it was a casual joke made by someone that ended up really taking off. So we made a map and sometimes on our Yahoogroup and the newsletter we play around like Dyeland is a real place where a bunch of Andrew/John fans live. A bit of make-believe for the kids we still are at heart!
10. Do people really live in Dyeland?
In their day dreams, maybe. :-) Dyeland is not a physical place. That we know of, anyway! We're not geography majors by any means and suppose there could actually be a place called Dyeland out there!
11. What is a democratic presidentialprincessdom?
That was the term we used for Dyeland's system of governance. In the beginning, Audrey and JenniAnn were princesses. But then we got bored and had a fake election where Andrew got elected as president of Dyeland. But then a few years later JenniAnn decided she didn't want to be a princess and Andrew resigned as president. So properly speaking, Dyeland would currently be a chaotic resignedpresidentialprincessladydom which I think we all agree is simply ridiculous. So really, at this point, we have no idea how Dyeland is ruled. Thank goodness it's not real!
12. How can I become President of Dyeland?
Haha. Ambitious, ain't ya? First ya gotta find it I suppose!
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