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 an
often
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?
Unfortunately, many TBAA communities on the web have closed or seen a decrease in activity. But hopefully there are some still out there! Just do a search at Yahoogroups.com or your favorite search engine. As for us, JABB has it's own online community for our members to get to know one another. If you think you'd be happy with us, we'd love to have ya! For more information or to join please:
4. Are you John Dye?
With
the exception of one past member,
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. It then fell off the radar for a
couple years. However, it's now being sold on Amazon.com
and other sites as "Fist of the Warrior." At this time, only one
JABBer has seen it and said he was in it only for a short time.
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 (unless a real Andrew shows up in which case all bets are
off!). 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
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! Although sometimes Dyeland can get really
serious... Sigh... We love Andrew.
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! But if
the Dyeland we write about existed we'd have immigrated by now!
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. By council apparently but that's never really
elaborated on. Thank goodness it's not real! Okay, not
really... I wish Dyeland were real no matter its lacking a system
of governance!
12. How can I become President of Dyeland?
Haha.
Ambitious, ain't ya? First ya gotta find it I suppose!
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