Val Strate

-WANTED- Lil' Birthday wish... A friend to eat chocolate cake with. Likes watching funny movies. Can tolerate and help humble a wide eyed dreamer with an ambitious and anxious heart.

Ah yeah, I see what ya mean MA. Knowing my luck, I'd end up gettin' a lumberjack for a boyfriend who drives a car that gets two miles to the gallon, believes that gobal climate change is not man made, and thinks recycling is something you do to your engine. Oiy! I think I'll stick to my rommance novels and a stiff glass of chocolate milk.

MM, I'm looking for a tall, handsome, young man, that likes Dukes and wants a single burnette girlfriend that loves chocolate milk, snakes and football. Can that go in the classifieds? LOL

Creative post Artykidd! Today, I woke up late. Showered, dressed then went to my brother's house and babysat the nephew with my dad. We had drivethrough for lunch then went home when my sister-in-law arrived. Once Dad and I were home, my father decided to take his motorcycle to therapy and ended up falling over on his bad knee with the bike in the driveway. Talk about a scare! So I run out to him and help him get the bike back up and back to the barn. So then he decides to take the truck to therapy and I go back to the house. Later I get a phone call from his therapist saying, my father can't move his knee and needs a ride home. By this time my mother comes home and we bring father home. Once we're home, I go out and feed the barn cats, the dog, and the cows. I then come back inside and have ham and bean soup for supper with the folks and help mom can peach jelly. Now I'm on the computer with ya'll and I go to work in about two hours.

Tim, as much as I want to pummel you right now for being a 'Debbie Downer', I have to admit you are right. However, as a fan, don't you ever think about the possibility of 'what if'? Yes, we have addressed this issue before but as a fan, it never seems like a dull subject to speculate about. Have you ever seen 'Field of Dreams', 'Build it and they will come'? As a fan of anything you kind of have to squawk about what you like in order to get what you want or even have a remote possibility to even maybe, just maybe, someday someone someplace might be watching and paying attention and say, 'Hey, maybe that just might work‘. Sure it's a half baked idea but it just might work!' Believe me there are worse things on television than the remake of Knight Rider.

Oh great! Looks like the law might not win this fight! *facepalm* The black Stetsons are going to win this one and justice won't prevail! Eeeek! The suspense is killing me now because this is almost scary as the challenge. The outlaws plan to out the law with this challenge. Crickets and crocs! I don't think we can let this happen MA!

Only 9 days left! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP! This is getting scary! It's all right before my birthday too! Does this mean if I don't finish my story, I'm going to be a pumpkin for my birthday?

Roger that's exactly what I want as well. Happy endings are good but in some eps. they might have to have cliff hangers. But yes all of it could be done and done right. The question is would anyone be willing to fund such a project and would enough of the orginal cast be able to be involve at one point or another.

I agree that some of the cast is kind of old and wouldn't be into doing a TV series again maybe. However if they focused on one or two main characters and their respective families, such as Daisy, or Bo, they could then just have guest apperances by other old orginal cast if they want to. What if they had John be Bo all grown and he Balladeer the show but also star in it? Like it focus on his work around Hazzard in a Mayberry kind of setting? Many of the people who grew up loving Dukes as kids are now grown up that it might be refreshing to have that kind of sitcom on again instead of reality TV junk.

Hey that'd be great! You're both welcome and encouraged to join! I've even thought about one of your fics for one of our discussions, but yes the more the merrier!

Hi. Yes, I know I'm making a shameless plug for the Hazzard County Book Club in the groups area. Just so you all know, there is a group in the group area for people who like reading Dukes fan fiction but not nessarily writting it called 'The Hazzard County Book Club'. So far there are only four members but I would like to see that increase. What the group is about is reading a fan fic then getting together and talking about it. Right now, no fan fic has been assigned as the fic to read because of the Ghost Post Challenge that is up and lack of membership. If you are interested in reading Dukes fan fiction and talking about the stories with friends please join. If you have any questions, please post them here. This group is open to everyone.

I've said this for years and I'll say it again. My personal view is yes. It would be nice to see a new Dukes of Hazzard but, and I say but... I would like it to have a mix of new and old cast. John himself is still young enough and so is Cathy even, that if they really wanted to do another TV gig they could. Tom could even be in on the project or maybe not at all depending on his attitude and take on it. Other cast members could be guest appearances but my idea is this, why can't they have a new Dukes that would still have the same action, but a little more home town family drama too it. Have the show focus on Bo and maybe Daisy. Daisy won't be the little girly sex symbol she was but an independant woman with a family and a job. Show the Duke family grown up and have an extension of their family, like children and give the kids some drama and action to do. Maybe Bo has a daughter in the show that is the sex symbol of the series. Maybe Daisy is married to Enos and they have some hunkie young boys. Maybe Daisy is a single parent? I would love to see that and see maybe Bo run the local race track or run the local Garage while Cooter is away helping to run the country. Maybe Bo's married or more likely maybe he's divorced or just a single parent too? Maybe Rosco's relative of some sort is the new law in town. These type of connections could lead into interesting story lines and give the opportunity for guest appearances if desired. Luke coming home at some point could be a good episode. There are a million ideas that people could come up with for a show that would work and would help tie things together to pull in new viewers as well as old. As much as I really don't care for Coy and Vance, I'd hate to say it but they might come in handy for family extension. It's just a thought. There could be alot of car stunts as well and with the new affects they can do with TV these days, there can still be plenty of Hazzard action and probably on a smaller budget level. Seriously, if someone wanted to cash in on Hazzard again they could and they could make it a respectable series if they would consider the elements of ideas. The only thing though is most likely it will probably never happen, due to legal reasons and Hollywood's excuse of 'lack of interest', (even though we all know that last part is not true). So Julie I think that the idea of a new DOH show would be cool and it should be a little more angsty and maybe even family drama like, like Dawson's Creek, but still contain some of the major stunts and live action that made the show great in the first place, (plus having some orginal cast as well as new would help). But, as great as all these ideas may seem, I feel that no one in the industry really wants to take up the Hazzard torch again, beings the two movies pretty much wrecked those hopes. The first movie I think did so much damage that the second wasn't going to be accepted even if the actors did Oscar winning performances. Which the second wasn't that bad in my mind. So sadly, no, I don't think Dukes of Hazzard will ever see the TV again, even in a new re-creation.

Hey I got a little de-layed and distracted, by almost going to the federal pen! I'm still on page 10.

*Adorned in a little black dress holding a cake with a bunch of candles on it.* Ok everyone, the Wildlife department has talked to the local vet and there are free rabies vaccines today! Festivities for the Nameless Hazzard Holiday include, taking a long nap, drinking a lot of beer, eating all the cake and junk food you want, listening to loud rock music (Styx is a good choice), leaving gifts at the door of the Lord of the Outlaws in homage to him, and putting all work aside for fellow co-workers to pick up the slack. Hey, it is a holiday. No work allowed on Nameless Hazzard Holiday.

Yeah, I cried at the end of Cowboy Bebop. I could go on and on about how Cowboy Bebop has alot of Burt Renyolds type themes to it and how Dukes and CB are alot alike in many ways. Sure the plots are different and the characters are as well but they both have underlying themes and styles that are very alike. You so fall in love with the music, the characters and the writting. I love how when they did the english dub that they came up with really good voice actors for each character and the translations aren't choppy and the jokes and theological deep moments aren't choppy or mistranslated. The same point comes across in english as in the orginal japanesse. Sometimes when they do english translation to a series the themes get watered down and the jokes and deep thoughts loose their meaning. I hate that. They didn't do that with CB. Which I love the fact that they didn't. I'm told I need to watch Trigun, Outlaw Star and Gerandiar? (I think I misspelled that last one). I didn't get into anime until I went to college and my roommate introduced me to it. Once I found what I liked, I socialized with other anime fans at college. It's amazing how things like media can create friendships. Dukes and anime did that for me.