Well, my first post using the iPhone application of WordPress. I must say there are a few options I’m missing, like adding quotes, colours and using the bold function. I’ll be doing an update of this post tomorrow, using the laptop. (update’s been done)
On to the reason of blogging at the strange time of midnight:
A couple of years ago, well more like ten years ago, there was this TVshow called The Lost World I was totally addicted to. I was so addicted to it, that I managed to get copies from the USA send to me by a friend (whom I’m still grateful), so I was able to watch the 2nd and 3rd Season aswell, since TV stations in my country kept broadcasting Season 1.
It was the reason I went to the USA in 2003 and when people ask me what I’ve seen of Long Beach and the area around it, my answer is always the same: three themeparks (Disneyland, Seaworld and Universal Studios), a hotel and the appartement we were staying at.
I’ve got several items as well, the original script of London Calling signed by Judith & Garfield Reeves-Stevens and twice by Jennifer O’Dell (who played Veronica Layton), I’ve got Marguerite Krux’ (played by Rachel Blakely) hat, and the dress she wore in Phantoms. A friend made me a copy of Rachel Blakely’s Survivors script which was also signed by her and then there’s of course the different photo’s I’ve gotten, not to mention some personal messages from Rachel Blakely as well.
But with the sudden ending of the show, I got addicted to other TVshows, none as bad as TLW though. Recently I’ve been rediscovering TLW and somehow I stumbled upon the Twitter page of Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens. They have been writing several episodes of the show (most – if not all – are so worth watching). I decided to follow them and learned that they’ve written a new book called Search. Through several small contests on Twitter, they’ve been giving away free signed copies. On their website was some information about the book and I must say it sparked my interest immediately. They tweeted there would be a question about TLW today and I decided to give it a shot.
ReevesStevens SEARCH signed copy to 1st correct answer: Which J&G ep of THE LOST WORLD has a crossover reference to J&G’s THE CHRONICLES OF GALEN SWORD?
It was more a guessing matter than me actually knowing the answer. I guess I was lucky, with some research on The Chronicles of Galen Sword (those books had to do with the supernateral), rereading the episode synopsises of TLW and finding out which episodes were written by J&G lead me to several episodes which could be it. And after several tries I got an @ reply.
ReevesStevens We have a winner! @tessa_vermeulen got “Stone Cold” as the ep with a Galen Sword reference. DM an address please. Bonus question up next!
I’ve won myself a free signed copy of Search. I was lucky the question was posted early and I was in a timezone in which work was done for several hours (not that I worked with one more week of vacation left).
So hence the title of this post: Old habits die hard. It still applies to me in this case, I think. I’m still crazy enough to do things like this 
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