Here are a couple of sundry Corwin related bits and pieces, I've come accross on my numerous tours of the web, although as this is a decent upstanding fan-site, none of them actually involve Corwin's bits and pieces ;-)
From a transcript of America Online Chat, held on the 2nd June 1997
With JMS and John Copeland
B5 Online: A personal question for Lt. Corwin from Karen Eve....
Question: For Lt. Corwin: If you could send any one personal message home, what would it be?
PigDog13: Hmmmm. Corwin's got fans out there?
B5CnC: CORWIN: Dear Mom, Dad and Uncle Sherman: Don't believe everything you hear about Babylon 5 (well, except the parts about Ivanova) We're working hard to do the right thing, and sometimes that's hard to figure out, but we believe in the direction the captain's taking us, and we're sticking with it. (Remind me when this is over to tell you about my date last year, it was...something I'll never forget.)
PigDog13: Boy that Corwin is an eloquent fellow.
Jms at B5: John: yeah, who writes his stuff?
The Hymn of Lt Corwin. by Bob Blanchett
From: "The Zocalo" #154
I buzz on the link when the days just begun
I buzz on the link midnight noon and dawn
I buzz on the link when they're in their berth
In C and C I have my perch
chorus:
Run! try! you can't hide from me!
I am the Lord of the Link, JG!
I'll buzz you all wherever you may be
and I'll buzz you all on your link says he.
I buzzed the Captain and Garibaldi
but they would not speak and they would not answer me
A code R seven and a off they'd run;
They go to sleep but their link stays on!
He works down in medlab and he cures the lame
Got hooked on stims; oh dear what a shame
Starts walking around,
tries to find out why
the answer's on your fist, my boy!
I buzzed on Z-day when the sky turned black
Its hard to buzz with a keeper on your back
We buried his memory
and we thought he'd gone
but he was The Man and he still lived on!
They switched our networks
and some said goodbye
(and now with gusto!!)
B5 is the show that'll never, never die
we know what we want
and we know who we be
For WE are the lords of the link, you see
Buzz then, wherever you may be
in a cryo tube or Epsilon three
Raise your glass dear friend
and join a toast with me
More power to the arm of Joe 'Cynski!
The meeting of the war council came to order. The tone was serious and professional. Lt. Corwin was attending for the first time since his promotion, permitted to sit at the small folding table to the side of the main one. Commander Sheridan took the floor and recounted the previous week's progress, both it's victories and shortcomings. Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, gave a presentation on the current status of the Really Great Machine located on the planet below. (It needed oiling). Corwin gazed on the professional bearing of those in attendance, dreaming of the day that he might be able to join in and offer his assistance. Suddenly he heard his same called, and snapped to attention. "Lt. Corwin!"
"Yes sir!" he responded, not expecting his talents and skills to be called into service so quickly.
"Lt. Corwin, my coffee is a bit cool. I could stand a refill?"
"Oh, yes sir" the bright eyed Lt. mumbled dejectedly, "will this ever change" he wondered? "Will I ever cease being little more than animated furniture? Stuffed here or deposited there for mere color accents?"
"What was that Mr. Corwin?"
"Oh, I said, 'I'd be most exceedingly happy to refill your damned coffee!"
"Good, good, now where was I..." He slowly got up from his little table, and shuffled down the hallway, still hearing the all important discussion now continuing without him.
"I guess this is all that's expected from a minor character these days"
Modern Minor Character
(Sung to the tune of Modern Major General)
Corwin : I am the very model of a modern Minor Character
I blink, I smile, I cry on cue, or sometimes simply sit and stare
I know my Hamlet, Romeo, and other things Shakespearical
But when the camera turns on me, I simply turn invisible
I'm very well acquainted too with matters technological
From movieolas to the keys very chromalogical
From the Best Boys to the gaffers, I will tell you all you need to know
But when directors shout "action!", I'm persona-non-gratatical
Chorus (sung by the rest of the nameless crew from C&C):
But when directors shout "action!" He's persona-non-gratatical
When handed this weeks script, I flip the pages looking for my name
And there on number 84, I find I open a door again
In short, I've spent 12 years at Julliard, the BBC, Live Theater
But I remain the very model of the modern minor character
All : He's spent 12 years at Julliard, the BBC, Live Theater
But remains the very model of the modern minor character
Corwin : I am the very model of the modern minor character
Still looking for some letters that are wanting my bold signature
The conventions never call me up with desires autographical
My agent never calls me back, for reasons unsatisfactical.
And then one day I get a line and speak it with authority
And soon the stars all learn my name, and some may even talk to me
Chorus : And then one day he gets a line and speaks it with authority
And soon the stars all learn your name, and some may even talk to thee
Corwin : Two months later with my friends, were waiting for the show with glee
We pop the popcorn, pour the drinks and toast my new celebrity
We lean up close to the screen precisely at 12 minutes past
But then I hear those words I feared, "We interrupt this broadcast. . ."
The season finally came to close and my work remains anonymous
Perhaps one day, they'll know my name, at some moment posthumous
But never let it be said that I ever once had shed a tear
But silently remains the very modern minor character
Chorus : But never let it be said that he ever once had shed a tear
But silently remains the very modern minor character
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