We Have Documentary!
Filming has started in January, 2002. Make sure I've contacted you!

After several months of planning (and years of research), I've commenced filming of interview subjects for the documentary in January of 2002. There's still a lot to do, but the schedule is starting to hammer itself out and I wanted to share where we are with you, the interviewees, so you didn't feel left out in the cold.

If you're not an interview subject and you're reading this, then consider giving me a mail over at bbsdocumentary.com to discuss getting yourself wedged in there. I don't want you to feel left out! Get involved!

Now, for the rest of you...

Interview Subjects
I am interviewing a metric ton of BBS folks! After months of correspondence, I have arranged interviews with people in well over half of the United States and a good portion of the Canadian Provinces. I have open invitations/discussions to travel to other countries, ranging from England to New Zealand. It looks like I have at least 200 folks to interview, and maybe more.

January will be confined to New England. This is so I can get some real-world experience interviewing folks and not waste time and money travelling far distances only to find out I'm missing a vital part or didn't have all the documentation finished. I expect to be doing a bunch of travelling by car throughout January, and then moving to plane rides (LOTS of plane rides) for the rest of the interviews. If I can make it to somewhere in less than 5 hours by car, I will naturally take the car option (to save money for the plane trips).

With few exceptions, most interviews will be on weekends, so I can still do my day job properly (my boss has been very understanding about all this but I'm not going to press him). In one or two rare cases, I may take a day off from work so I can spend more time in a location. (Hawaii or Europe comes to mind).

YOU HAVE ALL BEEN MAILED AS OF JANUARY 1ST, 2002!
On December 28th, I mailed out a massive e-mail to every single person I ever spoke with or contacted regarding the documentary. This mail discussed scheduling, status, and generally asked people to fill out the interview-o-matic, a site with interview information and a form to fill out. Lots of people did, and that's helped me so much I can barely thank everyone enough for being candid and informative. If we talked in 2001 about interviewing you and you you don't have this mailing from me, something is wrong. Maybe you slipped between the cracks, maybe you said "I'll see you soon." and I thought it was a closing sentence and not an actual invitation to be interviewed. Maybe I mis-saved your message in the wrong folder. Regardless, if you didn't get a mail, mail me immediately so I get you into the schedule. And please don't feel slighted if this happens; we're talking dozens and dozens and dozens of people and I'm just one guy. I make mistakes too. Allow me to apologize in person. :)

Research, Corrections and Correspondence Will Continue Through 2002
Just to be sure everyone's clear on this, I don't have a situation where January 1st has become the date I stopped researching and working on the site, and that I'm exclusively filming and nothing else. Quite the opposite! As I do more interviews and get more insight, I will have a good amount of NEW ideas and NEW avenues to explore, all throughout the year. That's just part of the fun of doing all this; even I don't know what all the subjects are going to be. So keep all that information coming. It just might not be updated on the weekends, or it will be, from some hotel room somewhere.

Contacting Me
There are several ways to contact me. You can send mail to me at either jason@textfiles.com or to jason@bbsdocumentary.com, or leave a message for me on the phone at 1-617-COW-TOWN (269-8696).

Jason Scott