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Mmmm. Lawyers. Seriously sexy lawyers. We had all the originals - Stephanie Romanov (Lilah) Christian Kane (Lindsey), Thomas Burr (Lee), Steve Carlson (the other half of the band Kane), and as an extra, Neil Roberts (was in Charmed's first season). Sadly, Sam Anderson (Holland) and Daniel Dae Kim (Gavin) and Gigi Edgley (Chiana in Farscape) couldn't make it due to work commitments, but my god it was fun.

These are people who loved their characters, and playing evil (it's always dreadfully boring when an actor says they don't think their character is actually evil, just has their motivations)

Got there at 6:30 after work, dumped gear, said hello to

mingmerciless, Selena, Nic, Taz, Sonja, Chewtoy, Andy, Tors, Claire, DM, John the Goth and others of my acquaintance, ate, hung out in bar, went to cocktail party. Nattered, saw the guests - Ming was overjoyed when he found out Steve Carlson is a bluetooth fan - he also liked Sonja's Justice (J & SB) leather catsuit and my Farscape one, so of course we had to show him Claire and Sonja in the leather bikini and Mystique outfits. Had to hold a glass of ice over DM's crotch after Stephanie bent over too many times in front of him, and Nic got a text asking her to grab some lawyer boy arse. Christian read said text (don't remember the exact details of how), and then presented the arse... Nic has been on cloud nine all weekend as a result. Oh, and when the guests walked in, we all looked, went 'oooo, pretty', and then stared at one incredibly pretty boy who was with them, going 'Who the hell is that and where can I get one?' Gaped when the wheels clicked as it being Thomas, whimpering 'but I'm sure he wasn't that cute on the show'.

Disco - lots of lawyers, some judges, some policemen and convicts - Ming being one of them in his orange LA county overalls, as well as Yvonne in a sexy version of stripes, someone who came as a CSI Forensics girl, and Scottish Jimmy in a rather good Zorro outfit. 'I am Anthony Hopkin's dad.' There are also photos of me striking tango poses with him. :cough: Yep, I'm a slut for certain costumes. One bloke came as Neo in a leather version of the coat etc, but was soundly beaten by Chewie in a perfect Neo outfit (plus acrobatic skills) as made by Tors, and by me when we started a mock-fight on the dancefloor. Two sets of Starsky and Hutch, the set wearing the cardigan of doom (being the Jedi Chefs in another incarnation) which I managed to convince to pose in a dip, as seen on a multi fandom music vid... :g: Met Debs

wildcherries and Sean

xariusx and they have been absorbed into our collective. Mwhahaha. Debs has become a new dancing partner. Oh, and my Farscape Sebacean costume? Sans the accessories (which fall off or otherwise), I love it to bits. Perfect movement, looks fantastic, and will so be recycled...

Danced and drank ourselves stupid til 4am, went back to Nic's room party, and in a move that was to become a room party trend, me and Ming bailed after about an hour/45 mins (varied) due to falling asleep while talking.

Next morning saw hangovers, angel eps, photoshoots with the cast - I got one with Steve and Christian, and I so should've got one with Neil and Thomas, but stupid me thought i'd just get one. Ah well. Was holding two apples and both Steve and Christian made the 'How do you like them apples?' joke. My reponse was 'Oh, you did not just say that.' But guh. Pretty and sexy.

Thomas is an absolute sweetie, cute as hell, and he mostly got serious theatre and film questions as he's so enthusiastic about the subject, and he has the biggest thing for Naomi Watts ever seen. We left the dodgy and scary questions til Sunday as we were softening him up, being the con virgin that he was... Well, apart from me asking if he'd be willing to have his arse groped for charity.

Then came Neil Roberts. For those who don't know him, he played some evil warlock/shannon doherty's boss in Charmed S1, and is the most indiscreet man in the world that we've come across. Will tell you anything, especially if it's embarassing and TMI. That session we got the talk about making sure your old man doesn't look too small due to cold shrinkage in nude monologues on stage, him getting an injection in his arse and Shannon Doherty walking in on it, getting probed for drugs on the train to Belgium and many various others. Suffice it to say that you spend his talks laughing your head off and going 'Oh my god'. Oh, and his new commercial for cough mixture and commentary on the Alliance and Leicester one. (I got second question of the talk - "You've got the most screen time of any actor on the Sci-fi channel due to your unparalleled work on the A&L ad being repeated ad infinitum, and we want to know what you did to prepare for it, your motivations during each scene.'

Then came Christian and Stephanie. Who we show so much love for it's not true. Can't remember much in the way of revelations besides the fact that I asked the arse groping question of Christian and he... ummmmm.... told me to come up and test it out. See me stumble up in shell-shock and feel it up. Was too shell-shocked to get proper grope in. Got several 'you are so bloody lucky' bits the rest of the weekend. But as always, Stephanie is fantastic and giggly, and Christian is drop-dead sex god and good value.

Autograph signing - told Thomas he'd better beware as we were merely softening him up for tomorrow. Such a sweetie. Neil was terribly pouty as I hadn't asked *him* the auctioning of the arse question. Went 'Um, sorry, we ran out of time and I was going to ask it tomorrow... would you?' This reveals that I get recognised by actors - as do Ming and Selena due to us getting the microphone chucked at us by the Spice Bunnies as we can pull questions out of thin air to keep the talks going. I think Selena's two up on me. :grumble:

Mmm. Had Kane acoustic performance. Bloody wonderful it was too, with some Q&A afterwards. Converted many a person with that. Turned out 'LA', the one Lindsey sings at Caritas is actually Christian singing and air guitaring to Steve's playing. He also made one of those fabulous faux pas that Americans keep making in all innocence at British cons - these were onteh subject of him and Steve being a couple, and 'meat and potatoes', where we all sniggered verily... Steve also has lovely voice for singing, and he did one song...

Country and Western nights. It's all about the whores. Heh. As well as a Mexican, a couple of Red Indians, a Clint Eastwood and yours truly as Daisy Duke. Also the night my hat got stolen by Sean, as I wasn't wearing it most of the time. Neil Roberts came out to dance several times, and it's been concluded that the boy doesn't get to dance enough, as he's very enthusastic. And drunk. And a massive, massive flirt. Apparently he finally learned how to do the Macarena three bits from the end.

Oh, and on the 'Things Our Convention Had and Yours Never Will, Thbbbbbpt' list :

Stephanie and Christian having a lightsabre fight outside.

You just don't get any better. The Jedi Chefs were out in full force, with new and shinier lightsabres with neon blue glow and actual proper solidity. They were fighting outside, after recruiting new Padawans (apparently the 100th got recruited on Sunday), and then Christian got a sabre and started fighting, having had sword training for Secondhand Lions. Then Stephanie got one and started fighting Christian. So enthusiastically that at one point we had to ask them to move a bit further over because there was an ambulance coming - they hadn't noticed.

Ming has now decided to find an excuse to make his fencing gear fit a costume theme so he can fight these damn Jedi Chefs. Keith managed to get me in handcuff shots - Keith being conventioneering's resident transvestite and bondage enthusiast. See me pose chained to the stairs rail looking extremely pissed off.

Sunday - See Angel eps, including the fucking fantastic Lineage. Dear God, can that man act. And the sleep-deprived Lorne ep? Couldn't stop laughing. Neil greeted us with the cry of the hungover, and asked 'er.... what did I do last night?' This session we got the crabs story. And some others. Selena is impressed because not only was I reduced to tears, I actually hid my face in my hands at one point. There's not much you can really do with a man who the phrase 'TMI' means nothing whatsoever and is bloody hilarious at the same time. Got him to do Mandy, like last time, and since he's now the originator of 'Mandy' singing at the closing ceremony at Starfury Angel cons.... plus he went out into the audience and got the rest of us to sing.

Awwww, Thomas such a sweetie again. And he'd like to be the licker of chocolate sauce off Naomi Watts, though he feels chocloate sauce is limiting. There should be whipped cream and caramel sauce as well, at the very least. heh. Plus we got him to do 'Devil went down to Georgia.', after which he cursed us verily. And various accents, not to mention a rather good 'Bond. James Bond.'

Stephanie - there's nothing more I can really say about her talks apart from the fact that we love her to bits and she always gives good talk. There's a reason this is her third Starfury in two years.

Steve lovely in his talk. It was supposed to be with Christian but Christian had to leave in the morning to go shoot more Angel. Got him to sing and play, and talk lots about the music process, and the fact that he and Christian keep getting mistaken for brothers when going out (they look seriously alike)

Closing Ceremony - Mandy again, but the St. Starfury's School Choir, Neil and Thomas and Steve going out into the audience to distribute microphones.

Beach Party - erm... well, I've discovered that you can't dance in my bikini. The top's fine, didn't fall out of it once like I was afraid, but the bottoms kept riding up, so it was back to the hotel rooms to grab my wooden platform heels and hotpants. You can't dance in flipflops either, which I'd discovered on Friday night. The innovation for this was Sonja, Claire, Tors, Sloopy and Chewie turning up in pirate gear. Sonja as possibly one of the best Jack Sparrows I've ever seen (seriously, she actually looks like Johnny Depp in that - considering she's scared herself with an Ichabod Crane costume previously, not surprising) Chewtoy was Will, I'm pretty sure Tors was Annamaria, and Sloopy was a rather cool Blackbeard. They also pandered to the slashers in the bar by staging a Will/Jack snog. Um. And considering what we saw later between Chewtoy and Sonja, as well as them stumbling back to the bar from their room looking a bit dishevelled and terribly giggly, and hand-holding next morning, I'd say we have a new couple. :g:.

And now I'm going to go collapse due to sleep deprivation.