Convention, convention....

[burntcopper]

T1 : Chuck, Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dr Horrible

HEE. This convention was FUN. And ridiculously laid back, with geekery being fully embraced, and for a Starfury con, a rather amazing statistic : more men than women. (plus lots of newbies)

Friday : got there, chatted, found out I'd been blacklisted from stewarding because I apparently annoyed James Callis' PA in the autograph queue at the last con... when I wasn't on duty. Not pissed off, since the privileges of stewards have pretty much collapsed once the Gold tickets were introed at this con, just exceedingly confused. Evening was dancing and geeking, counted lots of wienerlicious girls but it turned out the Orange Orange girls only count me, miniosiris and xenaclone, who was doing hers on Sunday. It was posited that this may be because most of the UK lot have only seen S1. Wandered into the main bar (£4 a pint. OUCH. Glad bring own alcohol), leaned up against Paul who was in a group surrouding Mark Sheppard, and then turned and said 'Mark, I have a question'. Whoops. Mark bitched me out for phrasing it like that, since he knows me, this isn't a talk, next thing I'll be calling him 'Mr. Sheppard.' Me : '....I was going to ask if you wanted a drink?' 'See, now that's a much better conversation opener.' Got talking to Dominic Keating - who is very funny and filthy and pulled out a few stories of Sarah Michelle Gellar being a diva - and he proceeded to remember my name for the rest of the con.

Then got sucked into the black hole that is a Republican debate with Adam Baldwin. He's completely dyed in the wool. 5-6 of us all trying to present arguments to his position. He doesn't believe in national subsidised healthcare, even when we pointed out that we pay taxes when we're healthy and able to earn that'll offset when we're not, and we really have no problem with paying for our neighbour's medical bills. No, you really can;t go and ask your neighbour for money on an honopur system. Oh, and he's really cloth-eared when he said that the poor should be taken care of by charity. Me and Pip straightaway came out with 'we've had that. See the Victorian era. Tried and tested, it *doesn't work*.' He also finds it suspicious that we know exactly what the percentage of loony extremist right wing MPs is (ah, the BNP, lovely chaps), but we don't count anyone as extremist left-wing MPs. Great bloke, really funny, intelligent, cares a *lot*, his politics just make me want to scream.

Went back dancefloor, then chatted lots and tried to swat Andy a lot over his sniggering about the Alex blond geeky babies convo.

Saturday : brekkies, donned Orange Orange gear for Zachary photoshoot (I felt so cheap that I dressed up, but he loved it). then cursed because I hadn't bought a photo with Adam Baldwin since he was wearing the male version of the Orange Orange t-shirt. Went and changed into civvies and went to the talks and so on.

Felicia Day : adorable and geek queen. Got most of the questions in her talk.
Summer Glau is still very shy and unsure of herself. But adorable all the same. Seriously. exactly the same as she was a few years back.
The two Dollhouse girls are lovely and funny, Miracle plays ukelele. Diecher's special talent is apparently creating a massive bubble with shampoo in the shower with her arm.
Adam and Zachary play off each other well, and as Zach says, 'I have never heard of this thing called the magical wings of Bittorrent. neither has anyone here.'
Mark Sheppard is Mark and we love him. And very smug about being president in Galactica.
Georges Jeanty - rather taken with doing comics where it's just Joss and him, since he doesn't have to contend with the baggage of history you get with DC and Marvel properties, and talked about Manhunter.
Jonathan Woodward hath met his match in Dominic Keating. Filthy, funny, off-topic, inclined to break into song, and Jonathan is utterly in awe of the fact that Dominic turned up to auditions with hangovers and casting didn't care, and the fact that UK tv has a somewhat different attitude to drinking and drugs on set than Hollywood. And then came Dominic regaling us with the Wash n Go ad.

Got a couple more photos, got half my autos, went swimming, Jenny Sparks costume no-one got, and once I changed into the hotpants, I resigned myself to being labelled patriotic glamour girl. Fancy Dress was dominated by Terminators in various shapes and versions, A Cameron terminator won, the brothers got best group for their film terminators, we had a life-size Gizmo, and Luke bribed the judges by dressing as Willy Wonka and giving them all chocolate, with two adult Ooompa-Loompas in tow (they'd suggested it). Dancing, dancing, and it turns out Georges is into ballroom dancing. mark corner talk... tats, sourcing rings for engagements, his dad's surgery, and karaoke in New Jersey truckstops with a bunch of actors from the Sopranos. Jedi Chefs were doing Tropic thunder which translated into a general Vietnam thing... with added Tom Cruise from Valkryie to round out the Tropic Thunder. Richard's fabulous bowler was stolen by yours truly in the bar, as well as teaching Richard the Fosse slink since I felt his chaps and cowboy outfit deserved it.

Main bar was hosting the Tile association awards (yes, really - full dinner jackets and soon, and when we got kicked out of our bar, we contended with a lot of stares, and questions. though we converted some of them.)

Sunday : Communion. Ah, communion. As hosted by Jonathan, aided and abetted by Dominic, who got into the spirit immediately (I'd warned him on friday after I checked the schedule for sunday and he didn't believe me), and a very very confused Georges. Poor lad. Classic moments : Dominic asking if there were children in the audience, and Jonathan automatically going 'Cover your ears, Lukey'. Dominic later joked that the reason Rhiannon hadn't won the kids prize is because she's less cute than her brother.

Singing, ukelele and Hula dancing from Miracle with Felicia and Diecher as backing dancers and Miracle's bloke Chris also doing ukelele duties.

And then came what was supposed to be Zach's talk. Instead, in the name of convincing the sponsors, nearly the entire con was led by Zach to the NEC Subway where we all ordered sandwiches, with Zach getting behind the bar to help make them, it getting filmed, the NEC security blokes being very very confused about this cheerful flashmob, and everyone being very giggly - and we still made it back in time for the Firefly talk.

Firefly talk : Adam and Mark going utterly OT to have a discussion about the pros and cons of various guns, Summer pointing out that stunt stuff lies when they say it'll be easy, and Adam refuses to do West End and Broadway because it doesn't pay enough and he's in it for the money.

Last bit of auto signing, Felicia signed mine in Lolcats and said that she loved Torchwood, so I pimped copperbadge's lolcat Torchwood crossover. She squealed a bit, then when I asked if she'd seen Being Human (she wants to do a fantasy sitcom) the three blokes next to me said 'It's brilliant', and we informed her that it was available online.

Dancing, Miss Piggy appropriately venerated (though we must kill certain people for suggesting, once I'd changed into the red salsa dress, that it was Caprica Piggy and did this make Baltar Kermit), have photos of Ming in Monkey outfit confused over the new Piggsy, Fanny did a great Pizzazz (rival band leader in Jem) and Lissy and Mo had fabulous adult Rainbow Brite outfits. Twinkle got kidnapped and used as a cricket ball by the Doctors. More dancing. Alex pulled me, to, er, shocked faces all round****. Which was nice. Turned out we missed most of the convention dances *and* most of the guests coming out to dance too, since we got back in time for the disco shutting, so bar was adjourned to and our lot? right next to the tv showing Wrestlemania, which we kept staring at in fascinated horror. We think violent panto sums it up. More chatting, Jonathan has officially scarred Paul who feels that exorcism is not enough for his camera since Jonathan filmed Jimmy in a cheerleader outfit on it.

Monday : nearly mugged Luke for his Dalek hoodie. Age ten size, ebay here I come....

****Okay. to explain. Alex : ridiculously good-looking convention stalwart. It was generally believed that he didn't know where his libido was, since he is a bit shy and terrible at picking up on clues that girls like him and are giving off signals. Yours truly has fancied him for several years but not done anything about it due to said reason plus the mate factor, which means eye contact normally leads to dance-offs rather than the usual eye-contact-dancing-closer-snoggage.

After my ribbing at pubmeet, everyone stumbled into the bar post-disco and collapsed on the sofas, me and Sonja snugged up on either side of Alex and stayed like that whilst chatting and pointing out to Nic that she didn't remember a previous event at a con because she was pissed. Alex later made the comment to Mike after that 'two girls on either side and nothing happened!' which had Mike blinking due to the 'Alex making that kind of comment?' factor. Saturday night in the bar, me and Mike and Alycia had a discussion about this and Alex's general obliviousness. Which Alex may have heard with possible skew towards me because Mike later hit him with a clue-by-four and told him that reciprocation helps and he needs to do some of the work. Cue Sunday night where we were all dancing, there was suddenly a bit of Alex giving me eye contact, then crossed the circle to dance next to me, then with me, and I did ask if he wanted to continue dancing or continue elsewhere due to being a wee bit shocked from the point of Alex crossing the circle. I may have cavegirled, as alycia puts it. We did comment that we were going to get *so* much ribbing from the others, but fortunately when we came back down with huge grins on our faces, they were still somewhat shocky that it happened at all. (and he said he'd fancied me for ages! Yay!)

Comments

[xenaclone.livejournal.com]

Adam did have [IMO] something of a roguish grin about his face when he said he was in acting for the money :-). He also seemed to be relishing the challenge of attempting 'controlling the Jonathan' during the closing ceremony. And then there was Jimmy scarring all the GOH for life with an accidental display of 'his junk'.

Rhiannon also did Orange Orange in the masquerade. She was cute and sweet [as usual] but the Umpa Lumpas plus her brother were the clear ace.

Will write more from notes in my own LJ.

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

re: Adam - he was so playing up the money thing, since he;d been making jokes about it for half that talk.

:wails: i was trying to wipe my brain of the Jimmy's junk thing!

[gmh.livejournal.com]

*snigger* - as for the 'oblivious, being hit over the head and dragged off' thing, I couldn't possibly comment

(She will kill me if I do. And possibly not in a good way, either.)

[dougggie.livejournal.com]

I found the cavegirl approach worked best ...want...get. Etc.
:)

[lissy111.livejournal.com]

It was good to see, the cavegirl approach was a great one! Made me smile seeing you guys together - you make such a cute couple! :)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

cavegirl was mostly done in shock.

and put the supergirl pattern DOWN. I can see you.

[lissy111.livejournal.com]

I don't have a supergirl pattern - (kinda don't need one, nor the ref pictures, it is in my memory banks in detail) plus I though we were doing Uk superheroes first, then supergirl/batgirl!

You have to come to Heropubcrawl and rope in Alex too, that crowd would appreciate (and know) the British superheroes! (plus it is not far from where Alex lives!)