Back from Vancouver, and fried

[annathepiper]

+0: First and foremost--made it safely back from Vancouver and the Serenity screening! jessicac, mamishka, and I had a delightful time. We had no trouble at the border in either direction, and going into Canada, we weren't asked for our papers at all. On the way home our driver's licenses and birth certificates were deemed acceptable, and moreover, we had a lovely chat with the older gent manning the booth at that hour. Jessica and Meems both gushed at him about the movie when we got him to say he liked science fiction--muahaha!

Picoreview of the trip: FABULOUS. We had fun walking around a bit of Vancouver, the theater was large and spacious, and we had tasty Thai food for dinner. Moreover, our screening was graced by the presence of the cute and charming Jewel Staite, who plays Kaylee! She did a Q&A after the movie was done, and it was chock full of giggleworthy things, including the tale of the oncoming competition between her and Nathan Fillion as to new and creative ways to flip each other the bird. >:)

Picoreview of the movie: DAMN that was good. Go see it. Avoid spoilers at all costs. I WILL be posting a spoiler thread, so if you haven't seen a screening, consider yourselves warned now to NOT look behind the huge lj-cut I will have all over it!

I will also be posting a longer writeup of the trip as soon as my brain comes back online; I'm fried from scattered sleep!

+1: Secondly, greetings to pinkdormouse, now looking at my journal!

+2: I will be offline for the afternoon, as I have been given permission to attend a ship party we're having, but I will be online this evening. So I have to work only half a day today, which is good. See previous commentary re: fried brain.

Comments

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Now you know why everyone's been screaming to avoid spoilers. :-)

[annathepiper]

Indeed!

[fleetfootmike.livejournal.com]

Can you leave me *off* any filter that you post the spoilers under, please?

Otherwise I'll read 'em, and That Will Be Bad :)

[annathepiper]

I had not actually planned to do this as a filtered post, but come to think of it, that's a good idea. I'll put out a call for people to ask to join the filter.

[mikekn]

our screening was graced by the presence of the cute and charming Jewel Staite

Lucky!!

The Philadelphia screening didn't have any appearances, but we had a great time (and managed to get enough extra tickets that day to double the number of people we had with us)

[annathepiper]

Yay, extra tickets! Even aside from Jewel's presence, we had a great time indeed. It was neat to see the Vancouver geek crowd. :)

[seimaisin.livejournal.com]

She did a Q&A after the movie was done, and it was chock full of giggleworthy things, including the tale of the oncoming competition between her and Nathan Fillion as to new and creative ways to flip each other the bird. >:)

Hee hee hee. At DragonCon last year, Peter David organized a sneak attack on Jewel's behalf - he got called on for a question, and instead, had the entire audience stand up and flip Nathan off. It was hysterical. :)

[annathepiper]

HEE! Yeah, she told us something about that in brief passing, just a mention of entire audiences at conventions flipping off Nathan on her behalf.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the welcome. Am very envious of all those getting to see 'Serenity' previews.

Gina

[annathepiper]

You're most welcome! In the 'welcome to my journal' sense, as well as the 'answer to thank you'. Also, your icon is adorable. :)

And glad to also hear you're a Firefly fan!

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Ship party??

Oh, dear. A scam Peter David participated in willingly? heh.

Although not as good as the one the cast of B5 pulled on Jason Carter...

[annathepiper]

Are you not familiar with the term "ship party"?

And remind me of the Jason Carter thing--something's ringing in the back of my brain about that, but I'm not remembering what it was. :)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Oh. Silly me, I was thinking of something with masts and sails, not something you do after the FedEx man leaves.

(We make hardware here; "ship mode" is from 2:30 to 4:30 *every day*.)

Jason gets on the set in S2 and is so *serious* about things, worse than Michael O'Hare... and then when Michael York comes in to do "A Late Delivery from Avalon" he's all FAN BOY, and nobody can stand it anymore. So the cast gets this idea: They start a rumor that Marcus is going to get killed at the end of S2. Jason goes to Bruce, being the star, and says "They won't really kill me off, will they?" Bruce says, "Well, they replaced the commander, didn't they?" Even JMS plays along, not saying anything definite but hinting that he might.... finally Mira gets wind of it, and tells the gang to come clean. A good laugh is had by all, and from then on Jason is one of the bigger cut-ups in the crew.

[annathepiper]

Hee! Right, I think I remember that Jason tale now. Thanks for refreshing my memory.

And heh. I find that "ship party" doesn't generally make sense to anybody outside the computer industry in general, though I'm sure it could get used in some other context!

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

And then there was the time Richard Biggs and Jason Carter were at a con together and....

[annathepiper]

Yes, aaaaaaaand? You can't toss out a comment like that and just leave it hanging! :)

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Says who? :-)

But, in any case: http://www.eskimo.com/~tegan/blog/20030309-20030315.html#90497138

[annathepiper]

*chortle* Oh, that's RICH.

[cafiorello.livejournal.com]

I always have to read "ship party" twice, because the first time it always means "party on a large boat" in my head....
Cathy

[annathepiper]

As, I daresay, it does to most non-computer-tech-industry types. :) Unless the term actually gets used elsewhere, which I do not know!