My Chicago Con Report (Finally!)
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switch842Sorry, this is gonna be long and there are photos. But it’s enjoyable! :-)
Thursday
The con started for me on Thursday since that is when I checked into the hotel. But first, I got to work all day! Yay! Anywho, I check in and meet up with Fred. I call Erin, too, to let her know that I’m there and to see what’s going on with her flight. Chicago had had bad weather that morning, so pretty much all the flights were delayed. But at that point, it wasn’t too bad, so Fred and I went for dinner. While there, I got a call from Erin saying that they had just been informed that their flight was cancelled as all planes going into or coming out of O’Hare were grounded due to the weather. Which was strange, cos the weather was fine at that point. But I guess there was a big storm that rolled through downtown they would have had to fly through. So, Fred and I decide to finish dinner and head back to the hotel so we can get on the internet and see if we can find any other options to get Erin to Chicago. Luckily, Erin calls back about 20 minutes later saying, the flight wasn’t cancelled and they would be boarding in about 10 minutes. Yay! While at dinner, I also get a call from Potions Mistress that they were in the lobby and we should stop by. So, we did after we got back. And I met her, CKO, Patricia and her son, Johnny, Jason the Irish Guy and later Kathleen and Neil. See, this is the thing I love about conventions. Meeting the other fans. Everyone is so nice and easy to talk to, I love it. It’s finally time to leave to get Erin and PM, CKO and Fred decide to come along so Erin has her own welcoming party! Woohoo! :-D We get Erin and head back to the hotel. Erin, meanwhile, has not eaten since earlier that afternoon and it’s now about 10:30 pm. She calls Chelle and turns out she and her sister are in the hotel bar with Luann and Mike as they are still serving food. We drop her stuff off in the room and join them in bar. The drinking has begun. Yippee! We also met a bunch of the folks from SG-69. Very nice folks. A few of them are kinda scary, but really nice once you get to know them. So, that was fun and we hung out with them for awhile before finally crashing at about 1:30 am.
Friday
Friday we get up about 9:30 and head over to IHOP for breakfast. We also make a run to Jewel and buy out much of the liquor department. Check-in for the gold pass holders is at 1:00, and I’m meeting Rachael at 12:15ish as she was coming over to make me sexy for the day. That’s done, I’m looking hot so I head back downstairs to check-in. And the waiting in line has begun. First there’s a line to check in. Then there’s a line to get into the dealer’s room since they were having issues with the credit card machine. But, eh, it’s fine. It’s to be expected. We wander around for a little while waiting for the show to begin at 3:00.
First up is Dan Payne.
Dan Payne is one hunka man. Hubba hubba. And very funny. Great sense of humor. He actually started out as a professional volleyball player. Makes sense, I can see that. He told some funny stories from filming Sateda, in which he played the “uber” Wraith that had the big fight with Ronon at the end. When they demonstrated the big ratchet at the end that he had to do, at first, the dummy weights went flying like 60 feet up in the air. Uh, no. Then they reset it and it just kind of dragged along with ground. They were about to do a third test, but he was called to set. And the stunt guys were like, “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine.” And Dan doesn’t quite believe them. He goes to film the scene and then they set up for the stunt. It went well and pulled him through the barrels like it was supposed to. He described it as they try to separate you from your internal organs. Yeah, that sounds like fun. So, that was part one. Part two involved pulling him into a brick wall. I guess no one told him about that part, cos he didn’t like the sound of it too much. Cos, you know, barrels move and walls, well, don’t. But it was fine, it all went well and looked great on film! He also talked about how all the wraith tattoos are hand drawn every time. I would have assumed that they were stencils or templates or something so that they looked the same every time. But, no, they’re hand drawn. That’s pretty impressive.
He also talked about when he was the supersoldier and the first time we saw him in Evolution Part 2. Apparently, the day they were filming all that stuff where they were trying to capture him in that forcefield was about 104 degrees. And he’s wearing a 5 mil wetsuit. Which, doesn’t breathe at all. He was saying he could hold out his hands and squeeze a fist and sweat would just get wrung out like it was soaked. And his boots would squish when he walked. He said they had buckets of ice water for his hands and feet whenever they stopped filming. Ugh, that had to be uncomfortable.
He also talked about the scene in “Death Knell” where he got buried under the rubble after being blown up by Carter. He shows up on set and is told that he’s going to be buried under a foot of rubble. Um, OK. And he’s expecting some sort of straw or hose or something to help him breathe. He gets a painters mask so he doesn’t breathe in any rubble. So, he lays down and they start to cover him up, leaving the head for last. He finally gets buried completely and he can’t really hear anything other than, “Mmpghbythns” and stuff like that. He’s waiting for the one loud “MMPHHMMM!” that will denote that PDL has yelled “Action!”. And he’s waiting. And he’s waiting. Starting to get a little light-headed. And waiting. Finally he hears it and he crawls up out of the rubble. Now, at this point, he also can’t see very well because the super-soldier helmet is also very restricting vision wise. So, when we see the soldier do that sweep of his arm with the laser to fire at Sam, it’s cos he doesn’t know where Amanda is! And the same thing for when he fires at Teal’c. So, after the scene is done, he walks over to the script supervisor (the girl who times everything to make sure everything is done at the same time from take to take) and she says, “Wow! I’ve never known anyone who could hold their breath for two minutes and ten seconds before!” Yes, that’s right folks. Dan had to hold his breath for TWO MINUTES. But he did it and we thank him muchly for it.
After that, they did the “Stump the Gateworld Experts” trivia contest. Which, I became for the weekend. Erin, LuAnn and I had run into David from GW earlier that afternoon and Erin knew him from Vancouver and she asked about the trivia, and he was like “I need help!” So, we became his experts. It was kinda fun. Some of the questions were really hard and some were just strange and um, only that person knew the answer. Oh, here’s a hint: If you ask a question, know the answer! That usually helps.
Then came Alex Zahara.
Also very, nice funny man. Turns out he went to university with Michaels Shanks and they were in a few productions together. He said he had some gossip, but he never shared. :-( His favorite episode that he did was Spirits where he played Zales. He also talked about playing the Unas and that in Beast of Burden, he was also the female Unas who served Jack and Daniel in the bar. I guess if you watch, you can see him “sniff” Daniel after he says “Thank you.” That was his idea. And Peter liked it, so he told him to do it!
After Alex was done, it was time to get ready for the big dinner I had planned at Chili’s. There were about 40 people coming. We all met up in the lobby and then walked down the road to get there. I go to check in and let them know the party of 40 is there. I had called the day before to let them know we were coming. Well, they had no record of that. Even though I had talked to the manager and it was the same guy that was on duty that night. Um, OK. Well, he comes out and says it’s gonna be 45 minutes before they can set us. Well, that’s not gonna work cos we have to get back for the cabaret. While they’re trying to sort things out on their end, I call over to the IHOP that’s right there and see if there is anything they can do. Well, the manager managed to bribe some folks with free appetizers to move, and he was able to get us all seated about 10 minutes later. Yay for Chili’s! So we get seated and we all order. Erin and I had come up with some trivia questions to do a little quiz during dinner to get people to interact and stuff. So we pass that out and give everyone time to do that. There were 20 questions. The most right was 12! Geeze, guys! Come on! They can do better than that. Anyway, I Erin and I had just finished passing out the prizes, when I look over and , holy shit, Cliff Simon is standing next to me. Hi, Cliff. Welcome to Chili’s! It was kinda crazy. Apparently, Arctic Goddess (who some may remember from Vancouver as they girl who got Cliff to take his shirt off for charity), had contacted him about the dinner and told him to stop by. So he did! He was very nice (and much short than I thought). He hung out for a bit, had a beer, took some pictures.
Then went back to get ready for the cabaret that he was MC-ing. I guess he walked to the Chili’s, too. Which is pretty cool.
Then we go back for the cabaret. What they did was, Dan & Alex had written an “episode” of Stargate: SG-FUN (haha) and cast people from the audience in the various roles.
And they also had renamed all the characters to avoid trademark issues and stuff. So, Jack was Colonel Love-Seals, Carter was Major Heart-Flutters, Daniel was Too Damn Sexy (I think) and then they translated Teal’c’s name as........Tom Cruise. Erin got up there to be part of it (who were you again?) and ended up standing by Dan. And she pet his large bulging bicep. Which was funny and such and Erin thing to do. But, I probably would have done the same thing in her place. So, they do the thing, which is funny and then to get out of the situation they were in, they had to tell a joke or three. So, they all gather to decide on what joke to tell. When the elected person gets up there to do so, Dan is standing off to the side and starts doing that pec muscle flexing dance thing. We’re all cracking up in the audience, the poor girl up telling the joke has no idea what’s going on cos every time she looks over, he stops. But it’s funny. And, um, very hott.
So after the cabaret, a bunch of us go back up to our hotel room for the party with the free booze. It’s good times, we’re hanging out laughing. At one point (maybe around 1:00-ish), Erin and Jason go outside for a smoke-break. On their way back in, they run into Cliff in the hall. Who’s staying two doors down from us and invite him in for a drink. He says to give him 10 minutes but fix him a vodka on the rocks. I run back into the room, and fix his drink. If Cliff wants a vodka on the rocks, Cliff will get it. So, we’re waiting and sure enough, in walks Cliff a little while later. Holy fuck. I had Cliff Simon in my hotel room. This rocks! And is absolutely insane at the same time. So, I kind of plop myself down on the footstool and stare while he and Jason talk ratings. I’m rather inebriated at this point and don’t trust myself to do much other than that. But it was cool. He hung out for half hour, 45 minutes or so. Cliff is seriously one cool guy.
And that was Friday.
Saturday
Saturday started out with Cliff. It was just a weekend full of Cliff! Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
What did Cliff talk about? He did mention that he was very interested in being the next James Bond. He had submitted himself for the current role, but as we all know, they wanted younger, so it wasn’t Cliff. But, if you would like to write to MGM and help push Cliff’s name, please write:
Mr. Harry E. Sloan, Chairman & CEO
MGM Studios
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Anywho, he also talked briefly about him showing up at the dinner and then hanging out with us the night before. He mentions the vodka gave him a bit of a headache. Woohoo! I brought down a System Lord with my vodka! Go me! He talked about the reason he left South Africa being mostly political and how it just isn’t safe there for anyone, really. What else….Um, I really should have written this sooner so I could remember what everyone said. :-) He said he was very happy that Baal is still around. He purposely played Baal in the sort of non-conventional bad guy way, hoping that it would get the producers to remember him and keep him around. Looks like it worked! Um, that’s all I can remember right now. Anyone else wanna jump in?
After Cliff was Jason.
He’s actually really funny. Kind of like Chris Judge, but without the ADD. :-) He kind of fell into acting by accident a bit. He was visiting his father in Hawaii when they were casting for Baywatch. At the time, he was working in a tourist shop, folding t-shirts. Hmm, $6 an hour folding shirts….or more money running around on the beach with women. Not a hard decision. So, he got that part. Then came Stargate. And, um, it’s cool and stuff. He did demonstrate Ronon’s gun twirling stuff he does with one of the con goers costume weapon he had made. It was pretty cool. He talked a lot about his family. His mom was there with him, actually. Oh, this was only his second con, so he was a little nervous. But he did well. During his Q&A though, they only had one mic set up on the other side of the stage, so we got his back mostly. So, Erin yelled out, “Look over here!” at one point. To which Jason responded, “Everyone look over there!” It was pretty funny. But he was better after that and would turn towards the rest of the audience when answering questions. So, thanks Erin!
Oh! And he had the coolest shoes!
Right? Totally awesome.
Then came Michael! Yay!!
Entertaining as always. Though I did miss Chris. Those two are just way too funny together. One important thing, he did mention that as of right now, there are plans to do 3 two hour made for TV movies to wrap up this season’s story lines. As far as when that would be and where they would air and what it would all entail, no details. Nothing specific, just that 3 movies are in the works. So, yay for that.
As you can tell, he was wearing a hat like he often does. Well, since the hat covers his lovely face, Erin had to yell out “Take off the hat!” for everyone. To which Michael so kindly replied, “Kiss my ass!” And to which I had to severely restrain myself from shouting back, “Bend over!” But it was all in good fun and Erin got the most fantabulous photo op out of it ever (go take a look at her journal to see what I mean). He also did the Puff ‘n’ Ruffle and Wounded Lamb. Yay! Love those.
Later that night was the dessert party with Jason and Michael and surprise guest Don Davis! He stepped in when Joe Flanigan had to cancel. Joe wasn’t even scheduled to come to the dessert party, but I guess Don felt like coming and hanging out. Which is cool! I love Don. If you’ve never met him, you should know two things: 1 – He is one of the sweetest guys you will ever meet and 2 – he has a filthy, filthy mind. It’s kind of disturbing at times. Jason was cool, too. The guys didn’t get to stay too long at the tables, but it’s OK. It’s nice to even have as little time as that. After we got Don and Jason we had a bit of a wait until Michael got there. So we started a game of cups. Lots of fun. And I kicked David’s ass. Yes, that’s right. I am the Master Cup Champion. Go me. Then Michael came by and chatted and it was all good. And when he stood up to leave, he scratched his stomach and we got a look at a lovely expanse of skin. I think everyone’s brains kind of stopped working at that point.
Then, there was more partying in the room. Not much drinking for me at that point. But we had some music videos going and it was a pretty good time. I know Cindy enjoyed herself. ;-) Hehe. Then I kicked everyone out so I could sleep and the party continued elsewhere.
Sunday
Sunday morning was the breakfast with Don and Beau. That was pretty cool. Beau is a very nice guy, very personable and easy to talk to. Again, not much time to talk, so, sadly, I don’t really remember what they said!
Then came their Q&As. Don was wonderful as always.
Made me get teary a few times when he was talking about his family, especially his dad. You can tell that man has a lot of love in him. It’s a wonderful thing to see. Then, of course, I had to ask him to tell the story of how he met his wife. It’s such a wonderful and very funny story. If you haven’t heard it, find a con where Don will be and ask him. You won’t be disappointed. Then in the autograph line, I was talking a little bit (I asked him what the “S” stood for), when the “Gateworld Experts” were called up on stage for the next trivia competition. So, sadly, I had to dash out of there and get my ass up on stage. (By the way, thank you very much![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lovellama for the “Indeed” count. Someone did ask that and I was able to whip out the actual correct answer. So, hats to you.)
Then after a quick run out to Burger King for lunch, Beau took the stage.
Again, very nice and entertaining man. Told some stories about working with his dad and son on various projects. Apparently, he was doing a play with his son and at one point during it, his son is in a headlock and he pretends to punch him. To help play that up on stage, the son has hid hand, palm side out on the side of his face away from the audience and that’s what Beau would smack to make that sounds. Well, apparently Jeff was in the audience one night and they wanted to make it good. So, Beau reels back for the punch, but misses and it kind of glances of, not very impressively. So, Beau pulls back to punch him again. But, his son was not expecting this and had removed his hand, so he whacked his son in the jaw real good! It was pretty funny if painful. Oops. :-)
So, I think that’s all my stories. Here’s my complete gallery of all my con pics. Enjoy. But please do not repost anywhere else. Thanks.
I’ll see some of you in Vancouver! Woohoo!!
Thursday
The con started for me on Thursday since that is when I checked into the hotel. But first, I got to work all day! Yay! Anywho, I check in and meet up with Fred. I call Erin, too, to let her know that I’m there and to see what’s going on with her flight. Chicago had had bad weather that morning, so pretty much all the flights were delayed. But at that point, it wasn’t too bad, so Fred and I went for dinner. While there, I got a call from Erin saying that they had just been informed that their flight was cancelled as all planes going into or coming out of O’Hare were grounded due to the weather. Which was strange, cos the weather was fine at that point. But I guess there was a big storm that rolled through downtown they would have had to fly through. So, Fred and I decide to finish dinner and head back to the hotel so we can get on the internet and see if we can find any other options to get Erin to Chicago. Luckily, Erin calls back about 20 minutes later saying, the flight wasn’t cancelled and they would be boarding in about 10 minutes. Yay! While at dinner, I also get a call from Potions Mistress that they were in the lobby and we should stop by. So, we did after we got back. And I met her, CKO, Patricia and her son, Johnny, Jason the Irish Guy and later Kathleen and Neil. See, this is the thing I love about conventions. Meeting the other fans. Everyone is so nice and easy to talk to, I love it. It’s finally time to leave to get Erin and PM, CKO and Fred decide to come along so Erin has her own welcoming party! Woohoo! :-D We get Erin and head back to the hotel. Erin, meanwhile, has not eaten since earlier that afternoon and it’s now about 10:30 pm. She calls Chelle and turns out she and her sister are in the hotel bar with Luann and Mike as they are still serving food. We drop her stuff off in the room and join them in bar. The drinking has begun. Yippee! We also met a bunch of the folks from SG-69. Very nice folks. A few of them are kinda scary, but really nice once you get to know them. So, that was fun and we hung out with them for awhile before finally crashing at about 1:30 am.
Friday
Friday we get up about 9:30 and head over to IHOP for breakfast. We also make a run to Jewel and buy out much of the liquor department. Check-in for the gold pass holders is at 1:00, and I’m meeting Rachael at 12:15ish as she was coming over to make me sexy for the day. That’s done, I’m looking hot so I head back downstairs to check-in. And the waiting in line has begun. First there’s a line to check in. Then there’s a line to get into the dealer’s room since they were having issues with the credit card machine. But, eh, it’s fine. It’s to be expected. We wander around for a little while waiting for the show to begin at 3:00.
First up is Dan Payne.
Dan Payne is one hunka man. Hubba hubba. And very funny. Great sense of humor. He actually started out as a professional volleyball player. Makes sense, I can see that. He told some funny stories from filming Sateda, in which he played the “uber” Wraith that had the big fight with Ronon at the end. When they demonstrated the big ratchet at the end that he had to do, at first, the dummy weights went flying like 60 feet up in the air. Uh, no. Then they reset it and it just kind of dragged along with ground. They were about to do a third test, but he was called to set. And the stunt guys were like, “Don’t worry, it’ll be fine.” And Dan doesn’t quite believe them. He goes to film the scene and then they set up for the stunt. It went well and pulled him through the barrels like it was supposed to. He described it as they try to separate you from your internal organs. Yeah, that sounds like fun. So, that was part one. Part two involved pulling him into a brick wall. I guess no one told him about that part, cos he didn’t like the sound of it too much. Cos, you know, barrels move and walls, well, don’t. But it was fine, it all went well and looked great on film! He also talked about how all the wraith tattoos are hand drawn every time. I would have assumed that they were stencils or templates or something so that they looked the same every time. But, no, they’re hand drawn. That’s pretty impressive.
He also talked about when he was the supersoldier and the first time we saw him in Evolution Part 2. Apparently, the day they were filming all that stuff where they were trying to capture him in that forcefield was about 104 degrees. And he’s wearing a 5 mil wetsuit. Which, doesn’t breathe at all. He was saying he could hold out his hands and squeeze a fist and sweat would just get wrung out like it was soaked. And his boots would squish when he walked. He said they had buckets of ice water for his hands and feet whenever they stopped filming. Ugh, that had to be uncomfortable.
He also talked about the scene in “Death Knell” where he got buried under the rubble after being blown up by Carter. He shows up on set and is told that he’s going to be buried under a foot of rubble. Um, OK. And he’s expecting some sort of straw or hose or something to help him breathe. He gets a painters mask so he doesn’t breathe in any rubble. So, he lays down and they start to cover him up, leaving the head for last. He finally gets buried completely and he can’t really hear anything other than, “Mmpghbythns” and stuff like that. He’s waiting for the one loud “MMPHHMMM!” that will denote that PDL has yelled “Action!”. And he’s waiting. And he’s waiting. Starting to get a little light-headed. And waiting. Finally he hears it and he crawls up out of the rubble. Now, at this point, he also can’t see very well because the super-soldier helmet is also very restricting vision wise. So, when we see the soldier do that sweep of his arm with the laser to fire at Sam, it’s cos he doesn’t know where Amanda is! And the same thing for when he fires at Teal’c. So, after the scene is done, he walks over to the script supervisor (the girl who times everything to make sure everything is done at the same time from take to take) and she says, “Wow! I’ve never known anyone who could hold their breath for two minutes and ten seconds before!” Yes, that’s right folks. Dan had to hold his breath for TWO MINUTES. But he did it and we thank him muchly for it.
After that, they did the “Stump the Gateworld Experts” trivia contest. Which, I became for the weekend. Erin, LuAnn and I had run into David from GW earlier that afternoon and Erin knew him from Vancouver and she asked about the trivia, and he was like “I need help!” So, we became his experts. It was kinda fun. Some of the questions were really hard and some were just strange and um, only that person knew the answer. Oh, here’s a hint: If you ask a question, know the answer! That usually helps.
Then came Alex Zahara.
Also very, nice funny man. Turns out he went to university with Michaels Shanks and they were in a few productions together. He said he had some gossip, but he never shared. :-( His favorite episode that he did was Spirits where he played Zales. He also talked about playing the Unas and that in Beast of Burden, he was also the female Unas who served Jack and Daniel in the bar. I guess if you watch, you can see him “sniff” Daniel after he says “Thank you.” That was his idea. And Peter liked it, so he told him to do it!
After Alex was done, it was time to get ready for the big dinner I had planned at Chili’s. There were about 40 people coming. We all met up in the lobby and then walked down the road to get there. I go to check in and let them know the party of 40 is there. I had called the day before to let them know we were coming. Well, they had no record of that. Even though I had talked to the manager and it was the same guy that was on duty that night. Um, OK. Well, he comes out and says it’s gonna be 45 minutes before they can set us. Well, that’s not gonna work cos we have to get back for the cabaret. While they’re trying to sort things out on their end, I call over to the IHOP that’s right there and see if there is anything they can do. Well, the manager managed to bribe some folks with free appetizers to move, and he was able to get us all seated about 10 minutes later. Yay for Chili’s! So we get seated and we all order. Erin and I had come up with some trivia questions to do a little quiz during dinner to get people to interact and stuff. So we pass that out and give everyone time to do that. There were 20 questions. The most right was 12! Geeze, guys! Come on! They can do better than that. Anyway, I Erin and I had just finished passing out the prizes, when I look over and , holy shit, Cliff Simon is standing next to me. Hi, Cliff. Welcome to Chili’s! It was kinda crazy. Apparently, Arctic Goddess (who some may remember from Vancouver as they girl who got Cliff to take his shirt off for charity), had contacted him about the dinner and told him to stop by. So he did! He was very nice (and much short than I thought). He hung out for a bit, had a beer, took some pictures.
Then went back to get ready for the cabaret that he was MC-ing. I guess he walked to the Chili’s, too. Which is pretty cool.
Then we go back for the cabaret. What they did was, Dan & Alex had written an “episode” of Stargate: SG-FUN (haha) and cast people from the audience in the various roles.
And they also had renamed all the characters to avoid trademark issues and stuff. So, Jack was Colonel Love-Seals, Carter was Major Heart-Flutters, Daniel was Too Damn Sexy (I think) and then they translated Teal’c’s name as........Tom Cruise. Erin got up there to be part of it (who were you again?) and ended up standing by Dan. And she pet his large bulging bicep. Which was funny and such and Erin thing to do. But, I probably would have done the same thing in her place. So, they do the thing, which is funny and then to get out of the situation they were in, they had to tell a joke or three. So, they all gather to decide on what joke to tell. When the elected person gets up there to do so, Dan is standing off to the side and starts doing that pec muscle flexing dance thing. We’re all cracking up in the audience, the poor girl up telling the joke has no idea what’s going on cos every time she looks over, he stops. But it’s funny. And, um, very hott.
So after the cabaret, a bunch of us go back up to our hotel room for the party with the free booze. It’s good times, we’re hanging out laughing. At one point (maybe around 1:00-ish), Erin and Jason go outside for a smoke-break. On their way back in, they run into Cliff in the hall. Who’s staying two doors down from us and invite him in for a drink. He says to give him 10 minutes but fix him a vodka on the rocks. I run back into the room, and fix his drink. If Cliff wants a vodka on the rocks, Cliff will get it. So, we’re waiting and sure enough, in walks Cliff a little while later. Holy fuck. I had Cliff Simon in my hotel room. This rocks! And is absolutely insane at the same time. So, I kind of plop myself down on the footstool and stare while he and Jason talk ratings. I’m rather inebriated at this point and don’t trust myself to do much other than that. But it was cool. He hung out for half hour, 45 minutes or so. Cliff is seriously one cool guy.
And that was Friday.
Saturday
Saturday started out with Cliff. It was just a weekend full of Cliff! Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
What did Cliff talk about? He did mention that he was very interested in being the next James Bond. He had submitted himself for the current role, but as we all know, they wanted younger, so it wasn’t Cliff. But, if you would like to write to MGM and help push Cliff’s name, please write:
Mr. Harry E. Sloan, Chairman & CEO
MGM Studios
10250 Constellation Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Anywho, he also talked briefly about him showing up at the dinner and then hanging out with us the night before. He mentions the vodka gave him a bit of a headache. Woohoo! I brought down a System Lord with my vodka! Go me! He talked about the reason he left South Africa being mostly political and how it just isn’t safe there for anyone, really. What else….Um, I really should have written this sooner so I could remember what everyone said. :-) He said he was very happy that Baal is still around. He purposely played Baal in the sort of non-conventional bad guy way, hoping that it would get the producers to remember him and keep him around. Looks like it worked! Um, that’s all I can remember right now. Anyone else wanna jump in?
After Cliff was Jason.
He’s actually really funny. Kind of like Chris Judge, but without the ADD. :-) He kind of fell into acting by accident a bit. He was visiting his father in Hawaii when they were casting for Baywatch. At the time, he was working in a tourist shop, folding t-shirts. Hmm, $6 an hour folding shirts….or more money running around on the beach with women. Not a hard decision. So, he got that part. Then came Stargate. And, um, it’s cool and stuff. He did demonstrate Ronon’s gun twirling stuff he does with one of the con goers costume weapon he had made. It was pretty cool. He talked a lot about his family. His mom was there with him, actually. Oh, this was only his second con, so he was a little nervous. But he did well. During his Q&A though, they only had one mic set up on the other side of the stage, so we got his back mostly. So, Erin yelled out, “Look over here!” at one point. To which Jason responded, “Everyone look over there!” It was pretty funny. But he was better after that and would turn towards the rest of the audience when answering questions. So, thanks Erin!
Oh! And he had the coolest shoes!
Right? Totally awesome.
Then came Michael! Yay!!
Entertaining as always. Though I did miss Chris. Those two are just way too funny together. One important thing, he did mention that as of right now, there are plans to do 3 two hour made for TV movies to wrap up this season’s story lines. As far as when that would be and where they would air and what it would all entail, no details. Nothing specific, just that 3 movies are in the works. So, yay for that.
As you can tell, he was wearing a hat like he often does. Well, since the hat covers his lovely face, Erin had to yell out “Take off the hat!” for everyone. To which Michael so kindly replied, “Kiss my ass!” And to which I had to severely restrain myself from shouting back, “Bend over!” But it was all in good fun and Erin got the most fantabulous photo op out of it ever (go take a look at her journal to see what I mean). He also did the Puff ‘n’ Ruffle and Wounded Lamb. Yay! Love those.
Later that night was the dessert party with Jason and Michael and surprise guest Don Davis! He stepped in when Joe Flanigan had to cancel. Joe wasn’t even scheduled to come to the dessert party, but I guess Don felt like coming and hanging out. Which is cool! I love Don. If you’ve never met him, you should know two things: 1 – He is one of the sweetest guys you will ever meet and 2 – he has a filthy, filthy mind. It’s kind of disturbing at times. Jason was cool, too. The guys didn’t get to stay too long at the tables, but it’s OK. It’s nice to even have as little time as that. After we got Don and Jason we had a bit of a wait until Michael got there. So we started a game of cups. Lots of fun. And I kicked David’s ass. Yes, that’s right. I am the Master Cup Champion. Go me. Then Michael came by and chatted and it was all good. And when he stood up to leave, he scratched his stomach and we got a look at a lovely expanse of skin. I think everyone’s brains kind of stopped working at that point.
Then, there was more partying in the room. Not much drinking for me at that point. But we had some music videos going and it was a pretty good time. I know Cindy enjoyed herself. ;-) Hehe. Then I kicked everyone out so I could sleep and the party continued elsewhere.
Sunday
Sunday morning was the breakfast with Don and Beau. That was pretty cool. Beau is a very nice guy, very personable and easy to talk to. Again, not much time to talk, so, sadly, I don’t really remember what they said!
Then came their Q&As. Don was wonderful as always.
Made me get teary a few times when he was talking about his family, especially his dad. You can tell that man has a lot of love in him. It’s a wonderful thing to see. Then, of course, I had to ask him to tell the story of how he met his wife. It’s such a wonderful and very funny story. If you haven’t heard it, find a con where Don will be and ask him. You won’t be disappointed. Then in the autograph line, I was talking a little bit (I asked him what the “S” stood for), when the “Gateworld Experts” were called up on stage for the next trivia competition. So, sadly, I had to dash out of there and get my ass up on stage. (By the way, thank you very much
lovellama for the “Indeed” count. Someone did ask that and I was able to whip out the actual correct answer. So, hats to you.)Then after a quick run out to Burger King for lunch, Beau took the stage.
Again, very nice and entertaining man. Told some stories about working with his dad and son on various projects. Apparently, he was doing a play with his son and at one point during it, his son is in a headlock and he pretends to punch him. To help play that up on stage, the son has hid hand, palm side out on the side of his face away from the audience and that’s what Beau would smack to make that sounds. Well, apparently Jeff was in the audience one night and they wanted to make it good. So, Beau reels back for the punch, but misses and it kind of glances of, not very impressively. So, Beau pulls back to punch him again. But, his son was not expecting this and had removed his hand, so he whacked his son in the jaw real good! It was pretty funny if painful. Oops. :-)
So, I think that’s all my stories. Here’s my complete gallery of all my con pics. Enjoy. But please do not repost anywhere else. Thanks.
I’ll see some of you in Vancouver! Woohoo!!
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Date: 2006-09-02 03:43 am (UTC)And very happy to help with the 'Indeeds'. Glad my obsession went to a good cause. :D
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Date: 2006-09-02 04:28 am (UTC)One of these days...
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Date: 2006-09-02 11:26 am (UTC)Deeds xx