Gonzai Gallery

Didn't get to see Felicia Day (she had a crowd of fanboys) but otherwise day one was a relaxing, ease-in day. Bought my must-have items at the dealer's room, discovered the restaurant makes a great flatbread pizza, said hey to most of the folks I know and interrupted the Supernatural panel repeatedly. (That last part is unofficial tradition at this point. At least this time I didn't do it with 'Heat of the Moment'.) Hopefully can knock out the autographs and panels tomorrow, and get in some gaming with jslinder and whoever else I can shanghai.

Is it just me or is television suddenly having a horror renaissance?

The Walking Dead
Being Human (US & UK flavors)
Lost Girl
The River
Vampire Diaries
Supernatural
The Fades
Grimm
The Secret Circle

I don't watch all of these, but still, that's an awful lot of creepy TV.

I am neither watching nor recording Supernatural tonight. See, Mom saw a segment on Martin Sheen the other day (I'm sure I've mentioned that she adores him to pieces) and got it into her head she wants to see 'Apocalypse Now'. I saw that once. I'll be much happier in my life if I never see it again. But she wants to see it. And it's on tonight. All 4.5 hours of it. On the same time as Supernatural and Grimm. Which means that to record the movie for her, one of my shows has to get the boot. Grumble...

(I do have ways of getting Supernatural, it'll just have to wait until tomorrow.)

And yes, still no games. I was asked once to play, but I was asked 30 minutes before a panel so that took care of that. Also lost all but one of my auction bids in the charity and art auctions, sold only 4 prints, all at the minimum bid (and I lowered my minimums for the show) and some things I wanted at the dealers room didn't last until today. Yippee. On the other hand, had a very nice chat with Tahmoh, met Bonita Friedericy and caught some of her panel, which was a laugh riot, and I'll need a brain eraser after some of the...discussions...about Supernatural.

For an encore, the Office Depot by the hotel did not have the onsale item I wanted in stock and the traffic from the con to home was horrific. All in all, this year's Farpoint was underwhelming. Jeff & Terri, you didn't miss much.

V gets a second season? Seriously? I didn't think anyone was watching it. I'm good with it, as I'm curious to see where they'll go with it (and I'm not wedded to the 80s version).

Law & Order, original flavor, gone. Wow. Rather amazing that NBC would dump it for 'new shows' when they've proven rather conclusively the last few years that they can't produce a decent new show to save their lives. (They should take a long look at USA and start modeling themselves after that.)

Cold Case & Damages - clearly, both shows don't think they're coming back. The last few Cold Cases and the final Damages were all tying up loose storylines and/or giving characters promising new beginnings.

I have not watched the Supernatural finale. I was comatose at 9 last night so didn't even try. Tonight, honest.

Not even bothering to try to make sense of Ashes to Ashes anymore. Still watching, mind, but not trying to figure it out.

Back to work.

And all I can think is, geez, Michael Shanks must be desperate for a paycheck to take that role...

I suspect I do not always take away from my shows what they wanted me to get.

How is it that I have been watching Supernatural, the continuing saga of those two crazy Winchester boys and their papa figure Bobby Singer, for five years...and it took me until tonight to notice that one of the show's producers is named Robert Singer?

'scuse me while I'm an idjit...

Home from Farpoint, and kind of wishing I hadn't left the con. I'll get back to that.

( The gist of things )

Home now, and probably not leaving the house again until Monday, maybe not until Tuesday! Present forecast is for 22-28 inches of snow today and tomorrow. 28 inches is the record for the area. We have plenty of food, ice melt, shovels and brooms. Time to cocoon.

The office was closing early, and the boss had me come in at 8 instead of 9 with the intent of sending me home even earlier, as I'm the lone non-4-wheel driver. So I'm half asleep. Hopefully getting a few things done on the computer re artwork for Farpoint before I doze off.

Supernatural was booted last night by a basketball game. Basketball, booooo! Want show!

TNT has picked up Supernatural in syndication; they'll start airing it Monday, Jan 4 at 10am.

Enjoy!