I'm being optimistic again, aren't I?

you are.

This was CIG from years past, aka Iguana Girl, for ... the iguana she carried around all through the con.

I admit I left during the talent show, couldn't bring myself to stick around. Humiliation comedy is not my thing. But there was a very creative filk of American Pie, and the winning entry was said to be great, although I missed it. Maybe someone has a video of it...

Who's Froon?

Froon is Executive Producer Richard Manning. He invented the element froonium, which you'll find referenced all over in Farscape, and it also shows up in a few places in ST:TNG, for which he wrote as well.

He's known as "Froonium Ricky", and for many fans he's the face of the production team, since he goes to more of the cons than any of the others, he's terribly approachable, and loves hanging with fans. And his wife rocks. She's an international bonsai master, and one of the nicest people on the planet.

Ben, Fran, and Froon managed not to laugh at the crazy Irish girl singing a song about a dead cat.

I'm speechless.

That's the most hysterically wrong thing ever.

Ricky's wife is teh awesome. I'm bummed that I didn't get to hang with them this year.

That's the most hysterically wrong thing ever.

Ricky wished out loud (later, because he is a nice person, mostly) for a gong. There was great willpower exerted during the talent show, and I sorta wish I'd stayed but see above re: humiliation comedy. I simply couldn't.

We did not, sadly, get Dani to strip on top of the pool table. And nobody gave Froon a blow job this year, but there was free champagne at one point (which he generously shared). And The M and SL told stories about the tinhats.

And oh, Ben and Claudia and the never-ending Michael Shanks jokes! t giggles helplessly They're so great.

I've had a thought before about the episode of Stargate where Jack was stuck on the planet when the Stargate gets buried by a meteor.

Teal'c takes a chance he can reach the surface after the gate closes.

My thought was why not fire a few blasts from Teal'c's staff weapon or fire off a couple mortars to clear the way, first? Then Teal'c would have even less to work through. Or even better, get some cheaper or retired telemetry cameras and check after a few blasts without wasting a MALP...

And oh, Ben and Claudia and the never-ending Michael Shanks jokes!

Aw, man. I wanna hear. Were those terribly spoiler-y for the upcoming SG episodes in which CB is supposed to guest star? If not, share!

Only a little, Vonnie. In the sense that one of the first questions asked when Ben & Claudia were both on stage was, Ben or Michael Shanks: who kisses better? After that, it just became a running joke. Ben or Michael Shanks: who looks better in leather? Except Ben asked the blind fan that, who pointed out that he had no opinion, being blind. Ben recovered, asked who was better in bed, the blind guy said, "her!", meaning his wife, and followed it up with, "I'm blind, not stupid!"

When Claudia left the stage to go the restroom, Ben told everyone to start leaving when she returned, as if the session were over. When Ben left the stage, someone gave Claudia a promo pic of MS, and she propped it on Ben's chair as a replacement. *g*

Ben kept saying, "Shanks is gonna hate me!" but the jokes kept coming.

Oh, and Claudia kept "dropping" things so Ben would pick them up for her. There were some amusing contortions.

damn i wish i could have gone to Burbank. can't wait for flist to light up with stories from the weekend. thanks for the highlights, Consuela.