I've been meaning to post about this for the last few days, but have been a little busy.  Since I actually went online today and bought a 3-day pass for myself and a 1-day ticket for my dad, I figured I should get around to confirming that I'll be going to the 2008 FX Show, after I had an amazing time there this past January - including my best day ever.

Last week, I had already decided to go when I learned that Nicholas Brendon was signed on as a guest.  Seeing as how Xander Harris is tops in last summer's list of my 20 favorite TV characters of all time, I could not miss the chance to meet the man himself.  Plus, I've heard he's great to (and grateful to) his fans, so getting a signed pic - and possibly a portrait with - would be sweet.

A list of the whole lineup for the weekend - January 25-27 at the Orange County Convention Center, here in Orlando - as well as the link for ticket-purchasing, can be found from the FX International home page, HERE. Other guests listed that are possibly potential draws for me include Greg Grunberg, George Takei, Stephen Tobolowski, Laura Vandervoort, Helen Slater, and Elisabeth Rohm.

However, the guest-list was made infinitely more geek-gasm worthy with the addition of NATHAN-fucking-FILLION. That's right, Captain Malcolm Reynolds himself will be there - also on my fav. characters list, of course.  Apparently there was an inadvertant scheduling mix-up, since Nathan had a verbal agreement to be at some other charity event scheduled for the same weekend in Phoenix, but the FX Show was a signed contract that he had lined up first.  It was confirmed at Whedonesque on Friday that he's gonna be here in Orlando that weekend.  Needless to say, this is HUGE for fanboys and fangirls alike, especially with how awesome he always is to his fans. While not quite as excitedly nervous as I was for Kristen Bell last year (c'mon, it's KBell - whaddya expect from me?), I'm definitely stoked. My dad's going to be out of town most of the weekend, but still requested the one-day pass for Sunday - when he should be back in town - in order to hopefully meet Nathan, too.  So even my dad has his fanboy moments.

I'll bring along my camera like I did last year, but won't get my hopes up, since the FX staff were pretty rigid overall about enforcing the 'no photo' rule, in order to sell the professional studio portraits with the celebs. But we'll see.

And I know some of my flisters had brief rundowns of the loot they scored for Christmas this year. Since I didn't ask for a whole lot (I pretty much buy all the crap I want myself), I'll just mention that my favorite gift came from my parents, as they actually got me The Complete Calvin and Hobbes collection that I had been eyeing for the last couple of months.  I actually didn't expect this from them at all, planning on probably getting it myself sometime in January, so this was a nice surprise.  Oh, and  _cinjudes_ came through with an offical 'Panther Football' team practice shirt from Friday Night Lights - also totally unexpected - so *smooches* to her for that, as well.

And that's about all that may be even remotely interesting I've got right now. No big plans for new year's celebrations this year - will probably stay with the folks since my mom's birthday is the 1st.  For everyone else that does have a life, have fun and be safe - and may 2008 bring even more good stuff than 2007. 

Happy New Year!




Kristen Bell is awesome.

Due to real-life being hectic as usual this time of year, I've been a little MIA the last couple of weeks - and may continue to be scarce for a bit.

But I just wanted to pop in very briefly to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and/or happy holiday of your choice.  Hope everyone gets a little bit of something they really want this year ('cause you can't get everything you want), and that your ringing in of 2008 is fun and safe.

And I'll leave you with the same image I posted last year - and what may become a tradition - simply because the whole photo shoot was made of win:




Merry Christmakwaanzukkah!





Kristen Bell is awesome.

So... yeah. Happy new year and all that jazz. Hard to believe it's time to change the calendars again. 

Similar to the most recent entry from my girl _cinjudes_,I haven't died or gone anywhere especially exotic or exciting to explain my entry-neglect the last couple of weeks, just been busy with other things.  I did take two weeks off from work, but now that I'm back at the office, I feel like it was hardly long enough.  It was inordinately difficult to drag my ass out of bed this morning at 5AM, and the pile of shit on my desk is just monumental. *sigh* 

The only traveling I did was a 2 1/2-hr drive to West Palm for a 4-day stint with some friends to ring in the new year - to be someplace other than at my folks' house watching Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. But the party I did go to was still kinda lame-ish, comprised almost competely of couples (sucks for this single guy), most of whom were too drunk or stoned to hold any kind of conversation, anyway.  My married friends decided little more than an hour was all we could stand (fine by me), so we made it back to their house to finish watching Beerfest and went to bed by 2:30.  Woo. Hoo. I feel old.

At least I was able to get somewhat of a scheduling reprieve, with most new TV taking the annual winter-hiatus for a few weeks.  There have been a few new, mid-season shows popping up, but all the biggies I religiously keep up with are slated to be back in the next week or two. Will try to keep up to date with those of the "must comment on" variety here and at W-I.

Also wanted to give a grateful shout-out to one of the best Asian-Canadians I know, schrutefan,as I received his package in the mail the other day, and the Veronica/Heroes/Dexter goodness is mucho-appreciated.

Nothing else too interesting for now, except that I'm getting a little more anxious as the FX Con draws closer this month, and MegaCon following shortly thereafter next month. I've got my 8"x10" glossies of Kristen Bell, Jamie Bamber, and Mary McDonnell pre-printed in the hopes of getting them signed.  Not sure how both cons will pan out, as to what the rules are for the meet-and-greet of celebs, so I'm playing it by ear, keeping my fingers crossed and such.

Back to the god-awful slog through work.  Peace out.