What with my trip to the Philadelphia Comic Con, the start of CSTS 2013 AND the UK release of “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING”, it’s been an exciting few weeks.
Odile and I recorded the show at the Beeston Browncoats’s “Joss Jamboree” which saw a great turnout, live music, barbecue and competitions. Our thanks to Matt and Debs for a fabulous time!
My jaunt across the Pond had me meeting people we had spoken with on previous shows (Matt Black and the fellas behind Take Back The Sky) and reuniting with Lesley Maynard from the Browncoats of NYC.
Hope you enjoy some photos from both events.
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But for us Browncoats, the 2013 CSTS season has now begun! Odile and I spoke with Matt from the Beeston Browncoats in Nottingham and Kerry from the brand, spanking, new London Browncoats about their CSTS events happening this year.
You can follow both on Twitter, @LDNBrowncoats and @BeestBrownCoats, to find out more of their upcoming CSTS events and you can always peruse http://www.cantstoptheserenity.com for all links to all CSTS events this year.
Don’t forget, we are also having our affiliate in Birmingham but there is limited space. If you want to join us on 13 July (I keep telling Odile that we’re really celebrating Harrison Ford’s and Patrick Stewart’s birthdays!), email us at sendingawave@gmail.com.
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I know this all hit the news yesterday, but I think it’s worth parking here nonetheless and yet again, Commander Hadfield ably demonstrates why the best space Captains, Commanders and engineers hail from the Commonwealth.
As the release of “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” draws ever near, I thought I’d park this interview with Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion and Clark Gregg conducted by the Smells Like Screen Spirit team at this year’s SXSW in Austin here.
With our April show, we officially hit three digits – 100 shows! As you can imagine Odile and myself are very proud.
But, of course, we want to thank you, our listeners for continuing to download.
For this show, naturally we pat ourselves on the back a bit and discuss the Jayne hat cease and desist orders which were recently served on members of Etsy.
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Even in the depths of a snowy Canadian early spring, our good friends, the Alberta Browncoats, show that you just can’t keep a fan flash mob down. Enjoy!
You find Browncoats in the most unexpected places and two US companies are attempting to follow the Captain’s instruction “to make the signal go further” in a most unique – and fashionable – way.
Two cosmetic companies, Sweet Libertine and Espionage, have launched their very own “Firefly”/”Serenity” inspired ranges. Readers who have attended the Emerald City convention earlier this year, will have seen Espionage’s table in the Dealer’s Room.
Sweet Libertine have titled their range “Can’t Take The Sky From Me” and for those of us who are ethically-minded, many of their colour ranges are fully vegan. You can find the “Browncoats” range (and I think the group are topped with their own dinky Jayne hat) at Espionage Cosmetics.
Unfortunately, I’ve been having one of “those” times when life takes over …
I had a fantastic time at Pyrkon 2013 in Poznan, Poland. It was my first time to the country, and I want to thank fellow Browncoats: Jakub Cwiek, Marek Okroj, Patricia Sorensen and Pati for looking after me, translating, the vodka and being such wonderful hosts!
This year, Pyrkon nearly doubled its attendance numbers to just under 12,000 which made it Europe’s largest convention. The Browncoats of Poland are swelling their numbers and I am pleased to say that I took part in one of the “Firefly” panels, was able to screen some footage from CSTS and I have been informed that fans from Wroclaw have contacted CSTS about holding an event. Job done!
The convention itself reminded me of DragonCon. It has been organised into separate tracks/themes, but there is a lack of TV SF because my hosts tell me that it is a genre that isn’t regularly aired on Polish TV, but it is readily available on DVD. The fun differences were the enterprising fans who set up a mini-kitchen (yes, you did read that correctly) in the dealer’s room and were making sandwiches and selling pizzas, etc, there was also a SF/fantasy/Anime themed cupcake table – oh, you’ll see the photos once you’ve read this … I HAD to try the “In Space No One Can Hear You Munch” cake complete with a fondant icing chest-burster which was absolutely delicious! The convention also turned one of the exhibition halls into a con dormitory as Poznan doesn’t have enough hotel accommodation and what there is is too expensive for a number of the attendees. Tabletop gaming, fantasy card games and LARP are huge in Poland so everywhere you looked, there was a game/scenario running throughout the length of the con.
It was a fabulous experience and one that I can thoroughly recommend. The video that I have included is a Pyrkon tradition and it gives a brilliant snapshot of some of the attendees/costumes that the con offers. Just one thing, it was -15 outside the centre:
Welcome to our March show and, I’ll warn you now it’s another long one …
The reason why it’s so long is the delightful chat with Denise Gary from Kids Need to Read and Cindy, the organizer of 2013′s Browncoat Ball to talk about the official Nathan Fillion birthday fundraiser and what’s the latest with the Browncoat Ball and we discuss some finer points of English grammar to boot! If you still have yet to show your support for both cause (Kids Need to Read) and event (the Browncoat Ball), you can visit the KNTR website, here, where you can follow the banner to show your support to The Captain and the Browncoat Ball website, here.
Wendy was also lucky enough to attend the performance of “Much Ado About Nothing” at the Jameson Dublin Film Festival earlier this month and she gives her verdict (psst: it’s a thumbs up!)
Hope you join us again in April – the one where we officially hit three figures …
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