After such a bumper January, Odile and I just decided to ease back and catch up on news from around the fandom and have a little rant …
So where to start?! These notes are not likely to follow the show order (you have been warned):
The Browncoat Ball – for all their ticketing details, please go to their website, www.browncoatball.com
Mikey Mason tour details: www.mikeymason.com and you can download a track or two and watch videos.
Marian Call: www.mariancall.com and follow the link on the home page to purchase the “Something Fierce” live album.
For ALL information about Can’t Stop The Serenity including where the events are and how you can become involved, go to their website, www.cantstoptheserenity.com
Details of how to celebrate Nathan Fillion’s birthday next month by donating to Kids Need To Read, please go to their website, www.kidsneedtoread.org, and follow the banner links. Go on, show the Captain some fan love, you know you want to …
I’d post website links for both the Jameson Dublin Film Festival and Glasgow Film Festival, but the screenings for “Much Ado About Nothing” are sold out – sorry!
You can hear Odile on the lastest episodes of The Shonky Lab and Highway To Mars podcasts on iTunes OR their websites are www.shonkylab.co.uk and www.highwaytomars.com. And you can also download the latest The Question Podcast asking “what is a real fan?” from iTunes or their website, www.thequestionpodcast.com
Join us for our March show in … um … March.
Wendy
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This month we both bring interviews: Wendy speaks with Cindy from the Arizona Browncoats about their successful bid for the 2013 Browncoat Ball; while Odile caught up with Marian Call and Scott Barken during Marian’s first European tour.
Also in the show, we add our voice to the search for a new CSTS Global Event Co-ordinator; please read the email below from Jen Cummings regarding this:
Hi there!
This year’s call for volunteers to head up and join the Can’t Stop the Serenity (CSTS) Global Team has resulted in only a few responses. Which means that CSTS 2013 is at risk of not having a team to organise things from a global level. As a past/present CSTS Organizer, we desperately need your help to make sure that CSTS can continue to be viable as a fan-run charity movement.
There are lots of ways you can help, but the most important is to help us to find volunteers to nominate for the role of Global Event Coordinator (GEC). It’s a big job, there’s no denying. But the person who takes on the job gets a lot of support, and is never left to struggle on their own. There are lots of people to go to for advice, guidance and help, and a lot of the hard work (based on lessons learned from our seven year history) has been done to lay down a good foundation. The only downside is that the GEC can’t head up a local event (because the role is a lot of work, and we want to make sure sanity is retained!).
“If not you, then who?” We really need someone to step up and be willing to help lead CSTS in 2013. To keep CSTS 2013 on track, we need to have the global team in place by early December. So please think about it for yourself, talk to your team and to other Browncoats who have headed up events. And let us know.
I’m emailing this call for help to as many CSTS organizers, and past Global Team members as I can track down. But some of the email addresses are old and out of date, so you if can help us spread the word to past and present CSTS organizers please do.
As we say in the show, if you are interested in nominating yourself OR you know someone who would be PERFECT, then you only have until the end of November to contact CSTS.
Wendy talks about attending the Dallas Comic Con in October; Odile talks about seeing Marian’s brunch concert in Birmingham and if you are so inclined, Nathan Fillion has been nominated for a second consecutive year for a People’s Choice Award in the Best TV Dramatic Actor category and as we’re certain his last one would very much enjoy a companion, you can vote for him here in the TV category.
As always, we hope you will enjoy the show and if you do, you can leave comments here or on our Facebook page or Twitter.
Welcome to Show 92! Wow, Sending A Wave has been around now for almost 6 years and we want to thank you for joining us monthly; we do appreciate your aural support.
So, following on from Wendy’s interview with Martin Firrell regarding his new work, Metascifi (metascifi.com, and you can add your voice to the project via Facebook at facebook.com/metascifi), which will be launched shortly, we now bring you our main show and it’s full to the brim!
Sheilah from the 2012 CSTS Global Committee agreed to speak with us about issues and ideas raised by Brice Staeheli a couple of shows ago and it was lovely to get their perspective as well as an update of how CSTS is progressing this year.
We also welcome Beth Nelson from the Austin Browncoats and QMx back to the show along with Kazia Hodges to talk about their new venture, Geek A Bye Baby, which is a fabulous geek-themed hand made baby clothes and accessories website. If you are expecting parents or know a geek friend who are expecting, check out their website for some absolutely adorable bibs, blankets, hats, etc. For those of you attending Dragon*Con in Atlanta at the end of the month, Geek A Bye Baby will also be there!
Wendy is attending Dragon*Con and is looking forward to meeting as many Browncoats as humanely possible. She does want to be able to arrange a Browncoat meet-up and thinks the Shakespeare Tavern is an ideal place in homage to Joss’s forthcoming “Much Ado About Nothing”. Wendy arrives on Thursday 30 August and leaves early evening Monday 3 September.
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Hot on the heels of the announcement that MMO game developer, Multiverse has officially closed down, the Browncoat year kicked off already with a report that their source code for the “Firefly” MMO (announced in December 2006) may not have disappeared into the ether and according to massively.joystiq.com, they were contacted by Tristan Bacon from Multiverse Foundation saying that they have acquired the source code and ”starting work full-time on the actual MMO creation platform.” Bacon says that if there is still interest from fans, the team intends to use the platform to make a Firefly MMO.” Unfortunately this is where it all starts becoming a little sticky as if you go direct to the Multiverse Foundation website, not only is it under construction (but there are forums!), you are greeted with this message from Mr Bacon:
“For those of you who have come here looking for news of the potential FireFly MMO – the idea is only being discussed, and nothing has been finalised. Despite what has been written on various MMO sites, we have not officially decided whether we will pursue the idea, as we would need to secure IP rights from both Fox and Mutant Enemy Productions.
Feel free to sign up to our forums and follow us on Twitter (@MultiverseMMO) to be the first to know.
Thanks,
Tristan Bacon
Director of Communications
The Multiverse Foundation”
Unfortunately it is worth pointing out that the reason why the original MMO was never finalised to the point of actual online gameplay was to copyright/licencing issues, and as both Odile and myself have discussed on various shows over the last few years, as much as we applaud efforts like this; there is, however, a danger of announcing such ventures early, enjoying the benefits of fan interest and involvement only to see it all dissolve into disappointment and disillusionment when the venture enters into the “long night”of R&D, obtaining rights, etc without regular updates or gets to the point of where the project has to be abandoned without announcement. Meanwhile the Firefly Universe Online MMO, whom we interviewed during 2011, appears to be gathering momentum with updates on their Facebook page, here, posting current information regarding the game.
As expected there was a minor discussion on Whedonesque.com where long-term contributor (and former SaW guest) Gossi was able to shed a small light on the matter, here.
QMx gave Wendy a fun birthday present by posting photographs of the 12-foot Reaverized Serenity miniature built by Grant McClure Design for “SERENITY” spotted during a recent visit to Universal. If you have not yet viewed the page (and why are not you subscribed to the QMx Insider?), please click here. Also on YouTube there is footage of the miniature being filmed:
We received a lovely email from the lovely William Pace, 2011 Global CSTS Organiser:
“To everyone at Sending a Wave,
On behalf of the 2011 Global Team at Can’t Stop the Serenity and volunteers of CSTS worldwide, we’d like to take this time to thank you for your generosity in support of our charities through your gracious donations. Your support as a sponsor during the 2011 season helped us raise over $130,000 for Equality Now and dozens of local charities. The money raised this year will help women and children worldwide who are subject to slavery, sex trafficking and laws and traditions that deny them freedom, justice and a voice. We are so very grateful for your help.
Thank you.
We would also like to take this opportunity to invite you to lend your support again in the coming 2012 season. Your donations help us raise awareness of issues that might otherwise go unnoticed and lend a boon to the local volunteers in over 50 major cities the world over.
If you would like to continue as a sponsor, please feel free to contact William Pace about your sponsorship.
Again, thank you. We could have not accomplished so much without all of you.
-The 2011 CSTS Global Team”
We look forward to continuing our relationship with CSTS during 2012
Apologies to Jen Hilton, 2011 Raleigh organiser for not adding this to one of our last 2011 blogs or mentioning on our show – yet! Jen contacted us in mid-December to give us some wonderful news, she was having her first sci-fi novel, “Stellarnet Rebel” published! I’m pleased to say that the novel is now available (published 2 January) and is available on Kindle via Amazon.com in the US (here) and Amazon.co.uk (here). If you wish to learn more about Jen and the novel, please visit her website, here. Both Odile and myself wish Jen every success on her writing career.
Lastly, a bit of fun that made me laugh; “Galactic Princess Headphone Covers” available from the Jacquie Longlegs Etsy store here.
It was my great pleasure to join Simon and other members of the Browncoats of Gloucester this lunchtime (24 August) when they presented the London office of Equality Now with the amount raised at their CSTS event.
We also want to thank the wonderful ladies at EQ London for meeting with us.
Nottingham, UK – how appropriate that the haunt of legendary English outlaws should bear witness to a Browncoat wedding?
Regular listeners will remember how Odile and I spoke with Matt and Deb a few months ago who had decided to not only turn their wedding reception into a “Firefly” themed party, but to also cunningly disguise it as a CSTS event. I’m pleased to say that we attended, met our friend, Simon from Browncoats of Gloucester, along with his friends and had a fabulous time.
I did vidTweet part of their Browncoat vows early this morning. I apologise for the sound, but it has lens flares – how more “Firefly” do you want to get? I’m also pleased to add some pics.
Both of us wish Matt and Debs every happiness and thanks that they invited any Browncoat who could get to the venue to join them.
Dateline Birmingham 16 July 2011 – Sending A Wave’s affiliate CSTS event.
Present a few people wondering where all the sunny weather had disappeared to as the Heavens had literally opened and even by UK standards, an awful lot of rain fell that day. But we had a love of all things “Firefly”, Odile’s fab kebabs and other assorted food goodies to keep us hale and hearty.
We would like to thank all who joined us and this show is our discussion of the episode, “Our Mrs Reynolds”.
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In this show, we (well… mostly Odile!) speak with CSTS organisers from San Diego, New York, Edmonton and Liverpool.
We also speak about James Hance’s wonderful new “Firefrog” art series (and you can find his website here) and Karen Hallion’s fabulous “Malvin and Cobb” artwork (again you can go her site here).
Please check out redbubble.com for great tees and artwork and don’t forget to follow @firefly_tees on Twitter to keep up to date with “Firefly”/”SERENITY” inspired shirts.
As always, enjoy and don’t forget you can leave comments here or on our Facebook page or Twitter
You can find our podcast on itunes, here is a direct link to our page, and if you like us please make sure you leave us some feedback!
Of course you can also download the show directly from here!
In this show, we indulge in chocolate (it is almost Easter, after all!), wine (no change there!) and we speak with Matt and Deb from Nottingham (http://www.wix.com/beestonbrowncoats/home) in the UK regarding their unique CSTS affiliate in August and Ashley Pitts from the Tidewater Browncoats (on Facebook look for “Tidewater Serenity”, website is tidewaterbrowncoats.com) about their CSTS event.
This show introduces our biggest change to date for the podcast – we now have new intro and outro music. We thank Lauren Moore for allowing us to use her fabulous composition and please see the show notes for our main March show for a link to her Sound Cloud.
You can find our podcast on itunes, here is a direct link to our page, and if you like us please make sure you leave us some feedback! Of course you can also download the show directly from here!
Odile & Wendy
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Waffle On Podcast A podcast talking about Classic Television and Film from all around the world.
Jokerfilemedia Home of the The2ndDoctors Podcast and of Professor How “The Doctor Who Parody“ Podcast
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