She was slumming with you lot? (self: be polite to Marianne because she is taller than I am, be polite to Margo because she is Margo, be polite to Cat cos she is wittier than I am). Um. Because the Crowne Plaza is the perfect place to be?
(Got more starstruck than I have been in *ages* yesterday, giving Mira an autographed copy of Fallen Gods — we wanted to thank her, because some of the things she said on her website inspired bits of the book. It would have been *so* much easier if we’d caught her at an informal moment rather than at the end of the frigging autograph line. Somewhere we’ve got a photo of me with Mira, her looking gorgeous and gracious and me with a grin of absolute fanboy terror on my face…)
The thing is, we went to the Crowne to meet Marianne for dinner. I knew she’d been a guest at Supernova but I didn’t know anything else about the convention. All the other folks in the bar that night were a surprise bonus!
I can get very weird about celebrities/ well known personages sometimes. I either don’t give a toss or they completely freak me out… and I never know how I’m going to react until it happens. I got a real thrill out of meeting Mira.
I just hope I don’t drool if I get the chance to meet Lucius Shepherd this weekend. I just love that guy’s writing. Don’t want to make a dick of myself. Any more than usual.
I just hope I don’t drool if I get the chance to meet Lucius Shepherd this weekend. I just love that guy’s writing. Don’t want to make a dick of myself. Any more than usual.
Heh. My fellow WoTF alumni still joke about my Larry Niven moment 🙂
I agree, tho’: Shepard is one helluva writer. The few non-genre stories I’ve read are, if anything, even better than his genre work.
I think meeting a favourite writer is a different kind of experience to meeting an actor. Favourite writers live inside your head and shape the way you view the world. Meeting an actor is more like seeing a ghost. Its connecting us with another realm. “oh my god, you’re REAL!” I rarely try and talk with the actors I meet because to me, someone like Ms Furlan is the alien Delenn or the crazy french woman on the island. I know I don’t know anything about the real person behind those masks and I almost feel like its not my place to know. But with writers I do know something about them because I know something about the writing process itself and how much of oneself goes into our own text.
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She was slumming with you lot? (self: be polite to Marianne because she is taller than I am, be polite to Margo because she is Margo, be polite to Cat cos she is wittier than I am). Um. Because the Crowne Plaza is the perfect place to be?
yep, she slummed with us untill being whisked away to some other function somewhere else.
*eeeep*! fanboi-swoon…
Wow! You realize we have to share her with the Lostians now…
I like Lost so I don’t mind. But she’ll always be Delenn to me.
Awww… *jealous*
Hey — *I’m* jealous and I was there!!!
Aaaaaugh! Had we but known…
(Got more starstruck than I have been in *ages* yesterday, giving Mira an autographed copy of Fallen Gods — we wanted to thank her, because some of the things she said on her website inspired bits of the book. It would have been *so* much easier if we’d caught her at an informal moment rather than at the end of the frigging autograph line. Somewhere we’ve got a photo of me with Mira, her looking gorgeous and gracious and me with a grin of absolute fanboy terror on my face…)
Ji Jon,
The thing is, we went to the Crowne to meet Marianne for dinner. I knew she’d been a guest at Supernova but I didn’t know anything else about the convention. All the other folks in the bar that night were a surprise bonus!
Heh. My thought was “Margo, cat, some woman i don’t know, Marianne.”
I just thought you were fanslutting Margo :)))
There really isn’t a cool way to fanslut anyone, is there?
There really isn’t a cool way to fanslut anyone, is there?
What, and you think I might have found one? :))
So, um (shows complete lack of TV watching these days), she’s someone on Lost, is that right?
Mira Furlan is a Croatian actress best known for her role as Delenn on Babylon 5. She also plays the mysterious French woman on LOST.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Furlan
I can get very weird about celebrities/ well known personages sometimes. I either don’t give a toss or they completely freak me out… and I never know how I’m going to react until it happens. I got a real thrill out of meeting Mira.
I just hope I don’t drool if I get the chance to meet Lucius Shepherd this weekend. I just love that guy’s writing. Don’t want to make a dick of myself. Any more than usual.
I just hope I don’t drool if I get the chance to meet Lucius Shepherd this weekend. I just love that guy’s writing. Don’t want to make a dick of myself. Any more than usual.
Heh. My fellow WoTF alumni still joke about my Larry Niven moment 🙂
I agree, tho’: Shepard is one helluva writer. The few non-genre stories I’ve read are, if anything, even better than his genre work.
I think meeting a favourite writer is a different kind of experience to meeting an actor. Favourite writers live inside your head and shape the way you view the world. Meeting an actor is more like seeing a ghost. Its connecting us with another realm. “oh my god, you’re REAL!” I rarely try and talk with the actors I meet because to me, someone like Ms Furlan is the alien Delenn or the crazy french woman on the island. I know I don’t know anything about the real person behind those masks and I almost feel like its not my place to know. But with writers I do know something about them because I know something about the writing process itself and how much of oneself goes into our own text.