My parents and I drove in from our week long west Texas/ New Mexico/Colorado vacation about two hours ago. I need to catch up on tons of things online but for right now I'm going to check up on my email, get ready to do my share of the laundry and sort through all my photographs. I'll be sharing a few later on because the landscape was absolutely breathtaking. We saw mountains! Actual mountains and we even went to the top of Pikes Peak.

It looks like Jim Parriott's series Defying Gravity about an international group of astronauts on a deep space mission has found a U.S. broadcaster. It will air on ABC later this summer. Christina Cox, who played VIckie on Blood Ties, Joan of Arc and a traffic cop on Forever Knight, and special effect guru Angie Ramirez on FX: The Series, co-stars. The show's not really my thing but I enjoy her so I'll check it out. It's only 13 episodes. The Forever Knight connection with Parriott at the helm is interesting but I really haven't been interested in his post FK endeavors other than the X-Files rip off Dark Skies.

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We planned out a tentative itinerary for the New Mexico/Colorado road trip and our first night will be in Roswell, New Mexico. While checking out the hotel situation online I was finding that a lot of them were booked solid. Further investigation revealed that the Roswell UFO Festival runs through the 4th of July weekend. That is hilariously funny. I'm not an "aliens are among us" person but I'm so jazzed. I must find a kitschy inflatable alien to bring home.

Before reading about the festival I had visions of Mulder and Scully in their little motel room in Roswell from the XF series finale. I revisited a few of my favorite post "The Truth" fic to get in the mood. Now I've got visions of the Roswell season 1 episode "The Convention"in my head. I rewatched the entire series last month and this is very fresh in mind. Although, I don't think Jason Behr will be manning the information booth.

I need a Roswell icon or two. Also, I received the Blood Ties DVD in the mail today. Now I can watch the series properly or at least the first half of it. I'm very pleased about that.

Drove back from Austin last night. High temperature records were shattered the four days I was there and my workshop was in a poorly air-conditioned room. We were packed in there like sardines but it was highly informative. Although, I was dangerously close to Information overload, lol.

I got a hair cut while there and I reworked portions of my Tracy fic (Thanks brightknightie!) so I did manage to be somewhat productive in between my sessions and hanging out in the city.

However, it looks like I'm hitting the road once more later this week. Dad asked if I'd be interested in sharing driving duties with him on a road trip through west Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. It's going to be a week-long family thing with two of my uncles and their families. I've never taken vacation time at work so why not. Although, now I have to rethink whether or not I'll be attending my college roommate's wedding in Mexico later this summer. I don't know if I want to take two weeks off of work, even if they are two months apart.

Oh! I received my cliche_bingo  card and several of my guilty pleasures are in strategic places. Yay!

I'm taking off to Austin tomorrow at noon for a workshop. Back on Saturday.

The gen_ficathon has a deadline of Thursday, June 25th at midnight CST. It's a multifandom gen ficathon exchange. Among the official fandoms are Smallville, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Forever Knight, Buffy, Doctor Who, Merlin and Stargate: Atlantis. Requests aren't screened so take a look and see if anything strikes your fancy.

I've signed up with prompts for Forever Knight, Smallville, The X-Files, and Masters of the Universe.

Also, I've signed up for a card at cliche_bingo. I didn't really look before I leaped, so at the very least it'll be interesting.

"I love this character," Disher raves. "Wayne wrote the best role for a woman over 40 (she's 43) I have seen. I get to be childish, volatile, passionate and humorous. It took me until the third episode to realize I was the male lead. The female lead usually asks questions like 'Are you all right?' and says 'Help.'--Catherine Disher on her Snakes & Ladders character Audrey Flankman.


So, according to imdb.com today is Catherine Disher's birthday. Big yay! In honor of the occasion here's a posting of one of my favorite interviews with her just prior to her Gemini win in 2004 for Snakes & Ladders.

She's rather low key when it comes to the press so there aren't too many interviews are out there so this one is a real gem and it's a delightful read. Borneo? Flightless birds and creeping eruption hookworm larvae? Say what?

A brief aside, the article mentions that Cath has a sister who works as a film editor. In the first half of Forever Knight's first season a Charlotte Disher is listed as an assistant editor. It might be a coincidence but it's fun to think the sisters worked on the same show for a while.

( Ingenue hair and eyes )

After being out of commission for about a month, kristin1228 's Forever Knight fansite KnightVision is back up.

That's great news! Her site is a great resource and it would have been a great loss to the community if it disappeared.

Check it out! The Rambling Fanatic

I have my own website!

And it's not free. I'm actually paying money for it. I feel like I've taken this big grown up step in my fannish life. Sure I had a geocities site and my new site resembles it in a lot of ways but this feels so much more significant. There's always the chance that one day it'll vanish into the ether but that's a chance we all take when we commit to some thing like this.

There's no actual content up right now but it's shiny and it makes me happy and proud. I spent the entire afternoon working the banner for the vids section. I can't stop staring at it. Next up: linking my fic and vids and cleaning up the FK fic page.

Because this one deserves its own post. There is a Forever Knight/Doctor Who webcomic starting up over at Rich's Comi-Blog entitled "Forever Janette".

Jaye, FORKNI-l listfounder posted this on the list earlier in the week and freaky_nerd  posted over at fk_freaks .

Schanke is present and accounted for but Urs is here as well. It's set just prior to the season 3 premiere. Yay for possible Janette and Urs interaction.

It remains to be seen which incarnation of the Doctor this will be but there has been a TARDIS sighting.

The Caddy has also made an appearance (squeeee!), as has Nick, Natalie and of course Janette.

Mwah ha. The computer is mine once more! Even if I have to get up at 5am on a Sunday to get a turn.

Everyone at home is on vacation, except for me, so there's been little computer time for me. Some interesting things I've come across while catching up.

Murdoch Mysteries has been sold domestically and will air on select PBS stations starting June 30th .Yay! It's a fun show and hey lots of crossover fic potential with Forever Knight. ( Julia is a professional precursor to Natalie )

Being Erica has begun filming their 2nd season. More yay!

BBC America has announced the premiere date for Being Human. It will premiere on July 25th. I can't wait to check it out.

The full trailer for Torchwood: Children of Earth is up at BBC America. It premieres July 20th.

Vanity Fair has a wonderful pictorial in which actors are given three scenarios and a photograph is taken of them expressing the topic. ( They're all fantastic. )

I posted six reviews of Geraint Wyn Davies at geraint_fans  of his performance as King Duncan in the Stratford production of MacBeth. Colm Feore plays the title role.

Television Without Pity offers their suggestions on five kids properties to cross to the big screen along with casting recommendations. ( Sign me up for almost all of these. )

Television Without Pity also suggests 13 TV shows that should get a reboot. ( Reboots both scare and intrigue me. )

ChillerTV was having a mini marathon of Polgergeist: The Legacy later episodes last weekend. Forever Knight's Kristin Lehman (Urs) had already joined the cast. ( So that's where Michael Sadowski ended up. )

I watched the pilot episode of The Listener on NBC, the latest Canadian import. Unfortunately, it was a little on the drab side. ( Former Forever Knight writers on staff )

The New York Times has an article about Canadian TV and the current crop of foreign coproductions. ( The Newsroom and Slings & Arrows mentions )

The Smallville season 8 DVD cover will be Clark and Lois in front of the Daily Planet logo. Very pretty. They did their usual red and blue color scheme on the wardrobe even though it's not what they were wearing. It'll be released August 25th.

Warner Bros. has released the official trailer for Smallville season 8 on DVD and boy is that thing not only ( NOT advertising season 8 but )

 

And lastly, I came across the official White House Flickr account. Lots of great photographs.