From: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org (chakram-refugees-digest) To: chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Subject: chakram-refugees-digest V6 #14 Reply-To: chakram-refugees@smoe.org Sender: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-chakram-refugees-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk chakram-refugees-digest Monday, January 16 2006 Volume 06 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Down and Dirty with Renee [KTL Subject: [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Down and Dirty with Renee Down and Dirty with Renee No, I have not taken up alt fanfic, this is just a quick report done on the fly. (Well, on the bed actually, but let's draw a curtain over that.) There was a very artsy fan video to pump us up for seeing Renee. (As if some people weren't pumped up way beyond their appropriate "tire pressure rating", heading into explosive range as it was.) Note: This reminds me of the time when my cousin and I were kids and were inflating my bicycle tire at a garage which ended up with my tire in shreds and my cousin literally blown away by the force of the explosion and winding up dangling spread eagled on his back, stretched across the gaping maw of a deep open mechanic's grease pit, hanging onto the sides of it only by the tips of his fingers and the toes of his sneakers. Now that boy had stamina. But I digress. . . Renee walked out and immediately began strutting across the stage, thrusting her belly out for us to see and looking proud and happy. They've been having the stars sign the huge hanging banners they always use to decorate the stage. Renee as Gabrielle is on the top of one of them and Renee stood looking way up, obviously wondering how she could possibly reach any part of Gabrielle to sign. She said, "That's too tall for me." She looked over her shoulder towards her chair on the stage and said, "I suppose I could balance on there." Roars of protective horror from the audience immediately ensued. People began to yell out, "Have her sign it later!" and Renee and Sharon decided this was probably the best idea. Renee returned to the center stage, smiled happily at us and then said, "Boy, I hope I don't go into labor." She said that she had decided she would share some of her journal with us. She talked about it being very revealing. And how she's never read anyone her journal before. She also wanted to talk about some of the dramatic monologues she's been working on. "I don't know if I can bounce around during them. We'll just sit." And she perched on the chair. And opened this HUGE green journal. She said that her new neighbor, Natalie had said to her one day that she was going to Israel (she's an Israeli) and that Renee should join her. Renee said, "Yeah, cool!" She said she realized later that Natalie had said it as more of a joke. But she went anyway. And the day she was leaving for Israel, she found out she was pregnant. "I had such grand plans. How can I fit THIS in?" She's having a baby girl who will make her debut in March. And when Renee announced the baby was a girl, the audience broke into roars of approval and thunderous applause. In that weird hybrid status we occupy, halfway between being family and friends and being total strangers to the actors, being people in their lives in a kind of aggregate way, we felt that we had the right to show our joy at one of them FINALLY giving us a girl! Lucy has the boys (and yeah, Daisy, but we weren't "there" when she was born), Tsiniana has two boys, Jennifer and Michael have two boys, it was PAST time for a girl, dammit! Go Ren! The journal entries she read were about being in Israel and living with the constant awareness of being in a terror zone. And how the people who live there just go on with life. I believe she said she was also in Jordan where it was supposed to be safe and she was at a modern shopping center and near a beach and people were running around in bikinis and then she heard that a missile had hit an area not very far away from where she was. And when she asked her Israeli friend why she hadn't warned her about this possibility, the friend shrugged and said, "You Americans overreact to everything." Renee said, "Oh my God, I have to call my mother!" And Natalie said, "See!" She said she decided to go ahead with her plans which had been to go parasailing. Which is where you strap yourself into a parachute and tie yourself behind a boat which then races away and flings you up into the air. Renee said, "I went by a Jordanian flag and gave it a kind of wave. I figured I'd just be another moving target." She also showed us some of her artwork. She's painted some self portraits. Some nude self portraits. She decided to paint herself pregnant. It's a silhouette of her body, sideways, with a representation of the baby inside her swollen belly. She hasn't finished it, but said that she brought it over to her boyfriend's house the first time she met his parents, to show it to them. I wonder if they thought it was a hostess gift at first? Someone asked her if she'd seen the video of Lucy on the fan club page reacting to Renee's announcement to us about being pregnant. She said she hadn't and then she said, "She wants my baby, doesn't she." She talked about the monologues she was working on, gave us story outlines of them. Anyway, that's the hot news, when the baby is due, that it's a girl and that Renee is working on stuff important to her personally. She doesn't want to waste any time on projects that don't matter greatly to her. She looks healthy and very happy about the baby and as always, thanked us for our support in all of her endeavors. And it's off to the con with me. More details to follow. (Probably in 2007. . . ) KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 07:22:38 -0900 (AKST) From: KTL Subject: [chakram-refugees] Con 06 Down and Dirty with Renee Down and Dirty with Renee No, I have not taken up alt fanfic, this is just a quick report done on the fly. (Well, on the bed actually, but let's draw a curtain over that.) There was a very artsy fan video to pump us up for seeing Renee. (As if some people weren't pumped up way beyond their appropriate "tire pressure rating", heading into explosive range as it was.) Note: This reminds me of the time when my cousin and I were kids and were inflating my bicycle tire at a garage which ended up with my tire in shreds and my cousin literally blown away by the force of the explosion and winding up dangling spread eagled on his back, stretched across the gaping maw of a deep open mechanic's grease pit, hanging onto the sides of it only by the tips of his fingers and the toes of his sneakers. Now that boy had stamina. But I digress. . . Renee walked out and immediately began strutting across the stage, thrusting her belly out for us to see and looking proud and happy. They've been having the stars sign the huge hanging banners they always use to decorate the stage. Renee as Gabrielle is on the top of one of them and Renee stood looking way up, obviously wondering how she could possibly reach any part of Gabrielle to sign. She said, "That's too tall for me." She looked over her shoulder towards her chair on the stage and said, "I suppose I could balance on there." Roars of protective horror from the audience immediately ensued. People began to yell out, "Have her sign it later!" and Renee and Sharon decided this was probably the best idea. Renee returned to the center stage, smiled happily at us and then said, "Boy, I hope I don't go into labor." She said that she had decided she would share some of her journal with us. She talked about it being very revealing. And how she's never read anyone her journal before. She also wanted to talk about some of the dramatic monologues she's been working on. "I don't know if I can bounce around during them. We'll just sit." And she perched on the chair. And opened this HUGE green journal. She said that her new neighbor, Natalie had said to her one day that she was going to Israel (she's an Israeli) and that Renee should join her. Renee said, "Yeah, cool!" She said she realized later that Natalie had said it as more of a joke. But she went anyway. And the day she was leaving for Israel, she found out she was pregnant. "I had such grand plans. How can I fit THIS in?" She's having a baby girl who will make her debut in March. And when Renee announced the baby was a girl, the audience broke into roars of approval and thunderous applause. In that weird hybrid status we occupy, halfway between being family and friends and being total strangers to the actors, being people in their lives in a kind of aggregate way, we felt that we had the right to show our joy at one of them FINALLY giving us a girl! Lucy has the boys (and yeah, Daisy, but we weren't "there" when she was born), Tsiniana has two boys, Jennifer and Michael have two boys, it was PAST time for a girl, dammit! Go Ren! The journal entries she read were about being in Israel and living with the constant awareness of being in a terror zone. And how the people who live there just go on with life. I believe she said she was also in Jordan where it was supposed to be safe and she was at a modern shopping center and near a beach and people were running around in bikinis and then she heard that a missile had hit an area not very far away from where she was. And when she asked her Israeli friend why she hadn't warned her about this possibility, the friend shrugged and said, "You Americans overreact to everything." Renee said, "Oh my God, I have to call my mother!" And Natalie said, "See!" She said she decided to go ahead with her plans which had been to go parasailing. Which is where you strap yourself into a parachute and tie yourself behind a boat which then races away and flings you up into the air. Renee said, "I went by a Jordanian flag and gave it a kind of wave. I figured I'd just be another moving target." She also showed us some of her artwork. She's painted some self portraits. Some nude self portraits. She decided to paint herself pregnant. It's a silhouette of her body, sideways, with a representation of the baby inside her swollen belly. She hasn't finished it, but said that she brought it over to her boyfriend's house the first time she met his parents, to show it to them. I wonder if they thought it was a hostess gift at first? Someone asked her if she'd seen the video of Lucy on the fan club page reacting to Renee's announcement to us about being pregnant. She said she hadn't and then she said, "She wants my baby, doesn't she." She talked about the monologues she was working on, gave us story outlines of them. Anyway, that's the hot news, when the baby is due, that it's a girl and that Renee is working on stuff important to her personally. She doesn't want to waste any time on projects that don't matter greatly to her. She looks healthy and very happy about the baby and as always, thanked us for our support in all of her endeavors. And it's off to the con with me. More details to follow. (Probably in 2007. . . ) KT ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 11:28:12 EST From: KLOSSNER9@aol.com Subject: [chakram-refugees] ignoring "Xena" name of space object Today's Parade syndicated supplement has an article, "To Pluto--and Far Beyond" by David H. Levy, Parade's science editor and co-discoverer of 21 comets. Notably, he does not mention the Xena nickname. He calls it 2003 UB313 and notes it will get a new name if it is accepted as a planet by the people who decide these things. He adds, "Or we could call it "Goofy," as Jay Leno has suggested." I guess scientists are determinably setting aside the discoverers' Xena nickname. UB313 is 9 billion plus miles from the Sun, almost three times Pluto (3.7 billion miles). Boeotian ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:28:52 EST From: Junejanu@aol.com Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] ignoring "Xena" name of space object OTOH, USA Weekend has an article on the effect of Xena planet on astrology, with frequent references to the name. Conclusion: 'it's hard to imagine a more fitting name for a being that challenges gender roles'. June In a message dated 1/15/2006 11:44:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, KLOSSNER9@aol.com writes: Today's Parade syndicated supplement has an article, "To Pluto--and Far Beyond" by David H. Levy, Parade's science editor and co-discoverer of 21 comets. Notably, he does not mention the Xena nickname. He calls it 2003 UB313 and notes it will get a new name if it is accepted as a planet by the people who decide these things. He adds, "Or we could call it "Goofy," as Jay Leno has suggested." I guess scientists are determinably setting aside the discoverers' Xena nickname. UB313 is 9 billion plus miles from the Sun, almost three times Pluto (3.7 billion miles). Boeotian ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 22:32:43 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: [chakram-refugees] Lucy signs on for 10 eps on Battlestar?! Hi, >Dude, I'm flipping out because I just read that Lucy's signed on to do 10 more BSG eps. I am living under a rock! Woohoo! Sharon, please pass our congrats on to Lucy. :) > > EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!! Where did you read this?? I need details, confirmation, etc. ... that is SO FRAKKING COOL if it's true!!! >This is one of the greatest shows ever on TV, gang. You guys that don't watch are missing out! > So Say We All. :) >So those of you who've been getting the capsulated chakram-itized recaps of Lucy's guests on BSG because you didn't want to watch the whole show and figure out everything that was going on, well, looks like you now have to sit down and get intimately familiar with the whoooole thing. Heh, heh, heh. > > And season 1 and the first part of season 2 are out on DVD, so catching up is oh so easy!! (Season 2.2, which just started last week is available on iTunes, too.) In case there's any lingering doubt, I welcome any and all BSG discussion here, since Lucy is involved in the show. Just please preface BSG-related posts with "BSG:", so those folks who might not care can easily skip over those threads. Thanks all!! - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ========================================================= This has been a message to the chakram-refugees list. To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe chakram-refugees" in the message body. Contact meth@smoe.org with any questions or problems. ========================================================= ------------------------------ End of chakram-refugees-digest V6 #14 *************************************