Space Fairy Blog

Well, it’s time to start planning my costume for Supanova ‘09! Supanova Pop Culture Expo is the funnest festival to hit Brisbane. Check it out here: www.supanova.com.au . Me & my Brisbane Sci-Fi crew go every year. Each year the costumes get more and more elaborate. It’s one of the few times of year where it’s considered not unusual to run around Brisbane dressed like a stormtrooper or a wacky anime critter. Sure, people still look at you weird, but they’re boring so who cares about them, right? ;p

It’s also a mad-fun excuse to hang out with famous celebrities from your favourite movies, tv-shows, games and comic books, and score their autograph or even get a photo with them. I myself have space-fairied it up with folks as cool as:

• John Schneider (The original Bo Duke, and Clark Kent’s dad in the TV series Smallville)
• Summer Glau (River from the series “Firefly” and the movie “Serenity“, also played Tess in “4400“)
• Aaron Douglas (”Battlestar Galactica“)
• Billy Dee Williams (Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back)
• Ron Glass (”Firefly” & “Serenity“)
• Karl Urban ***SCORE!!!*** (”Lord of the Rings“, “Xena”, and he plays Bones McCoy in the new Star Trek movie! He’s so preetty. He totally loves me)
• Teryl Rothery (The doctor in “Stargate: SG1“)
• Jewel Staite (Kaylee the lovestruck engineer in “Firefly“, “Serenity“, and also “Stargate Atlantis“
• James Kyson Lee (”Heroes“)
• Lou Ferrigno (The original “Incredible Hulk“)

…and those are only the folks I met at Brisbane Supanova! (My collection from my earlier Sydney escapades is also quite large and impressively awesome)

Oh, by the way, this is what I’m thinking of wearing to Supanova this year…

There are stirrings on the etheric plane that something big is coming. It’s on the table; in the works, but I’m not quite ready yet to say what it is.

But it’s going to be HUGE… hopefully……

but if not, at least it will be SUPER FUN

NYE was awesome for me because…

• While it rained back home in Brisbane, and fireworks were cancelled along the Gold Coast due to freakish weather, I was living it up in beautiful Sydney!

• Darling Harbour! Getting back here was fantastic, and not only because we had the best spot (right on the water) for the NYE fireworks. I used to work and live here many years ago. I have lots of awesome memories here so it was great to be back.

• I hung out with my friend Linda, who is one of my longest-standing friends but who I rarely see in person.

• I also hung out with my little sis, who I also rarely see since we live in different states. Even though she resembles a model I still love her!

• Free entertainment in Darling Harbour- and we got the best seat in the house. This was especially awesome for…

• “Bjorn Again”- Best ABBA cover band in the world! (Don’t laugh, they totally rocked… especially when they did Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer”, which I admit was strange seeing someone wailing like Bon Jovi, but dressed in an “ABBA” costume). [Video Coming Soon]

• Hot naked guys on rooftops (alas the only perving was done from afar… sorry no photos).

• Hot policemen strutting around, keepin’ the peace (Had photos but thought I shouldn’t post them).

• Hot men around Darling Harbour… all of whom were with their girlfriends sadly.

• I actually got a seat on the train. (Naaah I didn’t bother photographing that).

• I spent the next day recovering here, at my Dad’s North Sydney resort… I love my Dad’s pool!

So, even though I didn’t meet a Prince from Denmark (In 2000 I was outside the place where Mary and that guy met, but totally missed out!) Funness was still had by all.

P.S. Eat your heart out Brisbane!

We continue our series of retro-geek-funness, with three more TV shows which SpaceFairy loved when she was a kid in the 80’s. Some are obscure, some are more popular, but all of them ROCKED… enjoy!

MASK

M.A.S.K. (an acronym for the Mobile Armored Strike Command) was like a hybrid between Transformers and G.I. Joe. It had transforming vehicles, cute cartoon guys (Matt Trakker!) with super-powered helmets, who battled against the criminal organisation V.E.N.O.M. (Vicious Evil Network of Mayhem). I personally liked it better than…

Transformers

Then there was Ulysses in space… Gotta love the space-age Greek mythology!

Ulysses 31

And finally, something with a little less destruction and mayhem to bring back warm fuzzy memories…

Kimba the White Lion

Awwww…

Stay tuned!

I love YouTube!

Tonight I had a flash-back-o-rama to the 80’s when I discovered the opening theme to one of my favourite TV shows, Secret Valley. Does anyone remember it? They always had so much fun on that show (do kids these days still have food fights or does that only happen virtually on Facebook now?

It was filmed in the Blue Mountains where I grew up. That view of the mountains in the opening credits was once the view from my bedroom! When I was a kid my grandma would take me bush-walking out along narrow-neck road, and I would look out for either the Secret Valley or my other favourite show at the time, The Mysterious Cities of Gold. I have been fascinated with learning about ancient civilisations ever since. Remember the flying Golden Condor!?! I wanted one!

Then there’s You Can’t Do That On Television! where anyone who said “I don’t know” would get instantly dumped with green slime. Whatever happened to slime on TV? Was it killed off by the public liability fiasco? Or are people just no fun anymore?

…Barf burgers! classic!

Stay tuned for more funness girls and boys!