Janet & I leave, walk around the hotel for a bit, take some pictures of Fuzzy Selmak. Then we return to our room for a bit, and I talk to Contessa, who claims she didn't squueeeeeeeeeeeee on the phone.

Yeah, sure, right.

Fortunately, they're not putting in floor safes on our floor as they did that yesterday. We wanted 20 minutes decompress time and they're drilling holes in the floor.

Quite relaxing!

Not!

The one problem I have with CreationCon is the lighting on the stage. Now, I'm sure if I had a $2K ubercamera with a lighting tripoid, everything would come out just fine, but no luck. Front row seats and I usually have to spend hours color-correcting the shots.

First up is Apophis ~ Peter Williams. Seems like a pleasant chap.

Talked a great deal about Jamaica, being recognized in the Village yesterday when he went shoe shopping and some of his current projects.

His ideal role is portray Bob Marley in a the biopic of his life, but he says that he's getting too old for the role unless it's done soon.

There was a few people from sg-command.net who had made up truly unique costumes, one was a Serpent Guard and one was a Horus guard.

After Peter Williams talks there is a program called "Stargate Live". Two teams each try to out perform the other re-enacting the opening scene from Wormhole Extreme.

I'm completely unsurprised to find out Gilder is channeling Hammond as I know she's got a thing for George. [Not Don ~ just George.]

When she utters Hammond's first line in Wormhole, I nearly fall out of my chair laughing.

HAMMOND: He sold the idea to the studio. He's currently working on production as a creative consultant.

My Good God, it's like Hammond got in touch with his inner female and demanded a sex change operation. The voice is deep, the drawl is there, and it's Hammond. It's no surprise that her team wins as the other team's Hammond sounded like he was from Joisey.

Gary Jones' presentation is funny as always. He always does the same thing for every presentation. He'll walk out, do a few movements like he's posing for cameras ~ meaning the really big cheesy smile and beefcake poses.

He tries to sell something in his pocket (some sort of chips I think) to the audience. The audience doesn't make an offer so he then throws it into the audience.

Then he begins. Gary's a standup commedian so he heckles the audience. Our friend Mish is in dead center front row with a huge honking camera and she's merrily clicking away. He then asks her if she's planning on making a movie as she's taking so many pictures one after the other ~ which requires him to demonstrate Gary moving in Slow-Motion as though she was flipping through all her photos..

I saw Gary in Cleveland, and that was a SciFi audience verses a Stargate one, so his performance is a little different. In that one, he didn't razz Don Davis, but since Don's at the con... watch out Don!

Gary says that he sometimes has problems pronouncing some of the technobabble, especially the word Prometheus, which usually happens after the Commanding Officer has run down the circular staircase. He gives a credible performance of his CO running down the steps ~ klunk, klunk, klunk, klunk - "What's the problem Chief!" - to which he answers, "The Promiethesus..." pauses, realizes he's butchered the name of the ship, and the CO growls and walks back up the steps. Depending on who it is, he'll either get, "@#%@_)%(@#%!!! I have to go up the @$%@#$ steps as this idiot can't say Prometheus... where the hell are the seven dwarfs help me up these @#%@#$ steps..." or "@#%@#%@!"

I think he really wants to make Beau Bridges run up and down the steps a few times, just for shit and giggles.

Continuing on the Don Davis jokes, he warns us about Don's performance in Cabaret Night. "The Old Dog...." he growled. "You'll hear about this old dog repeatedly tonight... plus they'll have to bring out a podium for him as he'll fall over without it."

I think the crowd booed then and he just smiled, wiggled his hands at the crowd and said, "BRING IT ON!" I can highly recommend seeing Gary Jones live, as you'll laugh so hard you'll have a headache.

But one guy almost successfully shut Gary up.

"Were you agitating for a Bigger Part?"

Gary stops for just a moment, and then questions, "Have you been talking to my wife?"

When I'm on the autograph line, Gary takes one look at me and says, "I've met you already."

[One of my Cleveland buddies mentioned a similar occurence. She saw Gary at the Detroit Motor Con where he commented that he had just seen her in Cleveland.]

"Yes," I admit. "I was with the Stargate stalkers at the Cleveland Vulkon." [Actually I was with the Friends of Claire ~ Claire is the one who jumped on chairs a lot and waved her stuffed Fuzzy Selmak around like it was a pompom. What can I say, but Claire's really cute and can get away with it. I just made suggestions on what stunts she should pull next, and she, eager to be liked, would run off to complete her mission.Peer Email Group Pressure, it's a horrible, horrible thing.]

His sharpie girl sniffs, "Stalkers?"

"Honey, we were the best type of stalkers, we were stalking him and Carmen with $20 bills clutched in our grimey little hands," I retorted. "See you at DragonCon, Gary."

If he actually remembers me in DragonCon, I might have to go into the FanGrrrrl Relocation Program.

With my Fuzzy Selmak, natch.