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[fairyd123]

Spent the weekend at the Decalogy convention in Blackpool and am barely alive. Far too little sleep and crappy food just does not agree with me. Still it was wonderful to see all my friends (even if one of them did spend an inordinate amount of time in the early hours of Sunday morning throwing up) and plus we got a free and unexpected acoustic Kane gig which was a massive bonus.

So what did I learn from my escapades?

That Blackpool's idea of a 4 star hotel is massively different to mine. To be frank the Norbreck castle is a complete shit hole. The bathroom was dirty, the bath cracked and the bed was little more than a cot - hideous.

What a barmcake is!

That if I lived in Blackpool I would practically be a millionaire - everything was insanely cheap. Cod and chips for £2.75!

That Christian Kane gets sexier every time I see him. He's also completely hilarious. Loved the moment when some excitable girl told him proudly that she's gotten into RADA only to be met with the response "Why the fuck would I take lessons from someone who couldn't make it in the business." Sheer brilliance. He also hates Close to Home (not that I have ever seen it) - "fuck that show" is about the only thing he'll say on the topic.

That Clare Kramer is probably the cutest kitten ever.

That tomato juice poured into beer is a hangover cure (um thanks for that one Steve and Chris).

That 2p amusement arcade games can keep me entertained for hours!

That Jonathan Woodward is still one of the best convention guests I've ever met.

That conventions in Blackpool do seem to attract the freakiest people I've ever seen. I swear somewhere in Blackpool that weekend a group of social workers were having a killer weekend having dumped all their charges at the convention venue. There was the hideously ugly buck toothed guy who kept wanting to show us his Star Trek phasers (read coloured block of wood), the guys wandering around in Star Trek uniforms that hadn't been washed in a millenia, the nutjob who wanted to share his collection of Werewolf pictures, the crazy stalker girl who took a massive shine to my friend, which was impressive as he was vomiting copiously at the time, the girl who wandered around all weekend with a fake American accent and last but by no means least the filthy smelly Scottish guy who spent all weekend holding a grimy teddy bear. Lovely!

That if you have epilepsy its a great idea to take your medication as opposed to forgetting to take it and spending all Saturday drinking so that you end up having a grand mal seizure and cracking your head open on the corner of the wardrobe. The worst part was that the guy in question wasn't really part of our group - more of a hanger-on so even though the poor bastard ending up having to go to hospital in an ambulance nooone actually wanted to look after him.

That my friend Carl has the sickest fucking sense of humour ever as evidenced by him getting the paramedics to pose for photographs over at the time barely conscious epileptic boy!

Fun weekend - but not one I'd be keen to repeat in a hurry!

Yay John Barrowman is doing panto again this year but geez John you couldn't have visited one of the many delightful theatres in London? Now I'm going to have to drag my ass down to Birmingham for the weekend. And no offence to all the lovely Brummies out there but it wouldn't be my top choice to spend a weekend in! Maybe I'll go for Friday and Saturday and try and see the panto a couple of times as I probably would have gone a few times if it had been in London.

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[kiss-me-quick.livejournal.com]

I'm quite looking forward to going back to Birmingham - I used to work there in the late nineties and haven't been back since early 2000 I think.

[rose-in-texas.livejournal.com]

"Close to Home" went straight to pot when they killed off Mr. Kane's character -- the loving hubby -- and then started making the show about hot lawyers in love in the office. Yuck-o.

Why did they think I was watching it? Hint: It wasn't for Jennifer Finnegan.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

I've never watched it but my understanding is that Chris was told that his role would be completely different to what it was which was basically the stay at home dad. I've heard him refer to the character as "that Close to Home pussy" before. I believe they killed the character off because he had made it very clear that he didn't want to be on the show any longer - I mean he has his record deal now, being on that kind of show probably wasn't great for his image.

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

To be fair I haven't really explored Birmingham very much - I'm sure it'll be fine when I get there. When are you planning on going? I think Amanda has already booked a couple of dates in late December.

[tatiana-baa.livejournal.com]

I watched one ep, to see Christian. And I swiftly concluded that his part was a waste of a good actor! I never watched again.

[tatiana-baa.livejournal.com]

The Norbreck gave me a disabled room. So, on the plus side, for the price of a single I got a double, with plenty of room. On the minus, it was a smoking room so it stank. And there was no bath, just a shower-head with no curtain or cubicle, and a drain. So when showering, everything in the bathroom got soaked! Also, obviously there was a seat for the shower. Useful in cases of extreme hangover, maybe - but no WAY I was sitting where other folks had parked their nekkid asses....*g*

I noticed the freakier attendees. I've seen most of them before, they come out of the woodwork for big events. But the short smelly Scot with the bear who was following Jimmy around (the Scot not the bear) was new to me. As was the asian guy who tried to take pix in the autograph session, and then through the ballroom window once ejected, and demanded a refund when told that wasn't allowed! He was unceremoniously requested to fuck right off.
Oh and the Crazy Israeli chugged half a bottle of Scotch during communion (Elisabeth's jaw hit the floor!), then later threw up in the bar and proceeded to collapse into his own mess. He was made to pay the hotel for cleaning up, thrown out of the con, and told to come back only once he was sober. Idiot...

Christian is, erm, forthright, isn't he? He cracks me up. Yeah, I did wonder WTF when I fetched them those beers & the tomato juice & they proceeded to mix them! Could have been worse, could have involved a raw egg.

Are you going to any of the Kane gigs this weekend?

[fairyd123.livejournal.com]

The Crzy Israeli is Aric and I think it was less that he threw up in the bar and more that he went to the autograph session and hurled all over Laura Bertram's table that got him kicked out of the con - he was around at the evening festivities though. I suspect that Sean will prevent Jonathan from doing "communion" again although to be frank he should just ban Aric from the events.

Nope can't do any of the Kane gigs. Have a work do on Friday which I don't want to go to but needs must and am at ADWD on Saturday.

[tatiana-baa.livejournal.com]

oh, I know his name - just wasn't sure I should use it here. But since he's quite capable of embarrassing himself without my help, who cares, I suppose...

I didn't know about the autograph table throwing up session (that's just nasty! *g*) But Ian told me about the bar thing because the hotel asked him to deal with it. And he was the one who, at that point, ordered Aric to get out of the con til he was sober.
I also heard that Jonathan didn't particularly want to do communion, as he was actually trying to 'dry out'. But Sean put him in an position where he kind of had to do it. If so, Sean may be regretting that! Though if they got rid of Aric, it'd probably be safe enough.

Do you mean you're actually in the ADWD audience? If so, lucky you! I'll be taping it again b/c, Kane gig, so I'll see if I can spot you.