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General => Site News => Topic started by: Tage on January 14, 2004, 02:09:59 PM
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Fell just called to inform me that Andy Serkis, who brought Gollum to life in the LotR movies, will be doing a book signing tonight at the Crossroads Mall in Salt Lake City. The book is titled "Gollum" and is presumably about Mr. Serkis' experiences in while filming. At the risk of irking him for not buying the book, I'm going to ask him to sign my Two Towers DVD case instead. Fell suggested buying a Gollum action figure and having him sign the box, and keeping it as a collector's item.
I can't confirm this event through either the Borders web site or the Andy Serkis official web site, but I think I'll go anyway, just in case. If anyone wants to car pool up to SLC, post it here.
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7 to 9 isn't it?
I heard that quite a while ago. The thought of braving a billion screaming fangirls turns me off.
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Yeah, I just called the store and confirmed it.
And fuzzy, it's not like it's Orlando Bloom or Elijah Wood. I think the only big fans that will be there are the ones who got more into the books, where Gollum is a much cooler character. Still, I'm expecting it to be very crowded.
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Er. I would introduce you to the female friends that I know disprove that rule, but you wouldn't want to meet them.
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If one of you got something signed by Mr. Serkis, I'd wager one of my sisters-in-law, if not even my mother-in-law, would pay for it. They're such huge "fanboys" that it scares ME, and I can tell you all about DC post-Zero Hour continuity.
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What is it with you and the lyrics today, Saint? First the integrated circuits and things and now this?
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I use art when it suits my purposes. *shrug*
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Don't get me wrong; I think it's great and it tickles me when I get the joke. I just wondered if it was anything special about today.
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I have a work meeting tonight :'(. I'd love to go and get an action figure case signed. If anyone who goes up can get one sigened for me (well you'd have to buy a figure to) I'd pay you back for the figure and something extra for the hassle.
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The line, as fuzzy suspected, was HUGE. I think it may have been the longest line I've ever seen in my life. So for me and my brother, it ended up being a 2-hour drive to hear Andy Serkis do his Gollum scene from TT over some loudspeakers, and then pick up some mexican food.
Eh, it was fun anyway.
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I did not stay, but a friend of mine did and got my Extended Edition DVD case signed. I would make a precious joke, but then I'd have to kick my own butt.
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Go ahead and do so - it'd be fun to watch.
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So this thread doesn't really belong in "news" anymore, but whatever.
Since pretty much everyone here is a geek (stacer excluded), I just had to share this little anecdote from Wil Wheaton. C'mon, I dare you to read this and not love the guy.
http://www.wilwheaton.net/mt/archives/001495.php#001495
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ok, i'm a geek. NOt a nerd. I didn't like his character and I don't like blogs, so I admit NEVER having read anything on his site before. Just so you know, I broke that trend just for you Tage.
And yeah, it was worth it.
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Ha! Ha ha!
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That is very funny, yet frightening.
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I vote for less frightening but more funny. I'm very amused. His wife sounds cool, by the way.
What's the standard saving throw against irritated wife?
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Geek or no, I thought it was funny. (Tage, I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not ::)) I was so in love with Wil Wheaton in high school or junior high or whenever it was. Not that I got the specifics of the gaming references, but it was funny about the hair.
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I don't think you get an ability bonus to saving throw against irritated wife. Except maybe Constitution, to resist the brutal effects of her harrangue.
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/me wipes a tear from her eye
That was great.
Stacer, I'm glad I'm not the only one, I was so in love with him too, but that was elementary school for me.
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Sorry, I thought this was funny.
Did it bother you that the fans didn't like Wesley?
Yes, at the time, it really really did. Imagine being a teenager, trying to handle all the things a teenager has to deal with. Now multiply that times being on a HUGE TV show, and all these people hate you. It was tough.
Although, I recently realized something. At the time I kept saying to people, "It's a TV show! Don't take it so seriously! It's just a character!" But at the same time, I was really taking it seriously, and personally. And it hurt. But I didn't handle myself with much grace, which I think echoes Wesley's situation: he had the intellectual capacity to be with these adults, and not the emotional capacity. It was the same for me, in real life. I've written some things about it in my weblog, and I write extensively about it in my forthcoming book, Just A Geek.
I hated Wesley!
Really? He always had such nice things to say about you.
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I liked Wesley too. I'm not ashamed of it, because I moved on to having amorous crushes on Riker, Picard, Data, Q, and all the rest of the male crew.
Liking Wesley was much less weird for a 12 year old girl than liking a 50 year old man.
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I liked almost none of the characters on that show. Troi, Riker, the Crushers, the stand in doctor, Q.
worf was pretty cool. Data was tolerable. picard rocked (though he was no Kirk). I seem to remember like Tasha Yar, though now I can't remember a scene she did that was impressive at all. Maybe I'm just bitter that she was the only real hot one and she left the show early on.
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Eric goes for the grumpy butch type? That's weird.
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see, that's why I'm thinking it was just her appearance. She LOOKED hot.
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I saw Star Trek Nemises the other day. It kinda sucked. But still, it was Trek. I have a money box in the shape of a Kilngon Bust statue on top of my fridge. (Scarily enough, the second joke I ever made up had to do with Klingons.)
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imo, it was a better flick than,... well... any of the other Next Generation films.
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*rants half-heartedly about how Insurrection blows all the other Next Generation films out of the water and should be glorfied by every star trek fan on earth*
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First contact was wonderful.
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really, Fuzzy? I had a completely different definition of "blows" in connection with Insurrection.
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<insert needlessly personal remark about Eric's parentage>
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<insert witty retort involving sexism and useless alienation>
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I saw Nemisis last night. It was okay. My largest question is why Troi hasn't had her pilot's license revoked? She's crashed a starship twice now.
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lol, not the first time I heard that. But what is worse, crashing on purpose or accidentally?