Jamming with Richard Hatch

Watched the end of the Battlestar Galactica series the other day. For fear of spoilers, I've decided not to talk about this except to say that I thought it was very cool how they wove in a bit of the original musical motif of the original series.

Photo above: Jamming with Richard Hatch (who played a good guy in the original series and a bad guy in the new series) and Davroz at Marcon some years ago. Thanks to Gary Ehrlich for the photo.

One week until FilKONtario!

Above: a quickie photo I took on my iPhone during Urban Tapestry practice last night. Only a week left until FilKONtario. Our concert is currently scheduled for early Saturday afternoon.

Every time I get together with Allison and Jodi, I marvel at how lucky I am to be part of Urban Tapestry. We've been together for about 16 years now, and we still have just as much fun now as we did when we first got together. More fun, actually. :-)


We recently co-wrote a song based on Robert Sawyer's book, Flash Forward, and will be debuting it during our concert. It's the first serious song that all three of us worked on together (Jodi wrote most of the music), and I'm VERY happy with how it came out.

Robert Sawyer is one of the other guests at FilKONtario this year. We were guests with Robert back in 2001 at Ad Astra (see poster below, which we're adding to our Interfilk package). Robert is one of only seven writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award.



And yay to Interfilk for sending Gerry and Sandy Tyra to FilKONtario this year! Also, many thanks to Gerry for his help in putting together our package for Interfilk this year, with a special Urban Tapestry CD not commercially available. More info on this soon.

As for the Guest Of Honour, if you haven't seen Heather Dale perform live, you NEED to come to FilKONtario:



I was recently on Second Life around St. Patrick's Day and was wandering around a Celtic theme area when, much to my delight, I discovered Heather's music playing full-blast during a virtual celebration(!).



You find out more about Heather and her music at Heatherdale.com, and hear samples on CDBaby. If you come to FKO, you also get a bonus: Heather's extremely talented music partner, Ben Deschamps.

Hoping to see some of you at FilKONtario. Allison, Jodi and I don't tend to perform as much in public as we used to; we all have so much going on in our lives. Anyway, it looks like our concert at FKO will be OUR ONLY PUBLIC PERFORMANCE IN 2009 and the only convention that all three of us will be attending this year. Our next mutual convention will be -next- year's FKO.

So please do come. It's going to be SOOOOOO much fun...

Flight of the Conchords: "Frodo, Don't Wear The Ring"

I haven't watched all the Flight Of The Conchords episodes yet, but apparently the video above is from Episode 11. Here are the lyrics. But that's not all...



Heh, and as my friend Shane (who used to work at Weta Digital!) pointed out, Bret McKenzie also gained notoriety as Figwit in the first and third Lord of the Rings movies:

Inkygirl Haven's first author/illustrator chat tonight on Second Life

Inkygirl Haven For Children's Book Writers and Illustrators is having its VERY FIRST CHAT tonight on Second Life tonight at 8 pm EST (5 pm Second Life time). Anyone interested in writing and/or illustrator for young people is welcome!

If you've been curious about Second Life, feel free to drop by the Inkygirl Haven For Children's Book Writers & Illustrators tonight. Kristen Darbyshire will be at Inkygirl Haven, and I'll also be lurking about to help the chat run smoothly. Before or after the chat, you might also want to check out the building and grounds. Visit Beckett Gladney's new artist office on the second floor! Pick up a free copy of the e-book From Keyboard To Printed Page, a joint project between Inkygirl Haven and the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI).

If you've never been on SL before, I strongly recommend that you sign up at least an hour in advance so you have a chance to get used to the interface.

Highly recommended (before you sign up):
Joan Kremer's Guide For Writers About Second Life

Chat with Kristen Darbyshire tonight:

URL: http://tinyurl.com/kidlit
Date: Monday, March 23rd
Time: 8 pm EST (5 pm Second Life time)

Amusing video about the current Twitter craze

Thanks to Patricia Storms for the link.