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Digest - 26 Feb 2011 to 27 Feb 2011 (#2011-24)

Sun, 27 Feb 2011

There are 3 messages totalling 262 lines in this issue.

Topics of the day:

  1. Dead of Winter Con
  2. My Vampire hosted Radio show is doing quite well
  3. Interconnected bar/pub framed photos!

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Date:    Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:37:25 +0000
From:    amilynh@c.......
Subject: Re: Dead of Winter Con

Gaylin wrote:
>getting utterly blottoed with Sharon "Yard of Ale" H.

I forgot about the Yard of Ale!

>The weather was indeed truly miserable that weekend. It was a huge blizzard

I remember tromping through the snow to the strip mall across the way, getting
t-shirts made ("Vachon's Mom"--I think--for Gillian Horvath, "Vampire Den
Mother" for Deb, and someone--Rob?--getting a t-shirt made that says, "Hey,
she looks just like Amy Hull!").  I also remember being not at all upset that
we were stuck in the hotel...cuz...where else did any of us want to be?  (I
did feel bad for folks who had to drive...especially the warmer-climate folks
who had Never Driven In Snow Before.)

>The new episode that weekend was special to all of us

Oh...there was NOTHING like watching "The Fix" in adjoining hotel rooms, each
packed with, like, 30-40 people.  ...Well, except for watching the preview for
"More Permanent Hell" at the end!!!!!

>The costume show had some great performance, including a metamorphosis

That was Val!  She was amazing.  She made that costume, as well as mine from
the costume contest.

Costume photos of me here:  http://pics.livejournal.com/amilyn/gallery/000a3s7c
(PLEASE DO NOT LINK TO THESE FROM THE WIKI OR POST THEM THERE!)
And FK-related photos, including the TO Trek FK Walking Tour Of Toronto photos,
here (there is more than one page of them):
http://pics.livejournal.com/amilyn/gallery/000aa1s5  (AGAIN, PLEASE DO NOT LINK
TO THESE FROM OR POST THEM ON THE WIKI....EXCEPT THE ONES WITHOUT PEOPLE IN
THEM!)

>I also remember being completely blown away that someone was offering up sign
>language during the panel discussions (she was sitting in my row a couple of
>seats away from me but I couldn't see her face).
>I was SO HAPPY that I could "hear" everything.

I can't remember this well...but I think this may have been me.  I think I
had my cream cotton cardigan, and I vaguely remember possibly sitting on the
floor to interpret?  Do you remember anything about it?  I'm drawing a
near-total blank.

This is me interpreting at Faire in 1999:
http://pics.livejournal.com/amilyn/pic/0011kask   and this is about what I
looked like ca. DOW2:  http://pics.livejournal.com/amilyn/pic/0015w079

>        (d) Of course, if someone has a copy of the fanzine and could send
> me more info on that, I'd be able to fill out its page, too.  We don't have
> the names of any of the stories that appeared in it.

I have this downstairs in my filing cabinet....and have now retrieved it.
I'd forgotten that Lora had managed to get P.O. Box 1228 at her local post
office for the FK Fan Club.  :-)

The cover art was by Carole Swoboda and the back cover art was by Wendy Roffer.
The following is the description:

Foreward

Dead of Winter II:  The Night is Alive, the Forever Knight Fan Club's second
convention, took place February 3-5, 1995.  Among the activities was a writing
contest, organized by Laurie Salopek and judged by Valerie Meachum and Susan
Garrett.  The entries were mailed in and judged anonymously before the
convention, the winners' numbers came from the judges and their names and
texts from Laurie and the following volume was assembled by Lora Haines.

The winners were:

Serious Fiction
First Place:  "Dreams of the Damned" by Stefan F. Alford
Second Place: "It's the Thought that Counts" by Brian Russell Hauser
Third Place: "The Faces of Immortality" by Ren=C3=A9 G. [who I know does not
want her name online anymore, hence the omission]

Comedy/Satire
First Place: "How to Tell Your Boss" by Eve Mahoney
Second Place: "LaCroix's Worst Nightmare" by Dawn Steele
Third Place "There Are no Such Things" by Stefan F. Alford

Poetry
First Place: "The Tenable Rift" by Sandye Chisholm
Second Place:  "Random Acts of Murder" by Ruth Dempsey  and "Revenge is the
Best Revenge" by Amy Hull
(http://www.fanfiction.net/s/851927/1/Revenge_is_the_Best_Revenge  <--though
the formatting is unfixable so the spacing is off)
Third Place: "Dreamwalker" by Kenton Adler

Many thanks to all who contributed to this event.  I hope we can do it again!

/excerpt

McLisa wrote:
> Lora Haines of the FK Fanclub (yes, the one who later provided the name for
Natalie's suicide friend in Last Knight) produced the mini-con Dead of
Winter.

It's Lora Haines, though.

>I don't remember the date of the second.  I do know Deborah Duchene joined
>Nigel in attending.

Listed above in quote from fic contest zine.

> 3.  I gather that some of the actors were scheduled guests.  Can anyone
> remember who, and which year they attended?
>Nigel both years, Deb the second only.

Gillian Horvath was at the second one as well.

>        (a) Was there a writing contest in '94 also?
>I don't think so. It was pretty spur of the moment because of limited
>prep time.

This is correct, too.  No writing contest at the first one.

> 5.  Susan Garrett's website says that Vampire Dance was held on Saturday,
> 3/12/94.  At this, she wrote the story, "An Invitation to the Dance", by
> popular request and with much encouragement.
>        So...there was a dance?  Any more details?  Was this just one year
> or both?

I know this is for the first con, so that's the date for that one, though I'd
remembered (apparently incorrectly) the con being in January.  Maybe that was
because so many other things were Jan/Feb in this fandom.

Anyway, I know there was a dance at the first one, because I actually got
someone to TEACH me to waltz and danced with a guy who wasn't part of the con
and enjoyed it...which...I Don't Dance (copyright "Angel"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DcCYlsFagq_k ).  And I was wearing the black
"False Witness" dress and Val was in her Red Shoes costume
( http://www.wiliqueen.com/photoalbum/redshoes.jpg )modified from her banshee
costume.  I have photos of those, but not scanned in.  All my DOW1 photos are
not electronic, and scanning just isn't possible as things are set up here
currently.

>I only remember that the second year dance coincided with a new ep of FK so
>at first was sparsely attended.

DOW2 also had a LARP (Live Action Role Play) running, and it was a Mulder and
Scully respond to a case and there is a vampire involved and I remember that
Jack was Mulder and Tara was Scully and I was playing Janette and there was a
guy who was Schanke and FUNNY and I got to do a, "MIS-ter Schanke..." comment
and Val had brought an actual body bag which we stuffed with pillows because
our hotel room was The Morgue (and I think Val was Nat) and...I found that the
gaming didn't work for me any better in LARP format than otherwise as the plot
didn't move quickly and I didn't know what to do...so I bailed after the one
plotted bit.

> 6.  There are pictures of Amy wearing costumes made by Valerie Meachum.
> (Amy Who?)  Was there a costume competition?
>Yes. Amy Hull. I can ask her to write you if Valerie, who is still on the
>list here, doesn't see this firt.

I am the one in those photos, and Val had a transforming costume as well, but
I don't have the photos of hers scanned.  I've forwarded this to her, though,
in case SHE does.

Her costumes are here:  http://www.wiliqueen.com/photoalbum/costuming.html

I don't have a lot of other pieces I can think of from the DOW cons that aren't
just silly things like "oh, look, she discovered scotch" about a friend or the
drive there and back that we made.

Amy

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Date:    Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:24:10 -0800
From:    Victor Roscetti <dragonslair_08060@y.......>
Subject: My Vampire hosted Radio show is doing quite well

Hello dear friends of the list,

I haven't posted in such a long time and I remember being given permission over
a year ago (I hope this still applies) and even several times back to 1997. And
since the list is SO quite.....

To update the list ---

Back in 1996 until 2002 my friends and I did FK full-cast audio parodies and
dramas in which I played LaCroix. Even daring to produce Jean Graham's "On Holy
Ground" the FK Novel that was well.... NOT an official FK novel. And I even
performing my LaCroix before Nigel Bennett (also Natsuko Ohama and John Kapelos)
at Balticon in Maryland 1997. He loved it BTW and bowed to me! (BLUSH)

The group disbanded in 2002 and we all went our separate ways across the
country. Well, I started a yahoo group called "LaCroix Poems" (Which is still
going strong) where I updated my group as I posted mp3s of poems, stories and
speeches in a LaCroix-like manner.

In Feb 2010 I began a Blog Talk Radio show called "Whispers in the Dark" (My
tribute to the Nightcrawler and CERK Radio) with my still LaCroix-sounding
"Voice" now re-named "Viktor Aurelius" (A play on my own name) where for two
hours every other week I D.J. my poems & stories and interview guests (usually
the ones who wrote my material). I am found on Facebook (2140+ friends and
fans), twitter, Vampire Groups, several blogs and I appear on several other
internet radio shows as well as the 2000 year old Vampire.

My 2010 Christmas show had 1000 download and episodes since Christmas have been
nearly as big! I portray a 2000 year old Vampire who enjoys reciting Gothic
stories, romantic poetry and on "other" shows even "Inappropriate" lyrics and
adult stories in my voice.

I have been a huge fan of the Nightcrawler and have wanted to have my own
"CERK-like" radio show for over 13 years. "Viktor" (the 2000 year old
Vampire/radio host) is getting popular! I am involved in many projects, CDs,
audio downloads and even a few YouTube videos featuring my voice (with MORE
coming soon)! I have a LaCroix-like quality and the "voice" is not a Nigel
Bennett impersonation but a tribute to the man's FK character. I am described as
having a "creepy Faux-British accent" LOL! (I'm originally from New Jersey BTW)

My new website is :  http://ViktorAurelius.com  - where you can listen to lots
of my mp3s, find links to my radio show guests and friends and links to my new
videos. Most recently "Valentine's End" a VERY Nightcrawler speech about the
"evils" of roses being given has been received WELL! "Into the Night" a 13
minute preface to an upcoming Vampire Novel AND "Floating over the Abyss" both
written by Lasla Moore are getting a LOT of views!

I would love to hear comments from this group. I still (after 14 years) keep in
touch with MANY FK fans, several of whom I still work with! Plus I encounter new
FK fans all the time! So it IS still popular!

Thank you and I will now go back to lurking as I have done for over a decade!

Vic Roscetti aka Viktor Aurelius

Email: Viktor@ViktorAurelius.com
Links: http://viktoraurelius.com/?page_id=24
MP3s: http://viktoraurelius.com/?page_id=18

I hope to hear from you!



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Date:    Sun, 27 Feb 2011 03:03:53 -0500
From:    questinc@a.......
Subject: Interconnected bar/pub framed photos!

But one of the
things we'd arranged for that auction centered around three framed prints from
the three "interconnected" real-life bars/pubs, complete with pictures and
memorabilia.  Each bar was controlled by a faction of course. These are
particularly memorable because my mom framed them for the auction at her store
and shipped them to the hotel for SusanG. The hotel temporarily lost them
in the staff offices. Is there anyone on the list who bought one of those?



I HAVE ONE OF THESE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mine is "The Slaughtered Lamb" and its one of the few things I was able to
get at Dead of Winter Con due to being one of those folks whose LOVE for
FK was far greater than their wallet size for getting FK swag!  It hangs
in my home office along with a print of Nick in his dual identities as
Detective and Vampire!
Ron the Enforcer
LOVING all the "Dead of WinterCon" memories being discussed on THE LIST!!!!

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