When academics go to Hollywood!
Happy Thanksgiving from Fangasm! To kick off your holiday celebrating, be sure to catch Gabriel Tigerman and Danneel Ackles in the original movie, Naughty or Nice, airing this Saturday, November 24th on the Hallmark Channel. The special is directed by another member of the SPN extended family, David Mackay, who also brought us Ten Inch Hero. (And Jensen in a kilt and eye makeup, lest you’ve forgotten. Wait, who would forget something like that??)
Lynn happened to be in New York City today anyway, so how could she pass up the chance to stop by the CW Upfronts and (hopefully) catch a glimpse of Jared and Jensen.
We wanted to offer our belated but no less heart-felt congratulations to the Brian Buckley Band for their House of Blues competition win. You’ll be able to check them out in Los Angeles on July 12th. Full details at the House of Blues. And thanks to all the wonderful fans who made it happen!!
Coming soon – an interview with Matt Cohen on fans, charity work and his new film Fluid.
Jared Padalecki’s friends, the very talented Brian Buckley Band, were picked to play the House of Blues in LA for New Music Night, and are also in the running for playing a HOB tour in Vegas and San Diego. They would be very grateful for any support the Supernatural fandom can give (we have a reputation for being the best at online voting, after all….)
Click here to vote: http://www.newmusicnights.sonicbids.com – voting ends June 8th, and you get a discount for the LA House of Blues show when you vote. FYI, the BBB’s cd release party will be on Thursday, June 23, at the Viper Room in LA, so mark your calendars for that too. Come on out and support!
(And stay tuned for some big news about Jared on Twitter from Fangasm as well….)
See y’all in Nashville!
So we’re up to our eyebrows in work these days. Work with our students, work on the various and sundry departmental and university committees that we’re required to participate in and of course work on the book – make that books – and let’s toss in an article or two while we’re at it.
When I first went to school, I had the standard image of university professors in their ivory towers (or ivied towers, or ivied ivory towers) wearing tweed, smoking pipes, spending their days thinking deep thoughts, trading witty quips with other deep thinkers. As luck would have it, my very first English professor (and as it turns out the very first professor I met as an undergraduate) was exactly that tweed wearing, pipe smoking man. Or so I assumed. He certainly came dressed for the occasion and I took the rest as a given, filling in the blanks with available stereotypes garnered from a childhood and adolescence of excessive movie viewing.
I also took as a given that this man had unlimited amounts of *time*. After all, he only taught three classes and that was only three days a week. What could be cushier, I wondered, than the life of a university professor?
I made reference in our last post to the list of Do’s and Don’ts that was making the rounds at the latest Supernatural Convention in Chicago. Posted in very public places – elevators and bathrooms – it was designed to make sure everyone took note.
