RhymePhile's Rat Race

I was up too late last night to write about Comic Con here in NY, so now that I'm more awake here's the full report.

( Geek overload )

I'm headed off to bed. The full report of my New York Comic Con experience will come when I'm more coherent, but for now, some shots of Chris Carter and Frank Spotnitz during tonight's panel about X-Files: I Want To Believe. More tomorrow.

This is thanks to curlygirli, who linked me to The Diane Neal Photo Gallery where there are photos of the March 28th shoot. This is the episode which has a major guest star, who is seen among the pictures. Don't click if you don't want to see who it is (although it's already been spoiled across the net).

Along with Teh Meloni, there's also some Belzer! The Belz! Whoo! Ah, so long since I've used my "Melonilicious!" tag.

"There seems to be a feather on my head..."

I get home too late at night during the week to spend time uploading photos, so I have to do it on the weekends. Here are the photos from my birthday weekend last week, where my girlfriend and I went to Rockefeller Plaza in New York City to see the tree. We also went to the Top of the Rock, which is the observation deck at the top of the building.

But before I get to that, I thought I'd show you the Oz-inspired birthday present she gave me, a silver dogtag inscribed with the immortal words of Tobias Beecher on it.



I had a hell of a time taking the photo where it wouldn't reflect right back into the camera.

Now, on to the New York City photos!

( Photos of the tree and Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, and some video! )

And what a lovely vacation it was. If some of you don't remember, a group of us X-Files fans decided to gather in Vancouver to celebrate the show and other fannish things, like the delicious Nick Lea and David Duchovny (whose character, Fox Mulder, was celebrating his 45th birthday the day we fans all first met, October 13, 2006).

We used the Pendrell Suites as our homebase, otherwise known as the place where they filmed Scully's apartment. We were in the suite just above the famous abode.

sionnachair lead the pack, along with aqualegia, 4nicklea, sharonmarais, and candygramme, and two other fans from our YahooGroup (who don't have LJs). I had such a wonderful time meeting all of them and sharing our mutual love of X-Files and Mulder and Krycek.

I posted a few photos way back when, but only recently uploaded a few more (I have a lot; I haven't even uploaded the second memory card yet). To celebrate the anniversary, I thought I'd share some of the photos with everyone.

Um, and you'll have to forgive me if I've forgotten the specific names of places. It's been a while.

( Photos from beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada, image intense, be patient )

I made myself be social again this weekend (surprising, I know) and on Friday visited the American Museum of Natural History here in New York, and on Saturday I went to Coney Island, home to the Cyclone roller coaster, one of the scariest things I've ever ridden in my life.



( More photos behind the cut, dial-uppers have patience )

If you're a Simpsons fan you might have heard about the promotion convenience store 7-11 is having in which 12 stores across the U.S. are transformed into Kwik-E-Marts, the local convenience store on the show.

Well, the 7-11 in New York City was transformed, along with a few food items. Slurpees turned into Squishees. They were selling Krusty-Os, the cereal Bart loves ("Now with jagged metal Krusty-O inside!"), and they even had Buzz Cola ("One sip and you're totally hip").

They were out of Krusty-Os the day I went, dammit, but I got a 6-pack of Buzz, some Simpsons movie Squishee cups, and a limited edition Radioactive Man #711 ("The goggles -- they do nothing!")

Of course, I also snapped some photos for ya.



( Let's hurl a bricky-mart! )

To my U.S. readers, that is.

Last night I visited Ossining, N.Y., home to a nice little town along the Hudson River, and also home to (drum roll) Sing Sing State Prison!!! I didn't get to see Sing Sing, unfortunately, but I did take some nice photos of the harbor and the fireworks we saw.





( A few more photos behind the cut )

Hey all,

I actually wrote this up over the weekend, but LJ wouldn't let me post it. I was too busy in work yesterday, so let's hope it goes through this time.

I finally uploaded some photos from the AIDS Walk (from May 20, see, I did go!). There aren't many, but I got the drag queens! That is always important.

The walk was 6.2 miles around Central Park and into Manhattan, and I'm not ashamed to say that my feet hurt like a bitch when I was done. Anyone remember that photo I posted a few months ago of the toenail on my right foot that had broken while traipsing around Vancouver? You guessed it; it broke again! It's all purple under my cute silver nail polish. Heh.

Anyway, enjoy the few photos. I was concentrating too much on my hurting tootsies to remember to take many shots. I got permission from all these people to take their photos, too.

First, my favorite, and then the rest behind the cut.



( More AIDS Walk photos )

So here it is....the big unveiling of what I look like! Aren't you excited? Scared? Intrigued? Well then, click on the cut!

( Rhyme's portrait, tee hee )

Happy Birthday

Hi ho all. I've been, like, out in the sun! I've crawled out from under my safe, safe rock of an apartment to see life and whatever.

Thus, pitchers! I went to the Orchid show at the Botanical Garden in the Bronx. Yay! Here's a teaser:



The rest (I'm Orchid!Spammy) are behind the cut.

( Purty purty flowers )

I should be in bed right now, but I wanted to share a few quick photos. I have over 600 I need to comb through, along with video I took. Here's a few quick shots.

It's misty up in them thar hills.



( A few more behind the cut. More to come later, probably over the weekend )

Yes, it's Friday. Yes, I know the Season 6 autograph session was Tuesday. No, I'm still not down from my high. Well, maybe a little. But not much. :-)

Everyone has been wonderful with their comments and feedback about the photos. I have to extend a special thank you to new Friend unfamousl, who, in appreciation for my photos, was generous enough to add an extra year to my LJ account. Thanks again! My heartfelt graditude to you, my dear.

In T-shirt news, I'll be investigating getting my design professionally screenprinted. Brian was kind enough to let me know that he would e-mail Teh Meloni about the shirt, which then made me realize that if I'm really going to send him one, it can't, y'know, look like shit. LOL. I'll be looking into costs and what not tomorrow. The more you make the cheaper it is, and since many of you expressed interest in having one (which rocks my socks, btw), I hope to keep it reasonably priced. We'll see how much it might cost and then I will start a list of e-mails for those interested.

Now, the reason for this post. Since I bought a nice new printer last weekend in order to make my fangirly T-shirt to wear to the signing, I figured I would take advantage of its scanning capabilities and show you the autographed Oz box, and four 8 x 10s from the cast, Chris, Lee, Kirk, and Dean.

( Images all behind the cut )

The Oz Season 6 DVD signing, September 5, 2006.

Photos, part 3, the final post.

Oh, I forgot to mention, if people make icons from any of these photos, I would appreciate first dibs if that's okay.

( Go on to Part 3 of the photos, and now you can comment )

The Oz Season 6 DVD signing, September 5, 2006.

Photos, part 2

( Go on to Part 2 of the photos )

Here we go, mah peeps. Finally! My photo collection from last night's Oz Season 6 DVD signing. It only took me two and a half hours to fix up all these photos. Gah. See how much I love you people? ;-)

To my surprise, I discovered that there were many photos (73 to be exact) I could recover through the use of Photoshop. God bless the Levels, Hue/Saturation, Sharpen, and Red Eye Reducer tools. Huzzah. You'll notice on many of these that I sharpened them within an inch of their life, simply because the photo itself was sucky. In some cases even the most extreme amounts of sharpening didn't really help, but since you won't find a larger collection of these photos anywhere else, I figured I'd even include the bad ones.

See, once the press left, one freelance photog was still there, along with me. She was using a flash to get some good shots of Chris and Lee from time to time when there was a lull in the fans. I, however, out of respect for their poor eyes and the fact that they had already been bombarded with a billion flash bulbs, had my flash off until the very end. Obviously the shots with the flash came out the best (and will be found in the third post). But I have no regrets. No one wants to be dowsed in electric light for two hours, y'know? And I love my Boys.

This post is Part 1. I'm going to break this up into three posts, because since I spent so much time on them, I decided to post every photo to my LJ.

I've also decided not to Friends-lock these photos.

Why? Because I believe and trust those in this fandom. I've met some wonderful people in the time since I've become an Oz fan, and I want to share my good fortune and unbelievable experiences I had last night with everyone.

If you're visiting here via an offsite link, please feel free to comment anonymously. I'm cool with that.

My sweet disposition does not mean, however, that you can use any of these photos without credit. I'm a simple gal; if you use any of these photos for icons, headers, wallpapers you share, or anywhere else on the net, just credit RhymePhile. See? Easy. It took me over an hour of fighting people's asses, elbows, backs, and a somewhat surly security guard to get these photos. Please be considerate. Feel free to link here also, but give credit as well.

callmerizzo and fanfromfla, I have different credit requests for Lee's websites, which I'll discuss with you guys offline, assuming you want any of these shots. If you do, please e-mail me; my contact info is in my user info (it will also make it easier on me off LJ, since I have so many people to respond to lately).

Okay, I'm shutting up now. I will turn on comments for the third post, because if I have to follow comments over three posts I'm going to drop dead.

( Finally, Rhyme, shut up and post the damn photos already! Image-heavy, my darlings... )

Please forgive any use of ALL CAPS....and no lj-cuts. I AM TOO EXCITED.

First, I need to thank my girl badtyler for updating everyone tonight over at tietuckluv. I had a great time on the phone with you, girl ("shaddap!" LOL). Thanks so much.

This has got to be one of THE BEST experiences of my entire life. I'm not just saying that because I'm a fangirl, either. Good LORD I am still floating.

Tomorrow I will have a moment by moment account of the entire night. But three fantastically amazing things occurred:
1. Tom Fontana cracked his ass up over my T-shirt.
2. In doing so, he pointed my shirt out to Chris. I turned, and this is what he looked like. THIS UNBELIEVABLY WONDERFUL photo comes from desdomonda, who was there with me. lv11baby was with me too, but like I said, more on that tomorrow.



GOD, my night could not have gone better, but then he said HE WANTED ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AIIIEEEEEEEEE!!! He loved it so much he wants a shirt. I'm dying.

Then, of course, as badtyler reported over at tietuckluv,

3. LEE KISSED ME!!!!

AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. I will give a full report tomorrow, but I didn't ask for the kiss, and I have to tell you it was simply an amazing experience because he looked me right in the eye like...I dunno, like he knew me, or we were long-lost friends, or something. Seriously, the look on his face...GUH.

I am exhausted, and I've been up for over 18 hours now, but I NEED TO SHARE THESE TWO PHOTOS WITH MY FLIST.

I took over a hundred photos, some of which came out, some of which didn't. There were a lot of fans' elbows, backs, and asses in the way. The cast was moving and smiling and signing things, and people were passing, and many of the shots came out as blurs. I need to sit down and go through them one by one, tweak what I can in Photoshop, and then share them with you tomorrow after work. I have some GREAT shots of Lee in particular, where he was clowning for my camera. I also got a shot of Chris and Lee hugging when Lee first came in that came out great.

HOWEVER...

I decided to share THE BEST TWO OF THE NIGHT, OMG. Like, OH MY GOD. OHHH MMYYYY GGGOOODDDDD.

There are a few others, but none as nice as this. And the amazing thing? These were THE LAST TWO SHOTS BEFORE THE SECURITY DUDE SAID I NEEDED TO STOP TAKING PHOTOS.

Peeps, I ain't LJ-cuttin' these. THESE NEED TO BE SHARED...look at the beauty that is these two men!





GUH KIDS.

Just...

Unbelievable.

More tomorrow, I promise.