rstevens ([info]rstevens) wrote,
@ 2008-07-28 09:17:00
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Captain, my Captain (if only the bald dude retired)
Not much time before we check out of the hotel, but I need to tell you this, LiveGerbil: Comicon this year had some heavy magic.

Aside from it being a generally good year and full of happy people trying to escape the weird economy, we stumbled completely randomly on this:



Jonathan Frakes, Star Trek's Commander Riker in a gilded hotel bar spontaneously breaking into show tunes. Avery Brooks of DS9 did some smooth-ass piano wrangling, but I need to edit that footage. They were both incredibly pleasant fellows who commanded the entire room like it was nothing. At one point, it was so quiet you could hear breathing.

Don't ask how this happened, don't ask where it was. It simply was.



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[info]rstevens
2008-07-28 04:27 pm UTC (link)
I seriously would pay good money to see him again in Vegas or something. This video doesn't do J.F.'s amiable presence justice.

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[info]aeire
2008-07-28 04:35 pm UTC (link)
Fuckin a man, I kinda wish I hadn't ducked out and gone home early after looking at the Marriot but my feet were so, so fucked that there was no way I was walking anywhere but to my bed and collapsing in it. Heh.

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-31 12:26 am UTC (link)
"Fuckin a man"? Quite possibly the most hilarious argument for grammar-at-all-times I've seen since Eats, Shoots & Leaves.

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[info]aeire
2008-07-31 12:57 am UTC (link)
Shh. I was still exhausted from babbling at however many thousand people were at the convention when I made that comment!

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[info]wilwheaton.myopenid.com
2008-07-28 11:28 pm UTC (link)
Suddenly, leaving SDCC a day early isn't the great thing I thought it was.

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[info]rstevens
2008-07-29 05:47 pm UTC (link)
dang, if you'd been there they might have done a full opera! tycho was so mesmerized, it was amazing.

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[info]rstevens
2008-07-28 04:31 pm UTC (link)
And before anyone asks, Tycho, Phillip from Goats, Randy Milholland and more of the nerds of webcomics do indeed appear in frame. We were mesmerized.

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[info]bikerwalla
2008-07-28 04:46 pm UTC (link)
Was a pleasure to see you again... Scary that I got recognized at the Dumbrella booth from the youtubes!

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[info]quirkybird
2008-07-28 05:12 pm UTC (link)
Sounds like a golden year!

While I was busy puking in Portland. Ahhh well, my day will come.

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[info]quirkybird
2008-07-28 06:57 pm UTC (link)
Also can I note that it gives me ACTUAL PHYSICAL PAIN not to have seen this in person.

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[info]wraith_six
2008-07-30 03:29 am UTC (link)
you and me both

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[info]gunslingerborn
2008-07-28 06:54 pm UTC (link)
I think watching this made my life that much more with living.

I'm just pissed I missed it.

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[info]oberstein
2008-07-28 07:28 pm UTC (link)
That's just magical.

Next year, you should get carne asada fries.

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[info]aerospace
2008-07-28 09:37 pm UTC (link)
Oh no.... Fat Riker looks like my uncle. And I've mentioned once before on your lj that my dad looks like Picard. NO WONDER TNG IS LIKE MY SECOND FAMILY!!

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[info]kurometarikku
2008-07-28 09:53 pm UTC (link)
I saw Avery Brooks play Caliban in the Tempest when Stratford still had a Shakespeare theatre.

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-29 07:22 pm UTC (link)
Do you mean stratford on avon? It still does have a shakespeare theatre and has since the 30s. Buh? In fact Patrick Stewart and David Tenant are about to appear in Hamlet. Sci-fi fans delight.

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[info]music_slut
2008-07-28 10:32 pm UTC (link)
Oh man! I am totally sad to have missed out on this! I can only blame myself.

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[info]bouncehoper
2008-07-29 12:00 am UTC (link)
holy crap on a stick, he's got a good voice. but damn has he gotten old. i guess it's been awhile, duh.
and, shit! is that THE will wheaton posting on your blog???? wow, d00d, you've really made it.

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[info]surferelf
2008-07-29 12:40 am UTC (link)
Dude, it's a standard, not a show tune. The fact that it was appropriated by a show several decades later is not it's fault.

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[info]zarathud
2008-07-29 02:52 am UTC (link)
Now we have to try and get George Takei drunk enough at DragonCon to break into some country-western songs ;)

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-29 05:47 am UTC (link)
This.

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[info]troutman
2008-07-29 02:59 am UTC (link)
When me, Josh, and Randy stumbled into that bar, I was halfway convinced I'd actually just gone to bed early and was dreaming about Star Trek karaoke. I still wasn't sure it actually happened until the next morning when others confirmed seeing the same thing.

It's the single most bizarre situation I've ever walked into. I can't imagine it being topped any time soon. Ryan Smith actually has some more video of it - one of Sisko singing with Straub and Kurtz, another of Sisko molesting the top hat he became so enamored with. They're both at http://dalvatron.livejournal.com/82549.html?style=mine.

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[info]firmament
2008-07-29 05:09 am UTC (link)
Wow. Just... wow.

I heard that the Dumbrella panel was amazing, and that video was taken?

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(Anonymous)
2008-07-29 05:46 am UTC (link)
Nice timing Rich! Frakes can really belt 'em out. I can't wait to see Tycho's reaction over at Penny Arcade.

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[info]rstevens
2008-07-29 05:49 pm UTC (link)
i do not know if it was amazing, but i think someone taped it!

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[info]firmament
2008-07-29 10:45 pm UTC (link)
Might that video make it to YouTube? Or at least the Front's impromptu performance?

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[info]only1miouo
2008-08-01 05:56 am UTC (link)
that. was. AWESOME!!!!

oh hi! I am random new fan of diesel sweeties because of [info]happinesstogo posting about meeting you at the con (including a pic). please do be pardoning me but I had to comment on this! :-)

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[info]rstevens
2008-08-04 01:08 am UTC (link)
I couldn't resist recording and posting it- how could you be blamed for being unable to resist loving it? Rock!

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