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" Quotage of the day"
Salesman: "Here you go, little lady.
The perfect souvenir for the occasion..."
Xena: "I'm NOT a little lady!"
(in The Execution)
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16 August 2009 Finally!!! Finally uploaded all 2009 con pics and videos. Check them out in our Photos link. There are a few videos from the Cabaret and from Lucy's shows at The Roxy. The cabaret ones show how amazingly multi-talented the guest stars are! And as for Lucy's... that requires no comments!
June updates explain the reason for the delay in uploading the pics and videos...
08 July 2009 A special update to help a fellow Xenite.
A friend and fellow
Kindred Spirit Marjanka in the Netherlands is ill and needs to sell off her
collection. She is very sick,
has spent a lot of
time in the hospital and
is afraid
that if she gets
sick again her family would probably discard her collection.
She does not want
that to happen,
she would like the items to go
to a new Xena home,
so she must sell.
She
does have a lot of pictures among other items,
all of them great
to have as collectibles,
so maybe there will be something you would like. Marjanka lives in the
Netherlands,
but writes perfect English.
All
you have to do to is to
access her photo album
and
type in the password she has submitted below.
She
also has a PayPal account.
Contact me on marjankaoudshoorn@hotmail.com or kmoudshoorn@home.nl , if you see anything you like.
Click on the link
below
or copy
it
and paste
it into your web browser address:
Use information below to
access the
album.
21 June 2009 "Funny thing about destiny. You can't ignore it... Can't rely on it." (Gabrielle, in Past Imperfect) No too good news lately... the IT guy said the chances of recovering the files are pretty slim. So, I'll have to start from the beginning with the 2009 Con links for photos and videos (extracts from the Cabaret and Lucy's shows). It's going to take some time... But I'll leave a couple of treats here today - namely, two of the 2009 Con music video winners - ours and our friend Joolz's. Ours is on You Tube (see the link on the 12 June update below), but I'm putting them here for those of you who would like to download them to your computer - both have a little more than 20MB. If you like them, please put a link to the CXGang Music Videos Page. Do not post them anywhere, ok?
12 June 2009 Again it's taking me ages to update the con photos and all that... But this time it's not entirely my fault: my poor laptop died as I was getting ready to upload the new con links and pics - and of course I hadn't done any backup yet... ok, that's a HUGE fault, I know! So, as I "patiently" wait for the verdict on the HD (it's being tested by some IT company trying to save the files in it, especially the website ones), here's a treat for you. We - the Canberra Xena Gang - were, once again, winners at the music video contest. Only this time the con was so packed with events that there was no time for Creation to screen it. A pity, coz we'd really like to have seen it on the big screen! It will soon be here so that you can upload it, if you wish to keep it, but for the moment, enjoy it on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFLAr_28bag Be back soon with more news and treats! I hope...
28 January 2009
“Gettin' ready! Ready to-- (townsfolk in "Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire" )
It's Thursday and we are already here in LA, getting ready for the convention marathon! Today most of our friends are coming in and we're anxiously expecting them!
The new convention hotel is very nice and bigger than the one in Burbank. But we think they (hotel staff) don't have the least idea what they've gotten themselves into. We are a boisterous crowd!
Lucy's shows will be - as always - a bonus to the convention regular schedule. But this year she's preparing something special, or so we've heard (and have been seeing on the little snippets Sharon's been feeding us these last few days). Gotta go and check it out!
And as another added bonus, Creation will be screening the short-movie "Lightswitch" (read about it on the update below)!
We'll get back here as soon as we have some pics and con news!
January 2009
Xena : “Gabrielle, I want you to understand something. We both have families we were born into. But sometimes families change, and
we have to build our own. For me, our friendship binds us closer
than blood ever could.”
Gabby : “For me, too.”
(in Ties that Bind)
As you can see, there have been no updates since April 2008. For that, I apologize. 2008 was a very busy year, to say the least. And I'm not only talking about the Xenaverse here, which was indeed full. First the two cons – LA in January and London in May. The LA con was the object of the 20th February 2008 update, which can be found down this list. All photos have been uploaded. London was a very special convention to me, but since I was not able to do an update and comment about it at the time, I've added the comments together with the pics now. 2008 was also a very busy year for Lucy, Renee, Rob and other Xenaverse icons. But you can read all about that and check all the news on Ausxip, the mega-site for "all things Xena", as you well know. Talkin' about Real Life now... 2008 was a year of changes. In the very beginning, it saw our Nat (aka Warrior_Reborn) move to Sydney. We were lucky that she could come to visit now and then. But 2008 was also my fifth year in Australia, so the dreaded time to be posted to another country knocked at my door. As much as I love Canberra, and Australia in general, my job required me elsewhere, so in August 2008 - after two crazy months dealing with all that a move between countries entails - I was transferred to Bangkok, Thailand, and now I’m working at the Brazilian Embassy in that city. In no way it will mean the end of the Gang. It just means that the CXGang is now, more than ever, international. We are still in frequent contact with each other, we’ll meet again in LA for the 2009 Official Xena Convention, we’ll visit one another whenever possible. Check the pics of the meetup/sleepover we had one day prior to my departure from Canberra – wonderful hours spent together and a very emotional farewell. 2008 was also a year of new enterprises. Our very talented Penny (Amazon Penny) and Nat (Warrior_ Reborn), in association with other remarkably endowed friends/people, will be bringing to us the short-movie “Lightswitch”, which will be screened for the first time in Los Angeles, at the Normandie Room. Check their “Down Dere Films” Lightswitchthemovie website for more details. It is truly amazing to think that they will be the ones filling the fans’ hearts with emotions and fantasy now.
14th April 2008 Photos of Lucy at the Roxy online now. Enjoy!!
9th April 2008 Photos of Lucy and Renee have been uploaded. There are some very good ones, but I particularly love the last one of Renee and Lucy together. Look at the loving expression on Renee's face. It's so fraking cute. The Roxy ones and those from the other guests will be coming soon (hopefully before the London con).
8th March 2008 This update will be presented to you by our own Amazon Penny. Enjoy!
Last weekend we celebrated Leila's birthday with a special guest from XOC (Xena Online Community), Snikz (aka Nikki). We had a great time watching our fave music vids, the latest Coffee-Talk, and munched on a good ol' Aussie BBQ, Birthday cake & chocolate fondue. As you can see from the photos, we were joined by Lucy and Renee and I got a little excited. We also had fun drawing on Natalie's cast, inking it forever with Xena's chakram and Gabrielle staff & sais. After 8 and a half hours of Xena goodness (and it only felt like 5 mins!!!), we said our goodbyes, and gave our goodbye hugs, and parted ways. Nikki went back to Sydney (we miss her already), Natalie moved to Sydney (it feels strange meeting up without her), and we find ourselves once again at Leila's, waiting for the SLOWEST pizza delivery guy to come and deliver yummy foods to keep us satisfied while we watch Xena! So now I will leave you to peruse our latest photos, while we watch season 4, as it's been a while since any of us have seen Gabrielle in yellow... Love, Amazon Penny (you can already hear us calling "GABRIELLE!!! What are you doing with your staff???")
24th February 2008 First meetup after the con. See above.
20th February 2008 I know, I know... I've been taking ages to update the site and post our wonderful pics from the 2008 con. But I'll get to it... I promise ! As always, the Convention was a grand opening to the year! We have blasted into 2008 with an amazing get-together of excited friends, flabbergasted new guests and beloved old-timers. Creation managed to bring two new guests actors, directly from New Zealand, as well as some of the old ones loved by the fans. I will go into more detail about each of them as I post the pics. As always, one of the highlights was the reunion of old friends and the meeting with new ones; getting to know people you've been chatting on the groups and putting faces to names is always a wonderful experience. The Xenaverse, I can't seem to stop repeating myself, is a huge, awesome family, which keeps on growing, with the addition of new fans each year. It helps, of course, that it has as its centre two fabulous, caring, down-to-earth human beings, who keep inspiring us to be better people and make a difference in this world... This is something that has to be passed onto the new generation of fans coming into this amazing universe... This year, while Lucy and Renee were on stage, we were proudly informed by our good friend Lara, from our sister group, the London Xena Meetup Group, that from the year the show started airing until today the Xenaverse has contributed around 12.2 million dollars to charity causes - add now U$ 25 thousand after the con. Aren't we the coolest fans in the world? But I digress. Back to the con, I've uploaded a few pics of friends and fans, while the ones from the guests are being re-touched (for red eyes and stuff, you know...). I've also uploaded a wonderful montage made by Joolz, so that you can have a glimpse of some of our Roxy pics. The montage can be found at the "home" link and at the "photos" link. From there, click on the "2008 convention" for the fans' pics.
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