Still here! :)

It's been *so* long since I've written! Yikes. Lest you guys think things are on hold for awhile, figured I'd post an update. :) I've gotten some really exciting bears recently, so, without further ado... here we go! First, how psyched am I to have gotten TR Knight to sign a bear?? We randomly ran into him at karaoke a few Fridays ago and he could not have been nicer or more gracious! You guys know how loyal I am to people who are cool when they meet the crazy bear lady and, well, TR's got a fan for life. He was very sweet... and insisted that he wouldn't take the picture if I wasn't in it, too. I almost thought I'd managed to sidle out of it after taking one with me and without the bear, but, he pulled me back in. It cracks me up that he even inadvertently held the bear in such a way that I can't really crop myself for the little square photo on my website without it looking really funny.

Another rock star in Project Teddy Bear history... Battlestar Galatica's Aaron Douglas... who helped get most of the cast to participate! This year, my friend Eileen (who I met through the New York Browncoats) is walking and I've sucked her into the PTB effort. She helped me get some bears signed at the Stargate Con last November and she knows a woman who knows Aaron Douglas and, voila! I sent out a package and just a few weeks later, I had the signatures and pictures in my hot little hands. OH! They all signed a pink boxing glove, too!!

Another one of my amazing bear-getters, Patty, came to town not too long ago and was going to see The Apple Tree with her sister. Her niece is working there and Patty invited me to meet up with them after to go backstage and meet Kristin Chenoweth. Of course, I jumped at the chance. :) She was incredibly nice (just like she was when she signed at Wicked) and I love how this picture came out.

Last, but, certainly not least, Chris and Joe and I went to go see Judith Owen and Harry Shearer at Joe's Pub. It was a *great* show... one of those things at one of those places you can only see in New York City. Lots of people will know Shearer as the guy who does a whole slew of voices on The Simpsons--including Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, and Reverend Timothy Lovejoy. In a funny coincidence, he also does Waylon Smithers... who was apparently named "Waylon" after Wayland Flowers who created Madame who Joe is now "handling." I really didn't know anything about Judith Owen, but, was blown away by her voice... she was amazing. I actually talked to her for a little while after the show when I asked her about getting them both to sign a bear. I was bummed I couldn't make it to her other local show that week, but, will *definitely* be keeping my eyes open for when she comes back.

Comments

[Michelle]

Hi Lisa, I'm glad I could help out by getting you in contact with Aaron so you could get the bears and boxing glove signed by the BSG cast. Please let me know when you're going to auction them off and I'll help promote it.