Jewel is a Peach

If you happen to come across the calendar view of this blog, you’ll notice that nothing was posted on Sunday. It’s easy to explain. We — me, son Eric and friend Dennis — went to a fanboy convention in Springfield, MA to meet actress Jewel Staite. Actually, Dennis went to meet Monkee Peter Tork, but I don’t think he minded meeting Jewel.

Blame it on my friend Bismo! It’s his fault. He got us into watching DVD’s of the short-lived 2002 TV show Firefly, which is best described as an outer space western. Staite played the character Kaylee, the space ship’s mechanic. It’s like this, see? The ship’s engine has a glowing yellow tail, that’s supposed to make it look like a firefly and the significance of that is, well, uh …. never mind. There is no significance. But anyway, that’s where we were on Sunday.

Next weekend we get to meet Morena Baccarin, another cast member from the show, at yet another geeky fanboy-filled event. Hey, somebody’s gotta do the tough job of showing these struggling actors that their hard work is appreciated!

7 thoughts on “Jewel is a Peach”

  1. Both pictures were lifted from Wikipedia entries. No pictures were allowed of Jewel during autograph signing, because they had formal portraits for $40, with a portion of the proceeds going to charity. We should be getting the picture of Eric with Jewel in another week or two. The shots I got of Jewel on stage during her talk don’t do her justice. Morena I should be able to catch today, if there are no restrictions on pictures.

  2. I think Ms. jeaniebeanie referred to Ms. Staite as lovely:

    love·ly (l?v’l?) pronunciation
    adj., -li·er, -li·est.

    1. Full of love; loving.
    2. Inspiring love or affection.
    3. Having beauty that appeals to the emotions as well as to the eye. See synonyms at beautiful.
    4. Enjoyable; delightful.

    Yet you immediately jump to the secondary part of the third definition!

    Anyway, is that a picture you took?

  3. Jewel Staite is attractive?? I hadn’t noticed.

    But seriously, seeing her in person you realize in about half an eye blink why some people are in movies and TV, and most people are not.

  4. I bought that CD from Peter myself and, of course, had him autograph it. He certainly seems entirely comfortable with himself. For whatever reason, I suspect Davy and Mickey are, perhaps, less so.

  6. Hey, hey! I still have Peter Tork and his bands’ “Shoe Suede Blues” fully autographed pic on my dresser! “To Jean, Love Peter!” plus all the other band members signed (a member of “Davy’s Devotees got it for me at one of his concerts about five years ago). Naturally, I’m sure Eric was more interested in the lovely young Ms. Staite.

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