Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
austin_browncoats group:

When did you start watching Firefly?

   o When it first aired on tv...
   o When I heard how good it was from my friends...
   o When I heard it was cancelled...
   o The DVDs were shoved into my hands by some gorram maniac
   o Hey, I thought this was an entomology poll...


To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/austin_browncoats/surveys?id=1160902

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
web site listed above.

Thanks!

Enter your vote today!  A new poll has been created for the
austin_browncoats group:

In a perfect world, what would be the future of Firefly?

   o They should keep making movies... Star Trek is so over!
   o They should move to the SciFi Channel... heck, SciFiUK is already running
episodes!
   o They should go back to FOX... after the execs have cried and prostrated
themselves before Joss, o'course
   o Dude... a dude ranch!  With, like, a Haunted Reaver ride...
   o Whatever Joss wants...


To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/austin_browncoats/surveys?id=1160910

Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are
not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups
web site listed above.

Thanks!

I'd like to give a laid-back howdy to everybody and welcome to your
Heart of Texas Browncoats Central.  Mind your feet, now... I just
swept out the ramp.  Everyone settled down?  Good!  Now here's the
job:  We all love the show.  We're all excited about Serenity, none
too excited about missing the sneak preview, and rarin' to blow off a
little steam, dong-ma?  I reckon we should all have a place to do it,
a place that we can call home.  I've done a small amount of
decorating, but I'd much rather people put their own pictures on the
wall... makes it much more homelike.  We're all one big family,
really.  Let's get to know one another, and maybe we can do a little
grassroots work for Serenity along the way ;>

Andrea :)  Spanking new group, so as you come in, introduce yourself!

I'm 28, been living in Austin for 11 years as an on-and-off UT psych
undergrad.  Currently working at Half-Price Books (if you can call it
working) and heading out the door to the Gateway Tailgate party for
hot dogs and commiseration...

Howdy, everyone. It's Austin, so I figured that was the perfect
greeting. Anyhow, I'm Rey, a 31-year old Browncoat. I've been living
in Austin for about a year and a half...

But really, all that's secondary to the Advance Screening which my
wife, son and I were fortunate enough to attend. In case anyone's
curious, she bought them at 10 minutes to 7 in the morning.

I've posted some non-spoilerish thoughts and pictures from the event
at my livejournal. Feel free to have a read.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/reytheist/102857.html

Keep flying,
Rey

What a good idea this group is! I'm looking forward to getting to know all
you Austinites.

I'm Erin, native of Austin although now I live and work in New Braunfels.
*waves to Rey* Hi, Rey!

See, Rey and his wife made sure that I got a ticket to the Serenity
screening last night. Yeah, that was us in the blue gloves. *hides*

Anyway . . . time for me to go back to work. Talk to y'all soon, I hope!

EMA :-)

Hey, all - I'm Sam - I've been hosting Buffy the Vampire Slayer
showings in the backyard of SpiderHouse for the last two years...
Finally wrapping up the Top Twenty Buffy Episodes at the end of May,
then I'll be showing Firefly episodes starting in June. I've been
working for the guys who own SpiderHouse for about a decade now. My
husband and I are HUGE fans of Firefly and have probably introduced
about 50 people to it on DVD - all with great results! Can't wait to
see the film in September!

Well, hallo all!

My name is Tara Wheeler, I'm 36, married to the wonderful David Wheeler
of Dragon's Lair fame and I'm the one who provided the truck for last
night's tailgaiting party.

My husband and I also brought tube protein (hot dogs) and a grill on
which to cook it, but alas, was denied the right to light up.  :(

So we ate Andrea's chips and cookies instead.  :)  Thanks Andrea!

We also brought our good friend and sometimes adopted #1 son, Rich
Simental and a huge sign which read  'will trade Jayne hats for
tickets'.

At just about the last possible minute, two very nice gentlemen came up
to Andrea, Rich and I (David was attempting to obtain tickets by
smoozing in another area) and offered us two tickets.  Andrea, *turned
them down* and pointed them at me.

I am shocked and awed still today.  Girlfriend, I owe you bigtime.  I
know it's something of a booby prize today, but would you like a Jayne
hat?

Anyhoo, I ended up trading tickets for Jayne hats and got to see the
film, which I will not talk about here, unless prodded with very large
weapons, other than to say, when you go to see Serenity, bring another
set of socks, 'cause Joss is going to blow the first set off.

And I probably shouldn't say this, but Nathan and Ron showed up to the
screening. . .

Tara Wheeler

> Can you give me info on the Buffy screenings?  I went to the Spider
House
> website and there was no info.  I'd love to come sometime.
>
>
>
> Becky (bowlwoman)


FYI for everyone, our calendar has info for the Spiderhouse Buffy
Nite... although I'm not sure if the date is right for the start of
Firefly

If you've got anything going on and would like a Browncoat showing
(birthday party at Chucky Cheese, real-time Train Job re-enactment,
etc), just mosey over to the Calendar and post :)

Andrea

--- In austin_browncoats@yahoogroups.com, "Andrea"
<lion_silhouette@y...> wrote:
> > Can you give me info on the Buffy screenings?  I went to the
Spider
> House
> > website and there was no info.  I'd love to come sometime.
> >
> >
> >
> > Becky (bowlwoman)
>
>
> FYI for everyone, our calendar has info for the Spiderhouse Buffy
> Nite... although I'm not sure if the date is right for the start of
> Firefly
>
> If you've got anything going on and would like a Browncoat showing
> (birthday party at Chucky Cheese, real-time Train Job re-enactment,
> etc), just mosey over to the Calendar and post :)
>
> Andrea

Actually, Firefly starts on the first Tuesday in June... barring
rainouts between now and then, lol!

Congratulations on starting a new group!! Did you guys know that there is
already a Austin
Serenity/SF group here in Austin. Yes!!!  Here's a link:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/
austinsf/  We're having a monthly meetup at Tres Amigos at the intersection of
183 and
290 in NE Austin. Please send email about perhaps combining forces. Our Cap'n
will be
reading all the emails shortly. Again, congrats, and hope to see all of y'all
soon.

J.R.

P.S.: Were any of you guys at the screening? What an awesome night!

OK, I've tweaked the calendar to (hopefully) reflect the correct
SpiderHouse dates.  I'm really looking forward to watching the series
with a large group of fans... I know it's made Buffy a lot of fun!

Where do you think Universal is going to go with this, marketing wise?
  After the instant sell-out of the sneak previews, do you think that
there will be a StarWars-like media blitz?  Commercials playing up the
special effects, or the character romances?  Or will they continue in
their current path of "Whatever Joss thinks"?  I'm keeping my fingers
crossed, because if I see one more Wookie ring tone commercial I'm
going to lose it!


I'm also thinking about having some bumperstickers made for the Austin
Browncoats... there's a sign place down the street that does custom
work.  Any ideas or suggestions?  I would really like to just have the
"Serenity" medallion, but I don't know about copyright infringement,
and the last thing we need is Universal lawyers taking down license
plate numbers.  Maybe just the line  FIND SERENITY, with Austin
Browncoats in smaller script underneath... anyone else who is
interested or has an idea, please post!  I'll go down to the shop this
week and get some price info :)

Greetings!  SO here is my interoduction:

My name is Velma and I live here in Austin.  My husband and I both
have loved the Firefly series.  We were blessed to get tickets to the
screening (and it TOTALLY ROCKED!!!)  In fact we sat right behind Mr.
blue hands!!!

Anywho! hopefully I'll get to meet some of you at the showings at
Spiderhouse (Great idea!!!)

So have a great week!!!

Velma =)

test..i've gotten almost 100 copies of Rey's post in my email, and I'm
trying to find out the glitch.  Please ignore.

I'm terrible at these things and something of a
lurker, but here goes.

My name is Angela Philley, and I've been a fan of
Firefly since the beginning.  I liked "The train job"
and got sucked in right away.  I even liked it when I
was confused over the cast meeting each other when
last week they had known each other.  Some of the
people that I introduced to Firefly enabled my husband
to buy a ticket to the screening for Mother's Day
(Thank you, thank you, Tony & Sandra, and of course DH
- Bear).  It was a lot of fun.

I think the idea of a bumper sticker is a great one.
I like "Find Serenity".

Angela

-



Yahoo! Mail
Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour:
http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html

I was worried for a moment it may have been on my end. But there's
only one copy of my message at the groups.yahoo.com archive.

Rey

https://www.fandango.com/TicketBoxOffice.aspx?row_count=478518034&mid=91150&tid=\
AAEBG

Austin tickets online!

Or here, if Jules' link is wonky (not that I think it is, but just in
case).

http://www.fandango.com//MoviePage.aspx?mid=91150&location=Austin, TX

Angela wrote:
>> On another list (Austin_browncoats), they posted that
>>  there will be more Serenity screenings.  Joss posted a
>>  message to that effect yesterday on the Browncoats
>>  site.  Info about where and when is supposed to be on
>>  "cantstopthesignal.com" sometime today.  There will be
>>  20 screenings in 20 cities this time, and Austin is
>>  supposed to be one again.

Becky Zmarzly wrote:
> Austin just went live:
>
https://www.fandango.com/TicketBoxOffice.aspx?row_count=478518034&mid=91150&tid=\
AAEBG

I'm trusting you guys that this is for real, just clicked 'puchase'
for tickets to an unnamed advance screening...  ;-)

-RAnthony
--
"Mrmee, Mrmee, Mrmee"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1887424350/

OK, last email from me. The other two links are working better than
the one I posted, as Fandango is no longer pointing to it from there.
So use their's while you can.

Sorry about the emails. Have a great day and best of luck to you all.

Keep flying,
Rey "Mr. Blue Hands" H.

ITS NOT WORKING!

none of the links that i have clicked on have worked.
how did u do a search for the movie? cause i keep
going to fandango and getting zilch.

-M-


--- Anthony Steele <ranthonysteele@...> wrote:
> Angela wrote:
> >> On another list (Austin_browncoats), they posted
> that
> >>  there will be more Serenity screenings.  Joss
> posted a
> >>  message to that effect yesterday on the
> Browncoats
> >>  site.  Info about where and when is supposed to
> be on
> >>  "cantstopthesignal.com" sometime today.  There
> will be
> >>  20 screenings in 20 cities this time, and Austin
> is
> >>  supposed to be one again.
>
> Becky Zmarzly wrote:
> > Austin just went live:
> >
>
https://www.fandango.com/TicketBoxOffice.aspx?row_count=478518034&mid=91150&tid=\
AAEBG
>
> I'm trusting you guys that this is for real, just
> clicked 'puchase'
> for tickets to an unnamed advance screening...  ;-)
>
> -RAnthony
> --
> "Mrmee, Mrmee, Mrmee"
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1887424350/
>



__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search.
http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250

My friend was almost through the process and got an internal error on
the site.  Then the listing disappeared.  She tried to call the
theater, but it's been busy since then.  I just called the theater,
and the guy said he thought things were working fine. I called and
told him it was gone, and people were screaming for tickets, and he
might want to let Fandango know the site's got issues.

I don't know if the theater is doing will call or not through their
box office.  It's worth a shot, though.

meg fischer wrote:
>  ITS NOT WORKING!
>
>  none of the links that i have clicked on have worked.
>  how did u do a search for the movie? cause i keep
>  going to fandango and getting zilch.

I don't know what to tell you if it's not working.  I don't know how
they found the original link, and I don't even know if it's the
_right_ link. http://www.cantstopthesignal.com hasn't been updated
yet.  Good luck to all of you.

-RAnthony
--
"Mrmee, Mrmee, Mrmee"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1887424350/

--- In austin_browncoats@yahoogroups.com, reytheist@a... wrote:
> I was worried for a moment it may have been on my end. But there's
> only one copy of my message at the groups.yahoo.com archive.
>
> Rey

Sorry to alarm you, Rey.  It's all on my end..I've called sbcglobal
tech support twice already..first they told me it was a virus on my
computer, it's not, and then they said I had to report it through
their web feedback page.  The count's up to about 200 now.  HEE
HEE..at least I know there are more screenings beyond a shadow of a doubt!

What's funny is there were only 2 messages that posted to my webmail
access, but they keep coming up in my Outlook.  I wonder if it's a
problem with Outlook instead of the email server.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know it's absolutely nothing to do with
you.  :)

Becky

one of the other browncoats (bowlwoman is my SAVIOR)
told me where to get dallas tickets at
movietickets.com... so i got tickets for that
screening cause i live in fort worth (i just like
austin browncoats.. i drove down to see the screening
there. i was the one in the big damn fan shirt) so
yeah.. I GOT TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY!! so shiny..... so very much so.

-meg-





--- Anthony Steele <ranthonysteele@...> wrote:
> meg fischer wrote:
> >  ITS NOT WORKING!
> >
> >  none of the links that i have clicked on have
> worked.
> >  how did u do a search for the movie? cause i keep
> >  going to fandango and getting zilch.
>
> I don't know what to tell you if it's not working.
> I don't know how
> they found the original link, and I don't even know
> if it's the
> _right_ link. http://www.cantstopthesignal.com
> hasn't been updated
> yet.  Good luck to all of you.
>
> -RAnthony
> --
> "Mrmee, Mrmee, Mrmee"
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1887424350/
>

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com