Actress Felicity Pledge once knocked a policeman’s hat off. She apologised immediately, said it was an accident and nothing more was made of the matter.
She later threw a petrol bomb at her ex-husband’s car. She was rather shocked when her pleas of being “really, really sorry,” and that “it was an accident,” didn’t prevent her eventual custodial sentence.
Ugh, what happened? I’ve just woken up. What time is it?
AUGUST?!
Why didn’t my alarm go off?
Terry, the IT guy, says that we’ve moved. Moved hosts, apparently. Were we at a dinner party with inconveniently placed Maitre’Ds? Was I drinking? I can’t remember. Ah well. It’s a new dawn for the Mercury’s Kin web site. I’m sure of it. We’ll have more stories and pictures and games and stuff.
Terry is shaking his head. I don’t understand why.
“Civilization will never truly be civilised until people stop thinking that substituting the letter S with a Z is cool.”
Nigel Flats
Bradley Banksen, the actor who played Scooda in the show, has got himself into a spot of bother whilst attending a small scale Mercury’s Kin convention in Austin, Texas.
From the reports we are getting it appears that whilst giving a talk to fans at a local cinema he made some disparaging remarks about gun culture in the US.
Mr Banksen has always had a pacifistic attitude to life which stretched into the various roles he played on TV. Many people still remember his portrayal of a boxer in the short lived TV series Towel On The Canvas. His character gradually learnt the importance of life by being continuously knocked out in a string of matches whilst not actually hitting anybody. It turns out what is important is being concious.
Witnesses from the event in Texas said that Mr Banksen started to perform derogatory impressions of gun carrying Americans. Sometimes with a squeaky voice, sometimes with a flowery dance. As the crowd booed and jeered, he is said to have then continued into a foul mouthed tirade with mimes. It’s hard to tell at this point what annoyed the audience the most, the language or the sudden appearance of a mime artist. It’s certainly not what they came to see, it’s not what anyone ever comes to see.
Much to Mr Banksen’s annoyance, violence very quickly broke out in the theatre. Luckily the theatre has a very strict no gun policy for any kind of science fiction event. Guns have been banned in the main theatre after a Firefly convention where there was a ‘Who Can Draw Faster than Captain Mal Reynolds’ competition. Someone dressed as Jayne Cobb had their woolen hat blown clean off.
Thankfully with a lack of guns the violence was limited to flying fists. When the police arrived they took the decision to arrest everyone in the theatre. All ten members of the audience were later released.
As of this moment we know that Bradley Banksen is still in custody with possibly charges of terrorism. A police spokesperson has been quoted as saying “He’s speaking with a British accent. That’s grounds enough for us.”
A critic from a local Austin newspaper has already described the event as “one of the best shows of the year. Highly recommended.”
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Meanwhile, Terry the IT guy is still diligently working on getting the comments function to work. He told me he needs to work on it remotely. So he’s taken some of the admin fund and jetted off to Madagascar. He said that should give him enough distance and the internet connection there is crystal clear and blue. Apparently that makes it better. I’m not up on my technical jargon but I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about. I haven’t heard from him for a couple of weeks. I guess he’s too busy with the coding. I’m lucky to have such a hard working IT professional.