After the premiere in Sydney a couple of nights ago, the Trek cast have beamed down to Kiwiland to repeat the whole red carpet gig in Auckland (still too far away for me... *cries*). The local media are all over it because of Kiwi!McCoy... and probably because NZ doesn't get a lot of glitzy Hollywood-type events with Real Hollywood Stars™!

Here's a couple of interviews from TVNZ (links because I can't seem to embed them):

Karl Urban and John Cho on Breakfast
Watch it on YouTube

Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto on One News
Watch it on YouTube

What they haven't included in the second clip is the two newsreaders Vulcan-saluting back to the reporter interviewing Karl and Zach. A shame, really; it was kind of cute (I think Simon and Wendy are kind of cute anyway, but we don't need to go there).

EDIT: Added links to YouTube for anyone who can't see the videos on the TVNZ site.

WARNING: Arachnophobics, look away. Look away now!

Imagine, if you will, it's around 2am, you're lying in bed caught somewhere between sleep and wakefulness - that place where you're not really awake, but you're peripherally aware of some external stimuli... like the fact it feels like your hair is moving. That's strange, your sleepy brain thinks... and then dismisses, 'cause you're asleep, right? The moving hair persists a little longer. You decide to move your head to see if it will go away. It does. Right across your pillow and down onto your sheets.

You are more than a little alarmed.

You throw the covers off and switch the light on. You and The Spider stare each other down until you decide you aren't willing to share your bedspace with a total stranger (one with far too many limbs for your liking). You swat madly at The Spider until you're fairly sure it's GONE.

Somewhat less sleepy now, you turn out the light, yank the covers back up and try to pretend you and The Spider didn't just meet. You turn over, find a nice comfy position on you side and slowly close your eyes. The almost-conscious part of your brain wonders what that dark spot was...

You think it's time for a colourful metaphor. You decide on one and express it. Colourfully.

Lights on; covers off. Again. So this is Round 2 with The Spider. Or Round 1 with The Spider's BFF. You start with the swatting. Again. By the time you're convinced it's GONE (again) you're completely, totally, incontrovertibly awake. Again.

Guess who doesn't want to go to bed tonight.

On a totally unrelated note: Leonard Nimoy is on Twitter? Almost makes me want to start using my never-used account.

Clearly, I fail at keeping resolutions (especially that one about more fandom participation *koff*) - but I couldn't let Mr Spock's Nimoy's birthday go by without mention.

Happy Birthday, Leonard Nimoy! You may not have Spock's ears ('cause he's, y'know, Vulcan and you're only, y'know, human), but you certainly have the same, very lovely um... package ... well, everything other than the ears. And the eyebrows. And the lack of smiling ('cept when he was being illogical). And all that other Vulcan stuff.

If you need help blowing out those 78 candles, give me a call.

Because someone had to do it.

The scary thing is, once I matched the two pics for size, the nose, the lips, the hairline, everything lined up automatically. Although, Quinto has wider eyes and they still haven't quite tamed the Sybrows.

If I'd spent more than 5 minutes on it I might've tried to match the colours/contrast better... but a) I couldn't be bothered and b) I kinda like it. Oh, and c) when I did blend the faces a bit more it actually looked weirder.

I just posted another bunch of icons over at lemonstudio. They're basically older icons I (hopefully) never got around to posting before.

41 icons of the usual suspects (Star Trek:TOS, Nimoy + other cast) and a few of the new baby Spock, Zachary Quinto.

Okay, so now it's... Happy 77th Birthday to Leonard Nimoy. May The Shat and The Nimster Mr Nimoy both live long(er) and prosper (some more). At least long enough for me to see them together in RL one day. *fangirls from afar*

Seen on a holiday shopping trip at a place that sells calendars: a quiet, vaguely geeky, guy lurking behind me as I wrapped my mitts around next year's Original Star Trek calendar. The guy waits until I've turned away, reaches out and grabs the one remaining copy of the Trek calendar, then damn near sprints (without appearing to) to the counter to pay for it. It was the slickest move I've seen in ages. This guy was definitely a well-seasoned closet Trek fan.

Seen on the internet while on holiday: next to nothing. Dial-up after broadband is like stale crackers after chocolate.

Seen on the road while driving home from holiday: every crazy/bad/stupid driver in the South Island.

Seen on the internet (with the benefit of broadband): the coolest Nimoy site since Spock wore a dress and serenaded Uhura and Nurse Chapel.

*attempts to catch up on 10 days worth of netstuff*

As a kind of addendum to this post, I (quite unintentionally) found these while surfing teh intarwebs...

( Batty!Nimoy )

Oh, and I'm sure everyone's already seen the absolutely nuts video interviews of Nimoy and Shatner on CNN, but I'm linking the page here anyway - so I can easily find the link, as much as any other reason. ;-P

Okay, so not living in the US means I won't see the actual event, but the video previews are... unusual. Leonard Nimoy is a pointy eared pussy and George Takei... *sporfle*

OMGDennyCrane! That probably makes no sense to anyone who didn't just see Bill Shatner with his pants down and a big bullseye on his... underpants