in the current issue of ABC soaps in depth.  Th article says that Angelique never forgot Barnabas after their affair on Martinique and felt they were destined to be together, but that Barnabas did not see that and pursued "one bland nanny after another.".. The article felt they had a bond of love/hate.  It was obviously written by a fan of B and A and being one myself I loved it?? Any comments??Maybe we can get discussion going about DS itself.

Well, I got here mid afternoon, I have to say that I am not that impressed with the hotel, it really is in the middle of nowhere and you are are kind of stuck here with no car, but still, had a nice time today--reconnected with AngeliqueWins and some of her friends, and got some stuff in the dealer's room, several copies of Jonathan's new DVD and some other goodies...KLS, Lara, Marie, and Jerry Lacy were in the dealer's room doing autographs for awhile--the autographs are in there due to space constraints, and they are kindly willing to sign your program or whatever you have without having to buy the star's books, etc, though I did some of that.  I was warned they might sell out of weekend registrations by tomorrow, so anyone coming tomorrow do that first (I did that for a friend coming in tomorrow who has not been to a Fest in years and is coming mostly since they are a JF fan).  John Karlen and Marie did the first panel, some scenes shown and Q&A, never had seen JK at a Fest, he is looking good--during that panel Jonathan came out for a cameo and got a warm embrace from JK and Marie, okay, of course I am going to say I wish Jonathan had come out during the following panel when Lara, KLS and Jerry Lacey were onstage, but there may still be hope for J and L on stage together during the cast reunion tomorrow, MAYBE).  Then like I said the following panel was Lara, KLS and Jerry Lacey on stage with scenes and Q&A, some interesting scenes like with Trask and Cassandra, and 1795 when Angelique gives Josette the amulet for her wedding dress (good scene).  I had never seen Mr. Lacey at a DS con either, so that was interesting for me, too.  Then after awhile they showed a "surprise" screening of the 2004 pilot, I missed most of it, but since I had never seen it what I saw was interesting, but I can maybe see why it did not sell, though I liked Alec Newman as Barnabas.

There was a lot of talk about the DS reborn CDs, there are new ones out, for those who are interested, and I think the stars have enjoyed doing them, but the only one I have is the audio book of Anqelique's Descent (gee, wonder why?????)

Another things, Lara gave more info about her third DS novel, which includes several plotlines, including a flashback back to the 1920's and Flapper Liz, that might be interesting---she also has a deal to maybe get Angeliques' descent republished by Tor in addition to her third book, so that would be interesting..

   I was wondering if anyone here could confirm, many of you may know that Lara's son Rick Parker has had several rock bands, including one in the late 80's called Lions and Ghosts, a writeup on the net on that band said that another member of Lions and Ghosts was Michael Lockwood, which is the name of Lisa Marie Presley's current husband ( and father of her newborn twin girls).  This Michael Lockwood is also a muscian, anyone know if he and Rick's former bandmate are one and the same?? Thanks!!

Someone posted on the Feedback on Jonathan's site that he had sent a 300 dollar check in for the Fest and that his whole check was returned saying the banquet was sold out--why not just take part of the check for the Fest registration and refund him the banquet fee, or is it not possible to do that--of course I don't know what that user expected JONATHAN to be able to do about it, but it actually sounded like he did not want to do Fest only anyway...hey, I say better to see Jonathan Saturday afternoon than not at all, but maybe the Fest people wanted to him a chance to register for Fest only f they could not refund only part of his payment??  I mean, I have a few friends who have said they did not enjoy the banquet that much anyway, but with Jonathan there that might be an entirely different story!!

I got the DS Treasures and Bloopers DVD from Netflix very quickly, so for those of you previewing the DVDs on Netflix you can try it there--I was so glad they had it as I am not sure I want to buy it.

That is the thing with the videos vs DVDs, you were able to buy individual 5 episode sets which was so nice, with the DVD you have to have 40 episodes, and you might only want to keep say 5 -10 episodes in the set....ah,well...