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First the disclaimer. This account is a record of what I saw and what I
heard at the con. I write up notes but I certainly don’t get everything
down. Lucy is particularly hard for me to get because I enjoy watching her
and listening to her and thinking about what she’s said. So it’s not
unusual for me to be zoning out a bit, maybe remembering things she’s said
in the past or done in the past that’s reminiscent of what she’s just said
or done and next thing I know, she’s saying something that to me has come
totally out of the blue. And I’m looking at my notes with a tragic,
stunned blazingly fast glance and wondering what she’s talking about. And
of course, Lucy often DOES just say something out of the blue anyway, so
it’s possible I hadn’t missed anything really, it just appeared to me that
I had.

I do put some stuff in quotes when I write these up. The gist of them is
USUALLY correct. But I don’t write down all the words even for the stuff I
put in quotes-I can’t write that fast. So this is what I think she said,
what I think I heard, sometimes it includes comments from people who are
neither she nor I but people who are just talking around me and sometimes
with the roars of laughter, appreciation and high level giddiness, it’s a
wonder I get anything down at all.

I reckon at some point, when I’m REALLY old, I’ll just be making
everything up.

Okay-here we go.


Lucy came out in jeans and a kind of grey sweater top with an overthing
draped over her torso. I personally think she’s WAY hotter and much sexier
in this outfit than in her little girl’s swimsuit bottom/fishnet
stockings/chaps, but as one of my friends just this minute said to me,
“Thus speaks the straight girl”.

Lucy came out of “door number one” to HUGE roaring screams. SHE got a
standing ovation.

It’s always fun to see her after she’s already done a show because well,
we all have something to talk about then but also because she shares with
us what didn’t work and laughs over things that happened.

Lucy asked who had been to the show the night before and lots o’ people
threw their hands enthusiastically into the air, while screaming and
stomping.

She told us that we had been a great audience the night before. And added,
“I’m ripped this morning, let me tell ya.”

She looked at us and smiled a high wattage smile and said in a somewhat
fruity voice, “How lovely to meet you all.” Then she declared, “We’d
better start with questions-I’m brain dead”. Sharon Delaney immediately
jumped in with the first question which was, “Is that supposed to be
something different?” Lots of laughs-seems people LOVE it when people who
know Lucy tease her.

The first SERIOUS question to Luce was if she had any guilty pleasures.
Lucy thought for a minute and then said, “Prisoner” to which the London
audience yelled out, “Prisoner, Cell Block H”. That’s not the name it had
when shown in New Zealand, so she started to explain what the show was
about but people in the audience were saying they knew. Well, not all of
us did but I’ve been informed that it is an old Australian “women in
prison” TV series that was known as “Prisoner” in En Zed and “Prisoner,
Cell Block H” in England. *I* had been thinking it was “The Prisoner” with
Patrick McGohan which is of course a very good show and would hardly be a
“guity pleasure”. My local informant tells me “Prisoner” without the “The”
has strong lesbian overtones. As “women in prison” series always do of
course.

After we got all THAT settled, Lucy added, “Every so often I buy a whole
bag of tabloid magazines. But I never buy one with a celebrity’s kid on
the front. ‘Suri’. It’s like branding the kids.” She added that perverts
would put them on the cover and/or maybe it was perverts who would buy
them.

There was a question about if she’d ever had any Shazam moments. She
thought for a bit. Then she said something about Shazam moments, adding,
“I’d like to get through tonight without screwing up “Be My Girl”.

She was asked when she’d arrived. “This is day 4.”

You know, this audience was one of the noisier ones I’ve ever experienced.
After Lucy said, “This is day 4”, there were conversations around me and
folks were growling out the words, “Jet lag” to each other.

This audience didn’t just take in Lucy’s words, they felt that they had to
interact with her words also-chew them out with each other and taste their
meaning and then tag what Lucy had said to their own experiences.

A guy read a question from a piece of paper. I happen to be on a list
where somewhere suggested to the list that this would be a good question
to ask Lucy if anyone was going to the con. And now here it was! First the
guy said that Lucy had said once that she and her best friend Marissa were
going around on college campuses asking questions of the students. (I
think there was something about age in there when she talked about it
before.) The question was about what they were asking and how and where
could we see the finished product.

Lucy broke into laughter and said that things hadn’t gone real well on
that project. “Marissa and I had the BIGGEST fight of our lives!”

I’m not sure if Lucy ever said what the project was but she did say that
she and Marissa had approached it from different angles. They’d ask a
question. Lucy said she would get all involved when the students would
spill their guts out on camera. She said, “I’m going…(and here she put on
an intense, somewhat open-mouthed listening face and made little
affirmative and absorbed murmers in a ‘Wow-keep going’ tone of voice),
uhh. Uhhh. Uhhhh.” But Marissa, when the students got intense, would say,
“Nothing here-keep it light! Keep it fluffy!” and walk away. Which ticked
Lucy off.
While describing this to us, Lucy imitated Marissa’s voice, using a bit of
a big
east coast city voice.

“We didn’t speak to each other for three weeks!” They have vowed to NEVER
work together again.

Question: “What was your funnest or most mortifying moment on Xena?”

Lucy thought for a moment then started to laugh a bit. She said, “Tsunami.
We were underwater for days."

ACK I HAVE TO RUN TO THE AIRPORT! MORE LATER!

KT