Hi there folks. It's been a while but here's an update anyway. Good times...
Katee ditches Con to go fish gutting in Fiji
(No she didn’t! It just seemed like a silly headline – please don’t quote it as fact).
Katee has, however, become the latest in a series of BSG actors to cancel their appearance at the forthcoming Dragon Con. While the Spankers feel terrible for our Bunny buddies and other cyberpals that will no longer be able to hang with Bamber & Katee this time around, some of us are also quietly delirious with joy at the prospect that Katee may have signed on for some new project that is yet to be announced. While it’s obviously a big bummer if you were looking forward to actually going to the thing, it’s pretty understandable that the actors would be busy looking for new gigs, given that they finished filming BSG over a month ago – it’s time for them to move on. After being tied to a contract for 5 or 6 years, they're probably all like kids in a candy store, now that they can actually try some other stuff. Acting is their chosen profession after all, as opposed to “professional Con attendee”, so it makes a lot of sense that they'd have to prioritize their acting. Not too many Spankers were actually headed to the Con, so we haven’t heard of any random acts of Spanker self-mutilation as yet.
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for some of the Bunnies. Bunnies, just so you know, a bottle of JB and a tourniquet always comes in handy at times like this. You’ll get over it. We’re here if you need us. Hold fast.
I guess it’d be a little unreasonable to expect an actor to give up a new job that might put their kids through university just to go to a con for a couple of hours, to provide us with some witty (and yet vaguely repetitious) anecdotes about their fellow actors’ bad habits. As much as the Spankers delight in Katee’s random, funny con behaviour, such as the Zoolander impression and the stray-hair-microphone-plucking, we’d kind of prefer to hear that she’s gonna keep acting in new stuff that we can then watch and crap on about endlessly cause we don’t have a life of our own.
If she isn’t actually gonna be doing an acting gig during the Con week, then what else could Katee possibly be up to? Spanker DJ has a theory that Katee may have decided to take a holiday to Fiji with her BF instead. Katee, if DJs theory is correct, can I just say, (speaking from personal experience), that you are gonna love it! You can rent the island where Blue Lagoon was filmed, and you can even make out under the same tree as Brooke Shields! Woohoo! Can I also recommend the snorkelling – it’s easily the best in the world - crystal clear water and lots of colourful fishies. But Katee, you mustn’t get any ideas. We know how much you love your fish gutting, but dude, there are many protected species in Fiji. Gut the wrong fish and you could end up languishing for years in a Fijian penal institution. What on Earth would the Spankers do for entertainment while awaiting your release? Katee, you must study your species thoroughly before you start wielding that knife of yours around willy nilly.
My personal theory on Katee’s whereabouts during Dragon Con hits closer to home. I believe that she has been recently watching the Olympics and that she’s basically decided to give acting the flick and take up her original career choice again. After all, her dodgy knees must have recovered by now. She must have noticed that while the US male swimmers pretty much have the game sewn up, the woman’s team is languishing. I believe that Katee feels that she has to single handedly redress this imbalance in time for the London Olympics. So there will be no more acting, bike gangs with Tricia and Trucco, or fan conventions – it’s all about the training for the next 4 years. Either that, or she just wants to get back into one of those figure hugging rubber suits, cause as she said herself , “I think I like confining wardrobe”.
Project Abraham
Many Spankers have become aware that Katee is involved in a new viral internet campaign for the soon-to-be released Resistance 2 video game. You can see lots of her little promo vids for it here – she’s playing a physiologist named Dr Cassie Aklin, who has to pick candidates for some weirdie experiment.
Some Spankers have been a little concerned that Katee’s involvement in this project would mean that they would not only have to buy the game, but also the entire bloody console. However, a little research on the game’s official site indicates that the main character in the actual game is some dude who Katee picks, and not her character. All I can say is ‘phew’. Cause I’d frankly be a little embarrassed if it was ever discovered that I bought a Playstation 3 and only owned one game.
Like many Spankers, I was kinda wondering why Katee would want to be involved in an advertising campaign. But when you think about it, the first Resistance game was apparently the biggest selling Playstation game ever, so it’s a pretty big thing to be attached to. There are probably more people who own that game than have ever seen BSG. Well that’s my theory, although it was probably more a case of Katee’s bro thinking it sounded cool and talking her into it. Something like that. She does owe him big time, after all, for turning his nickname into some sort of ridiculous cyber-cult. In any case, I’m personally far more pumped that Katee apparently did the commentary for the upcoming Robot Chicken DVD. I’m gonna buy that one with pride.
Other Stuff
Ok well that’s just about enough from me for now. There’s other stuff to report but since I’ve now been rambling uncontrollably for about the last 20 minutes, I should probably just stop.
As far as the TeamSpank HQ site goes, we haven’t added much lately but there is new stuff underway. We are about to add our fictional Spanker bios, which should be ridiculous. Anyone is welcome to add to the site if they are that way inclined – just send an email about it. We tend to encourage stuff that isn’t really your typical fan site type stuff – stuff with a bit of quirk or a bit of a slant. It doesn't have to have any factual basis - we don't worry about that sort of thing at TeamSpank. Artistic stuff is cool too. It doesn’t have to be funny but that helps. Oh BTW, if you are signed in as a member of the main site, there are now a couple of extra little treats to be found via the TeamSpank menu. It's our little secret (or at least it was until one sentence ago).
Just in case you don’t know, we have our own Katee forum at the TeamSpank Treehouse, where Katee fans hang out almost 24/7, although mainly just making idle, inane chat. There are many specialized topic threads, or you can just hang out and gossip with folks in the main Katee thread. (Can I just apologize in advance for the appalling language. I’m one of the worst culprits, I'm afraid).
Oh one final thing, that I'd like to address directly to Katee...
Katee, we realize that now that you have finished with BSG, you probably think you are free of your weirdie, obsessive, creeper SciFi 'fans' for all time. That may well be the case, but Katee, I really hate to burst your bubble. Cause I'm afraid to let the cat out of the bag, but dude just so you know, Spankers aren't actually SciFi fans and you can't get rid of us that easily. We're in it for the long haul. While we enjoy a bit of SciFi here and there, most of us frankly couldn't care less if we never see another spaceship, but we really wanna see what other projects you have up your sleeve.
So sorry dude - SciFi fans may come and go, but Spanking is forever!
