That’s all of them! 31 Firefly P1 promo cards were sent out to happy Browncoats and I have a bit of shelf space back. Life is good.

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“Done the Impossible,” the DVD by, about, and for the fans of the greatest TV show and movie in history, is creeping closer and closer to completion. This is a monster of a project, with hours and hours of stuff packed in (including my interview with Serenity graphic designer Geoff Mandel) and it’s been eagerly awaited for nearly a year now.

Just posted on donetheimpossible.com: “And now for the news you probably been waiting for. A release date!…sort of. Barring any unforeseen tragedies, we will be shipping DVDs *BEFORE* Comic-Con on July 20th (yes this year… sheesh), probably sooner.”

Woo hoo!

The Prop Store of London has added a wooden handled Reaver weapon to their catalogue, and a temporary financing offer to their other great services: for one week they are extending their  interest free payment plan from 6 months to 10 months, and reducing the minimum deposit from 20% to just 10%.  For example: a $500 item will be secured with a deposit of just $50 with the balance over the following 9 months at $50 per month. When placing your order type ‘Extended Payment Plan Offer’ into the comments section. This is a good time to start paying on that item you didn’t think you cfould afford. More details here.

In my day job - the stuff I do when I’m not… visibly… obsessing on Firefly, I work at a newspaper. The marketing department there is running a “behind the scenes” promotion that showcases individuals the public doesn’t usually see, as a way of making the whole process of news more personal. One of those people is, apparently, me, and here’s what ran in our Sports section (?) last week (click the image for a larger PDF).

In my defense, I didn’t write the copy, and I was kinda hoping they’d use the shot where I had my head cradled on top of my monitor (”Precious! My precious!”). But I am pleased that, in a roundabout, hidden-in-the-background way, I got to plug a bunch of my favorite things. Can you find the different Deaths? Locate the two different PvPonline references? And can you identify all the Serenity items?

Well, Reaver artwork, anyway. Productions designs for Reaver weapons, now available at the Prop Store of London. Six sheets of weapons designs (two are duplicated) and one sheet showing the “hunga munga” weapon.

How can you turn down anything called “hunga munga”?

As you may or may not know — and how could you not? — when Pocket Books announced last year they would be publishing two original Serenity novels a number of authors jumped at the chance and submitted their proposals. Keith R.A. DeCandido (author of the Serenity novelization) was one, and Jamie Chambers and Margaret Weis (creators of the Serenity RPG) put in another. Those submissions and others are still in a holding pattern with Pocket Books and Joss, for whatever reason, and the longer the delay the less chance we’ll ever get to read any new Serenity novels.

Except for one: Steven Brust’s, because he went and wrote his already and plans to get it out to the public one way or another.

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The Prop Store of London just wasn’t sending out cash fast enough, so they’re offering a new bank heist money display with two bills this time; a red Five Hundred note and a blue One Hundred note. Likie the others these come in a framed disdplay with a laser-cut Serenity logo, ready to hang.

Today The Prop Store of London offers us a Reaver dart on display, in a framed deal with a shot of River standing over a lot of unhappy Reavers and a laser-cut Serenity logo.

The Prop Store’s framed displays are gorgeous things, ready to slap onm your wall and add instead class to any environment. Especially when it’s a poisoned handmade weapon. Won’t that look great in your boardroom?

Nothing to do this weekend? Are you in the UK? Can you get to the UK?

The Prop Store of London will be exhibiting at the London Expo Show on Saturday the 27th and Sunday the 28th of May at the Excel Center, Royal Victoria Dock, London. Props and costumes from Serenity will be on hand. More details here.

New at The Prop Store of London, an Oriental-style teapot used as set dressing in the movie.

I’m of two minds about this kind of thing. I love having stuff that saw screen time and may have been, you know, touched by the BDHs, and I really love props I can afford, but I keep getting the nagging feeling I could hit a Pier One and load up my house with stuff that looks like set dressing for the movie. Maybe I could buy a teapot somewhere, take it to a con, and have Gina Torres touch it…