I left the following message on Robert Cooper’s voice mail: “Hey, Rob. I’ve got good news and bad news. The good new is that most of the fans really enjoyed Doppelganger. The bad news is that most of the fans really enjoyed Doppelganger.” Yep. I woke up this morning, signed in to my blog, and…

Well judging from the response to Adrift, Stargate Atlantis’s fourth season is off to a rollicking start. Here’s hoping the generally positive vibes continue to resonate with both longtime fans and first timers alike as year four in the Pegasus galaxy unfolds over the course of the next six months. Congratulations go out to the…

Finally, the wait is over. Season four of Atlantis kicks off tonight at 10:00 p.m. on SciFi with our BIG premiere: Adrift. It seems like just yesterday that David Nykl was stomping around the production offices in his space suit in preparation for the huge chasm/meteor sequence. Six months ago! Has it really been that…

I got out of the driver’s side and pressed the button on my key, releasing the trunk and causing it to spring up as I rounded my parking spot and reached inside for my briefcase. Crap. I suddenly remembered I’d brought Lulu to work with me. Better to take her out for a little walk…

As I took a seat and started perusing my dinner choices, I was instantly transported back, four years earlier, to my very first visit to Mexico. The smells. The sounds. The sheer bafflement of trying to make sense of menu items listed almost exclusively in Spanish. No to worry though. We had also been provided…

Three days to launch and we had the big SciFi/MGM marketing conference call this morning. I have to admit that, as much as I found fault with previous years’ promos that habitually gave away the big fourth act reveals, the promos that SciFi has put together this year have been great. Starting from the extended…

Joe’s Book of the Month very first book club meeting is officially underway. So I’ll kick things off by weighing on this months selections: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, and Excessions by Iain M. Banks.HOGFATHERLet me begin by saying I’m a big Terry Pratchett fan. This is the sixth book in the Discworld series I have…

I received the following email from my surprisingly persistent pen pal (and dedicated scammer) James Williams:“Dear Cookie Monster, Good day, how are you doing?why have you not respond back to my mail for the past 1week now, i want yu to know that this transaction is for real and is legistimate okay so just get…

Fondy returned from her business trip to Las Vegas last night bearing gifts - toys for the dogs and chocolates for me. I dedicated last night and this afternoon to sampling the impressive selection of Vosges truffles. After all, it says right on the boxes: “Please consume within 2 weeks of purchase”. Two weeks. Two…

One of the great things about being out on location for first call is that it allows you to experience some of the wonderful, God-given things in life that you may customarily overlook or take for granted. Things like 5:00 a.m. for example. Yes, there’s nothing quite like the sight and sensation of the sun’s…

The new Fall season kicked off for me last night with two new shows I‘d been meaning to check out: Kid Nation and Ramsay‘s Kitchen Nightmares. I made it approximately ten minutes into Kid Nation before it dawned on me - “Hey, why the hell am I watching this? I hate kids!”. Now, if the…

Poor Carl. He’s been burned by our chocolate practical jokes so many times that he now views the most innocuous-looking squares with the utmost suspicion. There was the time I failed to tell him that the dark chocolate bar he was about to taste concealed pieces of sinus-blasting peppercorns. And the time I suggested he…

Well, given the flash hailstorm that pounded Burnaby today (catching Marty G. and I on our way to post to finish cutting Harmony) I think I’ll declare Summer officially over. Though, to be fair, it seems as though it slipped out the back several weeks ago when no one was looking. Now, we can look…

Hmmmmmmmmmm. I didn’t think I’d make it today. Well, since I’m here…I finished up my morning work-out at a little after 7:00 a.m. and stepped into the adjoining theater room. I caught a whiff of Lulu’s “little accident” before I actually saw it. And, quite frankly, it was impossible to miss given that she had…

Given the number of Japanese restaurants in this city, Vancouver serves up a wide range of quality when it comes to sushi, everything from artistically sublime to alarmingly suspect. Kitto Sushi on Granville Street falls somewhere firmly in between, serving up mediocre Japanese fare not good enough to recommend yet not bad enough to avoid.…