About an hour after I posted last night’s blog entry, I received a call from my sister in Montreal. “I allergic to penicillin too,”she informed me, “and so was dad.” “Did you have a similar reaction?”I asked. “Yeah,”she fondly recalled. “It got me out of my mid-term.” Well, there you go. It runs in the…

It really hasn’t been my month. And a half. First it was my tooth, then my shoulder, then my eye, and now, this morning, I wake up to discover I’m suffering an extreme allergic reaction to.. something. Could’ve been the antibiotics I was taking for my eye infection. Could’ve been the new laundry detergent. Hell,…

I woke up this morning to a veritable hurricane - whipping wind, driving rain, and bone-chilling temperatures guaranteed to set your teeth a-chatter. I’d have to have been an idiot to venture outdoors in weather like that. Well, either an idiot or a guy trying to coax his dogs out for their morning constitutional by…

Well, Carl really outdid himself today, answering a slew of fan questions for today’s guest Q&A blog. Rather than put up with me yammering on about my laidback Sunday and Lulu’s bizarre yoga-esque sleeping positions, let’s head straight to the guest mailbag -But not before checking out today’s pics: Rare and valuable never-before-published pictures of…

Paul first pitched out the idea late in season 3: “We go to the planet, but the Athosians aren‘t there. They‘re missing.” I was intrigued: “Where’d they go?”. “I don’t know,”he shrugged. “What happened to them?”I pressed. “I don’t know,”he repeated. A year and a half later, we finally know and by WE I mean…

Oooh, you guys are in for a treat. Carl Binder (Yes! THE Carl Binder!) has agreed to do a post-Missing guest Q&A on this very blog. So what I’m going to do is gather up your Missing and miscellaneous Stargate-related questions (ie. How is your three-part toilet episode coming along?, What is Joseph Mallozzi really…

Allow me to kick off this entry with a huge thank you to regular TesaJB who sent me an awesome belated-birthday/season-5-pick-up-celebration package complete with: photo of classic car, selection of Vosges bars including a “d’Olivia Bar” which is a unique medley of dried kalamata olives and Venezuelan white chocolate (that I was unable to trick…

So I was checking out Site Meter this morning and noticed that the total visits to this blog is creeping up to 665 000. As some of you many know, for the monumental 250 000th visit, I gave away a boxful of one-of-a-kind not-overly-toxic flocking (which PG-15 is no doubt treasuring as I write this…

Today, we celebrated Paul’s belated birthday by watching the final mix of Miller’s Crossing and ordering the “festive special” meal from Swiss Chalet which, sadly, according to Paul, proved neither festive nor special. Fortunately, our off-key rendition of Happy Birthday more than made up for the sub-par lunch. Sure, Paul did his best to ignore…

Bad news for embittered former fans celebrating a dip in the live ratings for Doppelganger. The show rebounded the following week and continues to deliver strongly in key demo’s.On a totally unrelated front, I’m wondering if I can enlist everyone’s support in my drive to Have the Ice Cream Sandwich Discontinued. As some of you…

Last night, Fondy and I went out to dinner with our good friend Ted and his girlfriend Vicki. We’d been meaning to do Peking Duck for a while and, after many, many get-back-ya‘s, we finally got around to it. And so, we ended up at Fortune Garden Seafood Restaurant (1475 West Broadway), which is purported…

To be honest, I was kind of half-hoping the doctor would have prescribed me a black eye patch to along with the eye drops and antibiotics. Damn. It would’ve gone perfectly with my new morning coat and that silver cobra head walking stick with the concealed poisoned rapier I’ve been saving for a special occasion.…

“Have you ever had your eyelid flipped?”the doctor asked as he fished an impossibly long Q-tips out of a big glass jar. I searched my mind before finally answering: “Not intentionally,”. “Well, I’m going to have to flip it in order to examine you,”he said. “It may feel uncomfortable or even a little painful. Let…

Okay, this really hasn’t been my week. Not only is my stomach incredibly upset following an ill-advised decision to go with an atypically healthy lunch alternative (The spinach salad! What the hell was I thinking?!), but that swelling of my upper right eyelid continues to plague me despite my best efforts to deal with the…

Last night, Fondy enlisted my help in getting a little fix-it work done around her office. Unbeknownst to her (she has only known me some fifteen years after all), my handyman skills rate just a tad better than my overall proficiency as a blacksmith, but far, far worse than my mastery of the oboe. Nevertheless,…