I logged onto sitemeter this morning to discover a whopping 2900 visits for yesterday’s blog entry. Martin Gero clearly has some fans! Or it could have been the legions of Evil Kenny’s supporters presenting. Or, more than likely, it was the hundreds of German fans who seem to have discovered… Read more ⇢

6:00 a.m.: I wake up to discover that I am not in Paris trying to order one of those deliciously underdone baguettes with brie and butter, but lying in bed listening to a French weather forecast on my alarm clock radio. Time to get up. 6:30 a.m.: No brie, butter… Read more ⇢

Playback Supervisor Krista McLean came by the office today with Playback Artist Rob Fitzimmons to discuss – yes, you guessed it – playback. What kind of information do we see on McKay’s laptop in this scene? Is it scrolling data? What kind of data? Numbers or script? Ancient or English?… Read more ⇢

I would like to dedicate this blog entry to the memory of Engr. Miklos S. Abdulaziz who passed away sometime last year under hopefully not mysterious circumstances. “Who?”you may ask. Well, most of you probably didn’t know Miklos. And the truth is, I didn’t either. Or, at least I don’t… Read more ⇢

I’m proud to announce, after an intense and complicated labor, the birth of a spanking new baby first draft script at approximately 4:29 p.m. on Sunday, April 14th, 2007. Although the due date was not for another week, and despite the fact that the premature little tyke clocks in at… Read more ⇢

One of my culinary pet peeves – alongside overcooked pasta and raspberry coulis – is unwieldy sushi rolls. For the most part, sushi chefs here get it right, fashioning beautiful maki creations that are not only delicious to eat but easily manipulated given the most basic of chopstick prowess. And… Read more ⇢

What are you doing reading this blog? Shouldn’t you be watching SciFi Friday? And if it’s too early to start watching, shouldn’t you be out and about telling people to watch? And if you’ve already watched, what did you think? Well, I’m finally down to my fighting weight – essentially… Read more ⇢

Tomorrow night is the big night: the return of SciFi Friday, and Stargates Atlantis and SG-1! So if you haven’t already seen them in the U.K., or watched them in Canada, or caught them anywhere else in the world, or screened dubs sent to you by friends or family living… Read more ⇢

I completely forgot to mention one more incredibly efficient means of motivating myself to write: anger. I’m coming down with a cold that has felled both my wife and writing partner, my back is incredibly stiff and sore from that torture rack my mother calls a guest bed, it feels… Read more ⇢