Our Food Purchase of the Day video series returns with a most undelightful soda... Akemi samples the soda, fails to offer a review, and then gets distracted by a bee... Continuing our Stargate: Atlantis re-watch with...Tracker! A great episode from start to finish. Unlike many of the episodes I can nitpick after repeat viewings, this…
April 10, 2014: The Chinese foodless Vancouver Chinatown Tour! Our Stargate: Altantis re-watch continues with…The Shrine!
Last night, I met up with my foodie friend - Nicole, Lan, and Missy - for a little culinary tour of Chinatown. Nicole, our guide on this trek, had us hopping from one place to the next, covering four different places in which we sampled about a dozen different dishes... We met at The Pie…
April 8, 2014: Continuing our BOTMC discussion of Annihilation! Continuing our Stargate: Atlantis re-watch with…The Daedalus Variations!
Continuing our discussion of our April Book of the Month Club selection - Annihilation: vanderworld.com writes: "I wouldn’t normally comment, but…the next two novels are about 100,000 words each, which complicates things, and are *completely separate novels* in their own right, that interlock with Annihilation…they do not pick up the story right after the events in…
April 7, 2014: Our Book of the Month Club reconvenes! Let’s discuss Annihilation! And continuing our Stargate: Atlantis rewatch!
A team of four women are are set out to explore a mysterious region known as Area X. By all accounts, they are the twelfth group to journey into the bizarre amazon-like territory. All of the previous expeditions have ended badly, marked by murders, suicides, disappearances, and, in the case of the eleventh, the inexplicable return…
April 6, 2014: Vote for our next Book of the Month Club selection! Continuing our Stargate: Atlantis watch/rewatch – The Japanese Girlfriend Edition!
Cast your vote for our June Book of the Month Club pick! We've got a nice, wide-ranging selection this month: COLDBROOK by Tim Lebbon Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the…
April 5, 2014: A Book of the Month Club Reminder! Resuming our Stargate: Atlantis season 5 rewatch with…Search and Rescue!
A reminder to all that our book club reconvenes this Monday (April 7th) for a discussion on our April BOTMC pick: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. You can always check this blog's right sidebar for info on our upcoming Book of the Month club reads (including our May selection: The Rich and the Dead by Liv…
April 4, 2014: Skipping ahead and resuming our Stargate: Atlantis rewatch with…the season 5 premiere?!
Quick! Dust off those DVD's! Our Stargate: Atlantis rewatch resumes tonight with the season 5 premiere: Search and Rescue! Wait! What?! What happened to season 2 through 4?! Well, Akemi has expressed a desire to skip ahead to the season "with Bob [Picardo] and the Chairman [Mark Dacascos]!". She admit there may be a few…
March 29, 2014: The Houseguests! T.V. Graphs! How’d the Stargates fare?
Check out our houseguest, the love of my buddy Tio's life, the lovely Petunia. She's here for a sleepover and has come armed with her own pink bed, pink blanket, and snacks. According to Tio, she's a snuggler, so tonight will be interesting. Four dogs on the bed. Just like old times! But Petunia wasn't…
March 27, 2014: April under-the-radar releases to look forward to! Or not!
DOM HEMINGWAY Release Date: April 2, 2014 What it’s about: Following a near-death experience, an ex-felon safecracker attempts to re-connect with his estranged daughter - and pull off one final score. What it’s got working for it: The trailer suggests a movie with a Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels feel. Three…
March 26, 2014: April movie releases to look forward to! Or not!
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Release Date: April 3, 2014 What it’s about: Captain America teams up with the Black Widow and the Falcon to unravel a mysterious conspiracy and battle an enigmatic enemy known as…The Winter Soldier. What it’s got working for it: The trailer suggests a good-looking movie. What’s it’s got going against it:…
March 13, 2014: Genre News! SF, Fantasy, television, and literature!
I received the following news link from about two dozen sources today: Syfy network shifts away from broad dramas and B-movies to its genre roots as it attempts to find the next "The Walking Dead" or "Game of Thrones." Apparently, SyFy is looking to produce a space opera, the SF equivalent of The Walking Dead and Game…
Notes on those white board notes!
MFB writes: "Since I like this kind of stuff I thought I’d share some boards that I’ve collected from writers’ rooms of other shows and one movie. http://imgur.com/a/tD2bJ?#0 About the Breaking Bad boards: The stories were spun and broken to cards in the room. Then the cards were taken off of the board and photocopied…
March 10, 2014: A brief history of the Stargate writers’ room whiteboard, February 2007 – September 2009!
February 26, 2014: This guy! That gal! And March under-the-radar movie releases to look forward to! Or not!
THIS guy - THIS GUY - - is, of course, former Stargate Executive Producer and writer Carl Binder who called me this morning to catch up. Coincidentally, I was just thinking about him the other day and was meaning to give HIM a call after Akemi inquired: "How's Binder-san?". Well, Binder-san is doing great and…
February 25, 2014: March movie releases to look forward to! Or not!
Again, a big thank you to those who have taken the time to introduce (and reintroduce) themselves in the comments section of this blog. Not surprisingly, a lot of scifi fans among you. Somewhat surprisingly, A LOT of animal lovers as well! 🙂 It's been great learning a little about the individuals who make up…