Over the course of the many weeks I’ve spent researching restaurants for my upcoming Tokyo trip, I’ve made use of numerous resources: professional reviews, personal blogs, the Michelin guide, and, of course, several Japanese food sites. Negotiating the latter has not been without its share of frustration, however, owing to the fact that many of…
August 19, 2009: A day set aside for a triple feature. I mean double feature. I mean a movie. I mean a movie trailer. Fine, I’ll just read the back of the dvd.
Well, damn. I stayed home today in the hopes of running a few errands and then taking the rest of the day off to watch some movies. I have a backlog to get around to which includes the likes of: Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Howl’s Moving Castle, Patlabor WXIII. Despite the fact that…
August 11, 2009: Going for an inspirational ride. The kino. And some mailbag.
I had two scenes to write today. I worked out the first one in my head as I was driving in to work this morning and was able to write it up in no time. I was on fire! I immediately moved on to the second scene, confident I would have the scripts wrapped up…
August 6, 2009: Back in the Office! Pics from the Early Days! And an Extra Chunky Mailbag!
First off, thanks to everyone who has offered up suggestions on how to deal with my tech problem (see last issue, ed.). Tomorrow, I’ll see if I can export a copy of my blog to via a (hopefully) faster computer at the office. To be honest, the situation isn’t as dire as it seems. I…
August 2, 2009: Those Act II breaks are always in the last place you look. Some set pics. Book club reminder. My super, secret project revealed! Carl’s 3 Stages. Creepy ads, dogs, and the mailbag. Holy crap! This title is almost as long as the entry itself!
A great writing day. Granted, a better day for lazing about in the sun but, still, writers can’t be choosers. So after lying awake in bed last night working the story out in my head, I finally found my Act II break! (I’d left it in the garage behind the recycling bin.). Thus armed, I…
August 1, 2009: Please check under your seats for my Act II break! And some mailbag!
I’m feeling dizzy, weak, and nauseous, am suffering from a slight headache, and I think my nose is about to start bleeding. It’s either radiation poisoning or the after-effects of working all day on this script. Or maybe a bit of both (Exactly how much electromagnetic radiation will I have been exposed to by sitting…
July 31, 2009: One Down, Hopefully One More To Go! And A Little Mailbag!
Let's see...if I move part of Act II into Act III, and move a scene from Act IV into Act V, then take the final scene out of Act V and put it into the Tease of the next episode... I am Exhausted. Yes, with a capital E. After chatting with Brad and co. about…
July 30, 2009: Sukoshi hanesamasu demo zenzen wakarimasen! Enter the “Caption This” Contest to win…uh…something cool! Episode #20, somewhere between longish and outrageously so! The SGU Crew!
Nihongo benkyo o shitte imasu! I’m studying Japanese! It’s well known that the quickest and most comprehensive way to learn a foreign language is total immersion. As a result, I’ve told my friends and co-workers that, for the time being, I will only address them in Japanese and I ask them to only speak to…
July 29, 2009: My Culinary Odyssey Draws Ever Closer! Episode Updates! The Hyrdoponics Lab!
Success! In preparation for my culinary pilgrimage to the mecca of gastronomic delights - Tokyo, natch - I have trimmed my prospective restaurants list from an unwieldy 96 down to a much more manageable 45. Of course, that’s not including a lot of the theme and smaller hole-in-the-wall restaurants I’d also like to check out…
July 28, 2009: My Triumvirate of Terrificness! Elyse Levesque! An Episode Title Revealed!
Well, second day back at work and no work completed. On the script front that is. Production has, however, started on Faith (Episode 13) and we have watched two of the three episodes that make up my Triuvirate of Terrificness, my Top 3 favorite episodes of the season. So far. Yesterday, we watched the director’s…
July 26, 2009: Sprint, Stride, Stride, and LEEEAAAP! Doubling Down on Dinners! T.V. Trouble! Linksys Tech Support Is Not Particularly Supportive! The Destiny Infirmary!
In order to make any headway on the writing front, I need the authorial equivalent of a running start - all the way back to the Tease, reading over what I have, zipping along through the first act, picking up speed in the second act until I reaching the point where I left off -…
July 25, 2009: I’m Ice Cold! Prepping for Tokyo! The Corn Soup is Back! Outside Icarus Base!
I wanted to work on the script - really, I did - but as fired up as I was yesterday, I was stone cold frozen today. The words just wouldn’t come and, after a half an hour of futile spinning, I decided redirect my attention elsewhere and pick things up tomorrow. I only have a…
July 24, 2009: Catching up with Alan! A Rare Creative Burst! Inside Icarus Base!
You’ll never guess who I went to dinner with last night. Uh, right. How’d you know? Oh, right. I mentioned it in yesterday’s entry. Well, yes. Earlier in the week, former Stargate scribe and producer Alan McCullough dropped me an email and invited me out for dinner. I hadn’t seen Alan in ages so I…
July 23, 2009: Homeworld Command! Catching up with the Mailbag!
I’m off to dinner with Alan McCullough (formerly of Stargate, presently of Sanctuary) tonight so this will be a moderately early entry. When I get back, I plan to see how much headway I can make on the script. Last night, I hit the 28 page mark and things were coming along nicely - until…
July 22, 2009: September’s Book of the Month Club Pick = Heroes Die, by Matthew Woodring Stover! A Sharon Taylor Update! And the SGU Practical Puddle!
Back in January when Stargate: Universe consultant and best-selling SF author John Scalzi was in town, I took him to - where else? - Fuel where, over the course of our dinner conversation, the subject of my humble little book club came up. I asked John if he could recommend a possible future selection. He responded without…