As we head into November, we also head into the t.v. industry's slow season. With Thanksgiving on deck and the Christmas season soon to follow, it's hard to get executives to focus, much less read your project. More than likely, it ends up in a pile that they won't get around to until AFTER they…
November 6, 2023: Recent Yes/No’s – Best and Worst!
https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1718657463119937874 Yes for me..although I'd have very low expectations going on. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1719010683876946232 Even if I knew who she was and was a fan, I'm afraid it's still no. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1719369417199387059 Not really a yakisoba fan, much less a convenience store version. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1719724795984507191 Apparently all the corn collects at the bottom. Pass. https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1720079973124559352 I mean, sure I'd…
November 4, 2023: The Crime Binge continues!
Unforgotten (2015 - ) Season 1 London detectives investigate crimes from the past, unravelling secrets left buried for years. My thoughts: The two leads are terrific in this delightfully character-driven mystery series. 4/5 Line of Duty (2012-2021) Season 3 Sergeant Danny Waldron and his team shoot dead a criminal, but cracks soon appear in their…
November 3, 2023: Pizza Crawl!
It was a mini Stargate reunion of sorts last night as Robert C. Cooper, Alex Levine, Ivon Bartok and I assembled for a rare culinary journey - specifically, a pizza crawl that took us to four of Toronto's top pizzerias. The journey begins! First stop was Prince Street Pizza, the latest addition to the Toronto…
November 2, 2023: Top 5 Kpop Songs of October, 20203!
October 31, 2023: The Crime Binge continues!
Blazing through this Crime Binge at a rate of a season of day. About to hit 46 shows.... The Woman in the Wall (2023) Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house with no idea who the dead woman is. She doubts herself, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts…
October 30, 2023: This and That!
https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1718781244744314920 Roughly 700+ spaceships into my Test Your Spaceship IQ thread on twitter and, after some easy offerings in the opening rounds, we're getting into some far lesser known vessels at this point. I had intended to just do 50 posts, then 100, and now I'm thinking of wrapping things up at 250+ which will…
October 29, 2023: Sharky Sunday!
Well, Sharky is turning into quite the momma's boy, crawling into Akemi's lap at every opportunity, following her around the place by the sound of her voice (and, failing that, sound of her footfalls), and crying up a storm when she leaves to take a shower or pops out to go shopping. In other words,…
October 28, 2023: Recent Yes/No’s – Best and Worst!
Choose the best and the worst from the following... https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1715780562596630651 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1716101297097585017 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1716475122289123426 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1716840959793643809 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1717207950253543494 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1717552201172656137 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1717941936428888137 https://twitter.com/BaronDestructo/status/1718292659112919531 Yes: Chicken nugget onion ring No: Pepper-X
October 27, 2023: Tastiest parts of the chicken ranked!
#11. Gizzard #10. Drumstick #9. Feet #8. Breast #7. Liver #6. Thigh #5. Heart #4. Wing #3. Neck #2. Butt #1. Skin Agree? Disagree? What are your Top 5?
October 26, 2023: The Crime Binge continues!
Once I hit 50 shows, I'll assemble a Top 10 list. In the meantime... Line of Duty (2012-2021) Season 2 Three police officers are killed in an ambush and a protected witness is seriously injured, the only surviving officer is DI Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes), but suspicion soon arises and the team of AC-12 have…
October 24, 2023: The Phase-out!
As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, I have commenced my social media phase-out. FACEBOOK I haven't posted to my personal facebook in something like two years and have only been activity insofar as I have been updating Suji's page. But now that she's gone, I see no reason to continue. Akemi has asked…
October 23, 2023: Yet another one to toss into the maelstrom!
It takes me forever to start a script and sometimes, if I get bogged down on a scene, may take me weeks to figure it out. Yes, as I've already said, writer's block is a luxury problem experienced by unemployed writers - and I do indulge every so often when I'm working on my originals.…
October 22, 2023: Sharky Sunday!
The plan was to wait until January before adopting a new dog but when Akemi caught sight of this little blind boy on the Pug Nation of L.A.'s website - We knew we couldn't wait. So we booked our flight and, following our whirlwind visit to NYC, we made a whirlwind visit to L.A. where…
October 21, 2023: The Crime Binge continues!
Black Bird (2022) Jimmy Keene is sentenced to 10 years in a minimum security prison but he cuts a deal with the FBI to befriend a suspected serial killer. Keene has to elicit a confession from Larry Hall to find the bodies of as many as eighteen women. My thoughts: Gets off to a rousing…