Next to NFL Football, there's nothing I love more than College Basketball, especially this time of year. It's March Madness! 64 (okay, actually 68) teams take part in a win-or-go-home six (okay, actually seven)-round tournament to crown the nation's best. And it never fails to impress with unbelievable upsets, fantastic finishes, and the occasional Cinderella…
March 18, 2013: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews Watchmen!
Who watches de Watchmen? Well, Monster for one. All 3+ hours of direktor's cut. It longer den a superbowl halftime show and inklude raspy-voice narration dat, at first, gimme flashback to craptakular Spirit - BUT, ultimately, monster like dis movie. A lot. It be smart, engaging, and thought-provoking. For instance, scene where Nite Owl and…
March 17, 2013: Akemi says thanks!
Hurray! Akemi finally received her Canadian Permanent Residence Card. All it took was a lot of paperwork, a year and a half wait and, of course, the support of friends, family - and visitors to this blog who took the time to post comments on her behalf. Akemi prepared a little video thank you over…
March 16, 2013: Gelato 101!
The other night, Akemi and a few of our closest friends were fortunate enough to attend a Gelato 101 class hosted by the award-winning James Coleridge (winner of the 1st “Maestro Gelatiere Award” at the Florence Gelato Festival, and considered one of the world's top artisan gelato makers) at his Bella Gelateria in downtown Vancouver. James,…
March 15, 2013: Things Stargate!
Every so often, I like to check out this blog's site stats to get a sense of the daily visits, most popular posts and, most interestingly of all, what leads people to check out this little corner on the internet. In the case of the latter, if you go by recent search engine terms, it's…
March 14, 2013: Veronica Mars fans are finally getting their movie! So when are Stargate fans getting THEIR movie?
This was the question many Stargate fans were asking themselves yesterday after news broke of the astounding success of the Veronica Mars kickstarter campaign. For those of you who haven't heard, series creator Rob Thomas approached Warner Bros. about making a Veronica Mars movie. According to Thomas: "Their reaction was, if you can show there's…
March 13, 2013: Detective Vampire M.D., Attorney At Law: The Series
That's the working title. For now. It tells the viewers what they need to know about our main character AND, most importantly, enlightens them to the fact that they're watching an actual television series as opposed to, say, a very short film or very long commercial. Somewhere down the line, we're going to have to…
March 12, 2013: Ah, screw it! Let’s create our own show!
It's amazing how things can turn on a dime in this business. One day, you're considering casting choices for your upcoming all-but-green-lit project and the next, you're shifting hopes and focus to that pilot script you finished last week. Sure, it's disappointing and incredibly frustrating, but what makes it so infinitely galling is how quickly…
March 11, 2013: The Supermovie of the Week Club reconvenes! Cookie Monster reviews The Spirit!
Watching The Spirit be like being trapped in elevator wit chatty, pompous - albeit well-dressed - douchebag suffering from explosive diarrhea. For 90+ excruciating minutes. Forget waterboarding; dis film be worser cruel and inhuman punishment. By de point where Samuel L. Jackson strut onto stage in gestapo Nazi regalia to deliver arch, long-winded speech, me…
March 10, 2013: The Doggy Update and News of Note!
I think my pug, Bubba, may be losing his hearing. As I mentioned the other day, he seems out of sorts lately, drifting off for long stretches as if deep in thought, no longer bounding into the kitchen at the merest sound of the refrigerator door opening. Today, he exhibited atypically calm behavior in the…
March 9, 2013: Recommended Reads!
I am what my old college professor used to refer to as "a voracious reader". I read A LOT - anytime, anywhere - usually for a couple of hours every night before going to sleep but, occasionally, while I'm waiting for appointments or for my significant other to finish shopping or for the traffic light…
March 8, 2013: A word of advice! Campaganolo with Carl!
If there's a single word of advice I would offer anyone thinking of becoming a writer for film and/or television, it would be: "Don't". Don't do it. Spare yourself the aggravation. The endless waiting. The incessant disappointments. The interminable meetings that never seem to reach a consensus, even when it appears as though consensus has…
March 7, 2013: What’s up with Bubba?
Okay, all you closet animal psychologists - I require your expertise. Something is up with my pug, Bubba. I noticed a slight change in his behavior couple of months back. Always a terrific walker, he had started lagging, sometimes stopping altogether and refusing to budge. What I at first assumed to be the effects…
March 6, 2013: I’m finally gonna do it!
So, I'm finally going to do it. I'm finally going to sell my car. I really should have done it a while ago but, to be honest, I didn't want to deal with the hassle. I figured it would have been so much easier to simply trade in my old Q7 as part of a…
March 5, 2013: Top Chef! Familiar faces! An honest trailer for The Dark Knight!
I finally watched the Top Chef Seattle finale last night and all I can say is - huh? When did the show turn into a cross between Iron Chef, American Idol, and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? The final two contestants battle it out before a "live" audience in a Kitchen Stadium-like venue, taking…