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I honestly would do the laundry more often if it wasn’t so needlessly confusing. It’s never as simple as throwing the clothes in the wash, turning it on, and coming back in an hour. No. You have to actually separate the clothing into three separate piles: darks, whites, and colors. Okay, okay. I’m sure there…

Huh? We’ve been picked up? Where’d you read this? Are you sure?Just kidding. I got the call yesterday as I was leaving the doctor’s office (actually, I got the call while I was IN the office and had to step outside to chat). I hurried home and wrote it up as part of my blog…

I was at the stove, carefully stirring the pot’s contents into a thick, creamy consistency when Fondy walked in and asked: “You’re not eating oatmeal today because you think it’ll effect the results of your cholesterol test, are you?” “No,”I lied. In fact, the oatmeal was just part of my three-pronged plan: oatmeal, green tea,…

I walked into the office today and found a package awaiting me. I could hardly contain my excitement as I tore through the wrapping, just imagining what awaited insie. Chocolates? Books? Unsolicited story ideas that I would have to hand off to Alex Levine for immediate return? Well, none of the above. Feast your eyes…

Well, having Robert Cooper swing by to do a guest Q&A was evidently as much a treat for you as it was for me - for you because it was a nice change of pace from my usual yammering, and for me because it gave me a much-needed break from my usual yammering. And so…

WOW! There’s nothing like Stargate on the BIG screen. Yesterday, the show’s producers (minus Alan who was in Toronto and Carl who was in Los Angeles, both of him were, thus, subsequently fired) gathered at Sharpe Sound Studios in North Vancouver to watch the Ark of Truth mix. It took me about an hour to…

My dental procedure went swimmingly yesterday and, two hours later, I was having dinner at The Budapest, none the worse for wear (with the trifling exception of a numbed jaw and an excruciating earache), chowing down on a delicious chicken paprikash and my apparently equally delicious anesthetized tongue. Halfway through our meal, in walked special…

The press release went like this:“Fuel Restaurant is proud to announce a great celebration of the bounty of fall with the first annual ‘Whole Hog’ dinner. The 5 course menu will incorporate pork in each and every dish, paying homage to many seldom utilized cuts of the animal.”Pork? 5 courses? Seldom utilized cuts? Before I…

Fondy and I celebrated my birthday with dinner at Quattro’s. Yes, on the one hand it was the scene of that gangland-style shooting several weeks back; on the other hand, their carpaccio and ravioli Piemontese are to die for. In all fairness, such an incident could have happened anywhere and, really, at the end of…

Well, my birthday week celebrations kicked off last night with dinner at La Buca compliments of one Robert C. Cooper and his lovely wife Hillary. Since it was really a celebratory meal, I won’t offer a critique. Instead, I will just say it was great company and we enjoyed pumpkin ravioli with safe and toasted…

Allow me to kick off this blog installment by wishing two of my buddies Happy Belated Birthdays! To Chris Judge, who celebrated his special day on Saturday, and to Robert Cooper who celebrated his special day Sunday (watching his Cowboys lose to the hated Patriots). According to an online horoscope I referenced for the occasion:…

Well, as promised yesterday, today’s blog entry will be dedicated to those scenes and excerpts that didn’t make the final cut of Reunion. Tomorrow, back to the food and fun.TEASETeyla and Ronon walk and talk as they enter the village: I completely forgot about this little exchange as it never made it past the first…

Well, judging from the feedback here and elsewhere, it looks like most of you enjoyed Reunion - which is most pleasing and comes as a relief to me as, history has shown, you never know how the fans are going to react. As promised, I’m going to dedicate this blog entry to my thoughts on…

Among the handful of story ideas I brought to the table when we first started spinning season four, was one involving Ronon and his bittersweet Reunion with friends long-thought dead. It was a story about life’s choices, going back or moving forward, as Ronon is faced with a gut-wrenching decision between the established loyalties of…

Do you know what’s even more surprising than a surprise birthday party? Yep. A surprise dentist appointment! We were in Yaletown this afternoon, lunching at Phat for the second time in as many days, when I bit down on a peppercorn in just the right spot, sending a shiver of pain along my right jaw.…