Three days to launch and we had the big SciFi/MGM marketing conference call this morning. I have to admit that, as much as I found fault with previous years’ promos that habitually gave away the big fourth act reveals, the promos that SciFi has put together this year have been great. Starting from the extended…
September 24, 2007
Joe’s Book of the Month very first book club meeting is officially underway. So I’ll kick things off by weighing on this months selections: Hogfather by Terry Pratchett, and Excessions by Iain M. Banks.HOGFATHERLet me begin by saying I’m a big Terry Pratchett fan. This is the sixth book in the Discworld series I have…
September 23, 2007
I received the following email from my surprisingly persistent pen pal (and dedicated scammer) James Williams:“Dear Cookie Monster, Good day, how are you doing?why have you not respond back to my mail for the past 1week now, i want yu to know that this transaction is for real and is legistimate okay so just get…
September 22, 2007
Fondy returned from her business trip to Las Vegas last night bearing gifts - toys for the dogs and chocolates for me. I dedicated last night and this afternoon to sampling the impressive selection of Vosges truffles. After all, it says right on the boxes: “Please consume within 2 weeks of purchase”. Two weeks. Two…
September 21, 2007
One of the great things about being out on location for first call is that it allows you to experience some of the wonderful, God-given things in life that you may customarily overlook or take for granted. Things like 5:00 a.m. for example. Yes, there’s nothing quite like the sight and sensation of the sun’s…
September 20, 2007
The new Fall season kicked off for me last night with two new shows I‘d been meaning to check out: Kid Nation and Ramsay‘s Kitchen Nightmares. I made it approximately ten minutes into Kid Nation before it dawned on me - “Hey, why the hell am I watching this? I hate kids!”. Now, if the…
September 19, 2007
Poor Carl. He’s been burned by our chocolate practical jokes so many times that he now views the most innocuous-looking squares with the utmost suspicion. There was the time I failed to tell him that the dark chocolate bar he was about to taste concealed pieces of sinus-blasting peppercorns. And the time I suggested he…
September 18, 2007
Well, given the flash hailstorm that pounded Burnaby today (catching Marty G. and I on our way to post to finish cutting Harmony) I think I’ll declare Summer officially over. Though, to be fair, it seems as though it slipped out the back several weeks ago when no one was looking. Now, we can look…
September 17, 2007
Hmmmmmmmmmm. I didn’t think I’d make it today. Well, since I’m here…I finished up my morning work-out at a little after 7:00 a.m. and stepped into the adjoining theater room. I caught a whiff of Lulu’s “little accident” before I actually saw it. And, quite frankly, it was impossible to miss given that she had…
September 16, 2007
Given the number of Japanese restaurants in this city, Vancouver serves up a wide range of quality when it comes to sushi, everything from artistically sublime to alarmingly suspect. Kitto Sushi on Granville Street falls somewhere firmly in between, serving up mediocre Japanese fare not good enough to recommend yet not bad enough to avoid.…
September 15, 2007
The nerve of some people. After extending an invitation to email scammer Patrick Chan to join me (Percival H. Lintmuffin) at the Mid-Summer Folklore, Renaissance, Civil War Re-enactment and Goat Gelding Festival, I received no response. The festival came and went. Then, the other day, I received an email from Patrick wondering why I hadn’t…
September 14, 2007
Even though my birthday is over a month away, Carl took me out last night for a very early birthday dinner. Why? Because Carl is a generous fellow and a very good friend - who no doubt has considered the possibility that I might keep him in Vancouver long after our wrap date in order…
September 13, 2007
I returned to work to find not one but two director’s cuts AND a final mix awaiting me. Kudos to Joel Goldsmith on his terrific score for This Mortal Coil. This one is really special. Andy’s director’s cut of Midway is a lot of fun and chock full of action. Watch the big guys throw…
September 12, 2007
ROAD TRIP!!! Today, I packed up the wife and dog and drove to Bellingham, Washington where Lulu (the dog, not the wife) underwent eye surgery. It took us roughly two and a half hours to make the journey, half of it spent at the Peace Arch border waiting to cross into the U.S.. We killed…
September 11, 2007
A big thank you to all of the well-wishers and concerned fans who responded to my last blog entry with words of support and great personal anecdotes. To be perfectly honest, yesterday was really no better or worse than any other day but thanks for the words of support nevertheless. In retrospect, they have made…