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Show business aint all it’s cracked up to be. Sure, from the outside looking in, it may seem like a lot of fun - all glitz and glamour and catered peanut butter brownies - but the truth is that a lot of the time, it can be a fucking headache. Producing television and film is…

Late last year, when I was in the early stages of my scifi novel tear, I had a discussion with Robert Cooper regarding genre fiction. I told him that, given the choice, I’d choose a science fiction novel over a fantasy novel 9 out of 10 times. Scifi literature, I felt, was more intelligent, more…

Regulars to my blog will know that I am a relatively fearless person. With the exception of snakes, komodo dragons, massive script rewrites, and the cursed furry-skinned kiwi fruit, there isn’t much that scares me. Oh, yeah, heights. I really, really hate heights - so I guess that makes me acrophobic (which is either an…

Scheduling snafus abound as the season draws to a close between this issue and that issue and pulling up and pushing back. We all sat in John Smith’s office this afternoon (John Smith, John Lenic, Paul, Carl, Alan, Martin Wood, Andy Mikita, and myself) and went over the seemingly endless scenarios - shifting, switching, scrambling…

Alas, no owl sightings today but I did spot a colorful-looking teamster hanging around the lunch tent. Sadly, however, there was no one around to offer up wildlife commentary. Still it would‘ve been hard to beat David Hewlett‘s reaction upon spotting the owl yesterday. “My invitation to Hogwarts!”he piped up. “It’s finally arrived!”Today, main unit…

A late blog entry today as I was on location at Green Timbers for day #4 of Harmony. A very exciting outing today highlighted by an owl sighting that effectively shut down production. We were in the midst of setting up the next shot when somebody shouted: “Hey! It’s an owl!” And the next thing…

I’m not what you would call a techy guy. If, say, my printer stops working for reasons unknown, the first thing I’ll try is the old unplug/re-plug/try again. If that fails to get it working, I will go to my back up: the pick up and shake. In the unlikely event that a vigorous shaking…

I put the day to good use: sleeping in, working out, reading up, hanging out, and generally lolly-gagging, dilly-dallying, shilly-shallying, dawdling, frittering, and toddling. No, strike that. There was no toddling. Still, it was a fairly relaxing day marked by little of note with the exception of that makeover segment on Oprah. In fact, I…

Happy National Beheading Day! I’m sure you’re all celebrating in your own special ways. For my part, I feted the event with chocolate, a good book, and FilmFocus’s Top 10 Movie Decapitations: http://www.filmfocus.co.uk/specials/topten.asp?id=decapitationsI also made the time to get back to some email scammers. I have been remiss -First, there’s Martin Holme who contacted Margaret…

Today was the big day that Petits Fours Pet Boutique finally opened for business, offering everything from organic food and risque t-shirts to Italian leather leashes and plush pink Cadillac doggy beds. The place has come a long way in a fairly short time. Check out the before and after pics. Better yet, if you…

The package arrived on set today compliments of MGM, a little thank you for my participation in the Comic Con Stargate Atlantis panel. Inside: a glossy 2007 Stargate Atlantis calendar (still good for the last four months of the year!), and a cool Stargate Atlantis mug sporting the following warning “This product contains or may…

The day got off to an exciting start when, at a little after 5:00 a.m. this morning, I scooped up the puppy to hurry her outside for her morning pee only to lose my footing on the darkened landing and take a crazy carpet ride down the stairs - sans crazy carpet. As soon as…

We turned off the main street and onto a back road that snaked through a heavily forested area, endlessly rising, falling, zigging and zagging - nothing but deep, dark wilderness to either side. “It’s beautiful,”remarked Larry, my driver. Hmmm. To me, it looked like an ideal place to dump a murder victim. Eventually, we reached…

When someone walks into your office, gives the place a once-over, and asks: “Was this place hit by a tornado?”, you know it’s time to do a little tidying up. Well as it turned out, I had the opportunity to do a little summer spring cleaning today since my planned outing to Widgen Park for…

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