August 31, 2010: Destiny! Truffles! Jelly! And Curt!

The model Destiny sitting in Brad’s office is pretty sweet but, as nice as it looks, the fact that it is under glass kind of defeats the purpose.  ”How do I get it out of there?”Brad asked the other day.  The short answer: “You don’t.”.  What Brad was looking for was not so much a [...]

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August 30, 2010: The Greatest Lou Diamond Phillips Interview Ever!

I was introduced to him in La Bamba, enjoyed his work in Young Guns, and positively loved his performance as the scheming Cisco in the under-appreciated The Big Hit- but it’s been his latest role as Stargate: Universe’s Colonel David Telford that has made me a HUGE Lou Diamond Phillips fan, partly because he’s so [...]

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August 29, 2010: Chocolate Day!

Well, damn.  I delayed publishing today’s entry in the hopes that I could also include pics of my last three truffle creations but, presumably because of the booze content in each, they haven’t firmed up sufficiently enough for molding.  So, it looks like it’ll have to wait until tomorrow.  Or maybe Tuesday because tomorrow’s entry [...]

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August 28, 2010: A model Destiny! Checking in with Marty G.! Burgers! Frenchies! Chocolates! And the mailbag!

Hey, check out what was delivered to Brad’s office yesterday afternoon… Chotto cool, n’est ce pas?  I plan to head back to Brad’s office Monday morning while he’s away on a scout and shatter the glass case so I can take some better pictures. Hey, I spoke to Golden Boy Martin Gero today.  He says [...]

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August 27, 2010: Cookies By George! Dinner with Lisa! Officely happenings!

I was sitting in Ashleigh’s office this morning, feigning interest in her pre-breakfast post-coffee blather, when Co-Production Coordinator David Magee walked in bearing gifts. As it turns out, I was incorrect in my initial assumption that David, out of the goodness of his heart, had gone out and bought me a present (although there’s still [...]

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August 26, 2010: Location scout! In and around the offices! Jelly’s progress! Orange Dog!

I hopped out of my car this morning and was about to head upstairs when I noticed some dress blues on display in the costumes department… I didn’t recall seeing O’Neill in any of the upcoming scripts and asked SGU’s Costume Designer, Val Halverson, what was up.  Was Richard Dean Anderson make a secret guest [...]

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August 25, 2010: Our VFX team! Behind the scene pics! Ashleigh’s Unsolicited Advice!

Well as most of you have probably heard, our terrific Visual Effects team led by Mark Savela was not nominated not one but TWO visual effects Emmy Awards but, alas, didn’t bring home the gold (plating).  I didn’t see the effect sequences that won, but I have seen the ones that didn’t and – well, [...]

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August 24, 2010: That comic book project!

I received an email this morning from the editor of our upcoming comic book project.  He informs me he’s looking into artists and wondered whether Paul and I were a) familiar with scripting for comics and, if not, b) required what he referred to as a “comics writing 101″ he could send our way.  I [...]

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August 23, 2010: Sushi at home! More Art Department pics! The power of positive denial! Mailbag!

Last night, Akemi made dinner… She used a little sugar and vinegar for the sushi rice and some sushi-grade fish from Seafood City in the Granville Island Market (where owner, Brian, was more than happy to offer helpful advice, and clean and slice the fish to Akemi’s specifications).  It was an outstanding meal. It’s rare [...]

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August 22, 2010: Author Daryl Gregory makes a return visit to discuss the Kirby-Lee gene, the mystifying popularity of the Kardashians, and, oh yeah, his novel The Devil’s Alphabet!

A couple of months ago, Lou Anders sent me an advance copy of Masked.  It was for proofreading purposes, of course, but I couldn’t wait to check out the other stories in the collection.  Most were contributions from well-known talents.  A few were from authors I was unfamiliar with – Daryl Gregory for one. Well, [...]

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