Boy, if there was a fight on which I could have developed deep vein thrombosis, last night’s red-eye from Los Angeles to Toronto was it. I napped in about fifty five minute installments over the course of those four and a half hours, drifting off and starting awake, fingers numb, legs aching, back and neck [...]
Archive for April, 2011
April 30, 2011: The L.A. Breakdown: Returning on the Red Eye! A Ben & Jerry’s Bonanza! Skirting the Picket Line! Dinner at Craft Restaurant!
Posted in Food, tagged Craft Restaurant on April 30, 2011 | 40 Comments »
April 29, 2011: A brief trip to L.A.
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2011 | 48 Comments »
Our flight got into Los Angeles twenty minutes late and, by the time we hit baggage claim, it was past 11:00 p.m. local time (2:00 a.m. for us). We were exhausted and looking forward to that nice, quiet, relaxing ride to our hotel. Yessirree. Once we’d located our driver, it would be smoooooooth sailing. Well, [...]
April 28, 2011: Maintaining my constant Defcon 1 status!
Posted in Dogs, Film and Television, Food, Transporter: The Series, Uncategorized on April 28, 2011 | 46 Comments »
Taking a little break from my Stargate ponderings to shift focus to the new show, Transporter: The Series. This morning, we welcomed our new continuity director… Then, it was three successive interviews with some potential Directors of Photography, THIS massive lunch sandwich – And a futile attempt to get some work done on my latest [...]
April 27, 2011: Sunshine! And the SG-1 season 4 trip-down-memory-lane wrap-up!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, Uncategorized, tagged Stargate, Stargate: SG-1 on April 27, 2011 | 36 Comments »
Apparently, Alexander has discovered the source of all my recent problems (the jet flight I was denied, the payment I’m yet to be reimbursed for, the recent damage to my car, my VISA being compromised – to name just a few). According to Alexander, it’s my attitude. I’m just getting back what I put out [...]
April 26, 2011: Since arriving in Toronto I’ve suddenly become the protagonist in a Lemony Snicket book!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, Stargate Universe, Transporter: The Series, tagged Stargate: SG-1 on April 26, 2011 | 51 Comments »
Looking forward to hearing everyone’s comments on the latest (and one of the last remaining) episode of Stargate: Universe, Epilogue. In retrospect, it would have been a nice way to conclude the show but, alas, at the time, we were looking at Gauntlet as the season ender, not a series ender (more on that when [...]
April 25, 2011: Spicy fingers! Fan Wars! Further Toronto-induced Headaches! And More SG-1 4th Season Memories!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, tagged Stargate: SG-1 on April 25, 2011 | 70 Comments »
Hey, you know what they apparently don’t have in Japan? Long hot peppers! How do I know? Well, the other night we were at Fondy’s house and Akemi volunteered to clean the hot green peppers we had set aside for dinner. Unbeknownst to either Fondy or I, rather than use gloves or simply use a [...]
April 24, 2011: Days of Stargate Past – SG-1 Season Four!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, tagged Stargate: SG-1 on April 24, 2011 | 40 Comments »
Special Features Producer Ivon Bartok started on the franchise around the same time we did. Back then, though, he wasn’t doing Special Features. He was just a recent Toronto-transplant looking to land a job as an assistant to Gecko Films Corp., a partnership between actor Richard Dean Anderson and Executive Producer Michael Greenburg. I remember [...]
April 23, 2011: Days of Stargate Past – SG-1 Season Four!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, tagged Stargate: SG-1 on April 23, 2011 | 45 Comments »
So, in yesterday’s blog entry, I offered up a short but sweet summary of my rise from humble animation freelancer to landing a gig on the biggest television production in Canada. I had uprooted, wife and dog in tow, and joined my writing partner, Paul, on a west coast adventure that – at the time, [...]
April 22, 2011: Days of Stargate Past!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, Stargate Universe, Uncategorized on April 22, 2011 | 64 Comments »
Before I get into my Stargate reminiscences, a little update on the V1 Jets front. For the full preamble, check out my April 19th entry (April 19, 2011: V1 Jets). In short: I booked a flight through V1 Jets, followed their instructions and sent them a wire payment but, since the wire payment did not reach [...]
April 21, 2011: Closing up the Stargate shop :( ! Mailbag!
Posted in Film and Television, Stargate, Stargate Universe, Transporter: The Series on April 21, 2011 | 71 Comments »
Received an email from the lovely Tanja yesterday. She was our production coordinator for many, many years of the Stargate franchise and was in the offices the other day to coordinate the final wrap. Apparently, it was a very melancholy vibe as work began on de-rigging Stage 5 first. Stage 5, as you may or [...]
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