... in winter where you are, apparently it has nothing on Tasmania. *g*

New poster/artwork out for "Arctic Blast". Bigger version in the usual spot. :-)








Enjoy!

Mon

... I always wanted to be... a lumberjack!

... newsbytes up on the news page, photos to follow from the lovely Paul and Michelle Harvath as soon as I catch up on some sleep.

In the usual spot.


Enjoy!


mon

... in now up on the Blast Magazine website. Also has a short-ish article (with a few quotes) and several photos (ripped straight from MSOL going by the file names. *g*)

Have it downloaded if anyone has trouble downloading. :-)



mon

... in now online at the Huffington Post, and interview 'outtakes' are on the reporter's blog.

Subjects covered: Smallville, Sanctuary, Stargate... anything beginning with 'S'. ;-)


Details in the usual spot.


Enjoy!

Mon

... and welcome to another really, really short lecture in the "Stargate 101" curriculum.

I'm not kidding when I say short. Seriously, if my university lectures had all been this short, I'd have about 2,000 PhD's by now and not the 100 or so I already have.

Did you know I also speak more than 23 languages?

Yes, I really am that smart.

Yet ironically I'm the bunny - okay, Jack, the *cute* bunny - they nominated to do these training videos. You'd think they'd have something more productive for me to do with my invaluable time, eh? I mean, save the world, do a training video. In what universe does that make sense? Seriously, what the heck would I know about Hyperspace? You're better off asking General Jack O'Neill about that one.

Hmm.. on second thought maybe not.

Anyway, where were we? Oh yes... another lecture. ::sigh:: Right...



These are *my* fish. There were some other fish in this office for a short while when I was... well, let's just say in another place - in fact, we're here to talk about that very subject! - but these fish aren't them. They met with an unfortunate accident. Let's just call that accident "Jack".



Back to the subject at hand. But before we get into it, let me just go for a walk....




....this way you can see the other side of my office, and a few of the many papers I've written about the things I've discovered while working on the Stargate program. Unfortunately you can't find any of my work published anywhere because it's all top secret, but trust me, they make good reading.

Shut up, Jack.

Where was I?



[Director's note: Lecturer to walk by big screen TV, pull back shoulders, put hands in pockets and thereby open up jacket to reveal well-developed torso... ]


Jack, why am I standing like this? Oh good grief, don't you ever get enough?

Er, forget I asked.

So... Ascension. The short version is, "ascension" is when somebody mortal gets to go all glowy. The human consciousness...



...which is apparently located somewhere near our large intestine....



... becomes pure energy and actually rises to a higher plane of existence... or at least to the top edge of your television scre...

Jack! What the hell did I tell you about messing with my notes??!



Anyway.

Usually it takes several thousand years for humans to get to that state naturally, but now again a less-evolved person can be ascended by other ascended beings.



Yes, Jack, it could even happen to you. 


Now I'm going to raise my eyebrows and...


... I'm also going to get closer to the camera.


You might think it's because I'm about to reveal something really personal.


And the way the camera moves in closer to me...


... you'd be forgiven for thinking it's purely for dramatic effect as I tell you....


... Ascension? Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Well, the funky inter-galactic/higher plain robe, anyway. And I could talk loads about it if we had more tape.

No, Jack, I don't know why we're still using video tapes. Maybe it's because we've blown the budget on running the Stargate and we don't have enough money left to buy a digital video card and an external hard drive.


Anyway... the eyebrow thing? The close up? It's all preparation for my delivery of the most important part of this lecture.

Seriously, it's really important.

Are you taking notes?

Ready?

Here goes...




The end

Lecture title: "Dr. Daniel Jackson on flirti... er, Ascension".
Directed by: General Jack O'Neill.

:-)

... when I'm not in the field working my ass off  - yes, Jack, I know you think it's a pretty ass, thank you - most of the time you can find me hanging around General Jack O'Neill's apartment - we're just friends, of course... shut up, Jack, this is being recorded... but now and again I also haunt the hallowed halls of Stargate Command and, most particularly, my office.

You can tell this is my office because it has lots of books in it. Lots and lots of books...

Not convinced? Give me a second....




... let me just put this book down.... and no, I don't know why I have a book titled "Genetics" on my shelf.... just as well you can't read the rest of the titles, God only knows what the prop department found to fill up my shelves with...




... and now we can go for a stroll and you can see quite plainly I have a lot of books. Lots and lots of books.  I even wrote one myself... or I will, one day. Maybe... depending on whether Ba'al does that whole time-warpy thing.

Anyway, where were we? Yes, Jack, I know we're in my office... don't be so literal. Okay, yes, I like it when you're literal about *that* but... oh shut up, I'm trying to deliver a lecture here.

Anyway....




As well as a lot of books, the occasional earthenware jar and a few relics - no, not you, Jack - I also have a big screen TV. All archeologists have big screen TVs because while they're studying their relics - Jack, shut up - they occasionally like to watch por er, research tapes to check their facts. And as you can see, I'm somewhat visually impaired so I need a big one... er, TV that is.

Ahem.



This is a ship. It's owned by bad guys called the Lucian Alliance. Yes, Jack, the guys that wear lots of leather. Yes, Jack, I still have those leather pants.... later, Jack, later.



Jack, change the picture. Next slide Jack. Come on, do you want to be here all day?



That's better. See, these ships used to be owned by the Goa.... Goa'... over-dressed bad guys with symbiotes in their heads. We beat them so the Lucian Alliance were able to pick up the left over ships at a inter-stellar junk-yard sale. And no, I don't know why we didn't go out and get a few for ourselves given we went to so much effort to steal one back in the day. Stop nitpicking.



Um.... No, Jack, it wouldn't be practical. Where would we park it? And can you imagine trying to keep it clean? You don't like washing the car, Jack.

Next picture Jack... Jack...



Right... just in case you didn't get the message, here's some more pictures of ships the Lucian Alliance grabbed. Either that or it's a matt painting from Stargate Worlds... you know, that MMMMMMORPG that's due out... whenever.




The bad guys spend a lot of time blowing stuff up, and painting corn husks for Thanksgiving which they then use for... hang on... Jack, did you alter my notes? Jack??!! Jack, come back here!!



Oh, forget it. Want to know about the Lucian Alliance, go watch "Prometheus Unbound" - where I met a feisty little minx named Vala - "The Ties That Bind" - where I look fetching in all leather pants - "Off The Grid", and a few more episodes of a brilliant little series called "Stargate SG-1". Take notes, kids, there's a test on Friday.

And now I'm outta here! Gotta go catch... er, catch up with a certain wayward General.

:-)

Needless to say, there's a new vid on the MGM website. :-)


Mon

... of the latest MSOL auction. The end is in sight, there's a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully it's not an oncoming train. *g*

A last lot of items going up tonight (my time)... but in the meantime a quick glance at stuff that went up in the last batch:


Michael's double script for "First Contact" and "The Lost Tribe"





... one more pic of Michael and David Hewlett (different signature from the first one):

... what up with that? *g*

Taking a break from auction stuff to have an early-ish night, so catching up on some other online stuff. :-)

Have done a new update today, and added - finally! - the DVD of the original movie that Kurt Russell signed - check out the signature:



... Stargate magazine signed by Michael, Amanda, Chris, Claudia, Ben and Beau:

... such is June these days! *g*  But the MSOL auction seems to be going well thus far - fingers crossed!

Thank you to all who've bid and spread the news, and big thanks to the wonderful Cats, Whisper and SueB for the behind-the-scenes support. :-)

Did an update a few hours ago, and getting ready to prep the next, but in the meantime thought I'd post here what a few of the updates have been today:

An 8x10 of Michael and Rick, signed by Michael: (no further description needed, really *g*):





Michael's script from the Burn Notice ep, "Sins of Omissions" - contains the usual notes and markings, but also - on the back of one page - Michael's notes for the choreography of a fight scene (presumably between he and Jeffrey Donovan):




A 10x8" photo (a rare one!) from Desperate Escape:



A rare Supernatural magazine - boys on the cover with none of the funky printing over their pretty faces! - signed by both Jared and Jensen:




And lots more!

Details in the usual spot.

If you're passing the info around, you can use the direct page link.

So, by Thursday night I'd run out of 'already prepped' auction items to upload, so spent a frantic few hours last night prepping the remaining of the next batch of 20... all the while trying to find out from eBay - for the fifth time in the last 24 hours - why 2 of them items listed the previous night were not appearing in the "view seller's other items" view.

Finally - FINALLY - got somebody who would actually investigate the issue (and not refer me to technical support, who sent me an email referring me back to Live Help).

Get this... hold on to your hat.... it seems that in the eBay universe the word "shit" is profane. So of course having described one photo that had a signature from Michael saying "Holy Shit I'm Claudia Black!", the word "shit" came up in their alerts, and they decided not to make it searchable.

This meant that the only people who were seeing the item listed on eBay were those who went to the item listing specifically through the MSOL link. No other search for anything related to Michael, Stargate or anything else would have found it.

Compounding this problem was the fact that I wrote a moderately funny description based on the whole "Daniel/Vala checking out Mitchell's ass" thing from the episode. Apparently the word "ass" is also profane.

:: head desk ::

And - this will amuse even further. The other item that was missing from the view list was an SPN comic and T-shirt... missing because I had mistyped "shirt" and put... yep, you guessed it, "shit."

:: double head desk ::

Now, you'd think, given it wouldn't have materially changed the item description, that I could have gone into the entries and made it "s**t, and fixed the type, and maybe made the "ass" word "butt". Noooooo, that would have been too simple!  Nope, had to cancel the listings, and start again if we wanted them to appear.

OY!

So I cancelled the photo... left the other one alone cos it was doing pretty well for that item.

So... for anybody who was bidding on the "Holy Shit" photo.... or should I make that "Holy S**t" *g*


it now has a new link on eBay, and does appear in the item view for MSOL. .


For anybody following the SPN comic signed by Samantha Smith (and the bonus T-shit *g*)...



it's where it was originally.

If you're into SPN, please spread the word on that one. :-)

For now, I'm going to take out my frustration in the pool, and come back and hopefully be de-stressed enough to focus on prepping the next 20 for tonight.  *g*

::wandering off and muttering about a universe where "shit" is profane. ::


Bests to all! :-)


Mon

... LIVE!

The first lot of 20 items have been loaded to eBay, and include:

* Michael's Burn Notice "Bad Blood" shooting script... with lots of notes (and signed of course!)

* A Shanks/Hewlett photo, signed by both - and check out the signatures *g*

* A Misha Collins/Castiel/SPN piccie, signed by the lad

* A Desperate Escape DVD and photos - signed

and a whole lot more!

Details in the usual spot. :-)

Go, look, bid if you want... and please spread the word! (thank you!)



*hugs* to all

Mon

... to benefit the MS Society of Canada, goes live Monday, 8 June.

Details on today's update on MSOL.

Please feel free - and please do - spread the word, especially to anywhere people might be interested in:

Stargate SG-1
Stargate Atlantis
Burn Notice
Supernatural
Star Trek
Firefly/Serenity
Farscape
Battlestar Galactica
Torchwood
Lord Of The Rings
Twilight
Andromeda

Oh... and that Shanks dude. *g*

Thanks, all!


Mon

... well, he's already a winner, but the photos are now available. :-)






More info - and link to more pics - in the usual spot. :-)

Thanks to Tina on the MS list, have added a link to (and grabbed a copy of) an excerpt vid clip from the Season 2 Burn Notice DVD commentary MIchael has done.

Details in the usual spot.

Coming soon - clips from Desperate Escape. :-)



mon

The lovely Mare sent me a DVD of Living Out Loud, so spent the last couple of days ripping and compiling clips from the film.

A couple a still in the process of uploading - ah, the joys of ADSL! - but fwiw, I've just added about a dozen of the clips to MSOL. The clips are of various length, and are of scenes featuring Michael (obviously!)

Needless to say, beware spoilers if you haven't seen the film yet. :-)

Links on the news page.

Enjoy!

Night all!


Mon

... for 'Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama', for "Stargate: Continuum".

Yay! :-)

Congrats, Michael! :-)

A few more details in the usual spot, though more news/details (and hopefully photos!) to come in the next day or so!



mon

... it's "intelligent world population", according to Michael. :-)

Michael was interviewed by phone recently by a gal from the Apex Book Company. The interview covers such subjects as "Living Out Loud", "Burn Notice" and Michael's status as a "genre icon". Oh, and MSOL gets a mention, too.

Details and a link in the usual spot. :-)


Mon

*iz sad*

We're all mere mortals, but I can't help feeling sometimes that people like Dom, Don and the like should be immortal, immune to those things that bring the rest of us down from the perch.

:-(

Anywho, did an update on MSOL (though of course most will have read it elsewhere by now, but still...)


Think I'll have to watch "Urgo" tonight. :: sniff ::


mon

With thanks to the lovely Mare, I've just updated MSOL with around 80 screencaps from Living Out Loud. Here's a taste...