It is so funny to read your own history. I was looking at my Facebook notes and found two lists that I made just as I was moving to my mom’s house in Texas from Edinburgh in 2009. At the time I must have still thought that I would move to San Antonio. That was [...]
Ok, I have to appologise to those who love this film because as a Star Wars purist, I find that there is not really enough Star Wars in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) for my taste. I did give it an unbiased second try however because when I first watched Episode [...]
Ok, it may seem strange that I am headed the wrong direction… but my move to Los Angeles is actually part of my journey back to Scotland. I considered very carefully just going back to somewhere in the central belt and getting back into the runners pool at the Beeb, but that would all but [...]
Ars Gratia Artis. That company motto was first brought to my attention sometime in 2006 when I was a member of a pub quiz team called ‘The Oswalds, Ed, and Anne’ (I think that requires no explanation) at the pub in the basement of the Belmont cinema in Aberdeen, Scotland. If memory serves, the question [...]
No, I don’t mean the kind who gets paid to go on holiday, I mean the kind that pays good money to have an industry TELL him or her that he or she is a professional. I suppose it started with Space Tourists, or perhaps with Executive Producers (the kind with lots of private money [...]