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Just a quick update on The History Channel project I'm working on. I saw the completed first episode (as it will appear on TV), and it's pretty good! I am however, not in the credits. I probably won't be in the credits for the second episode either. I came late to the production while "Gold" & "Salmon" were well underway. But I'm hopeful that you will spot my name starting with episode three. There have been a few personnel changes over the past week too, and I have been given my date of separation. They will reach a point where my services are no longer needed and all the episodes are "in the can". The good news with this change in status is that I have a new job title: Associate Producer (woohoo!). I am now assigned to specific episode/editor/producer teams. I will be the guy they go to for research, fact checking, script reviews, footage reviews, coffee & donuts, etc. More money you ask? Sorry to say no. But that's ok, I'...

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The good folks at Moore Huntley have decided to keep me on another two months. Hooray for a steady paycheck! I’ll still be working as a Production Assistant, but now I’m working directly with the Writers/Editors/Producers doing research, fact checking, reviewing scripts and footage, etc. It’s a step up from where I was, and it’s been a lot of fun so far. So here’s to two more months and looking for my name in the credits this spring - cheers!

So last Thursday’s episode could have caused a headache am I right? Aye brotha, it was time-trippy, mind-bending fun! OK, so the island can cause time-travel like behavior... what!?!? Penny's Father is looking for the island (and the “Black Rock”?)... Why?!?! Ben's "inside man" on the ship is helping Sayid & Desmond, and he has got to be Michael... right?!?! (And speaking of the freighter, those guys are seriously creepy am I right? What’s up with that?) The electro-magnetic storms that circle the island kept the crew of the "Black Rock" from leaving, kept Desmond from sailing away, crashed flight 815, what or who else has been trapped on that island?!?! Desmond is Faraday’s ‘constant’; will we see more time-travel interaction with past and future Desmond? (I hope so!) Not to mention the tug on the heart strings as Desmond fights to reach Penny before he loses his mind then dies. Which he did, then didn't... we were so relieved that he lived at the e...

SO?!? Did you see it?!? If you were watching LOST last night like you were supposed to be, then you saw this... That's right, IT. WILL. BE. AWESOME!

Well we are of course! With the WGA strike ending just in time, we’ll be treated to the greatest and (ridiculously) longest awards show of the season. So in honor of these honors I’m giving you my quick-picks for some winners. The envelope please… Best Picture: “No Country For Old Men” Best Directing: “No Country For Old Men” Original Screenplay: “Juno” Actor: Daniel Day Lewis Actress: Julie Christie Animated Feature: Ratatouille That’s it for the quick picks. To play our home edition, surf on over to oscar.com and print out a ballot, then tune in to the Oscar telecast on Sunday evening and try to stay awake til the end, I dare ya!

I started work yesterday at Moore Huntley Productions. My position is a cross between a Production Assistant and an Assistant Editor, it’s weird. Moore Huntley is producing a 13-episode documentary series called “Tougher in Alaska”, it will air on The History Channel in the spring (no date yet). And since I’m obviously not in Alaska I’ll be working in the Post-Production department at their offices in Sudbury, MA. My job(s) will include tape transcription, tape logging and occasionally sitting with producers to review footage and pull clips that they will use for their segments. And as a P.A. I’m sure I’ll be doing anything and everything else that needs doing! Some of you might remember that I interned with Moore Huntley a while ago. I went off and did a couple of short film projects and had just wrapped the last one this past Saturday. Well doesn’t the phone ring on Monday, it’s the show producer at Moore Huntley asking if I would be interested in coming back full time. The timing co...