DVD pics

Hey everyone!!

I know I am behind on the pics for DVD’s as I have a small stack of envelopes in my office that need a picture and then to be sent.

I will get on this when I get back from Germany. The problem was that I ran out of pics, ordered more, got them the day before Calgary, ran out of them in Calgary and I have now ordered more which will be here waiting for me when I get home from Germany.

So, thank you all so much for your support, your DVD’s and, most importantly, your patience. I will get them to you, I promise.

Thanks all.

PS. For those of you who will be in Germany at Fedcon…. I cannot wait. I leave for the plane in 5 hours from the time I am writing this.
;-)

PPS. Sorry I have taken so long to write this note as well. I re-did my computer, it logged me out of LJ, I couldn’t remember the password, I had to, once again, get Michelle to come to my rescue… blah blah blah….

Charity

A very good friend of mine, one of the producers of Battlestar Galactica, lost her father last week to Cancer.

You all know my penchant for helping cancer agencies raise awareness and money but this time I would like to go in a different direction. She sat with her father for a few weeks in the palliative care unit of Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, she said the care was exceptional, the nurses tremendous, loving, caring and sweet. Anyone who has sat in a hospital day after day with a loved one who is seriously ill knows how tedious and boring it can become. Lions Gate Hospital has in-room televisions but cable is $15 per day. That does not sound like much but if you are there for a few weeks it adds up quickly. So I had an idea, portable DVD players and a library of DVD’s for patients and their loved ones. So I am going to start a DVD drive. New ones, used ones, whatever you have. I know I have dozens of DVD’s on my shelf that I will never use again, won at the pub and will never watch or was given and will never watch again…. Battlefield Earth…. ugh….. ;-) I am going to start with Lions Gate Hospital in North Vancouver, fill it up and move to another. I am going to contact several of the electronic companies and see if anyone is in the mood to donate 15 (there are 15 rooms in the palliative care ward) portable DVD players in exchange for some press from me. As for you, the incredible fans, if you send me a DVD donation with a self addressed stamped return envelope (large enough for an 8X10) I will send you a signed Battlestar Galactica Chief picture or a new shot of me on The Bridge (man in uniform…ha). So grab something off your shelf, out of the dollar bin at Walmart, steal if from your little brother… ok don’t do that… steal one from Lowenthal, he can afford it and send it to me. I will collect them all, give them to my friend and she will build a library for the hospital.

Thanks everyone, I know you get bombarded with donation requests but at least with this one you’ll get something back. Just tell me which pic you would prefer.

Send to me at:
Aaron Douglas
C/O Pacific Artists
685-1285 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC
Canada
V6H3X8

EDIT: If you are outside USA/Canada, yes you can donate DVDs. I believe the portable dvd players will be multi-region players.

And if anyone has a contact with one of the manufacturers of these types of products let me know. I am thinking SONY or Panasonic or some company like that.

EDIT #2: Update on SSAE (Stamped Self-Addressed Envelope). pipsi_pirate went to a Post Office in Canada to ask out about SSAE. This is what she found out ….. “looks like IRCs are the only way to go – there is no way that canada post will accept foreign stamps :(“

EDIT #3: Reading this again I feel that it appears as though this was wholly my idea. I want to clarify something which I did not include in the first posting. I left out the name of my friend and her father with the notion that I was protecting her and her family from the public knowing personal stuff about them. I did not check with my friend about this and I have found out I was wrong to leave them out. She wants to do this for the hospital in the name of her father, a great man named Richard McArthur. The germ of this idea, the DVD players, the library, etc was the idea of his daughter and my friend Sian. We talked about that idea and came up with the rest of the plan. Other than that the only thing I contributed was taking it to my generous and amazing fans. So, if anyone asks what this is about please tell them that you are doing it for the legacy of Richard McArthur, a wonderful man and father.

Thanks

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DJ Otzi

OH MY GOD!!!!!!!

I was tooling around the internet this morning looking for a fan compilation of Tyrol and I came across this video called Anton Sur Tyrol by DJ Otzi. I started to watch it and was stunned 30 seconds in. It is SO much fun.
DJ Otzi is Austrian, I have never heard of him, I have no idea what he is saying but he is just great and I am loving this music.
Everyone go check out DJ Otzi, I am sure there are many of you in Europe who have known about him for years but he is new to me.
Have fun with it.

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Hey All

How is everyone?

I am still in Toronto doing 14 hours a day 5 days a week working on The Bridge. It is looking really good and will be out sometime in the fall. I will keep you posted with new information when I get it, particularly a start date.

CBS has been wonderful and tremendously supportive and I could not be happier being a part of the CBS family.

I hope you are all very well and yes I am still planning on going to DC this year with my brother and friends but this year I am purely a fan, no guest stuff for me. I miss out on too much fun when I have to do all of the guest stuff. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I am still among the living and to say hi.

Be well

AD

need a little time

Hey kids, I am going to get to this but please just give me a bit of time.
I have a million things going on right now and on top of it I am going to Seattle for a con this weekend then I am moving to Toronto next week for the new show.

I will answer all of these but it is going to take a bit.

Thanks for understanding.

love you all

AD

hey kids

NYCC hey??!?!!?

Super fun. For those of you who I met, thank you for coming by, it was a great time.

I want to thank Canada Fan Expo for having me at the table for a couple of days and also for sitting me beside the incredibly beautiful, amazingly sweet, absolutely lovely and make my heart skip a beat Marina Sirtis.

If you are interested in a great con, make the trip to Toronto for Fan Expo in late August.

I just have to say that the guy running the tables at NYCC was a total jackass in the way he dealt with Yuri and I and kicked us off of our table at the end of our signing. He was also rude and physically pushy with the fans that were left in my line. Yuri and I were furious and if you were one of those fans I would like to apologize for that treatment. I will not be working with that ass again. I thought I was at a creation con (eeeeew I cannot believe I said it out loud) for a moment there.

Anyway, enough of that.

I love NY. What a great town.

Most of you know my dealings with Quantas Air and Air Canada. I would like to add US Airways to this list. Also I would like to add one customer service representative, the woman at the counter of the 9 pm flight from Salt Lake to Seattle on Tuesday January 20th (although the only service she provided was rudeness, unwillingness to be helpful, unprofessionalism and an awful attitude) from Delta. Get a new job ma’am, you clearly are unhappy in this one.

On the good list goes the incredible people who worked the gate of my SkyWest flight out of Salt Lake that was cancelled. They were so professional and helpful.

And….if you have to fly anywhere and Cathay Pacific flies anywhere near to where you are going…GET ON THAT PLANE. I have never experienced quality of service, friendliness of staff, a better meal, a more comfortable plane, better entertainment or a more positive overall experience than whenever I fly Cathay Pacific. They set the standard for what an airline should be. The rest pale…except Alaska Air and Westjet… they are pretty frakkin good too.

That is my rant and my news for today.

be well

AD

My old band

Well, kind of……

I was in a band in high school and two of the guys have gone on to be very successful in the business community and have stayed together making music and their first album is FRAKKING awesome!!

They are Desert Radio. The album is Asleep At The Wheel.

It is a real rockabilly hard edge CD and is a must buy.

It is on itunes but has naughty language so be careful.

If you buy the CD, bring it to a con and show me, I will write whatever you want on the picture you choose. ha

They do have a MySpace page so go check em out. No, these are not the Town Pants and the music could not be more different.

If I have my way, a Desert Radio song called James Dean will make it into my new show.

And they are just about to start recording the 2nd album so if you get this one you can say that you were listening to these guys WAY before anyone else.

Check them out…. Desert Radio…. My boys are Patrick Aldous and Scott Larson…. two very close friends from high school and now.

If you don’t, I will not reveal the 5th Cylon, I will send Heavy Raiders to your houses and I will pull some strings at Scifi and have the final eps begin airing in 2014, although they might just decide to do that anyway…..

thanks kids

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Someone is bugging me….

to do another QandA online for all my peeps.

If you guys want to do that I have some time over the next couple of days. I will check back here from time to time and answer what I can.

Just know that if you ask anything about anything unaired it will go unanswered, I simply cannot talk about the rest of the show.

I will say one thing about it, it is amazing! You will love it so watch it as soon as possible.

Also, I did a journal of my last month on BSG, shooting the last 2 episodes, life on set, life away from set, what we had for lunch, etc… Does anyone think there will be any interest in reading that after the show has completely aired?

Let me know.

Enjoy the show kids

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Remembrance/Veterans Day

It doesn’t matter where you live, what country you are from, what religion you are, what color you are or where you performed your service.

This is a profoundly important day.

My heart, thoughts, support and genuine gratitude and appreciation goes out to all the men and women in the armed forces.

I think of you everyday but especially on this day.

I think of you and the men and women you have served with and hold dear in your hearts and minds.

It can never be overstated the work you men and women do, selflessly, courageously, honorably and sometimes to the ultimate end.

You are my heroes.

Thank you thank you thank you

Aaron

My Angels

So there I am, at Dragoncon, the greatest of all American conventions, when suddenly before me is a gaggle of gorgeous giggling girls (say that 10 times really fast) who have come to wish me happy birthday. I am presented with a gift, not just a gift but something so wonderful, so special, so well thought out and planned that I am still speechless when I think about it, use it and show it off to my friends who invariably respond with, “No frakkin’ way!”

My Angels, Aaron’s Angels, gave me an iPod touch inscribed with, “Happy Birthday Aaron Love Aarons Angels XOX” for my birthday.

Ladies, and gentleman, thank you thank you thank you.

I am still learning the ins and outs of it and the one I was presented with in Atlanta would not interface with my ….Cylon…ness so I had to return it but the new one has just arrived, inscribed as the last, and it is AWESOME!!!!

I get nothing done all day now though because I sit around and play SLOTS on the thing… ha

You all know who you are and I am so very grateful to have you all in my life, from all over the world. You are all very special to me and although I have left Scif-fi, at least for a while, I will never leave my sci-fi fans and especially my Angels.

Thank you all so very much.

Your love and attention means the world to me. I really value all of you and your place in my life.

Thank you my Angels.

Aaron