Richard sent a brief message and a new picture labeled simply "fun."

June 20, 2009

Other than the early episodes of SGU, I got nothin' [being filmed]. Just adventures on the road with trusty BMWR1200GS. Plus, one of my dogs crunched a skunk in front of me late one night recently. Sweet event.

-Rick

The following announcement has been released by GABIT Events:

News Release: June 19, 2009

GABIT Events are thrilled to be able to announce that we have teamed up with our good friends LEGENDS Memorabilia and have been working feverishly to bring you a pair of very special events in Vancouver in 2010.

From 30th July – 1st August 2010 we are pleased to be able to bring you the first Official Sanctuary Event –"The Sanctuary Experience." This event will involve the main cast, directors, writers, and as many of the other talented people at Sanctuary productions who are able to drop in over the course of the weekend. The charity to benefit from this event will be Amanda's new Charity Initiative "Sanctuary for Kids." We will bring you further details about this event shortly.

From 5th – 8th August 2010, we are thrilled to bring you "Meet the Man (MTM)." This will be Richard Dean Anderson's first one man event. The event will kick off on Thursday 5th August with an exclusive cocktail party for 80 lucky Charmed Pass holders. These optional extra ticket upgrades are highly sought after and allow for entry to the cocktail party dinner which Richard will attend and circulate the tables. For all attendees there will then follow three full days of activities. The ticket price will include all the main hall activities as well as one in person autograph from Richard and a professionally taken photograph opportunity for every attendee. The format for the event will be similar to Amanda's GABIT AT Events, with the number of attendees limited to around 350 only.

More details regarding the process for registering your interest in tickets for either of these events and ticket prices will be available shortly.

Please watch the GABIT forum and website (www.gabitevents.co.uk), Legends' website, (www.legends-memorabilia.com), Gateworld’s forums, Amanda’s official website (www.amandatapping.com), and Richard’s official website (rdanderson.com) where any further announcements will be made.

Best wishes
The G4 and the Legends Team

As new information is made available from GABIT, the details can also be found here on rdanderson.com.

Richard dropped by with another message, first to clarify rumors that he might be appearing at an upcoming convention, and secondly to share a bit about his latest motorcycle excursion with two buddies up the California coast. This time, he also shared some pictures of his adventure, which can be seen here.

May 12, 2009

First, to anyone who cares, no, I will NOT be attending the Creation event.

Just back last night from a motorcycle road-trip, four days up through mountains, forests of Sequoia National Park. Windy (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) desert crossings (Mojave) to incredible mountain passes, and a closed pass (Sherman) due to snow 3 feet thick still on roads... I might be able to send you some pictures. Did they make it to you? The two friends are both SCUBA buds as well. Now we are a motorcycle gang: The Muffin Top Gang: MTG.

So, completely fried and needing some extensive napping.

I don't have any other plans other than to start examining possibilities for a year-long (give or take) adventure venture (Adventure Venture; Venture, Adventure (title?)) to "celebrate" my 60th birthday. Yes...60th. I will definitely include a fairly substantial ride aboard my BMW R1200GS, probably around the US, etc.(?)

Other than that little fantasy, I am being an incredible dad to a most spectacular 10 year old daughter. Summer coming I am going to try and get her on the road with me somewhere. It's time she sees a little bit of what daddy sees when he goes trekking about. We'll see.

Going to nap, now.

Richarddd

Richard recently returned from another motorcycle trek up the coast, and he wrote to share a bit of his latest adventure.

April 22, 2009

I was away. My best friend and I miraculously had non-conflicting schedules and took immediate advantage of the anomaly. The following morning we met, trusty steeds 'twixt our knees, rumbling their respective 1200 cc's of vibrating metal for all to.... er.... complain about or envy.

We jumped up the coast for a few days, exploring inland roads just recently or not yet on the maps we referenced occasionally. We actually found our way in TO and out OF a mountainous expanse that dumped us at a lonely, yet manned military gate. I mean, the guy was armed and would not have let us pass without license, insurance, and registration. Meaning, of course, that we would have had to absolutely turn around and reverse our tracks through the mountains we had just survived in the heat of the DAY. We would have faced fading light and darkness all the way out to the coast.

But we made it through... and then at 87 mph I got stung (or bitten) by something, just off center of my spine, about eight inches south of the nape of my neck. Quite a shock and just a tad distracting. Got the bike stopped and was able to strip off my top-side armor just in time for my friend to drive up, come to a stop, and SQUASH some kind of nasty, little, hairy-winged pest, that I am SURE was deathly poisonous and I should have passed into heaven right then and thar! But, I pulled through, only to live on for the next adventure.

Ooops, I just got sleepy and I still must assist Wylie with some homework.

Lovely night,

Rikc

A special Earth Day auction hosted by Charitybuzz was held to benefit the Waterkeeper Alliance, an organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the world's water resources, and an organization for which Richard serves on the Board of Trustees.

Among the items up for auction was an opportunity for a private lunch for two with Richard Dean Anderson on the set of the new "Stargate SG-1" movie in Vancouver. When the auction closed on April 30th, the winning bid for lunch with Richard raised an amazing $46,000 for the Waterkeeper Alliance.

For more information about the work being done to protect water resources, visit the Waterkeeper Alliance website.

Earlier this year, Richard passed on a request for support for the "Polar Bear SOS" campaign of the National Resources Defense Council, an organization designed to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. The NRDC is also working to save wolves from hunters when their federal protections are removed. Richard, an active supporter of the NRDC, forwarded a copy of his newsletter and sent along a message encouraging people to spread the word and to support the "Big Howl" campaign to save the wolves. The link to his forwarded newsletter is below.

April 13, 2009

Will you tell me if this forward gets through in toto? I would like to get it around to anybody who might sign the petition online.

Thank you.

Rick (Easter Bunny) Anderson

Three more "MacGruber" skits appeared on Saturday Night Live on March 7th. Not commercials this time, the skits poked fun at "MacGyver" and revealed the previously unknown background that made MacGruber the man he is today. Click on the images below to learn MacGruber's relationship to the "New Guy." Although Richard did not know exactly when the segments would air, he had offered a critique a few days earlier:

March 2, 2009

I have asked to have that wig euthanized, or released back into the wild. If I see it again I will show it no mercy. Etc.

Storm's a'comin', gotta head for the shed. Lovely dark clouds on the near horizon and above.

Soon,

Sunnybouy

[MacGruber 4 - WMV 5MB]	[MacGruber 5 - WMV 6MB]	[MacGruber 6 - WMV 7MB]

Richard sent a message mentioning his involvement in the upcoming SG-1 movie and the new MGM series, Stargate Universe, scheduled to premiere on the SciFi channel this fall. MGM requested that his message not be posted until the information was released by the studio, so now that the studio has publicized Richard's upcoming appearances, his note from March 2nd can be posted:

March 2, 2009

I would have thought word had gotten out by now, but as I am informed, so shall ye be: the movie has been green lit. There are so few details beyond the 'go ahead', but I sat next to Charlie Cohen and across from Brad Wright at dinner two weeks ago (the cast dinner for the launch of Stargate Universe), and just an hour prior to sitting down to mediocre cuisine, Charlie had announced MGM's intention to make the next Stargate movie. As I am led to believe, shooting may start this summer, most likely.

I was up there doing a snippet of a scene with Robert Carlyle and I'll be going back March 17 for another scene in part 2 of the two-hour. I had told Brad that if he wanted help in the launch of Universe I'd love to be a part of it. (Truth be known, I missed those guys 'n gals.) So I'll make a few slim appearances in the first half-dozen episodes, or so. Again, details are sketchy, but I've already shot the first of my scenes so the ball is rolling. Andy Mikita is directing the two-hour, so we had a good hug and huge laugh.

Anyway, there you go.

Rick

Although the three "MacGruber" commercials for Pepsi that aired during Saturday Night Live the previous night were not originally intended for the Super Bowl, Pepsi made a last-minute decision to pull several of their other ads to make room for one of the "MacGruber" segments. The second of the three "MacGruber" spots, in which MacGruber announces that he has changed his name to "Pepsuber," aired during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl. The links for all three commercials can be found below.

A recurring skit on Saturday Night Live portrays "MacGruber," a hero who "makes life-saving inventions out of household materials" but always fails to defuse the bomb and gets blown up in each segment. Richard is a fan of the show, and he accepted an invitation to do three "MacGruber" skits that ran as ads for Pepsi during Saturday night's show. Click on the images below to watch MacGruber meet his namesake.

[MacGruber 1 - WMV 4MB]	[MacGruber 2 - WMV 4MB]	[MacGruber 3 - WMV 3MB]

Richard wrote to ask people to spread the word about the Polar Bear SOS campaign to save these animals from extinction by urging the Obama administration to close the loopholes that increase global warming and to grant the polar bear full-fledged protection as an endangered species. The Polar Bear SOS campaign is an initiative of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an organization designed to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. Richard's friend, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Waterkeeper Alliance) serves as the senior attorney for the NRDC, and Richard forwarded Robert Kennedy's message urging people to become involved by contacting the new Secretary of the Interior. The link below makes it easy to send the message to Washington.

January 28, 2009

Can I ask you to spread this around? (plea) It would be great to tap into a multitude of humans.

Rick

Richard visited the website to read through the many messages and birthday greetings left by fans on the Fan Mail page, and he sent a message of his own thanking the fans for their continued support.

January 24, 2009

I have been sitting here for close to 2 hours, (occasionally with Wylie in my lap), and I have come away from the session with a much.....er..... HUGER appreciation for fan loyalty. People are wonderful, and I need to tell them that I think so. I have made a goodly dent in the collected messages at the site and plan to continue the expedition over the weekend. Somehow I have to let the folks know that they are getting through, and that I absolutely, completely, truly appreciate every sentiment that has been expressed.

My incredible daughter has eased me through the ordeal of turning 59 by treating me to dinner at my favorite restaurant, and a movie, "Hotel For Dogs." Now here I sit at her computer, logging on to this terrific site, and being reminded that Rick/Jack/Mac Fan Folk are the finest!!!

Love to ALL,

Rick