Archive for October, 2007
In a moment of spectacularly bad planning, I have a 5 pm call today (I’m the ‘8 hour guy’ who’s just coming in to help wrap), and I have no idea what time I’ll have to be at work tomorrow morning. If it’s 7 am, I’m totally screwed – rules about turnaround only apply when [...]
One of the things about Southern California is sudden wind shifts which would be cause for alarm anywhere else but are just par for the course around here.
A couple of days ago, the wind suddenly changed direction and started blowing from the west to the east, which helped in the firefighting efforts (by driving the [...]
When I was a kid, I never did any babysitting, so I’m not certain that headline joke even makes sense. Be patient – it’s still really smoky here.
So I guess that made yesterday my first babysitting job.
Not for kids, but for the EPK (electronic press kit – you know all those promo bits where the [...]
1. Notice that sky seems to be getting awfully dark and full of ash.
2. Wonder if ash-laden air contains enough oxygen to keep an adult human being conscious.
3. Begin to have trouble maintaining verticality.
4. Notice ground approaching head at a terrific speed.
5. Completely miss point of impact after hitting head on leg of crank-o-vator stand [...]
The main topic of conversation on every set as of late has been the impending writers’ strike – since very little real information is forthcoming from anywhere, armchair quarterbacking is rampant – they’ll strike, they won’t strike, they might strike but they’re not sure, they’re having a naked tea party right now, and so on.
For [...]
Yesterday’s best boy is someone for whom I’ve not worked in a long time, but I’m always happy to hear from him since he’s a terrific guy. I’ve never once seen him get angry or blow his cool, which is remarkable given how high-stress the best boy position can be.
So when he got on the [...]
For the past two days (Wednesday and today), I’m working on a show that I’ve not worked on for almost two years. In the interim, they’ve completely changed crews (twice, I hear), although they’re still on the same stages in Hollywood.
The sets are still the same, but the stash points and staging areas have all [...]
I hate getting sick at work – there’s this guilt at leaving the crew a ‘man down’ if you go home, but you’re no good to anyone if you stay and continue to be sick, so the crew’s a man down anyway so why not puke (or whatever else it is that you’re having to [...]
Generally, what I take to work is about the same no matter what I’m doing – items get added and subtracted depending on circumstances (rain gear, for instance, isn’t necessary in the summer months). In an effort to pack light, if I’m certain I’m not going to need something I won’t bring it.
Yesterday, I thought [...]
It used to be, that when I wrote something about, say, refusing to take a cat across town to see a fucking kitty eye-doctor, I’d get hate mail from what seemed like every wacko with a pulse and a keyboard.
That was back in the Blogger days – when I moved the blog, I lost around [...]
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