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Miscellany From The Last Day of Shooting 4

Jun

28

2008

A few bits of errata, Laz style: — Because we were on a Wednesday-Sunday shooting schedule, I had taken to calling each day “Fake ____”. Like Wednesday was Fake Monday, Thursday was Fake Tuesday, Friday was Fake Wednesday. Today, the last day I have to deal with this shift, I found a flaw in my ...

Not Dead Yet

Jun

25

2008

Most of the fleas I’ve been battling, however, are. Huzzah! I hit a bunch of the rest with a big-ass can of Raid this evening, and they do not seem to have recovered…yet. Unfortunately, because of my high sensitivity to the bites, I’m still absolutely covered in them. Even the smallest ones take well over ...

When Fleas, Six-Day Weeks and 5:30 PM Call Times Collide

Jun

22

2008

It’s been hellaciously hot in L.A. this week, so the fleas that I thought I’d gotten rid of are back with a MASSIVE vengeance. The only real solution is to flea-bomb the house to kill ’em all. The problem is, flea-bombing is a stupidly elaborate and time-consuming process, since it has a tendency to cover ...

Once More, With Feeling

Jun

20

2008

It’s always fun to read a story in Variety and, before reaching the end of it, start mentally calculating how much plasma and/or heroin I’ll need to sell to make rent.

Gee, I Wish I Could Bike To Work

Jun

18

2008

I bought my first $50 tank of gas tonight. $50.45 for 10.970 gallons. For those lazy at math, that’s $4.59 a gallon. I fear later this summer as gas continues to spiral up, my credit card is just going to melt one day.

It’s Time For Another Good Idea, Bad Idea

Jun

18

2008

Courtesy of the Tenant Services folks in the building where our Production Office is located: Good Idea: Throwing a picnic for the tenants to kick off the summer and show your appreciation of their business. Bad Idea: Serving Chili at the picnic, to a building full of people whose office windows do not open. I’m ...

The Onion Strikes Again

Jun

17

2008

Being friends with mostly theater geeks in High School, I rather enjoyed this (particularly the last line about the location of the Technical awards): High School Tony Awards Honor Nation’s Biggest Drama Club Nerds

To Keep You Entertained While I Work Another Six Day Week

Jun

16

2008

Please enjoy these photos of my father and stepmother’s tour of the “Five ‘Stans”: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Dad’s still figuring out how Flickr works, so his captions (which contain a fair bit of historical context for what you’re looking at) are actually posted as comments. Although some of the comments, like this ...

California Celebrates Naked Commercialism

Jun

16

2008

In my inbox this morning, on the morning of the first gay marriages in California, I found the following item from Chemistry.com, a spinoff of Match.com: Yes, that’s right. Chemistry has decided that the best way to market themselves to their generally liberal and potentially queer audience is to nakedly commercialize one of the most ...

Crickets

Jun

14

2008

Ah, the dulcet tones of the Production Office when there’s a 10am call and a projected exceedingly late wrap – The fridge sadly cranking along, two keyboards clacking away as two sets of hands type bored IMs to friends lucky enough to not be stuck at work at almost 11pm on a Saturday night. You’ll ...