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I spent the afternoon on a bus.
Not riding it around the city seeing cool things and meeting interesting people (and one does meet interesting people on city buses in Los Angeles), but changing the fluorescent tubes in the bus to a...
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Big Boring Day Off
I had today off, and I spent it cleaning my house, despite wanting to go to the beach. 6:30 am call time tomorrow, which means I might just get off early enough to have some fun, but not likely. When I...
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The free time’s great, but the payout not so much.
When my boss called me to work on this show, he told me we were going to be working 10 hour days, but then production decided to save some money (they’re over budget on the lighting package) by only...
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Toy store, here I come!
Well, I failed in my mission, but the Pink Princess has learned a hard lesson about negotiation. Some background: Back when we all had Shawn Cassidy posters on our walls, one of my Roosevelt-era (or...
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Trash can insides and a contact high.
Today, we were rigging on New York Street – there’s a little nightclub set that’s being dressed to look like a cross between CBGB and The Limelight. Whatever the painters were using to make the fake...
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Dude, what’s that smell?
One of the things that’s really affected us is the industry ban on zip line. Zip line (lamp cord to you, buddy) is what we used to use when we had a bunch of practical lamps in the center of a room –...
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I was only kidding, mostly.
It’s been a busy couple of days, and what I’ve really learned is that when I ask for things, I need to be more specific. On Thursday, the shit hit the fan (so to speak) and we actually did get fired –...
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Pow! Right in the kisser!
There are no gas stations in Beverly Hills. Okay, there are two (according to the NFT Guide) – one at Olympic and Beverly Drive, and one at Little Santa Monica and Crescent. There’s also one that’s not...
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Fine, I’ll look on the damn bright side.
Although I don’t know how much of this list is optimism and how much is schadenfreude, but sometimes you just have to take what you can get. Especially from me. Here ya go: 1) At least I don’t live in...
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A nice Friday surprise.
When I staggered out to the mailbox this morning, there it was, waiting for me – the judge’s written decision in the unemployment case. I won! The judge ruled that my mistake (which resulted in an...
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Friday Photo
Where I live now, there just aren’t that many couches left out by the curb – or the trash collection are more efficient, but either way there’s not much to put on the couch blog anymore. But every now...
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