The Anonymous Production Assistant

How to Drive in Los Angeles, Part 3: In 2D

Have you ever sat in the left turn lane, waiting for traffic to clear, wondering why sometimes you get a green turn arrow, and sometimes you don’t?  Well, get ready to have your mind blown. The secret is to not look up at the light, but rather down at the street.  Ever noticed those little […]

Someone Actually Likes PA Bootcamp

Regular readers know I have a spotty history with PA Bootcamp [sic].  It was fun baiting them for a while, but it got to be repetitive and dull.  I still get emails asking about the service pretty regularly, and I just refer them to my comments section. Just today, though, I got an incoming link from […]

Quoting Smarter People

Michael the Hollywood Juicer made an interesting a comment on yesterday’s post, and I’m certainly not above reprinting someone else’s work and calling it a day: TAPA is dead right — almost everybody in the Industry is happy to to talk about what they do (witness all the Industry blogs out there), and most are […]

Ask Questions

As I’ve said before, I don’t do PA work for the money.  I get paid, sure, but the pay is so ridiculously low that if that was my only reason, I’d quit and become a stock boy.  The hours are better, and I’d actually have insurance. No, the reason to be a PA is to […]