Harsh
Stephen Gallagher took issue with my post yesterday: “For those of you who don’t know, a stand-in is quite possibly the most perfect manifestation of how lazy actors are.” Seems kinda harsh both on the actors, who usually seem to use the chunk of time between blocking and shooting to get their lines, and stand-ins, […]
Quit Whining
After reading the previous post, my wife slapped me across the email, and wrote, “Try doing my job for just one day, then you can tell me how difficult your job is.” I suppose it is better than pushing crates on a dock for a living.
Who Would Want To Be A PA? (Revisited)
It’s still a great place to start.
Am I the Only One Who Thinks Like This?
Sometimes, if I’m on the early shift, I take a yoga class at the gym after work. It’s a good workout, and it helps to clear my head after a long day. Usually. The teacher coaches us with new age aphorisms in a soothing voice. She’ll say things like, “Be in your body.” I try […]
The Sincerest Form of Flattery…
And here I thought I was the big PA in the blogging world. Turns out, according to The Hollywood Temp Diaries, I’m “an imitator.” Nevermind that I started my blog only two weeks after TempX did, nor that I’ve never heard of The Hollywood Temp Diaries until I got linked to it last week. After […]
No Lions
rather pathetic comments: great example here people. if you work long enough as a PA, you will hate life. please please please take this blog with a grain of salt. A few years ago, the Internet went down in my dorm. Everyone got super annoyed. What’s going on? Who are the morons running this place? […]
Celebrity, Major and Minor
Along with getting back to writing my blog, I’ve been catching up on a backlog of industry blogs. Today, I stumbled across this post from the Hollywood Juicer. Michael is like an internet big brother, and it’s nice to know somebody out there worries about me. Had I read that post at the time, I probably […]
It’s a Habit
So, I haven’t written here in a while, and the reason is… there is no reason. Between being unusually busy at work and working on personal projects in my free time, there were a few weeks there where I just didn’t have time to blog. Another factor is the unrelenting series of emails that boil […]
Elitist Prick
I was planning on writing a different post today, until I received a comment on Tuesday’s post from “PA.” I really liked this blog until your lecturing rant about the use of the word L.A. I can’t figure out if it’s just you trying to prove how smart you are or something else. People say […]
Soldiers, Farmers, and Poets
A recent post on the Freakonomics website feature the following quote: “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematicks and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study […]
Quick post tonight (it’s late), then a serious one tomorrow. I googled several combinations of my anonymous self, and found some interesting results. I hold the number one spot for both “anonymous production assistant” and “production assistant blog.” I’m right behind anonymousassistant.com in a search for “anonymous assistant.” But if you look up “production assistant,” […]
Call for Stories
I’ve been writing this blog for over a year now. My original intention was to write a new post every day. These last few weeks (not to mention an inbox full of “have you quit or what?” emails) have convinced me that perhaps I can no longer maintain that pace alone. So, I’m asking you, now […]