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 […]
Aliens in America
Jason writes: Do you have any idea on how the industry deals with foreigners? Do people from outside the US even have a shot at a PA (or similar) job? For higher positions I’d assume they’ll prefer resume over country of origin, but how about the lower jobs like PA? I’m from The Netherlands, currently […]
How to Drive in Los Angeles 2: Drive Los Angeleser
I don’t know what it’s like in whatever third-world, former-communist, dictatorial kleptocracy you’re from, but here in California, you can turn right on a red light. This isn’t news, either; it’s been the law since before I was born. Los Angeles suffers more traffic delays than any other city in America (duh). Part of the […]
How to Drive in Los Angeles (First in a Series)
Here in Los Angeles, PAs drive. A lot. Unless you’re a teamster or a location manager, I can virtually guarantee I drive more than you do. So, driving in the City of Angels is the one area of expertise in which I can speak with some authority. Since I’m not going to have any set-related […]
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 […]
Full Time Work in a Freelance Industry
I know, I know, it’s been a while since I’ve posted. Sorry. I do have an excuse, though. The show I’ve been on lo these many months has “stopped production.” A nice euphemism for “cancelled.” We’re done. Needless to say, I’ve been spending a lot of time looking for a new job. Considering the luck […]
How a Set Should Be
Taylor commented on an old post, yesterday: You are stupid sir. Locations arrives first and leaves last. Don’t repeat things you don’t understand He (she?) may or may not have realized that s/he was commenting on an auto-comment that’s generated every time one WordPress post links to another. That post read, Set PAs stay on […]
Four Seasons in One Day
When people back east are sitting at home on New Years Day, huddled around the fire and watching the Rose Parade, they think to themselves, Those people are wearing shorts. In January! I gotta move there. I know, because that’s what I thought. But what people don’t realize is, Los Angeles was built on a […]
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? […]
Voice Recognition
Do you know who this is?
Toronto Vs. Vancouver
Carl asks: I’m currently in Vancouver after moving there from England about a week ago. I can relocate to Toronto easily enough, so I’m trying to work out which is a better place to start out, given that I don’t know anyone in either city. Do you have any idea on the relative states of each market? I don’t […]