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Public Option NOW!

2009-09-08T09:47:00.000-07:00

A great video from REM and MoveOn.org. Watch it here and send to your friends and enemies.

What are your stories?

oh my...

2009-03-28T17:17:00.000-07:00

So first of all, BFBH award of the day goes to the GOP! Yes, the GOP who's been frothing at the mouth over Obama's budget and plan. What do they come back with? Nada. Zip. Squat. Bupkis. A waste of paper. Grand Old Putz's, I say.

Grey LA

2009-01-22T11:55:00.000-08:00

a gloomy day in lalaland today. almost feels winterlike.

the house has vetoed the second half of the bailout funds. now i do agree there must accountability. if we just do what bush did, then the new administration better be prepared to be very clear about where that money is going and why. i believe a tax rebate at this point in time is like spitting in the wind and calling it rain. jobs will generate income which will generate spending and taxes. it so seems like a no brainer. and i went to school for theatre.

i think the big fat butthead award today should go to rush limbaugh.

Bruised and battered

2009-01-19T16:43:00.000-08:00

i'm doing the same work i was doing 30 years ago and my body is not happy. there's something wonderfully gratifying about physical labor, even satisfying in its resulting stiff muscles and aching joints. but i think i'd find far more delight in it if i could recover quicker.

oh my.

Oi

2009-01-16T21:55:00.000-08:00

the end of my evening. good wine and a movie. ready for a book and sleep. a great meeting today. Good conversation with people i've never met. another good show with rachel maddow. how fast she's been able to influence. thank goodness for smart people.

andrew wyeth has been taken from us.

so tomorrow i work physical labor. and sunday too perhaps. then i need to do rewrites.

curious to hear folks thoughts on bushie leaving office. my view is "oh god thank you. and where were you eight years ago. but that's me.

tomorrow friends.,

Holy Cow

2009-01-16T13:32:00.000-08:00

i can't believe how long it's been. why, the last time i logged in here was in april of last year as i was prepping to go to cannes with my short. so much has happened since then. some pretty major goings-on.

and not with me. kinda sorta.

barack obama was elected. and since i can't be in washington for the big party, i'll be at home all day watching the tube and twittering.

my new fav--twittering.

new website coming up soon. will let folks know when it's complete. my friend dana is designing it and she is a killer designer.

hang on. will be back for more later.

What one goes through...

2008-04-11T11:21:00.000-07:00

So far today, I've been wooed by a rep at the Hollywood Reporter (I'd place an ad just because he was so darn good at persuasion)
updated all my pages on various sites (though I'm sure I missed a few) and made contact with some really cool people. Sometimes you have to do business to do art.

I'm going to Cannes

2008-04-10T10:47:00.000-07:00

The short film I just directed is being shown in the Short Film Corner at Cannes this year. So now, most of my time is being spent getting ready to do the dance. The networking dance. Setting up meetings. Getting a good flight. A place to stay. All that mishegas.

I've been to Cannes twice. The first time was fun. I saw movies. Drank wine at the Majestic. Ate moules frites. The second time I spent a lot of time in the Marche. What an amazing zoo that is. I saw more movies. Drank wine at the Majestic. Of course, ate moules frites. This time, I'm sure I'll do all of the above and more. More meetings. And then more meetings. More networking. Less sleep. Ahh! Cannes.

Otis says where you been girl?

2008-03-20T11:50:00.000-07:00

Okay so I've been a blog bailout. The past few months (oh alright the last year) have been a busy one. I directed two shorts, a web pilot, finished one feature script and writing another. All in all, a pretty fantastic time.

I'm now in the throes of figuring out the networking game.

How does one network when one really isn't all that social? I think you basically have to like people in order to strike up a conversation with someone you don't know at a function where everybody knows everybody except you? I don't care how many cocktails you have, doing it isn't easy. I have a theory that it's not the cool looking people you need to be talking to. No, it's the ones that look like you--nerdy, kind of shy, uncomfortable looking ones.

Unless of course it's Angelina.

Elvis has left the building....

2007-06-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

My first day,,,,

Ok, so the way we communicate is via "INSTANT MESSAGING" or "IM"

Ummm, excuse me but you're right there. I could get my butt up and walk across the miniscule hallway or, god forbid pick up the phone and calllllll........oh

oh.......

lol!!!!

what the fuck does that mean?

"cld u cll & chk on the dsk to c if its avlble?"

"HUH?"
wl?????

Ummmm....

kewl (smiley face)

could someone please invent a phone system that is universal?

call comes in.

DON'T PRESS HOLD ( contrary to popular practice)

transfer to xxxxxx

"om please pickuppickuppickupplease"

"yes?" (why are you bothering me?)

@#@()#*()&$(*(*@&$(@*$ from (*&(*&%$@#^@#$@^#$@^#$@#*@$*

Ok.

(Oh shit what button do I press? Do I just hang up? Transfer 104??)

(FLASHING!!!!!!!!!)

IM: ??

Oh shit.

Push a butt load of buttons. Hang up.

IM: Well????????????????????????????????

Fuck me.

"Please hang on. Your call is important to someone."

Push more buttons.

All quiet on the IM front.

(What did I do?)

OMG!

How Low Can you Go....

2007-06-19T09:11:00.000-07:00

Ok, it's been a while I know. But I've been so busy with my new career. Oh yes. I am now a 50 year old intern. In the entertainment industry no less. Where youth is prized above intelligence.

I'd like to share some of my experiences here.

I admit, where I'm interning now is not my first. For several weeks I was working in the office of a very prestigious and prolific producer (ah alliteration!). of course I never met him. or his partner. Even though his office was across the hall from mine. Well, not mine, but the "interns" office which was really a large storage room for files and photos of producer with Oliver Stone or Jon Voight or someone.

I was so excited when I received the email. "Come in to meet. No need to dress up." Like anyone in Hollywood dresses up for work. Except maybe agents. So I met with the CE (creative executive for those not in the biz) and without looking at me he asked me what I wanted to do with my life.

I could have been his mother.

Uhhh, I want to produce. (Direct. Write)

Yeah, what days?

How about.....

(Could you have said....)

Sure. Works for me.

And I'm hired. or whatever happens when you're not getting paid.

OMG---I'm a Hollywood INTERN!!!!!!

Don't Mess with Texas...

2007-03-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

Otis says, "Show me yours and I'll show you mine."

The governor of Texas signed a bill that required young sixth grade girls get vaccinated against HPV which causes cancer. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease.

So, why should young women bear the brunt of this? Why don't they come up with a vaccine for young boys and require that they get it? After all, they're the ones transmitting the virus.

Hmmm....

Let's throw Harriet under the bus!

Amidst the furor over the Justice Department firings, the White House has determined that it was all Harriet Meiers' fault. And now there's rumors that the love affair between George and Alberto may be waning.

Watch out Alberto--the bus is speeding up!

dad lets me spell in the driveway...

2007-03-13T18:43:00.000-07:00

Ok, I spelled euphemism wrong.

So fire me.

Halliburton is moving to Dubai and other ramblings...

2007-03-13T10:18:00.000-07:00

What does Otis say?

Otis says "Be here now."

I was "let go" (euphenism for "FIRED!!!") in January. After my initial shock and awe ( and reading about a women who was fired by Woody Allen in a play he was directing, who's gone on to write a book, a play, a movie, etc. about being fired by Woody Allen) I'm thinking it's okay. I'm really okay with it. I have an occasional panic when I realize I'm not 20 years old, a computer/animation/web/mobile technology whiz kid with no social skills and jobs being handed out like candy. Oh I'm not of the male species either. And I'm blond. With some gray. And after the panic subsides, I muse: "Think of the possibilities."

So the news is Halliburton is moving its world headquarters to Dubai. Hmmmm........ Do you think maybe the public should get an accounting and proof of all the work they've actually completed in Iraq before they leave? Will they take Cheney with them?

Congress keeps asking for various White House folks to be fired for this and that. Except for the main guy. Wonder why.

General Peter Pace says he won't apologize for his remarks on gays. Says they're immoral and he can't support/condone immoral activity any more than he can support/condone adultery. First, has anyone ever heard of someone being discharged from the military for having an affair? Since "Don't ask, don't tell" was made into law (Way to go Clinton), the GAO reports that about 10,000 service personnel have been discharged, including 54 Arabic specialists. (Do you think Bush is trying to figure out how to reinstate these specialists considering the debacle in Iraq?) And second, many people believe the war in Iraq is immoral. Does Pace (which means "peace" in Italian) believe the war should not be supported? If "A" is immoral and should not be condoned, shouldn't it stand to reason that if "B" is immoral, that it should also not be condoned/supported? Simple logic.

What happened to Russ Feingold?

Read Baghdad Burning by Riverbend.

today is the rest of your life

2007-03-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

so today, right now, is my first blog. and for those of you who have been blogging for years now, i'm sure this is no momentous event. i'm not sure it is for me. but...
isn't it amazing how technology expands exponentially? how all at once it can bring us closer and yet keep us so far apart?
so, in my tiny pea brain, the Daily Furball is just a daily hacking up of thoughts, ruminations, explanations, excuses...

you're welcome to join in. it's gooey down here.

otis