Covid Support Thread
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@BGM – yes, I’m looking forward to seeing how many hospitals report people with flashlights up their asses. The DoucheNozzle Supreme is trying to spin it like he was being sarcastic – we all know the truth: When he asked those questions he really thought that an IV bag filled with saline and a whisper of pine sol would not only cure you but make you smell like a national park ready to be sold to the highest bidder and drilled for oil
@Helen – sorry you’re going through Covid-19 Part 2: The Corona-ing@Part Time – #2 was just delightful. Thank you for that.
Desert Zen Update:
I jolted awake today at 5:49 am to the sound of silence. No WIND!! Immediately I sprang from my bed, tossed on some work clothes, and managed to get the remaining three more metal rocker chairs sprayed turquoise before the blasted wind kicked up.
This means all four rockers are now ready to go. Woo hoo! Along with the bistro set. Oh, and this other pretty cool, very squared off chair with matching table.
Anyway, yeah, it was a good feeling. All that remains now is the main patio dining table and its four simpler chairs. Hell, I’d have kept going but the wind was gusty by 7:15.
Undaunted, I made a pot of coffee and sat on the back porch —- surfing the internet while waiting for the desert iguana to emerge from his den. He did so by nine. And we did our usual stare at one another thing for a while. I don’t know why, but he amuses me somehow.
Feeling civilized, I made a egg scramble with onion and yellow cherry tomatoes. Iced the leftover cover.
Then walked the yard. More beavertail, prickly pear, and cholla bloomed. But nothing new or unusual. The other desert iguana at the far side of the yard still thinks I am a marauding terror and flees immediately upon seeing me to the shadows of the nearest creosote bush.
All in all, just another typical friday in quarantine here at park_place_oasis in Twenty-nine Palms, California.
Mmm sounds like a lovely morning, BGM.
MaterialsToddler and I mAde peanut butter chocolate chunk cookies. They turned out delicious and she did a great job helping: especially with the hand mixer!
PS — to Part-time Lurker.
The “Period” story was hilarious.
OUTBREAK — my first “big” Hollywood job! For three weeks I lay in a hospital bed slowly dying of Ebola to the point where I had fake blood pouring out of both ears.
The set was amazing. On soundstages of course. The whole wing of an imaginary ICU. A long corridor lined with giant windows looking into patient rooms. All of which had four walls and ceilings. The sink in my mine even worked. I have no idea why. Me, and thirty other wannabe actors died for nearly three weeks in some subplot involving Rene Russo that never was clear to me. (Extras don’t get scripts.) Basically, she stormed up and down the hallway a lot — screaming into her prop cellphone. “It’s getting worse!” “Nothing is working!” “These people are dying! DYING!!” “It’s happening so fast!” “Where are those supplies.” “Dammit! Something MUST be done.”
She was nice between takes.
Towards the end of the shoot, it took nearly two hours for them to do our stage 4 make-up. (We went through all four stages.) In the chair it looked pretty fake. From six feet away though, the image in the mirror was horrific.
We (the extras) all wandered over to the commissary every day for lunch. Fully made up. Shiny, dripless blood and all. Nobody ever batted an eye. This was Warner Bros Studios.
In the end all of my scenes were cut. In fact — Just one shot of that hospital segment remained in the finished film. Rene in a hallway on her phone of course.
I was bummed, but honestly. It wasn’t like I’d given a star making turn. Actually, I was fascinated by the sheer waste of it all. That giant set. A huge crew. Hell, it took 8 artists just to get us through make up…
Still it was a fun experience. Being on a really big film set was pretty damn exciting. And damn. So long ago.
PS — to Part-time Lurker.
The “Period” story was hilarious.
OUTBREAK — my first “big” Hollywood job! For three weeks I lay in a hospital bed slowly dying of Ebola to the point where I had fake blood pouring out of both ears.
The set was amazing. On soundstages of course. The whole wing of an imaginary ICU. A long corridor lined with giant windows looking into patient rooms. All of which had four walls and ceilings. The sink in my mine even worked. I have no idea why. Me, and thirty other wannabe actors died for nearly three weeks in some subplot involving Rene Russo that never was clear to me. (Extras don’t get scripts.) Basically, she stormed up and down the hallway a lot — screaming into her prop cellphone. “It’s getting worse!” “Nothing is working!” “These people are dying! DYING!!” “It’s happening so fast!” “Where are those supplies.” “Dammit! Something MUST be done.”
She was nice between takes.
Towards the end of the shoot, it took nearly two hours for them to do our stage 4 make-up. (We went through all four stages.) In the chair it looked pretty fake. From six feet away though, the image in the mirror was horrific.
We (the extras) all wandered over to the commissary every day for lunch. Fully made up. Shiny, dripless blood and all. Nobody ever batted an eye. This was Warner Bros Studios.
In the end all of my scenes were cut. In fact — Just one shot of that hospital segment remained in the finished film. Rene in a hallway on her phone of course.
I was bummed, but honestly. It wasn’t like I’d given a star making turn. Actually, I was fascinated by the sheer waste of it all. That giant set. A huge crew. Hell, it took 8 artists just to get us through make up…
Still it was a fun experience. Being on a really big film set was pretty damn exciting. And damn. So long ago.
For real though Outbreak was a good movie! I think it was Ebola from monkeys as I recall (the moneky from Friends even), and Dustin Hoffman was in it? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it but I watched it with my mum and we both liked it. What a shame you never got to die on camera.
For real though Outbreak was a good movie! I think it was Ebola from monkeys as I recall (the moneky from Friends even), and Dustin Hoffman was in it? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it but I watched it with my mum and we both liked it. What a shame you never got to die on camera.
That’s pretty cool BGM! Have you ever worked on set in GA? There’s so much filming going on around here! It’s cool spotting celebrities, but I was pissed when Jason Bateman bought the marina I liked to go to during the summer and used it in Ozarks
Regarding Outbreak: I have a very specific memory tied to the movie.
When I was in college many years ago, I was hospitalized for 8 days with bacterial meningitis. The first night in the hospital when I was finally lucid enough to watch TV, Outbreak was on the hospital movie channel. I watched it and immediately regretted the decision because, well, I was in a hospital isolation room with a terrible disease. I blame my poor judgement on the 105 degree fever (!) that rattled my brain.
