Casting Couch

For the first time in my 31 years on this planet, I have encountered a casting couch scenario. Now, I'm not complaining, and I'm not upset. I just find it really funny! I also just find it odd that someone will want to try and seduce me...especially when I'm 31 years old! It really is beyond me. And another thing...what's weird to me is...I'm not an actress! Trying to seduce someone by dangling a reality producer position isn't very tempting...to be honest. I can get a job as a producer without sleeping with someone for it. Anyway...that was last year. Today, I get a call from the same guy. He's an EP/showrunner type, and he is calling me for a producer's job! A regular producer's job! I told him that he'd be over-qualified, and he said that he's not working on anything right now! Oh how the tables have turned. I wonder if I should dangle Vegas or a hot tub in front of him. Nah...he's not worth it. This one I'll just savor.

We're Producers!

My friend Leticia and I had dinner at Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica awhile back. We were discussing TV productions because we're both TV producers on, mostly, magazine or reality shows. At one point during the night, on my way back from the restroom, I see Sean Penn sitting with some friends. And anyone who knows me would vouch this...I am not vain, and I don't have many pretensions. But I SWEAR Sean Penn just checked me out! I practically run back to the table where Leticia is sitting, and I tell her this. With this news, she decides she needs to go to the restroom. And when she gets back, she SWEARS Sean Penn just checked HER out. While we're gushing over this crazy fact, someone comes up and asks us if he could borrow some of our chairs. And it's Sean Penn and company!! I said they could have whatever they want, and Sean Penn and his two friends decide to sit right next to us. Then, one of his friends, asks us if we were writers, and...this is where I start to lose a bit of my blood sugar. Leticia blurts out, "No! We're producers!" OH MY GOSH! THE GIRL DID NOT JUST TELL SEAN PENN AND COMPANY THAT WE WERE PRODUCERS! I wanted to crawl into a hole and die. Instead, I told Leticia we needed to go, but she kept on insisting we stay and order drinks and become Sean Penn's best friends! Yeah right. Sean Penn looked at us like, "Oh isn't this cute. These two young girls think they're producers." And after we bolted from Shutters, the two of us could not stop laughing...all the way home.

Los Angeles

Living in Los Angeles, you're always faced with the possibility of running into a celebrity or two. But you know you've lived in Los Angeles awhile when some of your friends are minor celebrities. My friend Sundra Oakley was on a "Sex and the City" episode, as well as CSI: Miami. She and I went to junior high, high school, and college together. Pretty cool.

understanding blogs

Do most of the blogs out there have a posting about what the heck is a blog anyway? It seems like an online diary...people ranting about whatever they feel like ranting about during the day...especially when they can't work. It's so much easier to just post on your blog rather than do actual work.