Officially speaking...

As you can tell, I don't really update this blog anymore. I figured I've done all the damage here that I can.

Anyways, if you somehow ended up here, this is where all my new shit goes.

www.david539.vox.com

Movember - The conclusion

If you remember my post on moustaches and prostate cancer, here's the follow-up. This aired on channel 5 and yes, that's me with the ugly moustache being groomed. Thank God it's gone now. But I heard they raised like a couple hundred thousand dollars. Yay!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfhuvk93vZs

Boss > Girlfriend

So as I was at the market the other day buying balloons for my boss's birthday, I came to the sad realization that a boss is almost identical to being in a relationship... But like one of those dysfunctional relationships where one person just keeps the other around because of his or her uncompromising devotion. Guess which one I am.

Think about it:

I have her phone number, address, birthday, parents' address, drivers license number, credit card information and Fedex account number memorized, and if I forget any of them, I'm in deep shit. Same situation with my last girlfriend too... well, not the Fedex thing.

I remember the exact anniversary of when I started working there... that's more for my benefit though because that's when I get a riase.

My phone runs out of text message memory every few days because of her.

If she's talking to another guy- well, other employee in general- I can't help but feel a little jealous... and then I try to secretly destroy that person without her finding out.

I'm sure there's more... I'll keep updating this one.

The [Assi]Stocratic Method

So my buddy works for Paramount, and I had asked him last week if he had any interaction with the strikers. He said, "I don't know, I get there before they do, and leave after they go home."

Now that the strikers are starting at 6AM, I guess things have changed, but still, I think that one quote kind of sums up the mentality and work ethic that you need to make it out of the depths of assistantdom.

So it goes...

In case you haven't noticed, the strike is affecting the little guys too. Here is probably the best blog entry I've seen on a subject that's really being overlooked right now. Big ups to all the assistants who are unwillingly out of a job yet still support the writers.



Also, the first batch of links are up in the sidebar. Other suggestions are encouraged!

Home sweet home... And site updates!!!

Just got back to LA after a f-ing 3 hour delayed flight from Chicago, not to mention it's so foggy here that I missed my exit on the way home and ended up in Compton at 1:30 AM in my new car (for those of you out of towners, Compton is THE hood). But Chicago's a cool place and we went to the art museum from Ferris Buehler's Day Off.

Anyways, after my computer ran out of batteries on the plane, I was left with a lot of time to think, and my brain naturally gravitated towards this blog. Besides having to reexamine my priorities in life if this is the first thing on my mind, I was thinking that if this site ever gets big enough, I'd want to figure out a way to leave job postings in the comments, and build a community of us... for moral support... like AA.

But until then, I'll be adding a "resources" set of links on the sidebar sometime tomorrow with all the (decent) job sites I know of. And of course, feel free to contribute if I miss any. I remember in an old episode of Entourage, Lloyd mentions something about a gay assistant secret network... Well, hopefully this blog can lead to that... Gayness optional.

Off to Chi-Town

So I'm off to Chicago for the weekend... I'll try and hit the blog, but depends on my schedule.