Category: Blog
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Happy Birthday, Doug
Doug, Maybe you’ve come by pamie.com today to find out why I haven’t called you yet. It would be the first time I haven’t called on your birthday in the seventeen years we’ve known each other. And this day’s even more important– this being your thirtieth birthday. You know I tried. I guess your number…
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Dan and Tara: Haughty and Righteous
McSweeneys didn’t want what Tara and I wrote, but y’all do, right? Excerpts from security briefings written from Golan Cipel to Jim McGreevey, discovered after the former was fired from his position as New Jersey Director of Homeland Security when an investigation into his qualifications revealed his resume listed him as an “Israeli poet.” It’s…
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If we can send a
If we can send a thousand books to California’s libraries, be the initial spark of several relationships that have turned into marriages, and reunite me with a childhood friend, for Pete’s sake we should at least be able to help Sars find Don. Somebody, please!
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The good, the bad and the unknown.
Working on this television show is teaching me how to add more specifics to my writing. When I write here, or a recap, or even a script Liz and I will eventually perform, there’s a tendency to write in shorthand, to deliver enough information that someone “gets it,” and then move on. Here I’m learning…
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Reason #1,345,878 Dan has to get out of PR
Lesson of the day: never believe anything anyone ever tells you, ever. In my spare time, I work as a consultant for a public relations firm in Los Angeles. It’s not my dream job, but I continue to do it on the contingency that the head of the company leave a burlap sack with a…
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pre-production
We have spent the past week in pre-production at the Oxygen show. Pre-production means the producers are planning out the shooting schedule, while we rewrite the script over and over again until it satisfies the network, the budget and the cast (in that order). This is when it gets more intense, and a bit frustrating.…
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We found a copy of
We found a copy of Wai Lana’s Yoga Sound CD here at the Oxygen office today. Stacey and I freaked out Johanna with our vast knowledge of this unique little woman. View half an hour of addictively creepy right here. Move over, Wendy. There’s a new recipe card queen in town. Do you think apple…
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LINKS!
I’m spending Labor Day laboring. You shouldn’t be. Here are some links. My friend Alyson is keeping a blog about the movie she’s making. In case you were wondering if it’s easy. (It’s not). Longtime Squishy readers may recall my comedy troupe friends Matt Sadler and Matt Bearden. They’ve been working together on a videogame…
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stee, pamie, djb, sara m and couch baron recap the 2004 Video Music Awards
Is it the longest recap ever on the site? No, I think that would be the recap for Center Stage. But this one? This one’s got pictures. Enjoy.