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When I responded to Dawn's heads up they were looking for extras, I thought I'd show up, explore/ poke at special effects make up and be in a couple of still shots... ended up getting my 15 minutes (maybe that long total screen time?) in a cheesy horror flick! Awesome fun ensued, and not just because you know how I <3 my cheesy horror!
Curious to see if I look like I'm walking like a zombie, or just like I can't walk in heels. Oddly enough, I was wearing the one pair I own that I don't have trouble with and can wear for way longer than is typical for me.
Here, for your amusement and horror: Photos from Stripperland!
The crew/ staff were really great, and I managed not to get any fake blood on my issue of No Hero :) Unfortunately, Cryptonomicon wasn't so lucky... but it only got a scratch.
The night got even better when I was talking with Christina, the sfx lady of awesome, who asked if I'd be interested in helping with effects for future projects. *bouncybouncybouncy*!!!!!!
Speaking of things that go bump in the night/ demonic/ hungry for the wrong reasons...
Now for that evil thing called POLITICS!
...the City of Portland is doing something very, very shitty that you should all know about and complain about endlessly until they stop. There is a scheme called "Vibrant PDX," which is basically blackmailing stores in the downtown area to not sell certain kinds of booze (Sparks, Mad Dog 20/20, Old English 800, etc) or face, well, basically the end of their business. This is class warfare plain and simple, as they are making no effort to limit the ability to buy middle class beverages like microbrews or wine. It's just the booze consumed by (insert descriptive term here: poor people, dark-skinned people, undesirable people, homeless people, whatever).
The way it works, is they are getting businesses to "voluntarily" agree to not sell these items ("voluntary" in this case means "do it or lose your lease, be evicted, probably lose your license and your life's work), then the city's Crime Prevention and Liquor Control folk plan to use this list of businesses that "voluntarily" agreed to not sell these items to prove to the city that this policy has massive public support, and thus they want to lobby the state to make it an "Alcohol Impact Zone," a state-run zone that effects how all alcohol business is done (liquor stores, bars and restaurants are potentially going to be effected even though they are not part of this process). And the Alcohol Impact Zone, being state-run, means we can't even decide locally what we, as Portlanders, want the rules to be. We will basically be stuck letting the entire rest of the state tell us how to act, booze-wise, in the downtown area of Portland.
To sum it up: sneaky blackmail to make the state usurp the city's control over local affairs, and create a small amount of that ever-popular cause of teatoatlers and zealots: prohibition.
Oppose "Vibrant PDX." Twitter @mayorsamadams, e-mail the city council (addresses below), fight this class-based anti-freedom ANTI-BOOZE sneaky conniving scheme, and send the prohibitionists back to the 1920s where they belong.
Samadams@ci.portland.or.us
amanda@ci.portland.or.us
Nick@ci.portland.or.us
randy@ci.portland.or.us
dan@ci.portland.or.us
Curious to see if I look like I'm walking like a zombie, or just like I can't walk in heels. Oddly enough, I was wearing the one pair I own that I don't have trouble with and can wear for way longer than is typical for me.
Here, for your amusement and horror: Photos from Stripperland!
The crew/ staff were really great, and I managed not to get any fake blood on my issue of No Hero :) Unfortunately, Cryptonomicon wasn't so lucky... but it only got a scratch.
The night got even better when I was talking with Christina, the sfx lady of awesome, who asked if I'd be interested in helping with effects for future projects. *bouncybouncybouncy*!!!!!!
Speaking of things that go bump in the night/ demonic/ hungry for the wrong reasons...
Now for that evil thing called POLITICS!
...the City of Portland is doing something very, very shitty that you should all know about and complain about endlessly until they stop. There is a scheme called "Vibrant PDX," which is basically blackmailing stores in the downtown area to not sell certain kinds of booze (Sparks, Mad Dog 20/20, Old English 800, etc) or face, well, basically the end of their business. This is class warfare plain and simple, as they are making no effort to limit the ability to buy middle class beverages like microbrews or wine. It's just the booze consumed by (insert descriptive term here: poor people, dark-skinned people, undesirable people, homeless people, whatever).
The way it works, is they are getting businesses to "voluntarily" agree to not sell these items ("voluntary" in this case means "do it or lose your lease, be evicted, probably lose your license and your life's work), then the city's Crime Prevention and Liquor Control folk plan to use this list of businesses that "voluntarily" agreed to not sell these items to prove to the city that this policy has massive public support, and thus they want to lobby the state to make it an "Alcohol Impact Zone," a state-run zone that effects how all alcohol business is done (liquor stores, bars and restaurants are potentially going to be effected even though they are not part of this process). And the Alcohol Impact Zone, being state-run, means we can't even decide locally what we, as Portlanders, want the rules to be. We will basically be stuck letting the entire rest of the state tell us how to act, booze-wise, in the downtown area of Portland.
To sum it up: sneaky blackmail to make the state usurp the city's control over local affairs, and create a small amount of that ever-popular cause of teatoatlers and zealots: prohibition.
Oppose "Vibrant PDX." Twitter @mayorsamadams, e-mail the city council (addresses below), fight this class-based anti-freedom ANTI-BOOZE sneaky conniving scheme, and send the prohibitionists back to the 1920s where they belong.
Samadams@ci.portland.or.us
amanda@ci.portland.or.us
Nick@ci.portland.or.us
randy@ci.portland.or.us
dan@ci.portland.or.us