I feel like such a dead loser guys.  It's been four days since I last posted here.  I'm surprised y'all are still coming back to see me after such neglect.  Now for my excuse... :)

As a few of you may know, I own my own production company, called Star Factory Productions.  We do various video production work, including animation, wedding and event documentation, corporate/industrial videos and now, TV.  Over the long weekend my company provided equipment and crew for a TV pilot for an incredible new show concept called Feed 'Em and Read 'Em.

The show is hosted by a woman named Ruth Kramer, who is a talented chef and an even more talented spiritual healer (which is basically a euphemism for a psychic).  The way the show works is that she invites three guests over to her place and makes lunch for them (and shows the folks at home how to prepare the meal), then does a reading for each one individually. 

Let me just tell you folks out there who don't think this is something you would find very interesting...IT IS!!!!!  This lady is downright amazing at telling people things about themselves that they probably even didn't know (or had buried behind 26 boxes of mental baggage back in the basement of their brain).  There were three readings and not a single member of the crew made it through any of 'em without wanting a hug from mommy.  And these fellas weren't exactly the "sensitive type," if you know what I mean...picture a roomful of Archie Bunkers crying like babies and trying not to make too much noise with their sobs so as not to mess up  our audio...that was pretty much us.  Its going to be a fantastic show and I am proud to be able to say that I was part of it...BUUUUT...

I definitely have a new found respect for the work of a TV crew, especially the crew of a live show like the PBA Tour on ESPN.  These guys flat out bust their butts week in and week out.  The sheer prep time these guys put in even before the real work starts is more than a normal nine to fiver puts in full-time.  Then they have the travel, the load-in, the testing, the nerves that go with putting on a live show for over a million people, then the break-down, more travel and then do it again the next week.  It's a tough way to go, I'll tell you, and these guys pull it off pretty awesomely week in and week out.

So the next time you want to declare that someone should be strung up by their thumbs just because a mic cuts out for a few seconds, try to have a little empathy and respect for just how difficult a job these guys do solely for the purpose of our entertainment.  Believe me, it's no day at the lanes.

Till tomorrow (hopefully for real this time!)

Jason