I would think it would be awesome to work on a soap. Steady work, long breaks, you're famous *enough* but not too famous, and if you're good, it's good training.
I know there are (or used to be, it's been so long since I watched) at least two actors on
As The World Turns
who really work that -- they've been on the show for probably 30 years, alternating between that and lots of live theater. Work intensely on the soap as one of the lead or supporting characters in this or that plotline for a month or so, take a break while your storyline fades into the background, do some live theater for sheer love of it while the show keeps paying your bills, and you only have to maybe drop by the studio for one or two brief scenes a week until your storyline rolls back to the front again.
One of the things that's interesting about reading Rich Sommer's blog is going back and seeing that he got fired from a temp job after shooting the Mad Men pilot, and I think around the time he had a bit in a national commercial. So clearly he wasn't making a living as an actor yet.
B'morons, Marc Steiner will apparently be on Maryland Morning (sigh, lousy interviewer...) tomorrow.
K and I are back from looking at the house. It comes with a herd of goats. Which I'm oddly charmed by.
You know what? I recognize the need for healthy food (veggies that aren't battered and deep-fried, fruit that isn't in roll-up form), and I tend to like a lot of it.
But I really, REALLY like non-plant-based food, too. The deep-fried kind. The kind that used to roam the fields and moo. The kind with 90% butterfat, thank ya Lord. The crappy kind, too; not just filet mignon with bearnaise sauce. Funyuns and Butterfingers. I know they're shelf-stable for 1,000 years, but I love them.
I know it's evident by looking at my ass, but I love food. I enjoy a lot more of it than just the plant-based great-grandmother-approved food. I can't even try to tout a philosophy of "Eat less, mostly plants," because I don't agree with it. Eat for enjoyment, dang it.
Seriously, Kat? Real live ones?
K and I are back from looking at the house. It comes with a herd of goats. Which I'm oddly charmed by.
When Noah gets to the (messy) point of self feeding, you can park him out in the yard and they'll clean up after him!
Um, what would the dog do?
A college friend grew up about 45 minutes north of here. They had a herd of goats. Some of which were house goats after her dad fell in love with them after having to hand raise 'em when they were rejected by their nanny goat. According to her, they actually made nice pets. Except that they were very possessive of her dad...
I think the dog will freak out. And then, we hope, get over it.
Yes, libkitty, real live goats. The house is on 6 acres of land and so the goats are taken out onto the land to keep the brush at bay to make fire risks less so.
OMG. Six acres??? That's crazy! And GOATS! OMG. At least you wouldn't have to mow...
Of course, ita might want to eat one of them....curried...
