CLIPS:

Here are links to episodes 1 and 2 of a web series called Planet X that Super Su and I worked on recently.  I'm super stoked that these are finally available, because it's the latest collaboration between us and our good friend Jacob Hensberry.  I was going to link directly to his work website so you could all (all three of you that read this) check it out, but my computer warned me that it's lousy with malware.  You may want to look into that, Jake.

Anyway, please give these a look.  Episodes 3 and 4 will be available soon.

Planet X: episode 1

Planet X: episode 2

DAY OFF: Home, James PART ONE

Praise the gods, we made it through our four overnight shoots more or less in one piece (more on that later) and we're enjoying a day off.  We're living it up over here at the House of Terrifying Spiders.  You know, doing laundry, sleeping and generally ignoring each other.  Normal R&R stuff.  Go, team!  We also learned today that Super Su doesn't know how to toast bagels without burning them.  It's okay, he got it right on the third try.

Last night was eventful in one fairly interesting way:  our director/leading man Jonathan Rossetti crashed the moped during a take.  Luckily, it was a shot in which he was supposed to fake crashing the moped, so happy accident!  The doctors say he should be out of the hospital in three to four weeks.

Oh, yeah.  I lied.  Something else happened last night.  The first Golden Driller Award was presented.  The Golden Driller Award is our version of a game ball.  At the end of every week a Golden Driller statue (okay, okay.  It's actually a cheap, plastic piggy bank type thing) is given to a member of the local crew for excellence in work.  So, without further ado, the winner of the Golden Driller Award was...

Assistant Camera, Kali Laird

Kali is a great addition to Team Home, James and definitely deserved the award.  Also, she totally starting crying during her acceptance speech.  Probably because she had been under the impression that she was working on August: Osage County this whole time.  Because that's what we told her.  The truth can hurt.  Anyway, congrats, Kali and thank you for your hard work.

Speaking of how the truth can hurt...

Movies are magic.  And I hate magic, so I'm going to ruin something for you.  I want you to keep in mind that whenever you see a scene of a well groomed, good looking couple riding on a Ferris Wheel and falling in love...

...that this is what they're actually looking at...

Lastly, who has the hardest crew in Tulsa?  Not Clooney, that's for damn sure.

There's a lot to go over, so I'm going to break this up into two parts.  More to come later on the Tulsa State Fair (what?  You didn't know that Tulsa is its own state?), the Amazing Adventures of Rick Dacey and my increasingly frustrating search for what it is that I'm allergic to in this god forsaken house.

Later, gators.