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November 30th, 2009

sprang @ 04:42 pm: DERP )

gear_halo @ 01:35 pm:

Company-wide urinalysis test today. Crap. I didn't study.



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gear_halo @ 01:01 pm:

I found out last week that I am one of only 3 Pfcs in the entire Combat Photographer MOS.

The other two were demotees.

But tomorrow I'm picking up Lance Cpl. Yay crossed rifles. And sneaky me, I already have my 7 MCIs needed for Corporal down the line.

I weighed in at the company office and I'm 156 lbs at 6'2. Geez.



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November 29th, 2009

grrm @ 11:48 pm: It's a Wrap
Another highlight of my time in Morocco was the wrap party.

For those not familiar with the term, it's a Hollywood tradition to throw a big party when you finish shooting -- or "wrap" -- on a movie or television project. I attended quite a few great wrap parties during my ten years in LA, but the GAME OF THRONES wrap party blew them all away. We held it in the Ouarzazate Museum of Cinema, a pretty amazing place itself, complete with local musicians, belly dancers, acres of Moroccan delicicacies, and lots of spirits to lubricate the exhausted cast and crew. And when the museum threw us out, we just adjourned back to the Berbere Palace, where the party continued.

These few poor snapsnots don't capture a tenth of what went on. But hey, what happens in Morocco stays in Morocco, right?












A great time was had by all... except, of course, for the cast members who shot their scenes in Ireland and Scotland, and the Irish and UK crew who did not get to make the trip to Morocco. The drawback of shooting in so many different places... everyone couldn't be there together to celebrate the end of the shoot.

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grrm @ 04:46 pm: Jerusalem
I know that you all want to see pictures from the pilot shoot for A GAME OF THRONES, but alas, I can't show you the sets, the actors in costume, or any of that good stuff.

Which is not to say that I can't show you a few other things from my recent trip.

Jerusalem in Morocco, f'rinstance.

Here are some shots of the huge city walls and siege machinery that Ridley Scott built for KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, outside the city of Ouarzazate in Morocco. We did shoot some scenes here... but inside, in a court redressed for our purposes.





That's my assistant Ty perched on the battering ram, which was full sized, made of real wood, and appeared to be fully functional. Ditto the siege towers and trebuchets Ridley left.

The interior courtyards were equally impressive (alas, I can't show you the one we redressed and actually used).





I worked in Hollywood for a decade back in my checkered past, and these are the most impressive sets I've ever seen. Hell, Scott's fake castle beats about eighty per cent of the real castles I've seen, and I've visited a LOT of castles.

I'm obviously going to have to put a city under siege sometime soon, so we can go back to Morocco and play with all these cool toys one of these days.

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grrm @ 04:15 pm: Jets
Life is... well, not magical, but tolerable today.

Jake Delhomme threw more interceptions than Mark Sanchez today, so the Jets beat the Panthers and still have a pulse. A very faint one, to be sure, but still a pulse.

Revis was amazing, completely shutting down Steve Smith.

Obviously my teams can only play well when I am here watching. I can never leave home again.

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omegaultima @ 08:31 am: And then Adam got high scores on his QUT results, and passed. Graduation awaits!

November 27th, 2009

grrm @ 04:10 pm: Giants Game
Life is meaningless and full of pain.

Suddenly it seems a thousand years ago when the G-Men were 5-0 and dominating. What the hell happened? Clearly I can't leave the country during football season. My teams just seem to fall apart without me.

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gear_halo @ 12:45 pm: A word of silence for everyone working retail today.

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That said, when I think of Black Friday, this is all that comes to mind:



I'll never forget when I met Sgt. Bachicha on Black Friday. He gave me a good tossing and ITed me in ways which should be humanly impossible during 1st phase, but what he did to this one guy on Black Friday, Recruit Olsen, was even better. He made Olsen cry by means which I can't remember or didn't witness. That's hardly unusual, since a lot of people freak out and cry in 1st phase. But once the tears started flowing from Olsen, Sgt Bachicha roughly wiped his finger across the pudgy recruit's cheek, dabbed the tears into his mouth, then laughed an utterly insane, high-pitched shrieking giggle, like the Joker or some kind of Disney villain, and boasted that he just devoured Olsen's soul.

I'm not a superstitious person at all, and what Sgt. Bachicha did was all just part of the DI mindgame. But Olsen got an ELS discharge and was sent home in shame a few weeks later.

I still owe Sgt. Bachicha a drawing of him making then-Recruit Moon silent warcry.

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November 26th, 2009

sprang @ 08:07 pm: What's this? Andres sent me a copy of Plants Vs Zombies? Sure was nice of that faggot!



Ah... hmm.

Edit: NVM!

[8:25:16 PM] Sprang: THANKS FOR THE GAME ASSHOLE
[8:25:35 PM] Andres: wat game
[8:25:38 PM] Andres: I didn't give u a game
[8:25:52 PM] Sprang: that's right
[8:25:57 PM] Sprang: THE ROCK GAVE ME A GAME
[8:26:06 PM] Sprang: WHILE YOU JUST SAT IN YOUR PILE OF MONEY YOU WON'T SHARE
[8:26:07 PM] Andres: T-That bastard!
[8:26:13 PM] Sprang: THE ROCK IS A PHILANTHROPIST
[8:26:33 PM] Andres: well he does have a pretty big penis
[8:26:34 PM] Sprang: he also told me to go to hell
[8:26:43 PM] Andres: The guy knows his stuff

grrm @ 01:41 pm: Happy Turkey Day
Feeling much better this morning, and off in a few minutes to celebrate Thanksgiving with friends and family.

(I am once again relying on TIVO to record the Giants - Broncos contest tonight, so no commentary about it here, please. I probably won't watch it until tomorrow).

I have a lot to be thankful for. My readers, my friends, and most of all Parris.

I hope all you reading this are similarly blessed.

Happy Thanksgiving.

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November 25th, 2009

juli_rawks @ 04:01 am: Daily Tweets
  • 17:32 Oh my god i am so hungry why isn't class over yet hfghltjdcxgsfgdshkljgd D:< #
  • 23:18 Skit skat, beezys! #
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November 24th, 2009

vichickmary @ 06:15 pm: Hilarious.

This should be on failblog.com.

I don't care if you've seen this. This is still funny. I like the one with the Space Odyssey music more.

XD



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renkokitomi @ 02:50 pm: Woo, I'm sick.

I doubt it's Swine Flu though.

grrm @ 02:39 pm: NFL
I am about halfway through watching the football games that were TIVO'd for me while I was overseas.

I came back from my trip sick to my stomach, as I reported last post. These games are only making me sicker.

Life is meaningless and has no joy but the Raiders.

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grrm @ 02:31 pm: Home Again
I got home a little past midnight on Sunday night, after a long and gruelling trip from Casablanca. Three flights, changes in NYC/ JFK and Minneapolis/St. Paul, close to twenty-four hours in transit since the wake-up call came through in my Casablance hotel. I was pretty much a zombie by the time I stumbled off the last flight into Parris's loving arms, and a rotting zombie at that. After being oh-so-careful in Morocco -- not drinking the water, brushing the teeth with bottle water, avoiding uncooked food, etc -- I made the grievous error of eating at the McDonald's in the Minneapolis airport during our layover there, and came down with an nice all-American case of food poisoning. By the time I boarded my last flight my stomach felt as if I'd swallowed a lead bowling ball. It was the first time I'd eaten at a Mickey D's in a decade, and I hope that it's the last.

Anyway, the last day and a half I've spent mostly in bed or in the john, but I'm feeling a little better now. This is the first time I've felt strong enough to boot up my computer... where, of course, I found five hundred emails waiting.

The trip was great, and I hope to write more about it later, when I'm feeling stronger.

I have to say, though, I am not sure how many of these overseas trips are left in me. It's great when I get there, but air travel has just become SO exhausting and SO uncomfortable, especially when oceans are involved, that the mere thought of any more just now is daunting.
Where are the rocket planes that I was promised in the SF of my youth?

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juli_rawks @ 04:01 am: Daily Tweets
  • 11:22 Presentation over! Omg finally!! I rock btw :> #
  • 15:30 twitpic.com/qoiy5 - JULI GOT HER FITTED #
  • 20:47 twitpic.com/qpqy1 - Hmmmm fail? #
  • 22:21 RT @tokidoki loves Yogurtland! Enter to win a $1000 tokidoki shopping spree and a year of free yogurt! visit tinyurl.com/yz6oxcb #
  • 23:11 twitpic.com/qq5vt - Omg i love my mom. Flavoredlip gloss! No more dr pepper flavor though... #
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November 23rd, 2009

gear_halo @ 08:53 am:

Sitting in a holiday safety brief. Cpl Hansen told me there were going to be skits. I was hoping for people dressed up as pilgrims and indians having say no to drugs and drunk driving adventures.

I think I've been swindled.



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