For those who remember the '80's.

 

One of the many reasons why I enjoy working at this nuthouse which we somehow have the ***** to call a TV station:



Shortly after I took that photo, the cat freaked out, ran into the newsroom, climbed up into the lighting grid, and decided that was a really great place to be and that it was going to defend its newfound territory against all invaders.



Also, yes, the hallway just outside the restroom is in fact a location which the morning show uses on a near-daily basis.

That's a $40k steadicam rig (the lens alone is $18k) being used to shoot video of a cat standing on a wobbly table next to the loo.

I love my job.

 

That first one, kinda yes.


I mean, I hate Dolly Parton, but I do appreciate interesting interpretations of pop songs by attractive women with beautiful voices.



I'm still very much on a dodie kick in that regard. (Yes, she spells it with a lowercase d.) She's the one in the striped shirt with long, straight dark hair:





That's my groove. Big, thick sounds layered atop one another until the sensation is that of a literal angel having a really wet, expressive orgasm directly into your ear.



More dodie & Pomplamoose.









And more Pomplamoose, sans-dodie, but with Sarah Dugas (the bass player), for whom I harbor a not-insignificant amount of lust:

 

Would that have been the white one, or the black one?


Unrelated:

 

Yeah the cat ears on the handler kinda made me pause as well.

Me, in my head every time I survive a HPDE session:

 

She and I did meet after the shoot.

Point being that this place is just insanely odd. We're the #1 TV station in town, by a sizeable margin according to Nielsen, despite the fact that we are not a network affiliate. Mostly because nobody here takes themselves seriously and just behaves like a bunch of total dipshits on air. Which, I guess... people like?

It gets a bit hard keeping track of that terminology at times, because we don't just have WGN in the building. We also have AntennaTV (a national multicast feed which is a small fish overall) and also News Nation, which is trying really hard to cut into CNN / Fox News / MSNBC for viewership. And I'm the chief engineer for all of them, which also gets odd, since the different VPs react differently to me using phrases such as "well, **** a goat" in meetings.

I actually got called into HR last week because of that specific thing. A vendor was involved. And, to be fair, I'd expressly stated that they should go and **** a goat.

I had not considered prior to this that the chief engineer was subject to HR. But I stand by my conviction.







So, at a local market level, we are non-network. But at a national level, we are the network.

I cannot even begin to explain how this causes confusion for vendors from an accounts-payable standpoint, since all three operations have the same address. From time to time, I even get mail intended for TV stations which have nothing at all to do with us, other than the fact that they're owned by the same company. Here's one from yesterday:



So, yeah... On the one hand, I'm happy about the fact that RFS considers us an important enough client to overnight documentation to us from their factory in Victoria, Australia.

On the other hand, Texas and Chicago are two entirely different states. The former is surrounded by poverty and desperation, and the latter is surrounded by Illinois.

And yes, I have sent an email to the chief engineer at KTRK, to let them know that I have their antenna manual.

Channel 13? Seriously? You poor VHF bastards.

 

Happy independence day folks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe,

I laughed out loud at the cartoon above.

And thanks for introducing me to Pomplamoose. It made my weekend.

 

 

What sort of bucket seat is this?

 

^^ I'm gonna go with the 18" toothed bucket sort.

 

 

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