Coriander.

We found six bottles of water and have been rationing it.

This recently happened to someone I know through Mr. Hag's work; famous artist who has NO trouble getting exposure was asked to do art for a multi-million dollar fight in Vegas for not even a ticket.

Isn't "exposure" something you die from?

Exposure is something people die of. It is not a payment plan.

This bullshit is pretty common in the industry especially with TV people. They think pretty much everybody is dying to get on TV. America's got talent calls me at least once or twice a year. Not because I'm a big shot, but because they are trawling for whoever they can find. They're like "you get a free trip to LA."…

God, Oprah, you're worse than Amanda Palmer. Just pay the performers, okay? It's not a difficult concept—they provide a service, you pay them. I'm not sure why this seems to be a problem for people. I don't go to the grocery store and expect to walk out the door with my food without paying them. This is no different.

Ugh exposure. The dirtiest word in any performer's life. The problem with getting paid in exposure is that the whole point is that one day you'll get big enough to actually get paid: this girl got big enough to perform at an Oprah tour! When is she supposed to wait until to earn actual money: hula hooping for a…

There is a precedence to this though. Bill Gates wound up making his fortune when someone noticed his firebreathing act when he used to open gratis for REO Speedwagon, and Warren Buffet got his start working for free as a ring girl in backyard wrestling tournaments that were frequented by Wall Street talent scouts.

Yup.

I am headed to Arrowhead on Sunday. Guess I will have to stick with beer and hot chocolate. Not together, unless you can turn a Miller Lite into a stout by mixing the two.

In their defense, Aramark officials pointed to the abundant signs marked Right to Refuse Service.

I'm certain your mother is fucking with you. If not, I'll have the shoofly pie quesadilla.

$1000 for a day's work is awesome IF you are working plenty of days. If that's the only job you book that month, though, it's not so great. For lots of performers, there is a lot more time off than time on, even if they and their agent are looking for gigs like crazy.

It's still way better pay than any job I had as a…

It doesn't have animated movie rates, but I'm sure she was paid scale.

huh, so that's why I hear Steve Blum so much

With the exception of major movie stars slumming it in a Dreamworks pic, or extremely rare cases like the Simpsons cast, the emphasis is never on making a big singular paycheck. It is in constant, unending work. It is one of the reasons VO is so hard to get into: a vast majority of the work is going to a very small…

Ahh, "experience". The universal palliative for underpaying or not paying people.