it's a thing that happened

"Even the most sumptuous of the Sultan's palaces are built in this combustible manner [out of wood], for I believe that they had a notion that stone-building was presumptuous..."
M.P. Shiel--- The Purple Cloud




today i was holding the boom pole as i discussed previously.





we were in a gym at a high school in dallas. suddenly an errant fucking pigeon appeared out of nowhere, and it lands on my boom pole. for some reason this totally threw me into a panic. i don't know why. oh, by the way there 80 high school kid extras crowded around me. ok, so i went into a wild panic, and slammed the boom pole down on this actress' head. you're not supposed to do that. she was nice about it though because there aren't supposed to be overly tame/aggressive pigeons inside of high schools who try to make friends in the middle of a scene. fuck the police?
love,
alex