Well, this has been an interesting day. This morning I got a Tweet giving me the head’s up that the Vanity Fair article I was in had been posted. I was running out the door, but clicked and saw the GORGEOUS image by Michael Halsband: (including@AdventureGirl@JuliaRoy@PRSarahEvans@Pop17) and got very excited and posted a link without reading the article. Well, bad idea.

When I was first approached to do the shoot, I was very excited. The photography in the magazine has always been the best in the business, and the fact that they were interested in doing a piece about Twitter and New Media gave me hope that a magazine firmly in the “establishment” was interested in exploring the subject in a new light. And then during breakfast I saw some weird Twitter comments go by…and then I read the article…and oh, gosh. Really?!

I can’t tell you how many hours I had to resist rage Tweeting about this subject. The use of inane Twitter lingo like “Twilebrity”, “Tweeple” and “Twitformation Superhighway” (Oh God please stop) just signaled that the writer obviously wasn’t well-researched about the service, or the internet in general, really. And her condescending jibes like, “…somehow this fascinates millions of readers.” Well, whatever. We’re all used to snarkville.

But what really ENRAGED me what the general tone, which artfully made intelligent, articulate women sound vapid and superficial. Check this part:

For tweeple, e-mail messages are sonnets, Facebook is practically Tolstoy. “Facebook is just way too slow,” says Stefanie Michaels…“I can’t deal with that kind of deep engagement.”
….
“Sometimes,” says Julia Roy, a 26-year-old New York social strategist turned twilebrity, scrunching her face, “when you’re Twittering all the time, you even start to think in 140 characters.”

“Scrunching her face?!” Oh gosh, thinking is hard!

Well, despite the overwhelming insinuation, these women ALL of them are self-made, business entrepreneurs. They aren’t skating by on their good looks, they have businesses. In some of their cases, with professional sports teams and major brands, they help steer the online presence of empires. They are a new kind of savvy business person, cutting the middle man out. Carving and creating new professions. Most importantly, in this celebrity culture of “Jersey Shore” fame, they aren’t just “famous” for being “famous” as the article implies. They have influence in an emerging and important arena. I guess that just wasn’t an interesting angle? I mean, we’re practically naked in trench coats, who needs MORE zing?!

I am especially sad that in the same issue, Vanity Fair featured 7 very young emerging actresses (most of whom are tied to large corporations like Disney and Nickelodeon) and treated them with much more respect than they gave us. I feel like an opportunity was missed to celebrate a new kind of independent and liberated woman. Yes, I’m pretty naive, haha.

Luckily, there are many smart women on the internet whose hackles got raised as much or MORE than mine did. In blog entries at CNET, Geek Week, Mediaite.com, smaller blogs like Geek Girl Diva, and many many comments through Twitter and Facebook, everyone picked up on the condescending tone of the article. (Too bad VF doesn’t have comments enabled on the article, I’d love to see that thread!) Perhaps this will spur more dialogue about old media’s perception of the internet, and the role of women in new media vs. old? I can only hope.

Thus ends my “glamorous” experience. For a few hours during the photo shoot it was like a dream come true. But their business is about to be gutted by the tablet revolution anyway, so I guess I’ll cut them some slack.

Happy Holidays Everyone! I really hope you all had a great, restful end of December. I was lucky enough to actually get to go on vacation, first one since I started The Guild over 2 1/2 years ago, SERIOUSLY! I’d been saving up all year for a trip, dangling the carrot of “relaxation” in front of myself as motivation to get through the 24/7 workload that’s plagued me this year. Not complaining, it’s just being constantly online definitely strains the psyche, I’ve decided constantly multi-tasking has degraded my concentration, and will make an effort to single-task more in 2010. Better for creativity perhaps? Sanity, definitely.

Usually I love to go to a place where I can research obsessively, learn a new language and plan excursions scheduled down to the minute. Alas, the last few months have been so exhausting I didn’t even think I had the energy to GO on vacation! But, on the spur of the moment, I decided to follow through, and I am SO glad I did. Kauai is gorgeous, and I definitely would recommend visiting for a relaxing, beautiful time. Many people inquired where I went on my trip, so I’ll briefly outline some of the highlights!

First, I started looking for hotels, and they were either too $$ (Four Seasons), sold out, or one of those bohemoth resorts with hundreds of rooms, the kind I hate. Finally I searched “Boutique Hotel Kauai” and came up with the Koa Kea Hotel.

I had no context for the location, it was a bit pricey (although I found a deal on the website), but all I knew was that the pictures were GORGEOUS! They’d just renovated everything, and the decor was sleek and simple. When we arrived everything was what it looked like in the pictures and more. Small, quiet, GREAT rooms, lovely beach and boardwalk down to a pretty public beach, and a spectacular view to wake up to every day. The pillow and sheets were high quality too, I know that’s weird to say, but it’s the thing that’s most important to me at a hotel, that I sleep good! And they have REALLY strong Mai Tais, hehe.

It was a great location on Poipu, the southernmost tip of the island, close to walk to several good restaurants and a general store, and convenient by car to most of the island. I honestly couldn’t have picked a better place. The only complaint I had was breakfast was pricey, so we went elsewhere most the time. The restaurant, Red Salt, was expensive, but the best food we had for dinner on the island, so I don’t regret it at all, a lovely Christmas dinner! I would definitely recommend this hotel again, so peaceful and intimate!

FOOD! I have to say the island doesn’t have SPECTACULAR food (like Oahu), but we found many a good meal there. Red Salt at our hotel, was very nice for DINNER (pricey though, def a splurge).

Breakfast is too pricey though, so go only as a treat for the view (which is BEAUTIFUL).

We had Christmas Eve dinner at Roy’s, an institution that is very well reviewed but SO disappointing. I can’t tell you how blah this food was, and at the price, ugh. Get a hot dog at Puka Dog next door instead, much better price and YUMMY! I had no idea that Hawaiian hot dogs were ENCASED in bread, it was weird and cool! We did eat at Gaylord’s the last night, and that was wonderful for a fancy dinner. I would try it for lunch/brunch as well, the service was excellent and the food was great. Cool location too.

The idea of going to Starbucks was AWFUL, so we went to the Kauai Coffee Company, where they actually grow the beans, which was quite cool to see. You can sample all varieties of coffee and get a great latte for the road. A nice side trip. We had brunch at a small place called Grinds which was nice, they make their own bread, so their egg sandwich with Portuguese Sausage was awesome.

Two of my favorite places: A little cafe called Kalaheo Cafe, which was wonderful for breakfast and lunch and had great coffee. We went there several times. And my Achilles Heel was definitely Papalani Gelato. Oh boy you guys, this stuff is AMAZING! Waffle Cone + Papalani Sorbetto (Guava, Blood Orange and Lilikoi mixed) + Pineapple Sorbetto = JOY JOY! The only thing that topped it was a shaved ice from a place called JoJo’s. I got the island specialty called a “Halo Halo”, it had coconut syrup, azuki beans, macadamia nut ice cream, candied pineapple pieces, gelatin and azuki beans. I ate ever bite of a HUGE portion, but didn’t regret anything after! Now that I think of it, I guess I was on a sugar high the whole trip. OH WELL!

As far as sights went, we Weimeia Canyon is a MUST SEE. Its breathtaking to be driving up the mountain and, through the trees, glimpse a canyon that equals the Grand Canyon in majesty. Here’s a pic:

Also went hiking, but it was muddy and slippery. Definitely didn’t do as much as we could, I guess more for next time!

We also drove to the northernmost part of the island, and I’m just sorry we didn’t go back there once again, it’s a MUCH different climate than the south of the island, greener and more tropical. I see now why people stay several days on the north, then several days on the south. I didn’t understand that from afar, it’s such a small island! But I definitely will remember the helicopter trip around the island forever. We flew around the whole island, most parts you can never see from the car. The sheer scope of the cliffs and secluded beachs is so breathtaking, and we saw whales in the ocean, which was a huge thrill for me!

Another highlight of the trip was an accident, stumbling on the National Tropical Botanical Garden on the last day. We did the McBride tour, and it was raining, which could have been a drag but it was WONDERFUL. Seeing all the different tropical plants, and all the effort this organization goes through to save endangered species, it was very spiritual and inspiring as well as educational. I would definitely recommend doing one of the tours, and meeting the very educated tour guides who will open a new world of plants to you (if you’re not already familiar with them like I was)!

MANY more pictures in my Flickr account if you like flowers!

Didn’t shop much, but I did impulse buy a pricey ukele (the musician in me had to get a Koa one ). I can’t play guitar, although I’ve tried, but the size of a guitar has always held me back. I definitely had more fun with the small violinish-sized uke, and learned a lot of bizarre public domain songs from the turn of the century (only book I could get, haha). Thx to the guy at Larry’s Ukele’s, I definitely enriched my trip musically.

Lastly I’m linking a picture of me, not to be cheesecake, just to show my tan off. My fake tan.

That’s right, for the first time ever I got one of those fake spray on tans everyone in Hollywood uses. I have to say I felt REALLY WEIRD with it on, but kinda confident, because usually I’m hiding my pale legs from the world, haha. I can say confidently though, that I’m probably the only person to get PALER during a week in Hawaii. I guess that’s something to brag about. Oh, and yes, that bikini was on sale for $1.99 a piece at Target, and it shows. Guess I learned a lesson, don’t be cheap with swimsuits.

I’m busy working on Dollhouse this week but I’m excited that my “Lie to Me” episode had a clip of me released on the EW Ausiello Files website. (Don’t click if you don’t wanna be SPOILER’D!)

Article on Ausiello Files with a Video Clip!

Please tune in, it’s a really good ep! Ok, back to work.

The Guild Season 3 Finale was posted today! We MADE IT!

Streaming on Bing Video
Alt Streaming MSN Parallel Universe Site
Zune/Xbox Download (You can also view the episodes here through the Zune Software PC users)
And Episodes 8-12 Outtakes!

And if you need a place to catch up on all seasons, Bing Video has a nice place to watch them all in a beautiful organized fashion.

Episode 11

Video: ‘The Guild’ Episode 11: Battle Royale

Episode 12

Video: ‘The Guild’ Episode 12: Hero

Gag reel for ep 9-12

Video: Season 3 – Gag Reel: Episodes 9-12

Well, what to say. I guess I’m surprised that director Sean Becker and DP John Schmidt survived this shoot. It was pretty insane to accomplish coverage of such complicated stuff and make sure it edited together properly and was fast and funny. In two days. They did an amazing job due to impeccable planning and storyboarding. We were lucky to have the local LA Zune House (a party location) to shoot in! Kim and I had attended a few parties there and thought “Wow, that’s a cool coincidence, can we pull some strings and not shoot in a janky cheap warehouse?!” Thank you all the Microsoft people it took to arrange it. Pretty much the best location to shoot at EVER since there was SOOOO much room. Production value through the nose that we couldn’t have accomplished any other way on our budget.

So the episodes. Two Guilds. Fifteen Actors. 20 Extras. What a nightmare, who thought of this storyline anyway?!?! Well, for episode 11 it is the finest frenzy we’ve ever done. I was determined to give everyone a grace note in one of these episodes, and I think everyone got wrapped up pretty well. There were, frankly, too many storylines going on this season, but out of necessity I made them work, because I couldn’t think of any other way to do the season. I think for season 4 there will be a more streamlined story on my writing part, but due to the chaotic nature of this season’s storyline I’m really happy with how it turned out.

An aside: I know when the episode goes up on any World of Warcraft site the main comment will be, “A PRIEST survives 2 on one with DPS characters?!? STUPID!” Well, whatever. Artistic license and this isn’t WOW. I always picture Codex running and hiding, and then stunning Tink and Fawkes a lot. I feel like she’d be good at evasion as a player.

It was a joke with me and Sean when I was writing the season, “What’s gonna be the Special Effect Shot in episode 12?” Well, I hadn’t planned one, but just because he was joking around I came up with the Codex/Cyd conversation. And I like it so much. They say you never change unless YOU want to change, and to get Cyd to grow a spine she looks inside herself. Or inside her monitor. Because, at heart, I believe we are a piece of our avatars online, whether actual or aspirational. Ok, I’ll stop being semi-deep now. Another reason was the costumes were expensive and it was another reason to use mine, LOL.

In episode 12 I also love…*SPOILER*

…the arc of Wil’s character and mine culminating into the season cliffhanger. When I wrote that down I giggled with GLEE. And coincidentally it was the first scene we shot, with a skeleton crew to prevent anyone knowing what would happen. Well, we always have a skeleton crew, but whatever. I wanted to keep it a big surprise. When I was planning the season I wanted to avoid a romance arc for Codex since she already did that with the stunt guy last season. I kept wanting to hook these two up though, I didn’t massage it to happen, I wrote it because it made sense. Every time I read the script through that transition from Zaboo and me to that last scene made me laugh. I’m so excited to see people reacting the same way! When I rewote the season (the MANY times) I kept trying to sprinkle sexual tension between them, but make it very subtle and not a give-away.

Another scene that I like is the Riley/Venom kiss. The line, “That’s a hell of a long kiss,” was so lame but made me and Sean laugh a lot, so we kept it in. Script-wise I originally planned that Riley grabbed and kissed ME, but as I was writing I felt like Riley’s nature and Venom’s nature would suit each other. I could see these two having a good relationship actually. Well, “good” is widely interpretable. Above all I wanted Zaboo to step up and get HIMSELF out of the mess of this relationship. I didn’t want Codex saving him, and I wanted that moment before Fawkes steps in between them at the very end to have a sense of possibility, because they’ve grown alone they might be able to be actual friends together. Oops.

What else, the cool conversation between Bruiser and Bladezz, Clara being pregnant, Zaboo’s hashtag #sweetburns, there are so many moments that we had so much fun with. All in all I’m so proud of the season, I feel like we stepped it up on every level. Our cast and crew this season were fantastic, thank you each and every one. And thanks to you guys for watching and commenting. It’s what we do this stuff for.

We have lots of DVD extras that are being processed now, S3 DVD to be early next year. I’m working on the comic (the art is looking AMAZING, so exciting) and hopefully I’ll have time for more blogging about non-Guild stuff for a bit. I know I need a bit of a creative break because I’ve been downloading history books of World War I and enrolling in trapeze classes. I guess the strange stuff I do to shake my creative boredom can only go to more inspiration!

So they called up and asked me to co-host Attack of the Show on G4 a few weeks ago, and I said, “sure!” And then I started to think about what that entailed…and then I realized it was live….oh boy!

I say this a lot, but you never appreciate how hard something is until you try to do it yourself. Hosting, especially a live show, is officially in that bin for me now. I didn’t even realize all the moving parts that doing a show like this entails, or I might not have said I’d do it, haha! Not only are you reading from a teleprompter the whole time, but you have a thing in your ear for people to talk to you in, you have TONS of copy to try to deliver (hopefully believably), you have to stop talking when the video rolls, you have to adlib, but not TOO much to get off track in timing, AND you have to figure out what camera to look at when they change angles! WHILE YOU’RE TALKING! That was the part I was most nervous about, but a nice stage manager waves furiously at you to change your eyeline, so it wasn’t as bad as I’d thought. But imagine changing eyeline WHILE you’re READING something, and picking up in the same sentence on a completely different reading surface. And making it seamless. ACK! New respect for all hosts out there!!!!

Thankfully my co-host Chris Hardwick (@nerdist on Twitter) was a gentle soul and VERY experienced and we genuinely had fun together. The producers and crew were totally cool, and the experience actually turned out to be fun. It was only the second time in my LIFE I’d read off a teleprompter (first time was E3 for the Xbox announcement), so I’m pretty happy with not having a HUGE freak-out moment. Dare I say I had a bit of fun? Ok, I will

Here’s the embedded intro clip from the show, and you can watch a few of the other videos on their website (including the Looong clip I did on Gadgets where I got very nervous about talking a lot by myself, haha. I did it perfect in the readthrough too, GRR! Such is live TV).

Video Game – E3 2009 – Attack of the Show

Sorry this is quite late, I have been working straight for 2 weeks now almost, so my life got thrown into turmoil and I lost track of a LOT of stuff Cool thing is, I’ll be on an episode of Three Rivers and Lie to Me sometime in December (the 14th for Lie to Me, waiting on firm confirmation of that.) Really nice to have a job, and two back to back is a total record for me! I’ll do a blog entry dedicated to these jobs and my experiences when they air, so look out for it!

Now: Episodes 9 and 10 of The Guild!

Video: Season 3 – Episode 9: Wit’s End

Video: Season 3 – Episode 10: The Return!

What can I say about these episodes? I love them! They’re really the best ones of the season, everything has built up in a way that leads to the very bottom and the very height of the Guild this season. I know people were getting impatient about the Knights of Good fighting back, so when Codex and Zaboo track down Valkerie and p’own him, it’s pretty damned satisfying. Hopefully for you too

For Episode 9 we have the highlight for me: the last, great scene in the office, OUTSIDE WORLD! Actually, last season Sandeep (Zaboo) pitched me the idea of Vork and Zaboo torturing someone by deleting his or her armor one piece at a time. It’s a pretty traumatic event for a gamer, those pieces are HARD EARNED! I didn’t find a place for it season 2, but for season 3, with revenge a theme, it was perfect. When I first did a draft of the script, I actually had Codex in on it, going crazy and deleting the character’s armor. But I backed away from that because I didn’t want her to violate her character so much, and with Riley’s treatment of Zaboo, it fell into place that his vengeance would get out of control as a repressed reaction to her treatment. @mikerose is one of the FUNNIEST people I know, and this scene is just fantastic because of him. A few of his adlibs like “You Tiny Monster…” and “Your breathe is hot…” still make me roll on the floor.

Oh, and I can’t skip over Vork’s triple take when I call him a “poo face” earlier in the ep. It’s the best reaction he’s ever given. He’s normally pretty stone-faced, but director Sean Becker gave him a note to just “go for it” and voila, comedy gold. I really want an animated GIF of him doing that, haha.

EP 10! My favorite ep! I can’t tell you how incredibly I love this episode. Jeff Lewis is at his height of hilarity here, the scene where he’s proud people hate him was so hard to get through because of his WEIRD hand gestures! I was biting my cheeks the whole time! In fact, the speech where he says “Evil must not stop us…” was cut from the script, but I loved my line after that “this is a techno song, right?” SOOO much I threw all that dialogue back at him right before we shot. Credit to him for learning and delivering.

An interesting comment was made on Twitter, about everything being made “ok” because a man came back and took over. I certainly didn’t mean that at ALL. The fact is, Codex is not a good leader. She will never be a good leader, especially in the time frame of 6 days in this season. That is how people ACTUALLY are. She’s BETTER than she was at the beginning, but to think that she realistically could take on the mantle of Guild Leader (and REPLACE Vork which I didn’t want her to do) against the Anarchists was such a stretch for me, and a direction I didn’t want to go in with the script. So, Vork comes back, after his big journey, and puts the Guild back together. Codex will get her moment, don’t worry.

Every scene in ep 10 is so good I find it hard to not talk about each one. Sir Loop a Lot was a last minute rewrite, I originally had it as a typical FPS game, but I was so bored with that idea, so I was like, “Let’s go the opposite way”. Sean, Kim Evey and I did all the Loop-A-Lot Voices, we had WAY too good a time doing it too, haha. And Vork’s dog monologue is my favorite thing I’ve ever written, it cracks me up so much. Clara being hit on by the kid’s, the thumping of the toys on her chest is such a funny touch, and we had SUCH a fun time improving in the scene at the door, you’ll see with the outtakes.

Lastly, I just want to give major kudos to director/editor Sean Becker for making the last sequence SO DAMNED COOL. I wrote in the script “slo-mo Reservoir Dog’s-Style montage” but had no visual concept of what that mean. With our tiny budget, stealing shots, he made a badass sequence of geekdom. We look cool, then not cool, then cool again. Our composor Eanon Patterson as always does an AMAZING job creating a song for us to fit the mood.

2 more episodes this season! Woot!

Guild Halloween Video is posted! Happy Holidays all!

Streaming on MSN
Download on US Xbox Live (and UK)
Download on Zune

Video: Season 3 – Episode 9: Halloween!!

My wonderful producer@kimevey wrote this episode and I’m really proud of her, the first episode I relinquished writing control, and it’s so good! We did it old-school quick and dirty style, very few crew members, 4 hour shoot, and honestly it was almost more fun than filming a regular episode because there weren’t so many elements for me to be paranoid about. I could just sit back, do my part acting-wise and do the creative producing. Greg Benson (her husband and part of Season 1 director@mediocrefilms) directed, and he did a fab job, I really like the loose camera work and improv-ish style for the piece, it’s really really fun! And what can I say about performance: Baby Blake steals the show.

This episode is out of the timeline for the season, so we’ll be back with Episode 9 next week, tumbling down to the end of the season! Really hope you guys enjoy it, Ep 9 and particularly 10 are my favorite eps of the season.

On another note, a month or so back I filmed a short for NASA! (When they called my agent@georgeruiz the words “NASA” were barely out of his mouth before I said “YES PLEASE!”

I have to admit, my knowledge about Astronomy is not as much as the other areas (ignorance now demolished as I, while doing research to understand what I was saying, downloaded 20 books on my Kindle and bookmarked a dozen sites and now am on a huge hard Sci-Fi fiction kick. Thanks guys!) I obsessively memorized my lines because THAT WAS A LOT OF DIALOGUE!!!!!!!! It came out sooo good, and I’m so impressed that the script balanced comedy and education so well. I hope you enjoy it too!

Episode 8:

Video: Season 3 – Episode 8: +10 to Bravery

And a NEW Gag Reel!

Video: Season 3: Gag Reel – Episodes 5-8

You can download them all from the browser onto your Xbox too.

This episode has my favorite Codex scenes yet. Basically when I go to festivals/panels, they always ask for a scene to show, but other than a webcam entry, it’s hard to pick a lot of scenes out that feature all of Codex’s character: She’s by definition shy, withdrawn, passive and internally neurotic (what they always tell you NOT to write, and makes her the hardest character to flesh out when I am actually writing, haha). The scene with me and Tink will definitely be one I feature in the future, as well as put on my reel. I LOVE LOVE doing physical comedy (that’s why I particularly like acting on sitcom sets) and this was a believable scene where I got to do some of those crazy moves I usually reserve for the DDR pad. I love the dynamic between the characters, and how competent Tink is with the ball, and how INCOMPETENT but determined Codex is to try (and fail) to work things out. Amy was a pro-baller in High school so that’s why I set this scene at the court (special skills FTW!)

In addition, Wil brings it home as Fawkes in this scene. I love LOVE the part where he says the thing about the gas tank, that’s directly stolen from my brother who once said he liked to push the gas tank as far as possible before refilling, whereas I am the kind of person who fills a little below 1/4, total anxiety about running out. It’s hard to be such a jerk and yet totally charming and hot, Wil does it PERFECTLY!

Another scene that’s great, Vork and the Matron, is one of the first scenes I wrote for the season. There’s a strange civility between the two of them that is kinda awesome. PLUS the Riley Zaboo scene is soooo crazy! Many thanks to John, the volunteer BTS/SFX guy, who made it look like that was a real paintball hit: He rigged that up with a baggie and some kind of air gun, haha. When I first wrote this scene Zaboo proposed to Riley, but I thought it was a bit much and throttled it back to reality, making it a commitment ring. I figured Riley’s character might dump him if he got too serious at this point in their relationship.

All in all, a turning point! I see a lot of people commenting that they want the Knights to start fighting back, well, wait til next week!

‘The Guild’ Season 3 Episode 7 “Coping and Stuff” is up. The Axis of Anarchy thwarts Codex’s attempt to counter their attacks with logic and reasonableness.

Streaming on MSN | Downloadable in HD on Xbox | Downloadable on Zune

There’s a LOT going on in this episode. We actually had to cut out a whole scene between Wiggly and Bladezz in this ep, the FIRST TIME we’ve cut out a big enough chunk to have a “deleted scenes” DVD extra in Guild history, haha. I particularly love how dumb Wiggly is about the game, he’s just NOT getting better. The horrified looks from the cast are just CLASSIC, and the little tantrum Bladezz does before I get the idea to trade lessons was just sheer performance genius on Vince’s part. Total accidental take that just makes the moment.

My top favorite part of this episode is Vork on the lawn. @andrewgleason, our Guild benefactor, donated the apartment complex where he lives again this season, and we were sooo careful not to mess up the lawn, so that’s why the van is partially on the sidewalk and not RIGHT UP against the building like I envisioned in the script. Still absolutely hilarious, his pronunciation of the Spanish is soooo bad! CABEYZAH! I was actually inside getting makeup on for the Riley/Codex scene and hadn’t seen any footage on this until we were editing, it made me roll on the floor, how intent Vork is on his little notebook.

Also, the spinning Finn Smulders head to transition into the button of the episode was a joke by@seanbecker. He FTPs cuts to me and my producer@kimevey for notes when we can’t get together and sometimes puts little jokes in the cut to crack us up (there’s a certain webcam this season that was lit like a pumkin and I made a comment and he edited in…well, you really had to be there, so forget it ) Anywhoo, when I saw that come up while writing down notes I totally snorted orange juice up my nose and was like, “WTF SEAN! KEEP IT!” So, there you go. Not traditional Guild style but anything for a laugh, right?

We just picture-locked episode 12, the finale. I can’t tell you what a relief it is knowing the season is over (er, actually we have 3 more weeks of work on the DVD extras. Oh and I’m writing the comic book so that will take a few more months…erg). But these episodes have come out SO GOOD I just can’t thank the cast and crew enough for realizing my vision of this “impossible-to-shoot-on-this-budget” script. I hope you guys continue to enjoy, I know we are!

It’s a lofty title to the article, but this is one of the funnest interviews I’ve done, it has a lot of great things in it. The biggest thing that people have picked up on is this section:

Wired.com: Has The Guild helped your acting career?

Day: It’s very funny. No. It’s a little frustrating. Having done this for two years, I’ve gotten used to the fact that it’s not going to cross over. Occasionally I’ll see a writer who knows about the show. I have fewer auditions now than before I started The Guild because I have less time to concentrate on my acting career. In an ideal world, people would be offering me roles or at least I’d get more appointments and so would my cast members.

I certainly didn’t want to sound whiney about it, which I hope it doesn’t come off being. It is what it is. The acting jobs I get don’t come from casting directors, they come from writers and producers calling me in directly, which isn’t that often. Oh, well. I just know I’m really happy making stuff on the internet, and hopefully can get enough jobs in the TV/Movie world every year to make my health insurance!