“Still in Hollywood–oh, wow!”

It was fun to meet Mattie, Ladd, and John T.–and to finally speak with Joe and Richard in person. Also lovely to speak with Richard’s GF, and touch base with Dan again.

Won’t make it today–looks like I’m going directly from that late lunch to my dinner meeting. Dang.

But, Stacy . . . “Actress Michelle Fields with rising young comedian, Evan Sayet.” PLEASE remove that comma.

PLEASE remove that comma.

Done. I tell ya, these grammar fascists are sucking all the fun out of the blogosphere . . .

Yeah, and that goes double for punctuation fascists.

Always nice to have a blog-pal describing his brethren in complimentary ways. And given the circumstances, I have no doubt that Evan Sayet was or will be rising in comedy, conservatism and perhaps other ways. Sounds like a great road trip!

As far as Michelle Fields goes….

Not to rip of Lorien1969 or whatever his handle is…

I’d hit it!

Ye gads! Please tell me those two characters aren’t actually portraying real military personnel in anything!

The female Marine’s (Alpha service) uniform has buttons instead of the correct eagle, globe and anchor emblems (with the bottom of the anchor facing inward) on the collar.

Unless she’s a private, she should have rank insignia either on the sleeves (if enlisted) or epaulets (if officer). It looks like she may be purportedly an officer (insignia, possible a colonel’s eagle, partially visible on the shirt collar).

The rifle and pistol badges should be centered from the edges of the pocket, should be straight instead of crooked, and the bottoms of their top bars should be 1/8″ above the pocket, not resting on the top of the pocket. Likewise, the bottom of the ribbons should be 1/8″ above the top of the shooting badges.

The buckle of the belt should be centered at the front, and there should only be 2-3 inches of belt end extending from it.

The alleged sailor looks like hell too, but I’m pretty sure that Navy regulations require him to.

Have you noticed how these military types are always getting hung up on details?

LMA,

What makes you think I’m a “military type?” I’ve been out of uniform for 15 years.

Details are important. If you have a character who’s supposed to be a Catholic priest sashaying down the hall wearing a yarmulke, wearing an ankh necklace and carrying a Quran, you didn’t get it right, people will notice, and a significant percentage who notice will assume that you didn’t get it right because you don’t give a fuck what the Catholics think.

The importance of details when it comes to portraying military personnel is heightened by the fact that when it comes to military uniform code the detail is sufficient that there’s a very thin line between being smartly turned out and looking like a sack of crap.

Unless the message of whatever commercial was being filmed is “we think that military personnel look like sacks of crap,” it’s a fail on account of details.