Credits.

For those of you who missed the big to-do last night, I was on TV! Like, actual cable! You see, I'm a logger for a respectable Oxygen Network celebreality program that airs on Tuesday nights, and that means I summarize and transcribe all the raw footage that comes in from the field. This all deserves some repping. It's a pretty lowly position, or is at least seen that way in The Biz, and sometimes it doesn't even get credited on television even though we comb through every inch of this footage and are the first to put actions into words, okay, and we decide what is important enough for the editors to see, people I am just saying.

I sort of hopped on board late into production and missed out on a whole month's worth of footage and three weeks of episodes. But I'm a real logger now, and time from some time ago has finally caught up with a certain more nowfangled time, and so, ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you my very first television credit, underlined with my stinky pinky for your viewing convenience!


Isn't that crazy? Dan must have read my blog from Toronto and seen that I couldn't watch the episode on TV, because today I received a small parcel at my desk all clandestine-like with said episode on DVD. Props, Dan. Props till you drop. Props with a cherry on top. Mm, sundae. So, I guess this screen is really just from a DVD and not an actual broadcast, BUT STILL. CHECK THAT OUT! IT'S REAL!

Weirdly enough, it doesn't even feel that weird to me. Although, it is. It's weird to imagine that there is a household out there in some state where they export so many bread baskets watching this show and seeing my name flash by in half a second, because I mean, what if this family took a family photo and right then my name flashed by on their TV? That would mean that a photo existed of my name and some people I'll never, ever meet! What an odd snapshot! Why would this family care about a celebreality program so much? Don't they know it's on again at 10:30? God, relax! I'll be around! Call me if you need anything!

I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's real crazy to have a real-live telvision credit, but I've also seen how much work goes into making just one of these episodes happen, and it's A LOT more than I do. We tend to dismiss this programming as slick trash that appears fully-formed on douchey channels we would rather not watch, but people, it doesn't appear fully-formed. An entire building of professionals are in there doing their best with the material they've been given to turn out 23 minutes of airable television and maintain the illusion that it's all effortless. Nothing ensures that it isn't crude homemade garbage. It takes a lot to put together something you can happily forget. Let me tell you: that deserves some credits.