Things said at work

1. Can you spread your legs for me?
2. Who wants to stick it to the wall?
3. The director said, “Don’t stop! I can stick anything I want in your mouth.”
4. Nice! Great handjob.
5. Do you think it might be better if he killed his wife?
6. I’d give you a ride, but the car is full of bear.
7. Let me just slip inside and I’ll show you how to do him
8. I spent today boning the bear.
9. His head isn’t getting hard.
10. Next up, the pelvis.

What it all means.

1. I couldn’t see a monitor, and asked the puppeteer standing next to me to widen their stance so I could look through their legs to the monitor on the floor in front of them.
2. There was a prop that needed to be attached to the wall. Why does it sound so dirty?
3. A puppeteer flubbed a line in an otherwise perfect take and stopped. The director wanted the puppeteer to continue, and he would just fix it in ADR.
4. A puppeteer did a beautifully complicated pass, combined with acting. What else can you say?
5. Talking with another writer about a plot.
6. I’m building a giant polar bear. The parts were in my car.
7. I was demonstrating a body puppet
8. I was installing dressmaker’s steel boning into the underskeleton of a bear costume.
9. I was making a fiberglass head and misjudged the amount of hardener to put into the resin.
10. Said while discussing the to-do list on the polar bear I’m constructing.

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