FIRST READING: Isaiah 43:18-19; 21-22; 24-25. Thus says the Lord: Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, that the people whom I formed for myself might declare my praise. Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob; but you have been weary of me, O Israel! But you have burdened me with your sins, you have wearied me with your iniquities. I, I am He who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
This was the first reading this Sunday. It tells us to find a new way. It is good advice.
This Wednsday is Ash Wednesday and a couple members of the crew have approached me to ask me what I am going to do. They know I am a pretty serious Catholic. A couple of them even caught me saying the Rosary at my desk which was just about the only thing that stopped me from a homicide charge.
So they wanted to know what I was doing so they could tag along and ride on our coat tails.
Hollywood people hate religious people. Doesn't matter what religion. They are athetists and contempous of people of faith. So I knew we would have a problem. You see I can't blow it up. So I have to play the angles.
There are three distributions of ashes. The 9:30 Mass first thing in the morning. Won't work because we would be late for our call time and they would lose their shit. 7:30pm which won't work because they would never break in time and would just lie to us and say they would and not do it. So I had the wife request that they call lunch at 3:00 pm. This way we can got get ashes and get back in time where they couldn't say anything. They agreed to it. But I knew there would be a problem.
They waited to the end of the day and then said "listen by the way....after you get your ashes can you wash them off....we don't want them on camera." As much as I don't want to we have to agree. We want to keep our TV show. We can't get the name of being difficult. Now they are not taking into account the fact that many people will be wearing ashes when they come in. You know the customers. Are they going to tell them that they can not display the symbols of their faith on a Holy Day of Obligation?
And they don't just fuck with the Catholics. The make up girl we love is an Orhtordox Jew. We can only get her on the days we do interviews. So when do they schedule the interviews? On Fridays so the girl has to leave early for Shabbos. So we can't use her. We have to use someone they want us to use.
You see we work with people and know people and love people regardless of their race or religion or whatever the fuck. We might bust their balls and mock them but we still have respect for the basis of their faith. So I would never send an orthodox jewish girl to Good Food to pick up the sausages. I would never send the Muslim girl to walk the dog. I would never ask the black girl to show up on time. You just have to have respect for peoples faith.
These guys don't. I have to find a new way to deal.
This post will dissappear soon. Just saying.
