Author: Mike Cheatham
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TA-DA…HA!
I was in a group of young people (smug in their youth!) who were saying that older people couldn’t remember how to skip. So, me being an old person, and curious where the actual fuck they could have come up with such nonsense…I googled it. it seems their information, like…
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Extra/Background…sometimes off set.
I drove to 4.5 hours to Atlanta, made my way through check-in…wardrobe…hair…makeup (yeah, I said makeup). Then we moved to holding – a waiting area for extras/background. Then we waited for an hour or so…then to props. All ready for the scene. Then another hour or so…did a walk through…
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Happy New Year…since I did wake up…
Three years ago, I woke up in Centennial Hospital having watched the fireworks through the window of my hospital room after my second heart attack in two weeks. Today I woke up still trying to shake off the last two weeks…the first half sick with something that seems to have…
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Thank you…just a bit more…
ok…maybe a lot more… I know it is not a new year yet, but it is a new day. I have learned that every day we are fortunate enough to be given is an opportunity. But it is so close to a new year, I will make this my first…
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Letting go…a lesson too often too late.
During Thanksgiving, the grandkids showed up with a Star Wars puzzle. We put it out on the table, started putting it together…for the next few days, I worked on it alone between bad TV and background roles…nothing serious. They went (peacefully) home filled with punkin pie and ham oblivious to…
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I can see…but no leather seats?
I wrote about barely being legal to drive a short while ago, having made a decision to get my vision corrected with cataract surgery. What I did not fully understand at first; correcting my vision would also require implants. Hell, I was completely caught off guard when I learned that…
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Damn…I got fired again….
It took a few minutes for me to realize what happened, and this time, it was completely unexpected. To be very honest, there were no real visible differences in the job I was doing versus my replacement(s), in my opinion; I doubt that anyone else would have noticed without very…
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CAKFG AOY; a journey
The 2025 Clarksville Area Kayak Fishing Group tournament trail started off with a solid second place finish. Then by the second tournament I was headed for a repeat of the last several years when I found myself in twenty fourth place. Had it been 24 out of 100, I would…
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what do you mean not legal???
This has been a great year of learning so far. This month’s word – legal. It is a word I know, and have found myself doing things over time that skirted the boundaries; so technically, it is really more about its use in a specific context. I have been a…
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“Tiling” Extras – vignettes to go…
As an extra, I just learned about “crowd tiling” while on the set of a movie being filmed. The word “tiling” was explained, and then I was asked to move from the great seat I had inhabited for a concert scene. As the movement stalled for a second, I googled…
Topwater Moon 