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If you are trying to juggle a support job and auditions at the same time, it might be helpful to know when auditions happen. Now, it’s important to know that auditions happen on all days and at all hours, and that’s all the advice you’ll get from most people in this town. And with good reason! But, if I may, you should also know that the full union projects such as national commercials and TV shows do tend to have auditions during regular business hours, and that, beyond that obvious statement, there may be trends in terms of times of day and/or days of the week that might help you out over the years.

Over the last few months, I’ve had a pretty good number of auditions for union projects, and I present here some quick little calculations.

Over half of my auditions are in the afternoon. Most of those, or 45% of my total number of auditions, are between 2:00pm and 4:00pm. About 10% of my auditions come during the industry-standard “lunch hour” of 1:00pm to 2:00pm. And that leaves a little more than a third of my auditions before 1:00pm, but none before 10:00am.

There are significant percentages to note in days of the week, too. Almost half of my auditions have happened on a Wednesday. None have happened on a Monday in many months, and the rest are evenly spread over Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

Now, let me repeat, these numbers are simply my experience over the last few months during summer 2010 doing union auditions in Los Angeles. And while the number of auditions I’ve had is sweet, it may not be statistically significant. These numbers could be a total fluke that will mislead you for the rest of your career! Consider yourself warned! Nevertheless, you might want to schedule a day job that works Monday all day, gives you Wednesdays off, and always lets you be free in the afternoons, most importantly between 2:00pm and 4:00pm. Break a leg!

I am just now watching episode 10 of season 3 of Breaking Bad. It’s the episode about a fly. You know the one! It aired on May 23, so I’m a little behind. (I like to savor delicious things — or save delicious things for later.)

Pretty much only Mr White and Jesse have any lines. More significantly: It’s hilarious (for a while). I am laughing out loud and BB is not a Laugh Out Loud show. BB is a Freak the F Out show.

Anybody else remember and lurve this lovely episode about killing a fly? From pre-credits thingy, to whacking each with an impromptu flyswatter, this episode rawks. (Insiders, read this, too.)

Attention, actors. Previously, I showed how to make IMDb Pro better if you use Safari on an Apple computer. Today, let’s add one more line to overcome.css to improve Actors Access.

The first time you use Actors Access, it’s good to see the message at the top of each breakdown that begins with, “SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ALWAYS SUBMIT ASAP!!! Submitting within the first day….” But that large message gets old fast! That message just gets in the way after a while. Here’s some CSS you can use to tell Safari to hide the message:

div.alert[id=message] {
display: none;
}

I’ve modified my online copy of overcome.css to include this plus the previous IMDb Pro fix. Download and enjoy! (Need help on this? Just leave a comment.)

Now, if anybody can figure out how to do this on Safari iPhone, too, please let me know!