http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525 First things first, I'd just like to point out that the old adage "the camera adds ten pounds" is complete and total bunk. Looking at myself on video, the camera had to have added at least 20 pounds to my girlish figure. And I don't know who photoshopped that double chin on me in every scene, but as soon as I find out they are going to get a good talkin' to, believe you me. For those of you who are lost, the Advocate editors, in either a temporary lapse of judgment or a temporary drunken stupor, gave me the go-ahead to make a news video spoof (a la The Daily Show) on the ongoing chupacabra saga. So I wrote a script, kidnapped our photographer T.C. Baker and ran around Victoria like a speed freak shooting scenes in which the ultimate goal was to make myself look ridiculous (although if you've every read my column, that's pretty much par for the course for me). What's even more amazing is they saw the final product (complete with props like booze, a toy rifle and a shameful misuse of the Charlie's Angels them song) they have yet to take the video down from the Web site or fire me where I stand. So now that's it's all over, I can share with you, my beloved readers, all the juicy good stuff that happened behind the scenes, like... 1. On the first day of shooting, I was attacked by a flying bug approximately the size of the Alamo and commenced to scream like a 5-year-old little girl. Luckily T.C. captured this all on video and so now I can look forward to someday being blackmailed by it. 2. On every set there is a diva and on ours, the diva was one Mr. Tim Delaney. If he wasn't complaining about his nonfat, no foam, chai latte being too cold, he was trying to upstage me every time the camera was rolling. 3. Watching Bill Clough's long and esteemed journalism career get flushed down the toilet the second he agreed to appear in our pitiful excuse of a video (thanks Billy...I owe you a beer). 4. Every movie set has at least one torrid affair between co-stars and on this particular set, that affair was between Sonny Long and chupacabra. Hope you two crazy kids can work it out. Well, thats about all the juicy behind the scenes stuff I can muster right now. (Warning! Warning! Shameless self-promotion ahead!) If you haven't seen the video of me making an idiot out of myself, just follow the link: http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/847/story/145702.html First things first, I'd just like to point out that the old adage "the camera adds ten pounds" is complete and total bunk. Looking at myself on video, the camera had to have added at least 20 pounds to my girlish figure. And I don't know who photoshopped that double chin on me in every scene, but as soon as I find out they are going to get a good talkin' to, believe you me. For those of you who are lost, the Advocate editors, in either a temporary lapse of judgment or a temporary drunken stupor, gave me the go-ahead to make a news video spoof (a la The Daily Show) on the ongoing chupacabra saga. So I wrote a script, kidnapped our photographer T.C. Baker and ran around Victoria like a speed freak shooting scenes in which the ultimate goal was to make myself look ridiculous (although if you've every read my column, that's pretty much par for the course for me). What's even more amazing is they saw the final product (complete with props like booze, a toy rifle and a shameful misuse of the Charlie's Angels them song) they have yet to take the video down from the Web site or fire me where I stand. So now that's it's all over, I can share with you, my beloved readers, all the juicy good stuff that happened behind the scenes, like... 1. On the first day of shooting, I was attacked by a flying bug approximately the size of the Alamo and commenced to scream like a 5-year-old little girl. Luckily T.C. captured this all on video and so now I can look forward to someday being blackmailed by it. 2. On every set there is a diva and on ours, the diva was one Mr. Tim Delaney. If he wasn't complaining about his nonfat, no foam, chai latte being too cold, he was trying to upstage me every time the camera was rolling. 3. Watching Bill Clough's long and esteemed journalism career get flushed down the toilet the second he agreed to appear in our pitiful excuse of a video (thanks Billy...I owe you a beer). 4. Every movie set has at least one torrid affair between co-stars and on this particular set, that affair was between Sonny Long and chupacabra. Hope you two crazy kids can work it out. Well, thats about all the juicy behind the scenes stuff I can muster right now. (Warning! Warning! Shameless self-promotion ahead!) If you haven't seen the video of me making an idiot out of myself, just follow the link: http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/847/story/145702.html en-us I thought you were pretty brave, actually.  The faces you made - and the Chupa me what?  Everybody in Coastal Bend College thought you were great in the piece.  Great idea, great follow-thru. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22229 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22229 I thought you were pretty brave, actually.  The faces you made - and the Chupa me what?  Everybody in Coastal Bend College thought you were great in the piece.  Great idea, great follow-thru. I thought the video was great.  I was TRYING to watch it at a low volume at my work desk ... except I kept busting out laughing.  I was in tears.  Thanks for the laughter. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22237 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22237 I thought the video was great.  I was TRYING to watch it at a low volume at my work desk ... except I kept busting out laughing.  I was in tears.  Thanks for the laughter. Now THAT was awesome.  Excellent job!  :-) http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22321 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22321 Now THAT was awesome.  Excellent job!  :-) You all have lost your dang minds. Obviously, the absense of a long-time employee, beloved by all, has driven you insane with sadness. And poor Billy Mau needs a haircut, a shave, and a bath. That was an awesome video that was awesome. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22325 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22325 You all have lost your dang minds. Obviously, the absense of a long-time employee, beloved by all, has driven you insane with sadness. And poor Billy Mau needs a haircut, a shave, and a bath. That was an awesome video that was awesome. Don't let anyone give you flack for being a Yankee.  I'm thankful for the "tator-tot casserole" recipe that my husband's northern family introduced me to.  I'm also thankful for learning to distinguish among the POPS out there and to call them each by their name instead of calling them all "coke."  My husband was born in Minnesota. http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22328 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22328 Don't let anyone give you flack for being a Yankee.  I'm thankful for the "tator-tot casserole" recipe that my husband's northern family introduced me to.  I'm also thankful for learning to distinguish among the POPS out there and to call them each by their name instead of calling them all "coke."  My husband was born in Minnesota. It was a pleasure getting to work on the Chupacabra video with you Aprill. You are a certifiable nut (one of my favorite kinds of people). And who could have known how well you could "duck walk"?  Throwing yourself backward not once but twice in the gun shot scene takes and running like a maniac in four inch heels down a hill....genius!  I hope you'll do more work with the Multi-media dept. in the future (once the bruises heal). Julie http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22360 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22360 It was a pleasure getting to work on the Chupacabra video with you Aprill. You are a certifiable nut (one of my favorite kinds of people). And who could have known how well you could "duck walk"?  Throwing yourself backward not once but twice in the gun shot scene takes and running like a maniac in four inch heels down a hill....genius!  I hope you'll do more work with the Multi-media dept. in the future (once the bruises heal). Julie I'm thinking we should make the sequel: "Chupacabra II: Even Chupier" http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22361 http://community.victoriaadvocate.com/home/Blog/AprillBrandon/5525/#c_22361 I'm thinking we should make the sequel: "Chupacabra II: Even Chupier"