Alan Skeoch

Month: July 2021

  • EPISODE 392 JUST IN CASE YOU ARE INTERESTED…TABLES ( sort of tables )

    EPISODE 392     JUST IN CASE YOU ARE INTERESTED…


    alan skeoch
    July 20. 2021

    The phone rang early this morning.
    “Alan, I have some tables you might want to purchase.”
    “What kind?
    “I will send a picture.”

    And so she did.  I am not interested but maybe someone
    who gets my episodes might have room for them in an apartment
    or condo…or maybe in their five ton truck.

    If so, let me know…I will forward the info.

    alan

    P.S.  Just a thought.  Old man Trump has not quite finished his
    border wall…maybe these would help if covered with barbed wire.

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  • Episode 391 MOTION PICTURE TREASURES…(beaten and bashed like all of us)

    FILMING IS BIG BUSINESS IN TORONTO…HERE IS ONE REASON WHY


    EPISODE 391     MOTION PICTURE SET DRESSING TREASURES (matter of opinion)


    alan skeoch
    july 2021



    Good news came up the farm laneway in the form of a 5 ton truck sent
    loaded with gifts from Michael V.   Treasures ,really.  So here are
    some pictures and a few questions to which the only answer is “GOOD!”

    “ALAN, we need set dressing for a factory in ruins…”
    GOOD
    “MARJORIE, we need some things for village in 1950’s…i.e. oil storage tanks…iron wheels.”
    GOOD
    “ALAN, we need some things for a back alley in a tough city.”
    GOOD
    “MARJORIE, we need some things for a ship yard in ruins…1930’s rusty…broken…forgotten”
    GOOD
    “ALAN  we need a disaster scene dressing”
    GOOD
    “MARJORIE, The setting is a scrap yard.”
    GOOD
    “ALAN, we need rusty things left on a desert island in 1944.
    GOOD

    “MARJORIE, I would not have this stuff on our lot.”
    GOOD
    “ALAN, This is ridiculous…junk”
    GOOD
    “MARJORIE, there is no place to keep this stuff.”
    GOOD
    “ALAN, we need a fake sunflower,,blooming in a junk yard.”
    GOOD
    “MARJORIE we need a guy in short pants …goof/”
    GOOD
    ALAN. I would not allow this stuff..”
    GOOD

    THANKFULLY few people know the secret of good set
    dressing.  Do you really want to know? Good set dressing
    must be beaten and twisted, torn and paint chipped, weathered and
    dying.  Why?  Because then and only then does a motion picture
    set capture the human condition. I’m talking about serious drama…
    not the fluffy stuff.  Take a close look around the real world.

    alan


  • EPISODE 390 “PLANTING A SUN FLOWER THAT WILL NEVER DIE” (With help from Bill Brooks)

    EPISODE 390   “PLANTING A SUN FLOWER THAT WILL NEVER DIE” (with help from Bill Brooks)


    alan skeoch
    July 20, 2021



    “Bill, could you help me get this sunflower ready to survive the winter…to survive many winters?”
    “Expect I can”
    “After you get the road grader done.”
    “Might just do the sunflower first.””
    (Bill never said I look like a water melon but he must have
    thought that…instead he got working on the sun flower.)


    “This potato digger needs a new home…are you interested?”
    “Bill, Marjorie will be thrilled…”
    “I’ll drop it on the lawn in front of your farm house tomorrow….along
    with the sunflower.”




    “NOW I might just get back to the road grader…”

  • EPISODE 390 “PLANTING A SUN FLOWER THAT WILL NEVER DIE” (With help from Bill Brooks)

    EPISODE 390   “PLANTING A SUN FLOWER THAT WILL NEVER DIE” (with help from Bill Brooks)


    alan skeoch
    July 20, 2021



    “Bill, could you help me get this sunflower ready to survive the winter…to survive many winters?”
    “Expect I can”
    “After you get the road grader done.”
    “Might just do the sunflower first.””
    (Bill never said I look like a water melon but he must have
    thought that…instead he got working on the sun flower.)


    “This potato digger needs a new home…are you interested?”
    “Bill, Marjorie will be thrilled…”
    “I’ll drop it on the lawn in front of your farm house tomorrow….along
    with the sunflower.”




    “NOW I might just get back to the road grader…”

  • EPISODE 389 “STRIPPING THE GEARS” ( with Bill Brooks)

    EPISODE 389   “STRIPPING THE GEARS”  (with Bill Brooks)


    alan skeoch
    July19, 2021



    “World treating you well, young fellow?”
    “good and bad…up and down…hot and cold”
    “Come over here…something for you to see.”

    I had a job for Bill Brooks to do…to make a special sunflower…but
    he got me distracted right away.  Bill is a mechanic who likes
    to be challenged.

    “Take a look at those gears”
    “Look good to me…what are they worth?’
    “Can you spare $3,000?”
    “You mean those gears are worth $3,000?  what’s wrong with them?”
    “Look closer….gears have been stripped…”



    “I have to find new or used gears like this…to fit the front end of a
    four wheel drive Ford tractor built in the 1960’s.”
    “Any luck?”’:
    “We can get new gears from a factory in Italy for $3,000…right now we are
    asking around scrap yards for a used set but no luck.”





    “Stripping the gears…jamming a gear change without using the clutch…that’ll
    start the stripping….eventually the gears just will not work together any more.”

    “You know something Bill…”

    “Know some things.”

    “The term ‘stripping the gears’ could be applied to the current big
    problems below the border in the United States.   A lot of gear 
    stripping going on down there…eventually the government could 
    just not work any more.  Trump stripped the gears a lot when he 
    was president….”