re: #46 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I will begrudgingly admit the girl’s got talent. Her on-stage persona of trying to shock audiences even more than Madonna or Lady Gaga wears thin, though. I get that she wanted to escape the stereotype of a wholesome Disney character, but really, girl, no one remembers you were Hannah Montana anymore except the entertainment writers who constantly bring it up.

True fact: I worked as an extra in the Hannah Montana movie. Got paid $65 for two days of standing in 90-degree Tennessee heat waving a sign around and yelling “Miley! Miley!” or some such thing.

You won’t see me. Maybe you can see the sign I was holding, though.

This whole escapade was my ex’s idea. Our niece was once a Hannah Montana fan (but not at the time we went to TN for the shoot), so when my ex saw the ad for extras, she persuaded us to go. All three of us were supposed to be extras. But the heat got to niece and ex-wife, and only I followed through.

I never saw Miley or Billy Ray. While we peons were trying to avoid heat stroke, the stars were chilling in their air conditioned trailer while the director shot around their eventual appearances. We extras were told to look and cheer at big X’s made of gaffer’s tape.