I've been receiving emails over the past few weeks explaining the dire need for movie extras, actors, and models. Apparently it's possible to make "hundreds of dollars a day" in these fields. Yippee! Always curious, although infinitely cynical, I clicked on the link in the email to invesitgate. I was immediately asked to fill in my zip code. Ok, I guess that's ok, I thought. Low and behold, I was informed that there was a plethora of movie extra jobs in my area.

I live in a town of less than 20,000, in a fairly rural area of central Illinois. There's aren't too many major metropolises with 75 miles of my little burg. Honestly, I had no idea so much filming was going on in my area. Mind you, in the past I have heard of people making a living as movie extras. But I assumed it would require quite a bit of traveling.

Hell, maybe I'm just misinformed. could it be they're filming the next Stephen Spielberg blockbuster just up the road, and I just haven't head about it? I do sometimes tend to get lost in my own little world for days on end and become oblivious to what's going on around me. Maybe I better check the local newspaper.

Although it appeared that signing up for the service is free, I rather suspect that there is some charge for obtaining information and contacts. Boy, do I have healthy grasp of the obvious or what?