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10 April 2008

Hooray for Hollywood! →[More:] Today, they were shooting a scene from a new movie outside our store. So in adiition to all the usual calamities, we had bright, hot lights, yo-yo's with clipboards and headseats running around terrorizing the citizenry (and confusing the hell out of my homeless guys) and attracting batallions of rubberneckers. At one point, I went outside to have a cigarette and noticed that one of the liscence plates on a car across 12th Street read 'IACTOR.' Good Lord.

When I got off the subway in Queens, I noticed a mookish specimen outside a bar talking to his buddy. he was wearing a t-shirt reading 'Your Girlfriend is on my Buddy List.' He stopped his conversation long enough to gawk appreciatively at the ass of a passing girl. A few minutes later 3 young people on Segways bearing the logo of a local bank and passing out plastic money clips. Just another day in the big city.

post by: jonmc at: 20:48 | 11 comments

Did you see the ASPCA fair in Union Square? I saw it after work. Lots of doggies!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 20:58

I passed by. I was kind of all crowded out by the time I got off work.

posted by jonmc 10 April | 21:00

Oh ya, it was really crowded, so I didn't stick around long. It was funny walking by the trailer they had set up with all the cat cages- the cats were looking around like, wth?!

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 10 April | 21:05

Did the trailer's liscense plate read 'WECATS?' I still can't get over that shit.

posted by jonmc 10 April | 21:12

Hooray for Hollywood? Well, I♥NY right back at 'cha. Oh wait, I actually meant I♣NYers. (Not meant as a defense of L.A./Hollywood, which I was just too happy to leave, but aw come on, MySpace and iPod refences are NOT so L.A. and I've seen more Segways here halfway between LA and SF, suggesting that the Segwaves are emitting from north of here. Also, most likely over 51% of the people associated with that shoot have never seen the inside of a "Hollywood" studio, but that's show biz.) Okay, enough rant about your rant.

posted by wendell 10 April | 21:26

wendell, only the first paragraph was aimed at 'Hollywood,' and not the place but merely the movie business. The rest is just more generic urban weirdness.

posted by jonmc 10 April | 21:31

Heh, for a minute I was worried that jonmc was broken, sort of like an episode of Star Trek where Data's brain chip goes all screwy and he starts doing un-Data-like things, like telling jokes or something.

posted by SassHat 10 April | 21:55

Every other week some movie or other is being filmed on 5th Ave outside a museum and it screws up my commute to bridge. Motherfuckers.

That's all I got.

posted by gaspode 10 April | 22:54

I saw the licence plate "DFENS" today.

I walked away, fast.

posted by pompomtom 10 April | 23:46

I love Julia Child and Nora Ephron. I am definitely seeing this movie!

IACTOR! Ugh. Hahaha. Stupid.

I saw an black SUV yesterday that said BSTMOM. I wondered if the mom proclaimed herself as the best mom, or did her spouse surprise her with this vanity tag. Either way, it gave me a little chuckle.

posted by LoriFLA 11 April | 05:31

Oh no, Lori. That's the Beast Mom. You want to stay far away from her.

posted by jrossi4r 11 April | 07:37

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