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24 October 2011

Funny things are happening. A veritable pushcart war is about to erupt on my block.[More:]

The film crew started to show up around 5:45 this morning. They're shooting a scene for something called "Person of Interest" at the diner, so they've commandeered all the parking on this side of my street. Craft services is set up right at my stoop; I expect I'll go get a snack in a bit. There's a woman down there right now, dressed like Daniel Boone, eating peanut M&M's. Since they're shooting in a diner I doubt she's in costume. Maybe she really is Daniel Boone.

The warehouse across the street usually uses the sidewalk and roadway for forklifting pallets of building supplies in and out of their loading dock. With all the production trucks on the block, their flatbeds are pinching the intersection and causing a lot of honking. The noise is sure to annoy the director, and I'm just waiting for someone to go push the warehouse guys around. They're a surly lot.

During my morning walk, a tiny little faux-hawked fellow in a big Mercedes raced up to the red light and almost popped me out of the crosswalk. I started to glare at him but he looked like a Kewpie doll sitting on all that black leather so I laughed instead.

Then I noticed a murky decal on the back window of a parked electrical supply van. I peered closer and made out a tentacle, a glaring eye; then a trunk, then wings: Cthulhu! All hail!

I've been walking around giggling all morning. I feel like Janet Jackson.

Anyone else having a funny morning?
In the school of life, Hugh, surely you are the Pleasure Pricipal. You find glee wherever it may be, hidden or otherwise.
posted by Eideteker 24 October | 08:30
Dang, craft services right on your stoop? What a great day.
posted by JanetLand 24 October | 08:44
They're pretty much constantly filming movies near me these days but I've never gotten anywhere near the food services. Tom Cruse has been blocking traffic for weeks now.
posted by octothorpe 24 October | 08:52
Next break in shooting, I'm gonna fire up the stereo and lay an earworm on the production crew. Golden Earring "Twilight Zone," Foreigner "Cold As Ice," and Liquid Liquid "Cavern" are distinct possibilities.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 08:55
I look forward to the next salvo and knowing whether or not you get to sneak food from craft services. When I worked in Manhattan near Washington Square Park, I'd see craft service tables all the time but was never ballsy enough to walk up and grab something.
posted by TrishaLynn 24 October | 09:10
I played "Cavern" and "Cold As Ice," hopefully someone will whistle on set.

There's some kind of street digging going on up the street, between the post office and PS1. So I put on my hard hat and reflective vest over a hoodie, worn Carharrts, boots, and gloves, waited until there was nobody near the craft table, and made my move.

I had reconnoitered from above so I knew where my prizes were. I grabbed a plate to hold above my nylon sack, which I stuffed with three peaches, three oranges, two bananas, a sleeve of Wheatsworth crackers, and a sleeve of assorted tea. All of it would have been thrown away.

Nobody was around, but I figure if anyone did see me, they thought I was from the construction crew, and will take it up with them.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 October | 10:47
"Person of Interest" is the strange new "Pre-Crime Procedural" show starring Mel Gibson's Jesus and Lost's Ben. Nothing you can do can make it weirder.
posted by oneswellfoop 24 October | 13:51
Nothing exciting here. Stupid 'burbs.

I'm playing Twilight Zone in solidarity, but I don't think the napping mister appreciates it.
posted by deborah 24 October | 16:37
What fun!!!
posted by mightshould 24 October | 19:14
Why are car colors so boring now? || When Rachmaninoff heard Art Tatum play,

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