A slize of Brooklyn!

Sorry I didn't post yesterday but we had a full day of shooting and I was involved in most of the shots so I couldn't go in the back to blog.

We had a trunk show which is basically a party where a designer shows off her new dresses and the customers come in to see the spring line and put in their orders for those things that we make limited numbers of so they can secure a piece. Now we have had many trunk shows in the store and it is pretty much a well oiled machine. Of course the show had to change it.

The first thing they did was they got an actual trunk. It was a huge steamer trunk that was in the antique store on the corner of my house where we buy antiques and knick knacks all the time for the store. So they decide I should go down the street to get the trunk. As we are walking down Court St they call on the walkie talkie to ask if the trunk is ready at the store. They go "No it is back in the office." Why was I going to buy it when I already had it? Another well organized scene right. So they scream for the PA to come running down the street with it. They stop me a block away from the store and set up the scene in the antique store.

The PA choocth comes running down the street and the fucking trunk is enormous. I go "There is no fucking way I can carry that with my fucking wagon." So we set it up that the store lends me a handtruck to push it up the street.

We do a little piece of business in the store and I start pushing it up Court St. I go to the segment producer guy "Are we under any time constraints." Once I explain what "constraints" mean (TV people aren't very bright) they tell me we have tons of time. So I go "Shouldn't I do what I normally do?" "Of course you should." "Great we are getting some fuckin' pizza."

Normally I take any chance I can to sneak a piece of pizza when the wife can't see me doing it as she is always after me to cut down. So we pull in front of "World Pie" and I leave the hand truck outside and walk in and order a slice. The Mexican dude puts it in the oven to heat up as the producer runs around getting everyone to sign a release as they will be on camera. You see I thought it would be comical me juggling a hot slice of pizza while I am pushing this enormous trunk down the street. And it was pretty funny.

So the slice is ready and the guy puts it on the counter on a paper plate. The producer goes "Wait don't start eating yet the camera isn't ready." I go "Fuck that I'm hungrey. I can order another slice dude. Relax yourself. This is a pizza store. There is a lot of fucking pizza."

So we set it up and we get the scene and it looks great.

Writer, producer, pizza eater. I am a triple threat baby.