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December 1, 2005
Super Exciting Funtime Holiday Show!
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So the shoot is over. I was accosted at 10am by the film crew outside my office, hung-over and un-fresh, with nary a second to powder my noise or down some coffee. I must have looked great- with wet hair, a confused look on my face, and bags under my eyes. Still, I tried my best to be perky and "typical American girl." When asked to demonstrate my favorite hobby, I hula-hooped for the camera... sans hula hoop. I'm trying to forget the experience...
Last night I met up with Vince and Amit and our friend Alyssa for drinks at Boat. Good ol' Boat. A classic in the neighborhood- classic meaning one of the first hipster bars on Smith Street. It still has retained its grungy je ne sais quas and still has one of the best jukeboxes anywhere. Poor Rafe was too tired to come along, so he just popped his head in, said hello, and left. We're both having horrible sleeping problems. Everything is out of whack with his new work schedule and I don't know what's going on, but we're both chronically tired. I was dog-tired last night too but ended up having a few too many brews of this beer called "Sweet Action." I'm a sucker for new and strangely named beers, and I came home too late and still wasn't tired. And now I'm very tired.
Work today is interesting enough though. I'm setting up a shoot in Chicago about the case of Anthony Porter, a man who was wrongly convicted of murder in 1982, and then released from prison in 1999. A group of students and their professor at Northwestern took up his case for a class on investigative journalism and ended up freeing the guy! Amazing, really. And just a few days ago, he sued the city for $24 million and lost. Not a fucking penny! For seventeen years in prison! We wanted to interview him for the show and it turns out he's so poor he doesn't even have a phone.
* Note: The above image is not from the show I worked on- merely a stereotypical example of wacky Japanese television programming.
Posted by debbie at December 1, 2005 12:39 PM