Life in Manhattan

The picture above is from a window my pal Jena and I saw during a walk last weekend. It was so odd that I had to snap a photo and share it.

In our ongoing efforts to get in shape, the aforementioned Jena and I have been trying to meet up and go for long walks on the weekend. The weather has been wonderfully cooperative. Last weekend, on Saturday, we did 4.5 miles around the reservoir in Central Park, and then on Sunday, we did 3.3 miles along the East River. The pics here are from that walk, which occurred after a ridiculously decadent & delicious meal at Harley's Smokeshack in East Harlem. Best. Barbeque. In New York.

I've had the opportunity to do a lot of cool things while living in New York. I moved here because I love TV and TV production, and I really wanted to learn more about non-news TV. I've attended some interesting panels and premieres, one of which happened on Sunday. Yesterday, I went to see the "Global Premiere" of Touch at the Natural History Museum (which is also the museum in Night at the Museum.)

The funny thing is that Jena and I walked through the museum's Great Hall and straight into the premiere. We had tickets, but no one from Fox asked us to see them. We walked straight into the LeFrak Theater and sat down, and no one bothered us. We spotted the chairs and screen set up on stage, so we figured we were in the right place. We were sitting there speculating which minor production staff members would be on hand for the Q&A afterward, when a fellow attendee turned around and said that Kiefer was on the red carpet when they came in. Red carpet?? Really? Where? Apparently we'd missed all the hubbub at the entrance to this event by coming in the "secret" way. We got fantastic seats, although my photo above is going to demonstrate my craptastic photo skills above anything else. I promise that is Mr. Jack Bauer himself on the right!

We watched an episode of the show, and it was engaging enough I suppose. I'm going to give the series a shot, but I'm not quite sure how long I'll be interested in continuing to watch it. The Q&A afterward was basically a series of pep rally type questions designed to generate excitement about this show that has been over-hyped already. I feel like I've seen ads for it everywhere, and the pilot has been broadcast over and over and over again. It's popping up constantly everywhere I look, to the point of being annoying. But I'll give it a chance. I wish the Q&A had been more industry-driven though. I would've liked to have heard more about how the production is done, and what inspires the writers to come up with the various storylines. On the other hand, I got to go to a premiere of a new TV show in New York City. And I walked there through Central Park on a gorgeous afternoon and spent some time with a good friend at the same time. Not bad for a day's work.