since i tend to walk a lot of places when i’m going someplace within a couple of miles, i often walk into location shoots downtown. it happens often enough that i don’t even care anymore (assuming i ever did — well, i remember one time michael jordan was shooting an ad at the civic right after he’d launched his fashion line, back when the bulls were still awesome — i gawked a bit then. i mean, michael jordan, man), i just get annoyed by them being in my way. today’s shoot: er.

i’d passed the trailers on my way to the theatre, but forgot all about them on my way home and so walked straight into the mess. i was happily strolling down dearborn rocking out to my ipod when i was forbidden access to cross van buren. i removed my headphones so the earnest young security person could earnestly ask me to wait fifteen seconds or so, just so they could get this shot, then i could cross. “ah,” says i, looking over. “i see doctor pratt.” mekhi pfifer was poised on the stairs down from the el, waiting for the nice man with the clapper and the nice director to tell him he could walk down them. i was close enough to inform mr. pfifer that i would like to do naughty, naughty things to his person, but again, i’m too cool for that suburbanite shit, so i just replaced my headphones and waited.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!! DR. PRATT LOOKED CRANKY!!!!!

they cleared up (it was more like twenty-five seconds, earnest young security person!) and she gave me the nod to cross. i stepped out onto van buren and into traffic, because i, deeply immersed in my “i’m a local and i have no time for your piddly location shoot nonsense” field, had not only not looked both ways, but didn’t look the one way that matters as van buren is one way westbound. getting pasted by that pickup certainly would have ruined my chic, insouciant nonchalance. fortunately i looked up in time, then stepped back to let the pickup and another car go by, before continuing on my insolent jaywalker way.

so now i’m totally looking forward to that episode. i’ll be watching it and going, “yeah. this is the part right before where i walk out into traffic, like a dumbass. that part’s totally sweet.”