Excerpts from the Peanut Gallery

stars in the eyes...

so lets just back up a few photos and take note of the apple pie that susan and i were enjoying at white rock beach. It was no extraordinary pie in and of its own merit, in fact, it was one of the poorer apple pies i had had in my life time (apologies to the chef... but grandma just can't be beaten that easy you know, aint no love for the haterz..) However the source of the pie deserves to be recognised, because i find it funny. See Susan paterson, who recently returned from the far off sands of Sveden (hurrah the peasants rejoice at her jubilant return!), lives in a really trashy neighbourhood, you know the type, where the streets are lined with huge oak trees giving shady on a sunny day (and its always so DARN sunny). And the houses are all big and have lucious gardens and there is a Range Rover and a beamer parked in front- one of those scary neighbourhoods. the type of neighbourhood that has antique 1920's houses that are featured in calendars and house and garden magazines. The type that hollywood chooses to shoot movies in. OOOH! THAT type of neighbourhood!! well see there was a movie being filmed about three houses down from sus, and so the catering truck was using her sidewalk to park its delights. It is through this circumstance that i found out just why it costs millions of dollars for a movie to be produced. See the caterers pretty much wooed local residents after banging up their cars and telling their guests to not park any where within a 10 mile radius of the houses, they wooed them with food, all sorts of food and food that was offered from 7am to late late into the night. Hence the pie. When susan and i walked into her kitchen, it was sitting there on the counter, covered in an oat-sugar topping... glass pie plate and all, the presentation was really quite lovely. The caterers gave it to sus's momma and we promptly took it far far away (white rock) and devoured it- most of the pie did NOT make it all the way to WR though....
Anyways this was all funny to me becuase this week, my own family who lives in a similarly trashy, albeit newer more suburban (!) neighbourhood, received a notice of filming this week and i do believe the very same trucks appeared down my street. welcome to hollywood north, where all the extras and local townsfolk seem ..sorta overweight...

posted by Kiki @ 1:06 a.m.