Haines His Way

Wsan't there another law firm called Milkum, Bilkum, and Takum?

Wsan't there another law firm called Milkum, Bilkum, and Takum?

Their office is one floor down....knock twice and bring cash.  

And as for the cab ride to the airport...

Earlier in the day, I had tried arranging for a car service to pick me up at the theatre this afternoon after rehearsal, but no one had any cars available, so...  Time to cab it.

Well, first I tried hailing one on 7th Ave..  Then I tried hailing one on Broadway... then 6th Ave... then 5th Avenue (since I needed to be heading uptown anyway)...  The cab strike is over, but since I was trying to catch a cab at the start of rush hour, well.. And it also turns out that a bunch of cabbie's shifts, shift between 5:00-6:00 too.  There were lots of "Off Duty" signs lit up.  In any case...

I was finally able to hail one down at 5th Ave in front of Bryant Park - which is all "tented up" right now for Fall Fashion Week.  I told him I needed to get to La Guardia, and he said he would do his best to get me there as fast as possible.  I said I had two hours before my flight, but he mentioned that he had to get his cab back to the garage by 5:30 since someone else was due to take it out for the evening shift.  Well... I told him I could try to catch another cab if he was worried that he was going to get penalized for coming in late, but he said since I was a "nice man" that he would do his best to get me to the airport and get himself back to the garage.  -He also mentioned that he needed the fare, since he had been on strike the past two days.

We hit the usual traffic snarls on the East Side and on the BQE, but, somehow he managed to get me to LGA at 5:15 - we left midtown at 4:45.  Not bad at all!  And since his garage was right near the airport... At one point, we did come across an accident, and we thought the traffic had truly stopped.  I told him that if he just wanted to pull of the highway and drop me off where I could catch an M60 bus the rest of way, but then the traffic started moving again.  And, thankfully, I was flying out of the first terminal, so he didn't have to navigate the loop at the LGA.

To thank him for his service, I ended up paying him what the car service would have cost.  He seemed truly grateful for his tip.... Then sped off to make it back to his garage.

It was meant to be, Jose, glad you had such good luck with the cabbie

Big block party on (where else?) our block tomorrow.  Skip is helping out so the household will be awake early.

Sounds fun!  Is Skip cooking?

Glad you got some air.


This is actually pretty funny...they raided their closets years later and taped them again

Glad you got some air.


This is actually pretty funny...they raided their closets years later and taped them again

Thanks.

-And I'll have to catch the show when it's rebroadcast again... and again... and again... Or I could just have my roomies DVR it for me this weekend.  

Big block party on (where else?) our block tomorrow.  Skip is helping out so the household will be awake early.

Will he be making those Italian Sausage and Peppers sandwiches?  Or Zeppoles?  or Funnel Cakes?  

Well, how about Deep Fried Oreos?  They usually sell those on the same trucks with the Funnel Cakes and Zeppoles.  

I've really never tried any of the deep fried things like that...

Jose, have you eaten at the Shake Shack? It was on Food TV tonight

In Madison Square Park?  Yes.  And I would eat there more often if the lines weren't so darn long.  I really have to wonder how some of the "regulars" are able to take off all that time for lunch, since sometimes the wait can be as long as your lunch break.

In Madison Square Park?  Yes.  And I would eat there more often if the lines weren't so darn long.  I really have to wonder how some of the "regulars" are able to take off all that time for lunch, since sometimes the wait can be as long as your lunch break.

They have a live cam that some of the people said they check from work so they know when the lines are shorter.   Are the burgers really worth the wait?

Back from the show and supper and now must bang out some notes in a hurry.

I will say I just had to spend twenty minutes writing a Kimmel e-mail to my general manager and stage manager, mostly having to do with my displeasure about prop cutbacks, which I will not accept under any circumstances.  This was as a result of today's meeting where I was told it would cost $600 to build this one prop, said prop being responsible for one of the biggest laughs in the show.  I agreed to let them try an alternative but immediately regretted it, and then at dinner with BJ and Cason we figured out that the LA version of the prop probably cost all of fifty bucks.  These people have had a DVD of this show for eight weeks - all they had to do was actually LOOK at the damn thing.  They kept asking me for the specs, but school was out and no one was around.  Anyway, I think BJ will build what we need, and because they've taken me down this road, I have now asked for receipts and an itemization of every single penny spent on anything to do with sets and props and costumes.  There was a reasonable amount in each category, and given that our set designer came up with a brilliant solution to our set storage problem, our actual set pieces are three chairs, a table, a tabletop, and a bench.  So where did all that money go?  Well, I'm going to damn well find out on Monday.

Oh, and I will get the props I want - I put it to them simply - I have been totally collaborative and I have bent over backwards to make everyone happy and to find solutions.  BUT - when they're cheapness impinges on laughs, that's where I dig in my heels and don't budge.  Unfortunately for them, these people have no idea what I can turn into when unhappy.  They're about to find out, though.

PROP VIBES TO BK~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Night Jose...