ALEC BALDWIN

Fine. Maybe I will start blogging again. MAYBE.

Something exciting happened today. Very exciting. Like epicly exciting. So exciting that I have to return from my monthlong blogging hiatus to brag about it post it here so I will remember it forever.

I had two photoshoots.

The first shoot was for my friend/repeat client Ms. Carolyn.

Carolyn is a beautiful fabulous high-powered lawyer. She comes to me for photo shoots like once every three months sometimes. She is just the best. Today I went to her law firm to take a group shot of her and her partners for an advertisement they are putting in some law magazine.

It was an easy gig. I was in and out in 20 minutes. (Parking uptown is NOT cheap. I paid $23 for 18 minutes of parking. crazy city)

Then I hurried back to my home to meet up with my 1 o' clock client. A young actor named Daniel.

As Daniel was getting his clothes prepped and fixing his hair in my bathroom etc I started my typical getting-to-know-you chit-chat. "How long have you been acting? Who is your agent? Etc. Etc..."

Then I asked him, "sooo....how did you hear about me?"

Usually people respond saying Backstage (I was voted "Favorite Photog" in 2012 brag brag brag) or their agent refers them or they find me on Google or Yelp.

Daniel's answer really caught me off guard.

"Alec Baldwin told me about you."

I laughed. "Haha very funny."

He didn't laugh back... I paused. I was like, "Wait...Alec Baldwin ALEC BALDWIN?"

And he was like, "yeah". LIKE THAT'S A TOTALLY NORMAL THING TO SAY.

I tried to play it cool, as if Sir Alec Baldwin sends me peeps all the time, whatever.

This is the information I got out of him over the next half hour or so:

Apparently Alec Baldwin, out of the goodness of his big beautiful heart, gives back once a year or so by teaching young actors in an intensive 2 or 3-day acting class at some school or acting camp or something somewhere.

So this kid was one of the lucky few to take his class and Alec actually sat him down and SHOWED HIM MY WEBSITE. And told him to come to me for headshots.

"...because he thought you were the best."

WHAT. THE. F!?!?!??!?!??!?!?

I have no idea how I came onto Alec Baldwin's radar. But however it happened. This made my day. This made my YEAR. Several years.

I literally had to stop my shoot and say, "I'm so sorry. I have to take a second to update my Facebook status to tell people what you just told me."

He laughed.

Alec Baldwin. If you're out there and somehow reading this. I love you. I love you so much. I loved you since Prelude to a Kiss. And The Juror. And I'm sure there's stuff older than that but you are a little older than me. I don't believe a thing I hear about you in the press and I know you're a good guy and I don't watch 30 Rock but I hear you are amazing in it. And I hear you are good at Words With Friends and I haven't played in a while but if you want to challenge me I would totally start playing again. Anyway. THANK YOU for taking time out of your busy important A-List celebrity schedule creating entertainment for BILLIONS of people to recommend someone to my stupid little headshot business. It is an honor for my name to exist in your brain. (insert squeal)

If you ever need a photograph of yourself...anytime...ever...I would HAPPILY take it.

Obviously. Sir.

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OK I'm off to Hawaii tomorrow, maybe I will blog again soon! MAYBE