Breakfast in Bridgetown

My friend Jane was nice enough to send some pictures of me on her TV set:

Skip ahead to the video clips here and here.

Just about the only thing stranger than being on television is actually seeing yourself on television. And today I’ve had both of those experiences.

I was at Besaw’s Cafe about 4:45 a.m. and spent two hours down there so I could be on KOIN Channel 6 four different times … for about two minutes each. In between times, I was admiring the energy level and complexity of what TV people have to do — all with voices from the station in their earpieces — and then suddenly the light comes on and you’re on TV, with a beautiful person sticking a microphone in your face and asking you a question you didn’t know was coming, then she spins off to somebody else and does the same thing, and then she has a conversation with people that you can’t see or hear, and then it’s over, the light goes off, and you’re sitting around again. It’s beyond nutty.

But I sure do appreciate it, and I hope it serves everybody well, Besaw’s included. They came down there way early, cooked for us, and were nothing but pleasant, as always. So go down to Besaw’s and tell ‘em you saw them on TV and want some prosciutto scramble or oatmeal pancakes.

And if you want to watch two of the segments, they put two of them on the website, one here and the other here.