So once I was bashing Tobey Maguire for some reason with jubileslie and suddenly we happened upon Spider-Man 2 filming on location! Oh noez! Tobey Maguire will websling me!

Yesterday I happened upon L&O: SVU filming at the exact same location. At first, I thought it was a real Adopt-a-Pet-athon or whatever they're actually called, where you can adopt pets on the spot like they have in Union Square. Upon closer inspection, the dogs were not literally in cages; the "cages" could easily be removed by lifting a handle at the top. Hm, okay, I thought, a newfangled notion by the gummymint, we are near City Hall after all!

Then I realized no pet adoptions would occur when I saw Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni. Like, wow, that's kinda a major clue it's a set, besides the fact that someone started telling the crowd to move away from a particular spot as they would start filming soon. I was so focused on the dogs, I didn't realize the actors were there until after the guy started alerting everyone to move.

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