Before you all go and get all bent cuz this is going up late let me just point out that it’s tough being a one-stop shop.  We shoot, we edit & we have to find the time to post it.  It ain’t easy being a pimp!  Damn.  So with that intro we proceed with putting up what little was obtainable of folks like Jane Lynch, Diego Luna, Jon Isaacs, Ben Stiller, Kerry Washington, Jessie Eisenberg, Malin Akerman, Aaron Eckhart, Amanda Peet, Terrence Howard, Annette Bening, Amber Tamblyn, Jon Hamm and Jennifer Lawrence at the 2011 Spirit Awards, held on Santa Monica Beach.

The good folks overseeing the event play deity with credentials and every year lock out a slew of folks out from official carpet coverage – ourselves included – so we find ourselves alongside a horde of others in the same predicament and shoot what is manageable beach side.

What we never are able to process is that these folks have a stretch of beach so wide that – were they so inclined – they could accommodate everyone and their mother on the press line and still have room left over. 

Now some would take the opportunity to point out that maybe if they did, they would get more coverage in the rags.  But pointing this out might also lead to the observation that scheduling an awards show b4 the likes of OSCAR isn’t the smartest thing in the world.

Not judging, simply making an observation.

Being out in the open – well, some years are clearly better than others.  This was not one of those. 

The set-up was obstructed by an army of port-a-pods and cars practically pulling up to the gate for drop off.  Throw in a lot of over-zealous valet attendants going thru a delusion of grandeur cuz they were on premise doing blocking duty and what little could be machine gunned turned into half.

And if that wasn’t bad enough the West Coast was going thru their own winter blast which saw the likes of temps falling below 50!

We kid you not!

We would earnestly like to thank the lot of good spirited folks who ran from the drop off site like they were prairie dogging it…  Rosario Dawson, Natalie Portman (who very well may have been at the prairie dogging stage…), Nicole Kidman, Samuel L. Jackson, Taye Diggs, Eva Mendes, Anne Heche & Zoe Saldana – just to name a few.

We are truly greatful for your generousity.