Smoke rises from deliberately set fire alongside blaze on the bike path adjacent to Chelsea Piers in NYC

Some times all types of shit are thrown at you by the universe as you try to make your way to a freelance gig prior to your regular post.  Resistance is futile.  But you can’t help but take notice – and snap an I-Phone pic in passing as you ask ‘Seriously?’

Case and point:

On our way to the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Julianne Moore’s The English Teacher, we encountered a series of obstacles and roadblocks that all seemed to be saying ‘turn around now!’  But yet we persisted.

These included a major accident on the Parkway involving a motorcycle that backed up traffic off-parkway more than a mile…  Upon our attempt at circumventing the traffic, after waiting 15-minutes without movement, we initiated an U-turn and were shortly thereafter pulled over by a cop, who rather than try to aid the chaos ensuing from the stalled traffic due to said accident, looked to knock off a quota filling moment.

And just when we thought we had dodged a bullet by coasting down the WSH we run into a shit load of traffic – for no apparent reason post 42nd Street and arrive at a Chelsea bike path fire for which cars scrambled all about to try and let a fire truck thru.  Of course the fire was far from accidental and did look like it had started and fueled prior to getting out of control, smoke rising everywhere, as no one thought to pour their designer water on it at the start.

Don’t get us started on the finding a temporary parking spot down at BMCC area!

As you can see from the proceeding post, we did manage to get to the premiere and procure a shot of Ms. Moore – one which we will forever be grateful to her and her PR for…  But it does stand to reason that Murphy’s Law is always in affect.