Done Got Told!

Entourage shot its last day of this newest season last week Wednesday. I was there. It was filming in an airplane cabin. It was a fake airplane cabin...which, remarkably enough, was stuffier and hotter than a real airplane cabin.

I was seated between a friend and a random twelve year old girl, who turned out to be pretty cool (and who has two more years in the industry than I do).

We talked about random stuff, and I tried to keep the conversation orbiting around a twelve year old's universe. But one random exchange did catch me off guard.

"Did you watch the Michael Jackson Memorial?" she asked, as a prelude to a cool story.

"No," I said, being quite honest.

She was already prepared to launch into her story, and when I uttered the impossible response to her rhetorical question (namely, "no, I did not watch the thing") I was suddenly on the receiving end of an incredulous, wide-eyed double-take.

"Are you serious??" she stared at me for a moment, until, I think, I shrugged.

I think it's possible I was the offender in the Great Faux Pas of '09 for young Ashley. Never in my life have I heard such a simple question freighted with such disbelief, disdain, and judgement. Apparently, I am a Philistine.

The funny part is, she wasn't even around when MJ was making decent music.

My friend got a laugh out of it, and so did I.