Bartender Wars
Oct. 17th, 2009 02:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenA friend of mine from my bowling league (that is no more, btw - 'nother story) invited me and a couple of friends (Matt was one and Joey was another) to participate in Bartender Wars. Bartender Wars is a pilot show for a new show on FLN (Fine Living Network). It was a fun experience, but hard to do after spending a full, hot, June day at the Javits Center in Manhattan running around eating gourmet foods at the Fancy Food Show. We then had to trek over to the Lower East Side to partake in cocktails.
We discovered when we got there, we could have any drink we wanted and there was free food! Then about 90 minutes later after signing umpteen thousand documents stating we wouldn't expect monetary compensation for being in the shots on TV, we went upstairs to drink our friend's drinks!
Vinnie was one of the contestants and the competitors had to make drinks out of Scotch and other additives. They also had to jump through many odd hurdles to win the title of Bartender Winner (?), I think. It was fun and we got free booze!! WOOHOO!! How bad can that be? It was really fun.
Matt, Joey, and I were visible throughout the first half of the show in different areas. In the middle of the show, the hostess, Egypt, is interviewing me about the cocktails. In reality, she talked to me for about 5 minutes and the cameras we all over me - just me - in the bar. On screen that got translated to about 10 seconds of air time. Pretty cool, though, how they set the whole thing up!! I'm going to try to get the spot of me on YouTube, but it might be copyrighted; if it is, it'll get pulled. But if that one 10-second spot's not that big of a deal (typically more than 30 seconds is a big deal), then I'll be able to post it there and link it here!!
Fingers crossed! Also, for those who have FLN, see if you can find the Scotch challenge for Bartender Wars - a repeat; watch it! I'm in it!! WOOHOO!!
We discovered when we got there, we could have any drink we wanted and there was free food! Then about 90 minutes later after signing umpteen thousand documents stating we wouldn't expect monetary compensation for being in the shots on TV, we went upstairs to drink our friend's drinks!
Vinnie was one of the contestants and the competitors had to make drinks out of Scotch and other additives. They also had to jump through many odd hurdles to win the title of Bartender Winner (?), I think. It was fun and we got free booze!! WOOHOO!! How bad can that be? It was really fun.
Matt, Joey, and I were visible throughout the first half of the show in different areas. In the middle of the show, the hostess, Egypt, is interviewing me about the cocktails. In reality, she talked to me for about 5 minutes and the cameras we all over me - just me - in the bar. On screen that got translated to about 10 seconds of air time. Pretty cool, though, how they set the whole thing up!! I'm going to try to get the spot of me on YouTube, but it might be copyrighted; if it is, it'll get pulled. But if that one 10-second spot's not that big of a deal (typically more than 30 seconds is a big deal), then I'll be able to post it there and link it here!!
Fingers crossed! Also, for those who have FLN, see if you can find the Scotch challenge for Bartender Wars - a repeat; watch it! I'm in it!! WOOHOO!!
