You guys are gonna be so jealous

Did a 4 hour ride with Chris Jones this morning. We're riding down Monument at 7:00am and as we get to Belmont the road is closed and some people are milling about. We ride past the "Road Closed" signs anyway and turn onto Belmont and as we turn, Chris says, "Dude, that was Steven Spielberg! They're filming the Lincoln movie!"

The guy DID look exactly like Spielberg.

We keep riding though, and did a loop out to Varina and back, and then headed over to Riverside. The whole time, we're talking about how Stevie would be honored to have his picture taken with us and how Tommy Lee Jones would be so appreciative to have Chris introduce himself because as Chris put it, "There aren't too many of us Joneses out there... we gotta stick together." We call them Stevie and T.L. because we prefer to call people what that like to be called. We do it with all the big guns: Stevie Spielberg, Marty Scorsese, Eddie Jimmy Olmos...

As we approach the Huguenot Bridge, I offer Chris an option, "We can either continue on as planned to Old Gun, or we can head back over the river and try to get a picture with Stevie and T.L."

Chris says, "I'll be honest with you, I feel we would be letting our friends and relatives down by not going to see Stevie."

To which I reply, "I'm 99% guaranteed a starring role in this film once Stevie sees this mustache. Let's do this."

What did you guys do today?

Oh nothing much, just starred in a biopic about our 16th president. No big deal.

Detour.

We head back over and as we approach Belmont again, the barricades are still there with 2 people directing traffic to the left and right. They tell us, "Oh you guys can go on through."

"YES!!!"

I ask one of these fine folks what the chances are of us getting our picture taken with Stevie Spielberg.

"Oh this isn't Spielberg, it's a commercial for the Monument Ave 10K," he says.

"NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"

Seeing the guy in the banana costume should have tipped us off as we approached, but I thought maybe that was just the best way they could think of to disguise Daniel Day-Lewis' Honest Abe... you know, because he could fit the stove-pipe hat under the banana suit.

Still trying to figure out what Stevie was doing directing a commercial for the 10K, but people do weird things I guess. I mean, you guys remember Coverdale/Page, right?

See you on the road.