So I work a block away from the WJLA/Channel 7 News/Channel 8 cable news building now. You'd think being in such close proximity to so many local celebrities, I'd bump into one by now. But no, you'd be wrong. The only time I'd probably see Doug McKelway or news heart-throb Alison Starling is if I got to work at 6:50am just in time to see them do the "wrap-up" segment for Good Morning America when they're standing outside in front of the building. But I'm not that nuts about local news personalities to wake myself up at 5am to get myself to work just to get a glimpse of people standing in front of a camera outside.

In fact, everytime I go into the building to either get lunch from the China Garden or Baja Fresh, or to buy something at CVS, you'd think I might happen to bump into Gordon Peterson or Elliot Frances running an errand, but nope. Nothing. In fact, when you walk into the lobby and see the Channel 7/8 News entrance, its like the Wizard of Oz. Lots of video/server decks and blinking lights and monitors and not a soul in sight. You think with such a public area and them wanting to be in touch with the public, there'd be more of a Today show like setting, but nope. Its just a locked down fortress. Kinda disappointing. Maybe its best, to keep crazy bumbling fools like me from fawning over the "Talent."