BeFrank

It wasn't easy. It took a lot to pull me out of the tub. I had a Kona Long Board beer in a bucket of ice and-- Oh, my gosh! Look, there's a TV sitting over the tub.



Yup, that's a pretty good evening for me. It doesn't include losing any money in the casino, but Las Vegas for me has been more about relaxing and having interesting photo opportunities.

In my mind, I'd had a long rough ride from Los Angeles and I was done for the day. I'm not ashamed to say, my simple plan for the evening was take a bubble bath and then going to bed.

No, no, don't laugh. This story gets a lot better really quickly.



How I wound up in the dressing room of the "X Burlesque" show at the Flamingo Hotel and Casino isn't really all that important. Then again, being a married man (with a very lovely and very understanding wife), I'd better explain this a little.

In a nutshell, the crew invited me to tag along and help out on the shoot.

I've helped out in the past on these Las Vegas assignments and. . .well. . . okay, I don't have a really good reason why I was there.

To be honest, I did help carry gear.



It was actually a pretty amazing opportunity for a photographer.

Gee, it's too bad I didn't bring the big camera. Yeah, see I left it in my room. I always try to be sensitive to the nature of the interview and in this situation it just might have seemed a little, oh, I don't know, "creepy" to just show up with it.

Besides, it's difficult enough to project an air of sophistication and professionalism when there's an inner 18 year old beFrank doing the Beavis and Butt-head laugh.

Huh-huh-huh-huh.



The whole time we were shooting video, I was thinking about how cool it was to have the opportunity to just "be" behind the scenes. Almost everywhere I turned, there was a great shot to be had.

Most of these I had to pass up. We weren't there to shoot stills, so I couldn't just snap away. As always, I did manage to take a few discrete shots for the blog.

I'm not sure how much of it will make air, but our fearless Christina McLarty went all out for reporter involvement. After some quick backstage choreography, she was able to participate in one of the show's less risque numbers.

Today is Wednesday and the segment should air tonight and will likely show up on the website soon after.

I'm gonna go start my day. Here's some famous last words, but maybe I'll just spend a little time in the casino.

Wish me luck.

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