As mentioned earlier on Blogtown, they’re shooting a movie RIGHT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE. I get excited about this sort of shit.

So for the past few days they’ve been building a fake restaurant underneath the Broadway Bridge (said fake restaruant’s clever name is “Bridge Diner”). Here are some cell phone pics of the set, courtesy of the Mercury’s food/theater editor, Ms. Alison Hallett. You can’t tell from these, but it’s actually quite impressive up close—it looks all weathered and beat-up, grungy and Portland-y, and there’s even fake moss stuck on parts of it. In short, it looks like it’s been sitting/rotting/serving up delicious diner food for decades. My only wish it that it really was a diner for real, because I like pancakes, and this place looks like they’d have excellent pancakes—plus, it’d be close to my house, so maybe I could eat breakfast with Diane Lane pretty regularly, which could be sort of awesome, I guess. I’d ask her what it was like to be in Judge Dredd. I’d bet a pretty penny that Rob Schneider is a real cut-up on set!

If you want to check it out yourself, it’s on Naito Parkway, uh… yeah. Right underneath the giant red bridge.