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Thursday, March 22, 2018

Austin Makes a Return Visit to an Old Dearheart - One Tree Hill's Wilmington NC ( Pt 2)


Please read Part 1 first:  Part One
 
And so here we are in Part Two - the unabridged, unedited, Cliffs Notes, snarky behind-the-scenes version of "as Narnia sees Austin and the Return to One Tree Hill weekend that was". Because you know.  You know that when Jake and/or Austin are involved, there cannot be simple and pure.  Oh no.  We at Narnia have been around too long with these two rascals to know that there is no such thing as a 20/20 view with them.

In Part One, we saw where Austin's return to One Tree Hill was going to be delayed, but he was still coming!   Can't miss this one,  can you?

 

Interesting timing of all this. Austin attends The Walking Dead London convention the previous weekend (Mar 9-11) and early in the day on Monday the 12th, we find out that Austin has a new project in the works; he is to start work in Canada on a pilot for a new show called In the Dark. By that evening on the 12th, he is already spotted in Toronto. 


 

via GIPHY 

An Austin civilian sighting?  Well, we here at Narnia, already had our suspicions piqued since he isn't spotted much at all anymore.

via GIPHY 

On the 14th, EyeCon announces he's being delayed and won't arrive in Wilmington until the afternoon of Saturday the 17th, thus missing the day's  early scheduled photo ops.  On Saturday morning, we receive this social media evidence that Austin had indeed been 'filming' on Friday.


 

Good thing we had Austin's face clearly in the picture because otherwise, we would have no clue who the other two parties were since they were totally unidentifiable, wouldn't you agree?

But, Austin arrived in Wilmington on Saturday and as if to answer our questions as to the identity of the unidentifiable ones, as it often happens, our paranoid curiosity was addressed by late in the day on Sunday the 18th.


 

Alrighty then!  Hoods come down! 

via GIPHY 

The Return to One Tree Hill convention came and went, folks went home and the celebrity guests resumed their professional activities and Austin?  Well, we presumed Austin flew back to Toronto to finish that pilot filming which had been briefly started prior to the convention.

 Or did he?

 While one of us wondered out loud if we were to receive any further filming reports,


 

amazingly, as (again) it so often happens, our question and concern was addressed by nightfall.


 


And not just one, but two sightings!  We repeat, two sightings.  Extraordinary and fortuitous.  Amazingly, this fan's name just happens to be the same as the Stronger co-star of Jake, Tatiana Malany.



Pretty amazing "lunch place" wallpaper, isn't it?  ;-)   And both Instagrammer's were up late around the same hour last night downloading pics and posting on their Instagrams as well as Twitters.  Busy bees!

We thought so too, Bradley.  Now, if you still have any kind of skepticism as to the extraordinary-ness of this double Austin sighting, perhaps this spontaneous twitter conversation may help fortify a wavering belief.













Hmmm, wow.  So was Austin with his pilot co-star, Perry Mattfeld already?  Or was it....or was it his cyber beard, Hassle I mean Hassie Harrison, whom he has not yet been photo op'd in the company of and managed to elude the press with?  Well, let's take a sneak peek at HH's Instagram.

Well, once again, ask and thou shall receive.  I don't know about you, but I'm quite thankful!


A post shared by Hassie Harrison (@hassieharrison) on
 

It looks like HH has provided a location of "Toronto" so it very well could have been this lassie, couldn't it?  I guess we at Narnia will just have to keep an eye on this secret romance of Austin's for any further breaking developments!

Meanwhile, Austin's real life love muffin Mr. Jake Gyllenhaal has finally been seen out and about in Los Angeles, CA where he allegedly is supposed to have been for awhile, also filming.

Here he is following a meal at Crossroads Kitchen:






 and grocery shopping at Erewhon Market!



I love the visibility of the reusable shopping bags at the checkout counter right before Jake exits with his paper bags, lol.  Aw, his reusable bags were probably stuffed holding toys and auto bingo cards in the back seat of his car, what am I thinking?

A double photo op day for Jake in Los Angeles!  When is the last time we had this treat?  Perhaps because Family Jaustin is finally settled and hunkered down after that brief stopover while one parental unit filmed his pilot and now it's time for the baton hand-off.  Time for the other one to earn some college fund moola.

 Oh, and by the way, don't visit IHJ expecting to see pictures of Jake leaving Erewhon's in the Family Truckster.  His team took care of that and furnished him with a roomy BMW "mature person's" sedan.  ;-)

 Or could it be that the truckster Q7 was merely left behind before the trek westward?  Look at what was parked along the street as Tom and I left the convention center on Saturday the 17th:


Now, wait a doggone minute.....is that what I think it is, you ask?  Let's zoom that puppy up.

LOL!  It is!  You can't make this stuff up, folks.  Swear to pete, this was parked at the meters on Saturday.  Florida Tom will attest to this as he was leaving me in the dust because there was dinner to be had while I was snapping these pictures.

 And so there is our tale, the Rainbow Brite (Rated G for Good) version in Part One.  And then, the Dastardly & Mutley (Rated T for Typical) version in Part Two.  And Narnia will leave you with this thought.

 Would this lovely dazzling smiling man fib to you when it comes to protecting his mate and goslings?

If you've been following Oh My Godot or Narnia Dispatches long enough, I think you know the answer to that question.

 We love you anyway, Austin!!!  THANK YOU for one of the best experiences ever.

 via GIPHY

 pic sources:  Giphy, IHJ
our playlist:  Inner Smile - Texas
                     O "Fly On" Dedicated to Austin Nichols - Coldplay
                     Waiting - Seal
                     I Can't Get Next to You - The Temptations
                     Extraordinary - Mandy Moore

  
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

I'll Take One in Black and One in Gray - Day 16


Thirty Days of Toothy Tile, Grey Goose and the Baby Tiles

Day 16



Back in October 2007, when Jake first began his contracted fauxmance with Reese Witherspoon, there were many reasons for the professional compact. While Hollywood bearding arrangements mostly exist to primarily promote heterosexuality to mainstream audiences, the selection of a woman with two children was key to Jake's  transaction. As a result of Reese's maternal "girlfriend" profile, Jake was able to use family modes of transportation without arousing suspicion. What a great cover for a publicly perceived bachelor who was having children behind the scenes, away from the prying eyes of strangers.

Here's just one example of the humongous vehicles Jake was commonly seen with throughout the Reeke years. A GMC Yukon Hybrid SUV with a seating capacity of up to 8 people: 

                           May 2008


While the selection of Reese Witherspoon proved expedient for someone who wanted to start a young family hidden from public view, the problem Jake soon ran into by December 2009, when Reese decided her career was tanking and unceremoniously dumped him, was how to remain visible, yet seamlessly blend into a car-centered culture like Los Angeles.  

Jake's eyebrow raising answer: Not one, but two Audi Q7s fondly tagged by OMG as The Family Truckster and commercially described as "ideal for daily family use." 






            June 2013



The first time we see the Audi Q7 is in late May, 2010. One is gray and one black. A color scheme duplication of the matching vehicles he purchased in 2007, and referenced in his GQ interview (February, 2007). 

Excerpt from "The Two Jakes"

Interviewer: "This is not a hybrid!" ...[looking at Jake's car.]
Jake is lightning on the defense.  "I'm getting one - a Camry hybrid," he says.  "I'm getting two!"

I'm not entirely clear on how getting two hybrids is earth friendly but Gyllenhaal knows what he's doing. 



Now, why would a bachelor, with no children, purchase not one, but two Camrys prior to "hooking up" with Reese Witherspoon, and then two Audi Q7s within six months of the "breakup"? The pattern of possessing two vehicles most certainly points to someone who is not single. While the sizing up to a tank-like Audi Q7 easily points to multiples of two passengers. 

The Blind Item that boldly predicted the anticipation of one Baby Tile back in 2007 had become, by August 2010, almost quaint and certainly woefully out of date.  A father of one could easily get by with a Toyota Camry. But a couple raising an expanding family would need a much larger solution to meet everyday transportation needs. 

Perhaps something like a Family Truckster would be more fitting, instead of a sensible mid-sized vehicle.


                                                              2007 Toyota Camry


     Family Truckster: Jake's gray 2010 Audi Q7 (nice limousine-tinted windows for maximum privacy)

And, even when Jake was seen hanging out in New York beginning in mid-September 2011 (before Berlinale and his "official" move to NY announced in March 2012), Jake was immediately seen driving an SUV.  Even though the public narrative was that he rode his bike, or walked or accessed the subway/taxis everywhere he went. 




 
Taxi Jake May 2012, NY


Walking Jake April 2013 NY

Subway Jake May 2015, NY

 Bicycle Jake, July 2013, NY

But, when you have children, hidden away from the world, public means of transportation is no longer an option, except of course when you are posing for photo ops to "prove" otherwise.

                            
                                  




pic sources: IHJ, Oh My Godot, reaction gifs
our playlist: Keep on Truckin - Eddie Kendricks
                    Carefree Highway - Gordon Lightfoot
                    I Drove All Night - Cyndi Lauper



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