celebrity skin

[CortJstr]

Oh, when I flew back from London George Lucas, his daughter, and her friends bought all of first class. There weren't that many of them, they just bought a lot of empty seats to keep it private.

[PinkStainlessTail]

I swear on a stack of bibles that I've met Thomas Pynchon, J.D. Salinger ,and that guy who stole that money and jumped out of that plane that the money was in.

[side_show]

Here's a weird one:  I escorted the President and First Lady of Portugal on a tour of the art gallery I used to work in, along with the artist whose sculptures were displayed.  I'm sure this would have been a lot cooler if I had any links to Portugese culture.   There were lots of puddgy secret service guys with ear pieces looking annoyed and hot.

Also the artist, Leo Mol, has a well hidden past of befriending Nazis to gain protection during WW2 which no one seems to want to hear about.  And no one seems to be bothered by the multiple pre-teen naked girl statues the artist makes either.  Weird how the general public (the gallery is a free out door one in the middle of a city sponsered park) can accept the pedophilic worship of nude females but would likely be outraged by the same type of artwork related to boys.  I worked at the gallery for two years and I could see people just glaze over whenever I attempted pollitical discourse with them.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Ooh, thought of another one.  Nomar Garciaparra was on our flight to Las Vegas a couple years ago (he was in first class, natch).

[CortJstr]

I swear on a stack of bibles that I've met Thomas Pynchon, J.D. Salinger ,and that guy who stole that money and jumped out of that plane that the money was in.

D.B. Cooper?

[PinkStainlessTail]

I swear on a stack of bibles that I've met Thomas Pynchon, J.D. Salinger ,and that guy who stole that money and jumped out of that plane that the money was in.

D.B. Cooper?

Yeah, that guy. We shared a pack of honey roasted nuts from the bus station vending machine (he doesn't like to fly so much). Turns out he spent all the money on Wacky Packages and Nerds.

[side_show]

Did Salinger mubble a lot?  For some reason I imagine him as being sort of mubble-y.

[jay-ell]

My friend's father sat next to the Dahm Triplets on an airplane from Las Vegas to LA.  The same guy's mom goes to Temple with Orson Scott Card.  And I know a guy (who wishes not to be identified) who had sex with Lucy Lawless.  Yes, that's right.  Before she was Xena.  

Personally, I've never been lucky enough to know anyone famous.  But I'm still young.  There's time.

[Limmo]

All the talk of airplanes reminded me of an incident I must have blocked out.  

About eight years ago my wife and I were flying to Florida, and I saw Wil(?) Wheaton, the kid who played the kid on Star Trek: The Next Generation, at our gate.  I was all Oh, there's the kid who plays the kid on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  

When we boarded the plane, I found myself looking into the kindly visage of James Doohan, who played Scotty on the original series, seated in the third row of the first-class section. I turned to my wife to say Holy shit, there's two Star Trek cast members on this plane, but I couldn't because Walter Koenig - that's right, TV's Chekhov - was standing up in the first row of the section fiddling with his carry-on bag, basically right next to me as I passed.  I bit my tongue and kept going.  In the last row of first class was a man reading a newspaper, which he put down just before I passed.  George Takei.  Sulu.  

By the time we got to our seats in steerage, I had figured out that there must have been a Star Trek convention in Miami that weekend, but for about three seconds there I thought I was losing my mind.  

( Then I saw William Shatner on the wing and I knew I had.   Tee hee hee.)

[jough]

No no, Shatner was *in* the plane.  The gremlin was on the wing, doing damage to the plane, but only Shatner could see it.

[slink]

About eight years ago my wife and I were flying to Florida, and I saw Wil(?) Wheaton, the kid who played the kid on Star Trek: The Next Generation, at our gate.

Cool. Not that I like TNG, or any Trek for that matter, or could even begin to stand Wes Crusher when I saw any of it, but I have come to quite like him from his wwdn, his blog/website.
I tend to support his political leanings, and he comes across as a sensible and nice guy.
Along with good little stories, including life affirming ones about hs relationship with his stepson.