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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: Nabubrush on January 13, 2005, 01:25:47 am
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Here's my question to you all:
Name the three most famous/infamous/renowned folks you ever met. If this has already been done, I apologize, but I see this kind of thing on Letterman and I always wonder why I didn't get to hang out with Karl Malone for three hours at Wal-Mart up in Alaska or something. Anyway, here goes . . .
1) Jerry Only (http://www.tvcasualty.com/photos/misfits/images/awf03.jpg), bassist of the Misfits (http://www.misfits.com/main.html).
I met him at a show and talked to him for maybe 10 minutes.
2) Kent Anderson (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/055310764X/002-7158255-9072823?v=glance&st=*), novelist.
I took a class from him in college. Nice guy, but funnily enough exactly who Central Casting would have sent if asked for a cop turned novelist.
3) Ted Stevens (http://stevens.senate.gov/), US Senator.
My family used to live behind this guy in Anchorage. I don't call him on the phone or anything, but the last time I saw him (after probably ten years) he picked me out of the crowd to sort of chat with. If anything happens, he's third in line (http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101032.html) to take George's job.
Note that this listening is not in order of importance, or interest to me personally. It's pretty random. I'll say it's alphabetical by first name. I saw somebody post that the guitarist from Mudhoney (or someone like that) rode in their car once, so that sort of got me thinking.
Honorable mentions: I have also met Starhawk (http://www.starhawk.org/), Witch, and Tom Peterson (http://i19.ebayimg.com/01/i/00/ee/8e/ab_1.JPG), Portland icon.
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I had to think really hard to think of any famous people I ever met, but I came up with three.
1. I let Robert DeNiro hold a naked mole rat once. Accounts differ on whether we discussed the fact that a naked mole rat feels like, um, an unmentionable part of the male anatomy.
2. I once had the misfortunate of having dinner with Noam Chomsky. I strenuously avoided other occassions on which this experience could have been repeated.
3. The other day while stalking novelist George Pelecanos' dog in the park I stared him down till he said hi. I didn't really mean to, but it was getting dark and I was trying to see if he was growing a moustache. I don't know if this counts as meeting, strictly speaking.
Edit: Stupidly, while writing here on a messageboard about an internet comic, I forgot to mention that I also met Jeff "Wigu" Rowland.
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My wife has a better list than me:
William Kuenstler (defense attorney for the Chicago 7)
Joe Walsh
Arlo Guthrie
Runners up: the Ramones, Oprah Winfrey, Alan Canfora (Google him), Winton Marsalis, Spyro Gyra, Graham Nash.
One time, her parents were sitting in Scottsdale AZ reading the paper and there was an AP photo of her. She was also on CNN that same day.
My list is boring:
Jeanne Kirkpatrick
Charles Krauthammer
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David Bowie, your linguistics student, also disliked Noam Chomsky, or at least his work in linguistics.
1) Doug Martsch of Built to Spill
2) Will Oldham of Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy
3) Eddie Hales, MLB Hall of Famer (did I get his name right? It was years ago)
Not really any movers or shakers, but hey.
I've seen a lot of other famous people up close but not met them.
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Brush w/Greatness, eh?
I think I've posted this before, but I went to high school with the drummer for the Black Crowes, Steve Gorman. He is, and always has been, a hell of a nice guy and so are his brother and his Mom.
I've met/know shitloads of local/statewide politicians.
I met and cross-examined Henry Silverman, Chairman and CEO of Cendant, Inc., a Fortune 100 company (owns: Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Orbitz, Cheap Tickets, Avis, Budget, Days Inn, Knights Inn, Fairfield Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada Inn, Travelodge, Super8, ERA, and AmeriHost, to mention but a few...) He was a very personable and unassuming guy.
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My only interesting run-ins with celebrities usually include being at a writer's conference somewhere and hanging out with someone who isn't that much of a big-shot but is a great writer nonetheless - Will Self, Mark Leyner, Neal Stephenson, etc. Usually there is much alcohol and women dancing around a metal pole involved.
Anyway, most of my infamous meetings are less than enthralling.
Tug McGraw hit on my mom once at a deli when I was a kid.
Robert DeNiro hit on my girlfriend, but she didn't know who he was.
I helped Ani DiFranco change a tire on her car when I was visiting Seattle. She tried to give me some amount of money but when I refused she gave me a mix-tape from her car. I didn't like it but I still have it somewhere. She was sweet.
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Sadly, I'm not sure I've ever had any meetings of note with anyone famous outside of the Internet subculture. That said -- I have met Stephen Ratliff (http://home.netcom.com/~mblackwl/mst.html) in person. He's really a nice guy.
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2) Will Oldham of Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy
I saw him a few days ago. Creepy-looking dude.
Actually, I dunno if I've actually met any cool people. I have walked past a few cool ones, like Jon Stewart and Jaenene Garofalo.
OOOOh, I smoked out of a bowl that Ani passed around after a Yo La Tengo show at Bonnaroo.
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I talked to Jason Molina from Magnolia Electric Co., formerly of Songs: Ohia, after his show here. Also, I approached Devendra Banhart in a bar because my friend was supposed to be photographing his show for the school paper but hadn't gotten a press pass to the sold-out show. He tried to be useful but the drugs made it difficult. And he stole my pen. Things still worked out OK, in fact it was one of the best shows I've ever seen.
These people fit my definition of famous, but maybe not yours. In that case, I'll add a story that my father tells me to make me jealous about not being around in the 60s: As my father was trying to hitchhike home after seeing Bob Dylan play his first electric set at Newport, Joan Baez picked him up in her convertible.
That is all.
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1. Wynona Ryder
2. Tim Robbins
3. Susan Sarandon
While working for a crappy internet company in '96 or so, we got flown out to LA to webcast an anti-death penalty benefit concert, so we got to attend the party the day before the show. I mainly stood around and listened to them blab about whatever movie Tim Robbins was directing at the time. Tim Robbins was much taller than I expected, and Wynona was much shorter than I expected.
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Sigourney Weaver, Rip Torn, and Sir Dog (the real guy from Dog Day Afternoon) all at film festivals I worked at. My So has a much longer and cooler list if you're into feminism.
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Jerry O'Connell was in my class at school when I was in 4th grade and he was in 5th (they were combined at my school), which was the year before he made "Stand By Me".
Donald Sutherland was seated at one of my tables when I used to work in a fancy restaurant at a resort in Florida. However, he could smell something coming from the smoking section and asked to be moved, so all I ever got to do was hand him the wine list and tell him the specials. His hair was perfect. He has another son (not Keifer) who looks like a total dork.
I once saw Sigourney Weaver walking down the street in NYC when I was about 15.
A more obscure one: Julian Sanchez, blogger (http://www.juliansanchez.com/notes.html) and writer for Reason Magazine (http://reason.com/) once asked me to look over an article he wrote about Open Source/Free software for Tech Central Station (http://www.techcentralstation.com/121002D.html). He did not follow any of my suggestions.
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2) Will Oldham of Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy
I saw him a few days ago. Creepy-looking dude.
Actually, I dunno if I've actually met any cool people. I have walked past a few cool ones, like Jon Stewart and Jaenene Garofalo.
OOOOh, I smoked out of a bowl that Ani passed around after a Yo La Tengo show at Bonnaroo.
He really is a bit creepy looking. I met him in '98 after an in-store appearance at Tower Records in Seattle. I saw him outside and told him I really enjoyed the show, and then he signed Black/Rich Music LP I had just picked up. He was totally nice. I've talked to several musicians before and after shows, and he was easily the nicest and most gracious. Although I can understand why Doug Martsch was a bit awkward as he is my idol and I was probably shaking when I talked to him.
I saw Bonnie Prince Billy a couple years ago (one of the best shows I've been to, by the way--don't miss any opportunity to see him with full backing band) and Zwan was playing up the street the same night. After I left, according to some friends, Dave Pajo and Billy Corgan showed up to chat with Will. So I missed that chance. Did you know Billy Corgan has a book of poetry out? Hello Jewell.
One of my fantasies is to get seriously baked with Doug Martsch.
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I am not counting things like autograph sessions or whatever where the Big Name Person is officially Meeting The Public. Instead, there are situations where the Big Name Person and I met more or less by accident.
Al Gore, former Vice President: His daughter and my sister were in the same big dorm bloc thing at college, so we were both at that group's graduation ceremony thing. He and I were seated back to back, which was ill-advised because he and I are both very tall and our chairs kept banging into each other and at one point our heads whacked into each other.
Hal Clement, science fiction author: I went to a small science-fiction convention in Amherst, which happened to be very near where Clement lived so he attended. I ended up sitting next to him for lunch. He was a good conversationalist and had a lot of interesting things to say about planets.
Terry Pratchett, sf/fantasy author: I went to Worldcon this past year, and saw a bunch of Discworld building-models on display in the concourse. While I was looking at them another guy started commenting and we got into a conversation and eventually I realized it was Terry Pratchett, who was also in the concourse to look at the models. We talked some more and I took a photograph of him standing next to a model of Unseen University.
edit: As long as relatives' encounters are also being listed, my grandmother was once bowled over in the street by Eleanor Roosevelt, who apologized profusely.
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1. A friend went to pitch a script to Andy Dick at his house. I tagged along. My friend's pitch bombed, but I made Andy laugh quite a bit. He asked us to come to his show a few nights later. I was the only one who wound up going, and I hung out for a while afterwards. Maura Tierney walked up to me while we were talking and asked "Do I know you from somewhere?" Maura Tierney, by the way, carbonates my hormones. I tried frantically to think of something to say, like "oh yes, you were on the mat next to me at Yoga Works a few months ago," but I just said "no, but I'm very happy to meet you."
2. I was in a tiny studio during a Ray Bradbury satellite press tour. The earpiece audio failed, and I had to stage-whisper the questions to him for a minute. We talked for a little while between interviews. Nice guy, but he's got really bad ear wax.
3. I talked to Paul Westerberg at the bar for a minute before an all-ages Replacements show when I was 18. He was the only person I ever really felt star-struck by, because at that time I loved the Replacements more than I had ever loved any band ever. All I could think to ask him was "Do you guys have a new album coming out any time soon?"
"Yeah, it'll be out in two months."
"Great! What's it called?"
"Tim."
That baffled me so completely that it pretty much ended the conversation.
Others: I pestered Telly Savalas for his autograph at a Yankees game in the early 70s; had an uneventful dinner at Esai Morales' house; had meaningless encounters with Willie Nelson, Rip Torn, Bill Bixby and Kris Kristofferson while working on a TV movie in 1991; and saw Billy Corgan, Rick Rubin and Steve Jones having a chat outside Tower Sunset one New Years Eve, but didn't see how I was going to work my way into the conversation. And my mom once played tennis with Linda Ronstadt.
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Maura Tierney, by the way, carbonates my hormones.
Me too, brother, me too. Dude, she was hitting on you!
Also, News Radio was a great show.
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I once almost knocked Jimmy the Greek down at Churchill Downs. He was coming out a door and I was going in and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going.
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Me too, brother, me too. Dude, she was hitting on you!
I know. I wilt a little inside whenever I think about it. But she was married, and I was too.
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Me too, brother, me too. Dude, she was hitting on you!
I know. I wilt a little inside whenever I think about it. But she was married, and I was too.
What's your point here, exactly? I mean, Maura. Tierney. Woof.
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Maura Tierney, by the way, carbonates my hormones.
As bad as it has been lately, I've been watching ER lately just because I finally found out she's on the show.
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I once almost knocked Jimmy the Greek down at Churchill Downs. He was coming out a door and I was going in and I wasn't paying attention to where I was going.
Same situation, believe it or not, but for me it was Lyle Lovett at the Houston Galleria.
Also would like to reserve a seat on the NewsRadio Adoration Train, please. Are those fuck*ng DVDs ever going to come out?
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What's your point here, exactly? I mean, Maura. Tierney. Woof.
I guess my point was that even if it had been a 100% guaranteed hook-up, I wasn't going to just throw away my chosen life-partner / best friend for a few moments of pleasure. ( Cause the wife would have found out. Wives always do. ) The fact that we have a kid now just increases this exponentially.
And I would have put the odds of us actually hooking up at around 8%. And that's probably me kidding myself by about 6 percentage points.
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I am not counting things like autograph session
Well, there goes my number 3. I guess I could substitute Calvin Johnson of K Records/Beat Happening fame.
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Thus far, I'm pretty sure clonking heads with Al Gore is the best of celebrity encounters.
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Former Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger threw spitballs at me once. He was speaking to us at summer camp and the guys next to me were "being rowdy" (he'd actually egged them on ahead of time).
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Someone named William J. Bennett bought my Farscape Season 1 set off Amazon, but I don't know if he was former drug czar William J. Bennett or just some guy with the same name as that old fascist whore.
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If we are going to include family, my Dad took a class from Linus Pauling. And my Grandmother dated Buckminster Fuller. I attended high school with Mark Schlereth and college with Chris Childs, but I never met either of them.
I went to junior high and high school with Dan Spils (http://danielspils.typepad.com/daniel_spils/). I guess he has some bands that are gaining attention. I don't really know.
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2. I once had the misfortunate of having dinner with Noam Chomsky. I strenuously avoided other occassions on which this experience could have been repeated.
I was thinking about this, and now I'm curious. What exactly do you have against Chomsky? I'm not a fan or anything, but is he a dickhead? Have bad breath? Chew with his mouth open? Or is it that you are just extremely conservative? I know almost nothing about the man aside from a bit of his linguistic theory (just a bit) and, of course, his work in history and politics.
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2. I once had the misfortunate of having dinner with Noam Chomsky. I strenuously avoided other occassions on which this experience could have been repeated.
I was thinking about this, and now I'm curious. What exactly do you have against Chomsky? I'm not a fan or anything, but is he a dickhead? Have bad breath? Chew with his mouth open? Or is it that you are just extremely conservative? I know almost nothing about the man aside from a bit of his linguistic theory (just a bit) and, of course, his work in history and politics.
Yeah, I was curious about this too. Is this a linguistics thing, a political thing or a personality thing. My guess would be that it's a personality thing, because I could see how a guy like Chomsky could be pretty damn obnoxious in person.
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My aunt dated Jim Varney (Ernest) when she was 13. I'm not sure how well known he is, but, umm, yeah, this guy:
(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000065V3S.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
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My aunt dated Jim Varney (Ernest) when she was 13. I'm not sure how well known he is, but, umm, yeah, this guy:
Oh yeah? I have a cousin who dated Hunter S. Thompson in the 60's.
Also, don't diss Jim Varney. He's a native Kentuckian (LEX) who made reasonably good. Kinda like Ed McLanahan.
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Also, don't diss Jim Varney. He's a native Kentuckian (LEX) who made reasonably good. Kinda like Ed McLanahan.
I can respect Jim Varney if only because he apparently managed to make a good living making Earnest movies, which seems like no mean feat. I know basically nothing about his life, but I hope it was a fulfilling career.
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Also, don't diss Jim Varney. He's a native Kentuckian (LEX) who made reasonably good. Kinda like Ed McLanahan.
I can respect Jim Varney if only because he apparently managed to make a good living making Earnest movies, which seems like no mean feat. I know basically nothing about his life, but I hope it was a fulfilling career.
If Jim Varney is a little better looking, he's Jim Carrey.
Geez, I'm not trying to beatify the guy or anything. He just deserves a li'l respect. Sure he made up a goofy character. But he made up a funnygoofy character. No question, he's as lowbrow as it gets. But he was a gifted comedian and there is unquestionably humor (OK, stupid humor) in his work. The fact that we all know his name should indicate something. Know what I mean Vern?
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Hahaha, I joke about Jim Varney, but I love the guy. KY WHAT WHAT.
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My aunt dated Jim Varney (Ernest) when she was 13. I'm not sure how well known he is, but, umm, yeah, this guy:
Oh yeah? I have a cousin who dated Hunter S. Thompson in the 60's.
Also, don't diss Jim Varney. He's a native Kentuckian (LEX) who made reasonably good. Kinda like Ed McLanahan.
My aunt went on a date with Kevin Bacon. Before Footloose, though.
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Also, don't diss Jim Varney. He's a native Kentuckian (LEX) who made reasonably good. Kinda like Ed McLanahan.
I can respect Jim Varney if only because he apparently managed to make a good living making Earnest movies, which seems like no mean feat. I know basically nothing about his life, but I hope it was a fulfilling career.
If Jim Varney is a little better looking, he's Jim Carrey.
Geez, I'm not trying to beatify the guy or anything. He just deserves a li'l respect. Sure he made up a goofy character. But he made up a funnygoofy character. No question, he's as lowbrow as it gets. But he was a gifted comedian and there is unquestionably humor (OK, stupid humor) in his work. The fact that we all know his name should indicate something. Know what I mean Vern?
Except that teeny tiny detail of the fact that he's been dead for several years. Pretty funny guy, though.
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Oy vey, you hardly have to be 'extremely conservative' to disagree with Chomsky's politics.
A short answer to what I have against him is difficult, but here's an attempt: I felt that the cult of personality around him was very bad for the field of linguistics. And I found there was a hypocritical disconnect between his political beliefs and his status in linguistics - he's all 'question authority' in politics, but anyone who questions his views in linguistics (despite the fact that he himself says opposite things at different points) is an idiot.
I could rant, but I'll stop there.
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God, wombat, that is seriously the best reason I've ever heard. I'm not even being a dick. The day that I am grown up enough to say, "I felt that the cult of personality around him was very bad for the field of linguistics.", will be the happiest day of my life. I always knew he was originally a linguistics person, and wondered if he really was as hot-shit as the documentaries made him out to be. Thank god we have a resident linguistics disestablishmentarian.
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My cousin dated Vern for awhile. He proposed to her and everything but then jilted her at the alter.
Bastard.
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I always knew he was originally a linguistics person, and wondered if he really was as hot-shit as the documentaries made him out to be. Thank god we have a resident linguistics disestablishmentarian.
I have never really spent all that much time reading or paying attention to Chomsky, for some reason, but I know that my folks (psychologist and philospher in respect to these kinds of topics) weren't big fans of Chomsky when it came to linguistics. But like I say, Chomsky and linguistics isn't something I've ever got round to reading up on. I probably will do now, since I'm intrigued.
Also, Vern?
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My aunt dated Jim Varney (Ernest) when she was 13. I'm not sure how well known he is, but, umm, yeah, this guy:
Also, don't diss Jim Varney. He's a native Kentuckian (LEX) who made reasonably good. Kinda like Ed McLanahan.
Also a Shakespearean actor at 16, apparently. And Daddy and Them (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166158/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxzZz0xfGxtPTIwMHx0dD1vbnxwbj0wfHE9ZGFkZHkgYW5kIHRoZW18aHRtbD0xfG5tPW9u;fc=1;ft=6).
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Sundance is coming, so there is always the possibility I will bump into more of our intellectual and physical superiors. Last year, I saw Melvin Van Peebles, Mario's father, and director/star/etc of Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song, which screened because Mario's Baadasssss!, a documentary about it, played. It was only at a Q & A session though, so I didn't meet him. Also, I saw much of the crew and cast of MVP, a movie starring Wood Harris (of the Wire, he also played Hendrix in a TV movie--no, he wasn't there) which hasn't been picked up apparently. I thought it was pretty good.
I also saw Robin Tunney at a bar in Park City during a Sigur Ros show. I didn't talk to her. I'm not one to approach a famous type person unless I actually have something to say.
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Hey Bozack, how old was Jim Varney when your aunt dated him? 27?
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Nah, they were both like 13. Younguns, man. They went bowling.
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Nah, they were both like 13. Younguns, man. They went bowling.
Thanks. My wife was like "who the hell is Jim Varney", and after I showed her the picture and mentioned the dating thing, she was concerned that it might have been untoward. Not because of the KY thing, I don't think.
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i've been strenously thinking (not sure if that's any different than normal thinking for me...), trying to remember any famous people i've been in the proximity of.
i just remembered, though, i poured US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop coffee. i was catering class reunions one summer.
i met Patrick Volkerding one summer. not sure if he remembers, since i don't really remember much myself. met many minor fringe celebrities there. pretty boring if you aren't in that circle, i guess.
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Only Bozack will know who this is, but I sat behind Gatewood Galbraith at a Dead show once.
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Only Bozack will know who this is, but I sat behind Gatewood Galbraith at a Dead show once.
Well, who is Gatewood Galbraith? (I'm half Galbraith).
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He's a Lexington attorney and perennial gubenatorial candidate who runs on a legalize marijuana platform. His website is here. (http://www.gatewood.com/) He was passing around hog legs at this show like nobody's business.
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Haha, yeah, that guy is awesome/potentially dangerous.
Arm yourself with the mental brass knuckles of liberty.
WTF? Who wrote this website, the Tick?
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Haha, yeah, that guy is awesome/potentially dangerous.
Arm yourself with the mental brass knuckles of liberty.
WTF? Who wrote this website, the Tick?
Well shit, at least someone's crusading for liberty and human dignity. And anyone who runs on a marijuana legalization platform is OK by me. I'm one social libertarian who admits the desire to smoke pot with impunity is the primary inspiration for my politcal views.
Plus, Willie Nelson likes him. Any friend of Willie's a friend of mine.
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Hey, don't look now, but someone named old kentucky shark just registered...could it be...
Mr. Galbraith?
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Not even a little bit!
Okay maybe a little bit
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Well shit, at least someone's crusading for liberty and human dignity. And anyone who runs on a marijuana legalization platform is OK by me. I'm one social libertarian who admits the desire to smoke pot with impunity is the primary inspiration for my politcal views.
Plus, Willie Nelson likes him. Any friend of Willie's a friend of mine.
I vote for him whenever he runs.
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I've had brushes with many, many celebrities in my day. A few impressions:
Jim Carrey - indirect brush with fame, but my best friend during high school was his cousin, so she had lots of family photos with him in them. He was quite cute as a little kid - she even had photos of him making funny faces.
J Lo - at the height of Benniferdom, was rehearsing in the dance studio across the street from where I worked. I saw her most mornings wearing a velvet track suit with no make-up on and ratty hair, looking very tired
Keifer Sutherland - during his post Julia Roberts, pre-"24" days when he was "washed up." At a patio bar - he was totally wasted, his (now ex) wife sat angrily at the end of the table, his two little boys asleep under the table. Then I saw him again the next day, (it was Canada Day in fact and he was giving a little speech at the unveiling of this chime clock) clearly hung over.
Sam Neil - my closest actual "brush" with a famous person, I was biking to work down a street they were filming on. Since there were so many trailers in the street I had to use the side walk. As I whizzed along he stepped out of his trailer directly in to my path then leapt out of the way. Him: "Hey!" Me: "Sorry!" Later at work I'm thinking, "hey I almost ran over the guy from 'The Piano.'"
Keanu Reeves - played, and no I'm not kidding, "Hamlet" at the Mantioba Theatre Centre. He was nice enough to stop and chat with my bestfriend, who had a broken leg at the time. The play was, needless to say, fairly embarrasing. The newspaper wrote a somewhat mean-spirited article about it, referring to my friend as "gushing."
The President and First Lady of Portugal - I worked at an art gallery, and they had a private tour of the facility. Several secret service men. I remember shaking the president and his wife's hands and thinking, there are probably people in the world who would love the privilege of meeting these people, or maybe their totally hated, who knows, but this has no real significance to me, and I wish I didn't have to be here.
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Well. Met Alan Rickman and Janeane Garofolo on set in London, as my ex's father and aunt went to school with him and have been friends since.
I've met a few auhors but none who anyone will know of, although Robert Kroetsch maybe...
I'm sure there may be someone else. Oh, ended up sat next to Paul McGann on a train.
My grandmother worked with various people though - Olivier, Hopkins (he's a dick apparently) and more in her theatre days.
And her husband was taught piano by... I'll get back to you on that one. But I hope to inherit their piano, which was the last wooden framed Grand, built for Isadora Duncan.
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All the Chomsky-talk on the this thread has inspired me to share a joke.
Q: How do you get Noam Chomsky to shut up?
A: Ask him a question about linguistics.
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All the Chomsky-talk on the this thread has inspired me to share a joke.
Q: How do you get Noam Chomsky to shut up?
A: Ask him a question about linguistics.
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I work in broadcasting so I get to meet (and greet!) some reasonably famous people just as a side-effect of my job.
In college I worked for Fox Sports and I got to meet athletes (MLB players, mostly) and announcers. Joe Buck is pretty cool. Tim McCarver called me Luke for two straight summers because I had Luke Perry-style sideburns. (My name is not Luke.) Jim Thome was the nicest player I met - he traded us a couple of autographed bats in exchange for one of the big vinyl Fox banners we hung on the stadium rails.
Now I'm in radio and I get to meet musicians plus the occasional comedian, author, actor etc. who come in for interviews. People I've met here include Tenacious D, Kevin Pollack, Cake, Harland Williams, Jerry Springer, Gomez, Pete Yorn, Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Camper Van Beethoven, They Might Be Giants, Travis, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Violent Femmes.
Non-work-related brushes with fame: Once I saw Biff Henderson outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. He posed for a picture with my friend. I saw Paul Molitor walking with his wife and child down a pier in Seattle but I chose to respect his privacy. I met Dave Eggers and Stephen Elliott from McSweeney's at a voter-registration drive last fall....
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Friday be damned - Fuck You, Turbo!
That's cool. But no one ever meets football players? My sister-in-law met Jim Plunkett.
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I am also in radio. Of course the less glamorous part. I only started here in the fall so I haven't really had the opportunity to meet the big glamorous stars. All I've got was local celebs so far. I'll let you know if I meet anyone cool. But I don't think it'll add up to the huge stack above.
Only time will tell.
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That's cool. But no one ever meets football players?
I met Claudie Minor, who was a lineman for the Broncos (early 80's, I think). I am a pretty large guy, but Claudie made me feel small. He was FREAKIN' HUGE.
A woman on my floor here at work is a Redskins cheerleader.
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I met Claudie Minor, who was a lineman for the Broncos (early 80's, I think). I am a pretty large guy, but Claudie made me feel small. He was FREAKIN' HUGE.
He played in the Super Bowl against Dallas in '77. That's pretty cool, I think.
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If we're allowing a few degrees of separation here, my father tutored several members of the UNL football team in history for a while. I can't remember names, but some of them are probably either in the NFL or rueful NFL washouts.
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UNL = ? University of North Louisiana? I got nothing.
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UNL = ? University of North Louisiana? I got nothing.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Used to be known for an excellent college football team until the Time of the Plagues. (Read: we've had a couple of off-years.)
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I spent a day golfing with Vince Evans.
* Weeps. Weeps profusely. *
Vince Evans plays a significant part in my enjoyment of football - at least as much as James Jett. The whole idea of Vince playing football at what - 40? is part of what football is all about to me. This is especially because of the whole Chargers/Raiders thing for me. I am torn, sir. I really don't know how to feel about this. The easy way out is for me to just say . . . FUCK YOU!
But not really. Still, you lucky bastard. Did you ever play any golf with Stan Humphries?