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I interviewed the voice of Space Ghost for my college newspaper, and was the only one asking him intelligent questions.
one time i had to shakedown ryan gosling for tips. for many reasons, not the least of which was my attire, it was awkward.
@art: shoes that clip into bikes for spin class. Renting spin shoes is akin to renting a bowling shoe that someone's run a marathon in. They cost like $75-$100.
@ben: Were you successful?
i was not wearing a rubber suit. i was wearing a spangly top, zebra print bikini bottoms and pretty-woman boots.
i was unsuccessful but only because apparently bigtime oscar nominees don't have to carry cash. he did get in the photobooth with me and my friend though.
I once bumped into Bernie Mac at an airport. How'd I know it was Bernie Mac? He was wearing a trenchcoat with BERNIE MAC written on the back, in gold letters.
lololol. bernie mac.
who's that guy who drives around with the pimp cup and the green cadillac? oh bishop don "magic" juan. YES, just like that.
I worked for Iron Chef Morimoto at his Philly restaurant.
We had lots of famous guests. Like Troy Aikman, ?uestlove, one of the chicks from Desperate Housewives, and MOTHER FUCKING KENNY G.
Kenny G is a prick.
Ok, I have one for the Whedon fans:
Comic-Con, a few years back. I'm down to my last $20 for the day, when I happen upon an autograph booth with Robia LaMorte (Jenny Calendar), Danny Strong (EEEEVIL Jonathan) and Mark Lutz (The Groosalugg). I hadn't really watched Angel at that point, so I didn't know who the hell Lutz was, hence I decided to blow my cash on autographs from Strong & LaMorte.
Speaking of The Roots, ?uestlove was definitely my worst interview ever. Kept putting me on hold.
ok, mom was Steve Jobs' personal assistant for three years while he was with NeXT. I've chatted with him briefly and such. Ive met many high level execs and venture capital peeps over the years. mom has gone to dinner with Bono a few times. I met Ron Jeremy and Adriana Sage at the AVN one year (i was working the event). i used to have a pic of Scotty (James Doohan - sp?) and myself as a kid together. my gramps knew DB Cooper. my grandma spoke with Amelia Earheart on one occasion for quite an extent. my gf was hit on my Coolio. lol.
uh, i was cross refing the database with those who had passes (including "talent")
the gf was doing CES that weekend and a local agency needed help for AVN. so, i was like "sure..."
Rob Courdry was next to me at the Arcade Fire show last year... in an Adidas jumpsuit.
1. I once ate Steve Jobs birthday cake. True story. It showed up at the door of my co-op.
2. Tom Waits really dresses like a homeless person.
3. Cher is actually one of the coolest celebrities I have ever met.
oh, well, i tried to chat up Adriana and she was pretty sweet, actually. perhaps the only girl i saw that wasn't a bit busted, irl. now i sound like a complete asshole, but, whatever.
Hm. If we're talking Consunamedropping, I got to crash at Slack's once.
my mom went to high school with James Caveziel's pop. im starting to hate my mom, i think.
Nav: Atta boy. The only porn star I ever met was Jasmin St. Claire, at a Comic-Con. This was shortly after she set the world gangbang record. I had the biggest shit-eating grin on my mug when I took a pic with her ...
did you take the picture inside her cavernous post-gangbang vagina?
/gross
Ben, that would've required a climbing certificate I just didn't have at the time.
LOL. it was a joke and you're only butthurt because you don't know who i am.
I got an email from Linus Torvalds last month. He was kind of annoyed at me.
I also shook hands with Bill Clinton when he was on his way to his first inauguration. He was 4 hours late, and it was freezing cold out, so my hands were kinda numb.
San Francisco Giants third baseman Matt Williams once told me to "get the fuck out of [his] clubhouse."
I was in a subway car with Adam Sandler and what I could only assume was his girlfriend (they spent most of the ride making out). We were the only people in the car.
oh shit, i ate lunch next to Marshall Faulk a few times. in the SDSU cafeteria. Art knows this one.
I used to give Green Bay Packers LB Kabeer Gbaja-Biamilla lifts to campus in my dented-up Chevy Cavalier. My roomie thought he was "a sweetheart."
it was me who did mick jagger.
no, not really. the only thing i have to offer here is this: tommy lee jones is exactly the same in real life as he is in all his movies.
@centropomus: I received smail mail from Linus Torvalds a couple of years back. He sent me photos for inclusion in a book I was working on.
I think most people know this already, but in the late 80s, I blew Matt Dillon.
All of my encounters are with country music people... you know, living in Nashville and all. I don't know who'd know them.
Crap, I have no blowing Matt Dillon stories!
I ate a piece of L. Ron Hubbard's birthday cake once. Of course he wasn't there, he was dead. But I was working at EarthLink (before it went public) and it was full-on Scientology. Tres spooky.
Alicia Silverstone flashed me once.
My brother sat next to Frank Stallone in the front seat of a car driving to Simi Valley to see Patrick Swayze's little brother in Man of La Mancha. I swear I'm not making this up. (My S-i-L was a costumer so she knows lots of random people. Like she got to see Mark Harmon in his skivvies all of the time as she worked on NCIS.)
Fred Savage told me I had an amazing ass.
It's funny, I was talking to Joe Pantoliano the other day about this same exact subject.
1. i made ally sheedy a latte last summer.
2. i sat oj simpson and his children when i was a hostess at the steak and ale in kendall (miami) in 2001.
3. i touched donnie wahlberg and joey mcintyre on friday. donnie winked at me.
4. i kissed amanda palmer once.
I have the ubiquitous honor of having shaken Pauly Shore's hand at the San Diego airport. He was waiting for his luggage to arrive.
When is the last time someone pulled Willie Nelson's hair?
Just wondering...
Mine are once removed. The janitor who takes out my trash is Los Lonely Boys' cousin. My grandpa slept with LBJ! (Well they shared a bed, no ghey secks far as a I know...)
I hung out with Kirk Cameron and Sean Astin on the set of a movie once (of which I was an extra in).
Over the years, meetings with bill gates, steve ballmer, jeff raikes, john chambers, marc andresson, kim polese... not so much outside the tech industry
I have some second degree of separations:
Directed Ed Harris' dad in my the first full length play I wrote.
Dated Rush Limbaugh's ex-wife
Other name drops that are more direct are only famous in limited communities: doing projects with Antero Alli, or working with Nebula Award winner Martha Soukup.
I don't know that being routinely tolerated by Neil Gaiman technically counts, although he always seems glad to see me.
I walked in on Shannen Doherty and Tori Spelling arguing in the bathroom at a nightclub I worked at in Maui. At the same club, I also served Pamela Anderson (Tool Time days), Wilt Chamberlain (stiffed me and didn't get much booze in his drinks for the rest of the night), Irene Cara, and various MTV host people whose names escape me.
Working at Nell's in NYC, I spilled blue margaritas on Uma Thurman. I also served Prince and countless shitloads of asshole rappers. Worst on the list, Doctor Dre (not of NWA), who decided that he didn't *really* need to pay his $600. check and tried to dash on it. He didn't get far and tried to stiff, clearly missing the fact that I had added 20% service onto the bill.
Harvey Keitel was obsessed with my best friend who I worked with in an Italian restaurant in Tribeca. He even got her number from the owner and would call her at all hours of the night. He used to sit at my bar and watch her work, it was creepy. We were *just* 18.
I worked in a lot of nightclubs and bars and usually changed jobs as the place was going down in popularity (and getting decidedly bridge and tunnel) so I dealt with a lot of star types.
@slackmistress: That's nothing. *Dan* Savage told me I have an amazing ass.
Hey, *Doc* Savage probably thinks that about me.
A few random "pre-billionaire" encounters: Mark Cuban tried, face-to-face, to sell me Broadcast.com's services, back in the day. (I intend to remind him of this the next time I see him.) I had lunch with Larry Page back when only uber-info-nerds used Google. [Ditto on the remind-him thing.]
Two of my former pre-school students were the sons of Adam Savage from Mythbusters.
Met Steve Harvey, Tara Reid, and Tabitha Soren at LAX on separate occasions.
Shared an elevator with Greg Proops and Gavin Newsom.
Made and served John Waters a cup of coffee.
Met Johnny Knoxville and he smelled of hookers and booze.
Worked & partied with Coral from The Real World. (blegh)
Mary Lou Retton did a TV interview next to my desk at work.
Interviewed briefly by Ryan Seacrest. (he wears A LOT of makeup)
Met Matthew Lillard at an Angel's game.
Partied with Dat Phan (winner of Last Comic Standing). He dated my friend/coworker for awhile too.
Met Jodi Sweeden from Full House.
Got a "thank you" from Taylor Dayne for bring red bull, water and towels to her dressing room.
The only thing I've got is that my mother and father went to high school with Janis Joplin.
My mother graduated with Jimmy Johnson, the former coach of the Dallas Cowboys.
Funnily enough, Robert Rauschenberg also graduated from her high school.
Guess who has a street named after him in my hometown out of the three?
i have talked cleavage with Marilyn Chambers (high five)
i have been whistled at with Tura Satana (fo' real)
i was made to blush by Chris Shiflett (he is tiny)
i have tasted the free chocolate of tom sullivan (ok, not famous, but evil dead people, evil freaking dead)
i have been chased by sid haig (a very nice man)
i have been hugged/given the bird by members of theSTART
soulcamp - you were an xtra in LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON??? I love that movie!
i got a lap dance next to George Clooney
i pretended to have enjoyed Neve Campbell's brother's movie in order to chat her up
i was struck virtually speechless upon meeting Eliza Dushku
i cut in line in front of Sylvester Stallone
i nearly (yes, sadly, nearly) ran over Pauly Shore
i nearly shit myself while hanging out with David Duchovny (from a previous night's booze binge, not from the actual experience itself)
i've written projects that starred two secret/geeky crushes: Danica "Winnie Cooper" McKeller and Amy Jo "Pink Power Ranger/Felicity's Crazy-Bitchy Friend" Johnson
i have seen Julie Strain's cooch, up close and personal (it haunts me to this day)
@garak - ... i think getting "lap dance next to George Clooney" is now on every bisexuals fantasy list.
@Garak: I once pitched a series to Julie Strain while she was wearing a fur bikini. I don't know if you were just cooch-browsing or you actually talked to her, but she's a sweetheart.
@slack - she did a short that a buddy of mine was writing-directing. she was a bit kooky, but otherwise a total sweetheart, i agree. she basically did the gig for free - it was part of a larger film, actually, a very unwatchable one - and was very game for anything. still, i was the boom operator and at one point i was positioned awkwardly right near her naked va jay jay which was all kinds of awkward.
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I made out with a guy who did room service for David Lynch.
I trick or treated at Sinbad's house.
wow, the Rockford Files! coolness! (i now have the Rockford Files theme song stuck in my head)
Sherman Hemsley was right behind me in line at the employee cafeteria when I worked at Mohegan Sun (he was doing a show in the Cabaret, but don't ask me WHY he was getting food in the employee cafeteria). He said something to me about the lima beans.

Tom Brokaw gave me a dirty look at the 1996 GOP Convention!
Like that?