I've met a bunch of people on purpose, which I realize isn't the thread, but I'll also include them with little blurbs here.
-Lewis Black, once here and once in Boston.
-talked briefly to Will Ferrell at Kites', and talked to Nick Swardson in the bathroom. Both were uneventful except that Ferrell was wearing a baby blue knit cap.
-Drove Mo Rocca to Little Apple Brewery, then five years later jmlynch1 and I had a drunken conversation with him over the phone at 6 in the morning.
-With Tracy Morgan: got pulled over/heard all about his DUI the night before in Hollywood/saw him cry/watched him dance with his shirt off in Joe's Tap Room/saw him smoke a blunt with Thomas Clayton/I think he did ecstasy that night/watched him grope every girl in the greater Manhattan area while he simultaneously reiterated "family first" to me/unscrewed his visine bottle because "his hands were just too slippery"
-Met that Dave Pelzer guy, the guy who wrote
A Child Called It. He was...semi-annoying with all his Ahnold impressions.
-Ben Kweller
-Weezer except Rivers Cuomo
-Death Cab for Cutie
-Ben Folds a bunch of times
-Went on a cruise with/played with Guster.
-Got an individual photo with Barenaked Ladies on the same cruise ship (everybody on the cruise did. Trust me, I didn't want to).
-Randomly bumped into comedian/actor Harlan Williams at karaoke. He's the kindergarden teacher in Half-Baked who goes to jail. "Naughty...jungle of love!...mark of the beast! SIX SIX SIX!!!!!!"
-MET THE REV! AL SHARPTON! Me and jmlynch1 got our picture taken with him while he was wearing a purple tie.
-When I was in Boston I was posing for a group photo with some peeps and this jackass walked right in the middle of it as we took the picture. It turned out to be Jim Bruer.
-Saw Ellen Cleghorne (black chick from mid-90s SNL. You know, she played the Chocolate Pudding in the original Lunchlady Land skit) on 5th Ave. in New York.
-When I lived in Austin I went to a show during SXSW which actually also turned out to be a party for the movie Knocked Up, which was about to open. Randomly met/befriended Paul Rudd. Started talking to him about Wet Hot American Summer, how it's the greatest movie ever, then he introduced me to the director David Wain. Said something about how now I just have to meet someone from Freaks and Geeks, at which point Rudd was like, "Well Martin Starr is right over there." So then I hung with Martin Starr, who played Bill Haverchuck for a while until the bar closed...and then Paul Rudd liked us enough that he whisked us away in one of his cars to an afterparty in his penthouse of the 4 Seasons hotel in Austin, where he bought a billion beers and vodkas from room service and we partied until 4 am. Oh, and there was also some other chubby, little-known actor there with us. What was his name, again? Oh yeah, Jonah Hill. It was super random and WAY TIGHT.
-That Christian Finnegan guy from VH1 Best Week Ever. Some fugly chicks were all over him.
And all those are good, and I think there are a few others I'm forgetting, but here are the two that will clinch it in absolute FTW fashion:
-I got my picture taken with Mr. Cooper. He was wearing an orange leather jacket and is WAAAY TALL.
-Weird Al outside of McCain.
