add this WA state voter to the long line of people waiting to slap the NRA down

How is it that every other institution in American life has been the location of a mass shooting, whether private, public, government office or public school, mall, grocery store, parking lot, not-for-profit, etc., but NRA offices and buildings have been immune?

Hey NRA, take a seat. Maybe several. We know what we voted for and we want gun control.

Oh darling! The minute you said butch, short black hair, and confident expression I knew where this was going. Though I’m jealous too, she seems like such an awesome person!

He is amazing to gaze at in person. I was doing a specialized AV gig for Oprah back in 2004 or so? I was still testing my equipment and about to call it a night when a PA started announcing the studio was going into lockdown and all non-essential staff had to leave. The director had taken a shine to me so he came over…

Oh man, I don’t even know where to start anymore, though I am of course way too late to this post for it to really matter. I used to work at a bookshop with a very high celeb clientele percentage for a few years when I first moved to LA; I now work in a mom & pop bookshop that has a lot of them for our…

Various and sundry others listed, some were brief meet and greets some have turned into friendships:

When my niece was about 5 I took her to a (plant) nursery to browse. As we’re working our way to the back, Lauren has kind of drifted off between some high bookcase displays of plants and I’m standing at a table of veggies.

I adore this.

My husband & I went out for tacos and our very little baby puked all over. It was the first and only time he ever puked copiously. We were both shocked and dumbstruck and didn’t know what to do. Chris Cornell was sitting next to us with friends and just smiled at us because we were both like, “oh god this is so…

A few friends and I had just finished having brunch on the upper west side after staying out way too late the night before doing terrible things to our brains at a jam band concert. We were delirious, had to wear our sunglasses throughout brunch, and probably looked/smelled like our true dirty hippie selves. Anyway,…

At an art gallery, the opening reception for my art exhibit:
Bette Midler walks in, followed closely by an entourage of well dressed people.
She says aloud, to no one in particular, “Oh no, this is not it. This is not where I want to be at all.” And walks out, the hangers on following.

My late husband and I ran into Kiefer Sutherland and his twin sister on a street corner in Toronto. My husband was a super outgoing guy so of course he talked to him. I have to say, Kiefer was pretty friendly. Completely drunk, but friendly. Also, his twin sister looks exactly like him, but a female version, if that…

I am partly responsible for that. He came into my shop in Toronto once to get his bike fixed (I fixed it). Funny thing is, nobody recognized him until we asked his name for the repair tag and we were like “the” David Byrne?

I was at a dive bar in New Orleans and came out of the bathroom to see Laurence Fishburne standing at the bar. I was wasted, so I went right up to him and put my arm around him and said, “I thought you would be taller.” He looked at me and said, “I thought you would be taller.”  Then he left because he was just trying…

I was in LA once and saw this woman throw a hissy fit at a popular sushi restaurant because she didn’t get star treatment and put ahead in line of the dozen or so people waiting. As she stormed out and into the back seat of an Escalade, partially tripping on her unusually tall-healed boots, I realized this woman had a…

Anthony Hopkins and Gwyneth Paltrow were filming a movie on my college campus freshman year. The most contact I had was making polite eye contact with Gwyneth Paltrow one day, but my friend got caught by Anthony Hopkins stealing an apple from an unattended crafts services table.  Hopkins said “Did you just steal that…

I was a table away from Mick Jagger at Bemelman’s Bar a few years ago. Growing up in NYC, I was taught to never bother celebrities, but husband was like, “you’ll never get this chance again.” I went over and apologized profusely saying I just wanted to say hi. He autographed a napkin for me and said “If I didn’t want…

Back in 2004 after I’d graduated high school but before heading off to college I took a trip all by myself to Los Angeles. At some point I was out wandering around window shopping and a guy accidentally ran into me when getting on his motorcycle. Wasn’t even a big deal (probably my fault anyway) but he was profusely…

I WIN THIS GAME!! Especially topical right now.