I was terrified his performance would give me a seizure. I wish I was kidding, but I’m epileptic, and I literally had to turn off the television. THANKS KANYE!

I almost want to say he is high 300% of the time, but it’s not that. It’s so much more than that. James Franco is wayyyyyy into James Franco. When I met him, he asked if I had read his book. Like, no dude. WHAT? I am a book snob, and I am not reading your trash thing that you wrote because people keep letting you into…

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I have an Andy Samburg/Zach Galifinakis/Sarah Silverman story and a Mike Myers/Ben Stiller story.

My boyfriend and I had tickets to see the musician Laurie Anderson in the late 80s. I was a HUGE fan — had all her albums, studied the lyrics (pre-internet!) for deep meanings, etc. We wound up being invited to “go to dinner with Laurie” after the concert by a friend who was there and doing local publicity. I was…

My BFF and I went to a charity standup show with Will Ferrell headlining. We had VIP tickets for after the show. It was an interesting “meet & greet” to say the least. Remember, the entire theater is cleared out now, and there are about 50 of us in this VIP lounge. If you’re in this area, you’ve paid to be there or…

Took multiple smoke breaks with David Sedaris at a book event. Incredibly funny and kind. That man will say anything to anyone though.

Wynonna Judd nearly murdered me one time. (My friends assure me that at least one of them will tell this story at my funeral.)

I had a cab driver in Chicago absolutely rant to me about Oprah once. He called her “The Bitch” and had nothing nice to say.

In the early 90’s, Oprah did not tip on a pizza delivery. A pizza delivered to her estate in Northern Indiana, in the middle of nowhere....in early February.

I’ve had a couple of celeb run-ins in SW CT but the worst (best?) run-in was definitely when John Mayer (hometown boy) and I got into it at a CVS at 1 in the morning. He kept talking about himself in the third person and pointing to his Bentley in the parking lot. I told him that I used to like him but now he sounded…

I met Taylor Swift while I was in college. I told her I liked her hat, it was one of those french ones in red. She rolled her eyes and ignored me completely. Now I didn’t realize it was Taylor Swift until I saw a lot of people run towards me. I thought the zombie apocalypse was happening. No. Just Taylor Swift. Note:…

During my poor grad student days in Morningside Heights, I bought coffee with most of the loose change I could scrounge up. It was always a treat. One desperate day I was actually buying coffee on campus (pricey!) and had to count my change on the counter (classy!). As the woman slid me my cup of deliciousness that…

I thought of two other faintly amusing facts...

I had just moved to Nashville for my new jobs as a lowly editorial assistant at a weekly entertainment trade paper. I’d been on the job all of one week when for some reason they asked me to cover a press conference for Volunteer Jam, which was a big multi-artist music festival Charlie Daniels staged every year. It was…

I have waited on Charlton Heston (a perfect gentleman and back when he was marching for civil rights, before he was senile, god bless him, who ordered his meat “Rare rare rare rare.”), talked on the phone to Robert Redford (while baby sitting a million years ago. Again, perfect gentleman, as far as I could tell since…

I had the misfortune of wandering past the Celebrity Apprentice set back in 2007 when Stephen Baldwin was on. I think they were trying to sell printers on the street or something, I don’t know, anyway Stephen blocked my path on the sidewalk, stuck a bullhorn in my face and shouted something about him knowing I that…

Not me directly but my cousin’s band toured with John Mellencamp for a run of summer shows & apparently Mellencamp’s nickname “The Little Bastard” is well earned. He apparently couldn’t be bothered to speak to his opening acts & no one wanted to be around him.

First or second year of college, so about 10 years ago at this point, a friend and I were working at Nano Day in NY, a program for high school students to get excited about STEM (we wrote the school curriculum used as a lead up). Imagine how unbelievably excited we were to find out on the day of the actual event that…

“A brief poll of our staff unearthed uncomfortable and bad encounters with, among others, Usher, Louis C.K., Jane Lynch, Oliver Stone, Aziz Ansari, Kanye West, [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted]”