Both my parents were poets, so...

ETA: Not two minutes ago, Angelina Jolie left, after spending about 20 minutes browsing and shopping for books with a couple of her sons. She is tinier than I would’ve guessed (that said, I’m a 6' tall giraffe), and alarmingly beautiful to look directly in the eye, holy cow.

How could I forget? Damn. Christopher Nolan is probably our most regular celeb at my current digs. He is super polite, always dressed very nicely, usually comes in with one or both of his kids, has GREAT taste in music (and really enjoys chatting about it), likes my Peter Gabriel lyric tattoo, and is generally just so…

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…

Damn, I keep remembering more that I left off my list.

While flying up to the Women’s March in 2017 my flight connection ended up changing from Cincinnati to Atlanta. No big deal, nearly every flight I take on Delta is Tampa to Atlanta before getting anywhere else. I was going up on Thursday to spend time staying with friends.

I like him so I am glad you have verified this.

I’m so jealous. I think if Trent Reznor ever looked at me, let alone gave me a compliment, I'd spontaneously combust.

I live mid-San Francisco peninsula. I grew up here, went to college here, work here. My whole life has been a 30-mile radius. So I often run into former co-workers, former classmates and the parents of former classmates, whom I recognize with varying degrees of success. Several years ago I was in the local market in…

A long haired, Gish-era Billy Corgan came in and filled the place with bad vibes immediately.

Gurl, you could have a REAL story!

Not my story, but funny/weird: my uncle (by marriage) ran into Stephen King (author, not the racist senator) in an elevator. He appropriated some backstory that is true about my aunt, his wife, about being from Maine and they ended up getting lunch together. My uncle is really obnoxious and weird, so Stephen King…

I bumped in to Fairuza Balk in NYC when I was a teenager and The Craft was major for me. My insides turned to magma and I went into like..flight or fight mode.. and obviously chose flight.

When I lived in San Francisco my husband and I would go see movies pretty regularly, and we ran into Robin Williams multiple times. The first time, he went in the bathroom and used the urinal next to my husband (no small talk) and we then watched him go into his own movie shortly after it started (I think it may have…

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…

When I was a bar tender at a cafe:

I have a Harvey Keitel story too! I had brunch with a friend at a place in Tribeca when we saw Harvey sitting at the table next to us. We weren’t cool about it at all - in fact, we had just seen Smoke and Blue in the Face the night before, so we were giggling ‘It’s Augie, it’s Augie’. He totally heard and gave us a…

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 was coming out of a coffee place and I was like “Is that John Cho?” as he crossed the street. Then we passed each other and I was like “That was John Cho”.

Though I work in film, so I do run into actors a fair bit and it’s less exciting than you would imagine. I did work on a small movie with Emily Mortimer and when…