For my Wife’s 30th birthday we decided to take a long weekend trip to New Orleans. Saturday night we go to dinner in the French Quarter and after dinner grab a quick drink at Bar Napoleon before calling it a night. We take a seat at the bar next to another couple and order a drink. As we sat down, I felt like I…

I just realized there was nothing absurd about that celebrity encounter. I once saw Ray Liotta at an antique store in Eureka, CA. He saw me recognize him, but then try to play it real cool, so he strode up to me and acted like we were long-lost high school pals, addressing me by a nickname of Legs, asking me if I…

TS was examining pretty hair, something unfamiliar to her.

In September 2018. Was in an Uber pool in NYC with my friend. We are massive Real Housewives fans, and were riding through Chinatown. Suddenly I see a TALL woman walking on the sidewalk, and realize it’s Kristin Taekman. I ask my friend “is that Kristen from RHONY???” and she’s like “idk maybe” and the Uber driver…

I’ve never met a celebrity, as far as I know. I’m comforted to think that if I did, I was completely unaware of it and therefore wasn’t any weirder with them than I am with anyone else. (Which is to say, only moderately weird.)

I work in film and tv, so I have surreal encounters with celebrities almost every day, but nothing tops my first brush with celebrity greatness. Fair warning: I am an old, so those of you born after 1985, or who have never watched Turner Classic Movies or 60s sitcoms may have to do some Google searching. It’s 1984 and…

Around the time Unforgiven was being released, a buddy of mine (Adnan) were poking around the Century City Mall in Los Angeles. As we’re walking towards the theatre, we pass a couple....and its Clint Eastwood and Francis Fisher. My buddy is frozen in his tracks and stutters quietly “is that....was that...”, so I go…

This is old hat now, but when it happened in the early aughts, it was novel enough to win me a “weirdest celebrity chef encounter” contest on the then-recently-launched Eater.

Ron Jeremy getting a blowjob in a grocery store parking lot.

This isn’t really a Hollywood one, but interesting enough. I’ll try to do this without doxxing so I won’t include dates.

Ooh this is my best friend’s story but he gave permission to relay. As a young gay NYU college freshman he discovered nightlife like ya do, and one night he is outside a bar smoking when suddenly he notices John Mayer walking towards him. Being a drunk idiot, my friend points at him as obviously as he can and tells…

There’s a word I’ve been trying to remember. It’s basically “a feeling of exhilarating insignificance”, and the way I heard it was as a description of a primal terror when you look too deep into the night sky and remember how small and fleeting your existence is.

This makes my palms sweaty — I think it’s from excitement. We in the astrophysics community have been striving towards this image for a long time, and this is decades ahead of schedule! The fact that it took an international collaboration using many smaller telescopes across the globe to make a telescope almost the…

The circumference of the sun is 2.7 million miles. Multiply that by 7 billion and you get one of those funny numbers with the letters in it. That’s how big that thing is.

Are you suggesting there’s hypocrisy in the “faith community” (particularly amongst those - like Laughlin - who make a living exploiting it)? Shocking.

Mendes is a kid trying to navigate his own coming of age, and doing so in a remarkably graceful way. He clearly feels pressure to be “seen dating a girl” even if he isn’t in a relationship, while he seems genuinely mindful of the well-being of fans who are gay. What his sexuality turns out to be is for him to discuss…

Hot country is for idiots. That's why men dominate it. It's also shitty music. Which is why you don't find the likes of emmylou Harris or Gillian Welch there. As Tom petty said, "shitty rock and roll with fiddles."

There was a movie. Early 70's maybe??

Maybe he just hates the name Fluffybutt because he thinks it’s stupid!

I didn’t get to name my cat, unfortunately. She came with name “Esme” when I took her in after a neighbor just put her outside and moved away (Total jackass move, btw. She wasn’t even remotely an outdoor cat). That being said, I normally call her Me-Me, or occasionally Mees. But so long as there’s food involved,…