Meeting people is kinda cool! You never know who you're gonna meet!

[DungeonmasterJim]

So I go into work for some OT and start working with this lady from 2nd shift (I'm a third shifter). She asks me where I worked before this current company and I replied "Strathmore - the artist paper place". I also mentioned getting laid off from there sucked because I'm an artist and I could get free paper there. She mentions she's an artist. Luckily, she has a couple of small protfolios of her work. She's a tremendous artist often working in oils. I was pretty well stunned by her skill level.

We talk more and it turns out her daughter is a screen writer living in Cali. Her daughter has written episodes for Las Vegas and my current favorite show Supernatural.

Just a cool little tidbit from work tonight.

DM Jim

[Sarah Beach]

Yeah, people can be interesting.

At the San Diego ComicCon, up in the Pro Lounge in the morning before the Exhibit Hall opens, I then to spend 9 to 10 am relaxing over coffee. And being an extrovert, I tend to chat with whomever is sitting at the same table as I am - if they're in a chatting mood. Last summer one morning, I came in and sat down at the table nearest the entrance (others were more or less filled up). And a moment later, a guy came in and sat by me.

Now, mind you, I have a unique looking hat, and he took note of it. Turns out that two years previously (the last time he'd be at SDCC), we'd chatted over coffee in the lounge one of the mornings. He remembered my hat and that I worked where I do. He said his wife remembered our previous chat, and where I worked. Heh. So, we continued chatting.

Now, keep in mind, I don't always ask names in such circumstance. (And you can't always see or read their names on their badges.) I just start talking with folks. So I'm chatting with him, without knowing his name. Then a couple of people came up to him to talk to him about something they were doing at the con that day. He politely said to me that he needed to talk with them, it was nice chatting with me again. All cool. Then, given the proximity, I couldn't help but hear what they were talking about. Duh.

Lowell Cunningham of Men in Black. Hee. A really nice guy, though.

[Shades0077]

I met the Enigma while standing in line at Best Buy. I was buying the animated Hellboy movie, and the guy behind me asks if it is any good. I turn around, and with nary a doubletake, see this guy.

http://www.dikenga.com/films/firecracker/photographs/castimages/the_enigma.jpg

So then we talked about Hellboy and Star Wars for a few minutes, since he was picking up the Original Trilogy boxset.

I had no idea who the guy was, but when we got out into the parking lot, my girlfriend explained to me how he is insanely popular in the tattoo circuit.

[Shisho]

Met Alan Tudyk (Wash from Firefly) at DragonCon in an elevator last year. Actually, several elevators, since all of us were in a crazy elevator that wouldn't go to the floor we wanted, so we had to switch. He's very funny, and very down to earth. This was after I saw Serenity, but before I saw the Firefly episodes (and thus, becoming a huge Browncoat), so I might have succeeded in not being too fangirly. :o

[Night Swordsman]

Met Alan Tudyk (Wash from Firefly) at DragonCon in an elevator last year. Actually, several elevators, since all of us were in a crazy elevator that wouldn't go to the floor we wanted, so we had to switch. He's very funny, and very down to earth. This was after I saw Serenity, but before I saw the Firefly episodes (and thus, becoming a huge Browncoat), so I might have succeeded in not being too fangirly. :o


Sorry,NOT a chance,Shisho. Your Fangirly 101%. :p

But it is a attractive feature!

[Shisho]

It's true. :o (He's pretty cute in RL too. Hee hee.)

[Night Swordsman]

It's true. :o (He's pretty cute in RL too. Hee hee.)

You ARE going to jump Nathan Fillion someday,huh? :D

[Hurricane]

I've run into Jerry Van Dyke (Luther from Coach) and Jermain Taylor (boxer) at Wal-Mart and Bill Clinton (the former President) at Taco Bell since they're all from around here. Clinton eats at the Bar-B-Que place a couple of blocks from here when he's in town. I've also met Keith Traylor (played for the Broncos) at a high school football game since I went to the same high school as him. And I see Gauge (famous porn star) at Wal-Mart all the time also since she lives near here. A guy I used to work with and used to be pretty good friends with dates her sister who I also used to work with and went to school with.

[Night Swordsman]

Bruce Campbell lives near where i do,and did a book signing back in '01,and Tobey and Kristen came to visit him during the signing(they were doing the first Spidey movie at the time). He also used to buy comics at my former LCS before it closed.

Also met Annette O'Toole,a few months after she did Stephen King's IT. She was really nice.


I really have a hard time meeting REAL people,much less famous ones. :p

[JamesRitcheyIII]

I met the Enigma while standing in line at Best Buy. I was buying the animated Hellboy movie, and the guy behind me asks if it is any good. I turn around, and with nary a doubletake, see this guy.



So then we talked about Hellboy and Star Wars for a few minutes, since he was picking up the Original Trilogy boxset.

I had no idea who the guy was, but when we got out into the parking lot, my girlfriend explained to me how he is insanely popular in the tattoo circuit.

I used to hang out with Katzen in Little Five Points, his ex-wife, before they got together.
http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m231/jamesritcheyiii/180px-Katzen1.jpg
She is a totally fine-looking, talented and sweet person.

[JamesRitcheyIII]

I've run into Jerry Van Dyke (Luther from Coach) and Jermain Taylor (boxer) at Wal-Mart and Bill Clinton (the former President) at Taco Bell since they're all from around here. Clinton eats at the Bar-B-Que place a couple of blocks from here when he's in town. I've also met Keith Traylor (played for the Broncos) at a high school football game since I went to the same high school as him. And I see Gauge (famous porn star) at Wal-Mart all the time also since she lives near here. A guy I used to work with and used to be pretty good friends with dates her sister who I also used to work with and went to school with.

Both Dick and Jerry Van Dyke were from Atlanta, originally--my dad went to West Fulton High School with Jerry, and knew Dick. Obviously, Jerry moved there later, though.

Random occurences of brushes with fame:

1. My sister was one of Julia Roberts' best friends in high school. She still owes my friend Clay (Space Ghost Coast to Coast) Croker a couple bucks for McDonald's.
2. My dad is an top-ranked insurance agent for State Farm. Clients have included Curtis (Superfly soundtrack) Mayfield, Paul (I Go Crazy) Davis, Nigel (drummer for Elton John) Olsson, and Jack (Mark Trail illustrator since 1963) Elrod.
3. Have hung out with too many famous actors, artists and writers for comics and screen to list at Dragon Con, but one of my favorites being Karen Black in 2000.
4. I met Jimmy (Invented Funk Guitar) Nolen's widow in 2001, in a rather shoddy area of South Atlanta, where I was living. Nolen was best known for his work in James Brown's band--the guitar you hear on any J.B song before 1973 IS Nolen.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

I met a guy who was friends with Paul Gulacy growing up at the library about 4 years ago.