Entries Tagged as ‘encounters with the famous’

December 23, 2008

In Which Jeremy Made Me Think Of Two Completely Unrelated Stories.

Inspired by this conversation, I will now share two stories with the internets:
1. I was down in LA for some training or something a few years back, and while I was at the airport waiting for my flight to board, I noticed a woman sitting across from me who looked pretty familiar, but I couldn’t [...]

April 15, 2008

In Which Goofy Is Better Than Pluto.

Another post inspired by a poll over at This or That?:
In September 2004 we took the boys to Disneyland with Grandma and Grandpa. We went a couple of weeks after school had started; Chester was 4 1/2 and Peanut was 9 months old. We drove (of course; The Wise One hates to fly and our [...]

March 17, 2008

In Which I Shake the Hand of Bono, or My Brief Encounter with Irish Politics, in Commemoration of St. Patrick’s Day.

One cool thing about working at a newspaper is that you never know who you might run into in the hallway. A few years back, Bono stopped by for a chat with the editorial board about his organization that promotes assistance for Africa. He was in town to meet with Bill Gates, who had given [...]