Celebrities and mrtl

I recently discovered Mamaramma and in checking out her site more tonight during my restlessness, I am trying so hard not to laugh aloud. Mister mrtl and Bug and BOTH cats (this is rare - they're usually up with me and mow-ing) are asleep, and it would not be pretty if I woke them up. I'd tell Mamaramma this, but Blooger is acting up again.

Anyway, a post from yesterday (March 24, 2005 - I can't link directly to it) was about all these celebrity sightings she has had. Very impressive! I thought I'd do the same, considering I can't sleep and have nothing else to do.

I'll have to categorize these, not because it would be too confusing with the mass amount of sightings I've had, but because I am anal like that.

Actual Sightings

• Sterling Riggs from San Angelo's own KLST TV, Channel 5 (the CBS station we no longer get because of the Cox/Nexstar war, but I won't get into that. What I will get into is how I googled "Sterling Riggs" to find this link and I wonder if Sterling has ever done the same. There is quite the collection of Sterling Riggs, including the one convicted of murder in Sterling Riggs v. State of Indiana, the one who participated in the Night of 100 Elvises and other events - dude gets around, and the football player at Harding University -- but wait -- that is this Sterling Riggs! How dreamy!) I met Sterling Riggs at a party hosted by mister mrtl's classmate a couple years ago. Sterling showed up, supposedly straight from his gig at the station. His hair was perfect (think Ken doll plastic), and strangely enough, his untucked Oxford looked like it had been ironed, with no creases whatsoever. He was a very nice young man who didn't mind sitting on the exercise ball since there were no other seats available.
• Jim Perdue of the chicken Perdues, during his heyday when he was starring in all those commercials. My friend and I were at BWI to pick up her parents when we saw him. To me, no big deal. She was dumbstruck and wouldn't stop gawking at him. I was disturbed by her reaction.
• Update: Thomas "Tom G Warrior" Fischer of Celtic Frost. How could I have forgotten Tom?? A friend of mine dated him briefly, and mister mrtl and I went out to dinner with them once. Mister mrtl thought this was Very Odd, as he listened to Celtic Frost (going back into the 80's now) and owns several CDs and at least one video of a live performance (which I did share with my friend to my amusement). Tom doesn't have the big 80's hair anymore, although if memory serves me correctly, he did wear eyeliner.

Famous People With Whom I've Spoken
All of these incidents occurred while I worked at various answering services during college. To protect their privacy, I won't give any details as to whom they were calling. I'm cool like that.

• Troy Aikman - He called me "hon" with his cute southern accent and I swooned.
• Marty Bass - He called me "hon" with his annoying Baltimoron accent and I almost puked.
• Connie Chung - I called her "Connie Po Bitch" because she wasn't enunciating very well. You would expect a top reporter to be clear, wouldn't you, and also to make sure the facts were straight? She wouldn't spell her name for me! She just kept repeating "Po-bitch, Po-bitch" and getting quite annoyed with me, like I was the moron. Pshaw - she needed to get her head out of her ass and put Maury on the phone. He's respectable and quite a good listener, too.

Famous People of Whom I've Touched Possessions

• Marty Friedman (lamp) - My parents bought the house next door to Marty's parents' house, where Marty grew up. By the time we moved in, Marty had already left to seek his fortune, which in time included Megadeth. One day right before I was moving to an apartment for college, Marty's mom had a yard sale. This wasn't a real friendly neighborhood; we had never met them. Anyway, I took a walk over and introduced myself. Mind you at the time I had no clue Marty Friedman had lived next door or that this was his mother, and if I did, I would have asked who the hell Marty Friedman was (I didn't learn about him till I met my husband, metal head and former cute mullet-wearer that he is). So I'm looking at the stuff they're selling, and I see this wonderfully ugly lamp. The base was entirely covered with cork, and being the anal, organized person that I am, I instantly saw this as a message board that my roommate and I could use. It could sit next to the phone and we could put push pins on it! I paid Mrs. Friedman the 50-cent going price and left a very happy customer. After learning about Marty and my secret treasure -- maybe his, maybe not, but most certainly touched and used by him, -- I stubbornly held onto this lamp. It wasn't until mister mrtl and I were downsizing in preparation for our move to Texas that I finally decided it was time for the lamp to find a happier home. There was a college kid at my office. He liked metal. He liked Megadeth. He knew who Marty Friedman is. He got the lamp. I still think I could have made a killing with that on eBay.
• Michael Damian (sweat) - A friend and I scalped front row seats to see Sheena Easton, who did sing "Sugarwalls" and "Morning Train." Michael opened for her, and worked up quite a sweat as he danced his cute little ass all over the stage. At some point, he waggled his wig, ever so slightly, stunning effect. We were sprayed. We swooned.
• President Clinton (doorstop from the basement bathroom by the bowling alley) - Ok, now I hope in blogging this I'm not going to have secret service agents surrounding my house. IT IS NO LONGER IN MY POSSESSION! And who can blame me? I get to go to the White House and they don't give me some token souvenir? That's just wrong! I thought they'd at least hand out cigars.

Comments

[kalki]

So many things to say about this post I must number them:

1. "Connie Po Bitch" made me laugh so hard I peed a little.

2. That corkboard lamp makes total sense to me! I mean really, what makes MORE sense than a lamp that sits next to your phone that can have phone messages pushed into its base? NOTHING, that's what.

3. The "Of Whom I've Touched Possesions" category was funny enough, but then the items you listed! "Sweat" - pwwaahh haaa! "Doorstop from the basement bathroom by the bowling alley" - pwwahh haa haaa haaa haaa!

4. The doorstop is NO LONGER IN YOUR POSSESSION?! First you get rid of the lamp and then the doorstop? Where were you thinking?

5. Whatever cool stuff you decide to toss while packing for Alaska, I want it all.

[Colleen from NJ]

quite impresive! hmmmm....who... well, about 10 years ago, i assisted on a surgery for a well-known actor from that show from the 70's where someone used to say "dy-no-mite!". I think HIPPA laws prohibits me from being any more specific. that pretty much sums up my brush with fame.

the connie po bitch story cracks me up!

[mrtl]

Kalki, reading about you peeing just a little made me run for the bathroom before I peed just a little. I WILL NOT have a repeat of the peeing just a little. (Bucky 4 Eye's talk of braiding her nipple hair caused that the first time, and I've been traumatized by it, especially when mister mrtl found my rinsed, still wet undies in his sink and I blurted out the whole ugly story.)

Colleen, it's too bad you're a professional. I'm sure we would have been very amused making up fun quotes relative to the character you named.

[Busy Mom]

Emmylou Harris used to be my neighbor and I've met Garth Brooks. That's about it. Certainly not "People" magazine worthy :(

[Mamaramma]

Fun! I've never actually touched anything a celeb has touched... that I know of, but now that it's a new category, I'm going to seek it out.
I forgot to mention that I once talked to David Lowery from Cracker on the phone. I was actually calling for Adam Duritz at the hotel they were staying at while playing at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis. I wanted to call Adam and profess my love and to tell him that he WAS beautiful (this was when "Mr.Jones" just came out in which he sang, "Man I wish I was beautiful". Adam wasn't there, so I asked for the next best thing. David answered, and I stammered, "Hi, I think your band is really great, and I'm a big fan." He hung up on me. Go figure!
OH - and also at Mississippi Nights, a friend and I saw Blues Traveler when we were 16, and found them smoking up behind the venue afterwards. We got a picture with the band that I'd scan, but I don't have a scanner!
Sorry to ramble on!

[mrtl]

What, Busy Mom, Emmylou didn't have any stalkers? Peeping Toms? Where's the fun in having a celebrity neighbor if there's no harrassment?

Mamaramma, Adam's looking pretty harsh these days. Did you see his coverage at Go Fug Yourself? And who does Lowery think he is, hanging up on a random fan calling his hotel room? Blues Traveler wouldn't have hung up on you. They're cool like that.

With the music discussion, you have reminded me of one of the most important celebrities I have met -- and even had dinner with -- that I didn't add to my list. I must go now and update.