unimportant celebrity(?) sightings throughout my life…
- molested by Balki - Bronson Pinchot (it’s a funny story, actually, ask me about it sometime.)
- Daryl Strawberry came as a speaker for D.A.R.E. while i was in 2nd grade
- Fritz Coleman, weatherman extraordinaire, lives in Glendale and hosts the Academic Bowl and does comedy(!) at various local events
- the girl who played Vicki in Small Wonder went to my elementary school
- Kelsey Grammer…and his daughter went to my elementary as well. She’s on that show Greek or whatever that nobody watches.
- the dad from Fresh Prince…in the car next to ours. Mercedes, yo.
- Joey Lawrence and his bro Matthew (my OMG FAVORITE) while on a family vacation to Hawaii - 5th grade. I got my dad to go get Joey’s autograph for me.
- In 7th grade, my jr high filled out the most “KIIS FM IS #1” index cards that we won a concert with Immature, Brandy, and Coolio. I filled out not one index card.
- The Sandlot dudes: passed main kid Mike Vitar on the street and the fat redhead freckly kid lived 2 blocks away.
- DonkeyLips from Salute Your Shorts worked at some store at CityWalk.
- A bunch of obnoxious TV show tapings as fundraisers for school clubs and stuff: Hollywood Squares and mindless game show stuff. Tom Bergeron.
- Jamba Juice - 1st job: Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine after he played some Bball at the YMCA nearby, Brandy-what a bitch, that black lady Debra Wilson from MADtv- annoying.
- going to sets with Pops - Cheers, Dear John, Seinfeld, Becker, etc. Nicest people included fuckin’ Norm, Putty, and the Hepcat guy from Swingers…and Ted Danson….let me drive is electric car….before i had a license.
- Tek from the Real World Hawaii played at the “Celebrity” Basketball game at school. Real fame.
- Fuckin’ TOM SIZEMORE, smoking meth out of a bong because we happened to be at the same place at the same time (uuuhhhhhh, the dealer was my weed connect!!!). His girlfriend asked me to cut her bangs, and I was like WTF will happen if I fuck them up? (True story, despite its peculiarity. Thems were strange days.)
- Erika Christensen cuz I worked at a salon owned by a Scientologist.
- Mila Kunis came into the clothing store on Melrose that I worked at when I was 18. They’d buy their clothes in Koreatown and mark it up like 4 times its worth. She knew my Russian coworker and they went on being Russian with each other.
- Fuckin’ Parker Lewis came into this little coffee shop I worked at and was all kinds of skeevy.
- Dana Gould, write for The Simpsons, checked me out at the Starbucks on Laurel Canyon and Ventura. Obviously I recognize the most obscure people.
- Shannon Sossoman smoking American Spirits and being all hipstery at the Coffee Bean in Los Feliz.
- I’m sure there’s so many more.
Please realize this is in no way name dropping or bragging. Who fucking namedrops The Small Wonder?
