I Want You to Want a Picture with Me
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
It’s always a spectacular day when I get to meet a member of one of the Big 7 bands, even if I had already met them before. In this case, I had once actually met the entire band Cheap Trick way back in 1992, and even had them all sign my CD of Dream Police. I had gotten multiple autographs of guitarist Rick Nielsen, and lead singer Robin Zander had scrawled his signature on a piece of Cheap Trick artwork that I had made in art class an brought along to hold up during the show. The entire experience was spectacular, and had I been able to actually locate the photos I took (fingers crossed that they will eventually turn up among my junkpile…er, archives), you’ll hear much more about the whole experience. Read the rest of this entry »
OK, I’m being totally honest here. Sure, I can use Google, Wikipedia, and the imdb like a pro, and I knew one day I’d get around to it. But at the time that I met Mamie Van Doren at the Hollywood Show on April 20, 2013, the only thing I knew for sure about her was that there was no way that Mamie Van Doren was her real name. And yet I was perfectly willing to shell out $20 to get a signed photo of her that included a free photo op with both Carolyn and me. Why, you might ask? Because her name sounded so exotic and familiar that I just knew she had to be somebody. 
I had long looked forward to meeting Erin Murphy, who was best known as the actress who played Tabitha from 1966-1972 on the TV sitcom Bewitched. And when 
It’s a shame that Jeremy London hasn’t done more professionally that has interested me, because he’s actually done quite a bit. I was never into I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, or 7th Heaven TV series, but I now they’ve all had quite a following. My interest in him was pretty much restricted to his role in Mallrats in which he had second billing as T.S. Quint. He also starred in the epic Gods and Generals, which although generally panned by critics, is a massive prequel to the acclaimed Gettysburg. Yet it still goes back to Mallrats, and that’s why I made sure to meet him when he appeared at the Chiller Theatre show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on October 27, 2012.