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Writer's Block: Starstruck
Dec. 10th, 2011 09:53 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I met Tony Danza (Taxi, Who's the Boss?) when I was fourteen. He said I had beautiful eyes.
I've also met author Patricia Briggs (The Mercy Thompson Series) a couple of times. She used to live across the street from where I worked, so it wasn't uncommon, especially on game night, for the whole Briggs clan to shlep on over to get drinks and snacks for the night. The first time I met her (before I knew that she was a best selling author, heh), her son Collin was glommed on to me. She thought it was hilarious. I saw her a several times after that, and then the family moved to Montana for a bit. They've since moved back to the area, and I attended a book signing at our local (and only) Barnes and Noble right after Bone Crossed was released (that's the fourth book in the series, BTW).
I've also met Marcos Avila, a former member of the Miami Sound Machine and husband of Cristina Saralegui (you know, she's Oprah but Cuban). I went to a taping of The Christina Show just before my senior year in high school, and because my dad did the lighting for the show (as in he sold them the lighting equipment and then worked with the lighting director in order to create the show's lighting design), we got to attend for free and entered via employee entrance. There are perks to your father working in the industry - he's friendly with the studio's manager and owner (the manager was a very nice gentleman but I cannot for the life of me remember his name, and Marcos, along with Cristina, own the studio where the show was shot and my father worked with them frequently before he retired).
My brother got real friendly with Paulina Rubia's mother when my dad was working on the lighting for the stage in Paulina's house. He met Paulina herself a few times, but from what I heard, she was a class A bitch.
I met Tony Danza (Taxi, Who's the Boss?) when I was fourteen. He said I had beautiful eyes.
I've also met author Patricia Briggs (The Mercy Thompson Series) a couple of times. She used to live across the street from where I worked, so it wasn't uncommon, especially on game night, for the whole Briggs clan to shlep on over to get drinks and snacks for the night. The first time I met her (before I knew that she was a best selling author, heh), her son Collin was glommed on to me. She thought it was hilarious. I saw her a several times after that, and then the family moved to Montana for a bit. They've since moved back to the area, and I attended a book signing at our local (and only) Barnes and Noble right after Bone Crossed was released (that's the fourth book in the series, BTW).
I've also met Marcos Avila, a former member of the Miami Sound Machine and husband of Cristina Saralegui (you know, she's Oprah but Cuban). I went to a taping of The Christina Show just before my senior year in high school, and because my dad did the lighting for the show (as in he sold them the lighting equipment and then worked with the lighting director in order to create the show's lighting design), we got to attend for free and entered via employee entrance. There are perks to your father working in the industry - he's friendly with the studio's manager and owner (the manager was a very nice gentleman but I cannot for the life of me remember his name, and Marcos, along with Cristina, own the studio where the show was shot and my father worked with them frequently before he retired).
