{"id":788,"date":"2008-09-08T14:25:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2008-09-08T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T18:25:06","slug":"celebrity-moments-bogus-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/celebrity-moments-bogus-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity Moments (Bogus Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I love finding new, really well-written blogs. But I don’t like using services like StumbleUpon and Technorati et al.<\/em> to find them. Many of my favorites I came to almost accidentally; someone comments astutely on someone else’s blog, for example, and I follow up the link from the commenter’s name, and lo, there I find a rich verdant pasture of daily commentary and\/or howling snarkery, or whatever.<\/p>\n

So it was that I landed on The Misssy M Misssives<\/a> (yes, those are triple S’s), subtitled “Stories from a Besom<\/span> and Blether<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

In particular, I landed there on a post from May<\/a>, entitled “David Bowie sold me a raffle ticket”:<\/p>\n

…in my life, it appears that I have met quite a few famous people. I thought I\u2019d list some of them for you for a laugh. They are all true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

True<\/em>. All right then. That’s interesting. And they are funny. (Likewise all the comments, in which visitors listed their own brushes with the notable.)<\/p>\n

(Note, though, that not all these celebrities will be familiar, capital-N Names on this side of the Atlantic — or maybe just on this side of 40-some years of age. Like, Christopher Lee? Sure. Even Roland Gift, whose name gave me a little ego puff because I knew who he was before she said so. But “Wet Wet Wet\u2019s Marty Pellow”? Sheesh.)<\/p>\n

I’ve got no “celebrity moments” to report at the moment. But I thought it might be entertaining (well, to one of us, anyhow) to riff on the idea of celebrity encounters which never actually happened…<\/p>\n

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Bumping Elbows<\/p>\n