I’ve met a crapload of famous people, they just weren’t famous when I met them. We were all kids at High School for Performing and Visual Arts. When I was a freshman, Mireille Enos, Justin Furstenfeld, and Jason Moran were seniors. Then, when I was a sophomore, that’s when Robert Glasper was in my history class.
I have met President George H. W. Bush at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, where I talked to him the entire time about being the former director of CIA. I could care less that he had been president. He was amused.
Knowing President Bush from church allowed me to joke with Jonna Mendez, former Chief of Disguise at CIA, that we had “mutual friends” (I spent a grand total of three minutes with the man).
I helped Brene Brown learn how to use Microsoft Word when she was a graduate student/teaching assistant at University of Houston, long before she ever appeared on YouTube.
I met Anne Lamott and Wil Wheaton at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon.
And I’ve met me.
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