Celebrity Magnet

Notlob is my celebrity magnet. I am convinced of it. It seems like when she comes to town for a visit, we have some strange celebrity sightings. By now, you have all enjoyed the story of how she rescued me from myself in Sephora before I could approach a woman I was convinced was a friend of mine. She actually stood in front of me and physically blocked me from walking over to her. It was enough to snap me out of my trance-like condition to wonder if perhaps I was making a mistake? Sadly, not only was this woman no friend of mine, it was a rather sad commentary on my social life. But I digress…

On her latest visit, we decided to take in a magic show. I’m not real big on these types of things, but what the heck? Plus, we decided to see Penn and Teller, so if nothing else, it was sure to have some nice sarcasm thrown in which is always appreciated. Turns out, the show was pretty darn good. These are no bullshit kind of guys and they revealed the secrets behind a couple of tricks. Cool. And, in an unexpected twist, they were available outside the theater after the show for pictures and autographs. Here’s where it got a bit more interesting. We had a camera with us. No, it wasn’t a digital camera. Unfortunately, we had used up the last of the film before the show started taking goofy pictures such as this.

Had we known we were going to have some picture opportunities after the show, we would have planned accordingly. Then inspiration struck. We had seen their Saturday show. They also had shows on Sunday. Since we assumed they followed the same routine, we decided to come back the following night to get our pictures and autographs. Ok, so it wasn’t exactly a scenario out of Mission Impossible, but we were pretty pleased with ourselves for thinking of it. The next night we came back to the theater and waited in the hallway around the time the show was supposed to be ending. Sure enough a few minutes later, Penn appeared. And totally spotted us. Looked right at us. THIS is why I don’t play poker. I’m sure I had a guilty look written on my face. Ah well. We decided to hold back a bit and hopefully just blend in with the crowd. So we went to Teller first. What a total sweetheart. Here is my picture with him. Cutie-patootie.

Then it was time to face the music and go back to Penn. No way I was getting my picture taken with him. That was Notlob’s thing. He was super. Called her “Boss.” Both guys were super nice and very gracious to the crowd.

Now that piece wasn’t really so much a celebrity magnet story, but just another opportunity for me to post more pictures of myself. Shameless, I know. Besides, we sort of stalked them. But I do have another relevant story. Notlob and I were at the UPS store getting ready to ship some of her things home. While we were in the store, there was an older man there as well. I really didn’t pay that much attention to him, to be honest. He reminded me of JJ Walker from Good Times, but that was about it. I didn’t think anything about it. So, we get her box sent and head out. As soon as we get out of the store, she asks me if I recognized JJ Walker in there. Huh! How funny was that? I told her that’s who he reminded me of, but I didn’t really think it was him. She thought it was. I keep forgetting to ask my UPS guy if he knew. It probably was. I can’t wait for her to come back for another visit. Vince Neil is around here somewhere, I know it!