The recent post about John Mayor got me thinking…uh oh
Anyways, I’m sure some celebrities surf the net, frequent chatrooms, etc. Has anyone (with reasonable assurance) actually “met” or run accross a celebrity online (i.e. in a chatroom)? I’m not talking about a forum featuring a certain celebrity…but just a regular encounter?
I was once in a chatroom with Michael Petrelis, once-seemingly sage and now complete wack-job AIDS activist.
Also once in a room with Michelangelo Signorele, author and nationally-syndicated columnist.
Do they count as “celebrities”?
Robert Hunter, long-time collaborator with Jerry Garcia and lyricist for the Grateful Dead, kept up a regular appearance on a Dead-related chat that I used to participate in. He also kept up a email correspondence 'til it just got a bit too much.
Not exactly AAA celebrity status, but I once chatted with Alison “Nellie Olsen” Arngrim online. She’s very nice, very intelligent, and very very funny.
I got a one sentence e-mail once from Gore Vidal thanking me for some photographs I sent him immediately after the 10 Commandments statue was erected in Montgomery, AL. According to latest conversions, one sentence from Gore Vidal equals thirteen sentences from Dean Koontz but only one character from Kurt Vonnegut.
well, John Betancourt (writer) and Eric Wujick (game designer) are members of my Amber board. I got to be a proofreader for John’s upcoming book and love chatting with both of them on the board and in email.
Kevin Smith posts on comic forums (and his own) all the time.
Hmm, I posted a thread in a Usenet group about this book I’d gotten from a massive pile of used books. It was the second in a series and I asked if anyone had read the series or even heard of this guy. And then a few days later, I got an email from the guy!
I’ve Trade emails with Wil Wheaton.
I’ve also chatted with plenty of comic book creators through message boards, like Joe Quesada, Steve Lieber, and Barry Windso-Smith.
And I interviewed Chris Giarrusso for a column at tangmonkey.com. He does those “Bullpen Bits” cartoons for Marvel.
And Gore Vidal has kissed more boys than you.
Patricia C. Wrede and S.M. Stirling (fantasy writers) probably don’t count as real celebrities, exactly, but they post/used to post on the sf newsgroups. I was totally in love with Wrede’s writing from a young age, so that was pretty cool. I think there were a few more ‘real’ writers posting there, but I can’t remember any. Brenda Clough, maybe. Terry Pratchett also posts in his own newsgroup and Lois McMaster Bujold posts on her mailing list.
I’ve read that a couple of times here- what is it from? (I could use google but I’m lazy.)
Okay- I googled- will that show never cease to amaze?
I have emailed with a couple authors… whether they are celebrities or not I don’t know: Steven Saylor and Christopher Moore.
I have also traded emails with Keith “Keef” Knight who draws the indy comic The “K” Chronicles. He’s a hoot.
I am on Keef’s and Steven Saylor’s mailing lists as well.
Before he died, Douglas Adams used to post and chat on his site’s web boards. Since he died, we haven’t heard anything, but it would be silly to give up hope.
I conversed with a number of SF authors: Michael Flynn, Nancy Kress, Kim Newman, Harry Turtledove, S.M. Stirling, Patricia Wrede.
James Woods would occasionally drop in on AOL chat rooms. I know it was him because he participated in a couple of official celebrity appearances using the same screen name. I had a long chat with him about Ernest Borgnine (of all people) once.
He would leave when idiots started asking about Sean Young.
This year I sold a page of original Green Lantern comic book art I picked up nearly 20 years ago, listing it on eBay. To my delight, i got a nice e-mail from the artist, Alex Saviuk, who just wanted to share that he’d been cruising eBay and was tickled to see his own name. I forwarded the content of the e-mail to the buyer, as a nifty little additional twist to her purchase.
Have also had e-mail correspondance with Jack and Carole Bender, husband and wife artist and writer team on comic strip Alley Oop on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the strip earlier this month. They consented as well to a phone interview and were thoroughly warm and delightful.
That said, I am in awe of Little Nemo’s circle of correspondents.
Oh yea, and Anne McCafferey (sp. I’m sure) used to answer email (she may still!). I was tickled to send her a question I had about the Pern series and get back a personal response.
Paul Kantner (guitarist of Jefferson Airplane) used to post at a Jefferson Airplane newsgroup that I belonged to.
George R.R. Martin, author of “A Song of Ice and Fire” would converse through email with his fans, but he’s been busy on the latest ASOIAF book lately.
I’ve talked with Chris Claremont and Kurt Busiek on online comics venues. Claremont visits the ComiX-Fan board and Busiek (such a nice fellow!) used to frequent the Alvaro boards.