I remember her; drop-dead freakin’ gorgeous.
I’ve posted about this here before, but it has been a few years now.
I used to work at an ISP with a fellow named Matt Chapman. We were friends. Drinking and socializing within groups would happen on occasion. I’d probably be safe in still calling us friends, except for the fact that he and his brother have been so busy for the past few years with their little flash animation site (http://homestarrunner.com), that I haven’t been in touch since he quit his “real job” to go have fun and become an internet legend.
Hi Matt 
My daughter worked with Michelle Trachtenberg on a show before she went off to do her first movie. We had dinner with her and her mother several times, and the kids played school together during breaks from filming. (The shoot was in a school, and the kids got classrooms as dressing rooms.) She had charisma to spare. She stood out, even in a bunch of professionals.
Oh yeah. I still remember the day she asked me if I was seeing anyone, and was I interested in dating. You can imagine the hearty Oh Hell Yeah! I gave her. She then tried to set me up with her not so hot friend. You could actually hear my heart breaking.
But she was cool. A shared first experience for us was taking a song we co-wrote into the studio.
Interesting story, in light of your romantic frustrations. After that, everything is downhill.
I didn’t know him from Adam, but I did go to the same junior high school as Snoop Doggy Dogg.
John Oates was my guitar teacher when I was a wee teeny-bopper, years before Hall and Oates. He was only playing acoustic back then and he was an awesome guitarist. Not a bad teacher, either.
You should have seen the coeds that were hitting on me the other night. Woah. Whatever I had that night, I want it back. 
Karen was great. Normally the hot girls in high school are really stuck up and cliquish. They don’t want to be associated with the poor schlubs, geeks, nerds, and losers. Karen wasn’t like that. She was friends with everybody. She didn’t have a single enemy. My first day in that new school, I was kind of scared. The only person I knew there was my sister. I walked into chorus and looked at all the strange faces, with nobody looking at the new kid, and I felt lost. Karen walked in and gave me a nice big smile. Made me feel right at home.
John Prine is a legend.
Joey McIntyre used to hang out in my neighborhood. He’s about four years younger than me, so we weren’t really friends but we knew each other. He was always clean-cut and a good kid. I’ve seen him a few times in the last decade and it’s like the New Kids never happened - he’s just a good, normal guy.
I’m not going to drop his name, but I’ve known the lead singer of a popular rock band for about 20 years, long before he was famous. It’s funny to read interviews with him because nearly everything he says in them is a lie. Even though he’s very successful and doesn’t need the money I insist on buying my own ticket when I go to his shows, but since I get an all-access pass I don’t even need a ticket. He appreciates the gesture because so many people want to sponge off him.
I want to know where you were. And is it large enough to hold a dopefest.
You’ve posted about that before, although I’d forgotten it was you. Any idea whatever happened to her?
The best I can contribute to this thread is someone my dad served with in the Air Force. He then got transferred to a diplomatic post. The Embassy in Tehran. After the release, he moved back to the area and lived on my paper route.
I went to grade school with 2006 Mr Olympia, Jay Cutler.
Where, in Jamaica Plain?
I used to live ridiculously close to his family a few years back. I used to say hi to his sister on the train all the time.
The oldest community theatre in the US is in that neighborhood. It is largely supported by private donations. The McIntyre family was its biggest contributors. Hence, the sister got all the good roles in the plays.
I met Joey when they were doing a big fundraiser thing. He got up and sang Gary Indiana.
Not to mention Clean! (Sorry, somebody had to say it!)
In junior high/high school, I was in a couple of children’s theater productions with Kathy Mattea. She had a set of pipes even then.
I babysat for Little Danny Richardson of Crumbsucker and Pro-pain heavy metal fame and Little Robby Weiss director, writer and producer. Danny was a great kid and I understand grew up to be a stand up guy. Robby was a little snot and I have heard hasn’t changed much.
City Side in Brighton. The bar is probably not big enough, but the restaurant is nice. No guarantee that those particular girls will be there, though.
But it’s not the bar. It’s the neighborhood. BC girlz is teh hawt.
According to IMDB she was in an episode of Dragnet four years ago. She’s still acting, but no way she’s making a living at it. Her name is also listed as Karen Waldron, so I’m guessing she’s married.
No, Brighton. We had a lot of mutual friends who went to CM (Catholic Memorial, for those not from Boston).
I could give you my cell number. Next time you’re in such a predicament, instant dopefest!
The only people who will know who I am talking about will be parents of tweens, but alas!
I was in high school debate with Zac Efron. We went to different schools, but because debate is a sort of traveling event, we hung out a few times.
In high school, he was a cute kid-- all of the girls used to go on and on about how I had to OMG MEET ZAC EFRON! Personally, I didn’t think he was all that hot (I preferred, and still do prefer, more manly looking men), but he ended up being an incredibly nice guy. Friendly to everyone, very personable, and very funny.
He and his duo partner won, I think, 4th place in the State that year and after seeing the final round, I was convinced they had taken the entire tournament. They were amazing and honestly, probably some of the best interpers I’ve ever seen.
Everyone loved Zac, he was just such a friggin’ nice guy.
In the mid-80s, in Buffalo, NY, I was part of a theater internship group for the city’s ‘Shakespeare In the Park’ along with Jessie Martin.
Also in Buffalo, I saw Ani Difranco perform several times at a bar called “Nietzche’s” before she became an alt-rock sensation. Funny thing, even though her performances were great, I’d pretty much forgotten about her for a while. Then, a friend ‘introduced’ me to Ani via tapes she loaned me. I was listening to these tapes for almost a year before I went to see her in concert ‘for the first time’ and realized I’d seen her play several times already!
Nietzche’s is also locally famous because the band 10,000 Maniacs played shows there before they were famous, although that was a little before my time. All the people I know that did happen to see them agree that while the guys in that band were great, Natalie Merchant was a snooty b****. The usual cover charge to get in to see a band was about $2.00 at that time, the Maniacs always insisted on $5.00 - which irked a lot of folks.