bela fleck and the flecktones.
and, the creosote kid, two guitars signed by jay farrar? i am your newest fan!!! uncle tupelo rocks!!!
hi, devilsknew!
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BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON! Thats right! I got 'em both! On the same picture! And it’s even written personally to me! I know ya’ll are jealous!
And I also got autographs from all the band members of the group Pillar. They’re not very well known, but I think that has a lot to do with their level of talent.
Wait for it…wait for it…
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON! Thats right! I got 'em both! On the same picture! And it’s even written personally to me! I know ya’ll are jealous!
And I also got autographs from all the band members of the group Pillar. They’re not very well known, but I think that has a lot to do with their level of talent.
Wait for it…wait for it…
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON! Thats right! I got 'em both! On the same picture! And it’s even written personally to me! I know ya’ll are jealous!
And I also got autographs from all the band members of the group Pillar. They’re not very well known, but I think that has a lot to do with their level of talent.
Wait for it…wait for it…
BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON! Thats right! I got 'em both! On the same picture! And it’s even written personally to me! I know ya’ll are jealous!
And I also got autographs from all the band members of the group Pillar. They’re not very well known, but I think that has a lot to do with their level of talent.
Damn! Quadra-post! I think thats a new record.
Waiting for it…
I have a beer coaster somewhere signed by former Norwegian heavy metal band Artch’s singer, Eric Hawk. I drank a lot with him that night and the coaster says something funny and rude, can’t remember what.
Is John Reger a celebrity? Hell of a nice guy anyway, and he gave me a signed photo so I assume he must be famous somewhere…
I could have a lot more but I’ve never really seen the point of having autographs, unless they are a part of a good drinking story (like the coaster). Björk lives just around the corner from me and I bump into her a few times a month but asking her for an autograph would just feel awkward…
Maybe not, but I have to brag about finding Pauline Kael’s signature in one of her review collections. The bookstore owner hadn’t even realized it was there. He was gracious enough to sell me the book at the stated price anyway. (And I was ungracious enough not to offer more.)
I’m so embarrassed that I don’t really know the answer to this . . . but I think it’s Buzz Aldrin. Would he have talked to a Cub Scout troop in northern Illinois in the Eighties? In any case, I have a picture of the lunar module on the surface of the Moon, and it’s signed by whichever astronaut it is whom I met. I really do think it’s Buzz Aldrin, though. I wish I knew where that picture was, right now (probably in a box in my parents’ basement, attic, or garage).
I have a few other famous signatures, though not on pictures. I have a book signed by Leonard Elmore and the autographs of a couple athletes. I also have a letter sent to me by Governor Bill Clinton telling me what a good job I did in school. That’s cool, I guess.
My brother has a great item: an unopened six pack of BILLY beer (I never tasted it but I’ve heard it’s one of the worst beers ever brewed) signed by Billy Carter. My father bought it on a trip through Plains, GA ca. 1978.
I have a bottle of Kurt’s Mile High Malt, a beer brewed by the Wynkoop featuring a label designed by and an old family recipe belonging to Kurt Vonnegut. (The Vonneguts were brewers in the 19th/early 20th century.) I would LOVE to have it autographed by him but I’ve never been able to reach him and there are legal issues about sending a bottle of beer through the mail.
I have a few signed books. Anthony Bourdaine, Wally Lewis, Mark Waugh, Bryce Courtenay.
I had a signed photo of Julius Caesar but it turned out to be a fake …it was signed Julius Caesar 53BC.
I’ve got an autographed Simpsons drawing - signed by **Matt Groening, Dan Castellaneta, Harry Shearer, Julie Kavner, Pamela Hayden, Hank Azaria, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Tress Mac Neille, **and Marcia Wallace (who in fact handed it to me as a gift).
Minnie Minoso of the White Sox. Ran in to him a few times after the autograph. A very pleasant guy.
Entirely too many books by Neil Gaiman
(including a copy of Sandman #1, signed and doodled upon)
Terry Pratchett
Yoshitaka Amano
Robert Fulghum
Orson Scott Card
Patrick Troughton
Peter Davison
Colin Baker
Sylvester McCoy
Louise Jameson (raar!)
Last, but not least: Bob Lurtsema (sp?)
Well, I have then-General Montgomery outside my bathroom. He’s landing in Sicily in '43. How about those knees? How could the Germans take such punishment?
Here’s Battle of Britain hero Douglas Bader, who flew a Spitfire, despite having lost both his legs years before.
And, while not a photo, this is a group of medal ribbons that I inherited from an old medal collector who was a good friend; he put together hundered of what he called “famous chests” back in the 1950s: he would send off to a famous person to ask what medals they were entitled to, and then make up a set of the ribbons, and ask them to sign it. Most did, and he had a remarkable collection.
This is Odette (Sanson) Churchill, secret agent and hero of the French Resistance. Captured by the Gestapo, tortured, she refused to talk, and was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp; scheduled for execution, she was rescued by the arrival of American troops within days of her scheduled sentence. Awarded the George Cross, Britain’s highest award for “non-combatants.” A very remarkable woman.
A little more bio on Odette, who deserves to be better-known:
http://www.64-baker-street.org/agents/agent_fany_odette_hallowes.html
I went through a frenzy of fan-letter writing when I was in high school, and have autographed (OK, maybe by their secretaries) photos of: Lillian Gish, Anita Page, Doris Eaton, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Mary Astor, Blanche Sweet, Gloria Swanson, Aileen Pringle, Erte . . .
Jerry Garcia (I’m standing on my head beside him - he’s got a completely straight look on his face, even though he was laughing his ass off. The HUGE joint he’s holding in his hand may explain that).
Brian May and John Deacon from Queen (My brother was a bellman at the Omni Hotel in Norfolk when they played the Scope in 1977. I’m not sure, but I think my brother and Freddie Mercury had sex).
Kay Graham, publisher of the Washington Post. A very, very gracious woman.
Ronald Reagan. As a yellow-dog, liberal Democrat I felt compelled to hang this one in the bathroom; however, it is in a nice frame.
Oops, forgot to add that my boss (who’s office is right next door) has three autographed albums framed and hanging on his wall:
Sketches of Spain - Miles Davis
Have Trumpet, Will Excite - Dizzy Gillespie
Think of One - Wynton Marsallis
Which, I think, is very, very cool.
I have a picture autographed by Tom Gorman (major league baseball umpire). There are a couple of other people in the picture, including Leo Durocher and a pitcher whose name I don’t remember but who Mr. Gorman was yelling at (all names are mentioned in the caption; I just can’t remember).
Mr. Gorman gave a talk at my school when I was about 9 or 10 but I was sick and couldn’t attend. My Dad went to the talk and since he knew Mr. Gorman from his stays in the motel my Dad managed, Mr. Gorman agreed to come to the house to meet and talk with me. He brought his son, Brian, who was about my age. What a nice, nice man.