When Nice Famous People Write You Back

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I get lots of nice emails from the singer of that ever so lovely beat combo Tugboat ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 2 June 2003 22:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not exactly famous and not mailing me back coz i didn't mail them but i got a nice message from dj speedranch the other day after posting something on a thread about him a while ago!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I woke up to an e-mail that made my day this morning, after posting my Magnetic Fields article

url?

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

As a kid I used to collect autographs. When I wrote to Benny Hill I didn't just get the usual generic signed photo, I got a letter and a personally signed photo. Still have the photo but I'm sure someone at my primary school stole the letter.

When about 3 my brother really liked David Icke for some reason (he was on BBC Breakfast time at that point (David Icke, not my brother)). My mum helped him write to ask for a signed photo. Not only did he get a signed photo but he also got a Ladybird children's book about counting or the alphabet or something that he also signed. Always thought that was really nice of him.

― mms (mms), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Spot is the dog. See Spot run.

"Run, Spot," says Dick. "Run, Spot," says Dora.

Run, Spot, run.

See Spot's blood. Dick is a lizard.

"Drink blood now," says Dick. "Arrrgh, grfffllfbBBLLfh," says Dora.

Drink, lizard, drink. Dick licks his chops.

The world is ours. Tremble, world, tremble.

(— "A must read": David Icke. "Important": Harold Pinter)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 09:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha ha ha... his tv presenting career was pre-turquise shellsuits and the Wogan debacle tho Mark! Looking at flat in your yard tonight btw! I got signed photo of Les Battersby (straight outta Corrie) after telling a friend who works at Granada TV that he rocked... i would have loved a Benny Hill autograph... a king of British comedy if ever there was one... have several records of him... v funny.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

margo harshman, aka tawny dean of disney's 'even stevens' fame.

err...i mean nothing.

― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 10:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

dave q of the brazen hussies!!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

i once got an email from bobby seale, founder of the black panthers. i was studying liberal democracies for a level history, and we decided to do some hands on research. i found his site and wrote some deathly socialist nonsense about peddling barbeques being incompatible with the Struggle. he wrote back, telling me that "one must do more than just scratch the surface." "fuck me!," i thought, "i just got an email from bobby seale!"

― matthew james (matthew james), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago) link

GRILL SHILLAZ!! < / ancient ilxor in-jokes >

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 12:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

It was off the hilla fo' shilla my nilla. (not really I was asleep)

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

wrote to Lester Piggott - he didn't write back - he went to jail
a friend wrote to Ian "dont tell em Pike" Lavender - he wrote back - he DIDN'T go to jail.

There is a pattern here people

― james (james), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, well, if email counts, I got an reply from Marjorie Ingall once.

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Roger Ebert responded promptly to ny e-mail and helped settle a dispute between my wife and me concerning the ettiquite of walking out of movies.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

So is it proper to run down the aisle slapping everyone on the top of their heads as you exit or not?

― NA. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

Legendary dub producer Mikey Dread wrote me an email to complain about an imagined slight in a review I wrote of Sandinista!, which he produced. Turned out it was a slang thing, as that's one of my fave albums ever and I would never insult it or him. We are still email friends.

Note to Rosemary: Marjorie Ingall and I are good friends. I've lied to her father. I once had to pretend to be her boyfriend to keep away a drunk stalker. Does she count as famous?

― Neudonym, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think so! (Totally off topic, I had my first experience of meeting someone from the internet at her book signing.)

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got a package of Viking photographs of Mars from none other than Carl Sagan himself. Also received email from Steve Wozniak.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's apparantly only proper if it's a showing of "Birth of a Nation" and the remaining audience members are rooting for the Klan.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

If a one-line e-mail professing ignorance counts, then... McGUINN!!!

I can still hardly believe I have an e-mail from him.

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

As in Roger McGuinn? He wrote me back, turns out he never knew about the Robyn Hitchcock revamp of "Bells of Rhymney."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

I don't know about it either.

He wrote *me* back, turns out he's never heard Johnny Marr!!

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got a package of Viking photographs of Mars from none other than Carl Sagan himself.

That is wicked. I just watched Cosmos, and I love the guy.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Roger McGuinn used to post all the time to alt.music.byrds. Still does on rare occasion now.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

He wrote *me* back, turns out he's never heard Johnny Marr!!

What what wha-???

Well, Johnny has certainly heard of him.

I should mention I did write an email to Momus back in the day regarding the Stars Forever project (ie it was not a fan letter/email), and he sent me an awfully nice reply.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Colin, how do you reach Ebert? I've been meaning to write him a fan letter for a couple of weeks for his review of Gerry, but haven't even been able to find an email for Ask the Answer Man. Cuz I have a shitty old computer.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

Come to think of it, though - can anyone point to a text in which Marr mentions McGuinn?

― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

McGuinn wrote me back to, said yes he went to Parker in Chicago and that I should buy his CD.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

(I felt weird complimenting him on a guitar solo he played 30 years ago.)

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pinefox, I'm almost 100% certain he mentioned McGuinn in an interview he did with Guitar Player magazine some years back about his influences. I don't think I still have the magazine, but maybe the interview is somewhere online?

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

(Toby - The Magnetic Fields.)

― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 3 June 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've lost Ebert's personal e-mail address, but there's a form at http://suntimes.com/ebert/email.html.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

I once wrote the Ocean Blue when i was 16. Bobby the bass player sent me a letter back along with some stickers.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 13:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

the Ocean Blue

Holy jesus, Chris V, the mention of that band made me realize that there are actually parts of the musical storeroom in my brain that actually do have cobwebs in them. Now I gotta figure out if I still have their first record or get it again. Hershey, PA. Fuckin' 'ell.

― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 14:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jem Kelly of the Lotus Eaters was a really good correspondent and a super bloke with it when I met him.

― darren (darren), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 17:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

Martin, i still own all their records.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

I once wrote the Ocean Blue when i was 16. Bobby the bass player sent me a letter back along with some stickers.

oh my god, ME TOO! except i think i was 14. i still have the stickers and letter somewhere.

― sand.y, Wednesday, 4 June 2003 23:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

ian penman writ me a nice email back when i writ him fan mail about his blog

― duane, Thursday, 5 June 2003 00:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh oh I forgot: Michael Donaghy left a comment on my blog once :)

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 June 2003 07:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

I once got into an on-going email argument with someone we were teaming with on a large proposal. End of the project we all got together to celebrate the award - turned out I'd been arguing with an astronaut who'd been on Mir and stuff. I felt so silly for not having recognized their email.

Oh - and one of the SkyLab astronauts sent me a nice "thank you" letter for having given him a tour of our offices - again, I didn't know who it was at the time.

Momus does write nice letters back, sometimes. Sometimes I think he has someone else write on his behalf. Or maybe not. How does one decide which emails to answer?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 6 June 2003 02:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

noam chomsky.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 6 June 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes but what if Noam isn't available to triage my e-mails?

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 7 June 2003 19:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Then you pray like hell that the mail doesn't get forwarded to Dinesh d'Souza.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 7 June 2003 21:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

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