When Nice Famous People Write You Back

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What do you say in your letters? Do you talk about how they influenced you, point out things in your work that you especially liked, or just say like "thank you for the music [or whatever]"? I'd liked to have written to my favourite celebs back in the day, but I knew I really had nothing interesting or worthwhile to say. "Dear so and so, I love [latest album, film, book etc]!! My favourite bit is [blah blah]. You're my favourite [whatever]. I would really appreciate it if you could please send me your autograph. Best wishes in your future endeavours! Love from Poppy." Actually once I got Kay Whitmore's autograph with a nice message, shortly before the Canucks sent him back to Syracuse.

― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 2 June 2003 15:46 (twenty years ago) link

Do arguments on Usenet count?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:53 (twenty years ago) link

Who did you argue with?

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

Please say Russell Crowe, please says Russell Crowe

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:55 (twenty years ago) link

On comics newsgroups I've had exchanges with Chris Claremont, Peter David, Mark Waid, Robin Rigg and Scott Lobdell. I might have argued with Fabian Nicieza and Warren Ellis, too; I don't remember.

On Doctor Who newsgroups I've argued with Jon Blum, Kate Orman, David McIntee, Paul Cornell, Lance Parkin, Jon DeBurgh Miller (those got VICIOUS), and I think I might have thrown down with Paul Ebbs and Peter Anghelides. (Actually, I doubt I argued with Peter.)

Oh, and I think I got Xorcist to call me a poser on rec.music.industrial once. I used to chat with Joe LeSense before he became Jordana.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:03 (twenty years ago) link

I said: PLEASE SAY RUSSELL CROWE!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:02 (twenty years ago) link

Oh, and I had a massive throwdown with Russell Crowe over the late 90s Elektra series (Horace, you may commence wanking).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:09 (twenty years ago) link

Yeee-eess!

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

I was in Yahoo groups with old comic great Sam Glanzmann and old soul singer and producer Swamp Dogg. Not the same group, sadly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

"Glanzmann"???? Sex-ed must have been TORTURE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 June 2003 20:11 (twenty years ago) link

I woke up to an e-mail that made my day this morning, after posting my Magnetic Fields article, Ian Penman, unsolicited this time, wrote me saying: "69 thing: WOW". I will write back, though.

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 June 2003 20:36 (twenty years ago) link

You're sure it wasn't an invitation?

(Actually, the other thread was right: fucking jokes != funny!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:24 (twenty years ago) link

An invitation to 69?

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link

I can think of worse things.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

Luna, with IP (!!) (??) (!!), though.

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link

even so...

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link

Post-structuralist 69? [insert triple exclamation marks or variant there are no variants]

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:41 (twenty years ago) link

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 years ago) link

dave q of the brazen hussies!!

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

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

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

(Toby - The Magnetic Fields.)

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

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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 years ago) link

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