Why is there no ILX celebrity sighting thread?

Xpost Kevin, many smoking pieces are made of glass. Silica has a high melting temperature. Smoke without worries.

how many cats does KS own

a friend of mine has a hilarious photo of himself with zinedine zidane when bumped into him in a corridor at a youth football tournament over the summer,

headfirst i s'pose

Mentioned on the Real England thread, but I was on a train with Nigel Farage the other day. He was reading a Thatcher biography.

I saw Jimmy Tarbuck on a train travelling between Liverpool and Manchester once. He was standing up telling jokes and answering questions from other passengers. I thought he had a film crew or something with him at first, but he seemed to be on his own.

Jimmy Tarbuck's wikipedia entry seems bizarrely short:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Tarbuck

Gyles Brandreth is currently filming something in the building I work in and I'm finding it inexplicably hilarious

xpost still crams in his "schoolmate of John Lennon" thing.

i was in nantucket a couple weeks ago with my wife's folks, and i was reminded of a trip there a few years ago (2007, maybe?) when my wife and i had breakfast next to christopher hitchens. he looked sooooooo hungover and probably said two words while his breakfast partner did all the talking. i wasn't totally certain it was him but felt somewhat confident it was. later that day we were watching tv and hitchens was doing an interview in nantucket, so it was confirmed.

m emmet walsh in a Cosby sweater

two from Boston the other week:

getting a pile of comics & zines rung up late on a Thursday in Million Year Picnic, I become aware that the dude punching my purchases into a calculator is Jun0t D1az. I wrestle with the dilemma of whether it would be gauche to say "btw, I like your New Yorker stories." I figure if he's just filling in for someone, it would be fun for him, but if he helps out every Thursday night, then he's not in that mode. (I say nothing.)

Two days later, while DJP has gone for a pre-PSB pee, two gentlemen step into the vacant space between myself and the good Mrs P. "Sorry, but someone's standing there, he's just gone to the loo," I murmur, and they politely move to the left.

A little later, it occurs to me that the older of the two possibly looks familiar. Dan shrugs when I ask, so I just go and interrupt again, and it turns out that he is indeed Chr1s Ew3n of Futur3 Bibl3 H3roes. We chat briefly about how their 'reunion' tour kept missing me in the States three months earlier, that he loves Sydney and wants to come down, etc.

Whoa.

You got to meet DJP?

Saw Matthieu Amalric (sp?) twice on Place de la Republique (Paris) this month.

Whoa.

You got to meet DJP?

Was behind Reginald Ballard, "Bruh Man" on the TV show Martin today at the supermarket. Didn't realize it was him until the bagger said so after he left. I used to watch the show and loved his appearances.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0050659/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_i9

Josie Long @ performance of Shostakovich's 13th Symphony on the Southbank... though I don't know if she's famous anymore (anymore LOL) or if she's even still working

Ken Loach. On Euston Road, running for a bus. No limos for Brother Ken.

My wife saw Tony Iommi at an airport in Mexico recently. She freaked out and he grinned and waved at her before making good his escape on a golf cart.

Jonathan Franzen at the premiere of the Mekons documentary (it was easy to recognize him, cuz he's in it).

I'd have never recognize Ken Loach

Hey Morbius, are you AP Mike from The Best Show on WFMU? (He tweeted last night about seeing Franzen at the doc last nite)

no

Jonah Lehrer (is his celebrity status still valid?) at the Magritte exhibition at MOMA.

Fred Armisen & J. Mascis at second MBV gig in NYC.

Lisa Loeb (not performing, just checking out effect pedals) at the Van Nuys Guitar Pedal Expo.

awww

Michael Shannon shopping at indie Brooklyn bookstore, in cool all-red New Balances

synchronicity, I am watching that shitshow Zack Snyder Superman movie

I don't know if she's really a celebrity but Julianna Hatfield walked with her dog across the front of my car this morning when I was stopped at a cross-walk.

Jennifer Garner parked her SUV in the space in front of me on Beverly Bl.

Eric Erlandson of Hole at the Jandek gig on Saturday.

Stephen Strasburg jogging by my work.

John Waters looking downcast as he strolled on lower Sixth Ave last Sunday eve

Troy Sanders, bassist vocalist of Mastodon, at a Publix in Alpharetta, GA last week. Nice guy.

Diane Keaton walking through LAX, in pinstriped leggings and a white bonnet, with her two kids.

Carla from Top Chef / The Chew; her season was more or less the last time I was paying attention to Top Chef.
I thought she was a friend who I couldn't place so I started maniacally waving and yelling "WHAT UP GIRL" and she good naturedly said hi, did a double take and told me she loves my hair.
so carla loves my hair.

Currently sitting fifteen ft from chiwetel ejiofor and chris pine

are you on the Enterprise?

I'm apparently in the serenity/nu-trek spinoff movie

Nicky Wire in Clas Ohlson, looking at saucepans and or cheese graters.

Yannis from Foals out jogging on Brighton seafront

Xp Wait where? Isn't that a scandiwegian chain or is it a place in Cardiff or something

Yeah it's a chain with a branch in Cardiff.

Oh ha

apparently my wife just saw Mike D walking down Valencia street in the Mission

apparently ... like ... according to mike d?

well they did not intereact so I gotta take her word for it that it was him

my wife's all excited cos she's been asked to judge the kids talent show at our street party alongside "graham from elastica". have tried explaining that there wasn't a graham, but she's not having it at all

i was sitting on a bench in teardrop park in battery park city a few weeks ago. no one else in the park at all for a while but then a small group of 4 men show up, with a film camera, and one starts monologuing about something into the camera while walking around. it's just me and them. i notice that the one talking is a fairly chubby guy with ugly clothes and a goatee. as they get closer i start to make out his face and voice and realize it's leonardo di caprio. end of story. i hope i find out what the hell they were filming, someday.

Noted Austrian thriller writer Josef Haslinger at a Vienna pizzeria yesterday, which will no doubt be of great interest to fans of noted Austrian thriller writers.

just stood next to mathieu amalric at the urinals at some classical music concert. i love him <3

i tried to go wee but i just went squee