I lived in Chelsea and didn't even see Ethan Hawke!

I forgot to mention, when T & G were living in Chelsea and I hung out there a lot, Ethan Hawke used to come into my favorite coffee place a bunch, and sit near me. (Well the place is tiny, everybody sits near each other.) It used to piss me off, because he would be all magnanimous about getting recognized and having his picture taken, and welcome people to his neighborhood, and T. would laugh at me getting all rageface. "You don't actually live here," he'd remind me. "You can't afford to live here. He can and he does."

Whatever! The people at that coffee place knew me by name and I didn't even have to pay all the time. I was a "regular." Just because I live 500 miles away and don't have a job in NY. Details...

I also saw Anthony Bourdain at Chelsea Market a couple of times, but I was afraid to make eye contact.

Happy it went well, Tep.

That's weird that he was so reluctant to prescribe painkillers after a root canal. Most dentists Rx them as a just in case palliative as a matter of course; my dentists have said pretty much what you said to him; you may not need them, but it's better to have and not need, than vice versa.

Nobody gave me painkillers after my root canal, and in fact I tried to go back to work and then realized I couldn't concentrate and went home.

Oh! I forgot! I HAVE seen Steven Tyler, at the Plaza Art Fair a few years ago. Apparently he makes and sells ceramics of giant pouty-lipped fishes.

Chew on that, O therapists.

Ha! I would probably buy one of those. The only place I have seen Steven Tyler is in concert. Which was super fun but not a celebrity encounter.

Amyth, yeah, I could see how you would be. He seems moody.

That's weird that he was so reluctant to prescribe painkillers after a root canal.

Some doctors are really fucked up when it comes to fears of abuse of painkillers (either the patient taking too much OR selling them). But damn, he does root canals for a living. I have a hard time believing I'm the first patient who asked for pain meds. I probably won't need them, but he was tinkering around in that tooth for a long time -- it's gonna be sore. I'll take ibuprofen first, but I don't fuck around when it comes to pain. If it hurts, I'ma take the drugs that will make it stop hurting. Sheesh.

Currently, all my famous person encounters happen at yoga. And they are all East-Siders famous, which is a self-selecting group of people (Some former Firefly castmates, singers etc). But in yoga, it doesn't seem like the done thing to gawk at someone who is in an odd pretzely position.

I live in the Midwest where there are no famous people.

I've seen famous people at book signings(Gloria Steinem, Sherman Alexie, Keillor.) Bill Moyers and Walter Cronkite spoke to my journalism department(Not together, dude,for a media geek like me that would be like Blind Faith, but every year the University gave away the Attention-Seeking Behavior Cup or whatever it was really called, and famous folks were gracious about accepting.)