JT was in town to do a concert at the SECC in glasgow Scotland and i found out what hotel he was staying at so me and my friend went to his hotel to try and catch a glimpse of him and we caught him coming out the hotel lobby and he stopped to sign autographs for us, pose for a couple of pictures and a quick chat! what a nice man, he is a class act and was so friendly. i asked if he preffered the english fans or the scottish fans and he told me to keep it a secret but i cant keep it in and he likes the scottish fans better coz he thinks they are a better crowd. i am so chuffed!

I love him.  But damn he runs fast.  I couldn’t keep up for a second.

Hi I met Angelina Jolie at the Eden Project a short while ago when she was presenting an act for Live8, she was lovely, very funny and down to earth and beautiful.A great experience.

Had Bill Clinton jog by me on my way to work one morning. (The agents with him looked really surprised to see me suddenly in the midst of them; we nodded, he said “hi,” and it was over, with guys looking over their shoulders at me as they jogged off.)

I ran past our current president in the Captial 10K in Austin while he was governor of Texas. It was a mile or two into the race and I was cruising along and all of a sudden I hear people on the sides who are watching the race start clapping and cheering. I look up and there’s the governor running along with a couple of security guys.

I didn’t say anything – I just kept running and passed him.

A friend of mine basically knocked over Itzhak Perlman once. He was going into Harrod’s in London, and Perlman was right behind him. Instead of making sure the person behind him had the door, my friend just let the door fly shut. After reconsidering, he turned around and found Perlman sprawled on the ground. He apologized and Perlman said “It’s OK, it happens all the time.” HAPPENS ALL THE TIME?

A friend of mine worked as a play-by-play guy his school’s b-ball team. They were out in LA for a game, and afterwards, were at a bar and Larry Bird was there. So they went up to him, started talking and were hanging out. Then some guy came up to Bird and said “My name is Joe Smith, and I think you’re a horrible player and a cheat and a loser!”

Bird replied: “My name is Larry Bird, and I could give a ************ what you think.”

Served take out to Bernard Gilkey, he’s a freaking alcoholic. Threw down 2 shots of Patron and 3 Miller Lites while waiting for his order then tried to get me to give him a margarita to go.

Long story on how this came about, but in 1990, I met Al Goldstein, then publisher of the now defunct satirical, hysterically funny, hard-core sex rag, Screw Magazine. Al had recently gotten into a business relationship with Seka, an ex-70’s porn queen, who had started a phone sex service that capitalized on her name. Al was a multi-millionaire who lived in the three story brownstown next to Bill Cosby on the upper East Side of Manhattan. He said he made more money in one month as a mere partner in the phone sex biz than he did in a year with his magazine. Imagine what Jameson and people like Danni Ashe (”Most downloaded woman on the Internet”) have made over the years as the queens of interwebitube sex as they reached out and tugged at the world. Before the amateurs with digicams took it over, of course.

I met Al Goldstein, the publisher of Screw magazine, at a gym in Durham NC. He had a much younger woman with him who looked good but used THE FOULEST casual language I’d ever heard.

I stepped on the back of Charles Barkley’s shoe once. He turned around and looked at me, then laughed (nicely) at the look on my face as he saw it register with me that not only was this guy huge he was Charles Barkley. I said “aughnfx” and we parted strangers.

I checked out books to Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, and James Worthy (separately) while working at the undergrad library at UNC.

Most famous person I’ve ever met: George W. Bush, in the Texas State Capitol, twice, when he was governor of Texas. Both as a member of the J.E. Taylor High School Academic Decathlon team that won the 1999 and 2000 state titles and the 2000 national championship.

A real turkey dick if you know what I mean…