BRYNN! Julia Sweeney's coming to Seattle!

[Smartypants]

This is a MUST see!

I've seen this monologue twice in LA. This appearance in Seattle should be interesting, as it's an abbreviated version, presented with Ira Glass from NPR's "This American Life."

I *highly* recommend you go:

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Ira Glass and Julia Sweeney in Seattle
May 6, 2006
Ira and Julia will do a two hour show together. One hour will be Julia performing part of her show Letting Go Of God, and the other hour will be Ira and Julia talking about it, answering questions, laughing, and then who knows what.
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Venue Info:
Paramount Theater, Seattle, WA For tickets -- go to ticketmaster.com or call 206-292-2787
URL: www.ticketmaster.com

[madasacutsnake]

Taking stalking to a whole new level............

[Brynn]

Hmmmm. thanks for the heads up, Smarty. I can always count on you for inspiration. Although I have a couple of friends in Seattle I owe a visit to, and it might be even a fun combo if I could swing time off of work - still, it's a four hour drive away. I love Ira Glass. I'd stalk him any day, but Julia might have to book herself in Portland for me to get out to see her - because, well - hell, I'm often too lazy to go see people I like .
Now, if you and Julia were both in town, well, then yes, that's a whole other story - we'd go get many martinis beforehand, and then we'd have front-row tickets, of course. I'd even wait at the backstage door with you to get her autograph after bribing someone, and get a picture of the two of you together, hugging. That would be nice. You could introduce me as your born-again Christian friend that you're trying to convert - she'd get a kick out of that, and then we'd ask her out for many more martinis at the Heathman. We'd all certainly become close buddies, discussing religion. How great would that be? Pretty great. Ira could come too, I suppose.
But maybe she'd be tired. So we could follow her to see where she's staying and just stake it out a little for a while and then the next day or maybe even later that evening we could just "bump" into her. Quel surprise!

I'd of course get the picture blown up to an 8x10, frame it for you, and send it south for your birthday. I would hang my copy over my desk at work, and of course send Julia a copy. Probably not framed though...I mean, don't celebrities usually just take the picture out and use the frame for something else? That's what she would probably do, don't you think?
We'd have to find out where she lived and actually look in the windows of her living room to find out if she'd kept the picture for sure. And that would be another long drive to contend with, but I guess it could be managed. You might have to drive us, though. My husband would need the car to get the kids to baseball practice, etc. while I was gone for god knows how long.

We could write her many letters to let her know we're coming and what a great time we all had in Portland, but I might get upset if she didn't bother to answer at least one of them. That's how celebrities are, you know. No time for the little people. Besides, what might follow in the wake of that might get us arrested eventually, especially if she knows we're coming and she catches us actually looking in her windows. I mean we could always brag ever after that Julia Sweeney put a restraining order on us, and that would be something, but I just don't know. You would want Julia to think better of you than that, right? Ira might do a radio piece on it though. Or we could be in the radio piece! Think of it! It could be the first in a long series of fifteen-minute-segments of fame.
We could even write a book about the whole experience. The Stalkers. We'd write it with a screenplay in mind, of course. After we became famous, maybe Julia would like us better and forgive us and then we'd all be pals again.
Which of course would be the whole point.
Don't scoff. One person's discarded epiphany is another's work of genius.

(I really would take your picture with her and send it to you though. And it really would be kind of fun to stalk her. Just a little bit. Nothing overboard, of course. Just think about it, okay? Don't make up your mind one way or the other, okay?)

[Smartypants]

Dagnappit, I thought you were in Seattle. I guess all those bible classes in school distracted me from learning my geography! Sigh.

But your idea is brilliant. And it fulfills a lifelong dream from way back in kindergarten: When the teachers would ask "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and all the other kids would answer "Fireman" or "Astronaut" (or "Preacherman"), I always replied, "I want to stalk a celebrity and become the subject of a story on a National Public Radio series."

I'll think about it and check my schedule and let you know!

[Brynn]

Originally Posted by Smartypants

Dagnappit, I thought you were in Seattle. I guess all those bible classes in school distracted me from learning my geography! Sigh.