my first SF star sighting!

you remember him right? queer as folk? more recently a panelist on just about every VH1 series. rockstar? hal sparks?

well guess who got to sit next to him at lunch today because she is obsessed with the meatloaf at DeLessio's? ME!?!?!?!?

he was with a realllly cute guy and then a guy with a big nose (both fashionably dressed in that rocker way) and then some other guy who looked like an industry tool. i noticed the cute guy in the food selecting line but just figured he was gay because he was with the big nose guy and they were both just too tall and too skinny and too hiply dressed to be straight. but now i'm realizing, its just because they were from LA.

the tall guys sat at the table next to me and mo and then hal sat down facing me and i looked at him and then looked right at mo and we both nodded our heads and she said, verrry familiar. and we discussed, in hushed tones, where we know him from and as we were running down the list (i always confuse hal with freddy rodriguez from 6 feet under) we, at the same time, yelled VH1! which made hal turn his back to us. HAHAHAHA.

we actually didn't yell it but i'm sure it was loud enough for him to know that we knew who he was.

here's what he had on his plate:
jicama salad
couscous salad
lentil salad

obviously a vegetarian. he was also heavily wrist-cuffed. lots of leather cuffs and large silvery chain looking things. he also talked non-stop through lunch in a very animated way. he was cute. not a leprachaun hat in the bunch.

i'm really bad at star sightings. i'm just really mesmerized and star struck by these people. once i saw the woman who played gloria on ER at a little italian restaurant in NYC. i was with my friend paulie, whose back was to her. she was eating by herself and i just kept staring until finally paulie had to threaten me.

then one other time i was in urban outfitters in harvard square and i saw elizabeth from survivor with her then fiance. i was literally following them around the store hiding behind displays to look at her. then she went to look at some sweaters that i was coveting and i felt like she thought i was going to that sweater table because she was there. she looked at me and i knew that SHE knew that i knew who she was and that made me hate her. she was too smug, plus she was wearing a full length tan leather trench coat with matching boots.

i also saw nick from survivor around the square too and even rode in an elevator with him on my way to my office one day. he stopped counting because i saw him all the time and he was so non-star-like.

misty and i saw kiera knightly in fred segal in LA and i didn't know who she was until misty was like, pirates of the carribean!?!? she looked WAY hotter in theatflick.

working at the ART i met debra winger (very insecure and hangs on her husband), chris cooper (his WIFE was totally overbearing and acted like cooper was autistic and couldn't interact socially), grandpa huxtible from the cosby show (he was really nice but left our production early because he didn't agree with something), oh yeah, well i used to work for aerosmith so i saw all of them WAY too much.

back to hal. is his band in town or something?