Whoa! I went to school with that guy!

[kedrys]

On the cover of the free newspaper they distribute in the metro every weekday, a photo of a guy who looked kinda familiar. Turns out we went to school together my last two years here before I went to the States. Turns out he's a musician and actor of notoriety, and he started his career the year after I left.

Has anybody seen my yearbook? :P

How about you? Anyone from your past turn up in the media?

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Yup. I taught a couple of famous folks.

Back in the day. Henry Simmons from NYPD Blue and John Popper from the Blues Travelers.

[Breeze54]

2. Yeah....

"Anyone from your past turn up in the media?"

ME!! :rofl:

Seriously....


it was my ex but it wasn't pretty. :sarcasm:

[Forkboy]

3. I went to school with Daniel La Plante, who raped and murdered a pregnant mother...

... then drowned her two daughters, ages 5 and 7, back in '87.

That's my brush with fame, I guess. :(

[LibDemAlways]

4. My high school graduating class included

Former Senator George "Macaca" Allen - who was a racist asshole even back then, as well as Daulton Lee, who was involved in a well-publicized espionage case back in the 70's. He was the "snowman" of The Falcon and the Snowman fame, played in the movie by Sean Penn.

[LeftyMom]

5. My old school friends only show up in the media for getting arrested or killed.

I didn't grow up in the best of neighborhoods. :shrug:

[mcctatas]

6. I used to hang out with one of the assholes who started Politico

fecker almost killed me driving the boat I was water-skiing behind, shoulda known then :P

[PaddyBlueEyes]

8. you water ski

but cant swim... :shrug:

[bluesbassman]

11. I bet she floats pretty well though.

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

13. That's what a life vest is for!

DUH! :eyes:

[Pierre.Suave]

7. Not HS, but some college friends have

[XemaSab]

9. The dude who got John Walker Lindh

into Islam.

He was a nice kid. :shrug:

[elleng]

10. My High School graduating class included

Marjorie Garber

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

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/6737

AND

Marcia Gillespie

http://www.soapboxinc.com/marcia-ann-gillespie/

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n9_v23/ai_15475125/

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. Yes, Kevin Sorbo

His father was my eighth grade science teacher, and the whole family attended our church.

Also, I knew sci fi/fantasy writers S.N. Lewitt and Esther M. Friesner in graduate school.

[struggle4progress]

14. One of my classmates former showed up on Jeopardy! But one of his former classmates shot Reagan.

So I thought, like, hey, whoa! I know that guy! when I saw him on the tube. But I don't know what he thought when he saw Hinckley on the tube.

[abq e streeter]

15. Mostly college--John Podesta ; Obama's transition chief (etc) was a friend of mine, and his roommate

Barry Bearak, who was one of my best friends there ( met John through him) won a Pulitzer in international reporting from Afghanistan( NY Times, about 6 years ago)and some of you may remember reading of his arrest and short time in jail last year in Zimbabwe, courtesy of the Mugabe regime. A high school friend, Mandy Jones, was Miss USA, and runner up to Miss Universe, in '73 ( found out years later she'd apparently been the commissioner's wife on Chickenman , which some of you older and midwestern DUers may remember. ( radio parody of Batman). I haven't seen any of these people in eons; Barry is the only one I occasionally keep in touch with, but to this day, it cracks me up to see John on TV being interviewed as a major heavyweight in American politics. Not that he wasn't a brilliant and focused guy back then, but still, when your personal memories of someone are frozen in time as just another goofy ( albeit, again, focused and brilliant ) college kid, it just, I don't know, seems sort of surreal.

[elana i am]

16. i went to middle school

and i believe part of high school with ramesh ponnuru. he used to live here in KC.

eta: yeah, i just read his wiki page. i guess he skipped a couple grades and that's why i only remember going to high school with him for a year. he graduated high school at 15.

[salin]

17. a guy I dated a few times

is now a central figure in a major federal fraud case. Every couple of months when I read the old hometown news I run across another story about the case. Weird.

We ran into each other a few laters, when I was still in college and he had graduated and was with the family business (the same one which now is the target of a federal case involving the alleged fraud of nearly 250 million bucks), and he struck me as still "cute" but sorta clueless in a box of rocks sort of way.

[salin]

18. and with Brady Barr of National Geographic

fame. Didn't ever know him, though.

Would rather be able to say I had a connection to him than to the alleged fraudster.

[Starry Messenger]

19. I went to elementary school with 'Sam Anders' from BSG.

Yep, he was cute then too. :P Nice guy.

[old mark]

20. Went to college for s semester or so with Drew Barrimore's mom.

I am absolutely certain she would not remember me at all.

:shrug:

mark 44-6

[Chan790]

21. My brother's best friend from HS is an up-and-coming horror novelist.

It's not really surprising though...in HS when everybody else was getting a first job flipping burgers, CJ got one as an columnist/reviewer for Fangoria.