My Blogging Brush With Celebrity

  So, yesterday, I posted... OK, RE-posted something that I had written a while back at my old blog.  If you haven't read it yet, I'll wait.

Done?  Good.  At the end of that post, you will see a link to a woman named Sharona Alperin.  No, she isn't the Sharona from the story... well, only she really is, sort of.

As I said in the post, the story was mostly fiction.  The part about being in love with a girl named Sharona was ALL fiction. 

Anyway, I know that most of you are probably old enough to know the great 1979 hit song "My Sharona" by The Knack, right?  Well, the song "My Sharona" was actually about a real person... the person whose website I linked to, yesterday.

After I made that post yesterday, I visited Ms. Alperin's website and saw that there was a "contact" function, so I did what geeky fans probably do more often than they should.  I sent her an email and told her about my blog post.  Well, she read it and emailed me back.  She thought that it was a funny story and wished me well, etc... I asked her permission to tell this little story here and she was very cool about it.

How about that?  That song has been one of my top 10 favorties for 30 years, and I get to talk to the woman who it was all about.

I know.  Geeky.  Go on, laugh at good ol' gunfighter.  I can take it.

There you have it, my celebrity brush for the day.

Maybe next time I'll tell you the story about when I was almost run over by the Speaker of The House of Representatives (true story).

(Alperin  today)

Comments

[crazymumma]

funny small world huh?

back when that song came out. many many many years ago, I had a very beautiful friend who 'hung out' with the band.

[Jen of a2eatwrite]

Very cool indeed!

[Mrs. GF]

I think you should tell the story of being screamed at by a Rockefeller or my favorite about the elected representatives who were too good to wait with their constituents.

This whole Sharona thing is tragically geeky...

[Nicole]

Who didn't lock that song or that band ??!!

I love it !!

[Terri@SteelMagnolia]

Ahh haaa...
I loved that song way back when!

[Terri@SteelMagnolia]

Ahh haaa...
I loved that song way back when!

[Whit]

six degrees, man, six degrees

or one I guess

[Anali]

I used to love that song too! And I always remember that my friend's mom loved that song and we thought it was funny that someone so old loved such a cool song. Looking back, she was only in her early 30's! Everything is relative. ; )

[Wholly Burble]

Wasn't that sweet of her to coorespond with you. I'm sure it made your day, and it might well have made her's too. Who knows?

And now, what did Mrs. Gunfighter say about your being yelled at by a Rockefeller? Inquiring minds want to know.

PS: thanks for thinking of my mom--she's out of the hospital and doing well. In fact, she's helping me plan her 99th birthday party for this July LOL.