@redenigma
Fair. I couldn't think of a better word and I knew some might have these exact thoughts. But it was just you.
As number 6 of 7 kids I found friends and family on tv and in the movies..
#Forgotten

@fatslothslim my partner is the youngest of 8. he tends to watch more streaming than i do (which isn't hard because i don't, at all). but i'd guess that's more because i just don't care about tv/movies/pop culture. it's likely partly an autistic thing & partly not having time for passively being entertained because i'd rather read... we had a tv in the mid-50s which was somewhat rare, & the only part i found interesting was the tubes & wires... :)

@fatslothslim i do have a weird habit (for lack of a better word this early) of meeting celebrities of certain types, musicians, artists, writers, a couple actors. they really are just people

@redenigma
That's interesting!
Please tell me more.

@fatslothslim what, of meeting people? i used to hang out with a couple bluegrass buskers on Boston Common, so i met several musicians that way. had lunch with Doc Watson and met Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs (separately, it was after Foggy Mtn Boys broke up). i know, & am friends with, several comic artists/writers. (that's from taking 25 pound bags of cookies to comic cons. lol.). i worked on a low budget movie that had Cameron Mitchell as the star. he was creepy

@redenigma Yeah thats so interesting. I would have loved to see the foggy mountain live. I watch youtube with Scruggs.
I love the banjo and Steve Martin has put together an band.
I've only met a couple famous people. Working the Seattle hempfest, I met Woody Harlson.
I also met A sound Effects artist, Wes Harrison. That man intrigued me.

@fatslothslim my grandma played banjo. her family(brothers/sisters) had a band in the early 1900s that played around western PA/NY at weddings & barn dances, etc. mostly bluegrass & square dance

@fatslothslim i was sad my aunt sold the banjo in a yard sale after grandma died. i kinda wanted it.

@redenigma
Would have been nice for you to have it today huh?

@fatslothslim yes. Grandma died 2 months after her 102nd birthday.
i play guitar, so i think i could pick up banjo pretty easily

@redenigma
I always wanted to try but never have.
I'm a drummer.

@fatslothslim i have 2 bodhrans & a American Plains style drum (which is good for sorting wheat from chaff actually). i'm not very good at drumming, but i suspect it's mostly lack of practice.
a LOT of guitarists start with drums, you know...

@redenigma
I did not know that.

@fatslothslim oh, and i got stuck in an elevator with Stephen King.

@redenigma
That would have been epic! From his twitter, when I was on it, he seems pretty cool and grounded.

@fatslothslim we had both recently bought old houses, so we were comparing old house horror stories. it was really nice to be able to have a conversation with him with no interruptions (this was at a BosKone)

@redenigma
That's great! I grew up on a farm so there was plenty to tinker with. I remember an old radio we had in the corner and I'd study that thing all the time.
I'm glad you're cool with your partners entertainment activities. I had an wife who barely let me watch anything.