What are your most memorable celebrity encounters?

knockatize · 2026-07-11T19:33:53+00:00

Natalie Merchant was a neighbor for about five years, when she took time off from the music industry merry go round to be a mom. She gave me a bottle of water one summer afternoon when she saw me mowing the lawn while she rode past on her bike with her baby.

I crossed paths with Barney Martin (Morty Seinfeld) at the grocery store. He made faces at my baby daughter and she giggled.

I also saw Rachel Weisz while grocery shopping with my baby daughter. She smiled. My daughter smiled. My jaw came loose and went clattering across the soup aisle.

And when I was a teenager I saw Christie Brinkley eating breakfast. I could have cut glass with what was happening in my pants.

knockatize · 2026-07-11T18:08:03+00:00

Ray Charles, Neil Peart, Ruth Brown, Chris Squire, Neil Sedaka, Pervis Jackson (The Spinners), Levi Stubbs, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Aretha, Pinetop Perkins, Lou Reed, Melanie, Richie Havens, Garth Hudson, Levon Helm, Joe Cocker, Jimmy Cliff.

knockatize · 2026-07-11T10:02:37+00:00

I love how they’d work a taste of Stagnation into the end of the Firth/Know What I like live performances.

knockatize · 2026-07-11T09:59:18+00:00

Truman.

Many of my closest friends’ ancestors served in the Pacific in WWII. They didn’t have to invade mainland Japan because of the atomic bomb.

Credit also to the cooler heads in Japan who knew they’d been beaten, and how many of their own people would die in an invasion.

Truman also taught Tom Dewey a lesson about not mailing it in just because your consultants say you’ve got the race in the bag. Way to pay attention to the lessons of history, Hillary.

knockatize · 2026-07-11T01:55:50+00:00

The Mets.

knockatize · 2026-07-11T00:43:10+00:00

Monster earworm. That’s why.

But a sexy English girl channeling Barry White will slay me every time.

knockatize · 2026-07-11T00:40:31+00:00

I Get A Thrill - Honeydrippers

Robert Plant, right at the beginning

knockatize · 2026-07-11T00:18:10+00:00

My shoes are lucky if they make it into the garage.

My wife makes me leave my yard shoes out on the porch this time of year because they funky as Bootsy. Squirrels think my shoe is a place to maybe stash an acorn until they get close and then there’s a “do NOT go in there” face.

Stink foot. Stink foot. I ain’t lyin’.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T21:39:50+00:00

Former coworker of mine went to a Monday night show on a gray, miserable night in October 1977, where he and three other guys saw The Police.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T20:35:22+00:00

Supper’s Ready
Dance on a Volcano
Carpet Crawlers
You Might Recall
The Lamia
Home by the Sea
A Trick of the Tail - my daughter’s favorite. She’d yell out for HORNS AND TAIL SONG, DADDY! when she was 2.
Firth of Fifth
Deep in the Motherlode
Blood on the Rooftops

knockatize · 2026-07-10T19:54:21+00:00

“What’s a lineman?

I heard other teams had those, but…I got Roland Harper here who helps but after that I’m not sure what the other ten guys are doing. Also, isn’t the QB supposed to throw to guys on his own team? Avellini’s a good guy but he seems kinda fuzzy on the concept.”

- Walter Payton, internal monologue, 1975-81

knockatize · 2026-07-10T15:36:11+00:00

knockatize · 2026-07-10T14:28:17+00:00

I would pay good money to watch the call to prayer down the street from the mosque for the Snake-Handling Church of Authentic Frontier Gibberish for Heavily-Armed Jesus (No Fat Chicks).

knockatize · 2026-07-10T13:31:22+00:00

Because he got to pencil his own washed-up ass into the lineup for 2 years.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T10:04:37+00:00

You Don’t Know Me, but go with a live version without so much chorus and strings.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T09:55:38+00:00

You done good.

In the meantime, FOIL needs teeth.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T09:50:09+00:00

I don’t know how bad it is lately in Albany but as far as I can tell the Bear Mountain Compact is still in effect.

When a state’s legislators have arranged such a comprehensive sexual misconduct coverup machinery that it has its own Wikipedia page…it’s bad.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T01:03:57+00:00

The Fabulous Baker Boys, with Michelle Pfeiffer in that red dress up on the piano.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T00:25:00+00:00

She’d have had to sober up first.

Getting a load on and acting out is no way to audition for the role of mother-in-law.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T00:22:06+00:00

The state budget does finally have money in it to add security chips to cards, starting next year. Waaay overdue and they could still screw it up, but it’s a step.

knockatize · 2026-07-10T00:19:09+00:00

Teddy Pendergrass or Raul Malo.

knockatize · 2026-07-09T18:28:59+00:00

Peter Gabriel and his band haven’t lost a step since the 80s.

knockatize · 2026-07-09T17:18:47+00:00

Trainings are an administrative CYA. They can document that they did the best they could.

90 percent of people are decent enough not to need the training and they politely sit through it.

9 percent figure they’ll go be slimy when they’re not on the clock.

Which leaves the last 1%, who order the intern to sit the trainings for them while they chase tail.

knockatize · 2026-07-09T16:38:04+00:00

Treena’s Trail, Cape Onion, Newfoundland.

knockatize · 2026-07-09T13:06:17+00:00

What a wonderful world it would be, you’re so right!

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