PIRIOTS 1-31-06

RANDOM ENCOUNTERS: 1.31.06

1.)Paddle Henson

Collision Time/Location: Around 8:10pm. NYU Black Box Theatre. The row in front of me.

And I know her from: She went to SMU, but graduated last year, so I didn't know her until we did a show together last September.

Did I speak to her: Yep.

My general feeling about this encounter: Paddle rocks. Mat and I went because we know people in the play. We concluded that maybe Paddle heard about this play about lesbians because she's a lesbian and lesbians network like that. (I.E.: Of course Paddle was at the lesbian play. She's a lesbian!) Mat and I are shallow and ignorant. It was a good play. Afterwards, Mat turned to me and said, "I liked that so much better than "Brokeback Mountain." Mat and I are shallow and ignorant.

Any Exciting News or Gossip? If it's about Lesbians, and you joke that maybe your one lesbian friend will be there, and you're right, you are shallow and ignorant.

2.) Sam Shepherd!

Collision Time/Location: Around 11pm. Phebe's Pub on Bleeker and Lafayette

And I know them from: Um, he's a famous playwright and actor.

Did I speak to them: No, but everyone else did.

My general feeling about this encounter: All the NYU acting grads go to Phebe's after their shows. Last night, Sam Shepherd was at the bar. He was hitting on women and being the drunken prick he's known to be. It was awesome. My friend Adam really loves him and found out where he was going after Phebe's and went there with another friend, Wes. They closed the bar talking to Sam Shepherd. I made Mat go home early. Mat is a playwright, too, and maybe would have gained some knowledge from speaking to him, but Mat wasn't happy about Sam's "bad boy" ways. On the way home, we talked about how it would have been really dramatic if Mat had gotten into a bar fight with Sam Shepherd because he was cheating on his wife and hadn't written a play in years and punched him the crap out. And then yelled something like, "Who's the shepherd now, Jerk-off!," or "Hey, Shepherd, did you see Brokeback Mountain, Faggot!" And then in the papers the next morning, the headline would be, "Sam Shepherd Punched the Crap Out by Emerging Playwright," and everyone would be like, "whoa, that sounds like something that would happen in a play." And then the world would cave in on itself.

Any Exciting News or Gossip? Sam Shepherd hangs out at Phebe's and some other bar called, like, Stinky's or something.