I'm in a similar boat - not that I'm not a media fan, but rather, I don't feel the connection to celebrities that allows fansquee in person. I've seen Patrick Rothfuss at a book signing, and given him one of my little crocheted Cthulhus, and he liked it, and that made me all kinds of happy, but even as a regular reader of his blog, I barely felt competent to chat for a minute or two while he signed the book.
Just this past weekend, I went with a friend to a horror con, which had some middling celebrities. We mainly went to see Bruce Campbell in person (which we sorta did, even though we missed the event he was hosting, but that's another story). Meanwhile, these people were wandering around, and even the ones I'd seen in film... I had nothing to talk about with them. I enjoyed some of their work, but... no connection. Nothing around which to strike up a conversation, and saying "Hey, I saw Kristy Swanson while she was walking the floor instead of signing stills from her Playboy shoot" doesn't stoke me up. Maybe if I were a bigger fan, or more meta about my media, I would care, but... for the most part, I like the film, I like the roles and the portrayal, but the actor doesn't connect with me that much.
Except Bruce Campbell. He's awesome, and the few seconds I saw him before con staff managed to escort him away from the fans he was as funny as expected.
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Date: 2010-09-10 02:06 am (UTC)From:Just this past weekend, I went with a friend to a horror con, which had some middling celebrities. We mainly went to see Bruce Campbell in person (which we sorta did, even though we missed the event he was hosting, but that's another story). Meanwhile, these people were wandering around, and even the ones I'd seen in film... I had nothing to talk about with them. I enjoyed some of their work, but... no connection. Nothing around which to strike up a conversation, and saying "Hey, I saw Kristy Swanson while she was walking the floor instead of signing stills from her Playboy shoot" doesn't stoke me up. Maybe if I were a bigger fan, or more meta about my media, I would care, but... for the most part, I like the film, I like the roles and the portrayal, but the actor doesn't connect with me that much.
Except Bruce Campbell. He's awesome, and the few seconds I saw him before con staff managed to escort him away from the fans he was as funny as expected.