Reverse Paparazzi – Olympic Edition

Steve — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:29:55 +0000

I’ve been in Sundance for the last couple of days with the good folks from HP (they were nice enough to invite me along to one of their events). It’s a really pretty place if you can get over the whole snow thing. I’m not entirely comfortable with the idea of matter changing states when you get right down to it (sublimation is obviously an exception as it is very cool). Check out the views from the hotel:

Those of you that have been following my blog for a while can probably imagine why I was excited to get up here…REVERSE PAPARRAZI! The exciting game of asking famous people to take photos of you (full details here). I figured I’d be bound to bump into a few famous folks at a boondoggle like this. Last night it all worked out.

My hosts organized a lovely dinner in town and brought their new spokespeople Michael Phelps and Dara Torres. Jonny Moseley was also at dinner as there was a ski activity he was involved in the next day. Oh yeah, three gold medalists on paid to be in attendance. Time to force them to pretend to be happy to talk to me.

Phelps shot this pic of me and Dara Torres. Awesome. Can’t believe that (a) she’s 41 (b) she’s so much freakin’ taller than I am . Damn it.

Moseley took this one of Chris and me. He’s a cool dude. Gave his number to Chris’ wife so she could text him and they could meet up on the mountain for ski tips.

It’s also worth noting that Moseley apparently took ballet for a while. I don’t think he’d had as much to drink as I’d had, but here he is working through his exercises.

It feels really good to have found a whole new class of celebrity to harass and impose upon.

Update: Just to handle all you naysayers, here’s a pic of Michael Phelps taking my pic.

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Reverse Paparazzi – Olympic Edition