Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
In My Dreams, I Know Everyone
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2010 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
"I was friends with Jerry Seinfeld. We were just hanging out. He had a plot in a community garden so we went over and worked on that for a while...as he dropped me off at the train station, I told him I was worried that I didn't treat him enough like a regular person, because sometimes it was hard to get around how famous he was. He said, 'I think you do a pretty good job.'"
"Sumana's ultimate celebrity fantasy."
"And then I remember being worried about how to talk with my other friends about this. I mean, I don't want to be name dropping, but if it comes up in conversation, 'Oh when I was hanging out with Jerry the other day --,' and the other person asks, and I say 'Jerry Seinfeld,' then it's just coy. Like, either I'm name-dropping, or I'm pretentiously not name-dropping..."
"This sounds like a Seinfeld episode."
Comments
Yatima
rachel@goop.org
18 Mar 2010, 11:54 a.m.
Leonard
18 Mar 2010, 12:33 p.m.
Sumana: "Man, that dream about Seinfeld."
Leonard: "Yeah, what's up with that?"
Sumana Harihareswara
http://brainwane.net
18 Mar 2010, 14:01 p.m.
Yatima, would it surprise you to know that I have had a dream in which Roger Ebert himself praised my film criticism?
Mine, last week, was snuggling platonically with Johnny Depp while he praised the humanity and generosity of my film criticism and compared me with Roger Ebert. SHUT UP, EMBARRASSING SUBCONSCIOUS.