Creampuff Thinks One of the Sisters Fed Me Glass

I had a blast at the Northern Voice conference last weekend, meeting other fabulous bloggers, many of whom I am still in the process of adding to my blogroll. I went to the conference because Katr was going and I was curious about what happens at a blogging conference. I mean, it's blogging. How much do we need to talk about it? Isn't that what our blogs are for? And so on. The most hilarious thing was how people were on their laptops blogging about the sessions about blogging the whole day. It was all very meta.

I was not among the live blogging crowd, obviously, because there weren't any sessions about how to incorporate more witty sophisticated bathroom humour into your writing or how many hot pictures of Dawn French you can post on your lesbian blog before she'll send you a cease and desist (turns out it's twelve, if you're interested)(Also, I'm available to speak on these topics next year, Northern Voice organizers.)

But I did start the following list during the awesome From Book to Blog or Blog to Book blogging author panel. Because one of the people on the panel was author, blogger and Agnes of God, Meg Tilly.

Ha ha! I know! Meg Tilly!

Ways In Which Meg Tilly and I Are Similar:

• We are both part Asian
• My dad is a big fan of both of our work
• We are both bloggers
• We are both rocking the salt and pepper look
• We both live in B.C. and have dogs
• You can find both of us on Wikipedia:
• Meg Tilly
• Me (okay, it's not about me - but I get a mention in the third sentence! Jealous?)

• We have both played nuns - she won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar; I received Honourable Mention from the Alberta Public School Board High School Drama Festival.
• We are both lithe dancer-types with an ethereal, childlike beauty (oh, wait . . . yeah, that's just Meg Tilly).

I was too shy to go and try to have my picture taken with Meg Tilly once the panel was over; she seemed very sweet and approachable, but I am too big a dork and was afraid I might blurt out "Hi! One of the sisters fed me glass!!", which is Padu and my favourite line from Agnes of God. I might also have made a joke about how I exclusively use pigeon shit to navigate on road trips since I saw Leaving Normal (also one of my favourite films), but "stalker" is rarely the vibe you want to give off in these situations and I figured it would be best just to leave it.

Fate intervened, however, and not long after the session, Katr and I found ourselves sitting a few feet away from where Meg Tilly had just joined the lunch line. We struck up a conversation with her revolving around lunch and then Katr, fed up with my recalcitrance, nudged me into action. And so it came to pass that I bestowed the one Creampuff Revolution blog card I gave out the whole weekend upon Meg Tilly. She giggled at my tag line (Fat. Naked. Dangerous.) and we chatted about blogging, as you do.

She was enchanting. And just as she was probably starting to wonder why I was still talking to her, word arrived that they were out of food and she was whisked away by another author from the panel. Which is good, because I was seconds away from telling her about how I first saw Agnes of God on video at my friend Lori's birthday party when I was 12 because Lori's mom thought it would be like Nunsense and guess what? IT WASN'T.

So here I am in Monterey again this year, acting as Katr's arm candy for the TED conference. Last year, we checked in next to Forest Whitaker and I saw Cameron Diaz in the lobby but this year, I'm not casting my keen, celebrity seeking eye about with as much vim. 'Cause, you know - I met Meg Tilly! And I look forward to enjoying her lovely cozy blog and trying out her muffin recipes. Mmm...delicious muffins...

Comments

[Kimli]

You are too cute! I heartily agree about the lack of sophisticated bathroom humour at NV - if you're looking for guest panelists for your session next year, let me be the first to volunteer! I could talk about how I never poop ..

[Benjamin Boudreau]

A few things:

1) I really, REALLY wish that I could play arm candy for Katr to star-studded events. Somehow, I doubt how believable we'd be.

2) I met Kate Beckinsale when she was filming in Halifax and despite not having seen a thing she's been in, bluffed my way stunningly through the "I love your work!" speech for sport.

It is my life dream to be on Wikipedia for something...ANYTHING! Well, preferably something positive and not embarrassing. I thought Canada Writes was my ticket but alas...

I would go to your seminar on bathroom humour and Dawn French. Between the two of us, I'm sure we can get restraining orders for the entire cast of French & Saunders.

[Benjamin Boudreau]

Note to self: put down gin long enough to write blog comments so I can follow through on my best intentions of counting to four in a numbered list.

[red mojo]

lol benjamin! Wow, that does sound like fun! Did you mention me? Feel free to drop my name when you are around the celebs (the women anyway) to get special attention and preferential treatment.
Out of food, who runs out of food? That's crazy!

[Syd]

Oh, for God's sake. You know we only want to know if her tits are as KILLER as her sister's.

[ShBu]

You rock the Wikipedia my friend. Rock it. Creampuff cards? Where can regular non-Meggers get a card? One already autographed and framed would be nice...perhaps I should check ebay...

[roro]

Kimli - You're on! Surely there's a spot in the program for us. Maybe at MooseCamp! We could call our session: The Moose is Loose - but Kimli? Not so much.

Ben - 1) I think you'd be as believable as my best friend Padu and I were when he and I went to the wedding venue open house together. 2) Kate Beckinsdale=cool. 3) Wikipedia is attainable. You are young and I believe in you. 4) You must come out next year!!

red mojo - I didn't mention you and that was a major oversight! I'm so sorry. I'll know better next time. As for the food, I don't think they really ran out - I think Meg Tilly flashed someone the "call the police" signal so that she could be rescued from me and they responded.

Syd - No comment. And by "no comment", I mean "I emailed you about it privately."

ShBu - Hahahaaa! How about this: I'll trade you an autographed, framed blog card (and $20) for an autographed Shannon Butcher CD...

[Maggie]

Ya know, with Meg, I get as far as The Big Chill and then I completely start off on the songs...(Who plays The Rolling Stones on an organ?!)

But, really cool that you got to meet her.

[Ilona]

There's a Canadian blogger conference that I find out about a week AFTER? Booo... Further, I've been reading you for about three months now (delurk, delurk) and this is the first I knew you were a playwrite. Obviously, I am not.paying.attention.