My Encounter With Mandeep

It has been a long, long time since I've written a real blog. Since the pandemic days, in fact. But this warrants it. So there I was, going about my usual afternoon busywork at the AVN compound, when I hear a call from downstairs: "Hello?" I thought I heard my co-worker moving in that direction to see what was up, but then a few minutes later: "Hello?" Looked like it was gonna be up to me. So down the stairs I plodded, and immediately found myself face-to-face with a short, pudgy, balding man seemingly of Indian descent, whom I will call "Mandeep" for the purposes of discretion.  "Hello sir, is there somebody I can talk to here? This is the AVN?" he asked me. "Well yes, what do you need?" I asked. "I have traveled so far, I just need to talk with somebody who can help me," he implored. "OK ... what's happening? What's your question?" I persisted. "I want to find out how can I get into the industry?...

Alert: Natalie Portman Is on IG

I may very well be the last person to know this, but whatever, the important thing here is that my all-time dream woman has a social media account, and it's on the pictures one, so fuckity-fuckin-a-diggity. This is a red letter day. For me specifically.

Did I ever tell you about the time I was in an elevator with Natalie Portman? Yeah, it was right after I went to Saturday Night Live that one time, which was way back before she was in Star Wars. I told her I was a really big fan, and she looked blankly over my shoulder and said, "Thank you." It was awesome.

Anyway, I really have nothing further to add, except for this post of her and a giant cauliflower:


(Oh yeah, btw ... that picture at the top is NOT from Natalie Portman's IG.)

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