Hello World!
This blog post is LOOONNGG overdue but I needed time to ensure that it was written flatteringly since I do not want to alienate one of the people that I admire, yet I have never had the honor of meeting.
Those who know me know that I am so far from a groupie. I rarely get excited about a person's fame, but I do get excited about their accomplishments and achievements. Not necessarily in what they may have done for the world or society, but for what they have meant in my life and have meant to me on a personal scale. There are really only a handful or celebrities that I feel have contributed to my life in that way and some of them are not even considered 'celebrities' in the way say, Beyoncé, or Kevin Hart may be viewed as one. By celebrity I mean they have caused me to pay attention and follow what they are doing in the entertainment field because they are just that interesting. TO ME. Of those very few, one is Eminem, and the other is Chelsea Handler.
Eminem really should not need a bio here but if he does, then maybe you really should just go crawl back into the hole you live in because you are on my nerves ALREADY in your ignorance. He is a rap artist, but he certainly is more than that to me. He is a poet, he is an urban storyteller, who despite the fact that he is white crosses into the Black culture not only by virtue of the type of music he chose to do (rap, and so many STILL ignorantly attribute RAP to BLACK ONLY) but also because his life story and struggle seems to relate to what we selfishly think is only what WE as a people go through. I listen to his words and FEEL what he is saying and I empathize with his identity issues as well as his relationship with his mother. I mean I say all of that, but not to look like a crazy stalker fan or anything, I must also say I will so totally leave my life and be his slave if he asked. (Ok got that outta my system and we all know it sure isn't his lyrics that will cause this adulation. I so love this man) But anyway, my crazy stalker fan dual personality jumped out and wrote THAT line!~sorry
Chelsea Handler, on the other hand speaks to me because she IS me! I swear she is my white sister! We are born days apart, and she is my Pisces sista, she tells it like it is and really truly seems to NOT GIVE A GOTDAMN what ANYBODY has to say. I, too tend to spout off in my opinions and feelings on a subject and rarely give a thought to how ANYONE is going to receive it. SO WHAT if you don't like it?! Don't listen. I became a fan of Chelsea's when my cousin Erick told me about her show. I tuned in and was hooked. Her take on today's celebrities and issues is so in tune with what I think and her humor is so contagious to someone like myself who finds humor in almost anything. Like, seriously, I can be at a FUNERAL and find something funny. NOT in a disrespectful way, but in the way of like seriously???! That's what and where they are gonna do THIS at? After watching her show for a few weeks in it's infancy, I researched this funny gal that I felt an instant affinity with and just loved her more and more. Her humor is hysterical and her outlook is just so in tune with all the things I feel, say believe and believe in. I went to the library and read ALL of her books and once I agreed that she was well deserving of NYT bestseller status I went out and bought all of them to support my white sister from another mister. I DVRed her show as I worked overnight, and every morning before going to sleep after my shift, I would get Lately with Chelsea.
During this time, I fell in fan mode with many of her round table guests. Loni Love, Sarah Colonna, Ben Glieb, Chuy, and so many others became my go to for funny when I wanted to laugh, but I fell in love with the humor of Josh Wolf and Jo Koy. These two just stood out to me in the way they delivered, the dynamics they created with the other cast members as well as their jokes and perceptions of the daily topics. BUT if you know the two I speak of, Josh Wolf is unarguably the more attractive of the two and in keeping with my' I never had a white boy but if I did, I would definitely give it up to THAT one bucket list', Josh Wolf became one of my favorite people. I wished feverently every morning as I tuned in that he was on the round table that show, and I was truly disappointed (if not still entertained) when he was not.
I had always followed Eminem and Chelsea on FB and TWITTER because I am truly interested in what they say and what they are doing, so I began adding some of the lesser people I admired (a little) to my follow list and imagine my excitement when I followed my boy JOSH AND (OMG in my biggest valley girl voice n schreech) he followed back AND he answered a tweet like right away!
Now allow me to say this first, I do not think of Chelsea and Josh as the iconic A list celebrities who are unreachable; well not by the standards that Hollywood says makes you a celebrity but to ME, these people that I admire are celebrities of that status and they do enrapture me. It would be an honor to shake their hand and just sit and shoot the turds with them on why I think they are so great, but more importantly for them to see how great I actually am, and why they are that much more iconic because someone like me who reserves judgement and adoration toward those bigshots that are shoved in our face as deserving and instead give it to people like THEM who some may think are UNDESERVING of adoration (people are just mules and cattle, I swear).
Of course, I also fear that I will come across as an arrogant nobody to them but since I have so little on my list of people who are actually important in the entertainment field (well, important to ME), I like to think that they will just as instantly as I gravitated toward them, they just as instantly see that I am more impressed with what they stand for than for any celebrity status they may have.
Saying all that, we get to the juice of the story~Josh Wolf, aka sexy azz white boy that makes me laugh and can wear a hat better than any brother from my hood wears a fitted, I swear!! But anyway, I digress...
I tweeted Josh about tickets to the show because I was lax in my research on HIM and did not know he had his own venues and shows. I also thought wow, I can see Chelsea and him and collaborate with TWO of my favorite celebrities at one time. He graciously told me that anytime I wanted, let him know and he would make it happen. I patted myself on the back because my judgement seemed to be on point. This guy was a nice guy and responded right away. Again, I attribute ICON A list status to my favorite celebrities so in my mind, he is in his 450 million dollar mansion and does not HAVE to even be bothered with me, yet he is. The reality is, he probably is in his split level just trying to make a buck and simply likes to please and communicate with his fans. Be that as it may, this is MY imagination and I put my boi in a 450 million dollar mansion so let's leave him there, please and thank you!!
I never went on that trip to California so I did not ever contact Josh about those tickets, BUT I still watched every show and drooled over every episode he was on. Again, I am not a crazy stalker fan, I am his admirer people and there is a difference. A few actually. I will explain. A crazy stalker would tweet him every day, send him naked pics and claim to love him, I on the other hand will not send him naked pics (unsolicited, lol) and I tweet him when there is a subject that we need to tweet about. Also unlike a crazy stalker fan I do not profess to love what I do not know, but as an ADMIRER, I do profess to like ALOT what I think I know. It IS confusing, but you do have to applaud my attempt to distinguish myself from the crazy stalkers, if I do say so myself.
In August I actually MOVED to California, but for one reason or another, I never pursued my desire to visit the show. Maybe because it was a big move and I was so focused on getting settled and finding a job, but I did not even think, "hey girl, you are like RIGHT HERE, soooo you need to get those tickests", yet I continued to faithfully watch the show and follow Josh and his hysterical antics on twitter. (I had told a few people excitedly how Josh followed me back and even tweeted with me, but their reaction made me feel like maybe I WAS a crazy stalker fan and I can't just slap every one who doesn't understand the difference so I kept it to myself. Like really, just because you are not impressed with my funny white boi, you don't have to be a big fat HATA about it!)
So I came home to NY for obvious reasons which really boil down to how can you really live anywhere else once you have lived here? But my daughter stayed in LA. I visited her this March and while on my way to the airport, I noticed a tweet by who else, JOSH wolf and I had an AHAHAAA moment. What better chance than now to get those tickets and go see the show and get to meet not only Josh, but Chelsea as well? I was going on vacation so had time on my hands. I tweeted Josh, and true to his nice guyness, he tweeted right back. Alas, I was going to be in Cali for the weekend, and the show did not tape on the weekend!! But Josh happened to have a show at the Comedy Store in Hollywood that Saturday! I was super excited and we shared a few inconsequential tweets about the venue and I assured him I would definitely be there.
I get to Cali and made plans to go the show. I was super excited because I love comedy shows and I was finally going to meet one of the few celebrities I admire and get a picture with him and hopefully hang out with him. (like c'mon people, I am one of the coolest people ever, so as soon as he met me, he was going to want to hang! NOT in a crazy stalker I wish he takes me to meet his mom way, but in a OMG Josh Wolf is so hot and one of my favorite celebrities and I am only here for the weekend so you better stop playing and get on this pretty brown round kinda way~I KNOW yall see the difference right?)
I get there way late because my friend that I so generously invited to go with me did not understand nor did she respect my admiration of this man and my excitement of this event picked me up late and to my horror, surprise, and aggravation, the man tells me that Josh cancelled but John Capparillo (probably spelled wrong, but when you are the co star in a story starring JOSH WOLF you must expect some things to just glaringly put and keep you in your place sir, IJS) and a few other comedians I did recognize would be performing. URGGGH n EELK, but I am here so I may as well go ahead...
I did actually enjoy the show (well since I am an honest person, I will remain true to me, I enjoyed the first 4 or 5 performances and then the reality of what I was missing AKA Josh WOLF kicked in and I had to leave. Not to mention that we sat next to the bathroom and white girl wasted is a state that I had to hear and experience numerous times as they trekked to the bathroom so it was getting real dangerous for white Hollywood chicks the longer I sat there)
I tweeted Josh of course and threatened a Twitter beef that I soooo wanted to start but how can I when my admiration for him was till in tact and he DID apologize. (I mean he IS sitting in a 450 million dollar mansion so an apology in the form of 2 tickets to Cali AND tickets to Chelsea would have been better than an "OH, you went to the Comedy Store and I wasn't there? SORRY" tweet, but we are talking about my imagination and reality lines blurring so we will not go there)
In saying all of that I wanted to finish with this:
Josh, you are still one of my favorite comedians, and even though you stood me up (not like I thought we had a date, geesh what do you think, I am crazy stalker fan or something??!!) I still admire you for your humor, your accomplishments, your single daddy status (that's what your bio says, so tell your wife to deal with your publicist buddy) and your totally effortless way you wear that hat AND I also still totally want to rip that same hat off your head and run my fingers through your hair as you so desperately beg to touch my pretty brown round!! Oh, and yes, I would also still like to see you live! (that is if I didn't scare you off with the whole I am NOT a crazy stalker fan, but due to me trying to explain how I am NOT I may well SEEM to be!!)
Keep tweeting and keep on doing what you do, you are loved!!
~Cracey
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