Meeting Wesley Willis
On knowing the worth of your work
Meeting Frank Orrall (and all the rest of the Poi Dogs)
On family, and home, and standing exactly where you're supposed to be
Meeting Billy Corgan
On being friends vs. friendly and understanding relationships
Meeting Everclear's Art Alexakis
On being friendly but not being friends
Meeting Steve Yahn
On building, not burning bridges
Meeting Mitch Albom
On finding the path to your path...
Meeting Dr. Welch
On turning disappointment into fuel
Meeting Doc Rosenquist
On passion and its applications, and nurturing strays...
Meeting Robin Williams
I grew up, of course, watching Mork and Mindy, which oddly was a spin off of Happy Days. I assume the episode where an alien visits the Cunningham’s was...
Meeting Count Scary
On the heroes who live next door
Meeting Boy George
On the complication of identity and time.
Meeting Mr. T.
On having plans and loving it when they come together.
Meeting Rick Kogan
On historians and history and seizing the present...
Meeting Rick Steves
How someone else's hero can become one of yours, too
Meeting DJ John Richards
On the power of music and connection, of community and radio.
Meeting Ernie Harwell
On baseball and solid stories, well-told.
Sterling Morrison
On going where the story is, and never being surprised by who's there to tell it
Moe Tucker
From the mini-series, Meeting the Velvet Underground: Lou Reed, John Cale, Moe Tucker, and Sterling Morrison I was lucky to be at the height of my Velvet...
John Cale
A story of talent and practice
Keanu Reeves
Stretching the definition of both "meeting" and "hero" but sometimes that's better