Neil Armstrong - used to play celebrity golf tournaments.
I got Buzz Aldrin’s at some university watch party for some incoming space probe pictures.
Douglas Adams. Came across a signing and by random had borrowed the hardcover of So Long and Thanks For All the Fish (with the hologram on the front) and took it as a sign. Paid off the library…
Ihhave never asked nor otherwise seeked out an autograph in my life, yet somehow I ended up with…
Judith Hoag who played April O’Neal in the 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. I was friends with her nephew for a while and when he asked if I wanted her autograph I said “sure”.
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Joseph Barbara of Hanna-Barbera. My work put me in close proximity to him for a while, just a couple of years before he passed, and I think that he just signed pictures to give him something to do when he came in the office.
I think that’s it. Nothing all that exciting, even if I was the type to get excited about autographs.
Alan Rickman, the entire Voyager cast and half the LOTR cast.
TempleOS signed by Terry Davis.
I burned it to a DVD and mailed it to him for an autograph, back when he still had stable housing. I think maybe 2015.
Alan Tudyk, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, and Summer Glau.
To-Do: Nathan Filion, Adam Baldwin, Morena Baccarin, and Gina Torres
RIP Ron Glass
Also, B. Dylan Hollis, is a wonderful and lovely human being.
I’ve got autographs with personal dedication from Terry Pratchett and Arthur C. Clarke. And a few others.
Joe DiMaggio
I have a bass guitar autographed by Steve Vai, Tosin Abasi, Yngwie Malmsteen, Nuno Bettencourt, and Zakk Wylde. It was my first “real” instrument that I got for my 17th birthday, the bass that I learned on, and has been by my side my whole life. She’s retired and hangs on the wall in my studio.
I have an autographed original drawing. Unfortunately, it’s a drawing of the Sandman, by Neil Gaiman. Yeah… I don’t have that on display in my house anymore.
Brendan Frasier, although I haven’t actually met him in person. His mom worked at the same place as my mom, and they arranged to get me a signed Encino Man poster.
Afroman. We were watching the trial on the news and I asked myself “Does this dude still tour?”. Coincidentally, when I looked it up, he was going to be in the same tiny Midwest town we were visiting in only a few days, so I bought tickets. The guy is a born entertainer!
NASCAR driver Josh Wise.
Cringy as it is to think about now, I was swept up in all the DogeCar hype back in 2014. Made sure to pre-order a die cast as soon as I could, and the driver signed it for me later, at an unrelated race.
Also, Skweezy Jibbs. He signed my brother’s pants at a movie theater a few weeks ago, and then my brother gifted me the pants.
Arnold Schwarzenegger. When he was running for govenor, he had a rally nearby a doctors office I just happened to have an appointment at near the same time and I was able to get in line to shake hands and get the autograph. I’m not sure if I still have the autograph book he signed tho. My mom had it stored with a bunch of my old kid stuff growing up and I don’t think it was brought with us when we moved and I can’t ask her now since she’s no longer with us. Gotta go through all the stuff still packed up in the closets.
I also got Mitch Hedberg’s autograph. It’s just not the Mitch Hedberg you might have imagined upon reading that. But he is/was also a comedian. Saw him and a couple other small time comedians at a local club. His name was a large part of his set.
