Some of you might already know the Great Paul Westerberg Story of April 2002 - the one wherein our trusty heroine (that's me, silly) gets to interview the amazing Paul Westerberg (of the Replacements, of course) in a hotel room in San Francisco before an in-store performance at Virgin Records. The interview was for Pop Culture Press magazine and of course I had to bring Cory - being that's he one of the world's biggest Paul fans and all...anyway, to make a long story short, the interview went great - Paul answered the door smoking a cigar and the three of us talked for more than an hour. At the end of the interview Cory asked if we could take some pictures of Paul and he happily obliged. Cory snapped a few pictures and then asked if he could take a picture of Paul and I together. Paul said sure - but we'd have to do it in bed. Ummm, yeah - so I didn't have a problem with that - especially when he wanted to "pretend" he was sleeping and rested his head against my chest.

Lemme tell you, it's probably the only time my husband is going to (happily) let me be in bed with another man. (For the record - I got a picture of Cory in bed with Paul as well - only they're not quite so cozy...)
Anyway, those are the resulting pictures. And yeah, I know I look goofy...but I'm happy, damn it.
After the interview we hightailed to Virgin (for a review of that knock-down, drag-'em-out performance, go here) - we were both really happy with how well the interview went - hell, I was giddy for days - what girl wouldn't be?
That moment easily captured the number one spot in my "top celebrity encounters" list (beating out the time Courtney Love threatened to kick my ass....) ...until now.
A few weeks ago Cory got a CD from a friend featuring a copy of Paul's in-store in Philadelphia. At some point during the set Paul decided to set his tour itinerary to song and perform it for the crowd....
...so, umm...yeah...so what if he mangles my name? Dude - I'm in a Paul Westerberg song! (The use of the word "song" being relative of course) (it's a little over a minute so it shouldn't take to long to download...)
Oh, and for the record...I never said he couldn't touch me...