I’m jumping up and down – GIDDY with excitement!!! Yes, I have an other little small-world gem to share.
So as you may or may not know and/or care, I’ve been in the world o’blog since June or July of this year. Via the blog of one of my dearest friends, karenlessscripted, I’ve become acquainted with a most awesome blogger, Runningonsober.
I’m convinced that we’d have been friends in high school, she wore/wears Doc Martins, prom dresses from Hot Topic and likes the Butthole Surfers. Those three items would pretty much seal-the-deal.
One thing that she always comments about on my blog (another reason I just LOVE her – she comments!) are my small world stories. I seem to have a ton of them. When I’m not actively collecting crazies off the street; I’m finding out the most amazing connections between people.
Soooooo – one day Runningonsober was nominated for a (well deserved) blog award. And one of the things she did was reveal some interesting tidbits about her self as per the ‘instructions’ of being a recipient of the award.
I hope by now you can see where this story is going….
Her first tidbit went like this – and I quote:
In my past life (i.e. a few years ago), I was a semi-pro poker player.
HOLY CRAP- THERE IT IS!!!!! I couldn’t type in my question FAST ENOUGH!
Q: Let’s see if we can find the SMALL WORLD CONNECTION….
OK – Do you know a Huck Seed from your Poker days?
Of course she did!
A: Huck Seed? Huckleberry? Yes ma’am. Tall as the sky and on the quiet side. I didn’t know him well, but he was always very friendly to me. And freaky smart.
Ok – I don’t know Huck Seed, per se, but his cousin is one of my very dear & wonderful friends. She was a Seed too…just not a Huckleberry, Cotton or Caraway Seed… I consider THAT a close enough connection.
DID YOU HEAR THAT KEVIN BACON??? I don’t need no six stinkin’ degrees…two to three work just fine.
The Mercenary Researcher 
Wow late to the party here and love the descriptions being bandied about by my lovely and wonderful Canadian bloggers/friends and you too of course, Ruta. I have discovered Running on Sober as well. She is gracious enough to leave me comments and I must follow her as well.
I love this world!
Butthole Surfers and dock martins make give me high school flashbacks (that have nothing to do with the LSD I was also taking at the time … aaahhh misspent youth).
I love the small world stories, and I’m even happier that they have nothing to do with faeries or gnomes. I know that you have people in Ottawa, and I grew up near Ottawa, so your people and me probably spent time in the same places, like Hwy 417. SO AMAZING.
It’s like we’re cousin-buttholesurfer-sisters. Well, if you know any Bova’s, they might belong to me. I’ve only met a cousin of my father’s (and that cousin’s nephew) once as an adult.
Please kiss Hwy 417 for me – but no where the skunk was killed in ’07 – I wish I was in Canadialand right now….
I liked Pepper and Jesus Built My Hotrod. I’m sorry to be so lame.
There’s still time to like the Butthole Surfers, Hotspur
I saw them at the first Lolla – isn’t that enough?
It’s never enough – did you palluza too?
“Collecting crazies off the street…” Hey, I resemble that remark!
I think it’s so cool that you wrote about this. I love random connections! I’m sure we’d have many many more. (I used to call on Circle K Corp, I may have even met you at a Circle K gas pump or sumthin’.)
Of course we’d be best buds in school; we just got a late start, that’s all!
Loved the post… Keep ’em coming!
I’m glad I we got our connection all connected up!
That’s VERY cool!!! All of a sudden the world shrinks down to a manageable size, right? It’s comforting. Good detective work on your part, I might add.
I’m a little gopher nosing around…
Thanks!!
More like a cute little prairie dog… All brave and inquisitive and awesome… 🙂
Hee hee…
I liked for two reasons: Six degrees of Kevin Bacon and Butthole Surfers. 🙂
WHOO HOO!!! Who doesn’t love the Butthole Surfers???
Sad people… sad people don’t.
True.
I have often used my 2-degree connection to Huck Seed for conversational fodder!
Zann (Lisa’s mother-in-law, who also just loves those Seed sibling names!)
Who wouldn’t???? I don’t blame you – I’d use it ALL THE TIME!! Thank you for reading. I have heard many lovely things about you from Lisa 🙂 – we miss Lisa & Ian a ton in Tucson. My son idolizes Ian!
Those are awesome names – I hope I got them all right – I know at least 2/3 were correct. Thanks for commenting, Zann!
I idolize Ian! and Lisa, too. There’s a fourth Seed and I always forget it, too. Let me think….oh, who am I kidding, I’m googling. It’s Leif. Which is a planty sort of name, but not a seed, so no wonder it is hard to remember.
Ha ha …such a Norwiegan (sp) name 🙂
Cool. Huck Seed is awesome.
hee hee – so is his cousin, Lisa!
The Kevin Bacon thing you have to Xplain to me…I’m oblivious to this – but I don’t want to be! It’s Kevin Bacon!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon
Six degrees of seperation to ‘knowing’ Kevin Bacon – it’s weird pop-culture…. 🙂
Ah. It actually sounds familiar now. I think Stephen Colbert might have done that on his show with random things (he’s my missing link to pop-culture).
Him & Jon Stewart are my ONLY links to pop-culture. I’m a pop-culture failure and a kevin bacon disliker. I suck at trivial pursuit…unless it’s ‘England in the 11th-15th century’, or ‘music not on the radio’ edition.
We share the likes!
I like Kevin Bacon alright, though. I’m not sure if there’s any TP category that I wouldn’t suck at, although I think I’m somewhat educated…work in progress, though, always work in progress…
For me it’s not being educated – it’s a matter of retaining specific bits of information – if it’s bizarro – sticks right in the craw … if not … well…maybe not. I’ve also NEVER watched an awards show – I just don’t give a flip. But I don’t care that other people do 🙂 – I do live under a rock (with my favorite bands).