Chronic namedropping and associated crimes

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So I was in this cool media-hangout bar the other day, having drinks with Zadie and Dave E., when this subject came up. What do you really think about people who non-stop throw out signals that they are zeitgeisty insider type people who know hip novelists and indie movie makers and edgy style magazine editors and the like? Then Zadie turned to me and asked: "why don't you post a thread about it?", as she handed me an advance copy of her latest novel.

― media insider, Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i've only ever met one person who did this, but they were a wanker regardless

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:06 (twenty-two years ago)

It bugs me a little bit, but nobody I know really well does it.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

If this question is bait it's pretty lame.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I love them, dahling, mwah! They're so beyond...

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

my mate sarah cracknell does this all the time.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Fortunately I don't know anyone who does this. I don't know you either, but I'm pretty sure I'd like to smack you.

― Prude (Prude), Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally I always find bitchiness more slapable than name dropping.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially if it's not even funny.

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Namedrops keep falling on my head.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

But that doesn't mean a guy is too big for his bed

― Anna (Anna), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing seems to fit, as I said to mick

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

All my friends are famous, making name dropping unavoidable.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

.. and you are?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Hipster rank-pulling is extremely boring and dud, but thankfully most people grow out of it once they hit their thirties.

― thing of thing, Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i happen to know quite a few people in this category and mentioning them isn't necessarily name-dropping, particularly if they're being discussed already. crowbarring them into a conversation no matter what is pretty boring and pointless, but even suzy doesn't do that too often.

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 22 April 2004 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Another anonymous creep. Great.

― Kerry (dymaxia), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

More namedropping pls it's amusing.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

courtney says it's not name dropping if you have their home phone number.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I drop my own name all the time.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

courtney says it's not name dropping if you have their home phone number.

And you have hers?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I namedrop my friends as if people should know who they are. "Oh, I was talking to Jonathan Smith and Hannah Sanderson last night and he said . . . "

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Grout, she's probably talking about the Courtney from DandyWarhols.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I love namedropping on ILX because no one knows who I'm talking about.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

If this question is bait it's pretty lame.

Tracer is correct.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave Stelfox OTM. Ya know if there are people who are known in some circles that I know that come up, well what am I supposed to say? "Yeah, Mr. X who cannot be named blah blah blah". I mean c'mon. Everybody knows somebody, it's the music business for God's sake. Who cares?

It's especially hard when you hear somebody (who does not know the person they are talking about) say something innaccurate or clueless about that person. I try very hard to bite my tongue but do not succeed as often as I should. The bit about the home phone is a pretty good rule, except for people who used to be friends and the circles have since moved away, but you were in the same circle for a significant amount of time.

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 23 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Get the broom, you can sweep up the names off the floor coz we're done here!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 23 April 2004 06:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Dave & Orbit otm!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

on the flip side of dan perry, i usually don't know the names that are being dropped. plus, i have a terrible memory for names. so i have to kind of smile and nod and sometimes ask generic questions about the person/people.

so it totally doesn't work on me. this probably means that i, not the name dropper, am the dud.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I namedrop my friends as if people should know who they are. "Oh, I was talking to Jonathan Smith and Hannah Sanderson last night and he said . . . "

Best idea evah!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha, Colette OTM. This has happened to me more than you would think. I just kind of nod and continue in the conversation as if the namedropper had just mentioned some of their friends. It's awkward when there's a pregnant pause on the namedropper's part where they expect you to recognise the name the name and be impressed, and you just kind of look blankly back at them. But more awkward on the namedropper's part.

(God this thread just reminds me how glad I am to be out of the music industry...)

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I am more concerned with whether what the person is saying is interesting. But since I am rarely that interested in people who I don't know from Adam, whether famous or not, it might amount to the same thing.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 23 April 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

it was bait. mediainsider has not replied once.probably too dull to write their heat magazine or smash hits article themselves.
all Heat mag slags die

― splatter, Friday, 23 April 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll write it for them. Cheap! I'm not proud.

― penelope_11, Friday, 23 April 2004 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Bad name-dropping: name comes up from out of nowhere, apropos of nothing in particular, seemingly only to establish one's coolness. This can definitely be annoying, but it usually makes me feel kind of embarassed for the person doing it rather than hotly angry.

Good name-dropping is done with a slight acknowledgement of the "strangeness" of knowing the person whose name is dropped. Not that it is strange in itself, but name-dropping by definition is done in the company of those who are more removed from said celeb than the speaker. Purposefully ignoring that fact aligns the speaker closely with the celeb at the expense of the listener. I.e. the speaker affirms his/her position above and apart from the listener in whatever sphere.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, otm re feeling embarrassed or pity for those name-dropping in an attempt to convey coolness.

I certainly wouldn't feel angry or annoyed, just cringey, squirmy feelings on their behalf.

It's also damn rude when done to someone in an attempt to make them feel like an outsider or excluded in some way. I've seen this happen and it's pathetic.

― penelope_11, Friday, 23 April 2004 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

The weird thing is, most of the compulsive name-droppers that I've known have actually done it out of insecurity. They suffer from social awkwardness of some kind, so whenever they feel conversation flagging, or they feel socially uncomfortable, they just kind of instinctually try to make themselves look cooler and therefore feel better by this sort of spasm of associating themselves with a "Celeb".

I feel sorry for them more than I hate them.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I will keep name-dropping until you people all finally realize how important I am.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Put it this way: It's obvious enough when name-droppers are legit and when they're just insecure, starstruck bottom-feeder scenesters. Although a lot of scenesters see to it to push their way into more "legit" situations because they're so insecure and starstruck in the first place. I can usually tell which is which though and if it's done with grace it doesn't bother me one bit.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 23 April 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly, Jody; it can be done okay, or it can be done poorly, and yeah it's usually pretty apparent which is which.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 23 April 2004 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Personally I always find bitchiness more slapable than name dropping.

absolutely

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it still name-dropping if the person in question comes up in conversation and you say, "Oh I met/know/(drank with) him/her (once)" and continue on with a (story about)/(impression of) the person?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Depends on the context, really. Generally, name-dropping isn't "I met this person once" but "I know this person, have this amazing connection to this person..." etc.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yes Dan. Just say "Ms/Mr. X"

― Ask For Samantha (thatgirl), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Oh I met Jim Bowen once. Marvellous, champion, ay it'll take me five minutes to count this"

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

(I haven't met Jim Bowen, actually. I Have met Jeremy Beadle, but that's another story)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Now you see, that's infinitely more impressive. Admitting to knowing/meeting arseholes. Although I guess one man/woman's arsehole is another's golden orifice.

― penelope_11, Friday, 23 April 2004 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

How can you be name-dropping if the person has already come up and you have a funny/interesting story about them that involves you? I would think that would fall under the category of "continuing the conversation".

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Intent, your honour.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

OK, you twisted me arm... (sort of)

Back when I was in the Ska band I mentioned before, today, our 'leader' decided that everyone should do a questionaire regarding themselves, and one of the categories was 'claim to fame' sort of thing. (It was meant to be put together for a promo handout for getting gigs, I think it was just so everyone could know each other better, fair enough).

So anyhow, singer had but down the 'famous' people he'd met. JB being one, and how he'd shaken his withered hand. "Oh, you have as well", said I (I hadn;t added this on my sheet btw.) "I did at a quiz night thing, how did you?" "umm, I didn't actually, I just went to a garden fete he opened."

(After this incident, we also got told how he was a close personal friend of Paul Weller, and the tales just came coming. All bullshit and quite obviously so...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 23 April 2004 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 25 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You haven't already? Then who was that replicant I saw at the farmer's market yesterday?

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll need photo verification and proof of appropriate hair-length. Or else he's OFF THE PAYROLL.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

He did have a tie-dyed t-shirt though, so I had my doubts. Maybe it was one of the more hippie-ish Cure tour t-shirts.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Those were the bootlegs, which I would never buy. I am pure. Still, at least he tried.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Nedbots are everywhere!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Bloop.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, what, you have photos of me randomly snogging some bloke while on tour? maybe 5 years ago, that would have brought my wrath, but now everyone from Exeter to Newcastle has photos of me snogging random blokes out tour... :;sticks out tongue::

OK, about the "bitchiness" comments, maybe the original anon question was bitchy, but for the most part there has been a refreshing lack of bitchiness in the rest of it. Bitchiness is common to all walks of life, but namedropping thrives in only certain circumstances. I've been either in on the fringes of various music scenes and/or the music "business" and unfortunately, I've met so many chronic namedroppers that perhaps I'm more sensitised.

It's an interesting question! What exactly is namedropping? Is it something definable, or is it in the eye of the beholder? And is it necessarily bad, and if not under what circumstances is it acceptable and why? Why does it irritate people, if it does?

We've already drawn a line with "it's not namedropping if you have their home phone number" or the idea that it's not namedropping if it is actually business. (Though to be honest, in my experience, the more a record company person namedrops, the lower down on the ladder they actually are.)

But what about the line between namedropping and gossip? I keep thinking about that, and the conclusion I've drawn is that gossip is a mutual, participatory action. It's a social exchange that involves two people sharing information on an equal footing. "Chronic" namedropping is an exclusionary, dominance-asserting activity. It's one person trying to place themselves above the other by closer proximity to the object of discussion.

So that's why I can be OK with gossip, and still be irritated by namedropping.

Anyway... sorry, you know how interesting this whole area is to me, where social interaction is shaped by the whole new religion of celebrity mythology.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, what, you have photos of me randomly snogging some bloke while on tour?

Just the bartender guy with dreads. I mentioned that once and you said never ever to post them! So I haven't.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, you disappoint me.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

D'oh.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

i find this annoying

i wish i didn't have the occasional temptation to do it myself

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the key is to make your name-dropping andecdotes relevant, and not just random interjections. "yeah, i like turkey sandwiches too. one time momus pissed on my hat."

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

also if you have an anecdote about a celebrity, it's not always necessary to reconstruct the chain of connections by which you came into knowledge of the anecdote. "momus once pissed on someone's trucker hat" is probably better than "momus, who as my sister's ex-boyfriend once attended a really happening party in my soho flat, once pissed on someone's trucker hat."

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard that there's a bar in new york called milk and honey where no-one is allowed to namedrop or exchange phone numbers and if they do they're escorted out. is this true?

sort of.. men are not allowed to approach women (unless they're previously acquainted, of course). one of the other house rules is "no starfucking," which means don't try to talk to anyone famous who might be there.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't have any names to drop.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

and yet, i'm sure the club itself provides numerous opportunities for later namedropping

i'm glad i don't know anyone famous

xpost

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

This place sounds like hell. There is nothing more entertaining that striking up a conversation with someone famous and then making fun of them like they weren't famous.

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i love new york but it seems that half of what i hear about new york are "cute" celebrity anecdotes, which gives it bad associations in my mind

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

i've never seen anyone very well-known there. i think once the regular folk figured out the phone number (it's reservation/nominally members-only), the "stars" moved on. which is awesome, because that leaves more room for me. it may sound yucky, but it's one of the nicest places to drink in new york and has the best drinks, hands-down.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i feel really "jess" on this thread

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

this guy I work with was talking one day very loudly about how "this one time my friend Seth was interviewed for Interview Magazine and blah blah blah", not quite saying the full name so it wasn't a full-on name-drop but saying just enough, you know?

The guy's a complete tool.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this the same dude that is friends with Jeremy P1ven or some equally lame celebrity? (The exact celeb I can't remember)

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, that hurts :(

― Jeremy P1ven (Mark C), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i love new york but it seems that half of what i hear about new york are "cute" celebrity anecdotes, which gives it bad associations in my mind

i like cute celebrity anecdotes in the same way i like small children -- they're charming in small doses, but if i had to be around them all the time i'd kill myself.

― A. Atom Gorgon (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I have your phone number, Jeremy P1ven, and I prank-call you quite often. Sorry.

― Towelette Pettatucci (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

milk and honey is a great bar, i really enjoyed the night i spent there! (i don't mean to imply that i slept there)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

c/d: paris hilton

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

DC namedropping is the best: "As I was saying to my good friend the Deputy Assistant Sub-Director for Micronesian Appropriations the other night...."

Namedropping pitifully non-famous people: Classic.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Friday, 11 February 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this one time my friend Seth was interviewed for Interview Magazine

Seth Green or Seth Cohen? Or Seth Mnookin? Or Seth?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The brother of Osiris?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

JUST SETH.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

how about people who name drop to prove how *above* celebrity they are? that' always weird. there are a couple on this thread in fact.

― shookout (shookout), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I think's Kenan's girlfriend is the closest to a celebrity that I know.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Just the bartender guy with dreads. I mentioned that once and you said never ever to post them! So I haven't.

Did I mention this guy would make a pass at me years later at a different bar while I was taking a piss?

Anyway, while no Los Angeles peeps on ILX would qualify by any means, I have met a lot of people who live in remote parts of greater L.A. who complete trump their social skills by chronically namedropping. It's a weird form of justifying their worth, which is sad, because they'd be ten times more worthy if they just were comfortable with themselves and didn't really care too much about which famous actors or musicians that they said hello to at the local donut shop on Sherman Way or whatever.

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the folks to which I'm referring live in the San Fernando Valley.. so, ironically, they'd most likely be rubbing shoulders with porn stars.

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

(not you, Chaki. Chaki doesn't NEED to namedrop, dammit! He's all of the above yo)

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

that would have been Seth Green he was referring to. He also talked about how he had written a script that sarah Michelle Gellar was attached to but then dropped out on, which was strange in his eyes because, "Sarah is a CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND of mine!"

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the most fun conversations I ever had, with an ex-girlfriend, was the 'famous people you've met' talk. Mine were people who meant something to me, but she'd never heard of any of them - Jack Kirby, Leo Baxendale, John Cooper-Clarke, Wreckless Eric, that kind of thing. Hers were Toni Morrison, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Aretha Franklin, Prince and so on. I loved the vast gulf between the degrees of fame. I only feel comfortable dropping small names, and can only really impress big comic fans.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

It would be a million times more amusing if people name-dropped in the form of blind items: "What status-obsessed starlet was seen in the bathroom of NYC's hottest new restaurant inhaling a little 'nose candy' off the rear end of her (hugely gay) paramour? Because she mentioned to me the other day that the trees outside her apartment door smell like pee."

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to live next door to b3nj@m1n br@tt when he was dating jul1a r0bertz and would see them occasionally. i moved, he still lives there at times i think (1800 block of page st. in SF, a block from amoeba).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

they'd most likely be rubbing shoulders with porn stars.

You'd better hope that it's just their shoulders.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 11 February 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Donut, many many *big* stars live in the Valley.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 11 February 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the phenomenon of fame is really interesting. how certain people 'need it'. the weird kinda-damaged qualities of fame-seekers. the huge difference between who people are and what they present makes me want to talk about it and figure it out. and though namedropping is a fundamentally empty currency, it's a currency nonetheless. maybe i only say that because i live in LA and all my friends work in art/entertainment. so name-dropping gives others a point of reference. like a magazine. you wouldn't buy a magazine if you never heard of anyone on the cover, but if you've heard of a few people you can get a sense of the approach and the world they are working in.

but it's a big peeve of mine when band bios are only made up of namedropping and say absolutely nothing about anything. i read one recently that started off by going into the career of the artist's dad since he was some shitty industry guy in the 70's and managed x, y, z. or some band on myspace that asked me to add them that keeps repeating how they're working with a producer that worked with the pixies. the person tries to appear bigger but ends up seeming so pathetic in how far they have to reach to find names.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Friday, 11 February 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

ut, many many *big* stars live in the Valley.

Haha, you're gonna have to elaborate on "big" for me, given the context ;)

I'm surely guilty of namedropping to impress years ago, and probably occasionally do it today, though I'm far more conscious of it now.

But to play devil's advocate, I have no problems with namedropping if the "known" person(s) involved is/are part of a very entertaining story that's about to be told.

I think namedropping is just a colloquialism associated with people who do nothing BUT namedrop to justify how cool they are. And yes, such people can be annoying after a short time. Definitively speaking, namedropping is harmless, and it is a small world, so it's inevitable.

I'm more annoyed by people who harumph at someone who mentioned someone famous, and who want to "out" namedroppers moreso than the chronic namedroppers themselves.

― donut christ (donut), Friday, 11 February 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

oh im very guilty of namedropping.
(btw, im going to an INDEX MAGAZINE party for ZALDY hosted by PARKER POSEY tonight, if anyone wants to be MY PLUS-ONE)

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 11 February 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i will namedrop when it helps. i always feel kind of guilty about it. plus living in southern california sometimes this is the only way to get stuff done unless... you know... you wanna, like, seem like a nice normal polite well adjusted person with no social hangups at all... but then i would have a hard time doing that... funnily enough most of the people i've met that i would use to namedrop were people that i met while i was working at a blockbuster video in silver lake... i was at the absolute bottom rung of human life.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 11 February 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Hipster rank-pulling is extremely boring and dud, but thankfully most people grow out of it once they hit their thirties. "

unless they are momus, who's managed to carry it on well past 40.

― namedrop (not entirely unhappy), Saturday, 12 February 2005 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Had to get my name into this somewhere, didn't you?

― Momus (Momus), Saturday, 12 February 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Seth Green or Seth Cohen? Or Seth Mnookin? Or Seth?

I think this was back when I thought that Seth Cohen was the name of the actor on The OC and not the character.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

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