Micah Laaker

I met John back at the StanLee.net launch party.

Common was having dinner with his lady at City Crab in New York at the same time I was having dinner with Gary Coleman. Gary went up to say hi, and C and I exchanged “Hey”s.

I am a fan of this guy.

I bumped into Tim Robbins several times when working at Iguana Studios (16 W 19 ST) back in New York. His company was on the top floor of the building, and we shared several long, slow elevator rides together.

One day, after just having watched “Arlington Road,” I turned to him and said, “Dude… just saw Arlington Road yesterday.” He replied, “Yeah? What did you think?”

I said, “Can’t say that I liked it. However, it had a great depressing ending… and I like that a lot.” He nodded in a strange fashion, and then we didn’t talk any more.

Steck got beat handsomely in Nintendo’s Tecmo Bowl, a game he had supposedly mastered, simply by me mashing all the buttons on the NES control pad with each play.

Got to watch Christina do 20 radio promos right in a row, and then dive into discussing what she wanted on her soon-to-be-developed Island website.

I met Bob when doing security for his show back at the University of Kansas. Dude sat down with me to talk about the poster I made for the event, and our mutual frustrations and techniques for using Quark XPress. Good guy. Good show.

My meetup with Gary was particularly memorable. Good guy, and good fun.

Dude hooked me up with Paul Simon’s “The Rhythm of the Saints” back when bootleggin’ was on metallic tape. B is one cool kid.

Micah Laaker is the design manager for Yahoo!’s Personalization Products Group and My Yahoo! He lives in California’s sunny Palo Alto with his wife and mammoth music collection, and he is known for his affinity to his home state: Nebraska.