Thoughts of an anniversary

Today is Sly Stallone's 60th birthday.

Years ago, very many years ago, I must have been a young teenager at the time, I was in boarding school and me and a friend of mine thought it'd be a good idea to send him a fan letter, a big birthday card and fan note. We thought we'd get a response on it because, some other girl had been writing to Kevin Costner (who at that time was a bigger star) and he had responded, with an autographed picture from his new movie "Dances with Wolves." So we thought of something unique to write on the letter, unique for two 15 years olds, and then we put as much stamp as possible so the mail room wouldn't return it, and off the letter went.

Needless to say we never got a response. Just my luck, right. I only remember this now because of two things. I still write fan letters, I am in my early thirties, and I still write fan letters. As a matter of fact I wrote one last night, currently resisting the urge to run and check my email for a response. I wrote one to Interview editors asking them to interview Keanu, and I wrote one to Details responding to their article on Keanu (that one did get published), I also wrote one to Gavin, (which wasn't a very good one) and then, the one last night was to Sir Dane Cook, with his one million plus friends on Myspace. My newest and latest obsession. What is a 32 year old woman doing writing him or any fan letters at all. However, that's just me, 16 years later I am still writing fan letters.

The second reason why I remember this is because I just got back from Philly, the sights and sounds of Rocky. Everywhere you turn there's some tribute to Rocky, his poster, some place he visited in the movie, most especially the museum steps that he climbed on top of and made it a part of movie history. It became a part of my history. I don't think that when I wrote that letter I thought, there would come a time when I would actually visit this place, and strike a pose just like he did, but it happened. Some dreams come true even when you don't imagine them to be.

Life is weird and believing in miracles or circumstances, or happenstances is even weirder. And if you are like me, that you just do whatever makes you feel good, even though it is three levels below your age, that is a weitd tale to live up to.

I will post pictures from my trip trying to revive this thing a bit. I have 5 weeks to my first exam and I am fooling with this blog.