October 16, 2006

Brush With Shiny

From something I noticed in the most recent alumni magazine, it turns out that Joss Whedon was a classmate of mine in college.

I'm sure that this will provoke the "yeah, right" response, but I thought there was something very vaguely familiar about the guy when I watched those making-of-Firefly bits on my DVD set. Thinking on it further, I have a recollection of seeing somebody very much like him - only with much longer and stringier hair - loafing about WestCo, my residential dorm.

Fellow alums of the People's Glorious Soviet of Middletown CT will have little, if any, trouble with the credibility of such a recollection.

Just thought you'd like to know.

UPDATE:

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Think if I asked nicely he'd swing me a meeting? (And before you suggest I should be aiming elsewhere, I say this: box to your weight.)

YIPS from Steve-O: Just for the record, we're not the only blog with a bit of a, errrrm, problem, when it comes to Firefly.

For the record part deux: I've never seen either the show or the movie. I'm more of a Brisco County sort of dude anyway.

Posted by Robert at October 16, 2006 08:09 AM | TrackBack
Comments

I am a little surprised you are just coming to realize this. He was the cover feature of Pravda on the Connecticut alumni magazine a few years back. Just so you also know, Bill Belichick also went to "Ole Wes. Nick Saban did not.

Posted by: LB Buddy at October 16, 2006 04:21 PM

Yeah, well you have to realise (a) I never read the alum magazine except to see if my name's in the class notes and (b) I only started watching Firefly this year and have never paid any attention to anything else's he's done. So prior to that I wouldn't have known Whedon from Joe-Shmoe.

I did know about Belichek, however. Bastard.

Posted by: Robbo the LB at October 16, 2006 04:56 PM