Michael's

Shirley MacLaine

2005-10-24T16:37:00.000-04:00

Today I received a photo from Ms. Shirley MacLaine! I had sent her an email asking for a photo for me, my wife and my mother. She sent the one photo to myself and I will try again for my wife and mother. Great actress from MANY wonderful films! info@shirleymaclaine.com

Autograph World Auction Wins

2005-10-20T23:53:00.000-04:00

I was a HUGE "Jackass" fan when the show first came out and have been trying to get Mr. Johnny Knoxville for some time. Thanks to Autograph World for the assist. Great photo to add to my collection!

I have to say that Jason Schwartzman is one of the funniest actors around! I absolutely LOVED "Rushmore" and his character in "Slackers" was by far one of the funniest performances I have ever seen! Great auction win here!! Thanks again to Autograph World!!

Tim Allen

2005-10-11T16:29:00.000-04:00

Got Tim Allen in the mail today. Great actor from "Home Improvement" and a list of other great works. Kinda bummed though because he chose not to sign the Buzz Lightyear photo I had included for my son. I guess I will try him again another time!

Great Start to October!

2005-10-06T23:06:00.000-04:00

I got the following successes this week so far! Great start to my favorite month of the year!

Ms. Alex Borstein aka Lois Griffin on "Family Guy"!! Very funny lady!

Mr. Terry O'Quinn aka John Locke on LOST!! Great addition to my growing LOST collection!!

Slash

2005-10-01T18:00:00.000-04:00

Sent Slash the following photos, which he returned signed. Great success from one of the greatest guitarists ever.

I Met Vince Vaughn Tonight!!!

2005-09-29T02:24:00.000-04:00

Me and the amazingly talented Mr. Vince Vaughn

Me and Mr. Peter Billingsley (Ralphie from "A Christmas Story")

Me and Mr. Keir O'Donnell (Ignore the date, my digital camera sucks)

OH MY GOD!!! Now that I've gotten that out of my system, let me try to piece together the last 12 hours of my life. I got to Earthlink Live at about 3 PM. I had noticed on the marquee that the show had sold out. I was kinda bummed because I kinda wanted to see the show, but was totally stoked that I was even there attempting to meet Vince Vaughn in the first place! I decided to ask the ticket counter person if any additional tickets would be released and he told me he had 2 tickets left!! Thank you Jesus!! I quickly snatched both tickets and staked my claim out front. I had a friend from work go with me and we met up around 4:30. By now 2 other auto collectors had joined me, but they were really cool and helped kill time. I have been reading up on this show online for a couple of days now and came to find out that Peter Billingsley, yes THE Peter Billingsley (You'll shoot your eye out!) was making select appearances on this tour as a special guest! Well, I was going to take NO chances and printed up a couple of "A Christmas Story" photos and crossed my fingers. Well (no lie) as I am trying to explain to the other collectors what Peter Billingsley looks like now, all of the sudden he appears out front smoking a cigarette!! Thank you Jesus, yet again! He was totally approachable and signed 3 photos for me and took a photo with me, which come to find out after...never took, damn digital cameras! Vince finally shows up and shuns us immediately, which we kind of expected due to a roadie informing us he pretty much stays in "the zone" before a performance. We still stuck with him and were shunned again as he got on his tour bus. We took our seats for what turned out to be a very funny and entertaining show!! 3 of the 4 comedians were hilarious!! Vince looked great!! He called another special guest out who turned out to be Keir O'Donnell, a costar from "Wedding Crashers." They did a cute skit together and Vince and Peter showed clips from an after school special they did together in 1989!!! It was a riot!! Anyways the show comes to an end and I beeline to the front of the building where what appeared to be about 15 auto collectors had now congregated!! So we wait for about 20 minutes and we are shunned AGAIN by Mr. Vaughn who left in an SUV to be taken over to his tour bus a half a block away. We run over and he appears to be signing outside his bus. I did manage to get 1 signature on my Anchorman photo! This brings my Anchorman collection to 4 now with Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Tim Robbins. Anyways, I am getting off track! So I get my 1 sig and he gets on his bus. We wait for about 25 minutes and in the meantime I met 3 of the 4 comedians (the funny ones), got my photo with Peter...again...damn digital cameras...and met Keir O'Donnell! Well they all leave to go to the aftershow party and Vince is still on the bus. Mind you the crowd has gone from 25 to about 10 by now. Vince gets off the bus and looks at all of us and says "OK, I'll sign some stuff for you guys!" I went on autopilot at that point!! My only goal was to get my stuff signed and my photo taken with him! He signed ALL my stuff AND posed for a photo with me!!! Great
guy all around! The whole time he kept telling us how much he loved us and how glad he was that we came and more importantly had a good time. I was so moved by his generosity!! All in all, I walked away tonight with 3 Vince Vaughn autos, 3 Peter Billingsley autos, 1 Keir O'Donnell auto and photos with all 3 of them!! AMAZING night overall!! The following photos are the autographs I obtained.

Helping Others

2005-09-09T21:09:00.000-04:00

These are my two sons, Jakob and Dylan. Jakob is 5 and Dylan is 3 months. Me and Jakob were watching the Hurricane Katrina "Shelter From The Storm" fundraiser tonight and watching the images and listening to the performances I began to cry. My son didn't understand so I told him what Katrina did and what happened to all of those people and he began to get upset as well. After the concert was over he told me that he would like to give some of his toys to the children who were crying on TV. I was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing that. This is a 5 year old telling me this. I knew then that me and my wife were not only doing our jobs as parents, but we needed to do our jobs as humans. I donated $60 to the Red Cross and I urge all of you to do what you can. I honestly don't know what I would do without my family and I think we all take things for granted sometimes. We've seen destruction and despair, now lets perform a miracle.

Red Cross

Salvation Army

Paul Scheer

2005-09-08T20:41:00.000-04:00

I have to say that the show "Best Week Ever" on VH1 has to be the funniest show on TV. I stumbled across Mr. Paul Scheer's website and sent him an email. A few days later he responded and told me he would send me a signed photo and he did! Very nice guy and one of the funniest comedians on the show!

paulscheer.com

LOST Collection

2005-09-08T19:58:00.000-04:00

I've been a LOST fan since the shows inception and couldn't wait for them to start filming the second season so I could get my letters out! I hope to add more photos to this post soon! But honestly, except for Dominic, I already have my favorites here.

Jorge is the man and quickly became my favorite character on the island. He inscribed my photo for me, inscribed a photo for my mom and sent me an additional cast preprint photo that he also signed. Great guy all around!

What can I say about Ms. Evangeline Lilly that won't get me in trouble with my wife? WOW! If I wasn't married and thought I had a snowballs chance...Mrs. Evangeline Jaegers...nice ring to it I think! I had asked her in my letter to pass on a message to Matthew Fox and Naveen Andrews to start returning some damn fan mail as a joke and she returned my photo with that inscription! Its nice to know that she actually reads her mail.

I started out hating this man out of pure jealousy. I mean come on, my wife loved him, my mom loved him, it even looked and may look like Evangeline's character could be loving him too! But I must say he grew on me. Also being from Georgia, how could I NOT like this guy? He signed 3 photos for me which of course were quickly dispursed to my wife and mother.

Mr. Terry O'Quinn aka John Locke is slowly becoming a favorite character of mine on LOST. This is my most recent success from the LOST set and my collection continues to build!

My 30th Birthday

2005-08-31T21:10:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone,
Well I turn 30 today and boy do I feel it. I got a new office chair from my mother, really cool cologne from the in-laws and some treats and surprises from my lovely wife! AND I got Season 1 of "The Office" on DVD! No successes to report today unfortunately.

Favorites

2005-08-30T13:32:00.000-04:00

These are a few of my favorite autographs collected through the years.

Aerosmith - obtained in person after a show in Atlanta at the Ritz Carlton

Jack Black - obtained through the mail via "School Of Rock" set

Will Ferrell - obtained through the mail via "Stranger Than Fiction" set

Mick Jagger - obtained through the mail via concert venue

Val Kilmer - obtained through the mail via "The Postman Always Rings Twice" play

Kevin Spacey - obtained through the mail via "Superman Returns" set

Ben Stiller - obtained through the mail via "Meet The Fockers" set

Bruce Willis - obtained in person at the opening of Planet Hollywood in Atlanta

Tim Curry

2005-08-27T14:41:00.000-04:00

Wow I never thought I would see this photo again after I had given up and sent another request due to the fact that he doesn't usually sign "Rocky Horror" stuff. I sent it off about 2 and a half months ago and today Mr. Tim Curry returned both of my photos signed and inscribed! I sent him the "Rocky Horror" photo shown below for myself and a "Wild Thornberrys" photo for my son, Jakob. Great success today! Maybe I'll get my other package back from him too!

Blog Update

2005-08-26T02:31:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone,
I am starting my 10 day vacation today and have all the supplies necessary for a HUGE sendoff. I'm hoping to get about 40-50 out next week, we will see. Anyways, I updated the blog a bit to include some new links and a guestbook that you all should sign periodically...The links are pretty cool and I'm sure I will be adding more again soon. CHUD.com is good for free movie screenings and an all around entertaining website! The Star Archive is good for addresses and their ability to store information, just steer clear of the forums! MovieWeb.com is a great source for high resolution photos for printing. Anyways enjoy and keep an eye out for additional updates and hopefully some new successes!...Michael

Jeff Bridges

2005-08-25T19:06:00.000-04:00

Great success from a great actor! Mr. Jeff Bridges sent these from the "Stick It" set. I still think Arlington Road is one of the best films ever!

Shaun Of The Dead Collection

2005-08-20T20:06:00.000-04:00

These photos are the beginning of my "Shaun Of The Dead" collection I started about a month ago. This movie was hilarious! One of my favorite movies ever! I am hoping to have the entire cast by the end of the year. With pending requests to director Edgar Wright and actress Kate Ashfield, I am off to a pretty good start!

Mailed Today

2005-08-20T01:08:00.000-04:00

Had 2 days off in a row which gave me some time to put some packages together. I was able to get these out on August 19, 2005.

Christopher McDonald - Shooter McGavin from "Happy Gilmore"
John Lithgow - voice of Lord Farquaad on "Shrek"
Seth Green - voice of Chris Griffin on "Family Guy"
Tim Allen - voice of Buzz Lightyear on "Toy Story"
Pete Townshend - guitarist for The Who
Kate Ashfield - Liz from "Shaun Of The Dead"
Denis Leary - Tommy McGavin on "Rescue Me"
Sir Ian McKellen - Gandolf on "Lord Of The Rings" Trilogy
Ewan McGregor - Obi-Wan Kenobi on "Star Wars" episodes 1-3
Steve Carell - Brick Tamblin on "Anchorman The Legend Of Ron Burgundy"
Billy Bob Thornton - Director/Karl Childers on "Sling Blade"
Slash - guitarist for Velvet Revolver
Seth MacFarlane - creator of "Family Guy"

Just got 2 more books of stamps so I should be doing another large sendout soon!...Michael

James Earl Jones

2005-08-20T01:03:00.000-04:00

Wonderful success from such a legendary actor! Mr. James Earl Jones was kind enough to return all three of my photos signed for me and my son, Jakob. I am extremely happy to add such a great actor to my collection!

Welcome

2005-08-20T01:00:00.000-04:00

Hello! My name is Michael and this is my Blog. Feel free to leave comments or questions and enjoy!