my first celebrity sighting

in the film mecca of Toronto. I'm never in the places people are usually 'seen', such as Bloor West, and deepfried's old bookstore in the Annex, so am still in a glow over spotting:

Chris Cooper and a female companion browsing outside a bookstore on Queen just east of Spadina.

Cooper is one of the best actors out there, and I've had a crush on him ever since I saw the very fine and little known film Thousand Pieces of Gold.

Not a lot of other celebrity sightings in my life:

Sara Gilbert (yawn) of Roseanne fame spotted in SoHo, Manhatten, and

Bob Seger, (respect) the master rocker and poet, who was visiting a bandmate in a Royal Oak hospital outside of Detroit and rode in an elevator with our family. No one else recognized him. I never said anything to him. I felt I was intruding just with the realization of who he was.

These things are always kind of surreal. You see these people and feel you know them, but of course you don't.