Holy Crapstick! I Ran into Aasif Mandvi at Whole Foods!
Don’t you love it how when you’re having an awful day because you’re fairly certain your health insurance provider is trying to kill you dead, but then you meet Aasif Mandvi in the health and beauty aisle of your local Whole Foods and suddenly your day is better? Don’t you love when that happens? Oh, that’s never happened to you? Well it happened to me! Today! Huzzah!
I’ve seen my fair share of celebrities. I’ve been living in LA for ten years, after all. When I spot a celeb, generally I make note of it, text a couple girlfriends — “Guess who I just saw!?” — and move on. I rarely get excited enough about seeing a particular celebrity that it warrants interrupting them as they attempt to go about their business, buying Tom’s of Maine toothpaste at Whole Foods. It just seems obnoxious. The only other time I’ve stopped a celeb and asked for a photo is when I saw Tyson Beckford at a pool party a few years ago. I approached him for a photo simply because he and I were the only two black people at the party, and so I figured he owed me. You know — to give back to the community n shit.
Anyway, I practically ran into him, pointed at him and said “you!” Then, I mumbled something about loving his work and something about being a blogger (who isn’t these days, MIRITE?), but managed to get it together enough to introduce myself and tell him to check out angryblacklady.com if he was ever so inclined. Then I asked some dude who was buying some sort of whatever if he would mind taking a picture for me. After the dude took the photo, Aasif was nice enough to stick around to make sure the photo was decent. Then I shook his hand and we parted ways. It was all I could do to not have a total fangirl attack right there next to the organic sunglasses.
And that, citizens, is the story of How Aasif Mandvi Made Angry Black Lady’s Day. Huzzah!
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Huzzah! Did I say that already?
Whatever.
Huzzah!
UPDATE: Here is Aasif’s debut on TDS. It’s splendiferous (H/T Xantar and Bubblegum Tate):
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[cross-posted here at Balloon Juice]
Dude. Dooooooooood!
I have officially ceased to be the one lily-white lady on Team Benetton — for now I am the color of jelus. (Which I suppose makes me green, which ties me in nicely with two movements I entirely support, environmentalism and Iranian democracy, so I’m good with that. Also the witch from Wicked, but whatever).
Yay! Aasif? I <3 U, too! But you’re lucky you ran into ABL, because I would have been an embarrassment.
I would SO not kick him out of bed for eating rice and curry (I’m Asian. I can say that). Except, now I have performance anxiety. Aasif Mandvi may be reading what I write!
P.S. If I could stand the heat, I’d move to LA in a hot second*.
*No, I wouldn’t, but it’s nice to fantasize.
MMMmmmmandvi.
In the Isle of Beauty.
And speaking of beauties, ABL just happening to be dressed like so:
&:oD)>3-O=B
probably improved Asif’s day, too.
This post is so many kinds of win I can’t even count them all. Add in the Tyson Beckford post, with the awesome History of Tyson in the comments section, and I’m all set. Subscribed!!!
huzzah! welcome!
Oh, the photo is decent all right.
But mostly because of you and your mammaries. I used to grab them all the time; I don’t recall them being so juicy though. That’s thanks to Tumer Willis, no?
Oh. And those organic sunglasses even look like they’re gluten free. Sweet!
misty water-colored mammaries…
You’re one step closer to The Daily Show. Take me with you. I’m funny and telegenic. I swear. TAKE ME WITH YOUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Great post! Great Pic!
psssst – which Whole Foods
Thanks!! SM blvd and Fairfax.
:D That’s fuckin awesome.
Though I’d be wary of Whole Foods what with the union thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Foods_Market
I’m moving to LA so I can run into to YOU in the health and beauty aisle at Whole Foods.
Aasif Mandvi being adorable in conversation with Riz Khan on al-Jazeera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PvX92JVyAg
Among other nuggets: He shortened his name because back when it was Mandviwalla “It was just too many letters for white people. White people would go cross-eyed trying to read it.” !! Now I just want to bring invite him over and feed him dinner!
“I’m a turducken.” Bwahahahaha. You can feed him. I’ll tend to his other needs.
I sympathize on the name thing. I have to tell people, “Minna as in Minnesota (for which I was named)” in order to get them to pronounce it correctly.
ETA: I loved what he had to say about not seeing anyone who looked like him as he grew up so he had to be the mentor he was looking for.
ha! that’s awesome. i noticed that on his first appearance on TDS, jon stewart pronounced it mandvi instead of mahndvi.
silly white people! :)
Even though I hate Whole Paycheck, I love AasiF and I loooove the fact that you look so gosh darn cute for a random trip to the grocery store. (work!)
Hell, I’d rather have my picture taken with you than Aasif. He’s probably texting all his friends and typing, “guess who I saw at Whole Foods?”
Google tells me he went to my University. I’m relevant! Also I am not going to the Whole Foods in LA to run into you that’s just weird….. I obviously have better odds at the donut shoppe.
Mujer, I totally feared for his life when he was paradoxically questioning those Egyptian protesters. It was definitely a Borat moment. I thought, “Oh no, watch out, those guys have wooden Peace signs, and they know how to use them!”
OH MY FUCKING SWEET BEBE JEEEEEBUS. yeah, i’m with everyone else who is JELLY. sweet sweet sweet bebe jeeeebus. he’s very good lookin’. girl, you shoulda squished him up good. jus’sayin’.
HOTNESS!