Today, December 21st, is Samuel L Jackson’s birthday! I actually got to chat with him on his website today and wish him a happy birthday, stop by over the weekend to try to do the same! I only got in touch with him briefly, but I’ve always been a huge fan of The Man, not just because of our shared name. It was always frustrating to hear people tell me I should either have / change my middle name to be “L-something” so I could be like him, but I always appreciated the positive correlations that were made between the two of us.

I also always wondered if, now that a search for “Sam Jackson” has me as the 4th Google result,  if he ever happened upon my site? Or maybe his manager got angry that I was taking away search listings? I’m not sure–in any case, I always wanted a chance to chat with him and hopefully will be able to catch him properly sometime over this weekend. He has always seemed to be a really cool guy and if this is any indication, he’s really nice to his fans, too–spending a bunch of time on and off on his birthday to talk to them!

Sidenote: being heavily inundated with Samuel Adams commercials as a child, growing up in the greater Boston area, I always always always wanted to start a brewery and make Samuel Jackson’s with Samuel L as my spokesperson, long before Dave Chappelle did his sketch about the subject.

Anyway… I am done with finals and will be heading home tomorrow. Happy birthday to Samuel L Jackson, happy vacation to me!