A couple of weeks ago I had a bout of paranoia, and started to worry that Brian May had died and no one had told me. I did figure out that he is still alive because I couldn't find any news that claimed otherwise, and because my helpful readers mobilized. I was expecting all kinds of, "Hey, you moron, he's not dead," email, but instead people took the time out of their day to send in reports of their most recent Brian May sightings. Very kind people, all of them, but then I got the one that almost made me fall out of my chair.
Feel free to imagine the glee that I experienced when I received the following email:
Subject: Fact: Brian May definitely not dead
And I'll tell you how I know.
Because he's in my office right now.
I thought that might ease your mind a bit.
Additional bonus fact: Brian May does not like mustard on his BLTs.
Also - Brian really is a nice guy. Which is odd, I think. You'd expect your standard rock god to be all holier-than-thou. But he's not at all.
Oh, did I geek out when I got this. There are so many things going on here that I don't even know where to begin.
My first reaction was, "I got email from someone in the same building as Brian May!"
Go ahead, make fun of me. I can take it. Point out how sad that is. Laugh at the fact that I am easily impressed. I don't care! I called LCG right away and told him about the mail:
Me: "I got email from someone in the same building as Brian May! Someone who was in the same office as Brian May! (Begin Butthead voice.) Beavis, this is the closest that I am ever going to get to Brian May. (End Butthead voice.) But that's okay, because it's much closer than I ever thought I would get." (Insert giggling here) "There was one person and a computer between me and Brian May! And however many hundreds or thousands of miles. I don't know where the email actually came from."
LCG: (all sensible) "This also brings you that much closer to Roger Taylor."
Me: "Ohhhhh, I didn't think of that." (Homer Simpson style drooling ensued.)
Then I giggled some more.
At that point in time, I was privy to the freshest Brian May news available. And the news is that he is alive and well and nice and not eating mustard! The other news is that I am the world's geekiest Queen fan. Oh, wait. I guess that isn't news after all.