Gregory Hines stamp

I originally posted this in 2019 on my old blog, but for Black History Month, am posting here.

In looking through postage stamps that year, I came upon this one of Gregory Hines. I had to post about it, because I was able to "meet" him in March of 1997.

It was at MacWorld in San Fran (fave city!). I used to work for a small software company, and that year, was able to go to the conference. As I was working our booth, he walked by, and then came up to me asking about our product. I went to fill the form and trying to be "funny", I said, "Name?" (turning to my co-workers with a Cmas Story Ralphie grin/laugh), and he just smiled and said, "I can fill it out."

I was trying to play it cool, but my boss made a fuss about him (for which I'm now grateful! 😄) and said, "Oh we need a picture!! We need a picture!" (maybe she meant for publicity for our product!) Either way, I'm glad she took it!

RIP, Gregory.