{"id":212778,"date":"2010-01-22T09:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=10322"},"modified":"2010-01-22T09:30:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T14:30:25","slug":"i-have-gone-hollywood-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/212778","title":{"rendered":"I have gone Hollywood | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Kari, Grant, and Tory from The Mythbusters will be on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson tonight<\/a>, so it seems like a good time to post this.]<\/em><\/p>\n

In case anyone was wondering if I would succumb to the bright lights of Hollywood, the answer is, of course: duh.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Last week I attended a wonderful party in Pasadena, thrown by the Discovery Channel for their 25th anniversary (my pictures from the party are on Flickr<\/a>). My friend Katherine Nelson secured an invite for me; she does PR for the channel and we met at Comic Con in 2008 when I was tagging along with My Close Personal Friend Adam Savage™. Last week I happened to be in LA working on my sooper sekrit project, and that timing happily coincided with the party.<\/p>\n

I’m not used to high-end parties, so I wasn’t sure what to expect. I decided to go all out and wear a tie. Go me.<\/p>\n

I got to the hotel, located somewhere down twisty passages in Pasadena all of which look alike, and started wending my way to the party itself. As I randomly walked, I wondered to myself what celebs might be here, and at that very moment happened to see Ed Begley, Jr. <\/p>\n

OK then.<\/p>\n

<\/a>When I finally reached the actual party location, I was happy to see Katherine taking pictures of Kari Byron, Grant Imahara, and Tory Belecci from Mythbusters! I hadn’t seen Kari in a couple of years (I moderated a panel with three of them in Canada), but I saw Grant and Tory at Comic Con last year. It was nice to see them again. I hung out a bit with them, and, as always, found them to be fun and charming and pretty much what you see on TV. At least, they’re nice enough to a dork like me.<\/p>\n

There were lots of Discovery Network celebs there (as well as a giraffe<\/a>). I was completely unashamed to horn in on Stacey<\/a> and Clinton from “What Not to Wear” and chat for a second. I was thrilled to get a chance to talk with Annabelle Gurwitch<\/a>, who is on Planet Green now, but I know her from watching “Dinner and a Movie” on TBS a few years ago, and she was exactly as I had hoped: funny and sassy and totally approachable. Also? A doll<\/a>. There, I said it.<\/p>\n

I also dorked a bit when I got a chance to say hi to Kat von D from “L.A. Ink”, since she wasn’t in the shop the day I got my tattoo. It was totally cool to show her my tattoo (patience; my show is supposed to air next month) and thank her for the experience. We swapped a couple of stories, and I found she was like everyone else I met at the party: approachable, open, and interesting. <\/p>\n

<\/a>In fact, if there was any disappointment with the party (besides not being allowed to actually eat the cakes made by the bakery from “Cake Boss” and realizing after I had gotten back to my hotel that the Meteorite Men<\/a> were there and I missed them) it was of the snarky variety; that is, no one was a jerk. I mean, c’mon! This was a Hollywood party!<\/em> No cocaine? No obnoxious divas? <\/p>\n

Could it be that the portrayal of Hollywood in Hollywood films has been Hollywooded? Hmmm.<\/p>\n

So all in all it was a fabulous event with a lot of people having lots of fun. It makes me wonder… could it be that because there is a science bent to the networks (not all the shows, but many) the party was more about the fun and less about the personalities? Hmmm again. <\/p>\n

Maybe not. But still. Science is cool.<\/p>\n

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