{"id":257,"date":"2010-11-01T13:53:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2024-02-27T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T09:44:46","slug":"i-met-dan-aykroyd-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/01\/i-met-dan-aykroyd-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"I met Dan Aykroyd on\u00a0Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ray, Tray, and Hay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is cool for many reasons.<\/p>\n

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  1. It\u2019s Dan Aykroyd<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Ghostbusters 3 is really starting to make headway<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. My friend and fellow nerd, Hayden, is probably the biggest Ghostbusters geek in California, if not the country<\/li>\n
  4. Ghostbusters 3 is really starting to make headway<\/li>\n
  5. There\u2019s a chance he\u2019s going to put Hayden to work<\/li>\n
  6. His vodka, Crystal Head<\/a>, is based on the Legend of the 13 Crystal Skulls (which, sadly, George Lucas managed to make ridiculous in Indy 4)<\/li>\n
  7. Ghostbusters 3 is really starting to make headway<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    H-Dogg was a little starstruck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    First off, let me just say that Dan was super nice (that\u2019s right, we\u2019re on a first name basis now).\u00a0 Hayden and I hiked over to Costco (!!!) to meet him and get some stuff signed (he was there to sign bottles of the vodka).\u00a0 He really dug Hayden\u2019s kickass custom made GB hockey jersey (he\u2019s Canadian, it would be illegal for him to NOT like hockey) and Hayden just about passed out when Dan asked him for his business card.\u00a0 We were the only people he stood up to take a picture with.\u00a0 Probably because we were the only ones who didn\u2019t try to kiss him on the lips (!!!)\u00a0 I almost wore Hayden\u2019s GB uniform (complete with a utility belt featuring blinking lights) but, alas, it was just too big to be comfortable so I opted for a t-shirt in Slimer green.\u00a0 I would not have been the lone person in uniform (there were many); however, I would have been the only girl which would have almost been worth it.<\/p>\n

    Those ghosts won't know what hit 'em!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    One of the perks of meeting famous people at Costco is the type of people you end up in line with.\u00a0 The family in front of us were there shopping, oblivious to the fact that Dan would be there and the husband just happened to wear his GB shirt that day.\u00a0 He was both excited to get it signed and bummed because he wouldn\u2019t be able to wash or wear it again (although I\u2019m skeptical about the last time it had been washed anyway).\u00a0 The child, a boy around 3 or 4 years old was so excited to be The Incredible Hulk for Halloween that he told us about it.\u00a0 Repeatedly.\u00a0 As in, every 30 seconds or so.\u00a0 Which would have been great if he had actually known anything about The Incredible Hulk.\u00a0 But he didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Hayden and I taught much to this young padawan.\u00a0 He was also very fond of death-defying shopping cart stunts and pulling electronics off of shelves.\u00a0 I kept about 5 feet behind him at one point for fear I would end up with pink lemonade all over me.<\/p>\n

    Oh Dan, you couldn\u2019t have done this at Whole Foods or something? BevMo would have been good!<\/p>\n

    Venkman's back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    You may have seen Bill Murray decked out in GB gear at the 2010 Scream Awards.\u00a0 He was the last piece in a puzzle that Aykroyd has been working on for over 20 years.\u00a0 When asked, Dan brightened up and was visibly excited about the GB3 wheels being set into motion.\u00a0 It is his baby after all.\u00a0 Supposedly the script is written and the 2nd<\/sup> draft of it is being worked on which means that the soonest it will be released is sometime in 2012.\u00a0 It will be interesting to see how they incorporate the advances in special effects and whether or not Hi-C will bring back Slimer Juice (aka Ecto-Cooler), which was quite possibly my favorite beverage as a kid.<\/p>\n

    $40 and change later I went home with a glass skull full of mediocre liquor and Dan Aykroyd\u2019s signature plastered across the forehead.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t decided if I\u2019ll crack it open or if it will make friends with the not-to-be-opened-for-fear-of-death-and-dismemberment Romulan Ale and Klingon Blood Wine.\u00a0 I guess it depends on how long my bottle of Grey Goose lasts.\u00a0 But if and when I do open it, I will certainly say a toast for Dan and his contribution to nerdom.<\/p>\n

    That's some nice head you got there<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This is cool for many reasons. It\u2019s Dan Aykroyd Ghostbusters 3 is really starting to make headway My friend and fellow nerd, Hayden, is probably the biggest Ghostbusters geek in California, if not the country Ghostbusters 3 is really starting to make headway There\u2019s a chance he\u2019s going to put Hayden to work His vodka, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,27,12,1],"tags":[118,224,232,285,373,837,861],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity","category-ghostbusters","category-sci-fi","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-murray","tag-crystal-head-vodka","tag-dan-aykroyd","tag-ecto-coooler","tag-ghostbusters","tag-scream-2010-awards","tag-slimer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}