This is archaic, I know. I should have done this on Instagram or Snapchat or at least Facebook. But here is a collection of snaps, match ups of regular people with famous people. These images from US Magazine (I am kidding) are no selfies either.

Why do we take pictures with famous people? We want some of the stardust fame rub off on us too.

I remember how cranked up I was about meeting Alice Cooper in person. As a teenager in Germany, I had his Bravo poster up on the wall, blackened eyes and all. On that day, Alice was promoting a friend’s sandwich shop. Alice Cooper, bad boy rock’n roller, is now a celebrity for saving the youth with his program Solid Rock. He has a music studio each for budding musicians in Phoenix and Mesa.He gets the youngsters engaged and off the street. I have visited Solid Roch with my student groups. A neat place!

I am certainly not a stage hog. But—The most famous picture, which I had always wanted, would have been with Elvis Presley. I was only a teenager when he died, cried my eyes out. But Gisela Solms-Wildenfels got a shot with Elvis when he was stationed in Germany. I stumbled into Gisela at a flea market in Wolfratshausen, where she was selling Hummel cups and other trinkets. She is of that Elvis generation. And this one encounter gave her  joy to last a lifetime. She gifted me a copy of her Elvis picture.

Kurt Warner & Susmita

And on the story goes. I am not a sports crack, but I could pick out Kurt Warner (Arizona quarterback, 2005-2009) on our flight back from Omaha to Phoenix. We had attended a country music festival in Le Mars, Iowa. The football legend agreed to a photo with the cutest of us, Susmita. She didn’t know who we snapped her with, but it made me happy. Old reporter soul. Can’t ever switch off my scanning mode in an airport.

There are many more incidents of brushes with fame. Sometimes we don’t even realize when a celebrity passes by. I missed my chance to take a selfie with Max Raabe from the Palast Orchester. Oh, well. Better luck next time.

Country singer Bob Everhart & me

Tuula Sumpter (R) and Jane Seymour (middle)

Ed Kabotie, Hopi, singer-artist & AnnElise

AnnElise arrested by TV cops Hubert & Staller (Christian Tramitz, Helmfried von Lüttichau)

Arduino co-founder Tom Igoe, remote controlled man Josh, and Priyanka Makin

AnnElise, AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes, Jeanne Devine, Randy Miller (SRP Board)

AnnElise, Kate Earley, and painter Jack Earley on Valentine’s Day in Loveland