Back in 2000 I was in Central Park for an afternoon summer stage event. The turn-out was low. Laurie Anderson and a friend sat on the grass next to me. We ende

Back in 2000 I was in Central Park for an afternoon summer stage event. The turn-out was low. Laurie Anderson and a friend sat on the grass next to me. We ended up doing that casual intermittent chat-about-the-show-and-crowd thing. I never acknowledged who she was but I knew who she was. It was like an afternoon of coffee shop bullshit, and it never got personal or meta-referential. She was a nice normal chatty person.