Yes, THAT Corey Haim

Last weekend, I played Ultimate with none other than the one, the only, Corey Haim. Remember Lucas, anyone? He lives here in LA, and is filming his "reality" TV show (I have to put that word in quotes now that I actually have friends who are writers for reality TV shows), and is, supposedly, a huge Ultimate player. So, his people called up some of our people and arranged a permit (expensive and hard to come by) with the parks dept for us to hold a weekly pick-up game at a local park. The game brought out a huge contingent of Ultimate players with the promise of a spectacle, a viewing of a former Teen Idol (TM), and a chance to be on TV.

Corey came about an hour and a half after the game started, and upon arrival, changed into an outfit his producer had brought for him, including a brand-new pair of cleats fresh from the box. Then he smoked a few cigarettes. Unfortunately, by this time, we had so many people at the game that he was having a hard time making it onto the field (when there are too many people, you have to call "last back!" when your team gets scored on and run to the end zone before everybody else in order to rotate into the game). In the end, we let him in the game a few times (hey, he did score us the permit and all) and he ended up playing about four points and then spending the rest of the afternoon hitting on some girl on the other side of the park. We proceeded to enjoy ourselves on the field his producers had rented for the afternoon...

Anyhow, it was quite entertaining. Very surreal, yes, but he was a nice enough guy -- I even feel a little bit bad sort of making fun of him here. Who knows if we'll make it to TV or get left on the cutting room floor -- in any case, I got hugged by one of the Coreys, and he even called me sweetie.