| November 15, 1999 | Meeting Monica Lewinsky |
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From: "Jess Barron" To: everyone I know Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:02:52 PST Subject: I hungout Monica Lewinsky Saturday night Sorry, but I just *had* to share this. I'm still in a state of shock. Everyone who is familiar with my articles from last year at WildWeb will be aware of my ongoing curiosity about/ fixation with all things Monica Lewinsky. (I hope you won't find it annoying, because it's my favorite LA story so far. I have many more gory details for those who are interested.) I went out Saturday night with a high school friend (Betsy Jordan, for those of you who went to Algonquin) and we ended up hanging out with Monica Lewinsky at this Hollywood bar called the Lava Lounge. We didn't just see Monica, or run into her. We hung out with her. How the hell did this happen? It turns out that Betsy's friend Tammy (also from Southboro, MA) is good friends with this guy named Jeff Boggs who writes for "The Tom Green Show" and who is Monica's current object of infatuation. He's not the type you might imagine Monnie would be into. He's not extremely powerful; he's not the President. In fact, according to this guy Jeff, Monica told him she likes him "because he reminds her of Chandler on 'Friends.'" Egad. So, we were out with this guy Jeff having a few drinks at this bar called Lava Lounge talking about how he's dating Monica, and how she is completely obsessed with him. Of course, I wanted to meet her and I also wanted to be sure he wasn't bullshitting us, so I teased him, "OK, if Monica is so obsessed with you, call her up and have her meet us here." Jeff has her in his speed dial on his cell phone (of course) and he calls her up. Her answering machine picks up and he leaves a message for her to meet us at Lava Lounge. I got all disapointed because I figured she was out for the evening and wouldn't get the message until later, and we would miss our chance to meet her. Within 30 minutes she showed up at the bar. She must've been either screening her calls or religiously checking her messages for his call. She saw Jeff right away, and approached our booth. It was so surreal. She looked exactly like you would expect her to. Black pantsuit. Not too hip looking. Kind of big poofy hair like she had on the Barbara Walters show. Jeff introduced Betsy, Tammy, and me to Monica as "his friends," and she shook each of our hand. It was bizarre. We were trying to be so nonchalant and act like she was this totally normal person, but it was soooo hard to keep from cracking up. After a few minutes of feigned normalcy, Betsy and I excused ourselves for the ladies room and, once inside, started giggling uncontrollably. The plan was were were going to get her to come out to Mel's Diner with us after the bar closed, and then we would all go back to my apartment, which is only four blocks from Monica's building. Betsy reminded me that I would need to surreptitiously and quickly remove the "Being an Intern Sucks" Clinton scandal magnet from my refrigerator so that Monnie wouldn't see it. Alas, when last call was announced, it turned out that Monica wanted Jeff to go home with her (alone, of course), and that she had no interest in hanging out with this gaggle of girls who were Jeff's "friends." We tried to convince her to come to Mel's with us, but she just wasn't into the idea. Jeff told her he was coming out to get food with us, and she ended up going home alone around 2am. Some Monica-related deets I gathered during our evening drinking with this girl: 1. She is living near me in West Los Angeles. 2. She does nothing all day. No job or anything like that. 3. She is moving to New York in December, so I only have a few weeks to completely befriend her. 4. She is extremely uncomfortable/jealous around girls, and very touchy-feely with boys. This is another obstacle to my becoming full-fledged friends with her, but I will overcome it. So be it! 5. She actually admitted to us that she is kind of sad that the media hub-bub around her has died down. Can you believe it? This girl is certifiably crazy. 6. She took an immediate dislike to Tammy who works for "Politically Incorrect" -- a show which has slammed Monica left and right. Jeff also filled us in on the more physical aspects of his (just 5 dates, so far) relationship with Monica. Not too much has happened so far. In fact, at one somewhat intimate moment, she said to him (and I find this disturbingly hysterical) "I know what you want, and you're not gonna get it yet." And the sickest, thing is we all know exactly what she was referring to. Yikes! Ya gotta love LA. (Or not.) So far, I'm finding it to be exactly like living inside a cartoon. I can't ever stop laughing. Your friend (and soon to be Monica's -- so you'll only be one degree away from her), Jess -----Original Message----- From: "Raj" To: jessb@poprocks.com Subject: Re: I went out with Monica Lewinsky Saturday night Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:04:12 EST you rock my world, JB Raj-Jess-Monica-Bill I think that's how people should sign their name from now on. With their most famous degree of seperation. Labels: famous, la, monicalewinsky posted by Jess Barron @ 2:52 PM 
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