It’s always nice to see former dining strangers enjoying success.
So I was suitably giddy to see actor Cecil Baldwin (the 10th stranger) appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. He was on the show to promote the podcast Welcome To Night Vale, presented as a radio show for a fictional desert town. Cecil plays the role of, aptly enough, Cecil, the radio show host who shares the news around town.
Cecil and I got lunch together in New York City way back in August 2009, while he was working a day job as a waiter and attending as many theater auditions as he could manage.
“One day I would love to take off my apron and not have to put it back on again, to have a life where I don’t have to ask another person whether they’d like bottle water or tap water,” he told me during our meal at the now-closed venue Belcourt.
Click on the picture of me and Cecil above to read about my afternoon with him. I just re-read the piece, and what’s most jarring to me is how young I looked back then.