Since several of us Crucial Minutiaeteers don’t have traditional office jobs, you can often find us in coffee shops around New York City, in groups, typing maniacally and searching for open outlets where we can plug in our laptops. Evidently, many New York celebrities also do the coffee shop shuffle. Here are the sighting highlights from the last year:

Sighting #1: About a year ago, at the Cosi at 14th street, with Courtney. She nudges me, and I look up in time to see Russell Simmons, opening the door to the bathroom. We can’t prove it, but we are fairly sure he did not actually purchase anything, and made a pitstop specifically for the bathroom, which ain’t that nice to begin with.

Sighting #2: About a month ago at Housing Works Bookshop, with Joie and Scott. One of the bookshop clerks places a flyer on our table telling us that at 7pm, the table will be removed for a book reading. We don’t think much of it, since it’s only around 3. But a few minutes later, a group of people starts (very loudly) setting up a sound system at the podium. In walks a lanky older gentleman who proceeds to read the same line from a book over and over again, driving us crazy. “I think that’s Lou Reed,” says Scott. And upon closer examination, it was. We instantly thought the disturbance was less annoying.

Sighting #3: Today at ReBar coffee shop in Dumbo, with Courtney and Scott. It must be hard out there for a pimp, because Terrence Howard was inside having lunch. (Sorry, that was bad.) We all resisted the urge to sing, “Whoop that Trick” as we passed by his table on the way to the bathroom.