I had a brief brush with fame today.

I took my fourteen-year-old niece to the mall to replace her iPod and just as the fellow at the counter asks for payment, she says, "that guy looks like one of the Jonas Brothers!" It doesn't take long for us both to realize that the gaggle of teenage girls around the guy, plus two others, meant that indeed, we had found the pop stars. Immediately, all thoughts of paying the iPod bill are out of her head and she's urgently asking me in a suddenly nervous voice, "do you have a camera?" Luckily, I came packing a camera phone today.

The poor cashier! While he stands there, mystified about this sudden panic, I tell my niece that she has to go over and ask them for the photo herself. So she rushes over, phone in hand, as I explain to the Apple Store fellow about the Jonas Brothers Band and then, in a rush, my niece is coming over with two of the three brothers and my camera phone, asking me to take the picture. As I framed the image, I'm pretty sure I said something stupid and adult (in my defense, I may be the only non-parent adult in the entire city who knows about the Jonas Brothers and has their songs in my iTunes library). My poor niece was clearly flustered and excited to meet the guys, but sadly, we didn't get a picture of the "cutest one".

Here's the photographic proof that my niece met the Jonas Brothers (plus a public thanks to them for being so gracious):CDs listened to today

• Roger Reynolds: Coconino...A Shattered Landscape
• Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream
• Konono No. 1: Congotronics
  
• Roger Sessions: Symphony No. 4
• Truman's Water: Godspeed the Punchline