Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon

So we all know the game, yes? According to Wikipedia (i.e., Zee Bible) "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" is a parlor game based on the "six degrees of separation" concept, which posits that any two people on Earth are, on average, about six acquaintance links apart. That idea eventually morphed into this parlor game, wherein movie buffs challenge each other to find the shortest path between an arbitrary actor and venerated Hollywood character actor Kevin Bacon."

Ever since Facebook came along, I am FASCINATED by how many of my friends know each other. Seriously, I have a college friend from Florida who knows a chick I knew at an Illinois summer camp. It boggles my mind!

I have a few 'Kevin Bacon' people. Shocking, I know, as I live in the Midwest and nothing awesome happens here so I must preface this post by saying I have family in Southern California so they are mostly my 'Kevin Bacon' links.

Okay here we go:

Michael Jackson- My uncle is a composer and wrote songs for the Jackson 5.

Edith Head- I know, she's dead. But my aunt was her main model. Think Cindy Crawford of the 1960s.

Mark McGrath- My cousin is friends with him (and I could probably claim about 200 'Kevin Bacon's on this kid because he was a KIIS-FM DJ in LA and hosted a show on VH-1...so yeah.)

Jenny McCarthy- She's from Chicago so we're no more than 3 degrees apart.

Melissa McCarthy- She's Jenny's cousin - again, 3 degrees at most.

Fabio from Top Chef- My former coworker just met him at a book signing. That's 2 degrees.

Donnie Wahlberg- A chick from my high school supposedly slept with him. Totally 2 degrees.

(Did I mention I was from the Midwest? Things are slow here...)

What about you all? I know we got some inneresting Kevin Bacon Degrees out there. If anyone has actually MET Kevin Bacon, I'll give a prize!!! (But don't be too excited...it'll probably be cheap liquor. Or a signed photo of yours truly. I'd personally opt for the liquor. But you get bragging rights in the comments section!!!)

Lemme hear it...who ya know???