So I was on the trading floor at the close today, on the outskirts of the big crowd in Berkshire Hathaway, being all serious, trying to stay tuned to the huge closing auction in BRK.A and BRK.B upon the latter’s going into the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index for the first time, figuring I’m going to put up a big serious blog post about how well the auction worked.

At which point I look up and there’s Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, hard to know who’s more beautiful between ‘em, or friendlier, and they’re being walked around the floor by Art Cashin, full-time market sage and part-time tour guide,none better.

Which is something you don’t see every day.

And Goldie and Kurt, who did not tell me it was OK to to call them by their first names but I think it’s OK because I was literally this close to them, are having a great time. Kurt is shooting Goldie with his phone cam. Which is against the rules of the floor, but hey, who’s gonna yell at Kurt Russell? And floor brokers are showing Goldie how they’re working orders on their hand-held order-management systems, and G and K are checking out the big crowd in Berk and they’re eating it all up and talking and laughing with everybody and having a great time. Apparently they’re friends of CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo, just here for a visit, and Maria’s standing between them in the pic above, and that’s Art of course in the background on the left, and when I get home I have to explain to my family how as always I’m not in the picture with the visiting famous people, because just as I was about to turn to say hello to Goldie or ask her how many shares of Berk she owns or toss out some other brilliant conversational gambit, I got bumped out of the way by a TV cameraman, who was doing one of those walking-backwards shots. Another unrecorded near-brush with fame.

They’ll just have to take my word for it.

Anyway, I get upstairs after the close and start writing the serious piece and my boss comes in with the photo and asks if I can put it on the blog. And I think, hey, it’s Friday night before a three-day, Goldie still has that smile, the serious can wait a bit. Gotta have some fun sometimes, right?

Have a great three-day, my friends.