My friend Chris Schulz, who runs Pinups mag, used to joke about starting the Steve Carrington Foundation for Faggotry, quoting a line from Dynasty. Randomly, I thought of it today and found the original quote from the script. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and get married. See it here.
UPDATE: Here's a fun YouTube clip. I didn't realize 'til watching the clip that Steve Carrington's glinty eyes remind me of a certain overly protective father from Heroes. That's right; Noah Bennett used to be a gay. By the way, stick 'til the end. It's worth it.
The Writer's Guild of America is on strike. There are actually really good reasons for the writer's to strike-- basically most guild members spend their career making no money, then a lucky few wind up making a ton of money for-- if they're lucky 7-8 years and then often, never work again. And those are the successful ones. Writer's are like the Olympic gymnasts of the entertainment world, only significantly less attractive. They train and work and burn out, never to be heard from again. So, while it looks like they make enormous salaries, in reality-- they don't and most survive off of residuals that derive from their creative contribution. And the studios have basically smacked down the WGA for the past decade over reality TV, digital media-- anywhere they could cut writers out. So, it's an important strike, really.
But this is the last time I'm going to be serious about it, because c'mon- writers on strike is HI-larious. Don't believe me? You'll see.
It's a double feature! My pal Jason Bellini (of Logo's Here and Now) and I are doing a crossover special. Both of us took our five favorite words from the Urban Dictionary and each made a video podcast about it. He calls is "vlogging", which sounds to me like something that happens on Star Trek, but his pieces are wonderfully insightful and he's definitely been a motivator for the pieces I'm doing. I just wish he'd spell my name right.
As you may have noticed, I'm paying around with style and format with these. A few of you have even commented or written in with suggestions. I really appreciate it and hope you'll keep them coming.
This one is what I hope will be part of a regular segment on fun weekend trips in the SoCal area. It's a look at Paso Robles, an up-and-coming wine region is Southern California. If you're looking for more information on the places mentioned in this podcast:
I got a little carried away on this one with the graphics, but I was trying to find a way to make a phone interview visual. Let me know what you think.
For more information on the A Mormon Presidentgo here. Christing hopes to release the film at the beginning of next year.
Hurray for having something newsworthy to video blog about. My take on Kenneth in the 212's decision to post naked photos of Thomas Roberts. There was a rumor going around at the NLGJA Conference that he had these photos and was planning on releasing them. Why?
Sorry for the long delay in posting. As you might know, I spent the last few days in San Diego at the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists' Association National Convention. I met Logo's Jason Bellini, and we got into a whole discussion about blogging and video blogging, especially, which inspired this, my first video podcast. It only took about 3x the amount of time I hoped it would.
In today's podcast, I cover the first day of the conference, which is the LGBT Media Summit, focusing specifically on gay media.
My friend Chris Schulz, who runs Pinups mag, used to joke about starting the Steve Carrington Foundation for Faggotry, quoting a line from Dynasty. Randomly, I thought of it today and found the original quote from the script. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to go and get married. See it here.