I believe it was just 2 days ago when I decided to IM Nick Denton to ask him what was going on in his world. I was going to start putting out an article every Monday that featured A-listers and what they have been up to. I often wonder what some of them are up to from time to time. Nick basically told me that he was trying to keep a “low profile.” I agreed that keeping a low profile was a good thing.
After Nick told me something that pointed me in the direction of talking to Andrew Krucoff, (which I didn’t do) I left Nick alone and wished him a warm and good day, (because I am so nice and polite.)
Much to my surprise this morning, I was reading my daily cup of Page Six in the New York Post. Well if the Gossip fairy didn’t just slap me in the face, wouldn’t you know I see Nick Denton in there. Now, I’m not saying that Nick wasn’t honest with me when he told me he was trying to keep a ‘low profile’, but come on, Page Six? Nick, you live in New York, keeping a low profile does not include Page Six knowing your business.
So as I am reading I find out some very interesting news about what Mr. Denton has been up to! From the [source]:
JUST in time for the blogger backlash from articles in New York magazine and the Financial Times, the mastermind behind New York-based Gawker and L.A.-based Defamer is shopping proposals for two new guidebooks flaunting the Web sites’ names.
A reliable source says that Nick Denton, who owns all the Gawker-linked sites, is peddling a two-book proposal for “Gawker’s Guide to New York” and “Defamer’s Guide to Los Angeles,” and asking for an “astronomical sum.” True to form, Denton intends to contract out the writing to cheap freelancers instead of using his overworked editorial slaves
HA! That’s all I have to say about that…..
It is a bit of old news for me, but a lot of you maybe have not seen the article printed in the Sunday, January 29, 2006 issue of The Washington Post.
As a lot of you know the Bloggies are a pretty big deal in this wonderful blogsphere. Although some of us don’t share the same feelings on who wins, we can all still vote on who we want to win in each of the categories.
The article was “When It Comes to Blogs, There Aren’t Enough Words” by Leslie Walker. Ms. Walker gives praise to some of the blogs nominated and totally rips on some of the others.
In a recent IM interview with Nikolai Nolan (the man behind the bloggie magic,) I asked him if he was aware of this article being printed, he was very unaware of it and said the reason behind some of the things she was saying was because he does what people ask for.
I can certainly agree with Leslie and wonder why there are a few blogs in one category that should be in another. Or even why some of the categories exist at all. Being a finalist this year in the Bloggies I also asked Mr. Nolan if he plans on changing the website at all. He said no, he liked the design. For something as big as the Bloggies I would just assume they would look a bit more high profiled. Make it a little more snazzy so people actually enjoy being on the page while they take the time out of their day to vote!
I sent Mr. Nolan an email the first day nominees were posted and asked about the error message voters were recieving. I had friends that were trying to vote for me but they were getting a message that was preventing them from voting.
Mr. Nolan replied with:
I’m waiting for a response from my Web host right now, because I don’t
know either. Last year it was bandwidth issues, but I upgraded last
month to avoid that happening again. Maybe the Weblog Awards are even
more popular than I thought. :\ Keep checking back, it should be fixed
soon.
Well since you know your “little Weblog awards” aren’t so little, maybe you can think about making a more professional site to host them? He was late posting the finalists and had bandwidth issues. The Bloggies are nationally known, treat them as if they are something instead of nothing. The idea of having these awards is to give awards to the BEST of blogs every year, maybe your site should be ONE OF THE BEST out there as well? If you are listening to what people want, then surely this won’t be hard for 2007…right?
You may remember Margaret Cho as the “Real All-American Girl” of the 1994 TV show “All American Girl“. In 1994 I was pretty young but I remember this show for some reason. I think it is because I thought that Miss Cho was really funny. After that I wondered how come the show never came back.
While checking out Pink is the new blog, I found a link to Margaret Cho’s blog. I read through it a bit and it is infact entertaining as I thought it would be. She also has a myspace page, just like everyone else in the world.
It’s not often where you find blogs written by real celebs, but this one shows pictures and she is just down right REAL.
Real is what I like. Check out Margaret Cho, as she has a lot of entries that are bound to make you laugh.
Yes Yes, Trent Vanegas of Pink is the new Blog is either one of those people you absolutely LOVE to read or you absolutely HATE to read. I for one love him. As smutty as some of the things he posts is, people happen to enjoy that, that is why we have a website here at Blogebrity. Not everyone is going to be a fan and not everyone is going to hate you, its a give- take relationship between us and all of the readers. Sometimes we love as much as we hate here at Blogebrity but hey, atleast we are honest!
I think what the person posting the Myspace page of I hate pink is the new blog was trying to do was let us know how ridiculous Mr Vanegas actually was. Oh how wrong you are Miss Hater of whom loves myspace.
I will say this just once. If you post things on the internet for everyone to read, be assured that NOT everyone is going to like you. As open as Trent is if he says something you don’t like, THEN DON’T READ IT. My question is, what did Trent do to you to make you hate him so much?
The fact that you made a whole Myspace page dedicated to how you hate him is ridiculous. To actually take the time out of your weekend to devote your time to hating someone is sad. Find a hobby, find a man do something but most importantly GET OVER IT!
From the looks of it, the only “Scandoll” at Catch27.com is Scandoll herself. With her tagline to all of her juicy gossip being “She’s Hot, She’s Harvard, She’s hardcore Gossip…” I fail to see the validity in each one of those words, as she looks like a girl that just got plucked out of the white trash bin and sent to Harvard on a Howard Stern stripper scholarship.
Catch27 is a game that is sweeping the nation as more and more players join everyday. Scandolls job is to dish all of the gossip on players of the game, she does this by getting tips from the players themselves.
How can you possibly get gossip from playing cards? Well it wouldn’t be hard to get gossip on eachother because it seems as if the whole site is one big orgy. While blogging and trading your friends for hotter, smarter more expensive friends, you would think it would be easy to find a few flaws in everyone to write about.
Once a member of Catch27.com, my playing card (my picture) was worth over 20 bucks! Worth $20 you ask??? The object of the game is to collect 27 cards that have the same kind of theme, and once you do this you get either some lame gift or something pretty cool such as an ipod.
An example of an ipod winning pack would be based on how clever your pack was. It is simple to find 27 blonde girls that have fake tans. With that kind of a pack you may win a bottle of Hawaiian Tropics sun tanning lotion and just a dream of being on the beach with the girls of Hawaiian Tropics. The more clever your pack is, the better the prize. Seems easy enough right?
Well Catch27 just wants you to know the real point of the game:
The real point: You meet the famous, just ridiculously hot people on Catch27 and hook up.
While there are some hot people on Catch27 to hook up with, and the game is as addicting as Myspace, both Scandoll and her gossip blog are worthy of clicking the small “x” in the upper right hand corner of every screen in the world.
Well it’s here! The 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy. Like most people in the world you won’t be there. Not only can you catch this years winter Olympics on TV, you can also get the inside scoop via About.com’s 2006 Winter Olympic Blog hosted by James Martin.
And for the young at heart people that actually care what young people have to say, you can check out the Coca-Cola sponsored blog Torino Conversations. Six students from all over the world share their stories and photos while blogging from the 2006 Winter Olympics.
For more information on The 2006 Winter Olympics you can tune in on NBC, or simply go to:
“The ungayest gay whose ever gayed” is what he calls himself. After being nominated yet again this year for another Bloggie, Ernie of little.yellow.different says he doesn’t want to win this year. He has won 3 out of the last 4 Bloggie awards in the “Best GLBT Weblog” category.
Here is one of the reasons he stated on his blog as to why he doesn’t want it this year:
Here’s what happens when you win a Bloggie, LGBT divison: if you’re fortunate enough, you get to attend the South By Southwest Festival in Austin, where you’re asked to participate in the Bloggies awards ceremony. This usually consists of standing on a stage in front of a giant screen that’s has IRC running, while dozens of IRC trolls make fun of you, literally, behind your back. When you win, there is polite applause (since 95% of all attendees are heterosexual anyway) and you’re given a piece of cardstock that basically says, “Congratulations! You’re the GAYEST BLOGGER EVAR!!1!” (Although I did also receive a rainbow chain necklace and an inverted Burger King cardboard crown one year. That was pretty nice.)
And it’s all fairly ironic, because while I’m gay, I don’t think of myself as that gay - you can’t really be gay when you have a condo in the suburbs, in the Silicon Valley, no less. What, am I going to bump house music while the Indian neighbors light firecrackers when it’s Divali? They’re scared of me enough. (Actually… that’s not half a bad idea. Hrm.)
So while Ernie doesn’t want the Best GLBT Weblog award this year. Joe of JoeMyGOD thinks it was “Fantastic” that he was a finalist this year. In an email interview he told me:
I was nominated for some of the other blogging awards too, (none of which I won), but to be honest, it’s the Bloggies that I was the most interested in this year. I have a friend who just moved to Austin, so if by chance I do win, yeah I’ll probably attend The SXSW festival.
Move over Ernie! Set your title of “Best GLBT Weblog” on the mantle, there are people out there that actually care about winning!
Who the heck?? That is what comes to my mind when I think to myself, who would want to be Star Jones-Reynolds? Well apparently someone did when our very own Kyle Bunch stumbled upon what seems to be Star Jones-Reynolds blog.
I went to the blog myself and read over what seemed to be Star putting on the charade she usually seems to be doing all of the time. It actually kind of made Kyle a believer because it wouldn’t be so odd for Star to come up with banter that noone cared about.
With the user name at Blogspot being “BigOleLovin” one can only come to the conclusion that I don’t think the Real Star Jones Reynolds would have the time to write the lame blog posted.
While scowering the obviously fake Star Blog in the side panel “Star” puts links to “Rude People” and wouldn’t you know I found a link to an article on Gawker about Star Jones, along with a few others. So at this point I am bothered. So what do you do in a situation that is bothering you and you just want answers? Go to the source of course!
I clicked on her profile info which sent me to a page where I could contact her at her website. As Star Jones may not be entertaining to any of you the fact that someone went out of their way to make a blog and pretend to be her just makes me warm and fuzzy on the inside with laughter. I emailed her personal assistant Elizabeth Meyer expecting maybe to get an email from her since she really can’t be all that important. I mean being the personal assistant of Star Jones, how glamorous (right!) Well I didn’t get far, every email on her site is automated and clearly explains Star is VERY busy, here it is:
Thank you so much for your letter.
Mrs. Reynolds asked me to tell you how overjoyed she is with the love and support that she has received from all of you! Our mail…like her blessings is overflowing, so please understand that although we would like to answer each letter personally, the volume of mail we receive prohibits us from doing so.
If this is a business related request, our office will respond to you as soon as possible. If this is a personal request, we ask you to understand.
Best regards,
Office of Star Jones Reynolds
Have you heard about Star’s new book Shine, a Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Journey to Finding Love? For more information on Star Jones Reynolds or Shine, go to www.starjones.com.
After reading that all I could hear in my head is Star’s fake overjoyed voice.
So you be the judge. Take a look at Star Jones-Reynolds blog and tell me if the low rate celebrity did this or if its merely an obsessed fan whom obviously loves “Big Ole Lovin.”
AY Blogebrity! As Kyle mentioned yesterday I am yes a NKOTB here at Blogebrity and quite happy to be here. When I first saw this site I was thinking to myself “freakin fabulous!” What a great idea, writing about other blogs on the net! And not just writing but saying whatever you felt the need to say, I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather read during my days of sitting here twiddeling my thumbs.
Let me give you a brief introduction of myself (as if a lot of you care anyway.) I am Natalie and I hail from the wonderful city NEW YORK! New York may be home but that isn’t where I live, and no I am not at school as I probably should be. I use to attend The University of Miami (the GOOD one in Florida, not the one in icy Ohio.) Use to attend school you ask? I was to return back to school at NYU in January but I wasn’t ready to return. I know, I know you are dying to know why I left school in the first place.
After moving out of the lovely dorms in Miami my dad had bought a nice little condo on the beach for me to live in. Not only was it a safe place in his mind but can you think of a better place to live in Miami? My primary reason for being in Miami was school, or so I thought. When classes came to an end in May, let’s just say that school wasn’t on my mind. I was in Miami, enough said.
I didn’t want to live alone SO I decided to ask a friend of mine who dated my brother if she wanted to move in and be my roomate. She said yes and was down to move from the midwest to Miami to live with me. She brought all of her things in a UHAUL one weekend and the next weekend her and I were flying back up to the midwest and driving the 26 hours back to Miami. I didn’t want her to drive that long way by herself, so going against my better judgement of going to a place like Iowa I offered to drive back with her. Trust me when I say the trip to Iowa was going to be one I never forget.
So I’m skipping through all the boring details of why the trip sucked from the very beginning, and just telling you that when we finally decided to leave po dunk Iowa, I was driving on Interstate 80 East in Illinois and was t-boned while going 75mph. As you can probably imagine that wasn’t fun and it was sure to leave a mark.
I am alright, but I have a few minor complications that have come from that accident. Yes I am paralyzed if you have already checked my site out and yes I use a wheelchair everyday. It’s not everyday you get to see a hot chick with a great tan in a chair that has great shoes she doesn’t even have to touch the ground with. Sorry if your mouths just hit the floor my idea wasn’t to shock and awe or make you feel sorry for me but if you do go to my site and you are wondering why I whine a lot about things, that is why. I suck it up most of the time and right now I am back in Iowa where it is a bit slow paced. Something I need right now.
So with all that said, West Coast here I come. I have just submitted my application to The University of Washington Seattle. I know right, how much further away from home can one get? Seattle rocks, right?
So with my introduction out of the way I will get back to what I do best, trolling the internet for people I can laugh at or just say WTF to… and maybe finding something worth while to read!
