from the week of February 25 2007
As I was setting my DVR to record the Oscars for Sunday, I noticed a problem. I have too much stuff recorded on my DVR.
The DVR gives you 35 hours of space, which seems like a lot until you've had it for a few years and you realize they don't have a way to transfer what you've saved to a DVD or a videotape.
My DVR is clogged with old media appearances, going back to American Candidate in 2004. So I decided to erase some of the old clips that I already have saved on my computer. In the process, I also decided to put some of my clips into a media reel (shown above).
The media reel was made on Windows Movie Maker, which I didn't know I had until my tech-savvy friends told me about it. Meanwhile, if anyone knows how to transfer video from a DVR to a computer, please let me know.
Posted on February 26 2007, 10:22AM | Permalink
Well I missed the Oscars, but I did make it to Hollywood. I heard about all the parties from Nathan, who has spent the past week in Los Angeles.
And now I'm out in Los Angeles today to tape an episode of the Tyra Banks Show. We're going to be talking about three places where it's still very difficult to be "out."
The first is in pro sports. The second is in hip hop. And the third is in religion. I don't know when the episode will air, but I will be sure to let you know once I find out.
Posted on February 27 2007, 12:01AM | Permalink
Who knew it was so easy to get a spot in a Gucci ad? Apparently all you have to do is make it up yourself.
That's what a man in Switzerland did. He had a photo taken of himself for a fake Gucci ad and then convinced a Swiss publication called SonntagsZeitung to run the ad. And then, get this, he had the $50,000 charge billed to Gucci. Now that's ballsy.
The two-page spread went to press and Gucci was billed for it. That's when Gucci let the paper know it wasn't theirs.
A spokesman for the Swiss weekly apologized to Gucci. "We're going to try and get the money back from this guy, but we don't rate our chances," he said.
The fake model's name was not reported to the media, but he shouldn't be too hard to find. He is on the ad, after all. Meanwhile, he's also under investigation for other forms of fraud, according to Towleroad.
Posted on February 28 2007, 12:11AM | Permalink
Congratulations to our very own Clarence Nero, who has just been nominated to receive a Lambda Literary Award. Clarence is nominated for his new novel Three Sides to Every Story, published by Harlem Moon/Doubleday.
Other notable finalists include Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein (Seven Stories), Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East by Brian Whitaker, and Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians And Gays in Black Churches by Horace Griffin (Pilgrim Press).
Also nominated were Spirited: Affirming the Soul and Black Gay/Lesbian Identity, edited by Lisa Moore & G. Winston James (Redbone Press) and The Days of Good Looks: The Prose and Poetry of Cheryl Clarke (Carroll & Graf).
The nominees were announced Thursday by the Lambda Literary Foundation. Awards are presented in 25 categories, and winners will be announced on Thursday, May 31, at the Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City.
Finalists were chosen by a jury of judges who come from all walks of literary life: journalists, authors, booksellers, librarians, playwrights, illustrators. In all, 87 judges participated in the selection of finalists from the pool of 381 books that were nominated.
Posted on March 2 2007, 12:01AM | Permalink