Another year, another St. Patty’s day. I hope you day is full of beer or other green beverages. Preferably tasty ones.
Meanwhile, I’m going to a live taping of The Totally Rad Show and a little Jonathan Coulton and Tim and my roommate of Irish descent will be going to get completely slosh and singing Irish drinking songs. Okay, not sure about the Irish Drinking songs, but I’m sure about the sloshing. Because of this, we are delaying this week’s show until tomorrow, complete with hangovers. I will try to make sure the chat room is open for everyone so you can at least chat about how lame we are.
Now the 2008 Best of Bears nominations are now up and *gay gasp* COL is NOT in the list. I suggest we start up a write in campaign to get it onto the list and for people to vote for it as the Best Bear Podcast. But that’s just me. Lets also try to get this to be a more national vote as I think last year it was more San Francisco centric.
Also, our favorite bear site, Bearciti.com is not nominated either. This requires a write in campaign as well. Vote early and tell all your friends to write in.
Check out the instructions on Voting on the Bear Bones site.
Adam Sessler, host of ZDTV’s “Gamespot TV” techtv’s “Extended Play” G4’s “X-Play” gets up on his soapbox against the racist and homophobic slurs prevalent in online gaming, specifically on XBOX Live.
I always had a hunch he was family friendly (but he never pinged my gaydar); this clip just proves it.
I was not able to make TBRU this year, but had mixed reviews from my friends that did go. One very close-yet-cynical friend here in Houston said "it’s not all that, especially for what you pay". He added that he did, though, have a good time. (subliminal translation: he and his partner got laid.) Another friend from Mexico promised – and delivered – an account of his time there. Overall, he and his friends from Mexico and Texas enjoyed themselves – without getting lucky. For those of you who were there, my friend was the one who bid on President Larry’s underwear – and won…..
There seems to be an unspoken competition between TBRU and BearWatch – whose is better; who’s offers more; who’s is a better value. I think I can say in all honesty, despite my being a committee chair for BearWatch, that the two entities cannot be judged by the same criteria. BearWatch is, and always will be, a small, intimate event. Many improvements and upgrades have been made over the past few years (can anyone say BYE BYE, SANDPIPER!), and from what i’ve heard and read, the Dallas Bears followed BearWatch’s lead by distributing a feedback survey after last year’s event asking for opinions, suggestions, and rankings on certain events and issues. A truly responsible person will answer such a survey responsibly – clueless idiots will continue to complete the survey as, well, a clueless idiot.
Bottom line is this…..you can’t please everyone, and I am happy that the Dallas Bears pulled off yet another successful TBRU. I think I’ll try to make next year’s……
Gay Rag In Town Features TBRU – or Does It?
While on the subject of TBRU, I recently picked up a new gay rag in Houston called Gab; similar in style to Red and TWIT – glossy, with a cute twink cover model, and pics from different bars across Texas. Their feature for this past issue was The Faces of TBRU – the ones who make TBRU happen. The ‘faces’ they featured were not those of the Dallas Bears – but rather the owners of the Eagle. I kept flipping through the pages, ignoring the shiny pics of drag queens, drunk queens, and cute boys in Speedos thrusting their engorged manhood at me, desperately trying to find more copy about the ‘real’ faces of TBRU – but there was none to be found. I was truly irritated at this gross oversight by the staff of this new mag in town, and quite honestly, hope that someone from the Dallas Bears organization informs them of their complete misrepresentation of those who really do make TBRU happen, and not just the bleached-tooth smiles of some bar owners who, in fact, had comparatively little to do with the planning and implementation of TBRU.
As some of you may or may not know, I actually have a tech blog on Wordpress.com called Boxtech. Check out the site as I occasional post news or rants about the world of technology. I just posted a rant in response to a post on Don Reisinger’s The Digital Home blog on why he thinks Blu-ray is doomed. Check it out here.
I was checking my feeds, and I was feeling hungry and the first item in the feed was a recipe for Spicy Southwestern Smoky Chili from the Bearly Edible Blog. Needless to say, my stomach sounded like a Bear in heat. This also reminded me of Bear Cookin’: The Original Guide to Bear Comfort Foods and More Bear Cookin’: Bigger And Better. I have Bear Cookin’ and I think I’ll break it out and actually cook almost every one of the recipes. If it has fish in it, I’m not eating it. I’ll report back on the food from the book and let you all know what I think. And I’ll post pictures in a Flickr feed for COL. I’ve also been thinking that it would be interesting to start a Bear Food podcast. Maybe see if Chef Tom of the Bearly Edible blog would like to participate. What do you all think? Would you listen to a podcast about food and bears?
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. I have Bear Cookin’ and I think I’ll break it out and actually cook almost every one of the recipes. If it has fish in it, I’m not eating it. I’ll report back on the food from the book and let you all know what I think. And I’ll post pictures in a Flickr feed for COL. I’ve also been thinking that it would be interesting to start a Bear Food podcast. Maybe see if Chef Tom of the Bearly Edible blog would like to participate. What do you all think? Would you listen to a podcast about food and bears?
