One of the great people I’ve met in my involvement in social media and blogging over the years is Lynn DeVries. She and I co-blogged together for b5media at the CSI:Fanatic blog awhile back. She’s a blogging machine! She still writes on the following sites and if you’re interested in these shows, you should start reading her blogs now:
She’s in a contest to try and get to blog behind the scenes for NBC’s new reality TV show "I’m A Celebrity, Get Me out of Here!".
Lynn has made it to the final round of the contest and just needs everyone to send an email to the email address they’ve setup for her voteLynn@imabloggergetmeoutofhere.com saying you’re voting for her. You can just click on the email link. If you’ve got multiple email addresses, send a vote from each one.
Thanks so much. Now, the next time I apply for Survivor and they let people vote contestants in hopefully paybacks will be in order.
This weekend I took my son to the Hometown Celebrity Softball Challenge here in Indianapolis. I wrote about the event here and who attended, but wanted to share a bit of a personal story about our experience with the event.
My son was so excited about seeing all the players from the Colts that were there. His favorite players are Bob Sanders and Anthony Gonzalez. I should clarify that he absolutely LOVES the Colts and football period, so he was excited about everyone. Anthony Gonzalez wasn’t in attendance, so he really wanted to get Bob Sander’s autograph. Bob wasn’t interested in interacting with any of the "common" fans in the stands though. Dwight Freeney and Melvin Bullitt walked right up to the fans and signed autographs as much as they could between innings, along with a few other celebrities in attendance.
I realize that Bob Sanders and some other Colts players are like rock stars in Indianapolis. I realize that they probably get mobbed just about anywhere they go and I’m sure it gets annoying. If they’re out by themselves trying to have a "normal" life, then I think fans should be respectful and try and leave them alone as much as possible.
However, when you’re participating at an event like this that’s specifically for fans and to raise money for a charity, I believe "celebrities" should consider this part of their job and responsibility. It’s part of what comes with being famous. Am I way off base here? I’m sure I don’t completely understand what it means to have to deal with this type of fame, but I can tell you I sure hope I’d keep that in mind if I were famous.
Now my son isn’t very interested in Bob Sanders. He’s very let down with his experience this weekend. He told me wants me to sell his jersey on eBay.com for him. I’m trying to encourage him to be patient and maybe we’ll have another chance to meet him and get his autograph. We’ll see how it goes.
In case you haven’t noticed there been a few posts gone missing from my blog. I had an error with a previous WordPress installation that I never seemed to have noticed before. When I did a roll-back of the install I lost some posts that had previously been published with seemingly no problem.
I’ve got a back-up of everything, but just need to work through restoring just the posts that are missing.
Really annoying with everything else going on and the stuff that needs to get done. I don’t need more maintenance issues popping up on my personal blog! It’s already been forsaken enough.
Please be patient with me as I get this worked out, and stay tuned!
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