Brian Bolter's Blog

Hottie TV UPDATE!

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Few knew the "Battle of the Media Hotties" contest which ends just hours from now (Midnight Friday) was so important to fellow broadcaster Darren McGinty? He slipped into a comfortable lead and I resigned myself to a crushing defeat fair and square.

But then ... came the blog entry. Animals in compromising positions. Pictures of me that would make Perezhilton proud. And now ... outright begging on the front page of their website. My response ... captured in this moment during last nights Newsedge at 11.

Fight back for the Wisconsin Ave microcosm of "hottness" and vote here: http://www.dcrtv.com/hotties.html

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A local media website is scrounging for hits by using unsuspecting on-air types in a Battle of the Media Hotties. This week's throw down pits me against Derek McGinty at Ch. 9. All week I've ignored the web traffic generator ... it's hard to get up for these ballot box stuffing exercises. But Derek's started the smack talk ...  so now it's on!

In case you're curious. This is a picture of the competition.

As he declared in his blog ... it's personal! Here's the link. Please click and vote!  We only have until 12 noon tomorrow ... Friday. Send it to your friends ... co-workers ... family ... anyone who's interested in justice, fairness and our little microcosm of "hottness."   

http://www.dcrtv.com/hotties.html

Brian

I don't know Bill Press of the Bill Press Show. Never listened to his talk show on Sirius radio. Never read his columns. Don't care about his politics. But I know one thing about Bill Press ... he's hot! So says a growing majority of voters on the fishbowldc.com web contest in its current search for "Hottest Media Type, Male On Air."

And even though he is handily beating 'yours truly' ... along with 10 other nominees for this great honor ... the real reason Bill Press is hot is this. In one fell swoop he created a massive wave of voting and snatched the lead (most likely the pending title) from a certain NPR employee. Again ... I have no knowledge of ... and have never met ... that certain media type from NPR. But the guy was running away with it! Like Secretariat, the rest of us, including Bill Press, were getting manhandled in the polls. If it were American Idol, I was Chris Sligh .. and America wasn't feeling the witty guy when they could lay their eyes and votes on Sanjaya Malakar. Who knew we could garner 60 ... 70 ... 110 votes ... while clearly the fishbowldc.com visitors were overwhelmingly enamored with NPR Malakar. First 200 ... then 400 ... now at last count  686 adoring fans.

But like a Tour de France rider fresh from a blood transfusion, a steaming steroid smacked baseball from Barry Bonds, a technical foul from Tim Donaghy ... Bill Press comes from voting obscurity to run away winner! Nationally syndicated help from the computer savvy public? Who cares! Everybody loves an underdog ... and NPR Malakar met his match!

You can vote at the link below. Polls close Monday. I'd love not to come in last. But as you've learned by now ... I pull for the underdogs!

http://mediabistro.com/articles/poll/000407/>

There's something about giving yourself freely to a purveyor of capitalism in all its glory. Surrendering to the notion you're borderline powerless against its gravitational pull on your wallet and your mind. Not the proudest moment in life to admit such a weakness. There is of course always the conviction that the chains can be broken if you're truely
determined. But in the meantime I ask in the name of all who've succumbed to the legalized addiction pedaler that is Starbucks ... can we just get an express line for crying out loud?

Not an express line for Cash Only customers. Or neighborhood customers. Or big spender customers. Can we just get a dedicated register with a seasoned barista for all of us who know EXACTLY what we want ... in the Starbucks lingo? A smooth effortless exchange of information and cash for the caffeine fix we're all there to cure? A mainline if you will to the slice of heaven known as a Grande Sugar-free Vanilla Skim Latte.

You want a medium? Sorry ... wrong line. Something chocolatey and creamy, maybe on ice? This isn't Baskin Robbins ... and sorry ... wrong line. If that chalkboard causes even a hint of indecision and information overload ... sorry ... wrong line. It's not that harcore java junkies don't appreciate the spirit of shared experiences and enthusiasm for a product we have incorporated into daily routines of showering, shaving and ... Starbucks. But seriously ... wrong line.

What's worse than unabashedly embracing a multiplying mega-corporation that is clearly bent on world domination? Trying to get it's product into your veins even faster than the every corner, on every street in every metropolis will allow. Asking for an express line for the hardcore. I understand that. I'm not proud. Just asking.