Jason Priestley: Priestley is an owner of the new FAZZT Race Team, which is competing full time in the IndyCar Series in 2010 with Canadian racer Alex Tagliani.

Shannon Doherty: She lives in Malibu, California. She also has a horse ranch in Ventura County, California and owns seven horses and two dogs.

Jennie Garth: Garth appeared on the U.S. game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on November 21, 2008. She won $100,000 for her charity, the American Heart Association. This TV show also noted that Garth owns a horse ranch in Santa Barbara, CA. Her family also loves Crocs Shoes.

Ian Ziering: Variety reported that Ziering had auditioned the previous week for the opportunity to succeed Bob Barker as host of The Price Is Right.

Gabrielle Carteris: In the March 17, 2008 issue of People magazine, Carteris described an injury suffered while filming a TV movie in Vancouver, Canada, in 2006 that partially paralyzed her face and affected her speech for over six months.

Luke Perry: Perry has done considerable voice-over work for various animated series, often playing himself. He played himself (as Krusty the Clown’s half brother) in an episode of The Simpsons (1993). He voiced himself in an episode of Johnny Bravo, giving Johnny dating advice after Johnny saved him from a stampede of fan girls. Perry then voiced himself once again in an episode of Family Guy, where he was labeled as gay by Peter and sues the family. Peter tries to seduce Perry into revealing his homosexuality and fails. However, by the end of the episode Perry is seen with Mayor Adam West, about to engage in sex. His other voice work includes The Incredible Hulk, Biker Mice from Mars, Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm, and The Night of the Headless Horseman.

Brian Austin Green: He’s doing Megan Fox

Tori Spelling: In July 2007, Spelling became a minister to marry a gay couple at Chateau La Rue. A tape of the ceremony was shown on Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood.

James Eckhouse: is awesome

Carol Potter: She also appeared on a special “TV Moms” Episode of the Anne Robinson version of The Weakest Link, In which she won $124,000 for her charity, beating June Lockhart.

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Here are some old images from my journaling days:

I have over 45 journals of my writings. They are hidden in boxes and will probably be discovered after I pass. I don’t know what’s in most of them. I do know I keep important things written down. I chronicle the things that matter to me. I’ve moved to the digital realm but I miss the feeling of really writing. It cleans out the soul. I need to get in the practice of it again.

Picture your life like a giant algebra puzzle (I know, I know – who remembers algebra?). Whatever the equation is – the goal is to have that equation equal “happiness.” Everyone’s equation is different, but the goal is the same. So, after some initial post-collegiate adventures, I moved to Syracuse. Syracuse, NY – my home town. Which, at the time, felt like I accomplished nothing in the five years since I graduated high school. No diploma, no life experience, no tales from the other side could convince me otherwise – I was a failure (I’d link to those introspective blog posts, but I’ll save that for my memoirs).

That’s the thing about home towns – especially during the times of early adult hood. I didn’t know that I was simply part of a new phenomena, I just knew that things were not working out the way I wanted them to. So I started to think about what I wasn’t happy about. The first things that popped into my head were “Location” and “Work.” These were two big variables that I was decidedly unhappy with. I wasn’t doing work that was fitting for what I wanted to do in my career. And I was unhappy living back in my home town, a place that felt extremely tiny despite the 700k people living in the metro area.

The problem with big variables is that they aren’t exactly easy to change. Moving and employment are intrinsically tied together – so unless you have the savings to pay for the move and the possible months of unemployment, moving isn’t truly an option (I’ll discover a few years later that it’s also not as hard as I imagined it to be, but that’s another story for another time). So, if I can’t move and the local economy making it hard to find worth employment – what should I do?

Let’s go back to that algebra problem of life? We’ve established that there are big variables out there (work, employment) but what about the little variables? Each day we’re given a choice to do certain things. They can be as simple as the route we take to work or the places we frequent. Whatever they are – they impact the rest of your life as much as those big variables do. Make enough change to the little variables and there might be more impact on your life than the big ones could provide. Changing something – anything – is an important step toward happiness.

So – I looked at my life and started to think about the things that I never thought about. I lived a pretty simple life. I was living with some friends of the family, I was paying myself out of debt and I had very few friends. But diving deeper, I decided to look at some things that I never thought about. The first thing: what I ate. Despite being a vegetarian, I wasn’t the most healthy eater. And, the label vegetarian, never really fit with me. There was no Upton Sinclair/anti-meat industry moment. There was no “Animals are all living beings” empathy. There was just the simple fact that I did not eat meat. No rhyme. No reason. And that wasn’t good enough.

I started eating meat slowly, but it quickly paid dividends. When word got around that I was no longer a vegetarian, I was invited out to guys nights at Hooters. Sure, that’s not a recipe for changing your life for good – but it expanded my social circle. I started to enjoy my home town in a new way – forgetting the pangs of adolescents and discovering and making new memories. I started to make some good friends who, while not a part of my life anymore, served a role and introduced me to some great people I am still close with today. I evolved and my life became happier. A small, little choice changed my life. It effected the equation and I was closer to the happiness we all crave.

It took years for me to be happy but I never forgot that lesson – if you’re unhappy, change something. It’s powerful when you realize how easy it is. At 29 years old (almost 30 as my girlfriend likes to remind me), I am happier than I have ever been. But I’m not completely there yet. There’s a reexamination of what I want in my life. Being in love added a new variable that I never before realized was part of the equation and I realize that it’s actually the best part of the equation. The other variables have become smaller. It’s the smaller variables that I need to shift because I am so close to complete happiness. So close to the life that I want that I no longer am obsessed with it. Just a few tweaks here and there and it will be complete. And I know that, if I ever get too far from the answer, I can always just do the one thing that has produced results: Change Something.

I live in a world of sharing. This post, originating in my head, will spread from this site to my twitter feed, my Facebook page to my friends in a blink of an eye. Should they find the material interesting, they will share it their friends ad infinitum. The odds of this post reaching more than a few degrees from me are slim – there will be nothing incendiary or provocative about this post – yet it will travel beyond my normal sharing capabilities without me even trying. That is the world I live in. That is the defining difference of my generation.

Since 1997, I’ve shared the later stages of my adolescence, my college years, my early adult years all the way to present day. I’ve documented my love life, struggles and triumphs in my career, sought help and offered advice. I’m not in the minority either – early sites like LiveJournal to the powerhouse sites like Facebook have captured the memoirs of an entire generation. I think it’s because of this fact that we haven’t had the defining novel of our generation. There isn’t a Sun Also Rises or an On the Road that captures what our generation has endured. Instead, there is just this – the internet. A sharing culture that, ultimately reveals who we are as people.

I recently stumbled upon Weeplaces – a Foursquare visualization tool. It shows your entire timeline of places that you have checked in. Here’s a visualization of my travel throughout the US.

As you can see, my check ins are focused on the two places I have lived – Boulder, Co and New York, NY. I’ve traveled to Dallas, Chicago, Austin, Bentonville, and Upstate NY a bit as well. Pretty cool to see the distances traveled come and the random airports that I’ve passed through.

It’s even cooler when you go down to the closer views. Here’s my check in’s on Pearl Street in Boulder, Co:

It’s funny to see the places I went to the most. I’m definitely the kind of person that becomes a “regular” somewhere. All the bar hopping and check in’s in Boulder also makes me remember why I was a lot more broke back then.

Geolocation is big these days. And it can be useful. Last night, I needed to reach my girlfriend and she wasn’t answering her phone. She was staying in Atlanta, but I wasn’t sure where. Using Google Latitude, I was able to locate her. I could have also found her via Foursquare. I was able to call the hotel and get connected to her room. While it still didn’t help me in my endeavor, it at least proved effective in locating where she was staying.

All that’s missing is a little video from me doing the Just Dance Game and we’ll have ourselves a nice recap.

I’m sure that’s coming. I’m pretty sure I saw a few people with their cameras out for that….

1) I cried. Here. And if you didn’t laugh more than you cried, well – then you weren’t listening. While I work in the internet, I always believed that it’s powered at its root by community. That’s what BlogHer is. And that’s what this panel was about – communities coming together to help those that are in need. While I’ve avoided real tragedy in my life, the internet has helped me more than once in coming to terms with that empty feeling of loneliness that comes with the mean reds. Big round of applause goes to Cecily Kellogg, Loralee Choate, Kim Trimble, Anissa Mayhew, and Peter Mayhew – who became the first man to appear on a BlogHer panel. And while he, without a doubt, would prefer that the circumstances that caused him to be up there never happened – he is also the only person I could think of deserving to break the gender barrier there.

The grieving session also made me miss Erin Kotecki Vest. While she was having BlogHer at home, she was in many people’s thoughts. I heard her named mentioned a lot. BlogHer missed you this year. Get better fast.

2) I missed my Ohio girls. I don’t have favorites in the Blogosphere. I work with a lot of different people. But sometimes you just miss people when they aren’t there. I missed Jenny and Emily. Amy. Katie. Andrea. Erin. and Tara (although I did see Tara this year already!) I’m sure I’m missing a few others. With my girlfriend being from Ohio, I do have to say that I have a soft spot for the Mid-West and missed all those Ohio women too cool to stop by. At least I did get to see Tricia from OnceaMonthMom.com – which made my day. I did drag her into the booth to make a video though:

3) I have great friends. Seriously – great friends. I was hugged by so many of my friends that “live in my iPhone.” Friends that I see once a year – if I’m lucky. Lori Falcon sat around with me for 5 hours on Wednesday while I did work and worked on final details for BlogHer. Christine Young took me to the Russian Tea Room after winning a gift certificate. Audrey McClelland made sure I was the best boyfriend by letting my girlfriend visit her Getting Gorgeous event. I saw some of my favorite Colorado people in Aimee and Bryan and, briefly, Tara. I had a great discussion about blogging/brand practices with Jessica Randazza, Christopher Barger, Bonin Bough, and a room full of attentive bloggers thanks to Lucretia Pruitt and Jenn Fowler. I saw so many people that I’m going to stop naming names because it will never be complete enough. All I’m saying is that the great people that I know – the people that make me happy – all come to things like this. It makes me energized and I am already looking forward to next year.

4) It was under control. The complaints from last year should vanish. No more repeating stories of blackmail, over zealous bloggers and swag, and brands hating babies. It was, in the end, a great conference with very little controversy (unless I missed something). Like Sugar said, BlogHer has grown up. So has the community. It’s a wonderful thing to see – especially since it still hasn’t lost the fun and there are still McDonald’s bag hats and Unicorns and Sparkles.

5) I can’t dance. Not that I didn’t already know this. I did a preview for “Just Dance 2″ three times. My scores progressively got worse. It’s horrible. As the sun set, it didn’t get any better. I tried twirling Sarah Pinnix a few times but only ended up looking stupid in the process. I tried dancing with Leah Segadie too. Nope. Not cool. Note to self: Don’t try dancing with people that get compared to Lady GaGa by the Huffington Post. Just don’t….

One Post Isn’t Enough – I mean, c’mon, most of the pictures haven’t even been uploaded yet. I will definitely write more soon.