Interview with somelikeitscott
This week's Hubber profile is on somelikeitscott, nominated by relache.
- Tell us a little about yourself. I'm a forty-something Jewish gay man living in Las Vegas with my partner of nineteen years (who is a six-foot black man and was once an altar boy) and our two cats named after characters from the musical Wicked. How stereotypical is that, huh? I started doing theatre at the age of six, went on to direct and choreograph for such diverse places as Virginia Opera to Disneyland and currently am in corporate America, still trying to figure out how I got here and how to get out!
- What brought you to HubPages? When I was chosen as the Ultimate Fan Blogger for season 3 of Project Runway for Bravotv.com, they saw my "Don't Get Me Started" blog and offered to add it to their sister site, outzonetv.com. I wanted the blog to look fabulous so I decided to create my own website but soon found out that the web hosting/design site I was using didn't allow comments on the blog so I searched the web and came across HubPages, starting reading them and thought, "Wow, I love the sense of community and it's an easy way for people to leave comments on my blogs." It was basically love at first sight.
- What do you like Hubbing on, with respect to topics? I mostly hub on some strange injustice that has been done to me that I don't think anyone else has encountered, you know, like the DMV saying I was a female on my driver's license and refusing to change it back but sometimes I can't help but get all riled up about something going on with celebrities and politics. Whatever gets me started!
- What has been your best Hub so far (in your opinion)? Why? This is a little hard to choose for me but I think that I like to stir up controversy so I'd have to choose the Do Not Go Sleeveless After Forty hub. Blogging/Hubbing can be so solitary, even with all the metrics and everything else, you don't know if people are really reading or not. Well, on this hub people went crazy telling me how out of line I was for saying people over forty shouldn't go sleeveless, even accusing me of being a bad friend because of it and I ended up doing another hub as a rebuttal to one of the comments. Although it may have been negative, I loved that people were reading and getting upset enough to write in. (By the way, I still stand by what I said, after forty, I don't care how great your arms are, no need to go sleeveless.) All that said, for me the only time I've ever laughed out loud at my own thoughts were my most naughty hub, At least ten reasons why I will never be a male prostitute
- What is your favorite Hub by another Hubber? Why? I hate to sound like the same pageant contestants from the other weeks but it's true that there are so many great hubbers out there and they write equally great stuff. A short list would be Gaydar Secrets by livelonger, Anything by Isabella Snow—come on, a lady who can give you beauty and fashion tips while occasionally throwing in bizarre facts about Hitler is my kind of gal, and last but not least is relache for always entertaining and informative hubs like her one on laptop bags but mostly for her profile picture!
- What is one nice thing about HubPages (the site) that many might not know? Even the big guns are reading. I've had comments and emails from Paul Edmonson (CEO of HubPages) and Jason, the king of marketing for HubPages. I just don't know of many sites for posting where the gang that make it happen every day are not only reading but responding to the writers.
- Name one thing you learned about from another Hubber's Hub that you didn't know about before. I would have to say thanks to Guru-C, it's how to have lots of friends. As someone who has always been what I call an acquired taste, sort of like Tab cola, this hub hit home for me and actually made me feel better and informed.
- What kind of Hubber do you typically join the Fan Club of? Why? I know most hubbers have great intelligence and hub about something that will save the world or teach me how to invest my money but I tend to join the fan club of a hubber that makes me think and more importantly makes me laugh. The world is too serious as it is so I say a little laughter goes a long way.
- If you could impart one piece of advice to a new Hubber, what would that be? Don't quit your day job. No seriously, I think hubbing is the new blogging because it's more than just writing and sending it out into hyperspace, it's a community of people reading and commenting. So know your facts, incite people a little and mostly be passionate about what you're writing.
- Tell us something that we'd never guess about you—surprise us! I've never been to a rock or any other kind of stadium concert, yes this includes no Madonna, Cher or Bette Midler concerts (the closest I've come is seeing Sammy Davis, Jr. when I was a kid...do you think that counts?)
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