J.S. Gilbert's Page

I have been a bad boy about my not blogging. Well no more, says I. You (and I mean the three of you who will get an email with a link to this blog) are now in for a treat, as even if I have absolutely nothing to say, I will say it anyway. Today though I think I have some pearls of wisdom. And rmember if you do quote me, I will expect some credit. First, let's just say that I am doing my part and more to stimulate the economy. Well at least the audio/ video retail part of the economy. I have rec… Continue

I have in my day both voiced and directed audio books. As a director I have usually worked with trained talent. That is to say, individuals who have some degre of experience perfroming voiceover and/or have had some acting training. There seems to be a trend these days to have the authors read the books themselves whenever possible. So a few weeks ago I was introduced to Mr. Bill Tancer and his book called Click. Bill Tancer is the general manager of global research at Hitwise and a weekly colu… Continue

Well, I think Kermit the Frog was the first to sing the sentiments of it not being easy being green. For now and some time to come I am afraid that all the other colors of the rainbow will simply have to take a backstage. Mauve and Fuschia will have no place in our society. It's green, green, green. One of the big reasons is because it's "safe". Just as all of our country's politicians realized that once they couldn't take money from Tobacco lobbyists anymore for 30 years 90% of all legislation… Continue

SO, it's now mid-April. Actually iut's April 15th and for once I filed my taxes early which means I can act really smug when I watch all the people on t.v. tonight on th 11 O'clock news waiting in line to send their returns. What I really want to do is go to the post office at around 5 or 10 minutes after midnight just to see who shows up and point at them and laugh. I usually sit down and blog with something in mind, but right now if I shined a flashlight into my right ear, the light would com… Continue

Dear Diary or whatever. Well looks like things with me and the Create Magazine folks are cool and groovy. I'm on the Advisory Board for another year and will even have my own monthly rants and raves column on their website. (More on that to come)

So I checked out the November issue of Create and looks like some ofthe judges agreed with some of my picks but not with some of my other picks. But then again, I'm still a little foggy over exac

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