> In his new book, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Mike Edison does for sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll what Hulk Hogan did for wrestling! No, scratch that. Edison hates Hogan. Saying that will just piss him off. How about: Mike Edison does for sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll what Lennon &... Continue Reading →
Prism Comics editor talks about LGBT Comics! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Jonathan Riggs is my guest for this hour of Mr. Media. I began the show with some trepidation -- I was late getting back from the bank for one thing and almost missed the show entirely! -- and I know absolutely nothing about the narrow market for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered comics. Hell,... Continue Reading →
Legs McNeil on The Ramones, Spin, Hollywood porno and more! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Legs McNeil, author, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, I Slept with Joey Ramone When Spin magazine started, its staff included two fascinating characters. First was Bob Guccione, Jr., the magazine’s founder and namesake son of the publisher of Penthouse. And then there was Spin’s senior editor, Legs McNeil. Legs McNeil!?!... Continue Reading →
Kristin Harmel teaches Mr. Media The Art of French Kissing! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Kristin Harmel’s new novel, her fourth, in fact, is titled The Art of French Kissing. It’s a sweet, surprisingly gentle story of a young boy-band publicist, who’s a woman from Orlando, whose life there collapses, and she goes to Paris to escape and maybe find herself again. It’s chick-lit for sure, but I enjoyed... Continue Reading →
Playboy’s Breann McGregor sings. What else do you guys need? PODCAST INTERVIEW
Guys, Stacy Collins has your dream job. As a managing editor of Playboy special editions, she spends day after day looking at the world’s most beautiful, mostly naked women. Some are in photographs, but many meet her discriminating eye in the flesh. And now that I say that out loud, it’s not hard... Continue Reading →
From the bench: Syndicated gay TV Judge David Young rules! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Judge David Young is unlike any other TV judge you’ve likely seen before. In a video marketplace with courts of every color and gender and with their focuses ranging from petty crimes and divorce to Texas justice, the Judge David Young show has a gimmick that’s no gimmick. Yep, he’s gay. JUDGE DAVID YOUNG... Continue Reading →
88 Cranky Old Dude: A Mr. Media Essay Classic
Originally published July 28, 1997 I hate getting old. Oh, it's not the crow's feet at the edge of the eyes or the bags under them. It's not the sagging of some parts, the inner tube effect of others or even the occasional forgetting of details, dates or names. What I hate about aging is... Continue Reading →
86 Chip Rowe, Playboy Advisor and Fringe Ziner! INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Chip Rowe, editor, The Book of Zines, Chip's Closet Cleaner, columnist, Playboy Advisor Originally published July 14, 1997 Chip Rowe is an expert in two fields. The first is sex. Every month he spends his days researching, studying and writing about the most obscure and most obvious elements of physical intimacy for one, two... Continue Reading →
53 Tell Me You Love Me, Hawaii Five-0 actress Michelle Borth! PODCAST INTERVIEW
The ironic thing about Michelle Borth’s role as Jamie, a woman whose fiancé won’t commit to monogamy in the new HBO series "Tell Me You Love Me," is that she is the kind of sexy, intoxicating woman that could probably drive the best-intentioned married man to cheat on his wife. BOB ANDELMAN/Mr. MEDIA: I was... Continue Reading →
28 Behind the skin with Playboy mag editor Chris Napolitano! PODCAST INTERVIEW
When I was a student at the University of Florida, studying film during the day and writing freelance stories at night, I landed two choice assignments. Choice, that is, for a horny, unrequited, socially awkward twenty-year-old. First, I got to spend an afternoon hanging out with Russ Myers, a notorious film director and king... Continue Reading →