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Jason A. Toney

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Jason A. Toney

Jason Antony Toney (born March 19, 1975 as Jason Antony Saunders) is an American-born web producer and blogger currently based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently a Senior Producer at Disney Online focused on TV, Games, and Music websites. He is probably best-known as the blogger behind negroplease.com, a one-time editor of laist.com (part of the Gothamist Network), and a frequent panelist at SXSW.

Life

Toney's father, Kevin Toney, is a jazz keyboardist who has recorded as a solo artist and as a founding member of 70s jazz fusion band, The Blackbyrds. His mother, Phyllis Saunders Toney, is a costumer and wardrobe director working primarily with major music tours.  Toney was born in Omaha, Nebraska and spent much of his youth in mulitple locations from Oxon Hill, Maryland to Van Nuys, California. He considers the San Fernando Valley his hometown. Toney attended The George Washington University pursuing a bachelor's degree in Sociology and a minor in Creative Writing from 1993 to 1997.  While there, he was active in student activities, chairing the Multicultural Affairs Program Board for two years and working as the Diversity Programming Clearinghouse coordinator in the Student Activities office. Toney's 1995 Unity Week program "And Still We Rise" won the multicultural program of the year from NACA.

After College, Toney returned to Los Angeles and working briefly in Student Affairs at Mount St. Mary's College before moving to Bunim-Murray Productions in 1998 as an Information Technologist. Over the next 7 years, Toney would be promoted to Director of Web Development and oversee online content creation for a wide variety of reality television series including The Real World, Road Rules, Making The Band, The Simple Life, and Starting Over.

In 2002, Toney launched a weblog entitled "...Better Left Unsaid" that would soon become known as "Negro Please." Negro Please was a blog focused on pop culture, politics, and technology from a sociocultural perspective. More than that, Negro Please was about identity, identity definition and creation, and race. From 2002 to 2005, Negro Please was one of the most recognizable "Black Blogs" which eventually led to the Blogging While Black panel at 2005's SXSW and subsequent panels in the following years on Identity Blogging.

Toney has also edited laist.com, written for VIBE online, and run the Honolulu Marathon.

Since 2006, Toney has worked at Disney Online.

His two most popular pictures on flickr are his baby picture and a dead rat.

He's scrobbled nearly 90,000 songs on last.fm and by that meter, Björk is his favorite recording artist.

He was a participant in the infamous "I Call Trunk" event, widely considered to be the funniest night in the history of the world.

Toney smells like cheese. ZOMG LOLs[citation needed]

External links

• Toney's website
• Toney's blog
• Toney's photo stream
• Toney's music stream

What are the 5 words that best describe your life right now?
Submitted by mojito.  

As Frost said,

1. Life
2. It
3. Goes
4. On
5. Period

Are there any podcasts that you never miss an episode of?
Submitted by Kadeeae.

As I've pretty much given up the radio, I get almost all my NPR exclusively from podcasts. Particularly, the 7am News Summary, the weekly technology, movies, books and pop culture podcasts and a few alt.npr joints. But my all time favorite podcast is Tiki Bar TV.

What are five things you take for granted? 
Submitted by meowkitty.

1. Time
2. Permanence
3. Family
4. Friendships
5. Infinite possibility

What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?

Last Week:

1. UGK - International Player's Anthem (f/ Outkast)
2. Jay Dee - Crushin' (Yeeeaah!)
3. Joss Stone - Put Your Hands On Me
4. Murs & 9th Wonder - Murs Day
5. The Arcade Fire - The Well and The Lighthouse
6. Adventure Time - This Dome is Our Home
7. Dilated Peoples - Back Again
8. Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous
9. The Gaslamp Killer - Kobwebs (f/ Gonja Sufi)
10. Christina Milian - Dip It Low (f/ Fabolous)

1. Common - Testify
2. Phoenix - I'm An Actor
3. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry
4. Quasimoto - Real Eyes
5. Mariah Carey - It's Like That
6. Common - Be (Intro)
7. Common - The Food (Live)
8. Common - The Corner (LP)
9. T.I. - ASAP
10. Björk - Venus As A Boy (Harpsichord)
    

What's a saying or phrase that's never made sense to you?

Near Miss.

As George Carlin explains:

Here's one they just made up: "near miss". When two planes almost collide, they call it a near miss. It's a near hit. A collision is a near miss.

What was your favorite TV season finale this year? 
Submitted by Kristine.

The Season Finales of LOST and The Office were Par Excellence.

I discussed both at length in the comments at Too Much Free Time.

In 5 words or less, who are you? 
Submitted by dejablu503.

Dance Machine. Life Cheerleader. Comedian.

What does it mean to live well? 
Submitted by Dean.

This probably deserves a longer post but, in simple terms, to live without regret. I want to, on my dying day, be at peace with whatever I have done with my life. To want to live more moments because life is good but to not have to live more moments because of unfinished business.

What's in a screen/user name? Tell us how you found yours.
Submitted by Bill.

misterjt has been my monikor of choice for a few years. I can't decide if I'm ashamed to say that it probably is a result of Justin Timberlake's first solo album. That said, I'm thinking about retiring my AIM username - mrjtmobile - and launching a new one. I tend to think of AIM names as more disposable than my other name-types online.

I've also been jtfunkytown and jtoney (although I've never loved the standard jtoney. It reads ugly to me) and geedub97 was my very first IM name. I still use that on yahoo.