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qotd: my wikipedia entry

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:21:40 -0800

Write your own Wikipedia entry for yourself (or share the link if you already have one).

Jason A. Toney

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

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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]

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last edited by misterjt on December 8, 2007.

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Heroes: Mohinder's Super Power Is...

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 19:50:57 -0800

Short-Term Memory Loss.

As Anna and I discussed on the phone tonight and as wikipedia confirms...

Mohinder is spooked by Bennet in the first episodes of the series but can't be bothered to remember him when Bennet returns later in the season. Mohinder knows Sylar is out there killing those with powers but takes everyone with powers he meets at face value including the incredibly creepy "Zane". His father and Eden have both been murdered, his apartment has been tapped, and he's found a serial killer's apartment that has been mysteriously cleaned after he visits it, yet he seems to care very little for his own safety.

Dumbest Scientist Ever.

Update: And speaking of "Zane" why did Sylar feel the need to put on the Ramones tee? And does that mean that Zane was bloody and shirtless in the kitchen? I'm pretty sure that tea he made the dumbest scientist ever wasn't very hygenic.

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Meme Wednesday: Wikipedia

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 07:27:41 -0800

via Cruft.

1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two important birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List any holidays
6. Post it.

March 19 - 3 Events

1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.

1863 - The SS Georgiana, described as the most powerful Confederate cruiser and said to have been owned by the real Rhett Butler, was destroyed on her maiden voyage, while attempting to run the blockade into Charleston, South Carolina. Lost to history, the wreck was discovered on the same day and month, exactly 102 years later by then teenage diver and adventurer E. Lee Spence.

1962 - Bob Dylan releases his first, self-titled album.

March 19 - 2 Important Births and 1 Interesting Death

Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter

Vida Guerra, Cuban-American swimsuit model

John De Lorean, American automobile engineer

March 19 - Holidays

The first day of Quinquatria in ancient Rome, held in honor of Minerva.

The swallows return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California.

Mojoday in Discordianism

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QotD: Anywhere But Here

nobody@vox.com(Jason) — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:46:02 -0800

Would you rather go back in time or visit the future?
Submitted by Auds.

While I'm fascinated with books, movies, comic books and video games that examine the possibility of time travel, I actually don't think it is possible. Stephen King's short story "The Langoliers" provides a terrifying explanation of why being "out of time" is not all it's cracked up to be.

This involved wikipedia entry about the time travel of Back to the Future outlines how complicated it makes things. 3 movies, 8 timelines.

Nobody build any flux capacitors, people. Stay in your own time.

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Blog is a Mix Tape

qotd: my wikipedia entry

Jason A. Toney

Contents

Life

External links

Heroes: Mohinder's Super Power Is...

Meme Wednesday: Wikipedia

QotD: Anywhere But Here