So, I kind of denounce one letter writing campaign and here I am supporting another.
I’ve known Marc from Pop Syndicate for a while now. He owned and operated Mediasharx for a while and is now one of the editors at PS. I guess he’s trying to get on Beauty and the Geek. Here’s Marc’s reasons why he should be on:
1) I watch 33 active TV shows right now. Not all are in season simultaneously, but a bulk of them are. That doesn’t count old TV shows that I will still catch when I can like The Wonder Years or old Star Trek.
2) I have 35 podcasts I listen to every week. I’m no Rob Walsh, but I try.
3) I’ve written movie, TV, music and comic book reviews for two pop culture websites and owned a third for the last 6 years. Plus I did all the tech stuff for the first two.
4) I currently have 2222 songs in iTunes spanning every genre.
5) I used to play Cloak and Dagger occasionally and I enjoyed it. It’s like LARPing.
6) I played trombone well. For 7 years.
7) I have two podcasts and have a hand in a third.
8) I have three full longboxes of bagged and boarded comics and need to purchase a fourth.
9) When I went to NYC, I cared more about getting to Midtown Comics than seeing Empire State.
10) When I go to Las Vegas, my main goal isn’t blackjack; I want to go to The Star Trek Experience.
11) Speaking of Star Trek, I’ve read the Star Trek Encyclopedia cover to cover three times.
12) I read sci-fi books during the commercials for TV shows.
13) I’ve had one girlfriend and kissed one girl. And I’m 26.
14) I’m extremely awkward and socially inept around girls I like. Somehow I always make an ass of myself.
15) I’m a programmer and have been paid to write things that people use in classic ASP, VBScript, VB.Net, C#, ASP.Net, Cobol and JCL.
16) I get mad when I see that people don’t know the spelling difference between possessive and plural.
17) I skipped school in high school three times to get tickets to the re-release of the original Star Wars trilogy in theaters, and I stood in line by myself for 10 hours to get tickets for The Phantom Menace.
18) I pay more attention to Digg.com, Arstechnica, Geek Brief TV, This Week in Tech, etc than I do regular news.
19) I collect digital pictures on my computer of the casts of shows that I love because, “Someday I’ll need them.”
20) I own a Mark Hamill cardboard stand-up.
All that and the show is saying Marc is too normal to be a geek. So he’s asking everyone to write to the CW trying to get him on. If you want to help out, here’s who you should write to:
Paul McGuire, CW Executive Vice President, Network Communications
Paul.McGuire@cwtv.com
Jeff Tobler, CW Publicity
Jeff.Tobler@cwtv.com
CW TV Feedback
feedback@cwtv.com
A nice email might read like this:
Subject: Get Marcus from Frisco, Tx on Beauty and the Geek!
Dear CW,
With the upcoming fourth season of Beauty and the Geek, I think you’ve already auditioned a great contestant in Marcus from Frisco, Texas. He may not be your stereotypical geek, but he’s a geek nonetheless.
Put him on your show!
I think I’ll be doing a lot of emailing tonight to help Marc and Comic Foundry out.