Trent Vanegas has taken blogging to the next level over at Pink Is The New Blog. We're addicted to it like we are to crack. Trent took time from his fabulous life to catch up with Bradford Shellhammer, one of the first people to link to Pink back in the day, and dish on Britney, Madonna, and the differences between gay men and 15 year old girls.

What got you into blogging?
I started blogging because I wanted to get into the habit of writing something creative everyday. I figured if I did it online I would feel a sort of obligation to keep going. It became a daily ritual for me and I still look forward to writing every day.

How did you first come up with the idea of captioning pictures?
I worked on a creative writing piece for a Master's program where I cut out pictures from magazines and pasted them into a blank book and then wrote all around and over the pictures. That was sort of where the whole thing got started. I played around with different fonts and settled on the stencil font -- it became my way of putting my stamp on the pictures.

What is the craziest blog-stalking story can you tell us?
Well, I wouldn't necessarily call it a blog-stalking story but it's the "craziest" story I've got. Last May I received an email from a friend of a Pink reader who received a Trent birthday cake. He sent me a link that lead to a picture of the cake. I never imagined that I would ever see my face on a birthday cake. I felt like Batman for a brief moment. It was at that moment that I realized that I had become something different to readers of my blog. I became the face of Pink is the new Blog. While I am very flattered that someone would do this, I still do not feel that I am anything special at all. I'm just a guy with a blog.

Trent on Madge and Brit after the jump.

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We refuse to utter that horrible "B" word around here. You know, "blogosphere." But we were compelled to list some of the gayest things in the world of blogs from 2005. There were many, but these take the big, pink, wedding cake.

5. Towleroad Does Brokeback. We don’t care if anyone tires of Andy Towle’s Brokeback Mountain coverage. We think it is just the reason why blogs kick butt. He has been meticulous in his coverage and we are certain more than one person in the “real” media has used his site as a resource.

4. Logo Does Blogs. Logo, the MTV gay network, actually made television personalities out of gay bloggers this year. Bloggers on TV? We know, a scary thought. But Andy, Perez, the Malcontent, and even our very own Bradford all snagged a spot. Now if we only knew who had the highest ratings.

3. Jossip Does Queerty. We know we already said we were the Coming Out story of the year, but this is our list and we’ll do what we want with it. Yes, we deserve to be on the So Gay! 2005 list of Blogs because, well, because we say so. The Internet got a little gayer this year. We take full responsibility.

2. Yahoo Does Gawker. Yahoo made it clear that it believes in the importance of blogs when it struck a deal this year with Nick Denton’s Gawker Media. The deal sees Gawker content on Yahoo News. A bit short of the Weblogs Inc./AOL merger, it still makes us smile Cheshire smiles. The thought of Gawker’s content appearing on mainstream news channels is hilarious.

And now the #1 gay blog event of the year after the jump.

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• Continuing the trend of blogger t-shirt lines, Trent over at Pink is the New Blog has unveiled a new shirt, which is available in really gay pink. Don’t worry, Queerty will soon launched a line of cocktail dresses and handbags.

• Gay.com has the rundown on the first episode of Project Runway. We like all the contestants remaining, but we’re still sticking to our initial gut reaction. Our money is on Santino Rice.

• The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has repeatedly wanted to include our pal Brian’s faggotyassfaggot.com in their weekly blog write up. But they won’t because of the name, though they “printed the word ‘fag’ or ‘faggot’ in 48 articles over the past ten years.”

• The Queer Eye backlash continues. Even The Gays are over it.

• Cool Hunting has compiled a holiday gift guide and we’d like one of each. Please.

• Oh good. Trent is NOT crazy. Wonder if he knows if Madonna’s playing the Roxy?

• Bea Arthur is doing a benefit for the Ali Forney Center. We are so going.

• The University of Utah held a Queer Spelling Bee, where “Queertestants” had to spell words like debonair, fag hag, and DeGeneres.

• Michael Jackson is going back to court. This time as a jurist. He may be picked if the lawyers are looking to fill the jury with middle-aged white women.

• Looks like Musto is hitting all the gay blogs. We thought we were special.

It seems Trent over at Pink is the New Blog has pulled a Mariah Carey on us and needs to be hospitalized for exhaustion or something like that. Girl, get it together.

While we hope he is ok and that he returns soon, since we love his blog more than you know, we also cannot help but be fascinated when bloggers do go through emotional crisis and share that with the world. Why would you do that?

Maybe we just come from a different time in blogging, a time when bloggers did not fly across the country or get cover stories written about them or get TV gigs. And maybe we just don’t know the pressures that go along with blogging these days. Our editor, the Janice Dickinson of gay blogs, never walked away from his blog. He always thought of the fans first. Any self-respecting public figure does.

We remember when Trent had like 10 readers. Now he has like 8 million or something ridiculous like that. Think of your fans Trent. You cannot let them down. Besides, you are the first blogger to have been noticed by Madonna. And even we are so jealous of that.

Take your meds, snap out of it, and get back to work. We won’t take no for an answer.

Before there was Pink is the New Blog, Perez Hilton, or Jossip there was Andy Warhol. Most people know Mr. Warhol for his art, his films, and his wigs, but what many don’t know is that Andy was a first class gossip.

The Andy Warhol Diaries were written by Pat Hackett and pulled from phone conversations the artist had almost daily from the 1970s up until his death in 1987. When the rather large book was released posthumously in 1990, it acted as a social account of the 70s and 80s, a large bound edition chronicling the lives of Hollywood stars, New York society, and the glitterati of the art world.

The book is a fascinating read. Taking an insider view in the celebrity world, Andy dishes with the best of them, calling Liza, Liz, and Sophia Loren names. He talks smack about Jackie O and tells who was at Studio 54 and what they were doing.

In an age before celebrity rags and the Internet it seems perfect that Andy was first at this too. Those gossip mags and sites owe a lot to him. He was blogging before blogs even existed.