
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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