The Snob To Talk Mental Illness on MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" Sunday

Melissa Harris-PerryFirst week at BET's Don't Sleep (hosted by my Arkansas play cousin T. J. Holmes) is down and the second is almost through. I've been a wee bit busy, naturally. But even in all that, I've still got time for the occasional media pit stop! This time it's on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry's eponymously named show. I'll be on this Sunday, Oct. 14 at 11:30 a.m. EST, talking about mental health issues. As long-time readers know, I've been open about my diagnosis with Bipolar Disorder since 2009. I've written about it here on this blog, spoken about it on Michel Martin's NPR show, and wrote stories about my experiences for Essence Magazine earlier this year in January and BP Magazine in 2011.

Hilarious side note: My friend Dr. Jason Johnson is ALSO going to be on MPH's show this Sunday! It's a black political nerd convention going on! All we need now is TheRoot.com's Keli Goff and The Onion's Baratunde Thurston and there will be enough of us there to form Black Nerd Voltron or something.

BET's "Don't Sleep," hosted by T. J. Holmes (Co-Written By Moi) Premiere's Tonight!

Just like the chocolate and peanut butter for which I nicknamed him, two people with nothing in common but journalism degrees and the great state of Arkansas, have finally come together to make a "delicious" TV show. Will you watch?

Check it out on BET, 11 p.m. EST/ 10 p.m. Central time.

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The Snob Is Moving to NYC to Work on TJ Holmes' New Show for BET

Well, it's official! I was hired to do some writing n' such for T.J. Holmes' new show for BET, better known as "Don't Sleep!"

For those of you playing at home, I worked on the pilot last winter and many, many moons ago used to pretend to stalk T.J. for poops n' grins on the Internet. Life is incredibly funny in how a guy I started writing about during this blog's beginnings in 2008 is the same guy I wound up working for in my first scripted TV writing gig. Be sure to check out the show, premiering in October on BET! Along with script writing and blogger duties you just might catch me on as the occasional panelist. I'm already (silently) featured in the show's promos, but I hate those promos because I'm wearing the sweater of doom and I'm about 25 lbs heavier than I am now. 

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Hey, It's Me In This Promo For TJ Holmes' New BET Show In An Ugly Sweater!

I am going to burn this sweater. Best believe it. Check out the video after the jump. (BET.com)

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T. J. Holmes to Host BET Show Advising You Not to Sleep With Him

T. J. Holmes, of guy I used to hilariously fake Google stalk fame, left CNN last year only to re-emerge with BET Networks, signing a multi-platform deal. Part of that deal was a shiny new show. And now, BET and Holmes have announced what that show will be -- a comedy news half-hour, a la The Daily Show or Real Time with Bill Maher. Only this time it's, Don't Sleep with T. J. Holmes.

The responses have ranged from excitement and praise to puzzlement. But I think it's a good thing. But then, I'm also terribly, terribly biased. But for more reasons than you expect!

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The Snob Is Still Standing!

California Beach Cows by Kathryn LeMieux (Source)The Snob is back! I ran away to Los Angeles for four weeks to work on a potential TV project, it's done now, and now I'm home ... in St. Louis ... for the holidays. My time in LA was stressful (so stressful and busy I had no time to update the blog), but it was well worth it. Just like pledging a sorority and childbirth, I remember the wonderfulness of the outcome, more so than the hell we all went through to get the final result. Meaning, I've already gone from lamenting the miserable parts to focusing on how cool the experience was and how great the people were that I met. In the end, only good things can come from such a great experience.

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The Root 100 Is Back! (Featuring Toure, TJ Holmes and Melissa Harris Perry)

ToureNewark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker, musician Esperanza Spalding and writer Toure made The Root 100 list of influencers today. The annual rundown of movers and shakers this year includes a lot of folks I've written about here at The Snob over the past four years, including the prolific Melissa Harris Perry, TV show host and author Marc Lamont Hill, my not-boyfriend on The Daily Show Wyatt Cenac, my other not-boyfriend who married some woman who wasn't me CNN's TJ Holmes, the best haircut in the biz (and sharpest tack in MSNBC's dayside drawer) Tamron Hall, the man formerly known as "pretty, pretty princess" Harold Ford Jr., my Twitter friend Jamil Smith who's a producer on The Rachel Maddow Show, pundit Jamal Simmons, this site's most prolific corrections letter writer, super political pundit Roland S. Martin, fellow blogger Ta-Nehisi Coates and comic, Onion editor and Black Snob theme song performer Baratunde Thurston. There's also a bunch of super rich/famous/fancy people on the list to, such as your Beyonces and your Jay-Zs. But they're on every list everywhere, so they don't matter. The Root will have an awards reception for their honorees Nov. 5th here in Washington, D.C. at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, so sit politely by your laptops and wait for your e-vites. (The Root)

End-of-the-Year Media Shuffle Feat. TJ Holmes, Star Jones

It's December! Meaning now is the time to get dumped, hired, fired, move on or be replaced. It's time for some winter house cleaning before the new tax year starts. What's going down in medialand for the end of 2010? Larry King's leaving. But you already knew that. This column is for everyone else. Your John Robertses and your TJ Holmeses and your Star Joneses. Your other folks. Which, you know, gives me a perfectly good excuse to put up yet another picture of Holmes after ending my "Google Stalking TJ Holmes" feature last spring when he got married to that woman who was not me.

Life goes on. So who's staying and going?

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The Object of My Misguided Desire

Last week I lounged around the house rewatching the first two seasons of the FOX TV drama "Prison Break." Or as I used to call it when it was on the air "The show about the hot cons who can barely keep their shirts on." Via this show (and the film The Human Stain), I had become one of the world's most embarassing Wentworth Miller fangirls. Watching it, I was reminded how it's been an insanely long time since I had a fake, imaginary boyfriend to stare at on TV.

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