The show is shaping up to be amazing. My Gossip panel here at SXSW yesterday was Off The Hook. I invited Julia Allison up to join us onstage and things went from there. We ended up on Valleywag while it was still going on, and having a racous, open discussion of the Zuckerberg/Lacy keynote trainwreck.

We'll be posting the video of Gossip here and at heathergold.com. I'll also be posting about how SXSW could have avoided all the Keynote problems and why Presentations are Pointless. As the crowd at SXSW showed. Older notions of authority and presentation are outdated.

"What happens when talk show hosts stop being pushers for celebrity product and start getting real? Well, they look a lot like Heather Gold." Read the rest.

Yes I'll be hosting the Gossip "panel" at SXSW, and treating it like I do like every talk show.

Yesterday Time Warner announced that New Line would stop operating as a stand-along unit within the company and that lots of people would be leaving, including the company founder Bob Shaye.

My first full-time job (beyond summers) was at New Line. It was an experience that changed my life. (more…)

I'd embed the video but the NYT only wants you to click on over. Do it.

I love this for many reasons:

1. Mel Brooks is one of my heroes. I have a kiddush cup for him at every Seder. Mel, you're welcome on tHGS anytime.

2. There is no desk.

3. Love those 1971 outfits.

5. Dick Cavett gives him a piece of goat cheese from his lunch. This is a gorgeous moment and super grounding. A Jew eating goat cheese from goyishe Cavett musing on a Yugoslavian dictator. Awesome.

The Heather Gold Show is going to be at SXSW on March 10th.

While I'm continuing to look for small company sponsors, I was challenged this afternoon by a colleague and vlogger Schlomo Rabinowitz : "If you can raise $200 from 10 people, I'll be the 10th. Get off your tush." It worked. I have less than a week.
#1 Schlomo Rabinowitz (February 19th, 6:00pm PST)

#2 Darius (February 19th, 6:01pm PST)

#3 Larry Lessig (February 19th, 6:04pm PST)

#4 Antoun Nabhan (February 19th, 7:15pm PST)

and #5 is…David Ulevitch (Feb 21st 7:10 EST) woo hoo!

and #6 is Thomas Merritt (Feb 21st 10:53 EST) wa ha hooie!

I awoke to a delightful inbox. Here my ladies at!

#7 is George Oates ( Feb 22nd 12:34am EST)

#8 Vincent Vaughn. ( Feb 22nd 1:11am EST) I swear it's his real name. He's from Kansas, MO. Wahoo!

We have a #9! It's Erika Hall + Mike Monteiro! ( Feb 25th 9:13pm EST)

#10 is Wayne de Geere III (February 28th, 3:04pm EST)

Pay up Schlomo !

To keep the fun going and back the creation of the new mini-site which will launch right at this domain on March 10th and cost around $4000 smackeroos:

email subvert at subvert dot com or just hit the donate button to your right.

Micki's List

#7 overall but really #1 is Micki Krimmel ( Feb 22nd 12:15am EST)

with the heart to respond to the spirit and not the letter of the Schlomo Challenge by: 1. tweeting me to put up a donate button, and 2. giving what is $200 to her: $20. She and thus receives special tHGS love and an anchor spot what will now be known as Micki's List.

#2 is George Kelly ( Feb 22nd 1:10am EST) at $200 to him.

I <3 that abitofgeorge.com + allaboutgeorge.com donated about an hour apart, presumably without knowing each other first is clearly a sign of destiny. Connection email forthcoming.

#3 is Sylvia LeMay ! (Feb 22nd 5:51am EST)

Want to get to be #4 on Micki's List?

The Heather Gold Show is going to be at SXSW on March 10th.

While I'm continuing to look for small company sponsors, I was challenged this afternoon by a colleague and vlogger Schlomo Rabinowitz :"If you can raise $200 from 10 people, I'll be the 10th. Get off your tush." It worked. I have less than a week.

#1 Schlomo Rabinowitz (February 19th, 6:00pm PST)

#2 Darius (February 19th, 6:01pm PST)

#3 Larry Lessig (February 19th, 6:04pm PST)

#4 Antoun Nabhan (February 19th, 7:15pm PST)

and #5 is…David Ulevitch (Feb 21st 7:10 EST) woo hoo!

and #6 is Thomas Merritt (Feb 21st 10:53 EST) wa ha hooie!

I awoke to a delightful inbox. Here my ladies at!

#7 is George Oates ( Feb 22nd 12:34am EST)

#8 Vincent Vaughn. ( Feb 22nd 1:11am EST) I swear it's his real name. He's from Kansas, MO. Wahoo! He tweets "Love you. Love your show." It's working. The indie show is working!

We have a #9! It's Erika Hall + Mike Monteiro! ( Feb 25th 9:13pm EST)

#10 is Wayne de Geere III! (February 28th, 3:04pm EST)

To keep the fun going and back the creation of the new site (we're going from seedling to sprout) email subvert at subvert dot com, or donate right now.

Micki's List

#7 overall but really #1 is Micki Krimmel ( Feb 22nd 12:15am EST) with the heart to respond to the spirit and not the letter of the Schlomo Challenge by: 1. tweeting me to put up a donate button, and 2. giving what is $200 to her: $20. She and thus receives special tHGS love and an anchor spot what will now be known as Micki's List.

#2 is George Kelly ( Feb 22nd 1:10am EST) at $200 to him. I <3 that abitofgeorge.com + allaboutgeorge.com donated about an hour apart, presumably without knowing each other first is clearly a sign of destiny. Connection email forthcoming.

#3 is Sylvia LeMay
Want to get to be #3 on Micki's List?

email subvert at subvert dot com, or donate right now.

Join web designer Jeff Veen, Intersex activist Thea Hillman and microfinance expert April Rinne as the Heather Gold Show explores the concept of Service and balancing one's own needs with the needs of others.

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I'm truly thrilled to add Prof. Larry Marshall to the next Heather Gold Show: My Needs/ Your Needs.

Larry was one of my professors in law school and was the driving force behind getting Rolando Cruz off of death row and legal work and advocacy that eventually led Gov Ryan of Illinois to commute the the sentences of all prisoners on death row before he left office. 

He's a passionate teacher and a man of impeccable integrity and I only wish I'd listened to him more when I was in law school. But then I might be a lawyer today.

I am really honored by the killer group we have on the show and I know they will spark an excellent conversation for us all.

A brilliant piece by Dr. Rachel Remen.

There is a distance between ourselves and whatever or whomever we are fixing. Fixing is a form of judgement. All judgement creates distance"

My father is a doctor. I learned about fixing first-hand when I was dropped off a finishing school as a young teen to be fixed up. At that age I wasn't able to see to the intention underneath. The helplessness and fear that can lead one to fix. If you grow up learning that fixing is a form of love, you can experience it that way. I too am all too tempted to think I can fix almost any problem or person.

Who tries to fix you? Who or what do you try to fix?

My Needs / Your Needs is the theme for The Heather Gold Show this month. Join us live for the conversation in San Francisco on February 11th.