April 25th, 2007 Birmingham Bound, kind of...

Hello to you all in Birmingham, Alabama. We are so grateful to be screening there this weekend. Jack and I originally planned on being there in person but I can't make the plane trip because of some health issues at the moment. Don't worry adoring FANS! We both do hope to be our adorable selves for a while longer yet. We do indeed get invited to festivals quite a bit (I think there are 9 at the moment). But Birmingham Shout was one we had chosen to fly to because of how hard everyone is working to have a gay film festival in the area. We think its important to support it and we hope you'll do the same. I was born in Birmingham so there's a personal connection too. Stu the film's director was born in Montgomery.
Alas, it wasn't meant to be. It is quite frustrating at our age when you have to pull back like this. Especially for Jack and I- we love the spotlight! You will love the film though. It's a helluva story!
Since we can't make it in person, Stu wants me to ask you how we did? The festival web page is all set up to rate our film or comment.

Bob:

Hi Bob,
Yea, that website is awesome. I also wanted to add couple of ways that people can help us spread the word. THESE HELP US SO MUCH!

Add us to your MySpace friends
our url is: http://www.myspace.com/bobandjacksfilm


Write a review at our IMDB or YouTube pages

Just blog about it and include our website: www.bobandjack.org

We are totally grass roots here, we really want to know what you thought.

Hi Bob, I've set up your blog here...

I've moved all your blog entries here to Blogger so that people can comment and I can add thoughts about the film. All your entries for the past 12 months are below BUT the links to photos and such may not work at the moment.
You can still send people to the website though: www.bobandjack.org

Hope you guys are recuperating from the piano bar in San Diego.
We screen in Birmingham this weekend.

Monday April 23rd, 2007

The audience in San Diego was so encouraging and ADORABLE. The photos from the screening tell the story. We get so much out of hearing your questions and your hopes for a lifelong relationship like ours. Good job Michael McQuiggan and Krista Page (two of the many who pulled it off). And a special thanks to the effervescenct Tom Kirkman at S.A.G.E. Not only for co-presenting the film, but especially for getting a lot of very interesting people in those theater seats!

Tuesday April 17th, 2007

Hello San Diego friends. We are getting excited about coming down to see you this weekend! I hope that you will take your lunch break on Friday at noon and join us for our screening at the Ken Cinema. We really enjoy answering questions during Q&A sessions.
In fact, please introduce yourself if we miss you at the screening. We will be at Film Out all weekend. Jack and I are such great film buffs (BTW- if you haven’t seen Blades of Glory we HIGHLY recommend it) (Netflix now has Boy Culture-its coming in the mail).

April 15th, 2007

On this tax day in the US. Let me just remind all you gay couples out there or those wanting a relationship like ours that when you get to be our age- there aint no survivor benefits for all that social security your paying into. We get no exception just because Jack and I are cute and funny. We worry about it every day.
Please push not just for couples benefits but for the more than 1000 privileges and benefits that come only to married couples in this country. Enough soapbox. I need to go to the post office.

April 13th, 2007

We’ve been nominated for a Tinny!
What's a Tinny?
It’s the grand prize at the Swansea Bay International Film Festival in Wales.
Yes, it is indeed a tin can.
I want that damn tin can.

April 9th, 2007

Hi there all,
We had some rough news this week. I had to cancel our trip to Birmingham Shout (The Gay and Lesbian Film Festival of Alabama). The film is still playing but I felt so ill on Tuesday that I was scared to death and the idea of going myself seems too much to handle healthwise. I won’t get into it here but the doctors say I shouldn’t fly. We are so disappointed because the folks in Birmingham had made a special point of trying to get us to come for the weekend. I know that Stu particularly believes in how hard they are working to make a top-notch gay and lesbian festival there. We really believe that its in places like Birmingham were our message should be heard.
It’s not like one of us can go and the other stay home- Jack and I are kind of a match set at those Q&A sessions. If you’ve seen us at one-you know! We so enjoy them too. We feel like stars. But it is so damn frustrating at times! Here we are at the moment of getting to tell our life’s story, people want to put us in front of a crowd and health gets in the way.
I sometimes get so tired of being reminded that we simply can’t do what we used to even ten years ago. Hell, we were still globetrotting then. Now just getting on the plane can be a problem.
But, Jack and I are still heading to San Diego on the April 20th for the Film Out Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and we are so looking forward to it. Our pilot, the film’s producer Joe Applebaum, will be at the controls of Stu’s 97 Honda Odyssey.