What train wreck? I thought you did pretty damn good for a 19yo kid who had never done that before! you should be proud of this!

adorable, and a good job!

Although the producer had it out for you... making you stand up at the desk while the anchor sat down? Clearly put you at a disadvantageous position. You should have been seated like equals. And the anchor's questions were so slanted! "Isn't there a better way?" Wtf is up with that?

Too bad your interviewer wasn't gay. A few guys in the news/weather game in Evansville were (don't know about "are" now, even though I spent over half a year in hospitals/nursing homes down there last year).

I think you were charming and convincing. And cute. How many people showed up at the meeting you referenced. I'd have gone to it just to hit on you.

I remember you way back then as someone with enormous promise and heart -- with the passion and commitment and intelligence and talent and staying power to really make a difference. I watched you -- albeit mostly at a distance -- instinctively get involved in some of the best, most cutting edge work available, and, especially when all the tedious "right" people trashed you, smiled, knowing I was watching the development of someone who would likely become a valued colleague for many years to come. It's been a real pleasure, Bil.

OK you did fine. You were 17 years old and speaking extemporaneously w/o notes by the way. I thought it was a good plug for the community and Vandenburg county was not known for being the mecca of progressive thought. NOT Bloomington IN. I think you say train wreck because you were nervous about being out on TV and the backlash which could have come and if i remember correctly you had just made a splash, personally by having had your first sexual relationship and were in the closet before that denying that you were gay because you were afraid of being targeted by the homophobes in your school because that guy you had your liason with was pretty obviously gay and you weren't so much. then you had the guts to come out. but only recently had the guts to apologize to that first man you were in bed in the closet with.

Not judging that because we have all made mistakes we regret in life. but seriously to go from that quaking in the closet to Local TV? that is big in a conservative place. Especially if you stood up in a danger zone.

I say it was a step in the right direction that I would not have done at 17...

Though I did speak out against some kids in school who made taunts about a fellow classmate who was on the football team who had been taped after a shower after a game to a sophmore and got an erection and was labeled gay. The kids were in our homeroom class bellowing this out and the kid they were making fun of was laughing like dolt. He might have been gay but I spoke up telling them they were really wrong for participating in calling the guy gay over the childish ritual in the first place and that it wasn't their business if he was or not. That was me, not out and in the closet challenging the students intellectually. Yes i beat them at their own games by a quick repartee keeping myself from being a victim. But the same two fools tried to gay bait me once after a gym class when I had gotten a spontaneous boner in gym class while doing wrestling with one of them. I wasn't attracted to the kid it happened with but they tried to make a issue of it to the side. one of them who was more vociferous John Q stood by Tim C and John turned his back to me bent over and pulled his shorts down to expose his bare ass and didn't say anything but turned his head around and smiled at me. I told them both to get the hell away. they never brought it up again. I will admit I was horrified at the stupidity and had no idea what gay sex was about then either but I was quick enough to see they tried to bait me into revealing that I might be gay and taunt me in school. Yes this was a Catholic high school and co ed to boot.