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Transforming From Babe to Michael Jackson

Transforming From Babe to Michael Jackson

Lady uses a little makeup and four pieces of scotch tape to look exactly like Michael Jackson.

Lady uses a little makeup and four pieces of scotch tape to look exactly like Michael Jackson.

VIDEO: Scott Herman’s Tips on Drinking and Fitness

VIDEO: Scott Herman’s Tips on Drinking and Fitness

Our favorite fitness expert and video blogging hunk Scott Herman talks about how alcohol makes your body struggle when you’re trying to lose weight.

Plus- some interesting ideas on how to monitor your drinking without putting on the extra pounds!

Scott Herman talks about how alcohol makes your body struggle when you’re trying to lose weight.

Plus- some interesting ideas on how to monitor your drinking without putting on the extra pounds!

FOF #1160 – Christeene’s Ugly is the New Beautiful

FOF #1160 – Christeene’s Ugly is the New Beautiful

Christeene is exploding across the South in a hot mix of raw sexual shamlessness and original rap music. Today we’re continuing our shows from Austin, Texas with the man behind the mad woman, musician Paul Soileau.

Plus: A prankster overtakes WallMart’s intercom, Indonesia’s soil snack food, and Prinny the little cat from Australia that learned how to swim.

 
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Paul Soileau as the most terrifying drag queen of the moment Christeene

christeeneWatch out! Christeene is driving her way to you.

Paul Soileau’s drag character is exploding across the South, exploding onstage with her back up dancers as they spill out a hot mix of raw sexual shamlessness and original rap music. Is it too much to say that Christneene might replace Britney Spears as the new pop sensation from Louisiana?

Today we continue our shows from the heart of Texas with gender bending drag terrorist Paul Soileau. Paul shares with us his journey becoming both the outrageous Christeene and his other drag alter-ego, the more conservative Rebbecca Havemeyer.

Listen as Paul chats with us about Christeene’s chaotic sensibilities, his videos banned from YouTube that are making sites like Funny or Die rich, and the crazy things they eat in the bayou.

Plus hot news:

A prankster overtakes WallMart’s intercom system, announcing “all black people must leave immediately.”

Ampo, Indonesia’s soil snack food, eaten for generations in the village of Tuban, really is soil baked into squares. It’s eaten as a painkiller and to improve the skin of developing babies. Will we see it at Whole Foods anytime soon?

And Prinny the little cat from Australia that learned how to swim.

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Queerty’s Take on the SXSW Panel

Queerty’s Take on the SXSW Panel

How Can We Shift the Focus of Queer Media From Homophobes and Lady Gaga To Actual LGBTs?
by Daniel Villarreal
Looking around the SXSW Interactive’s first-ever LGBT panel, “Engaging the Queer Community”, [sic] I saw a shrunken…

How Can We Shift the Focus of Queer Media From Homophobes and Lady Gaga To Actual LGBTs?
by Daniel Villarreal

Looking around the SXSW Interactive’s first-ever LGBT panel, “Engaging the Queer Community”, [sic] I saw a shrunken pink-haired woman wearing steel-toed platform boots and green stockings walking past a large-nosed horn rimmed kid with horse teeth and acne scars, and I realized that even though we’re all adults now, we very much remain the theater fags and lunch geeks we were in high school—conflicted and sightly scared people looking for a voice. But why then are our personal stories so often trumped by the like of homophobic senators and, bless her, Lady Gaga?

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Austin Chronicle Article About the SXSW Panel

Austin Chronicle Article About the SXSW Panel

eeking Out
How gay community and the interwebs are enjoying a more than civil union
BY KATE X MESSER
Fausto Fernós
Many a late night was spent AltaVistaing, typing in letters, words, phrases. What was I searching for? Resonance?…

Fausto Fernós in his podcasting studio in Chicago. Photo by JasonSmith.com

Fausto Fernós in his podcasting studio in Chicago. Photo by JasonSmith.com

Geeking Out
How gay community and the interwebs are enjoying a more than civil union
BY KATE X MESSER

Fausto Fernós

Many a late night was spent AltaVistaing, typing in letters, words, phrases. What was I searching for? Resonance? Connection? Community? Luv? Similar seekers in the ether? “Lesbian Web pages.” “Dyke Austin.” “Queer Texas.”

Two important things happened in the mid-Nineties: I came out, and so did the Internet.

As Web ubiquity and gay cultural acceptance have each evolved in the 16 years hence, their realities, in my mind, are forever interfused. The rise of the Internet kick-started a coalescence of worldwide queer community. My personal coming out experience was certainly enhanced by the emergence of online communities – as were the experiences, connections, livelihoods, and survival of queers across the globe. And that’s still true for so many people.

“There are still places that exist where you can be fired for being gay. It boggles my mind,” says Trish Bendix, 26, Chicago freelance writer, blog editor of Logo/MTV’s AfterEllen.com, and panel moderator for SXSW Interactive’s Engaging the Queer Community, the first concertedly LGBT-themed panel ever at SXSW Interactive.

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FOF #1159 – Heather Gold Is Gay for the Internet

FOF #1159 – Heather Gold Is Gay for the Internet

Today we kick off our series of interviews from deep in the heart of Texas in Austin during SXSW with comedian Heather Gold.

Listen as Heather talks with us about her talk show Tummelvision, the queering of this year’s conference, how Sarah Palin works the internet and why entertainers need social media to keep their audience.

 
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Comedian Heather Gold - photos by Jason Madara and Fausto Fernós

Comedian Heather Gold is gay for the internet, and for a whole lot of other things.

On her weekly cutting edge show on the art of social engagement, Heather discusses politics and relationships with web celebrities. The unusually named Tummelvision refers to the Yiddish word, Tummler which is an entertainer or master of ceremonies who encourages audience interaction.

Today we kick off our series of interviews from deep in the heart of Texas in Austin during the South by Southwest Interactive Conference.

As one of the creators of Equality Camp, Heather works to bring tech experts and activists together to organize the gay marriage movement.

Listen as Heather shares with us her take on the queering of this year’s technology conference, techno chickens, how Sarah Palin works the internet and why entertainers need to embrace social media to keep their audience.

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VIDEO: Fabulous Clips from Our Live Show at Steamworks

VIDEO: Fabulous Clips from Our Live Show at Steamworks

In cased you missed the live taping of our podcast from Steamworks, Chicago photographer Jason Smith put together this high definition assortment of clips from the event.

The video imagery is luscious, and it’s always a great whenever we can incorporate George Takei into the video.

In cased you missed the live taping of our podcast from Steamworks, Chicago photographer Jason Smith put together this high definition assortment of clips from the event.

The video imagery is luscious, and it’s always a great whenever we can incorporate George Takei into the video.

The live show was taped at Steamworks in Chicago March 5, 2010. Guests include: Teri Yaki, Cameron Esposito, Keith Ecker and Stephen Leonard. Camera and editing by Jason Smith.

News Shows from Austin, Texas Coming Thursday

News Shows from Austin, Texas Coming Thursday

Yeehaw! We’ve been having a grand time meeting lots of great people and making some really great connections at the South by Southwest Media Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. As part of the conference…

Fausto Fernós (right) with Mashable's Pete Cashmore, named by INQ Mobile in 2009 as the world's most influential twitter user.

Fausto Fernós (right) with Mashable's Pete Cashmore, named by INQ Mobile in 2009 as the world's most influential twitter user.

Yeehaw! We’ve been having a grand time meeting lots of great people and making some really great connections at the South by Southwest Media Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. As part of the conference Fausto Fernós moderated and spoke at “Engaging the Queer Community,” a panel dealing with the issues that come up for LGBT bloggers and content creators (like podcasts and video blogging.)

Obviously, we only scratched the service in the hour long session, but the response was overwhelming. As the first ever queer panel of its kind for the 23 year old conference, it was a long time coming.

According to the organizers of the conference, the only reason a session or panel on LGBT online issues hadn’t been done before is because it never was submitted by anyone. So props out to Trish Bendix from After Ellen who had the idea, got all the panelists together and pushed for it to happen!

Being a part of this landmark session is important for the health of Feast of Fun as it introduces us to new partners, listeners and readers, but also because it allows us to share our expertise with others for increased visibility for gay people in not only at tech conferences, but on the internet at large.

We’ve lined up interviews with some of the hottest talent SXSW and Austin have to offer-

• Kerthy Fix- director of the brand new documentary that just premiered at SXSW- Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields.

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Paul Soileau- actor and film maker with an outrageous drag alter-ego Christeene.

ORB_bnr_GaycationDonation_300x250Heather Gold-comedian, speaker, and solo performer.

We also want to give a big thanks to Orbitz for helping with our travel costs in getting us to Austin.

Orbitz has a new program that if you select two LGBT or HIV/AIDS charities when you book through them, they’ll donate to that organization. It’s a win-win when you book your next trip.

Penis Sculpture Gives Small Town Blue Balls

Penis Sculpture Gives Small Town Blue Balls

Local residents of Truckee, CA, got a bit more than they bargained for when they allowed an MTV film crew to erect an eight-foot tall ice sculpture in the shape of a penis. Town officials…

Local residents of Truckee, CA, got a bit more than they bargained for when they allowed an MTV film crew to erect an eight-foot tall ice sculpture in the shape of a penis. Town officials who issued the permits said that they were told tricked by producers of a new MTV show called “The Dudesons,” who claimed that they wouldn’t be doing anything distasteful.

Naturally, the townsfolk were dismayed when show members arrived in fur and began frolicking in the “white fluid” that began spewing out of the sculpture. Although I appreciate a good cock now and then, this probably wasn’t the best way to go about this stunt… but at least I have an idea of what to do for my next Christmas party.