Nuttyfudgeskins! Freakin’ frackin’!Corn sarn it! Like it or hate it, cursing may actually be good for you.

A recent study by a British University on 100 British and American people found that cursing actually can serve to relieve stress and allow groups of people to vent frustration and build stronger relationships, if done wisely. If not, you just sound like Alec Baldwin talking to his daughter on the phone, you little pig!

Professor Yehuda Baruch from the University of East Anglia who oversaw the study said: “Managers need to understand how their staff feel about swearing. The challenge is to master the art of knowing when to turn a blind eye.”

Fabulous! Podcasts, free of FCC regulations, may actually provide some health benefits to them by encouraging you to express yourself freely and openly.

On today’s show we exercise that right by talking to one of fabulous local friends, Jim Pickett, director of Advocacy for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, the Midwest’s largest AIDS advocacy group. Jim used to perform at the live shows back in the day (1999) and now works full time working to teach, preach and inform people about the pending issues that people living with HIV/AIDS face today. Check out Jim’s blog, lifelube.blogspot.com

Like P-Diddy says, “we all have AIDS.” If one of us has it it, everyone has it. So you owe it to yourself to get tested and find out more about this life threatening disease.

On the show with Owen Keehnan two weeks ago we were talking about “bareback” porn where the actors purposely do not use condoms. I made the comparison to other types of risky behavior that Hollywood used to portray often but doesn’t anymore and offered the perspective that perhaps one day the American porn industry won’t be making as much of this type of porn because audiences wont identify with it as much as they do today. One of our lovely listeners, Curtis pointed out that I might be wrong in making the comparison between smoking in film and condomless sex in film. He feels that perhaps the motivations are these types of behaviors is different. We ask Jim his thoughts on these subjexcts and invite you the listener to tell us what do you think?

Being diagnosed with HIV doesn’t mean the end of your life in any way. But it does mean you are now living with a disease, and you need to take good care of yourself. Understandably, there is a difficulty that people face when they are involved in relationships where both participants do not have the same HIV status or as we like to say are engaged in “sero discordant relationships.” Say it with us a folks, “sero discordant relationships.” Well, I have to tell you if Chris Evans told me he was deeply in love with me and was HIV positive, we’d still manage to make it work, but having been in mixed HIV status relationship in the past myself, I know it’s not easy.

On a more delicious note, the World of Chocolate is just around the corner!

Yes, it’s as delicious as it sounds. The World of Chocolate is the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s annual holiday fundraiser which features more than 30 of Chicago’s finest chocolatiers, restaurants and caterers all showcasing their finest, strange and wonderful chocolate confections. Tickets start at $75 and includes an open bar and light buffet. It’s a great evening and a fabulous place to meet other free-thinking groovy handsome men and women like yourself. We’ll be there!

Join us:
World of Chocolate- Benefit for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Thursday, November 29 5:30-9pm
Hilton Chicago
720 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago IL 60605
tix: $75 advance, $100 door

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Ah candy corn. This delicious but deadly candy confection connotes images of the fall in the United States, of childhood and our beloved neo-pagan holiday, Halloween.

Thanks to a growing acceptance of weird things in our culture, Halloween has grown in a big way to rival Christmas as American’s favorite holiday. For many queer folks, it’s the first time they don a drag outfit and explore what it’s like to dress up as a man or a woman. For me, it’s a chance to do really weird things in the name of Holiday Spirit. You should see me at a Christmas party. “Is that mistletoe above your camel-toe?”

One of the best things about living in Chicago is our local, small and low-key Halloween parade centered in the heart of the gay part of town, Lakeview. Also known as Boystown, the modest parade attracts people from all walks of life, but a good percentage of the audience is Korean tourists. Don’t ask me why, it just is.

Here’s a picture of me with Saan Huan, a costume-less, Korean Christian minister who somehow made his way to Boystown last year and was acting all weird around us, but somehow wouldn’t stop following us with his camera.

We invited him to hang with us for the rest of the night. It all turned bad when he thought we were putting drugs in his beer.

I love to dress up as a combo of any costume and a vampire, because it’s sexy and weird all at the same time and because it’s an excuse to bite someone on the neck! Last year I was a knight in shining armor + vampire. This year I think I’ll get myself a cowboy gear and be a cowboy vampire.

Amanda’s Halloweens turn out to be like Charlie Brown’s Christmases. One costume idea Amanda had is to take a cardboard box and turn it into a Rubix cube. Another year she had nothing to wear and so she took her purple curtains and turned it into an awkward puple ghost costume that unintentionally offended a lot of people. Think the Teletubbies meets the Klu Klux Klan.

Here’s a bad costume idea: go as a “blind” date (a date wearing dark sunglasses). Be prepared for everyone to ask you if you are Ray Charles or Hellen Keller.

Marc suggests wearing underwear, wrapping yourself up in salami and saran wrap and going as leftovers. I think he just wants to wear a costume he can eat.

Another cheap, messy and dramatic costume idea is going as the classic Sissy Spacek character Carrie. Just put on a nightgown, a blonde wig and a tiara, then drop a bucket of fake blood on yourself at an inappropriate time.

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Listen as Amanda Steinstein joins Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós to talk about Halloween news, cake-sitting, offending witches, sex parties in Canada. Are you invited?

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