Real friends tell you when you are wrong. What do you do when you catch your best friend making out with a boy at a pool party and know full well she shouldn't be doing that?
My fabulous niece, my "baby-girl" Victoria Morales comes over to talk about why she called her friend's mother to tell on her misbehavior.
Everyone should have a daughter or a friend like Victoria who watches out for you when you've lost yourself in the moment.
Join Fausto, Marc and Victoria as we talk about our trip to the Shedd Aquarium where we saw dolphins take a poop underwater, petted millipedes, got bored by a lame "sea mammals" show and met a komodo dragon named Faust.
We also chat about some interesting animal news. There is a bird in England that is attempting to hatch foil covered chocolate eggs and attacks anyone that tries to come near them. There is also a swan in China that likes to feed the feed the fish in its pond. And the Dutch have invented a dog food that eliminates much of your dog's elimination.
Check out these fabulous photos from our trip to the Aquarium.
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If you can't beat your thymus, then beat Don Imus. The wealthy morning radio talk show host has been suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers University female basketball players "happy-headed hos."
There are a zillion of podcasters, talk show hosts, cable access shows that make outrageously offensive and racist remarks on a daily basis and they can't even get arrested. Why is this loser getting so much attention? It's because Don Imus makes a lot of money from talking on his morning radio show. Frankly, I had never heard of the guy until now.
Here's my take: who cares? In the face of the impact of the internet and the way it's changing these established shows; maybe these media types are trying to drum up publicity by sloppily making offensive comments. As long as they are talking about you, right?
Even so Mr. Imus has been going around apologizing for his remarks, but not really. Imus' apologies seem a bit empty. He's sorry he offended people. So what to do when your star host has offended millions of people because he made some stupid comments on his talk show? Fire him?
The guy isn't going anywhere. If MSNBC/CBS fired the guy, he'd land another lucrative job elsewhere.
If he's really sincere about making amends, why doesn't he use his alleged media power to help publicize the University? Why not help start a scholarship fund? From what I understand the guy is rich, he's well connected and he's someone who could take this misspeak into something constructive for everyone involved.
Everybody has hateful thoughts inside their head at times. Why can't we all admit we have some really hateful feelings brewing inside all of us? What is the responsibility of a talk show when it comes to making edgy humor that is offensive? Remember though, it's funny until it happens to you. Where do you draw the line?
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Some books are banned from our nations schools and libraries just because they are stories about gay people, period. What many gay teens resort to is smuggling the books into their schools and starting a passionate underground secret gay book club. It almost sounds like a plot to a novel itself, but it's not, it's reality.
Author, writer and gay teen literature superstar Brent Hartinger chats with us about his brand new book "Split Screen" a flip book of two stories: "Attack of the Soul Sucking Brain Zombies" and "Bride of the Soul-Sucking Brain Zombies."
The two stories follow the hilarious and sexy adventures of gay teenager Russell and his best pal Min as they work as extras in a zombie horror film. I wish we had books like this when I was a kid. Then I would not have had to re-imagine The Hardy Boys so much. Mmmmm...Parker Stevenson.
You can think of Brent as a modern-day Judy Blume, writing books that inspire and nurture the spirit of gay youth and speak to those who never had the ability to comfortably be themselves when they were young.
Bret, Marc and I talk about the challenges faced by gays, why the gay youth of today reject some of the trappings of established gay culture and who exactly buys books about gay youth. You might be surprised to find out.
Pickles surprise! What's the surprise? That there isn't a suprise.
The suprise is seeing a young Lady Bunny, RuPaul and Latoma Van Sant and Sister Dimension frolicking around in a radioactive green background talking about how to make a "pickles surprise" sandwich with a anthropormophic pickle in farmer drag creepily stares into the camera.
Our art-school gal-pal John Q Sanchez joins Marc and me to discuss in detail the colorful, brilliant work of the late great video artist Tom Rubnitz. Our friend Mister Pussypants has been busy putting up several of his videos on You Tube, and naturally it's been a hit and inspired hundreds of video responses.
I personally find "Pickles Surprise" to be a tad yucky with that unappealing slice of ham being plopped on a mayonnaise sandwich. I personally think the pink "Strawberry Shortcut" is the stronger of the two videos, which allow a very young Lady Bunny's charismatic talents to shine.
Don't think for a moment that just because we're digging our art critic heels deep into early 90s video art that nothing happened this week! On the contrary.
Jersey city resident Corey Andrew, like thousands of job seekers recently posted his resume on a job hunting site, hoping to land work as a writer, attracting Sgt. Marcia Ramode, an Army recruiter.
Andrew, an openly gay African American man had no interest in joining the Army and so replied back to Sgt. Marcia in a sarcastic tone revealing his sexual orientation. What sparked then was a hilarious and offensive three-day exchange of insults like Sgt. Marcia's:
Go back to Africa and do your gay voodoo limbo tango and wango dance and jump around and prance and run all over the place half naked there."
Upon finding out Marcia's Native American heritage, Mr. Corey replied:
"Native Americans are more intolerant of fools than they are of gays, so take that to your next rain dance."
I just love a good cat fight, don't you? Also, lots of talk talk about Disney's new embrace of gay couples wanting to stage a wedding there andSparty the ambitious lip syncing guy from Guam. Jennifer Hudson, look out!
Yes, it's Lizz with two Z's You may not immediately recognize Lizz's name, but you probably enjoy the fruits of her labor.
Comedian and television producer Lizz Winstead created the news parody program "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central as a response to CNN's paradigm shifting coverage of the first War in Iraq in the early 90s. Since it's inception the show has become a major source for people's news despite the fact that it's a comedy show.
Lizz chats with us about about how The Daily Show was conceived, their original choice for host and wether she ever got an apology from Craig Kilborn about the nasty comment that got him suspended.
Ms. Winstead has a had a lot of odd jobs, from working at the Red Barn to the relaunch team for Broadway Production of Grey Gardens She has come up with fantastic taglines for the show including "What's wrong with snacking on a little cat food in your bathing suit?-Grey Gardens, The Musical" She highly recommends the show so get your tickets now. (Check out the episode #101 of the Broadway Bullet podcast for more on Grey Gardens at www.broadwaybullet.com)
It's funny that Lizz takes us to task (and by surprise) for asking in a previous post why her good friend pornographer Chi Chi LaRue is on OUT Magazine's "Power 50" Who would have thought that this funny lady has the famous porn director as a friend? It turns out they are friends from their days in Minnesota. Lizz lets us know that it might not be that ChiChi has made a gazzillion dollars in skin flicks that put him on the list but rather as top gay pornographer he knows where all the gay bodies are buried. Eek!
Lizz Winstead's emrbace of podcasting and internet culture is a refreshing and exciting to hear. She thinks podcasts are comedically funnier than radio and TV. The word itself is funny and the medium is fresh. Remember, this one of the masterminds who created the award-winning "Daily Show."
Get on your knees! New York City based OUT Magazine has just released it's "Power 50" a list of what they claim to be the "Most Powerful Gay Men and Women in America." We respectuflly beg to differ.
Any list that doesn't include Oscar winner Melissa Etheridge, actor George Takei, Siruis Out Q Producer Larry Flick, Chicago Alderman Tom Tunney or writer David Sedaris seems odd. Even the writer of the cover story in Out magazine, Michael Musto is way more influential than the blogger Perez Hilton. And why include pornographer Chi Chi La Rue but not Wigstock founder Lady Bunny?
I'm sure we'd made it on the list if they had gone up to 100. We reckon we must be number 52 or so, right below Lady Bunny and on top of Clay Aiken, although topping Clay Aiken doesn't seem hard to do. Quarter Turns anyone?
We find odd though that "podcast" was Oxford University Press' the word of the year in 2005 and that TIME magazine named online content creators as their "Person of the Year," yet it's befuddling that no independent serious bloggers (Andy Towle), videocasters (William Sledd from Ask a Gay man) or podcasters (anyone from the FOF) made the list.
Although the name "OUT" magazine might suggest a publication for the "National Association of Exit Sign Manufacturers," the name is meant to suggest gay men and women who have come out of the closet. Strangely enough, in order to attract major advertisers, the magazine has decided to skip putting actual GLBT people on the cover. They put straight identified celebrities who they think appeal to their queer readers instead of actual gay people.
OUT Magazine's not all bad though, after all, they did prominently feature us in their first and only article on podcasting two years ago.
A better approach might have been to do it like AfterElton.com did, and just feature a specific industry like Television and Film.
One good thing about having a list like this on hand is now everyone knows who to hit up for money or jobs! Marc thinks the reason they are kissing so much NYC publishing ass is that they live and die by their contacts and in a limited world of gay-friendly publishing jobs, every little bit helps. Check out the jump for a devastating statistical breakdown of the list.
Today's show begins with a hilarious Easter poem by our fabulous music-geek friend Gregg Shapiro. Gregg's onboard today to introduce to one of his favorite musicians, Reuben Butchart. Reuben chats with us about his new album Golden Boy and his debut album Dusk. He joins us on his cell phone from the bottom of a stairwell somewhere in the depths of Manhattan. It seems so clandestine. We hope you enjoy it.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail hopping down the trail, Easter is on it's way.
When speaking about this Christian celebration of spring with eggs and bunnies one can get into a hilarious sexual double-entendre, if you know what I mean. Blowing eggs, putting them in the hay, that sort of thing.
Don't get me wrong, although I don't believe in Christianity, I just LOVE Easter! And who doesn't love springtime holidays?
One of my happiest memories when I was a kid growing up in Puerto Rico was blowing the egg yolks out of the eggs during Easter to rinse them out and color them with bright colors, crayons and stickers.
Every now and then we would fill some of them with confetti and smash them over each others heads, making a huge mess.
On today's Easter-cast, Marc and I share out stories, tips and tricks on dying and blowing eggs for Easter or anytime of the year.
The warm weather coming around the corner means all the crazies are getting out of hibernation and acting up again.
Remember ol' Rev. Phelps? This guy and his Christian ministry have spent the last couple of years protesting outside of military men and women's funerals because the U.S. government is TOO tolerant of gays and lesbians, despite the fact that we can't get married in this country.
Now spring fever has hit this ugly man's mind and he's detected a new threat to our morality- the Swedish. A spokesman for the Swedish royal family has confirmed that Fred has been harassing them with hate-filled faxes.
"You're doomed to spend eternity in hell," you know, that sort of thing.
Listen as we talk about Madonna's new H&M clothing line and the eerie defacement of her billboards, April Fools backlash, and a secret little easter egg at the end of the show.
Hallelujah- the Feast of Fools podcast is here!
Featured Music:
Levi Kreis- The Gospel According to Levi: iTunes | MySpace | Site
Why do we need to a show on a Gay Guide to Chicago?
We often get the question from our listeners who plan to come to the Windy City for some good gay fun; "Dear Fausto and Marc-I'm coming to Chicago and I want to know what to do and where to go."
It's a difficult question to answer because Chicago has so much to offer to so many different types of people. We usually ask people what they are into and proceed form there. We'd hate to to tell someone to go ice skating at Millennium Park and later find out they suffer from pagophobia, which is the fear of ice. Now who would be afraid of ice? What do they do at cocktail bars? But that's the great thing about phobias- they are totally irrational.
What is not is irrational is the desire to come to Chicago, "Chitown," "The City of Broad Shoulders", "Hog Butcher to The World," "The City That Works" or as Studs Terkel calls it "Home of the Gayest Podcast in The World" (just kidding about the Studs part. Not sure which stud said that.)
Gay and straight Chicago has a lot to offer to the GLBT traveller. So much in fact that we are bringing in the big guns- Kathie Bergquist and Robert McDonald, authors of A Field Guide to Gay and Lesbian Chicago.
This book is a must read for anybody contemplating visiting Chicago. Not only is it a great general guide that will appease your straight friends and give them all the info they would need for a totally hetero travel experience, but it gives the low-down on all that is on the down-low.
Join us as we talk about our favorite gay bars and restaurants and spots to visit in this fabulous town. What makes a shoe store gay? What makes a gay-borhood gay? What makes anything gay for that matter?
It's never too late for a local bar, hotel or other destination point to sponsor this podcast to attract people to their venue from all over the world. It will be downloaded for a very long time.
The podcast that is the blinking disco light at the end of a dark tunnel- Feast of Fools.
Happy April Fools! We were just kidding! Technically we posted the show at 11pm central time. Put down the gun, Amanda Steinstein didn't really leave the show for some lucrative deal.
For the time being she's stuck with us. But the outpouring of sentiment and love for our voluptuous violet venus has been moving. Amanda is great and we love her! Never take anything you love for granted.
Today's show begins with a surprise phone call from a famous drag queen who is hanging up her wig in order to pursue his dreams of being a QVC spokesperson. I did not see this one coming.
Join Amanda, Marc and me, Fausto as we talk about the controversial solid dark chocolate Jesus who happens to be anatomically correct. Yeow! Now you can consume the body of Christ with a delicious chocolate aftertaste.
The sad tale of the lovesick swan continues as Berlin zookeepers take care of our lil' friend across the pond who has fallen in love with a giant version of himself. What are the plusses and minuses of dating really tall or short people? I've personally dated tall basketball players and short gymnasts, people who are on the extremes with regards to height. It's not really that big (or small) of a deal.
Check out the entries of the Feast of Fools Family Photoshop Contest as we deliberate about who should win on the show. We picked this one and that one as the winners. Congratulations Nicola and Jae! Everyone gets a FREE Feast of Fools "Best of 2005-2006" DVD. Make sure to email us your address so we can send you your prize.
Call us on our new FREE HOT-line:
(773) 681-3833 and ask us a question!
Be sure to say your name, location and question, otherwise we won't be using it. Local fees may apply. Must be 18 and over.
The podcast that practically re-invented the internet: Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Eric Himan - All for Show: iTunes | CD Baby
The Wet Spots: Hello Kinky iTunes | Site
Bustin' makes me feel good! Today we're celebrating the Nine Year Anniversary of the Feast of Fools by going after some common and non-so-common myths and misconceptions about food, crime, sex and biology. You know the stuff we just love to talk about.
For example:
• Do the letters of the GAP clothing store mean "Gay And Proud?"
• Why did actor Dick York (the original Darrin Stevens on the TV show Bewitched) leave the show?
• Was Walt Disney frozen upon his death in order to wait for the day when medical technology makes his re-animation possible?
• Does eating celery result in negative calories?
• Can you tell about a loaf of bread by looking at the color of the plastic twist tag?
• Does micro-waving plastic release toxic chemicals?
• Is the Fiji Mermaid real?
• Are green potatoes poisonous?
• Does hair grow back thicker when you shave it?
• Will the police be summoned if you type your PIN number backwards?
• Did Lee Marvin and Captain Kangaroo fight together at the battle at Iwo Jima?
• Have any people ever had naturally occurring blue hair?
• Is the Feast of Fools the worlds most downloaded GLBT podcast?
• Is Grey's Anatomy a good TV show?
In case you didn't know the Feast of Fools began as a fund-raiser for the now-defunct Randolph Street Gallery. Although we couldn't save the gallery, the Feast of Fools went on and on, first as a drag show, then as a cabaret, later on as a rock and roll play, and now as an award-winning podcast.
The name comes from an essay that gay activist Harry Hay wrote about how people need to feel free to express themselves, no matter how foolish they might fear to come across. I just loved his idea, and I came up with the name "Banquet of Fools" to name the variety show, which was quickly renamed "Feast of Fools." Who doesn't like alliteration?
Join us as my mom does a surprise phone call and Amanda surprises us all with some bittersweet news.
The podcast that is like a baseball bat against ignorance and fear- Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Angel and the Reruns - Just released!: iTunes | CD Baby
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Lesbian comedian Sabrina Matthews claims not to know a thing about lesbian culture. She knows very little about flannel, doesn't have a girlfriend and doesn't know why lesbians get bad haircuts. One thing she does know is that lesbians keep their fingernails short, and for good reason.
On today's show Sabrina relates to us her experiences as a stand up comedian. She chats with us about the first time she did comedy and how she decided to turn it into a exciting career. Sabrina tells us that she gets a lot of feedback form her audience and that the audience's reaction to her routine can greatly affect her delivery. (HINT, HINT- Comments on the website are like clapping, booing, cheering and laughing to us.)
She has a hard time in the Midwest because she doesn't quite know why they love her so much but don't laugh out loud like people in other parts of the country. Marc tries to explain that Midwesterners are very even in their temperament and that they don't have the highs and the lows that other people have. What do you guys think?
We have a lot of questions for Sabrina and the answer often ends up being about the sea. It seems that every time we talk to lesbians it always ends up going to the sea. What's up with the SEA? What are lesbians tapping into here? Why does the sea keep coming up? Are they tuned into something that us les-be-nots aren't?
Everyone knows that life evolved in the sea, but did you know that humanity itself may have evolved in the sea as primates? Scientists use to scoff at the idea that early primates left land to live in the sea but this theory is gaining more credibility as they find more commonalities between aquatic animals such as otters, seal, whales, hippos etc and people than people have with primates and other land based animal like cats and dogs.
Some of the evidence that suggest that we evolved from Sea Monkeys is discussed in this BBC article:
"If we examine the human body, there are a number of adaptations that seem out of place on a savannah-dwelling animal, but make much more sense if you consider them as adaptations to a primarily water-based existence."
We have relatively hairless bodies compared to all the other great apes, which are completely covered in hair. Very few mammals are as completely hairless as humans, and most of those that are live in an aquatic environment. Also, what little hair we have does not sprout randomly, but is aligned to direct water to our midline, minimising drag.
Mammals have many mechanisms for shedding excess heat, including panting, insulating layers of fur - camel fur keeps the heat out - and bathing in cooling mud or water. Humans lose heat primarily by sweating. This costs the body vital salt, which would be a problem for a plains-dwelling animal, but not for one that lived close to or in the sea. Crying salt tears is a unique human trait, which may have evolved as a way to shed excess salt."
Maybe this is why so many folks like the sea? Because its getting them in touch with a deep primal sense of self? Who knows. But I do know that Sabrina is going to appear at HRC's Laughing Out Loud benefit in Chicago. Come out for a good cause!
Don't miss Laughing Matters...More!, the documentary featuring Sabrina and a bunch of other fabulous women.
Featured Event: HRC's 7th Annual Chicago Comedy Night
Saturday April 14, 7pm
Featuring Judy Gold, Sabrina Matthews and Andre Kelley
The Park West, 322 West Armitage
Tickets $40, $125.
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Summer is just around the corner and I'm feeling, I say, I'm feeling like I'm in a Southern mood. Like Scarlet O'Hara from "Gone with the Wind" or Ouiser Boudreaux from "Steel Magnolias." I feel the South is going to rise again, this time with sexy-non-racist results.
I feel like a strong warm wind is blowing through my gauze curtains. Heavens!
We begin today's show with a cocktail recipe that has a lot of gin and pink grapefruit juice, spiked with a lil' mushed basil leaves. Its quite nice, however we just can't decide on the name.
Here is the recipe:
Crush in a mortar and pestle:
1/2 tsp. of sugar
4 leaves of basil
Rinse the vessel with 1 oz. of fresh pink grapefruit juice, 1 oz of gin and 1/2 oz of orange flavored liquor and put it all into a shaker filled with ice. Shake into a tall glass with some soda water. It's delicious!
What do you think we should name this cocktail?
Join Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about super-cute actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt turning the tables on his paparazzi with sexy results, John McCain's MySpace page getting hacked with sexy results, the unusual musical taste of gifted british teens and how dog food can make you sick, duh.
I don't care how hungry you get, or how much Nomi Malone liked it in the film Showgirls, please don't eat any Doggie Chow. Go vegan.
Our Feast of Fools family contest ends tomorrow! So make sure to email your entries today.
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500 shows! We had so much fun, where did the time go?
Today we celebrate and rejoice in passing another stone, a milestone in podcasting as we post our 500th Gay Fun Show from the Feast of Fools.
On today's special show Miss Ronnie and Gregg Shapiro come over to discuss winning the Pressie Award for "Best Podcast" from the midwest's largest GLBT newspaper, the Chicago Free Press. Check out our pictures from the event!
We've had quite a rough month as I've spent at least half of it in Puerto Rico dealing with my father's death, Marc went up to NYC for the GLBT expo and Miss Ronnie had a short stint as a bartender at the now defunct Clark's on Clark, where we had our first Meet & Greet back in February of 2006.
Join us as we talk about micro-cellular lesbians, Cyndi Lauper's upcoming "True Colors" megatour and Miss Ronnie's full-body gyroscopic workout.
You might notice in your iPod that our "album" is now titled "Gay Fun Show." We're changing the name slightly in preparations of TWO new podcasts that we're developing. They can't all be called Feast of Fools, now can they? So we conceived the name "Gay Fun Show" as the original, still fabulous after all these years, daily dose of joy. Others to follow.
We would love to know from you, our lovely listeners which moments from the past 500 shows have stood out in your mind?
Fun is our middle name! Enjoy another Gay Fun Show from Feast of Fools.
Our handsome neighbor Justin McPhee join us today to talk about his real life experience serving these past four years in the U.S. army overseas in Iraq. Believe you me, it was work. We love our military men, especially cute gay men like Justin.
The interesting thing is, Justin went into the military service knowing full well what he was getting into, and being gay. How did he not get kicked out? How does someone survive being gay in the middle of Iraq?
Join the ever fabulous Sal-E, Justin and me as we talk about the Chinese's fascination with their pets and their desire to have them connect on a deep personal level, like learning how to talk and understand their language.
The net is full of stories this week about the little kitty cat named Agui that can speak its own name and the pet fish named "Submarine" that comes when his name gets called.
Also, a woman gets kicked off a bus, and a guy gets kicked out of a bar for relishing in his own gaseous emissions. Sal-E wants to start wearing a kilt this summer, so look out!
Attention! You've been drafted into the Feast of Fools army. Don't worry, we've got great parades, no wars and one fabulous show.
Eric Himan is back! Also known as the gay Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Eric Himan is in a different place in his head from the last time he was in the house.
After taking six months off to figure out where he wanted to go in his musical career, Eric Himan returned with a renewed sense of passion, a solo tour and two new albums- "Everywhere All At Once" and his acoustic "There's Gotta Be Something."
He's now running his own record company and flying solo, at the helm of his career and future. From the looks of things, it looks like smooth sailing ahead. I've never seen him sound so fresh and look so happy.
Join Eric Himan and his boyfriend Ryan, as Marc and I as we double date with them to talk about Eric's new albums, being confused for someone in recovery, why he got those tattoos on his arms, and the therapeutic value of song-writing.
In his song "Acquired Taste" Eric explores the idea of being a bad guy and sneaking into guys' bedrooms late at night. I don't understand why that would upset anyone. Would you be upset if you saw this hot tattooed stud crawling through your bedroom window late at night for a little romantic rendezvous? I think not.
Also on today's show, when fast food franchises are the healthier alternative, cats that speak Chinese, Naomi Campbell's custodian sentence, and music as a form of punishment.
Check out Eric Himan's tour dates on his website, www.erichiman.com Go get your photo taken with him wearing your own Feast of Fools t-shirt! Check out the great photos we took of him and his tattoos.
Let's give them something to think about, let's listen to the Feast of Fools together!
Cultural commentator Michael Musto really enjoys his job. For over twenty years, Michael turned his passion for NYC's nightlife and celebrity culture into a genre defining gossip column that has been the bread and butter for the weekly newspaper, the Village Voice.
In his new book "La Dolce Musto" includes a pu-pu platter of his "greatest hits" of his popular gossip column in the Village Voice. A mainstay of pop culture and a chronicle of the "hip and hopeful" Michael Musto's outrageous weekly column has always been a pioneer in gay issues, celebrity news and politics.
Much like myself, Michael Musto's identity was forged in the AIDS crisis in the late 80s/early 90s. In many ways, Michael distinguished himself from other gossip columnists with his honesty about his own sexuality and his social consciousness that came out of his experience with ACT-UP (the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power.)
Join Michael, Marc and me as we talk about Clay Aiken and Bary Manilow's Christmas Special, what kind of men Anderson Cooper likes, the real reason why Britney Spears shaved all her hair off and why anybody gives a damn.
Go see Michael Musto's book signing here in Chicago at Sidetrack on Wednesday March 28 from 6-9PM.
The podcast that dishes out all the dolce without any of the gabana- Feast of Fools.
Go F*ck yourself. Okay, not really. But what if you really wanted to do so?
On today's show, Sal-E brings on over his partner in crime Jo-Jo to talk about casting your own p*nis and what you should keep a eye out for. Warning! Do NOT try this at home. We are not going to help you out on this one. You are at your own risk.
We read a letter from a listener who wanted tips on how to join the mile high club. We all give our best advice on how to get a little piece while flying the friendly skies. We actually did some research on how to do it. It seems that you have the best chance of getting away with it as soon as the plane takes off and during the beverage service. It's risky and doesn't give you much wiggle room for foreplay.
We chat about the potential demise of online radio and a dungeon in Florida that was closed down for castrating men. Jo Jo talks about the pumping parties he's attended. A pumping party, in case you didn't know is a party where someone injects Home Depot grade Silicone under your skin.
The podcast that is the fancy napkins on the tablecloth of life-the Feast of Fools.
FOF #495 - Polly Wolly Diddle All the Day - 03.20.07
You can find all sorts of interesting things on craigslist.org. Several years ago, we were in need of fresh new faces and talent for the live musical comedy show we used to to in nighclubs here in Chicago.
I put an ad in craigslist that read “Rejected by American Idol? Humiliated by your peers? The Feast of Fools wants YOU. Bring us your geeks, your misfits, your outcasts, your oddballs. We want big chested, bold women to sing, crack jokes, collaborate and dance in our musical variety shows.” Amanda Steinstein walked in the door and it was love at first sight.
Today Amanda shares with us her latest craigslist discovery, comedy/erotic writer Polly Frost.
Polly Frost says she and her husband are a boring, everyday couple- except they together they write erotica that gives even Ron Jeremy a boner (he even said so). Their comedy soap opera, "Sex Scenes" is creating another kind of sensation in staged readings around the country, and on Wednesday, March 21, our own Amanda Steinstein will appear in the Chicago performance.
Listen to Amanda and her mom Fannie talk to Polly about her boner-iffic scripts, her views on erotica, and all things "Polly-amorous."
Featured Event
"Sex Scenes"
Wednesday, March 21, 7pm
THE PLEASURE CHEST
3436 North Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60657
NO COVER CHARGE!
To reserve a seat for this event click here
Or call: (773) 525-7151
Tickets are FREE but reservations are recommended.
See you all tonight at the Pressie Awards Ceremonies (and open bar) at Sidetrack!
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
A volcano explosion on the day my father died delayed us from flying down to Puerto Rico. The ashes from the cloud above the nearby island of Monserrat kept most planes away that evening. The ash from the volcano can get in the jet plane engines and cause it to malfunction. We left the next morning when the ash settled down.
As you might imagine the past two weeks have been full of all sorts of incredible coincidences, weird experiences and remarkable turns of fate for the Fernós family.
One of the oddest experiences we had was the funeral parlor my father had picked out for his funeral service. Many years ago, my father must have come across the Celestium in a local architectural journal. It's an unusual structure with an unusual function and an unusual staff. It is a crematorium and funeral home in the shape of a "Monolithic Dome" and it appears to be run by Puerto Rican new-age lesbians.
A monolithic dome is a structure that is built much like a large-scale piñata, where fiberglass rods are glued onto a large inflated bubble and upon curing are reinforced by spray-on concrete. Not only is it cheap to build, it also withstands hurricanes and looks a bit like a concrete Atlantis on dry land.
My father surely would have appreciated the Celestium for its other-worldliness, the Sleeping Beauty like coffin in which he laid and the bull dyke attendants.
Join Marc and I as we talk about my dad's funeral, volcanoes, eulogies and spirits, and then out of nowhere, we're joined by a special old friend from the past.
You can imagine the surprise and relief to know that our lost friend is alive and well and living in Florida. Who? Listen and find out!
When god closes a door, she opens a window into the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs: iTunes | Amazon
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be: iTunes | Amazon
Sometimes, all you need is to soak in a hot bath to let all your pain, worries and problems melt away.
On today's show we return to our regular programming with a sound-seeing tour of the Baños de Coamo, a public thermal springs bath well known for their calming and blood-pressure reducing abilities.
As you may known, I've spent the past two weeks dealing with the death of my father, Gonzalo Fernós. Rest in peace papi.
I want to thank all the listeners, friends and family who have been so supportive these past two weeks and being patient with us while we took this time off from making regular shows. But now we're back!
Join my sweet "novio" Marc Felion, my mom Patricia Fernós and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about some of the 28 stages of grief, like denial, acceptance, anger, chocolate, grief, rage, madness... did I mention anger? All the feelings you go through when someone close to you dies. Laugh with us, cry with us and eat some chocolate.
Pictured here is a photo of the lovely baths. If you're ever in Puerto Rico, be sure to check them out, it's a wonderfully relaxing, magical place.
Babies, I don't know if it's going to be all right, but with the Feast of Fools podcast, we're going to try our best to make things work out for the best.
"Babies, it's going to be all right." There is something strangely comforting about listening to Miss Ronnie's catch-phrases, where she implies that problems have a way of working themselves out.
The "bomba atomica" of podcasting, the lovely BMW (Big Mexican Woman) Miss Ronnie is always coming up with delightful catch-phrases for the good people of the world to hold onto when times are tough.
Sassafraction. Six Footers. Inspect, Select or Reject. Our Husband. A Slice of Heaven in Oh Seven! You Have The Whopper and I Want It My Way. Make Every Day Extra-Ordinary.
Ronnie is full of it, (and by "it" we mean sassafraction) and that's why we love her so much.
Today Miss Ronnie debuts a whole new attitude and catch phrase for 2007, which is "Flip That Sh*t!"
What does it mean? Listen to today's podcast to find out and how you can use it in your every day life to fight back.
All the flavor, none of the calories- the Feast of Fools. Who needs anything else?
Just in case you missed it! Originally posted on January 5, 2007.
You asked for it, you got it! Take a look back with us at 2005 (our first year podcasting) with a virtual pu-pu platter of our personal favorite clips, gags, catchphrases and inteviews.
Some of the great clips include: Miss Ronnie's birthday present, a scéance to raise the dead, our take on female genital plastic surgery, John Waters on AIDS, Teri Garr on Larry King and Kathy Griffin on breastfeeding.
Pull up a chair and help yourself to a heapin' helpin' of the Feast of Fools.
Proudly going where no other Star Trek actor had gone before George Takei got back into the national spotlight when "beamed" out of the closet as a openly gay man and spoke candidly about his 19-year relationship with his life partner Brad Altman.
On today's show we'll be talking with actor George Takei who's best known for playing the role of Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek television series and in six subsequent Star Trek films.
George Takei makes his podcast debut as he joins us to talk about the 40 year anniversary of Star Trek, his personal experience as a gay man in hollywood, why he came out, and why Howard Stern was able to trick George into thinking he was arguing with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Look for George in the tv show Heroes. It looks like he'll be playing a bad guy but we can't wait to see if he develops special powers. He was on the Jimmy Kimmel Show to poke fun of Tim Hardaway's anti-gay talk. Here's the fun on youtube.
•Click here to buy George Takei's autobiography "To The Stars" on Amazon.
•Click here to buy the audiobook version on iTunes.
The podcast that foolishly goes where no one dares to go- the Feast of Fools.
Original airdate:06.08.06
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
I'm heading off to Puerto Rico to see my ailing father and to be with family. It's a quick trip and I'll be back before you know it, but send me some positive energy -I'm going to need it.
My adorable husband Marc Felion and I, Fausto Fernós, leave our house to get a little breakfast and take care of a few last minute details before my flight to San Juan. On our way to a local eatery, we discuss such wonderful topics such as death, incest and crazy religious practices.
The dying process is difficult to say the least. It's not only hard for the person that is dying but on the families as well. I'm looking for feedback, inspiration and advice on coping with the death of a love one. What thoughts would you like to share with us?
In Germany there is a brother and sister who are fighting the anti-incest laws of Germany. The had their first child taken away from them so they then had three more. They think that the incest laws are archaic. They feel the laws are a leftover from the Nazi eugenics era. Their children do suffer from some sort of illness, but it is unclear if it a genetic flaw or if it is something else. What do you think? Would you get it on with your sibling?
Holy Smoke! There is a church in California that calls itself the Church of 420 which is trying to justify the sale of marijuana as a religious right. For one hundred dollars you can join the church and for another hundred bucks you can by dope to make you closer to God. Well, the state of California isn't having it. They shut the church down and have taken it to court. It's funny though, during Prohibition the Catholic church did use wine for communion, so maybe this church will have it's way. Everybody knows, you have to respect religion.
Just call us ranchers because we do a little chicken farming today as we are joined by Justin, the winner of the LCCP Gala ball tickets. We have really taken a shine to him especially since he reminds us so much of our good friend Mike Brazell, the PETA activist. They both have the same charming smile, giggly laughter and military conditioning. Next time Mike comes to town, we are totally going to hook them up.
Justin lives above our PO Box so it makes it convenient to see him. He gives us a tour of his apartment and we are confused by all the strange odors in the place. It's fun to remember what it was like to live like a college student. Our favorite item though is his white microwave with the Apple Logo on it. It looks like a giant iPod that can cook things. We wish all our listeners lived so close by.
The podcast that raises free range chicken- the Feast of Fools!
Yes, lesbians do have balls. Balls to fight cancer, that is.
Chicago is home to one of the coolest, best health care organizations anywhere, the Lesbian Community Cancer Project. Originally started as a way to educate doctors, pharmaceutical companies and hospitals about the specific needs of lesbians, taking away the stigma of not just lesbianism, but breast cancer, ovarian cancer and yeast infections.
As Lynda Carter said in the TV Pilot of Wonder Woman, "Any civilization that does not recognize the female is doomed to destruction, and sisterhood is more powerful than anything." You go girlfriend!
Join us as we take you on a magical chocolaty lesbian tour inside the South Shore Cultural Center for the Lesbian Community Cancer Project 16th Annual "Coming Out Against Cancer Ball." It's as much fun as it sounds.
Listen to todays special supersized show as we rendezvous with some lovely lesbians, gay and trans community folks and the winners of the ticket giveaway as we talk to openly gay Judge Tom Chiola, Police Officer José Rios, and what you can do when you find out you have cancer.
Click here for pictures of the fabulous event! Thanks to Cat Jefcoat for holding down the fort and being a fabulous lesbian leader.
The podcast that recognizes that sisterhood is the wave of the future- Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Who let the dogs out? We did. And in more ways than one.
We are just crazy for our canine friends. So today we're doing a whole show on dog-themed news and Sal-E's spooky looking dogs Mr. Gray and Chico. (Pictured here) Actually, we are sure they are adorable but those glowing eyes are creepy.
We talked a whole lot about dogs! Well, sort of. Marc talks about an email from a fan wondering why he can't get "a good favor from a friend” in Taiwan. It seems that there are two or three schools on how to give good favors. Which school do you belong in? Please let us know.
One big thing we forgot to talk about was Human Dogs. We'll just have to dedicate an entire episode to that one. Sorry Pup Don! Pup Don is one of our most dedicated listeners who enjoys the art/fetish of pretending he's a dog and having his master take him out for a walk, feed him, and make sure he's well groomed. Arf arf! Good thing he doesnt think he's a monkey.
Needless to say, we got a little carried away with our theme.
Join Sal-E, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about Sal-E's shaving habits, uncomfortable names for dog stores, training your husband and sniffing each others butts.
Join us on Wednesday February 28 at Hydrate in Chicago to see Sal-E's drag act! It's going to be a lot of fun. We'll be taking pictures.
The podcast that goes woof woof arf art pant, pant sniff- Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Eric Himan - All for Show: iTunes | CD Baby
J-Hud won! She is an Oscar Winner 2007 so divas, gay men and plus-sized gals everywhere can now celebrate. Congratulations to Chicago's very own Jennifer Hudson for winning "Best Supporting Actress" for her diva-licious portrayal of Jennifer Holiday as Effie White in the big screen adaptation of Dreamgirls. In her acceptance speech she thanked "God" three times and so did we.
Last night was a historic Academy Awards ceremony as talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres became the first openly gay person to take on the difficult job of hosting the event. We think she passed with passed with flying colors. This was a BIG deal, and I'm not talking about J-Hud's weight loss.
Power lesbian Ellen DeGeneres looked simply fabulous in her velvet red suit, white gay wedding tuxedo, and cobalt blue vest-pant suit. In case you missed it, she was in red, white and blue, very patriotic, despite, as Gregg Shapiro points out, she was breaking the patriarchy of hosting the Oscars.
The only other possible lesbian to have hosted the awards was actress Agnes Moorehead when took the job of co-hosting the Oscars in 1948. The jury is still out her lesbianism but the rumors abound.
We were cringing with anxiety hoping that Ellen didn't do her "dance" and fortunately she didn't. But what was up with those confetti cannons at the end of the show? You know, the same ones Rosie loves to use on the View. Why do lesbians love confetti cannons?
On today's Oscarcast (yes, we own the domain name) our in-house Jewish divas Amanda Steinstein and Gregg Shapiro join Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós to give you a play-by-play (or gay-by-gay) recap of the Superbowl for the Rest of us: the Oscars. Winners and losers, and great moments you might have missed.
One of my favorite moments really was J-Hud and Beyoncé's sing-off where they tried to dominate each other in the ironically titled song, "Listen." Ouch! It was a little painful to watch Beyoncé go berzerk trying to outdo Jennifer. That weave almost sun off her head and I swear you could see daggers coming out of Beyoncé's eyes. If the drama didn't happen on the set of Dreamgirls it did tonight.
The company formerly known as Apple Computer (they are just Apple, Inc. now) premiered their first iPhone commercial, which I thought was BORING. Cute, but not as exciting as the now ubiquitous iTunes silouette ads. It reminded me of the "Think Different" ad campaign, the commercial used mostly footage from television shows during the major event to celebrate film.
The real fabulous Apple moment of the night was at the very beginning with the montage of nominees created by the famed "Switch" ad film director Errol Morris which in similar fashion had all the nominees talking to the camera while a bouncy music played in the background. Check it out here. And if you want to walk down memory lane, click here to see our version of the "ads."
The podcast where everyone is a winner, even the losers- Feast of Fools.
Late at night, many a person turns to eBay to find some lost article of their past, some missing item that just might make them feel whole as a person.
Lisa Marie made national news when her highly unusual plot to kill the rival for her lover was thwarted. She drove from Houston, Texas to Orlando, Florida wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop for bathroom breaks.
Sometimes you just have to say, "WHY am I even considering buying a pair of soiled adult diapers?"
On today's show Sal-E joins us to talk about the myriad of things he's gotten on eBay, make-up nightmares, breast-feeding legal woes, and HIV+ organ transplants.
Pictured to the right is Sal-E in his "negative" make-up look, inspired by the way people look under negatives of film. You DO remember film, don't you?
Happy Birthday Amanda Steinstein!
The podcast with all the pleasures of illegal drugs without the nasty side effects- Feast of Fools.
Featured TV Show:
Wonder Woman - The Complete First Season (1976): iTunes | Amazon
Featured Music:
Matthew Duffy- Here I Come: iTunes | MySpace | Site
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
When Ronnie was a little girl, she convinced her mother to let her get out of doing the housework as long as she was reading- even comic books counted. Naturally, Ronnie became an expert on the pantheon of comic book characters and super-heroes. One of her favorites of course is Wonder Woman.
We're tickled pink to see that Warner Brothers has put the classic 1970s Wonder Woman TV shows (starring Lynda Carter) on iTunes for us to enjoy.
Today we give you the ins and outs of one of our most favorite 70s TV shows which was the paradoxically titled "The New Original Wonder Woman." The pilot episode starred Lynda Carter as the glamazon along with comedic actors Lyle Waggoner, Cloris Leachman, Stella Stevens, Red Buttons and Fannie Flagg. Just like the Love Boat, "Wonder Woman" had a star filled cast with a high-camp sensibility. Even the Nazis were likeable.
Best of all was the theme song. It is true disco genius. Who can't sing it?
Join Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about the origins of Wonder Woman, the hilarious 1976 TV Pilot Episode, and lots of current "Wonder Woman" related news.
"What Wonder Woman related news" you say?
This week the Middle Eastern country of Iran announced they would be building an island of women, new transparent transportation devices have been announced and a German artists nude self-portraits taken at a former Nazi concentration camp have caused a scandal in Europe. So, an island of women, an invisible car and Nazis, could this be a rip off of our favorite show? We'll have to wait and see.
Also on todays show we follow up with Britney Spears. We really think she just shaved her hair off because she was depressed and wanted to "reboot" her system. So we're offering a short list of Ten Simple Things You Can Do (Besides Shaving Your Hair) to Fight Depression.
Listen to details at the end of the show about our photoshop the Feast of Fools contest. Win a Feast of Fools T-shirt, DVD and other assorted goodies!
The podcast that fights for your rights to wear satin tights- Feast of Fools!
Featured TV Show:
Wonder Woman - The Complete First Season (1976): iTunes | Amazon
You go girl. How many times have we wanted just to quit that job, walk away from our problems, and start anew?
Sometimes we need a strong symbol like shaving all our hair off to make a statement, a ritual break with the past and move into a hopefully happier future.
As you may or may not already know, this past week pop-singer Britney Spears walked into a hair salon, picked up an electric razor and ignoring the pleas of the hairstylists at the salon, and shaved off all her hair. And then she got a tattoo. [Update: now she's in rehab.]
I don't really see what all the fuss is about. She's just making her hair match other parts of her body. So now the carpet matches the ...umh, er... I mean the linoleum matches the shades? I don't know, does that work for you.
She's lost her hair, not her mind. After all, you can't really lose something you never had. Remember, she was one of the few celebrities that said going to War in Iraq was a good idea. In France after WWII, French women who collaborated with the Nazis were shorn of their hair and marched through the streets to show their shame. Is this a "Mea Culpa" Britney?
Or is this a pop-star acting like someone who's just gone through a break-up (or post-partum depression) and wants to move ahead. She's depressed and probably shaving her hair was an instinctual move to try to make herself feel better. It's a way to shed the weight and run.
What's kind of crappy is that the salon owner's brother is selling the hair for personal gain. Instead of donating the money to a battered womens fund, breast cancer or the Betty Ford Clinic he's putting it in his pocket. Making money off of celebrities left-behind objects is odd. Did I mention I have a fork for sale that George Takei used?
It's funny until somebody gets hurt and it seems that Britney and her family are in pain.
We hope Britney gets well soon and can get back to work as as a sexually compulsive flight attendant. We still haven't flown on her airline yet, but we are looking forward to it.
Join Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about- mummified TV addicts, fashion for nerds and the perils of online dating.
Happy Year of the Pig!
Featured Music:
Angel and the Reruns - Just released!: iTunes | CD Baby
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be: iTunes | Amazon
Why do I cringe sometimes when I hear any politician say "No comment?" Is it because they are trying to skip the question? Some people will say anything to avoid a response that might get them into trouble with somebody.
Like Bill Maher said in his blog and talk show this week, if we decide who becomes President of the United States by a slip-up or misspeak, then we're in trouble. After all, it didn't keep the current President from holding office.
Today we're joined once again by future openly gay Presidential hopeful Richard Streetman.
Deep inside Richard Streetman is a soulful black woman, so in many ways if he becomes elected he'll be the nations first female black President. Watch out Hillary! Watch out Barack!
We really should be focusing on politics today, but we just can't seem to get these images of the sexy Russian military out of our minds.
The hot Russian military's egos (and various body parts) took a bruising when details have come out in the Russian press that the military may have a long tradition of forced gay male prostitution, with young soldiers being routinely pimped by senior officials, who then forced them to turn over their earnings.
Even though this sounds like some cheesy porn plot, it's not as sexy as it may sound at first.
Anonymous soldiers told the Gazeta news paper that they were violently tortured and beaten in order to get them to comply. Last year, a 19-year-old recruit was reportedly beaten so badly that his genitals and legs had to be amputated. That's not hot.
The news come in the trail of homophobic comments from the Russian Mayor announcing a ban on all gay pride parades, comparing homosexuality to Alcoholism.
Here in Chicago, the local Alcoholics Anonymous club marches in the gay pride parade.
If anyone wants to organize a pride parade for people who LOVE sexy russian men and their delicious vodka, we are SO there.
Join Marc and me as we continue our cheeky chat with Richard Streetman about fantasies, celebrity spam, politics and how an Oprah episode saved Richard's life.
That tangy taste isn't what you think it is, it's the Feast of Fools.
Think of him as a cross between George Stephanopoulos, Joan Rivers and Leslie Jordan.
Hailing from South Carolina, Richard moved to the Windy City to get his grass roots experience in the democratic political process, hoping one day to be the first openly gay President of the United States of America. No kidding. We think he just might be able to pull if off.
If not, he can always audition for American Idol and win. Almost two years ago Richard competed in the "Out at the Ballgame" contest to sing the National Anthem at the largest gay days (and the first) at a baseball game.
They could not have picked a better singer and boy did he work Wrigley Field.
Join Richard Streetman, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk about the political process, Chicago's Alder-persons and Barack Obama and Hilary Clitons' HIV status (or their chances to become the next President of the United States.)
Subscribe to the Feast of Fools and you'll get a chicken in every pot, a fat-free snack cake in every mouth, and a hilarious show in every iPod.
Happy Valentines Day! I know it's a bit late, but sometimes heartfelt love just takes a little longer to arrive.
We have got a whole lot of love for you today. Magnetic Fields' onetime band member L.D. Beghtol chats with us about his book "69 Love Songs: A Field Guide," a fully illustrated oral history on the 1999 three-CD album 69 Love Songs.
An odd attraction to the bizarre, the excessive and even the mundane are probably the driving forces behind front-man Stephin Merritt's approach to making music and behind this conceptual album.
Why 69 love songs anyways? Well, because 100 was way too much and 13 was too Jerry Lee Lewis.
An essential for fans of the Magnetic Feilds work or of indie-pop in general, 69 Love Songs captured the inter-genre sensibility and grad-school mentality that their music seems to best represent. The 3-disc album's wide rage of styles and lyrical references becomes a heartfelt collection of quirky pop-culture nuggets.
Music critic and Magnetic Fields band-member L.D. Beghtol's book about the music also titled "69 Love Songs" is a mini-dictionary of the references in the song's lyrics, an index of the band-members' favorite songs and the backstory of other delightful tidbits. It's an essential read for any devotée of "69 Love Songs."
Join us as Gregg Shapiro, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós talk to L.D. about how they devised the project, the obstacles in putting such a large album together, bad vegetarian food, and spilling the beans on Stephin Merritt.
Gregg Shaprio also shares his experience of the Chicago Auto Show Expo, the good and bad side of automotive marketing and why gay men have a certain attraction to certain brands of cars.
The podcast that loves you till it hurts- Feast of Fools.
Featured Book:
Magnetic Fields' 69 Love Songs: A Field Guide by L. D. Beghtol: Amazon | MySpace | Site
Featured Music:
Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs: iTunes | Amazon
Kelly Hogan & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts - Beneath the Country Underdog: iTunes
Tamale, like myself is a performer who works with fire. Marc and Cat share a common link with fire as well-they both are ex-smokers. Yeah for them!
Tamale was a red hot performer who seduced the audience with her undulating silhouette at the Gurlesque Burlesque Show, which Marc and I attended with Marsian. We also got to see her in the gender bender Lola Project. And now she is on the show- what a small world.
Last time we talked about Margaret Cho's burleque act, we really gave her hell. Since Tamale shared the same stage with Cho, we just had to bring up her performance. We felt her work wasn't at the calibure of the other performers. Tamale and Cat defend the notorious Cho's choice of entering the "Take Your Clothes Off And Chimmey Parade" by examining her process. The respected Cho's choice because they admired her process. Why are lesbians so into the "process" and what the does "process" mean anyway?
Albuquerque is named the fittest city in the US by Men's Fitness Magazine. Why is Albuquerque the fittest city- well, they have a good diet, they have a lot of outside space for activity and they work out. Big surprise.
GLADD is condemning Chuck Knipp's minstrel character, Shirley Q. Liquor. We think it's a waste of GLAAD's time to condemn Knipp. GLAAD needs to focus on the big picture and not waste it's time on a two bit performer like Shirley Q. What are they gonna condemn next, the dog crap I tracked into the house?
We discuss many exciting things in this show, such as, are obese people under represented in burlesque? What is a "bottom" in a lesbian relationship? What's on the top of the sexual food chain? Are women fascinated with a large clitoris?
It's red, it's hot, and it's ready for action - it's the Feast of Fools!
Listen for details on how you can win tickets to LCCP's Annual Gala Ball. The theme this year is "Flappers and Fedoras" so pull out your vintage fringe dresses and smoking jackets and represent! We'll be there with bells on. Come be on our podcast! We'll be taping live from the floor of the event (look for us in front of the multi-racial chocolate fountain.
Featured Event:
LCCP's Annual Gala Ball- Coming out against Cancer.
Saturday February 24, 2007
South Shore Cultural Center-Get tickets here.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be: iTunes | Amazon
We're joined today by two fabulous lesbians Cat Jefcoat and Tamale. Cat is the Managing Director of the Lesbian Community Cancer Project (LCCP) and her good friend Tamale is a burlesque performer and comedian.
We are happy to have the gals in the house to discuss, among other things, the upcoming The 16th Annual Coming Out Against Cancer Ball, sponsored by LCCP.
In case you don't know, LCCP is Chicago's foremost lesbian/bi/trans womens health care advocacy group and public education. They go all over the state training health care providers, providing LGBT cancer support (note the G means they are now including gay men). Organizations like LCCP keep health care organizations, pharmaceutical companies and doctors on track to remind them of the specific needs of their LGBT patients.
Their Annual Gala is the event of the season for lesbians. Listen for details on how you can win tickets to LCCP's Annual Gala Ball. The theme this year is "Flappers and Fedoras" so pull out your vintage fringe dresses and smoking jackets and represent! We'll be there with bells on. Come be on our podcast! We'll be taping live from the floor of the event (look for us in front of the multi-racial chocolate fountain.
Marc has this idea in head that Rosie O'Donnell is the new Magic Eight Ball. Do you remember those toys that gave you answers to life's questions? Well according to Wikipedia, ten of the possible answers are variations of "yes", five are ambiguous, and five are variations of "no".
Today's show begins with a dramatization of some of the questions submitted to Rosie O'Donnell's blog. Nothing like a "Riding the Bus with my Sister" impressions to make us all fall out.
Why is Rosie the new Magic Eight Ball? Well, on her blog, rblog you can ask Rosie one question a day. Rosie is mostly forthright in her answers but sometimes she gives answers that are vague, ambiguous or answers that look like they fell out of the back of a haiku truck. It's very reminiscent of the strange answers you'd get from the eight ball. One of our favorite answers is "Breathe, Awaken" which she gives to a nut job after he criticized her.
We chat about the woman in Florida who got "miffed over muff" because she drove by a theater which had "The Vagina Monologues" on it's marquee. She was so upset because she had to explain to her niece what a vagina was. The theater ended up changing the marquee to "The Hooha Monologues." Now, she's going to have to explain what a "Hooha" is. Why are kids so darn curious?
Relax, breath and awaken your inner lesbian to the Feast of Fools.
Featured Event:
LCCP's Annual Gala Ball - Coming out against Cancer
Saturday February 24, 2007
South Shore Cultural Center: Get tickets here!
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
FOF #480 - The Unsinkable Paula Poundstone - 02.13.07
When every single aspect of your life gets scrutinized by the media and the law, the pressure can be intense. It is even more so when you are an unconventional woman with mainstream appeal.
When Paula Poundstone was arrested in 2001 for drunk driving and child endangerment, she temporarily lost custody of her adopted children, went into a deep depression and was forced by the courts to go to Alcoholics Anonymous on national TV.
Not one to brush anything under the carpet, Paula Poundstone took her personal and legal struggles that she endured under the glare of the media and put it to work in her courageous stand-up act.
Today, the unsinkable Paula Poundstone lives happily in her home in Southern California with her three kids, eleven cats, two rabbits, two tadpoles, a lizard and one big dog.
In her new book "There's Nothing in This Book I Meant To Say" Poundstone shares her experiences contrasted with zesty biographies of Joan of Arc,Abraham Lincoln and Ludwig van Beethoven, to name a few.
Join us as we talk about the U.S. legal system, being a single parent, the legacy of Robin Williams, asexuality, and what celebrity would Paula Poundstone date if they asked.
You have the right to remain fabulous on the Feast of Fools!
Paula Poundstone performs a new show each night in Chicago this week:
Thursday, February 15
Raue Center of the Arts, Crystal Lake, IL: TICKETS
Box Office: (815) 356-9212
Friday, February 16
McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL: TICKETS
Box Office: (630) 942-4000. Almost sold out.
Saturday, February 17
Centre East Theatre, Skokie, IL: TICKETS
Box Office: (847) 673-6300
Featured Book:
“There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say” by Paula Poundstone: Amazon | iTunes
Featured Video:
Paula Poundstone: Look What the Cat Dragged In
Bravo's Funny Girls, Season 1: iTunes
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
For some reason, Marc thought it would be a good idea to stage an intervention to teach Ronnie to learn how to eat sardines.
Why? Because it seems that sardines are actually very good for you, being one of the first things in the food chain in the sea they don't have mercury and are rich in nutrients.
Join us today as we talk about the hazards of polar bears mating, Illinois' very own Obama comes IN of the closet into the Presidential race, why Hillary Clinton would make a fabulous running mate, blow-back from Anna Nicole Smith's videos and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy getting canceled.
We have mixed feelings when we learned that this would be the last season for the landmark TV show "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy." When I first saw the TV show I got a tear in my eye to finally see REAL gay men on television speaking honestly and openly about a wide range of topics.
Lesbians have Ellen, Rosie and Jay Leno, but we have no-one. Really.
We had made a request to interview Jai Rodriguez last fall but were rejected by his publicist. So we say screw you to the bi-turned-gay member of the group who is now out of a job. We're sure he'll be alright though, oh, but did we have fun cursing him out. I hope he gets a chance to hear it. I think he'll be amused.
The offer still stands for everyone else, including the real genius of the bunch, Ted Allen. Why he alone has taught many a gay men, suburban women and straight men to eat a wide range of dishes. Both hot and cold. Wonder if he could Ronnie to eat sardines? Marc thinks he could.
We are also contemplating having Carson Kressley be a permanent replacement for Victoria Lamarr. Phone home V-Mar!
The podcast that teaches you how to eat things- Feast of Fools.
Featured Sponsor:
Eric Daly at Toujours Salon & Spa: Site | MySpace
You never see it coming. Death can come out of the blue and make everything else seem meaningless. Man, did we get blind-sighted!
Today's show began innocently, talking about the now insignificant "cheese-cam" that a Wisconsin dairy farmer put up in order to allow the general public share in the thrill of watching a block of cheddar cheese mature.
Coincidentally we had a silent moment for our friend Matt Lucero who's dog Ollie had passed away.
We got calls from Miss Ronnie and Sal-E telling us the bad news and what they thought her death meant. The instant messages came pouring in. The emails. Will the Playboy mansion gates get covered in roses? Will you remember what you were doing today ten years from now?
Anna Nicole's death made us immediately think of BC Kalz, the talented comedic actor who portrayed her in our live show "Feast of Fools: Fireballs Remixed" in 2004.
Click here to see BC Kalz in action as Anna Nicole in one of our live shows.
Interestingly enough, Anna Nicole compared herself to another tragic entertainment legend, Marilyn Monroe. We saw how messed up her life had been, how much heartache she had gone through, and how much fun it was to see her outlandish and awkward life unfold before us.
We knew she wasn't long for this world, yet at the same time her larger than life personality and enormous bosoms made her appear indestructible. So why am I a bit surprised that she's dead?
Listen to today's show as Marc and I talk to Miss Ronnie, Sal-E and BC Kalz about the tragic stripper turned Playboy model turned Jeans model turned bride turned realty-TV-star turned grieving mother turned cadaver known as Anna Nicole Smith.
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We have some tough skins. We have a pretty good sense of humor when it comes to laughing at ourselves. After all, on this show we throw out quite a bit of sass and shade.
But how do you decide it's not fair to make a joke because it might really hurt someone and what do you do when the joke is directed at you?
A pub in England has put on it's menu a discomforting item "Barrymore Pie - Faggots swimming in gravy."
The name refers to the scandal over the death of Stuart Lubbock who was found in British TV personality Michael Barrymore's pool after a party. An autopsy showed that he suffered damage to his rectum and had many drugs in his system.
From what we've heard, the British tabloids had a field day with this one, but some of the pub's customers are not amused.
Customer Karina Thompson said: "I was appalled. It's a cheap joke, not funny, with offensive language. Faggot is a pejorative term for a gay man. I've written to complain."
Peter Tatchell from the gay rights group OutRage! told the BBC: "While this menu may have been intended as a joke, I think it's a joke in very bad taste. No restaurant would ever dare use a similar racial slur on its menu, so why the double standard?"
Pub owner Peter Towler is not going to change his menu anytime soon just because it displeases some of his patrons. He thinks it's funny. But, he may just be hanging a sign that is akin to saying "No dogs or Irishmen," or even worse.
What else is on this guy's menu? Strange fruit salad? Anne's franks and beans? Tuna Rape Casserole? Check out their menu here.
When we interviewed comedian Kathy Griffin on the show, I asked her if she ever got her feelings hurt when people made fun and crossed the line. Here is a person who makes a good living poking fun at celebrities and her famous aquiatances, and I wanted to know how she felt when it happened to her?
"I am a big baby. I have a total double standard and I admit it. Somedays people say the most awful things and I'll think its hilarious, and other times I burst into tears."
Anything can be funny, until it happens to you.
I think that humor has to be looked at from within the proper context. It's a tool that allows us to heal and to look at things in a new way. It's very subjective and may be interpreted many different ways.
Listen to todays show as we talk about Lesbians getting married in Mexico, mini-pigs getting married in China, fat American Idol contestants, and Craig Rigby the fan who wanted to start a new religion with me as it's god and Marc as it's devil. We also take your questions sent to us live via Instant Messenger (feastoffools4u)
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FOF #476 - American Idol Contestant #37925 - 02.07.07
Oh happy day. What a good day for freaky news.
Not a good day for American Idol contestant #37925, Jasmine Holland (who's orange pants are pictured here.) We can't seem to figure why the producers thought it would be a good idea to share this angle of the contestant. Hypnotic, isn't it?
Sorry, she didn't get to go to Hollywood.
Not a good week for astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak who has been charged with attempted first-degree murder on Monday.
The mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Discovery flight last summer was caught in possession of a BB pistol, knife and latex gloves, wearing a trench coat, a wig and DIAPERS so she could drive 1,000 miles from Houston, Texas to the Orlando Florida airport to stalk and mace U.S. Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman for sleeping with fellow NASA astronaut Bill Oefelein.
When Shipman got into her car at the airport parking lot she was approached by Nowak looking like a homeless Carmen Sandiego claiming she needed a ride and use of her cell phone.
Shipman had her window rolled up, and Nowak pretended to be hard of hearing to gain her sympathy, so she rolled down her window when Nowak sprayed her in the face with mace. Shipman sped away to the parking lot's toll booth where police quickly apprehended the homicidal astronaut.
In space or an airport parking lot, nobody can hear you scream.
This three way just smells ready of a made for TV movie. Valerie Bertinelli, get ready! If Charlize Theron can win an Oscar for playing serial killing lesbian Aileen Wuornos, then certainly anyone who takes on the role of Lisa Marie Nowak would qualify for at least a daytime Emmy.
Is it too soon to make "Free Lisa Marie" t-shirts?
Listen to today's show as Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós, talk about Easy Bake Ovens, mini pigs in China, humans in cages at zoo's and naked Dutch gyms.
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"I am not putting that in my hair!" When we heard about the British hairstylist who's been offering his clients a new conditioning treatment made out of bull's sperm, we were a tad skeptical.
How many times have I undergone that treatment, and my hair still is dry as a bone? So of course we have to ask our own in-house experts: Sal-E because he's a hair stylist and Miss Ronnie because she's good at, well you KNOW what she's good at.
Today we also talk a ton about solving back problems, talking like Eartha Kitt, the poor plight of whooping cranes in Florida, farts as a renewable energy resource and Norway's recent declaration of iTunes DRM as illegal.
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Piano man Billy Joel croaked the sixth note of the U.S. National Anthem yesterday at the Superbowl and nobody seemed to mind or notice, except me.
But what really made me take note is that almost immediately after the off-key note, the pitch correcting machines were pushed to their limit and Billy Joel came across sounding like Cher in her song "Believe."
That being said, Superbowl XLI (not sure what number that is) was one of the gayest Superbowls yet, with Prince leading a mob of people during the half-time show dancing on the well-known logo that symbolizes his name, but also looks like a symbol for a hermaphrodite, which in many ways he is.
Singing in pouring rain, Price delivered a powerful medley of his hit songs, and at one time singing "Purple Rain" while the rain poured down, colorized by purple colored spotlights.
Listen to todays show as Sal-E, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós talk about the gayest moments of the Superbowl, the commercials and Prince's Half-Time Show.
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Miss Ronnie is a happy girl. For her birthday she made out like a bandit, getting three statues of pleasantly plump individuals- an Indian Buddha, a Chinese Buddha and a cookie jar resembling a chubby Billie Holiday.
Pictured here is our very own Miss Ronnie holding her precious cookie jar like a infant. She is one proud momma.
Ronnie discovered this unique store in Chicago named Jazze Junque that sells vintage cookie jars and salt & pepper shakers. Naturally, we just HAD to pull her cookie jar out of lay-away and give it to her as a birthday present.
Today's show begins with a bonding ritual I saw on TV. When Hillary Clinton went on the Oprah Winfrey show to promote her book "It Takes A Village" she said that one of the joys of her family was when she, Bill and Chelsea opened up a coconut.
So when Marc and I were shopping for groceries at our local Mexican/Greek grocery store, we were delighted to find some freshly husked coconuts just begging to be on our show.
I didn't realize how brutal the process of cracking open a coconut would be, especially when you involve Miss Ronnie. In many ways it reminded me of some savage ritual where we all would be drinking the blood of our enemies out of their skull.
The 79th Annual Academy Awards may be weeks away, Joan Rivers hasn't even started to putting the botox injections into her face, but we have already picked a winner. Who's going to win an Harry Potter! Or should I say BIG Harry Potter? Wow. He's looking great.
Daniel Radcliffe, the actor well known for portraying everyone's favorite boy-wizard in the films based on J.K. Rowling's books is now out stretching his acting muscles on stage in a new production of "Equus."
The stage production will require him to orgasm while riding naked on the back of a horse. The press release says:"He uncovers the extraordinary forces that drove the young man to harm the horses and there follows a fascinating discourse on Greek mythology, religion, sexual awakening - and arguments about whether psychological healing will do the groomsman more harm than good."
Sexual Awakening? Naked? Did we mention he's going to be naked in the show?
Better get your tickets soon, I have a hunch this show's going to sell out.
Okay, so we know that Daniel isn't actually up for any Academy Awards this year, but take a look at him! He sure grew up nicely. If there was an award for hottest teen actor, he would most certainly win.
On today's show our in-house movie geek Gregg Shapiro comes to dish the dirt and share his brutal predictions on who's going home with an Oscar statue this year and who's getting really really drunk in their misery at the after-parties.
We answer the tough questions about the Oscars, like: Just why did Dreamgirls not get a best picture award? What do you mean "The Queen" isn't about gays? Is it still too late to give Jake Gyllenhaal an award for Brokeback Mountain?
It's not even February yet, and everyone seems to be getting spring fever.
Allegations are rising up again that Clay Aiken is back looking online for a little action. And of course the usual suspects are rallying on both sides of this endless debate.
This time around, I think Clay's being set up. Mostly because the phrases that he's being quoted look almost identical to the exchanges he had last year with North Carolinian real estate broker John Paulus.
You can see the blurry photos here. Do you guys think its for rizzle or for fizzle? Note his screen names: "Happychap2" and Skippermageeblue."
This gossip stands in stark contrast to the real story of 22-year old Nick Wallis, a termanily ill disabled man who hired a sex worker with the blessings of his nun caretaker to experience sex before he dies.
Join Marc and me as we unveil the truth behind Donnie Davies (the internet televangelist) and the REAL truth behind the "God Hates a F*g" video, the horny physically disabled, snake therapy and our listeners fantasy lovers.
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We are smitten. Raptured. Ready to share the tent. But what we're really in love with is the characters that he plays and not the person who the actor really is. I'm sure Jake in real life is a lot tighter than Jack Twist ever was.
The perfect thing about having a television/film character as a boyfriend is you don't need to ever be disappointed. You never have to compromise anything, you don't really have to give them anything and you never have to smell their farts.
Who are you in love with? Who captures your imagination?
You all know that Amanda Steinstein likes them big and hairy but she has a written a "Dear John" letter to her former celebrity boyfriend and is now trying to woo the image of the new man who graces her TIVO.
Who is this new love interest in Amanda's life? Who does Marc dream about? Listen and find out!
Join Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion and me as we talk about foods you shouldn't eat, Mexican transexuals and their rights, and falling in love with television characters or programs.
And no, eating trans fats will not make you into a transsexual. In case you were wondering.
You say Jill-en-hall, I say Gil-in-hall, lets call the whole thing off.
Electronica, techno, synth pop, whatever you want to call it, Microfilm has got it. And now they have a new album to prove it.
Microfilm is a partnership between real-life partners Matthew Mercer and Matt Keppel. They wanted to merge an early 80s synthpop and disco ethos with a more modern electro and tech-house sound. The end result is a 10-track debut album titled "After Dark."
We discovered Microfilm when they got named by Time Out Chicago's "Queers of the Year" along side yours truly Fausto Fernós and my beloved Marc Felion. We figured they must be fabulous to make the list so we just had to have them on the show.
On today's show we talk about what it is like to work on a project as a couple, which drugs people take while partying at clubs and just exactly how you get those crazy sounds in electronic music.
Marc also implores the listeners to stop sending us links to "God Hates a Fag" video from Donnie Davies, an ex-gay minister. We have been inudated by them. We poll the audience as to whether it is a hoax or parody or if it is for real. Listen to find out what people are saying and which out gay music stars think this guy is for real.
Do you think Donnie Davies is for real or not?
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Superbowl fever is here! Everyone wants to go see the big show, and by "show" I mean a football game between two really really good teams.
So much in fact, that a nine-month pregnant woman by the name Jennifer Gordon (a professional publicist) is offering the surface of her pregnant stomach for advertising, in exhcnage for tickets to the superbowl.
And it looks like she might be getting offers to put someone's logo on her tummy.
If this catches on, will fat people do the same thing? I can see it now, an ocean of fat people with logos plastered on their bellies. That's hot.
Being a fan of atheltes and not athletics, the fun for me personally is recording the Superbowl and skipping past the game to watch the tacky ads and even tackier hafltime show. Remember this is where breastgate happened, where you got to see Janet Jackson's exposed tittie and Justin Timberlake's cowardly recoil.
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Under the sea! Under the sea. There are no accusations, just friendly crustaceans under the sea!
And then there are sharks. Sharks who eat things. On todays fabulous show our in-house Jewish diva Amanda Steinstein shares with us her recent adventures of her trip to the Bahamas where she went scuba diving at a shark feeding.
Did they bite her? Did she fear for her life? Is she all right? You'll just have to listen to the show and find out, won't you?
Join us today as Amanda, Marc and I talk about ABC's tv show "Ugly Betty", the Oscars and sloppy animal rights activists who have lost their mind.
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People, we are at a crossroads! Drilling has begun, there is a missle crisis, and everything is in dissaray. What to do?
Miss Ronnie to the rescue! Our very own President of K.I.R. (Keeping It Real) reads her own "State of the Poontang" undress, where she shares her vision for a better tomorrow by respecting the va-jay-jay today. OK?
Ronnie has gone ga-ga over this little store in Chicago that sell almost only cookie jars (they also sell vintage salt shakers) and you can look forward to checking out Miss Ronnie's flickr gallery. (It's not up yet.) You wouldn't believe after what they stylize cookie jars. It seems everything pop culture beomes a cookie jar - from a company logo to a vintage Cadillac, even your old mami, chances are, it's a cookie jar.
Heklina is one tough broad. She came all the way from Iceland, where the land's geothermal activity seeps into the psyche of it's people. I mean, Bjork is one of its largest exports. Don't get in her way, she will hurt you bad.
Over a decade ago Heklina started a drag variety show called "Trannyshack" at Stud, a gay bar in San Francisco which continues to this day to entertain audiences, give a voice to newcomers and redefine the art form of drag itself.
This drag extravaganza has been such a hit that drag queens and club promoters all over the world have attempted to co-opt the name into their local drag shows in one way or another.
In attempts to try to keep her show's identity, Heklina has started successfully suing nightclubs all over the country (most recently in Ft. Lauderdale Florida) to stop them from using the Trannyshack name.
We think that Trannyshack is a great name for a drag variety show, but isn't it odd that drag queens all over the world would want to confuse the public by calling their own drag nights Trannyshack as well. What are they getting out of it? Why don't they come up with their own logo?
It doesn't escape us the irony that many drag queens start their careers by imitating famous female celebrities while lip-syncing their music, and that innocently they might be trying to pay homage to Trannyshack in San Francsico when naming their own shows by the same name.
Listen to todays show as Sal-E, Marc Felion and I, Fausto Fernós talk to Heklina about drag queen identity crises, why RuPaul doesn't want her fans to take her picture and the performance tradition of drag.
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We all make mistakes. To err is human, to forgive divine. So what do you do when you are disappointed?
Last week Marsian, Marc and I caught the Sissy Butch Brother's variety show extravaganza "Gurlesque Burlesque" at the Vic, which featured "homo-phillic" (because she loves the gays and the gays love her) comedian Margaret Cho unveiling her new burlesque act for Chicago audiences.
We all awaited with baited breath in the audience for something extraordinary. After all this is a woman well known for her brilliant, funny and politically savvy stand up comedy. And she's got resources. The concert film of her one-woman show "I am the One I Want" holds the record for the most money grossed per print in movie history.
Instead what we got was an run of the mill strip-tease. TEASE being the key word here. Amateur night at a strip club. Nothing unusual or remarkable, and really not that sexy to begin with. Just Margaret Cho "chowing" it all, wearing some clumsy off-the-rack costumes.
So why is Margaret Cho taking her clothes off for audiences?
As a person who's subjected many an audience to my own naked body, I understand why Margaret Cho is going in this unusual direction and trust me, she hasn't gone nuts. Not yet.
Margaret Cho is taking her clothes off because she wants to empower herself and other women. Let me clarify "empower" here. She wants people to get over thinking of women as objects by objectifying herself.
Girls just want to have fun. And when you have a taste for comedy and touching on society's taboos, it's a lot of fun to show off your body for an audience.
Yea, we get it: women's bodies are beautiful. As a mainstream comedian, Cho wants to bring the burlesque into the mainstream, and she wants to join in all the fun.
So good for you Margaret, but next time, hire a choreographer. Spend as much time as you do on planning your stand-up as you do on planning your burlesque act.
Fortunately, the rest of the show was amazing! This sold-out event featured some of the best and brightest in the world of burlesque entertainment and had some serious talent onstage- Alotta Boutté,Tina Angst and Julie Atlas Muz were among some of the phenomenal acts that simply stole the show and took our collective breath away with their inventiveness, charisma and power of their fabulous performances.
Margaret Cho would be wise to take notice of the people in her own community of burlesque and step up to the plate if she wants to add dancing naked onstage to her range of repertoire.
Listen to this show as Sal-E, Marc Felion, and I, Fausto Fernós talk about this and Paula Abdul's drunkness, the best cable company in Chicago, Oprah's "va-jay-jay" and why celebrities make such odd demands when doing gigs.
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Grant Stoddard was the kind of geeky intern everyone made fun of but yet still wanted to get in the sack.
The editors for the online magazine Nerve.com thought it would be hilarious to have their intern go on assignments exploring the outlandish, extreme or unusual in sex.
And thus the column "I Did It for Science" was born. After three successful years Grant left the magazine amid talks of Viacom wanting to turn his stories into a television show, but then the pilot never came to fruition.
Listen as Grant shares his sordid tales trying out a broad range of sexual fetishes like infantilism, sploshing, latex shrink wrapping, bondage and making out with twelve gay men in a bar while his girlfriend watched.
Did we mention this guy identifies himself as straight so far?
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FOF #462 - Get on Your Knees for Levi Kreis - 01.18.07
Levi Kreis fought back the tears when he sang this past summer at the closing ceremonies of the Gay Games VII at Wrigley Field. Opening for Cyndi Lauper, Levi felt he had come a long way in a bumpy ride of his life as an openly gay man in pop music.
Today Levi lives in Los Angeles with his hunky husband (who are legally domestic partners) and just finished his new album "The Gospel According to Levi." In his new album, Levi presents a broad range of musical styles, from barbershop boy bands to ragtime-infused gospel.
You might remember seeing Levi in the movie Frailty where he plays the younger version of Matthew McConaughey's character in Bill Paxton's directorial debut film about a man's confession to an FBI agent about how his religious fanatic father's visions lead to a series of murders.
When we first talked to Levi he was touring with another FOF favorite, singer/songwriter Eric Himan. He had recently come out as a gay man and this past year he's been working hard to re-establish himself as a musician. Things are looking good, and so is Levi.
Take a good look at Levi's album art. We rib Levi over his album art designed by illustrator Joe Phillips who is best known for his luscious cartoons portraying the romatic life of REALLY hot young men. He makes everyone look REALLY good.
Don't think for a moment that Levi has lost his good looks just because he's using a cartoon to represent his album art! As you can see in the picture here, Levi is in the best shape of his life.
So much in fact that he's scheduled to play the stripper who finds his spirit in Dell Shore's film adaptation of his hit play Southern Baptist Sissies.
Sorry gals, he promises no full frontal nudity. Dell, can you help a brother out? Get those panties off!
Listen as we talk in-depth with Levi about getting married and finding the man of his dreams. Disappointed? Don't be. You might still have a chance!
Levi also takes questions from the listeners like you through our AIM/Yahoo messenger, feastoffools4u. Believe it or not, he actually gives some surprising advice and shares some interesting anecdotes from his past.
Marsian, Marsian, Marsian! Before we boldly go into 2007, we need to take a thorough peek back at 2006 and examine the words, ideas and trends that shaped the past year.
Today we continue our "trendcast" with our in-house Walter Mercado, Marsian De Lellis. This guy is so psychic, he makes Miss Cleo look like Star Jones.
Listen as we talk about the unreasonable prediction that the human species will split into two in the coming millenia, digital fashion hacks, new words of 2007, and which celebrities will come out as gay in 2007. I bet you didn't see this one coming!
Marsian's biggest prediction for 2007 is that Rosie O'Donnell and Donald Trump will be paired at an awards show as best friends. I believe it.
Marsian does an uncanny Rosie O'Donnell impersonation a la "Riding the Bus with my Sister." You GOT to listen to this show to hear it.
Listen to part two of our "trendcast" for 2007.
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Marsian De Lellis is in many ways in touch with something magical. We're just not sure what that is, but in all his outlandish talk about full-body botoxes and Whole Foods Express at the airports, he makes a lot of sense. If you ask me, the guy's a freakin genius.
Marsian, Marc and I share our predictions for 2007, things we are just SURE that will happen. How do we know these things? Let's just say we're REALLY good guessers. We're the kind of people you want at a horse race.
What colors will people be obsessing about? Will the iPhone be a dud? Will it be used for good or evil? What kind of horrific plastic surgery trends can we see? Who will Jennifer Aniston be having sex with next? You can wait for the future to roll around like a boring person or listen to todays show and find out now! The far-distant future is now just around the corner, waiting inside your iPod (or Zune, Dell DJ, etc...)
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Marc and I rang in the New Year drinking cheap champagne at a tiny little bar in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, surrounded by trannies, grungy bikers and wholesome young folks wanting to have a good time. On the stage was "Big Girls Eat Cake" singing in the New Year with cover songs from Queen, Heart and Prince.
What better way to ring in the new year than by listening to the hot new up and coming band "Big Girls Eat Cake?" And boy, did we have a good time!
Before we started podcasting, the Feast of Fools was a live musical variety show that had it's own band, which featured on keyboards, Taylor E Ross, or as he was known on stage as "Blitzkreig Martinez" or "Link Pinks" and on the drums, the incomparable Aaron Smith. Click here to see the guys in action at one of our live shows.
Podcasting took a grip on Marc and I and these talented folks moved on to work on a whole slew of other projects including writing music for plays and starting new bands like "Flesh Hungry Dog" and "Big Girls Eat Cake."
Big Girls Eat Cake is great! They pull up some goodies developed from their past incarnations into a whole new delicious sound, grounded by the powerful and divinely bold (and single) Tracy Tyler as the lead singer.
Join us today as Tracy and Taylor (now know as Terry Diamond) join us to talk about their music, the legacy of sexual ambiguity in rock and roll music, "tanorexia" and are the Beatles on iTunes or not?
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We're just crazy about the new Dreamgirls movie. It was so worth the wait. Just how long did we wait for it to become a movie? Well, at one point in time, Whitney Houston was even considered for the lead role in the movie. So that must have been at least 20 years ago, because nobody's considered her for anything anytime recently.
Miss Ronnie and Fausto are just so amazed at how spicy food makes Marc sweat. Marc explains that it has something to do with getting his wisdom teeth surgically removed. Somehow nerves were severed that confuse his brain and it sends messages to the skin to "salivate." You can read more about it here. Maybe someday we'll get Marc to a video of him eating chicken vindaloo. You will be amazed.
We chat about a millitary widow, Cynthia Summers who is charged with poisoning her dead husband with arsenic. The greiving widow has spent the $250,000 she got from death benefits on a boob job and wild parties at her home on the base. This is a woman, as Miss Ronnie says "with ambition."
Ooops! We accidentally left our instant messager on asking listeners to ask questions of Jim Verraros. Miss Ronnie was more than happy to answer the random questions asked by the listeners. Miss Ronnie shares her personal experince of talking with Jim on the phone.
We do a dissussion of music and how it has changed through the years. Was music more hopefull in days gone by? Has music become bitter? When did it change and how? These are just some of the topics we love to cover.
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Everyone remembers the angst ridden haunting music of 90s grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, but what you may not know is that he (and his widow Courtney Love) were very pro gay people who had a lot of gay friends and spoke out against homophobia both in their music and in their lives.
"What else can I say? Everyone is gay." Kurt wrote in his song "All Apologies." I read an obituary about the beautiful talented, soulful man where he stopped a concert once and was rumored to say "hey man, this is 90s. It's okay to be gay. Cock is cool."
In 1994, I thought it would be a great idea at the time to create a t-shirt with the slogan, and include a photo of myself and four other friends covered head-to-toe in body paint posing like Madonna. We thought these shirts would sell like hotcakes. They didn't.
So now over a decade later, we come full circle as my friend Jim Verraros, the openly gay rock star poses with a artifact from the 90s, my unsold cock is cool t-shirt.
In many ways artists like Jim represent how far we've come in gay visibility. Despite his struggles, Jim is open, proud and candid about his sexuality and his music is awesome! If you haven't gotten it yet, go to iTunes and listen to it NOW.
It's touching to me to see Jim wearing the t-shirt and feel the world isn't so bad when I hang around him and by beautiful partner Marc. Click here to get an exclusive vintage "Cock is Cool" t-shirt.
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Ch-ch-ch-changes! Spring is just around the corner and change is in the air.
Our good pal Jim Verraros is going through a lot of changes in his life, and like all changes not all of them are easy to make or painless.
Even though we are at the cusp of knee-deep snow, I remain an optimist and refuse to give in to the winter blues! The only blues I need is the bottle of dye I put in my hair.
Right now Jim is pounding the pavement of New York City hoping to get cast in the Broadway production of RENT. We are rooting for you Jim and belive in our heart that if those producers know what's good for them, they will hire you and rename the Nederlander Theatre the Jim Verraros Theater. And for crying out loud, learn how to spell T-H-E-A-T-E-R like NORMAL people!
Listen to Jim V, Marc F and Fausto F as we read one of our hard-core fan's letter about the nature of relationships, love and being single. Will Jim get the role on Broadway? Can Jim sing in falsetto?
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Comedian Margaret Cho is about to do something really interesting. After many years of making a good living as a standup comedian, she's trying something new.
Margaret is taking a risk and putting herself out there as a burlesque dancer. Not for the money, not for the fame, but for the pleasure of the performance itself.
Today we'll be talking to Red Tremmel and Jessica Halem who are busy organizing the Sissy Butch Brothers' new happening: "Gurlesque Burlesque."
Of course everyone knows Jessica from the show as the organic melon eating lesbian. But did you know that this year Jessie and her partner Red joined us on the very short list of Time Out Chicago's "Queers that made our city better in ’06?"
They made the list both for their outstanding activist work, artistic contributions, and because they are fabulous lesbians.
Join Jessica and Red and Marc and Fausto as we have a gay couple pow wow, talking about the history of burlesque, how to motivate your local community into action and what do trannies really want?
Listen to the show for details on how you can win a pair of tickets to Saturdays Gurlesque Burlesque show!
GO SEE:The Sissy Butch Brothers' "Gurlesque Burlesque"
with Margaret Cho • Julie Atlas Muz Miss Exotic World 2006/07
Satan's Angel • Miss Indigo Blue • Harlem Shake's Alotta Boutté
Nomy Lamm • from NYC La Divina Cucina and the very best of Chicago's burlesque, including Jessica Halem as your Mistress of Ceremonies
Michelle L'amour Miss Exotic World 2005/06, Claire de Lune, Dic Cheney, Honey Maker, iconoclash, La Kaj, Miss VonLIVID, Muff Daddy, notorious CHOcha, Sage, Sassbox, Surgeon Scofflaw, Tamale, Teena Angst, the c*nt, and Chicago Drag Kings.
DJ Reaganomix after the 10 pm show • ASL Interpretation @ 7pm show
Singer and songwriter Julie Loyd says she lives in Chicago, but in many respects her home is the open road.
Today we have the lucky chance of being able to talk to Julie Loyd in person about her music, her fans and why she enjoys traveling so much.
Known for her albums "Fate Says He's Sorry" and "The Waiting Room" Julie Loyd captures a modern traveler's spirit in her music as she spends a good part of the year traveling from town to town serenading the good people of America with her special warm sound and caramel rich voice. The woman does over 170 shows a year! Almost as many podcasts as we put out.
Respect! That's a lot of live music.
Because Julie believes in her fans and the magic of the live experience, her latest album is composed of mostly live recordings of the songs she most often gets requested.
Join Gregg Shapiro, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós as Julie sings live in the home studio for you the song "Fate Says He's Sorry."
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"Babies, it's going to be all right." There is something strangely comforting about listening to Miss Ronnie's catch-phrases, where she implies that problems have a way of working themselves out.
The "bomba atomica" of podcasting, the lovely BMW (Big Mexican Woman) Miss Ronnie is always coming up with delightful catch-phrases for the good people of the world to hold onto when times are tough.
Sassafraction. Six Footers. Inspect, Select or Reject. Our Husband. A Slice of Heaven in Oh Seven! You Have The Whopper and I Want It My Way. Make Every Day Extra-Ordinary.
Ronnie is full of it, (and by "it" we mean sassafraction) and that's why we love her so much.
Today Miss Ronnie debuts a whole new attitude and catch phrase for 2007, which is "Flip That Sh*t!"
What does it mean? Listen to today's podcast to find out and how you can use it in your every day life to fight back.
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Could it be the Rainbow? Maybe it's Crimson and Clover? Well, on today's show we continue Amanda Steinstein's "Top 27 Things I'm Over" for 2006.
At the top of our list is of course, Spam. We are a little xenophobic about our spam at the Feast of Fools. It's one thing to get spam in English, but when you are getting offers for Viagra in Chinese it get's to be a bit too much. Wasn't the language of the Internet suppossed to be English anyway? And, more importantly, how are we supposed to answer all those spam emails if we can't understand the language in which it's written.
Amanda wants everyone to know that she is over "cock shots" on the personal dating sites. She feels that if you want to date someone, the best way to do it is to use a photo of your face, and not one of your member, no matter how handsome it may be. Marc likens the surprise cockshot to being flashed in public. This leads to stories about flashing incidents and the motivation of flashers. have you ever been flashed?
We are also thinking about redesigning the Gay Flag. We are a little sick of the current one. Maybe something in Polka dots...... How would you reimagine the gay flag if you could?
We chat about the recent deaths of underwear super models Gerald Ford and Saddam Hussein. Yes, Gerald was an underwear model when he was younger and of course there is the famous photos of Saddam in his boxers. So it seems that underwear models come in two flavors-vanilla and mass murderer. Which one will Markie Mark fall into? Time will only tell.
We also give lots of advice to parents on how to raise their miserable brats. No, if you are a parent, we don't mean you, we mean the bad parents and their horrible children...not yours..er, well, you know what we mean....those brats over there.
Listen as Marc and Fausto chat with the amazing Amanda Sylvia Steinstein!
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Because your kiss is on my list... today we continue our slow news week, I mean our Week of Lists with part one of Amanda Steinstein's "Top 27 Things I'm Over With" for 2006.
Stuff you just have to get off your chest, annoying things like annoying people, useless laws, and ideas: stuff that pisses you off so much you're just over it.
Listen as Marc and Fausto chew the fat with everyone's lovable curmudgeon Amanda Sylvia Steinstein!
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Featured Music:
Eric Himan - All for Show: iTunes | CD Baby
As we watch the odometer turn, nursing our hangovers, it pays to look back on the not-so-great events of the past year as a way to learn from our mistakes and hope we don't repeat them in the following year.
"Moaners and Groaners" as we like to call them, is times we were left wondering "what were they thinking?" Times we were laughing at the ridiculousness of the situation, times we were hoping for something deeper, something better.
Then again, at this time of the year, its a REALLY slow news week. Oh sure, some scientist will make some outrageous claim after the holidays, some politician will make an outrageous claim (remember Bush's Axis of Evil speech?) but for now, Peace on Earth equals "List" based news.
So sit back and enjoy this week as we walk down memory lane of some of the silliest, funniest, strangest and most award events of the past year that made us giggle.
Also on this show, we name our "Gay of the Year" a person whose actions or inactions has stayed in our minds and made us reflect upon his or her actions time and time again.
Wait, don't click! Can you guess who that is? Who was your gay of the year?
For all aquaintence be forgot and never... how does that go? Aww heck, I'll just stay home and listen to the Feast of Fools.
Getting together with friends over the holiday season, sharing some fine wines, spirits and beers sitting around the dinner table sharing funny stories is one of the things I enjoy the most in life.
Can't you tell? That's what the show mostly is. Friends, talking, spirits and good times!
Listen to today's show as our friends Sal-E, Maciej Radzik and Steven Peterson share with us some of their personal favorite flavored spirits from Poland and California.
Visit the site tomorrow for the recipe on how you can make your own flavored vodkas in ginger, mixed berry and coffee vanilla. (Sorry, I had a long day.)
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Featured Music:
Eric Himan - All for Show: iTunes | CD Baby
Christmas season breeds a certain kind of desperation. Consumerism disguised as spirituality, traveling and family pressures all put your patience and good will to the test. Thank goodness that many cocktails are the center of many holiday events.
But before we all go on our separate ways to our respective families, Marc Felion and I joined our friends Wendy Malley and Steven Peterson to talk about the holiday season, and what kind of terrible gifts and great gifts we've gotten.
In Puerto Rico, right after Christmas, on January 6th all the little children put straw in their shoes for the magical three kings' camels to eat while they deliver even more presents. Sound familiar? Yes, in Puerto Rico we celebrate TWO Christmases: one for gift giving, and the second one for re-gifting the gifts we got.
I guess historically Frankincense and Myrrh were the first re-gifts. Listen to today's show as we also take questions from our listeners via Instant Messenger and talk about having your birthday during the holidays, a cloned cat gives birth to kittens who are not the second coming, making the holidays sexy and pole dancing as a present.
We're bringing sassy back- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be: iTunes | Amazon
After her surgery to repair a hole in her heart, jazz vocalist Solitaire Miles turned to her computer and photoshop as a means to heal.
And what a journey it has been. Drawing on imagery from her spiritualist faith, Pre-Raphaelite inspired art and her passion for the nude female form, Solitaire under the pseudonym Cunis Dianolis landed an enormous following on Flickr (a fabulous photo blogging site).
And she went to high school with Marc Felion.
Marc, Solitaire were among a tight knit group of friends who terrorized the well-deserving small-town misanthropes. Years before there were any straight-gay alliances in high schools, they keep in touch decades later.
One of the only psychic mediums in the jazz community in Chicago, Solitaire's passion for the music of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey influence her own work on her up and coming CD release "Comes Love."
Listen today as we talk to our favorite lesbian stalker Shannon about her friend who was killed, and Solitaire gives her a reading which surprisingly was spot on. We also talked about nicknames, subconscious sexual imagery on Kellogg's Fruit Twistables and why Marc loves to eat glazed donuts.
"Santa's moved to China, cause that's where my toys come from. I don't send my letters to the North Pole, I address them to Hong Kong."
Today we give you a "sneak peek" at a new off-key Christmas song Marc and I wrote about the Foxxcon "slave camps" in China we heard about several months ago.
Several Chinese journalists found out about the inhumane working conditions at the iPod assembly factories where workers were forced to work over 60 hours and six days a week, living in dormitories packed 100 to a room, earning $15 a month and being denied visits from non-employees.
The facility in Longua was reported to hold 200,000 workers behind it's fences, mostly uneducated young women and girls.
When Apple computer heard about the story, they quickly investigated the allegations, sent in their own team to audit the situation and brought relief to the laborers.
Nevertheless, the reputation of offshore tech manufacturing is less than sparkling, and so we wrote the song to poke fun at the companies that take advantage of this situation.
In other Chinese news, Rosie O'Donnell got into trouble for approximating Chinese on her show. When she talked about Danny DeVito's drunken appearance on the show she said: "The fact is that it's news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it's like 'Ching chong ching ching ching chong-Danny DeVito-ching, chong, chong chong-drunk-The View-ching chong.'"
Which prompted a response from Guy Aoki, president of the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans: "Many Asian-Americans have experience classmates taunting them with 'ching chong' imitations of how Chinese, or Asian people in general, supposedly speak... it's a way to denigrate us."
In the 1920's my father's nanny in Puerto Rico would try to scare off kids off their yard by screaming at them in what she thought was english: "Henny Mai, Whachi Mai." Nobody thought it was offensive, only hilarious in her naiveté.
I guess it's offensive when the approximations of somebody else's language reflect a power structure. Do you think Rosie was wrong in saying what she did? I don't. Buy maybe you do.
Join our fabulous NYC friend John Q Sanchez, Marc Felion and me (Fausto Fernós) as we talk about Lucious Pussay, Jose Feliciano's hit "Feliz Navidad" song, Pee Wee Herman's Christmas Special and more on our New York City Meet & Greet.
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Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Chicago Gay Mens Chorus - Favorite Things: Site
FOF #445 - Getting It Out of Your System - 12.13.06
The intense pressure of being a People's Choice Podcast Award winner sometimes gets the best of us and we snap. We go nuts. Crazy. Not crazy in the Steve Martin way, crazy in the Margot Kidder way.
You can't podcast from inside an insane asylum. I needed to take action to prevent us from sending yet one more of our own off that precipice. Nobody looks good in white after Memorial Day.
I marched down to my new-age tech-guru store to get myself a meditation and relaxing device, the "Tranquil Moments® Sound Therapy System". It's a little machine that makes a broad range of sounds designed to help you relax.
But of course, like the film Altered States I tapped into a deep part of my ancient brain that is ugly and wrong with nasty results. In other words, business as usual.
LIsten to today's show as Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion and I Fausto Fernós conjure up the Christmas spirit as we talk about celebrity book signings gone wrong, tips on relaxing and crime fighting Santas.
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Oooh Microsoft got an ass whooping last week! In attempts to illustrate their official blog, someone up in Redmond linked to a photo without asking permission from somebody's website. Why? Because they thought creative commons means take as you like.
So the pissed off photographer switched the picture with a porn image and before you know it, Microsoft is a pornographer. So immediately they took the picture off and apologized to the photographer and to the readers who may have seen the naked sexy picture.
Creative commons really means "share and share alike" with one major exception. You gotta say where you got it from. We always ask people when using photos we've taken to say "courtesy of www.feastoffools.net" as a way of recognizing our efforts.
But then again, we really can't stop you now, can we?
Listen today as Amanda Steinstein joins Marc Felion and me, your flaming blue lovable pal Fausto Fernós to talk about the topics we wanted to talk about on yesterdays show but ran out of time. Magical things like celebrity love-making devices, gay rabbis, and beer for the blind.
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It's a world unto itself, with people walking the streets in a frantic pace trying to succeed in the pursuit of their dreams. Like so many of those people, last week Marc and I traveled up to there to meet up with our fans and to promote the show on Sirius' Out Q talk shows- Derek and Romaine,Generation Q and Out Q in the Morning.
We share much in common with our satellite radio counterparts: we're trying to make a successful enterprise of creating gay content for gay audiences and we want that audience to grow. We recruit. We want to give a heartfelt thank you to Larry Flick and his staff and to the Derek and Romaine Show. It really meant a lot to us to be on the show and the experience was invaluable.
The pacing of their shows however are very different than what we do here on the FOF. For one thing they had lots of ads cutting into the conversation during show. Maybe it's the tradition of radio that makes them sound different to me, but being on their shows really made Marc and I appreciate the intimate space we create every day here in our home or out on the street.
Listen to today as Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion and I, Fausto Fernós, talk to our favorite stalker and full time lesbian Shannon as she gives her take on our sattelite radio debut, the pressures of high-money media, and why we enjoy podcasting so much.
We also talked a bit about how some people couldn't pronounce Marc's name right. Here's a link to the history of Marc's family name which he translated from the original French for a distant cousin. Bet you didn't know he was that talented.
Click here to see pictures of our visit to Sirius. Click here to see pictures of our Meet & Greet at Vlada Lounge.
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Sal'e tips and ticks on how to survive the holiday season and how to best celebrate it, Mexican style. And you better check this one out!
The second half of the show gets taken over by what we thought would be a short phone call to Yayi, but then turned into this long conversation about an obscure bible quote, Yayi's breast augmentation surgery and her up and coming face-lift. Yayi is proud to say she's 61 years old and loving every minute of it.
FOF #441 - Journey into the World of Chocolate - 12.07.06
As delicious as it sounds, every year one the AIDS Foundation of Chicago organizes their holiday fundraiser in a ballroom filled with pastry chefs, choclatiers and all-around chocolate experts for their one-of-a-kind event- World of Chocolate.
This year was their most successful event yet, drawing over 1,500 people from around the midwest to the most delicious AIDS fundraiser you will ever lay your taste buds on.
Listen as Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós, explore this magical world of chocolate as we talk to all the fans and makers of that thing that Montezuma gave to Cortéz almost 600 years ago.
Whats your favorite type of chocolate and it's form?
Click here to see all the fabulous photos of the event.
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I think a lot of gay men have a love/hate relationship with Broadway. What is happening in the state of affairs of Broadway today? Do we really need stars to sell a show? Can't a show just be good and people will come see it? Do we really need Rosie or Usher to fill the house?
Today we have comedy couple Smith and Grimm in the house to defend the title to their show "Give Our Retards To Broadway." Are they insulting mentally challenged people or Broadway performers? You decide.
Well, we put their talent to the test and these guys certainly passed with their intro song for the Feast of Fools. We hope you like it too.
Lots of live cabaret music on today's show including "Ya'll I Saw His Balls" a country styled song that about the shock and awe of seeing someone's scrotum peek out from under his shorts. So be careful around these two and don't make them angry or they will immortalize you in song. And they sing a Christmas song about Balls as well. Hmm I think I am noticing a theme here-balls, balls and more balls.
Jim talks about his experience as performer aboard a cruise ship. And in case you missed it because Marc's joke got all stepped on-He thinks lesbians are inherently lazy and that's why they like to go on cruises and sit and watch the leaves change because they want the leaves to do all the work.
Attention Chicago Area Listeners! Listen for details on how you can win tickets to see Smith and Grimm in concert at the Lakeshore Theater this Saturday night, Dec. 9th. Come hang out with Fausto and Marc and enjoy the show. Oh, and Smith and Grimm are both single so stay after the show and get some digits.
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Give Our Retards to Broadway, starring Smith & Grimm: Buy Tickets Here.
Do you know how to survive growing up in a rich and famous Hollywood family? I know it's probably not your concern, but just suppose you were someone like Drew Barrymore or Liza Minnelli. What would you do? Would you be any better adjusted than they are?
On today's show we have author, food critic, founder of the famous "Night of a Hundred Drag Queens" and school teacher, Rick Karlin, in the house to discuss his new book, "Show Biz Kids." Rick's book follows the lives of six children growing up in Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” with all its hidden desires and intrigues. These children of celebrities in turn grow up to be celebrities themselves.
It's a wonderfully campy story set against the backdrop of historic events such as the JFK assasination, Stonewall and the Bicentennial Celebration. The book traces the outrageous follies as the kids try to step out of the shadow of their famous parents and become true to themselves.
The characters, although celebrities, come from varied backrounds, races, genders and sexual orientations. They all share a yearning to express themselves. How they transform their lives and come to terms with their identities is the importnat message of this book.
Attention Chicago Area Listeners! Go see author Rick Karlin tonight at Big Chicks at 5024 N Sheridan Road. RIck is going to read some of his book at our good friend Scott Free's Homolatte, a night of queer words and music.
Shoot first, ask questions later. Sometimes you wonder what's going on in GLBT journalism circles when you hear about the whole misunderstanding with Carol Channing. You may have missed it since the Rosie-Kelly-Clay tiff took so much of the queer tabloid's mindshare. Well, we'll give an inside look into the whole affair.
On today's fabulous podcast, our good NYC pal John Q Sanchez joins Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós, to talk about the recent Carol Channing debacle.
Carol Channing had been interviewed by writer Kaizaad Kotwal for the Gay People's Chronicle who asked her why she thought she had such a large and loyal gay fan base. According to the article she was quoted as saying "I don't think about them. I'm grateful that they seem to like me. They're terribly loyal to me. But I'm knee-deep in the Bible, and you know what it says about that."
Boy you can imagine the response. Carol Channing has had a long and colorful acting career and was one of the most outspoken celebrities to stand up for gay men and HIV/AIDS causes. So it seemed a bit odd to a lot of people.
So the gay biweekly Los Angeles Magazine gave her a rebuttal interview where she tried to dispel the notion that she's had a change of heart on gays.
In the rebuttal Channing said "I never said that! I've never read anything in the Bible about being gay, or at least I haven't read that part. But it is true that I don't think about them in that way. They are gay. Who cares? The Bible says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Even though she's trying to explain her views, she still comes across as someone who really likes her new found religion and her bible. I wonder what her pal Elton John, who has recently came out of the "I hate religion" closet, has to say to her about all that.
Why is it that children and the elderly love their religion? Is it that they are closer to dealing with death (recently born, soon to die), that in their minds the world is very uncertain or what?
So now the damage is done. The JC Penney Carol Channing Ventriloquist Dummy had originally sold for $49.99 has been slashed down to $39.99 and now is going for $29.99. Gay men are buying the cheap dolls and burning them in effigy, and let me tell you the dolls do not look pretty melting in the flames.
So join us as we chat about Carol Channing, her impersonators, celebrity vomiting trend including "The Chunder from Down Under" from Elton John and Paris Hilton's vodka induced on-stage yak fest, gay life in Australia, the low ratings of Madonna's concert on NBC, Orgasms for Peace, more news about the package from Thailand, and Josephine Baker.
The flavor just lasts a little bit longer on the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
If you didn't help to cook the meal, you don't get to eat. Those harsh words echo the sentiment Marc Felion, myself and a lot of other openly gay media types share when it comes to our closeted counterparts.
We made a personal sacrifice by coming out, but we have also benefited. By coming out early in our careers we have seen the positive impact it's had on our personal lives and our communities.
And then there are closeted gay people who despite the money, despite the power and comfort refuse to come out. Why?
We sympathize with the fear they have. We understand that their careers will be changed by sharing this very personal matter with the world, but they don't get to reap the benefits of those who have made the sacrifice to come out. They do not get to put pictures of themselves online to solicit sex. They do not get to send sexy emails to high school lacrosse players. There is no having one's cake and eating it too without the contempt and retribution of the media.
Now, we are not saying we at the Feast of Fools would out someone, but we would certainly report someone outing somebody else. So, for example, if we had sex with say someone like sexy Jake Gyllenhall, we would not out him. But, if he had sex with someone else and then they outed him. Well, there would be hell to pay! We'd never forgive him.
Marc came up with a good metaphor- "If you didn't help cook the meal, you don't get to eat." We also propose that many closeted gay men lack the full range of experience, emotion and sexual fulfillment out there because of their hidden status. They become stuck in a less mature mode of operation and by coming out they can become who they truly need to be.
Listen to today as Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós (thats me) talk about funky flavored sodas, why Swedes trust IKEA more than the church, and why some pop stars should never bother with the whole celebrity game.
Happy World AIDS Day everyone! Today we give thanks to all our friends living with HIV/AIDS who are still here to talk about it, the the progress made with health care and treatment and the way this terrible disease forced America to come face to face with its homophobia.
At the same time we remeber those who are no longer with us and the long road ahead to overcoming this terrible disease. The Feast of Fools wish you a very blessed World AIDS Day and hope that this year will be the last.
Oh no she didn't! We all watched the car-wreck on our Tivo's as the awkward pairing of Clay Aiken with Kelly Ripa turned for the worst when a frustrated Clay put his hands on Kelly's mouth so he could ask a question to the guests.
Kelly responded by saying "Thats a no-no, I don't know where those hands have been." Which was funny and they got over it and moved on.
Then the following Monday Rosie O'Donnel on the View said that Kelly's comments were "homophobic" and if a straight guy or an attractive guy would have done the same she would have reacted differently. Ouch.
So of course Kelly calls in and the whole group of women have a lovely time talking about gay issues and talk-show propriety all the while Clay Aiken is nowhere to be seen.
Knowing full well what it feels like to be on a talk show where you can't get a word in edgewise, I know the frustration Clay Aiken must have felt at that point in time. But that's what commercial breaks are for. I personally thought it would have been best for him to turn to Kelly and say "Am I doing okay? Because I don't feel like I'm getting much of a chance to ask my own questions on the show, and I would really like to do so."
Listen to today's show as our lovely Miss Ronnie weighs in to talk about talk shows and celebrity bytchfights, Kelly Ripa's hot husband Mark Consuelo, the cancellation of the Big Booty Contest and Prince Harry's Spiderman bedsheets.
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If you're lucky, your mom breast-fed you. But if you're not chances are you're ok. So why do it?
Breast-feeding is one of those generous loving acts a mother and child can do that creates a special bond and helps give an infant what they need to build strong immune systems, teeth, and bones.
But oddly enough all through the 50s, 60s and 70s doctors were telling women not to breast-feed their kids and women were believing them.
On today's show my lovely mom Patricia Fernós joins us to talk about breast-feeding, her experience in being a La Leche League leader for over a decade, the breast-milk bank and the issues surrounding healthcare, the environment and child-rearing, with hilarious results.
Remember when we told you yesterday about the Brazilian lady who claimed her cat gave birth to pups? New DNA evidence removes any doubt about the possibility, but illustrates the appetite for outlandish news to distract us from the painful front pages, and the mess in the middle east.
Man do I love to eat. And how do I love to cook! Nothing puts me in a good mood like Thanksgiving leftovers. This year we had a blast making vegetarian harvest loaf, free-range turkey, fructose-free cranberry sauce, organic green beans, and Marc's special apple streudel. We can hardly walk.
My mom's fear that we made too much food was for nothing since today I am eating the last of the leftovers. As the Nestle Quick Bunny used to say in spanish "Que triste es cuando se acaba!" (How sad it is when it's all gone).
On today's post-thanksgiving podcast, Miss Steinstein joins us once again to feast on leftovers, of all kinds. Lots of cruelty free animal news- why pengins are the new frogs, "hands of the gay sheep" says Martina, and the miraculous brazilian cat that gave birth to puppies.
Every time you tell a friend about the Feast of Fools, a drag queen gets her wig.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Angel and the Reruns - Just Released!: CD Baby
We are bringing sexy back. Where did it go? Why did it leave? We don't know, but we need it now more than ever and we're working double time to bring it back.
On today's delicious Feast of Fools podcast, our purple-powered-pal Amanda Steinstein joins us to talk about her glamorous celebrity friends and her recent business trip to California.
Somebody in the U.K. really loves the new James Bond film. So much in fact, he's changing his name to all the films titles in a row, framed by the name James Bond.
To clarify, that is-
James Dr No From Russia With Love Goldfinger Thunderball You Only Live Twice On Her Majesty's Secret Service Diamonds Are Forever Live And Let Die The Man With The Golden Gun The Spy Who Loved Me Moonraker For Your Eyes Only Octopussy A View To A Kill The Living Daylights Licence To Kill Golden Eye Tomorrow Never Dies The World Is Not Enough Die Another Day Casino Royale Bond.
Although we think this is just a cheap publicity stunt thought up by the movie studio to promote the new 007 film, we think its still a great idea.
I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone changes their name to:
Madonna Vision Quest Desperately Seeking Susan Shanghai Surprise Who's That Girl? Bloodhounds of Broadway Dick Tracy Shadows and Fog A League of Their Own Body of Evidence Dangerous Game Blue in the Face Four Rooms Girl 6 Evita The Next Best Thing Star Swept Away Veronica Louise Ciccone Ritchie
or
Cher Chastity Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean Silkwood Mask The Witches of Eastwick Suspect Moonstruck Mermaids Faithful Tea with Mussolini In the Pink Bono.
I wonder what name would one of our listeners change their name to?
On today's most fabulous show we talk about the worlds longest names and why people use them. Copyright laws in Japan and details on how you can spend a glamorous day in drag with Amanda Steinstein for the filming of the new Mystech's video. [Running time 49:57]
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Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
The holiday season, because it's tied to religious activities can be both a great source for joy and pain for many people, especially gay men. Today we look back at another classic show where we talked to the remarkable singer/songwriter Levi Kreis about his music career and the reconciliation of his religion with his sexuality.
[Originally posted on March 17, 2006.]
Levi Kreis is nice. A childhood musical prodigy, his parents were blown away when at the tender young age of six he learned to play "Pomp and Circumstance" after coming home from his kindergarten graduation.
Levi spent most of his life honing his fine singing voice and musical skills, as well as dealing with being a gay man. It wasn't easy for him. In junior high he secretly went to Exodus Ministries, hoping they would be able to "cure" him of being gay. When he came out in college, he was kicked out of his dorm room and lost a lucrative recording contract with a Christian music label.
Levi's story has a happy ending. Nowdays Levi travels with his good pal Eric Himan around playing their catchy acoustic music in venues all around the nation. He's out and proud and rocking out!
Levi helped compose the theme music for the show "Southern Baptist Sissies" and has his first single "I Should Go" in rotation on scattered radio stations throughout the country, and it was selected to be the theme song for the long-awaited reuniting of two characters on NBC's "Days of Our Lives." Soon after, CBS's "Young and the Restless" (or Y&R for you soap-addicts) debuted another track off Levi's album entitled "Hardly A Hero."
We'd like to think that Levi is a modern day, sexy, non-cheesy version of the 80's crooner Christopher Cross.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Levi Kreis, a deeply passionate, soulful and sensual man - it's no coincidence that this show's number is TWO-SIX-NINE! (As comedy legend Frank Nelson would say: "Oh yes.")
Rock and roll all night and party every day with the Feast of Fools.
Featured DVD:
Frailty - Starring Matthew McConaughey, directed by Bill Paxton (features Levi Kreis as a young Matthew) buy it on Amazon
Featured Music:
Levi Kreis - One of the Ones: iTunes | CD Baby | Site
We really do love Ru-Paul. Today we dust off an old chestnut and no, not RuPaul s-himself, but one of our earliest shows from waaay back in 2005. This phony crank call got many people speculating weather the Supermodel known as RuPaul really was suffering from manic depression. Was this all a ruse?
With respect and apologies to the "little black girl from the brewster projects" we re-post this classic Feast of Fools podcast with Berbacia Clemmons playing the role RuPaul.
[Originally Posted on August 8, 2005.]
It's easy to find celebrities' home phone numbers listed in the phone book. They often forget to have their numbers removed, even though the service is free.
On todays show, Fausto and Marc pay a suprise phone call to the "little girl from the Brewster Projects" who in the early 90's skyrocketed to the top of the charts with her hit song "Supermodel" -Ru Paul Charles.
Unfortunately, we got a little more than we bargained for, since RuPaul was a handfull on the phone.
PLUS: New info reveals that Marilyn Monroe had a lesbian affair with Joan Crawford, controversy over minstrel drag queens, and Dwayne Speaks finally makes it to Seattle, Washingon.
I have only one thing to say to you: you bettah listen to the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We have so much to be thankful for. Number one, we have the delightful charming chanteur Jim Verraros in the house once again to help us remember the true meaning of Thanksgiving.
But before you stuff your goose, turkey or tofurkey, before you get your best friend a RED Feast of Fools t-shirt for the holidays, it's time to reflect on what is good and fabulous in our lives.
Listen to Jim, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós talk about a Thai zoo's recycling of Panda dung into souvenirs, girls with knifes and the fact that 400,000 people in the U.K. declared "Jedi" as their religion during in the 2001 census.
The act of people delcaring themselves as religious Jedi's illustrate the fact that many religions use fiction as a way of gathering followers and spreading their message, no matter what that message is.
Fiction is a BIG part of religion, since myth and faith are closely intertwined.
We just hope they stay on whatever the opposite side of the Dark side of the force is. What is it anyway? The Light side of the force? Is George Lucas their POPE?
These are things we didn't know we wanted to know, but now that we know about them, we want to find out!
Listen for a sneak preview of Jim's new up and coming album! What's it like to have deaf parents? What common word do non-native speakrs make when they are trying to sign the word lunch? You wont belive it. (HINT: the photo above is the common mistake people make when trying to sign LUNCH.)
There is always room for a little more FOF.
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
Art abuse has to stop! Besides the truly awful and inane shows they put out on a regular basis, these people churn out abuse wherever they can to whomever they may please.
I'm not talking about "Dancing with the Stars."
We're talking about Barnum and Bailey Circus and their cruel treatment on animals, particularly elephants.
The "circus with the smell" gouges elephants with bull hooks to coerce them into performing all sorts of tricks they would never want to do otherwise. They beat them into a state of fear and keep them in terrible conditions until the next show where they perform yet again to crowds of whiney kids and miserable adults.
I've seen shows and the feeling you get when you see an elephant reluctantly lumber onto the stage makes me sick. Now, I've seen a lot of theatrical productions where the actors were almost on the same level, but the difference is when their show was over, they got to go home to their Wicker Park lofts and smoke pot. These elephants live in cramped environments against their will.
Our good friend, Mike Brazell, works full time with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (P.E.T.A.) to get local municipalities to change their laws to prevent exactly this type of animal abuse. Pictured on the right is our Miss Ronnie feeding Mike a delicious vegan dessert from the Chicago Diner.
Visit Circuses.com to learn more about how you can stop elephants from being tortured in your own back yard.
UPDATE: Here is the link to Thomas Edison electrocuting an elephant. Warning! This will give you nightmares, and is very violent. [During the early part of last century, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison had a tense rivalry, traveling the country promoting the benefits and dangers of AC vs. DC power. As part of the scare tactics against Alternating Current, Edison’s employees used to electrocute animals, including this elephant.]
Last time Mike Brazell came on the show, podcasting journalist and soy candle maker Mike Hipp shared his many opinions on vegetarianism saying such things as "Humans have canine teeth. Canine teeth are there to pierce and tear flesh. If we weren't designed to need animal protein to survive then we wouldn't have them."
Not long after this episode aired, Mike Hipp chose to become a vegetarian. So of course we had to call him up and ask if listening to the show made him go veggie.
Although we ourselves love to eat all sorts of delicious foods including animals, we feel that Americans don't get enough fruits and vegetables in their diet and would encourage anyone to try for a while to go veggie.
No animals were hurt during the making of the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be: iTunes | Amazon
Audiences loved to hate his confrontational nature of the TV show and it was all an act.
On today's show Tyler Wilson Duckworth (that's TWD for you hip folks) comes to talk about how orchestrated reality TV shows are and the consequences of being portrayed as a gay villain on TV.
Listen in as we explore the sexy and empowering side of gay athleticism, what you can do to get on MTV's Real World, tips on how gay men can seduce straight men and one simple thing you can do in the morning to lose weight.
For a sexy gay villain, Tyler's just full of good advice.
Check out the Tyler Duckworth photo gallery we made.
The podcast that not only looks good on your iPod, it sounds delicious- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
My babies are coming home! These two talented ladies, I mean fellas on the show today are so much a part of my past.
Way back in the day, when the Feast of Fools was just a pipe dream, gender queer performer Johnny T and my homies down in Austin Texas were busy shaking things up with ACT-UP and later on with the Lesbian Avengers.
My friends and I did so many fund-raisers, demonstrations and actions with the Lesbian Avengers that they made me an "honorary lesbian" and taught me how to eat fire. Being an "honorary lesbian" is a title I still hold near and dear to my heart.
Our other guest, Gremlin spent half a decade helping to stage manage the live Feast of Fools shows and keeping things rolling smoothly in a very bumpy rough and tumble live theater show.
Today they are working with eight other talented women as the Sordid Collective on a show called "The Lola Project."
The Lola Project is a collaborative year long performance project that narrates the experience of working class imigrants in Chicago in the 1920's, put together as a silent montage of songs that ties gender, race and class into a burlesque show... with sexy results, of course.
Marc Felion and I are planning to go see Friday's show and we recommend that you all go see it as well because it's bound to be a lot of fun. Listen to today's show to find out details on how you can win a pair of tickets to Fridays show!
Whatever you want, you will get on the Feast of Fools.
An haunting, lingering feel from the free flu-shots we had last week is leaving Marc and me off-center. Help!
Call on Miss Ronnie to the rescue. What better way to expel the bad spirits that surround us than with little chicken blood sacrifice? Don't tell P.E.T.A.
But what better way to fight a botched flu vaccination than with Santeria? Isn't the flu vaccine made from chicken eggs?
On today's santeria-cast, our in-house Santeria priestess Miss Ronnie (you DO know she's a Santeria priestess don't you?) joins us to talk about surviving bullets and nails in being shot into your head and weather a burrito a sandwich or not.
"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred toward gay people," John said in the Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine. "Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays."
"But there are so many people I know who are gay and love their religion," he said. "From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate."
Maybe his approach is throwing out the baby with the bath-water, but this is one ugly baby. You know, the baby from the film "It's Alive" that ate all the people.
The only podcast that is hotter than a bowl of chili with a big slice of cornbread- the Feast of Fools.
Dressing up in drag is like eating a potato chip- you can't do it just once. The enticing nature of dressing up in drag appeals to everyone because it's a whole lot of fun.
The language of drag is one of those traditions that still stays true to its roots, despite its embrace by Hollywood and politicians alike in the past decade. Put on the wig, put on the heels, the makeup, the dress, and presto-chango, you're a drag queen.
It's a quick way for someone who lacks visual appeal to instantly get a lot of attention. It's also not a very imaginative way to do it. When drag works, everyone is having a good time, especially the performer. When drag doesn't work it just looks like someone couldn't come up with a better excuse of why we are looking at them.
I don't buy the whole concept "everyone is in drag." Just as I don't buy that you're a diva just because you say you are. The title is something earned, not bought.
I always cringe when I hear people say "Do you DO drag?" since to me drag isn't an action, it's a style of dress and performance. You don't DO rock, you play rock. You dress in costume, you don't DO a costume. (Unless you're into plushies)
On today's Feast of Fools, our in-house costumed crusader Sal-E joins Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós, to compare and contrast the show "Drag" a deconstruction of people's personal ideas of drag now playing at the Neo-Futurarium and Paper Doll Drag Revue, a drag show that happens every Thursday night at Mary's Attic, just blocks away from the show.
If you REALLY want to super-soak yourself in drag go see both shows on the same night (Thursday is pay what you can) and compare the academic way the Neo-Futurairum treats drag versus the gritty way the girls at Mary's Attic do it. Both shows won't cost much.
Pictured above is Vanity Fair looking at Lauren Jacobs' shoes backstage before going on to lip-sync "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun." You can just see the joy in their eyes at looking at each other in costume backstage.
Fall is in full swing and most of the leaves in Chicago are all over the freakin' place, so Marc and I decided to take the show out of the house and go see a play in our neighborhood.
Join Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós as we walk around in our neighborhood and talk about getting our free flu shots from a scary looking doctor, Rick Santorum, cooking pumkin seeds, mexican spicy candy, more talk about the election, and listener's woes about their iPod not being able to play our show!
So we whooped ass, now what? Marc and I sat at the Howard Brown Annual Gala last week as Gov. Blagojevich promised the good people of Illinois UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE if he got re-elected. And he's been re-elected. So today begins the clock towards Universal Health Care in Illinois. Day #1 without Universal Health Care. Lets see what happens.
Our therapist friend Jeff Stahl joins us to talk about the ramifications of putting former dictator Saddam Hussein to death for war crimes, Rumsfeld's resignation, heterosexual icons for gays and the nature of political equilibrium.
Pictured above is now ousted violently anti-gay Senator Rick Santorum weeping for losing the election to a almost equally conservative Democrat. [Thanks to Aaron Cockroft for telling us about the photo!] Makes you happy to see this image, doesn't it?
The euphoria of an intoxicating drink without the hangover- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
People, we are going to whoop some ass! I am feeling so good about the election results.
The American public, fed up with the meaningless war in Iraq and with the sexual hypocrisy of conservative Republicans, spoke loud and clear yesterday and voted them out! This is way more exciting than watching American Idol.
Sing along! "So you had a bad day..."
Democrats have taken the power away from the Republicans in the House of Representatives, and made some serious gains in the Senate.
Bush better get his plane ticket to Brazil ready.
So today we rejoice, because the horribly misshapen Rick Santorum is out of a job as Senator. I refuse to pay attention to the harsh reality that he's been replaced by a slightly less hateful Democratic counterpart.
Arnold, Rod, Hillary and Joseph kept their jobs, you decide weather thats a good thing or not.
Unfortunately, anti-gay marriage amendments were passed almost anywhere they could be, because straight people were worried that us gays would ruin the institution that they so hold in such high regard.
Speaking of which, Brittney Spears just filed D-I-V-O-R-C-E papers today. 24 years old, twice married, twice divorced, and FOR the War in Iraq. And she puts her babies on her lap when she drives a car without a seat-belt. And WE can't get married?
How does one follow up winning the Gong Show? By becoming a chorus girl in film Xanadu, of course!
Or even better, by writing two kick ass books Girl Power and Queen of the Oddballs. But the best follow up is being on the Feast of Fools podcast. Ahem.
Singer, actor and juggler Hillary Carlip in the 1970's dazzled American audiences with her delightful juggling act where she created a gesture for certain key words in her original song, which was played by an unknown at the time Michael Feinstein.
Through the years, Hillary has created many "alter-egos" as a way of getting her foot in the door of a very competitive entertainment industry. One of her alter ego's a time was "Angel and the Reruns" an all-girl, ex-con band that sang songs inspired by old TV reruns.
Listen as Hillary dishes talks about growing up in Hollywood, stalking Carol King and Carly Simon, cruising for hot women on the set of Xanadu and being on the Oprah show, before Oprah had her religious awakening.
Visit Hillary's MySpace page to see the video of her 1970s appearance on the Gong Show that won her the grand prize. She had some tough competition- a chicken lady and the undiscovered disco diva Cheryl Lynn.
Entertainment Weekly says: "Hillary Carlip has lived a life that would make Leonard Zelig jealous. It's not everyone who can claim to have won The Gong Show and seen John Cusack in acne medication."
Visit Freshyarn.com an online salon for personal essays. Every month, FRESH YARN presents six new pieces of personal essays from various authors who otherwise work as directors, producers, artists, and performers.
Doogie Howser is gay! What's a Doogie Howser? I was awaken by the news from my friend Nic Tips on Saturday morning over the phone with a sense of urgency that reminded me of a leader being informed that Russia had launched the bombs.
It seems since we started doing this podcast back in February of 2005, the whole world has gone gay- • George Takei (Sulu from Star Trek) • Lance Bass (NySync singer) • RJ Helton (from American Idol) • TR Knight (Star of Grey’s Anatomy) • James Lipton (Inside the Actor's Studio)
• Jim McGreevey (Creepy politician) • Rep. Mark Foley (Another creepy politician)
• Rev. Ted Haggard (still another creepy evangelist)
and now Neil Patrick Harris the actor well known for playing the medical whiz kid Doogie Howser on TV. And by inference, his longtime partner David Burtka has also come out.
Have we really had that much of an impact?
What's in the air out there that has caused so many gay men to want or be forced to come out recently? Are we missing anyone from this list?
Because there are so many closeted celebrities and politicians coming out we need to add the letter "C" to the Gay Alphabet, making it GLBTQC.
On today's FOF Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós talk about a little black swan that fell in love with a giant swan-shaped boat and how German zoo officials are making plans to keep the couple together for life, the issues and challenges of taking care of the developmentally disabled and the "WonderJock" a new mens underwear that lifts and seperates.
Click on the extended entry for the Feast of Fools CODE OF CONDUCT for CLOSETED GAY CELEBRITIES, POLITICIANS and other hidden homos in positions of power.
The podcast that comes with extra sauce and a whole lot of cheese- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
Good things do come in small packages. Even better, we like it when big things come in small packages. We love to see attractive people squeezing into tight fitting RED Feast of Fools t-shirts!
Today we conclude Marc Felion's trip to England with his backstage interviews at TrannyShack done at London's Soho Revue Bar, formerly known as Too2Much with of some of the area's most outlandish and memorable drag queens.
Listen as Marc talks to a Dutch drag queen Vanilla Lush, who isn't into dykes an ex-pat drag queen from the original Trannyshack in San Francisco, Suppository Spelling and a super Euro-trash musician Dusty O.
Dusty used to hang with Boy George in the 80s and found herself portrayed in his musical about Leigh Bowery's life "Taboo." She had much to say about intellectual property rights among drag queens and the problems with impersonation, imitation and stealing.
Click here to see pictures of Marc's visit to the UK and the drag queens at TrannyShack.
If you listen to the Feast of Fools podcast often enough, your face will look fabulous.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be: iTunes | Amazon
Boy did we have a good time on Halloween this year! Marc had decided early on to dress as a crook, a villain inspired by the wacky Batman TV show from the 1960s, and I was hopelessly trying to figure out what to wear.
So I went to the Halloween superstore looking for a cowboy outfit that would work well in warm weather, and found nothing of the sort. So my second choice was to be a vampire, but the costumes there simply looked like crap. One outfit that stood out to me was the "King of the Knighthood" because it looked wacky and inspired from the fabulous Camelot musical that is such a hit on Broadway these days.
But I wanted to be a vampire! I was resourceful and combined the vampire teeth with the king's robe and it was a hit! Marc and I walked up and down the Halloween parade spreading the FOF gospel and talking to the fans out in the streets.
But those darn fangs. I felt more like a hillbilly crack dealer than a vampire, so I started talking like Gomer Pyle, asking the confused people of Chicago if they wanted a slice of apple pie.
Listen to todays show as Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion and me your true blue pal Fausto Fernós talk about our not-so-frightening Halloween experiences, news that will REALLY scare you, Korean closet queens, and voting on November 7th.
Congratulations to all the nominees for "Best Podcast" both locally at the Chicago Free Press and Internationally at the Gay Bloggies! So start practicing for Nov 7th by voting for us today!
Click here to see pictures of Marc and Fausto at Chicago's Halloween Parade.
Every time you vote for the Feast of Fools, a drag queen gets her wig.
A show so nice we had to post it twice. {Originally posted on Oct. 3, 2005.}
Everything you ever wanted to know about putting on makeup to look like a drag queen but were afraid to ask!
Listen to our fabulous NYC correspondent Miss Understood as we chat on over the telephone about how to put on makeup, as well as a ton of other things like drug abuse, Craigs List rants, and Puerto Rican superstar Iris Chacon.(She was big in the late 70's).
COMING SOON: An in-depth hour-long interview with Dante's Cove star Charlie David! And yes, he's met Smallville's Tom Welling. And we got to talk to his roommate. Find out who he is.
How would you feel if your parents dressed you up as Aunt Jemima? Now how would you feel if you were a six year old BOY and your parents dressed you up as that? Granted, it was the 1950s, but making your son cross-dress in a minstrel-styled breakfast themed outfit is a bit too much.
We have to take his word for it that it was his parents idea but I have a sneaking suspition that it may have been his only means of cross-dressing in that era. Yes, six year olds do like to cross dress. We saw it on 60 Minutes.
On today's spooky podcast, Fausto and I talk about Aunt Jemima, racism and corporate logos and embrassaing Halloween costumes.
We also have some on location interviews with the Trannies at Trannyshack in at the premier club Too2Much in London. Listen as I talk with Glendora about her life in drag, riding poles and the English fascination with sploshing.
Say tuned for some more of the girl's from Tranny shack later this week, including an American girl, Suppositori Spelling who is living large in the UK and Dusty "O" a collegue of Boy George who has dirt to dish and some explaining to do about how they stole Trannyshack from an American Drag Queen.
Listen as my wonderful host Wayne, a Canadian living in London, takes us on a soundseeing tour of the infamous Jack the Ripper's hunting grounds. Listen to creepy slums of London as we encounter rats and zombies(tourists) in their quest to find the legacy of Jack the Ripper.
Click here to see pictures of Marc's trip to the UK.
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
FOF #418 - Reality as a Form of Perspective - 10.30.06
How would you deal with the sudden and random death of your lover?
In 1995 I had moved to Chicago to go to graduate school and knew almost no-one. One of my close friends at school, William Gaudiani was a beautiful, intelligent, funny, young man with a new future in graphic design. We had always made plans to meet his boyfriend Jeff Stahl but school and work got in the way and decided to have dinner together after the winter break.
When I got back from Puerto Rico that January, I called William to see how his holidays were, when his partner Jeff picked up the phone and told me that William had died in a car accident on his way home from Indiana- his car slipped on a patch of ice, tumbled and he died on the spot.
At first I thought this was some sort of odd joke William was playing on me, but after an hour on the phone I realized it was no joke. And I was floored. I wasn't ready for William to be out of my life, and made it a point to get to know his surviving partner Jeff. We became close friends in the memory of my friend and his lover William.
Eleven years later, many things have changed. Jeff now works as a therapist helping others deal with all sorts of issues, including sudden loss. Listen to today's walk through memory lane as we talk with my partner Marc Felion about kissing and passion, growing up poor on Chicago's South Side, coping with death, caramel apples and reality as a form of perspective.
Like a candy apple: delicious, sweet and nutty- its the Feast of Fools.
FOF #417 - The Jim Verraros Comedy Hour - 10.27.06
American Idol finalist Jim Verraros holds the distinction of being the first person to come out as gay on the show. He was never in the closet.
Before RJ admitted it, before Clay denied it, there was the one and only Jim Verraros. Jim was going to college downtown when a friend suggested he try out for the television show, which at the time was unknown what a hit it was going to be. He just walked and sang his way into the top ten, next to Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini.
Placing 9th on the first season, Jim was one of the most talked about contestants to ever appear on American Idol. Because he was raised by deaf parents, he is fluent in American Sign Language. As a child, Jim ironically excelled in singing and acting at a very early age so much that the school's music teachers had the task of explaining his talent to his parents who were naturally unaware of Jim’s abilities.
When you meet Jim face to face, you get a sense like you've known him all along. Warm and embracing, he's the kind of person who you would have been best friends with in high school.
On today's show Jim joins Gregg Shaprio, Marc Felion and me your true blue pal Fausto Fernós to talk about the sacrifices and benefits of being out gay man in the music and film industry.
Jim comes to talk about his new film, "Eating Out Two: Sloppy Seconds" a bedroom face about where queer youth try to find sex. Although these new type of films owe a lot to the works of the great John Waters, they share a common thread with films like "Porky's" and "American Pie" in their sophomorphic goofiness and superficial sex escapades. It's fun, like eating cotton candy, but it's mostly sugar. Did we mention there's full frontal nudity in the film?
Jim has been keeping busy this past year working on a follow up to his album "Rollercoaster" which he collaborated with Gabe Lopez. Some of the songs have a catchy disco groove like "I Want You" and others get darker and sexier with the irresistible "So Deep." So go buy it here, right now.
Click here to check out our photos taken of us with Jim Verraros. Click here to visit Jim Verraros' website.
ATTENTION CHICAGO LISTENERS: Come to the opening night screening of "Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds" and meet Jim Verraros (we'll also be there) in person!
November 2, 7:15pm Music Box Theatre:3733 N. Southport Ave
Featured Music:
Jim Verraros - Rollercoaster: iTunes | Amazon | Site
Put the FOF player on your MYSPACE page, homepage or blog and we'll give you a shoutout: •Jim Verraros •Noé Velasco •Jaime
(Be sure to send us an email to let us know.)
People, the November 7th election is just around the corner and it looks like it's going to be a great big shakedown.
One of the most fabulous and gay friendly politicians in Chicago, my personal favorte politician Rep. Sara Feigenholtz joins us today to talk about how you can get motivated to create change not just in your community, but everywhere.
Taking the personal and making it political, Sara fights for gay rights, the rights of women to control their biological destinies, and for people who were adopted to find their biological parents.
On today's show Ronnie, Marc and I talk with Rep. Feigenholtz about her personal tale of finding her biological mother, and how it impacted her work as a politician. Also the fighting for health care and the FDA, and the hope for a better tomorrow. Will Barack Obama run for President? Listen and see.
Click here to learn more about Rep. Sara Feigenholtz.
Informing you and entertaining you by any means necessary- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Put the FOF player on your MYSPACE page, homepage or blog and we'll give you a shoutout: •Mike from Boilingbrook •Noé Velasco •Jaime
(Be sure to send us an email to let us know.)
Who knew that men who work in Mortuaries were so hot? Kamm Cares, a non-profit breast cancer survivor group recently came up with a macabre yet titillating hunk calendar of real sexy men who work in mortuaries.
One of the captions for Mr. August (David Fisch) reads "After discussing it with his mother, David felt that the calendar was a great idea. His aunt had breast cancer, and he felt that this would be a great way to help. [Besides being a full time mortuary director] His hobbies include weight-lifting and bodybuilding."
Pictured to the right is a part of the cover of the calendar that has David along with eleven other men looking quite dashing, posing with a funeral casket, shovels and ropes lowering what is presumed to be the recently deceased into the ground.
Listen to today's show as our good friend Matt Simonette joins my husband Marc Felion and me, your true blue pal Fausto Fernós to talk about the new Russian Vodka museum, the consideration of the Dutch government hiring sex workers as "entertainment" for men in the battlefield (I guess they assume all women in the military are lesbians) and tough talk on net neutrality, and why you should vote Democrat in this next election.
The podcast that is just dying to entertain you- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby| Site
The Broadband - God Save the Internet: SITE
Put the FOF player on your MYSPACE page, homepage or blog and we'll give you a shoutout: •Mike from Boilingbrook •Noé Velasco •Casey
(Be sure to send us an email to let us know.)
My lovely husband Marc Felion is back in town, Miss Ronnie is in the house, and I'm feeling quite fabulous myself, thank you! I missed Marc so much, it really was a dark time for me personally not having his sunshine around to warm my heart.
Special thanks to Shannon and Nic who have given me so much love during the time he was away.
This past week a gazoogle of gays just came out of the closet to the point we can hardly keep up. The very snuggable TR Knight from ABC's hit show Grey's Anatomy came out, RJ Helton from American Idol came out and Geroge Michael came out as a pot lover, smoking a joint on national television, to nobody's suprise. You go George!
Listen to Marc Felion, Miss Ronnie and me Fausto Fernós talk about Paris Syndrome, buying bullets online, stuff that makes Ronnie happy and lots of delicious Madonna bashing.
Everyone is a little bit gay every now and then on the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Ellen Rosner - The Perfect Malcontent: CD Baby | Amazon
Put the FOF playuer on your MYSPACE page, homepage or blog and we'll give you a shoutout: •Mr Right... Now •Noé Velasco •Donnie Dee
(Be sure to send us an email to let us know.)
In the early 90s cartoonist Robert Kirby simply wanted to see the romantic stories of young gay men reflected in the publishing world and to reach out to other cartoonists like himself.
He started drawing his comic titled "Curbside" and then later (along with his friend David Kelly) started putting out the zine Boy Trouble, a self-made magazine featuring the drawings many artists who wrote illustrated stories about unrequited love, the desires of young gay men and survival.
Many years before the internet brought us blogs and chat rooms, the way many gay men found each other was through the small scale world of zines.
Today Robert Kirby joins us to talk about his new book "The Book of Boy Trouble" a collection of greatest hits from the popular zine's first ten years. In addition to Robert Kirby and David Kelly, the book includes favorites like Michael Fahy’s "Valentine’s Day Love Poem," Andy Hartzell’s "Dinner at Achmed’s," and Anonymous Boy’s "The Non-adventures of Wayne," plus 24 pages of spanking new work from both regular contributors and up-and-coming talents.
Listen as Gregg Shapiro and I talk with Robert Kirby about why gay men sometimes refer to each other as boys, the internet's effect on self-publishing, and the need for a frank discussion of love and sex in gay culture.
The podcast that gets into trouble with sexy results- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
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Miss Ronnie and Sal-E break into Fausto and Marc's apartment but find an unexpected suprise.
Listen to today's podcast as we talk about the Chinese goverment's futile attempts to stamp out "Chinglish", webcam politics, and Dinsey's pledge to improve the food at all their theme parks.
I am racking my little blue brain trying to remember that Whitney Houston song where she admits that she smokes some crack (I've made some mistakes.) But what is the name of that song!?
Every time you download the Feast of Fools podcast, a flygirl gets her bling.
Put the FOF on your MYSPACE page, homepage or blog and we'll give you a shoutout: •Raequel •Brian •Donnie Dee
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Almost every single question you have ever had about Amanda Steinstein gets answered in this show, as well as every
Listen to today's show as we tackle the easy and hard questions like:
What do you say to your gay friends who hit on you when the feeling is not mutual? How do you survive if you don't agree with the values of the conservative christian community? What is the best place to come out to your parents? What is Amanda's dream job? How does Jesus influence the Feast of Fools podcast? How did Fausto and Amanda meet each other? Is the Feast of Fools patriotic? Is beauty more important than intelligence?
Is Amanda Steinstein genetically a woman? Does Fausto think Puerto Rico should be a state of the United States? People, we stir up more controversy in one podcast before 8 AM that most talk radio does in an entire day. What is the most important thing in life?
The podcast that doesn't just ask, it tells- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
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Amanda Steinstein begins the show today by singing the Hawaiian war chant in support of Hawaii and their woes with the earthquakes this past week.
We try in vain to get a hold of Amanda's dad to get on the show.
Justin Timberlake admits his music might make you consider you are gay, of course he is making all the babies he can with Cameron Diaz, in case you thought he swung that way.
Winners of the "Kama Sutra Musical" contest are announced.
The podcast that is like a broken bottle in your fight for fabulousness- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Brian Damson: Site
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Dennis Kitchen - GrooveIt: Site
Gail Ann Dorsey - Race the Light: iTunes | Amazon
Way before J-Lo, before Chita Rivera and Rita Moreno worked Broadway, before Selena, there was Iris Chacón, a latin diva who shook her booty on the stage and small screen of Puerto Rico. Her incredible proportions, her outrageous sexy dancing and latin heat made her the toast of Latin America, and in many ways set the stage for decades of hispanic drag queens all around the world.
Today John Q Sanchez and I look back on Hispanic Hertiage Month with a look at the fabulous and bootylicious Iris Chacón. Born of the decadent 1970's Iris made her fame as a showgirl in the casinos of Puerto Rico, which at the time was THE place to be on the weekend.
In Puerto Rico a lot of people including my father would LOVE to go to the Casinos, the dance halls on the weekends to dance and socialize. One of the fabulous entertainers of her time, Iris Chacón broke into mainstream success with her daytime risque cabaret show "El Show de Iris Chacón." She was so memorable to so many gay men and straight men alike!
When I started my own cable access show, the title "El Chow de Faustina" was a nod to this decadent lavish woman of Puerto Rican fame, who could never pronounce the word "SHOW."
If you're wanting to get a really fabulous present for your local drag queen, get the Carol Channing ventriolquist doll from JC Penney.
The only podcast with lots of "SAZON" and no MSG- the Feast of Fools.
Just like the show's title, Sal-E does smell delicious! He went by a local restaurant to get a bite to eat before dinner and came into the home studio wafting a delicious scent of filet mignon, escargot, garlic mashed potatoes, steam asparus and blue mojitos.
Needless to say I'm jealous.
On today's show we are proud to join the Gobal Fund's fight for AIDS with a limited run of Feast of Fools red t-shirts! For every shirt you get we'll donate 5% of the money to fighting AIDS in Africa.
These aren't your ordinary Feast of Fools t-shirts. They are made on 100% combed cotton, the sexy stretchy kind everyone looks great it. These cranberry red t-shirts look great on everyone and feel even better too! Click here to see a detail of the design.
To make the deal sweeter we're throwing in a DVD of some of our favorite shows no longer available online.
Dick and Gina were a sexually frustrated couple who thought all was lost until they accidentally stumbled upon Swami Comonawannagetonya, a magical 1800 year old creator of the ancient Hindu sexual tradition, who just by coincidence lives inside a dildo, much like genie which they discover by rubbing it.
I'm not talking about some wacky dream I had, I'm talking about the loose plot of the all-new "Kama Sutra: the Musical" which ties together seventeen deliciously corny songs about sex and sexuality like "Size Matters," "Baby, Won't You Do Me Where the Sun Don't Shine," and our personal favorite "Meet My Clitoris."
Eve Ensler is biting her fingernails as we speak in jealousy!
Kama Sutra is written by Grammy-Award winner Terry Abrahamson, who is well known for creating the 1984 Hustler Magazine ad parody "Jerry Falwell Talks About HIs First Time," which inspired the Milos Foreman film, The People vs. Larry Flynt.
On today's show Gregg Shapiro and I talk to Brian Damson, the sexy star of this fabulous new musical about the show, how he decided to portray a 1800 year old swami, working with Joan Rivers, what her daugher Melissa is really like and how he manages to maintain those powerful muscular legs of his.
Kama Sutra the Muscial runs through Dec. 31 at the Theater Building in Chicago. With shows Thursday at 7pm, Friday and Saturday at 7 & 10pm. Call 1-800-809-3075 to buy tickets (prices range from $32.50-$36.50). Brian proves to be a powerhouse of musical theater and the ticket price is worth it alone to see him work the stage.
I'm going to go see it, are you?
Listen to today's podcast to find out how you can win FREE tickets to see Kama Sutra the Musical!
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Hello there babies! The "bomba atomica" of podcasting, Miss Ronnie and me the "chupacabra" of podcasting Fausto Fernós answer your very important questions about life, love and the nature of the universe.
How do you pick up guys at the gym? Do you practice santeria? Do you belive in reincarnation? Why are nerds so hot? Listen as we answer every single question honestly and truthfully. EVERYTHING.
We taped this show spontaneously as the good people of the world instant message them as we taped the show! Put us in your buddy list: feastoffools4u
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If you ever see us online and we're taping a show, be sure to pose a question!
Don't hold back and take a big bite of the Feast of Fools podcast.
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FOF #405 - Keeping the Junk on the Inside - 10.11.06
At our live recording in West Hollywood, there was a strange sign backstage that read "No Handkerchief Dances." We were all asking ourselves, what's a handkerchief dance, and why is it illegal?
On today's show the delightful Miss Ronnie comes over to talk about the good, the bad and the ugly side of West Hollywood- dishing the dirt about all she encountered in her adventures in California.
If you could send a message to aliens in outer space, what would it be? Yahoo, THE Yahoo is celebrating their 10 year anniversary with a digital "Time Capsule" which they will transit via a powerful laser beam into outer space from the top of an ancient Mexican pyramid. We don't make this stuff up.
As outlandish as it sounds, we've already submitted Miss Ronnie's moans and groans, as well as our personal favorite Feast of Fools shows into the capsule so that space aliens can get their dose of Miss Ronnie too. In space nobody can notice one black hole from another.
If humor is a weapon, we are doing some serious damage with the Feast of Fools.
Have you been to Japan? Our lovely friend Jordan Hochstetler is living there as an exchange student, surrounding himself with Japanese people, learning the culture and the language. And he's gay. And out. So we asked Jordan to put together some audio clips of him talking about his gay experiences in Japan, but the audio quality left much to be deserved, so we kind of kidding around with his audio materials.
Dive into our special blue brand of comedy as we talk about the violent side of Buju Banton's music, why we think he's full of bull to go around saying he doesn't hate gays (no, he just writes songs about killing them and was aquitted of the charges due to his celebrity status.) More flap on Mark Foley, do bisexual men really exsist, why people have hang ups about sex and how Asian culture is changing.
Bon voyage baby! Our good friend, writer and actor Gordon West is moving to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams of being another disgruntled Starbucks employee in Beverly Hills. Just kidding Gordon!
Here at the FOF we salute those who feel compelled to move west, to see if they can make it big in Tinseltown. It's a rough gig, but L.A. is not just filled with superficial pretty boys, there are some fabulous folks who live there too. People like Buzz, Pup Don, Mike Rocco and the L.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
On today's show we give Gordon the boot out of the Windy City as we talk about Cher's auction, Bob Mackie's gowns, Bowling for Columbine, teen angst, republican backlashes, Mark Foley and hot sixteen year old lacrosse players.
Whats up with chicks and brass beds? Why do women love their brass beds?
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
We all want to go back to Disneyland! Honestly, we had so much fun in California, first at our live show at Micky's in West Hollywood, then spending the whole day at Disneyland, and then off to the Podcaster's conference and People's Choice Podcast Awards.
One of my personal highlights of the trip was seeing Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room, mostly because it had been left intact since the late 60s, only touched to repair the robotic singing parrots and orchids.
The innocence of the 16 minute revue and the naiveness of the racial stereotypes left me in hysterics and feeling like a kid again. Our good friend Mike said the look on my face was priceless.
All I wanted to see is one of the robotic birds break and catch on fire. Is that too much to ask?
I did notice that one of the birds wasn't moving, and that the orchid's robotic mouthpieces made more noise than their singing, which only added to the delight. The "Enchanted" Tiki Room is really something to see because it's still one of Disneyland's original attractions that hasn't been touched.
Listen to today's show as Sal-E and I talk to Marc Felion over the phone about podcasters, fans, strippers, California and the People's Choice Podcast Awards.
Warning! Listening to the Feast of Fools podcast can result in hysterical laughter. Listen as often as you like.
This Saturday, hundreds of people in Chicago will gather to march around the straight areas of town in order to remember the young gay college student Matthew Shepard, and the public's outrage at his brutal murder.
On today's show we'll be talking to gay activist Andy Thayer of the Gay Liberation Network about the legacy of Matthew Shepard, why and how do people take action, and why it's not a good idea to align yourself with any one political party if your goal is social change.
And of course, we'll be pontificating the impact of republican Mark Foley and his non-sexual sex scandal.
If you live in Chicago:
• FRIDAY OCT 6, 7-9pm: Sam Kosha of the PGLO (Persian Gay & Lesbian Organization) speaks about the international movement for GLBT rights in the MIddle East. Gerber Hart Library, 1127 W. Granville.
• SATURDAY OCT 7, BEGINS AT 8PM: The 8th Annual Matthew Shepard March and Rally for LGBT Freedom. March begins and ends at the corner of Halsted and Roscoe, with a screening of a film about gay liberation in Eastern Europe.
Our 400th show is finally here! Last week we taped lived at Micky's Bar in West Hollywood, California a fabulous show with the wonderfulL.A. Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, who call themselves 21st century nuns.
Listen to Amanda Steinstein's online photo tips, Miss Ronnie real world advice, Sal-E, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós entertain the beautiful fans with our special brand of Feast of Fools fabulousness.
This was Amanda Steinstein's second (and very VERY memorable) foray into podcasting. We (correctly) assumed the goverment was listening in our conversations, and in order to get their attention (and google's) we figured we'd say the keywords "terrorism" and "puppies" over and over again.
Listen to Amanda's interpretation of recently discovered ancient lesbian poetry, our recap on President Bush's fear-mongering speech (which mentions the word terrorism 34 times), Canadian Gay Marriages, and why robots are so sexy.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell led a double life in New York City in the 1990's. During the day he worked as an art director for a major advertising agency. At night, he wore a pair of acrylic breasts filled with water and live goldfish and under the name Aquadesia.
Also known as Aqua, she/he worked the audience with Miss Understood at Lucky Chang's, a popular drag-entertainment Asian restaurant in New York City. Aqua won many contests, but the wild thing about her life is the excess of her existence-booze, drugs, hooker parties, bondage freaks and a hustler boyfriend.
On the right is a Wigstock publicity photo of Josh Kilmer-Purcell as Aqua. Note the live goldfish in his costume.
On todays show we discuss his new book "I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir." Josh's book is tale of being in love with the wrong man in the wrong way. This troublesome romance starts in a drunken mess and ends, well... we don't want to give it away so you will have to read it to find out!
In Josh Kilmer-Purcell's memoir you might see the influence of his good friend James Frey, author of the highly debated book on everyone's lips: "A Million Little Pieces." Listen to Josh speak candidly about the "frey over Frey" in the publishing world, the ramification it presents to his own book, and Oprah's reaction to Frey's missteps. Thanks to our good friend Ms. Slocum for introducing us to this wonderful author.
[Originally posted on February 2, 2006.]
Delicious, pernicious and nutritious, the Feast of Fools.
As we get closer and closer to celebrating the Feast of Fools 400th podcast, Sal-E joins Marc and me to talk about the past 398 shows and whats to come.
Stay tuned next week as we post our 400th podcast episode recorded LIVE in West Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
How would you react if your mother was killed by your brother? On today's Feast of Fools we sit down to talk with former soap star turned painter and author Thom Bierdz about his new "ART-o-biographical" book "Forgiving Troy" about the healing power of forgiveness.
Listen as we talk with Thom and his boyfriend Steve Callahan about being gay in Hollywood, Thom's desicion to leave the acting world, and why Thom Bierdz is one of the few openly gay former soap actors.
See you tonight. We're putting the finishing touches for our LIVE podcast recording at Micky's in West Hollywood. Will you be there? Click here for a Yahoo map to the place. The fun starts at 8pm, so don't be late!
Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion, Miss Ronnie, Sal-E and I will all be there along with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and puppeteers Marsian De Lellis & Heather Heson (of Muppets fame.)
Although we are simply thrilled to be in Los Angeles, right now I am peeing in my pants. My favorite scary movie, Showgirls is being turned into a musical by the same people who made the original film.
The tacky costumes, the horrible dialouge, the unsexy sexy dancing and the rape scene (and the revenge scene) will all be part of the musical version of the notorious Paul Verhoven film that ruined Elizbeth Berkley's acting career and re-invigorated Gina Gershon's.
But before we rush out to buy our tickets for opening night, on today's show Amanda, Marc and I come up with some improvised possible songs they might be using in the musical. We hope you enjoy our original songs "Get the Ice" "Dancing Ain't F*cking" and "You Like Doggie Chow Too?"
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
FOF #396 - Amanda Loses Her Voice, Almost - 09.26.06
Don't get too excited. Amanda Steinstein just got back from Florida and the poor girl got a terrible cold on the plane!. Nevertheless, our Jewish diva in residence is pushing through the pain to help us homo's put out yet another fabulous award-winning Feast of Fools podcast.
Today's show begins with us opening up some very special packages from our sci-fi minded fans. We are just blown away by the crazy little murderous pepper pots that we received.
Amanda talks about all the "crazy" rules that divers have to go by. Did you know if you found a box full of treasure in a wrecked ship, your not supposed to take it? How crazy is that? I want my pieces of eight!
What do you think Madonna would like in a game of Scrabble? Well, someone in her inner circle wants you to know that she is a bitch at the game. I guess she and guy Ritchie fight over the game all the time. If I could spel, I would challenge her to a game. What's even more of a bitch is poisonous dildoes. Greenpeace has asked the EU to halt production of sex toys that are killing us with toxins.
Elizabeth Taylor, hereby known as "ET" dived with sharks. Why didn't they bite her? Professional Courtesy!
Amanda doesn't drink much, but if she did she wouldn't pass over He'brew, a beer for Jewish people or people who like Jewish... beer?
The podcast that never stops until you are satisfied-the Feast of Fools!
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Is there life on Marsian? Our delightfully wacky friend, puppetterr and modern-day Truman Capote Marsian DeLellis comes on the show to talk about puppets, studying theater at Cal Arts, gender, the war in Iraq and his friendship with Heather Henson (Yes, as in Jim Henson. She's his daughter.)
Marsian suprised me with these vintage photos of a collaboration installation we did for my MFA thesis exibition at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They didn't know what to do with us. Marsian and I drove to the suburbs to get spray paint (you can't buy it in the city) and spent two days painting this huge room SILVER and BLUE. The masks didn't work too well, but the results were fantastic. These twophotos are the only pictures I know of the installation. Thanks Marsian!
Gays on a plane just might be the best podcast ever made! Last week it was published in the New Yorker magazine a really awful story of a gay couple being seen as a terrorist threat on an airline because a steward was upset at their holding hands, kissing and snuggling on an airplane flight from Paris to New York. (Thanks to Mark Wade for the news!)
Since when was being gay such a big threat to national security?
In other news, ABC television has gone gay this week. With former Gov. Jim McGreevy and American Idol finalist Clay Aiken revealing or denying their personal stories of being gay.
But it seems that the FCC doesn't allow most words used to describe gay sex, and so when talking about it, Jim McGreevey, weather he's on Oprah or the View sounds like a bad cell phone connection.
Oh and Oprah infers that gay relations are "UNATURAL." What do you think of that?
The podcast that is free to be you and me, whenever you want it to be- the Feast of Fools podcast.
Linda Clifford is in the house! And Miss Ronnie couldn't be any happier since Linda is one of her personal divas and best of friends.
Linda is well known R&B, dance and disco singer who had great hit songs in the 70s and 80s: "Runaway Love" and "If My Friends Could See Me Now." Also a former Miss New York State, she fronted a jazz music trio before switching to R&B. In 1979-1980 she hit the Billboard Top 100 twice - peaking at #41 with "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and "Red Light." On the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart she had great success: hitting #1 eight times.
For Ronnie, Linda Clifford's song lyrics beautifully represent a woman's independence and strength and the love of the beat. Today's show features a special ONE-ON-ONE with Miss Ronnie and Linda Clifford. Listen as these two divas dish the dirt on the music industry, reflect on the legacy of Linda's music and the personal impact of AIDS on disco culture.
Also on today's show why variety is the spice of life, tacky tacky art, and half-a-million-dollar cellphones that don't play podcasts or mp3 files.
I'd like to be, under the sea in a... Oh that stupid annoying Ringo Starr/Beatles tune just wont get out of my head, and I think I like it!
Last Saturday Sal-E, Marc and I spent twelve hours gluing on rhinestones, airbrushing, and fluffing up over a dozen women for a lavish nautical themed billionaire birthday party on the south side of Chicago. And no, he didn't contribute to our travel fund. The crime!
Psssst! Hey buddy, can you keep a secret? Listen to today's show as we give you the juicy behind-the-scene details of the ultra-glamorous SECRET party that happened last weekend. Don't worry, it wasn't THAT exciting.
Whats up with secrets and marketing? It seems everyone these days is trying to get you to buy tickets to a movie, listen to a podcast or watch a tv show by telling you "It's a secret!"
Oh sister, PLEASE! When somebody tells you that they have a secret they can't tell you, it's usually because they want you to care about something that if you knew what it was, you wouldn't give a damn about. A real secret is worth hiding.
A lot of young people are seriously bummed out. So much in fact, that many of them, especially GLBT youth, want to take their own lives.
Writer and humorist Kate Bornstein found this out through meeting people in her lectures at colleges and universities and from doing her live shows.
Because Kate got a sex change twenty years ago, ze considers zirself a young woman.
ZE? No that wasn't a typo. Kate prefers to refer to refer to zirself in a whole new gender neutral pronoun: "ze."
Bornstein's writings bridge the gap between all gays, lesbians, bisexuals, trans and queer people, between man and woman, between old and young and between popular culture and academia.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is in heap of trouble, with a sexy twist. The routine process of recording audio from meetings and posting them online as mp3 files for their private staff to access has caused a major political stir when democratic staffers stumbled up them and leak them to the press.
It turns out that the talk on Arnold's private podcast is just as spicy as it is on the Feast of Fools!
On the recording, Arnold speculates about republican state Assemblywoman Bonnie García's ethnicity, talking about how "hot cubans and puertoricans are, because of all the black blood and latin blood they have."
Hate Arnold because he's a lying bigot who thinks of gays and lesbians as political bait, don't hate him because he thinks latinos are hot. Who DOESN'T think puertoricans and cubans are hot?
Join Marc and me as we talk about Madonna's desire to go into outer space, the Russian's desire to send her there, my desire to go with her and why legalizing prostitution helps curb violence, racism and nationalism.
Are these the faces of meth addicts? Fergie, well known as the female lead singer of the Black-Eyed peas, now on a solo career is suddenly talking about her struggle with crystal meth.
She says "A lot of it was being a child actor: I learned to suppress feelings."
Although her confession seems sincere, it strikes us all over here in podcastland as quite odd that anybody in the entertainment business would want to expose their former substance abuses instead of trying to cover them up.
Ronnie says it's because Fergie is trying to get some "street cred" for her new Album, whose sales are doing quite nicely. But lets face it, Fergie is no meth addict.
But if admitting you have had a drug problem helps raise your ranking on the iTunes music store then I have struggled with poppers and crack, Marc is a former coke-head and Ronnie... well what is Ronnie NOT addicted to?
Join us on today's show as we talk about the Chinese government plans to recreate an old Gilligan's Island episode by sending seeds into space, John Travolta's fat face, and why Starbucks is under attack from people who have nothing better to do with their time.
"Mom, I'm NOT going to the Star Trek 40th anniversary convention." That's probably what the teenage son was thinking when his mother sewed up costumes for the whole family and took them to the suburbs of Chicago to parade around for strangers to take their picture.
I would be the young girl on the bottom pointing the phaser gun at the camera.
On today's show we're talking to several die-hard star trek fans about their obsession with their favorite film and TV series, why they chose the costumes they wore, and why are they so into it all.
This year the groundbreaking science fiction TV show Star Trek turns 40, and to celebrate they are organizing conferences where the fans can mingle with the actors from the show, show up in costume and relish moments from the program.
But before all that, today's show begins with a nice refreshing gayed up version of the traditional Mojito recipe- the Gay Mojito or "Faustito."
"Crashing the Ether" literally means getting airplay on the radio, according to musician Tommy Keene's book of hipster slang. The big irony is that in many ways, Tommy sees himself more and more about the music, not really interested in large-scale mainstream success.
The interesting thing is that after a prolific musical career that spans three decades, this past summer Tommy Keene decided to come out about being gay. Everyone in his personal life and in the music business already knew, but this time he chose to come out publicly about his sexuality.
What made him come out this past summer? Are "superstars" under more pressure to reveal personal aspects of their sexuality than relatively unknown musicians? Join Marc, Gregg and me (Fausto) as we talk to guitar rocker Tommy Keene about his music, how technology has changed his process and his passion for the Beatles.
Help yourself to a big slice of the FOF!
Featured Music:
Tommy Keene - Crashing the Ether: iTunes | Amazon
The Miss Continental Pageant is one of the world's largest drag queen (or female illusionists as they like to say) beauty pageants. It attracts thousands of hopeful "divas" from around the country as they represent their communities in this fierce battle for the rhinestone tiara and sash.
In many respects, like videographer Kerthy Fix said on tuesdays program "FOF #382 - Let Beauty Set You Free" a lot of the people who participate in these pageants do so because of the support they get from their friends and family, and because it makes them take themselves seriously and work on themselves, either on a superficial level or a deeper more intellectual level.
People participate in pageants because it builds their self esteem.
And so on today's show, our in-house resident fashion/hair expert Sal-E comes to dish the dirt and share the gossip of helping his sisters backstage at the Miss Continental pageant 2007. (I guess they count the following year, not the year to end.)
Contratulations to winner Victoria Le Paige who won (she's pictured to the right.)
Listen to today's show as we talk about the different levels of drag, the idea to LOOK like a glamorous woman, dead men on the train, and Sal-E's sisters trip to Hawaii where she kicked ass windsurfing.
The podcast that is like an easy bake oven, but with a brighter bulb burning inside- the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site
William Shatner, the guy famous for playing Captain Kirk on the television and film series Star Trek, has recently rejected Sir Richard Branson's offer of making him one of the first passengers of Virgin Galactic's first flight in 2008.
But the man who boldly went where nobody went before wants to keep his feet firmly on the ground.
"I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me." Says William Shatner.
Hey RIchard! I'll take you up on that challenge. I want to be the first podcaster in outer space! Can I? Please? I've seen your reality tv shows, so I'm already used to puking. To dream, the impossible dream...
Listen to today's show as Gregg Shapiro joins Marc and I to talk about nail art, outer space, Katherine Harris and why so many of our fabulous listeners live in that little part of the country between New York and L.A. called AMERICA!
The podcast that boldly goes girlfriend, where no man has gone before- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - Race the Light: iTunes | Amazon
Willi Ninja just passed away, Steve Irwin got hit by a sting ray and I'm not feeling to good myself.
But the podcast goes on people.
We want to take a moment to acknowledge the incredible contributions that Willi Ninja did to the New York nightclub scene and to the world of dance. Mr. Ninja, a legendary figure in the ballroom community of New York City and one of the featured dancers of the documentary Paris is Burning (a must see) passed away at the age of 44.
Willi Ninja spent the last decade of his life teaching runway models and runaway kids how to walk with style, dignity and class. We were lucky to have been able to meet Mr. Ninja in New York City when we were there last April and know he will be missed by everyone.
On todays show Miss Ronnie joins Marc and I to talk about our fabulous fat bodies, why we all need fashion help bad, the untimely deaths of Steve Irwin and Willi Ninja, and our best wishes to Rosie O'Donnell and her return to daytime television.
Video artist Kerthy Fix was leery when she went on assignment to follow Miss South Carolina 1986 pageant winner Dawn Smith Jordan around for the reality TV show "What Not To Wear." She discovered that for many women in the South, being in a pageant is actually liberating for them:
"They all told me that having to have a platform, having to read the paper and know about current affairs, having to have talent and the interview process in a lot of these pageants is the most heavily scored part. And that is invisible to the TV viewer. You don't see the judges interview the contestants. And in the Miss America system it's extremely important because they don't want some bimbo out there, they want somebody intelligent who can speak well.
All these women were saying 'Once I got trough that system nobody could intimidate me. Job interviews were a breeze, I could speak to a room full of people.' It was interesting to find out this is why women stay in these pageants."
Listen to today's show as we talk with video artist Kerthy Fix who recently spent the last month in South Carolina as the field producer for the Learning Channel's Reality program What Not to Wear.
Kerthy and the production team followed three 40 something moms who competed together in the 1986 Miss South Carolina pageant and were asked 20 years later to recreate the experience in front of a crowd of 3000 people.
What Not To Wear: "Pageant Rewind" airs this Friday Sept. 8 on The Learning Channel at 8pm, 11pm and again on Sunday at 2pm, eastern standard time.
We've received dozens of emails telling us about the National Enquirer's cover this week, featuring a stalker's photograph of actor John Travolta and a hunky blond man kissing as they board his private 707 airplane in Hamilton, Ontario.
Is this proof that John Travolta is gay and loving it?
Some are denying the image, saying that the kiss is a still shot of a scene from an up and coming movie, and others say it's a platonic friendly kiss.
I personally don't think its much to get excited about either, since the kiss seems chummy, the way two sensitive actor types would kiss each other. There's no tongue. No groping, ho hanky panky.
The picture looks like sasquatch could walk in the frame at any second, and nobody would notice.
But the gossipy sites all excited and tantalized about the possibility that Travolta is not only gay, but has a relationship with another man.
On our own show comedian Bruce Villanch spoke candidly about John Travolta, saying he was gay at one point in his life, but now lives with a woman. Good for you J.T.!
Who cares if John Travola is gay or not? His church does. You see, Mr. Saturday Night Fever is an avid follower of sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard's Church of Scientology, where he wrote in his book Dienetics "The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically."
I don't get it either. But all you ting-a-lingers are quite low on his "tone scale." Or so they say. Then again, there are other gay scientologists who say their religion isn't homophobic at all. They call themselves CLEARrainbow. Clear=good, just like Crystal Pepsi. How about some Kabbalah branded holy water?
Sometimes I wonder if all these celebrities who follow their kooky religions are just faking it to try to connect with America's own fascination with religion.
The podcast that entertains you by any means necessary- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
They say it's your birthday John. We begin today's show with a barrage of 90% mostly original "you so old" jokes aimed at one of our most dedicated listeners John Marcotte who turns 100 today (not really.) Happy Birthday!
John and his partner Mike Hipp were one of our first listeners to our show and have listened to it every single day since the day we began.
Listen to today's show for the spicy details of Sal-E's trip to Saugatuck, Jackie Mason's lawsuit against Jews for Jesus (go Jackie!) Barbie's new poop scoop, a Chinese woman's car-driving dog and how a woman's breast implants saved her life.
Pictured to the right is a tasty cake in the shape of the Feast of Fools logo done by the talented Mr.Keithcakes.com This beautiful blue construction of confectionary delights was served at our one year anniversary Meet N Greet party on February 2006. I lovvvved that cake! You have no idea how much I loved that cake.
You so old, you're older than the number of shows the Feast of Fools podcast has done.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Why do male computer voices sound gay? Is it their nasal superiority, their stoicism, or their crazy synthesized lisps that make them so?
On today's show Marc and I recreate two of the most famous computer voices- "Hal" from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and "Fred," Apple Computers MacInTalk Speech synthesized voice. We hook them up online with HILARIOUS RESULTS.
See our podcast really will make your iPod go gay.
Listen to the internet's favorite gay couple as we talk about how computers are being used to write jokes for children (they aren't that funny so don't get too excited), guys with two cocks, genetic pre-dispositions to surviving plagues, and whale vomit (and why it's so valuable.)
Whale vomit? Eeeew. Yes whale vomit.
The podcast that makes your iPod go gay (but from the looks of your playlist, it already was) the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site
We are feeling the WHOLLY spirit today! Amen. Ooooh... Lord have mercy. Miss Ronnie comes over to share her first-hand experience of the House of Blues Gospel Brunch which sends me, your flaming blue one, into a tizzy, speaking in tounges and all.
Listen to this righteous podcast where we disscus and genuflect Mayor Daley's plan to extend high school another year so he can pocket more money, nutrition as a form of freedom and youthful nudists in Vermot.
Plus listen in to see how having fabulous fashion accessories can save your life!
So many American religious practices center around food that a study suggests they may promote unhealthy eating habits and gluttony- some of the very same things the proposed religions shun.
On today's show the lovable Amanda Steinstein joins me to dig our heels in deep into American religions and who, how and why so many of them just love to eat.
Just where can I join these delicious sounding churches? I wouldn't be so against going to mass on Sundays if there was free rotisserie chickens being passed out.
Maybe the problem with organized religion isn't corruption or hypocrisy, its that they don't pass out wet naps with the bbq chicken and corn on the cob!
Eat until you get your fill of fabulousness- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Violet Nine - Any Wonder: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby
Some gay men are obsessed with strong female entertainers. So much in fact, that it gets in the way of developing healthy intimate relationships with other men, the men they sexually desire in the end.
Whats up with that? Why do gay men obsess with women like Diana Ross, Madonna, Eartha Kitt and Marilyn Monroe? Because it feels safe. Because we're obsessed with women because we're in many ways see them on a non-sexual level, but a romantic level still that
But I could be wrong. What do you think?
On today's show we talk to visual artist Robert Pogatetz about his paintings, women, art, and a new book "Marilyn in Art" a collection of visual representations of the late Hollywood Legend Marilyn Monroe. Buy it on Amazon.
The ghost of Judy Garland is telling you to download the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music:
Jobriath - Lonely Planet Boy: Amazon
Ripley Caine - Corvair: Amazon | CD Baby | Site
Performance artist Brian Lobel was a virgin when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The cancer had spread into his abdomen and into his lungs. Although you may think he was a gonner, everyone told him "you'll survive this."
And survive he did. Brian kept a journal of his experience with cancer and in college his teacher Holly Hughes suggested he turn his writing into a one man show.
According to Brian's website:
"BALL is a solo performance about the perception of illness, struggle and survivorship in society today. Far from the world of yellow bracelets and pink ribbons, BALL is the story of a young man and his quirky and unique struggle against cancer and, more importantly, the Lance Armstrong-dominated cancer narrative. This is not your mother's illness drama - BALL sees all of the disgusting parts of cancer not as things which should be changed into things beautiful or inspirational. Instead, the sperm bank, the catheters, and the hair loss take center stage in all their glory, in a manner which is irreverent, honest, and, ultimately, healing."
Got that? Good.
Listen to today's show as we talk to the sweet and jubilant Brian Lobel about cancer, the healthcare industry, Lance Armstrong, those annoying yellow bracelets, and how to cope when a loved one comes down with a life-threatening illness.
"Ball" shows at the Bailiwick theater in Chicago until August 26th. Mention the Feast of Fools podcast and they will give you the ROYAL treatment: $25 ticket for $10. We treat you right folks!
We begin today's show with a quick and easy testicular cancer exam your can perform on yourself while you listen to the show.
The podcast that knows how to have a good time, you could say, we're having a ball- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
"I mean, one of the biggest problems that exists right now in the world is nuclear waste... That's something I've been involved with for a while with a group of scientists - finding a way to neutralize radiation."
Does this mean we'll be seeing Aunt Esther sporting a lab coat and protective goggles during her next concert tour? Just HOW does she propose dealing with nuclear waste? Why using Kabbalah branded holy water of course! I guess Kabbalah Snake oil is next. You can even buy the stuff on Amazon. (Check out the ZShops there.)
We all appreciate Madonna's desires to make the world a better place, we recommend the RADIOACTIVE material girl buy up all the copies of her last film "Swept Away" and figure out how not to put them into the nations landfills. Talk about a biohazard.
Sell us your movies, sell us your music, hell even sell us your children's books, but please don't sell us that kind of crazy.
The podcast that is crazy, but not THAT crazy- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - Race the Light: iTunes | Amazon
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Whitney Houston, YOU have a problem! It seems Osama Bin Laden, America's Most Wanted wants to have a rendezvous with you. And Bobby better watch out.
According to Sudanese poet and novelist Kola Boof who writes in her new book "Diary of a Lost Girl" about being the terrorist's sex slave and his candid talk about Whitney Houston as "the most beautiful woman he had ever seen" even though he's also quoted for his dislike of black women as "only good for a man's lower pleasures."
Folks, we do NOT make this stuff up.
We think the U.S. government should recruit the divine Miss H as a secret weapon against terrorism, using her crack-fueled bad-ass self as the explosive.
On today's show the talented Miss Ronnie pontificates with Marc and myself about Whitney Houston's most undesirable admirer, Tom Cruise losing his job at Paramount Pictures, and why Germans think red heads have more sex.
The podcast that is always on blue alert- the Feast of Fools.
"You Are!" Screamed multimedia rock star LotSix when she read a spicy story about TV sitcom star Sara Gilbert's backstage lesbian kiss in the gossip pages of Lesbian Deneuve magazine.
Her intrigue was so intense that she wrote a song about it, "You Are." Performing against some delicious low-tech 80's sounds she croons about Gilbert's love affairs up against a rich multimedia background of tabloid images of Sara Gilbert, Nancy McKeon and Drew Barrymore.
Nowadays LotSix travels across the good U.S. of A. on her motorcycle spreading her own brand of lovely lesbian gospel one music venue at a time.
Listen to the Feast of Fools podcast as LotSix sings LIVE in the house her songs and we talk in depth about Lesbian gangs from New Jersey, transexual pirates, lying about losing your virginity and how lesbian culture is changing.
ATTENTION CHICAGO LISTENERS! Be sure to check out LotSix's multi-media rock show at Scott Free's Homolatte Queer Words and Music series tonight at Big Chicks starting at 8pm. Admission is FREE.
The podcast that lays it on thick and piles it on high every time, the Feast of Fools.
Live from Austin, Texas it's the Feast of Fools! Folks we braved the heat and the chiggers and faced the legions of FOF-fanatics as they came in droves from all over the southern states to meet us face to face!
Listen to today's show as we answer the tough questions our fans posed for us: What would you be doing if you still lived in your hometown? Who have you slept with? Why do you keep your clothes on if Texas is so hot?
You know, the stuff tabloids would publish if we were more macro-celebrities instead of micro-celebrities. Although the tide is turning. When we went out to gay bars, we must have run into at least TEN (count them TEN!) die-hard fans who simply couldn't get out of work to attend the event.
Many thanks to my mom Patricia, César Torres, all the people who showed up, as well as the good folks at the Spider House Cafe who hosted our event and to the sexy young duo known as "Brigante" who played the gypsy music to introduce our show.
Come on down and help yourself to a heapin' helping of the Feast of Fools podcast!
Featured Music
Brigante plays every weekend at the Spider House Cafe in Austin, Texas.
Folks, we are in Texas, and we are feeling the heat! Marc is sweating buckets, César is nervous that the minutemen are going to shoot at him, and Fausto is just plain anxious that people WILL remember his infamous cable access show from the mid 90's, "El Chow De Faustina."
We are all busy getting ready for our "Texas Roundup" our Meet & Greet thats happening tonight at the Spider House in Austin, Texas. The fun starts at 8pm and lets just say, its a show you wont be forgetting anytime soon. Don't miss it!
On today's show listen as our sexi-mexi pal César Torres joins Marc and I (Fausto) to walk around Guadalupe Street in Austin Texas, otherwise known as the "Drag" because of the drag races college kids had in the 1960's. We'll be talking to a very sexy homeless youth named Cliff who shares with us some insights on what it's like to be a homeless young person, intolerance in your own family and culture in the city that gave now President George W Bush his first political job as Governor of Texas.
Sorry folks, our internet connection here is pitiful thanks to the lack of Net Neutrality laws. More fab pics coming over the weekend!
The podcast that makes it's own country style gravy- the Feast of Fools.
Chicago's premier nightclub entertainer Sal-E is the man responsible for my blue hair, maintaining it, cutting it, making it look good.
Todays show begins with with Sal-E's low-budget impersonation of our fabulous Miss Ronnie, and ends with a very special Miss Ronnie montage courtesy of Gary in the UK.
Lots of talk about telecommunications companies in disguise as "Internet Freedom" groups, why Joe Liberman is a Republican after all, Indian government's ban on soft drinks sold at schools, and new scams that you probably didn't know about.
Winner! Winner! Chicken Dinner! I was almost in tears when I saw that we won the 2006 People's Choice Award for podcasting. We are so excited here at the FOF compound that the ATF has set up camp outside our home.
Break out the champagne! Lets celebrate folks! I am the king of the world. And by king I really mean queen, and by world I mean the world wide web.
What better way to celebrate than with a podcast?
Join me, Fausto Fernós and my lovable husband Marc Felion as we share the happy news with Miss Ronnie, César Torres, Sal-E and of course Amanda Steinstein.
We want to take a moment to thank all the people who voted- our listeners, friends and fans as well as all our guests who've been on the show over the past year and a half.
You have helped make the Feast of Fools podcast into the world's #1 GLBT podcast, and now you have made history making us the very first gay podcast to win the People's Choice Award. We love you all so much! Thank you. Without you, we're nothing- but WITH YOU we're everything.
The podcast that makes it's own gravy- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Ellen Rosner - The Perfect Malcontent: CD Baby | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Luminescent Orchestri: Site
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site
Mekole Wells wants to get into Oprah Winfrey's The Color Purple musical here in Chicago BAD. We here at the FOF think MK would be a fabulous Shug Avery screaming out "You Sure is Ugly."
What is your favorite line from "The Color Purple" film?
Mekole Wells began her carreer (like most divas) singing in Church. In the 1980's Mekole under the name "Eleesa" hit the billboard charts with her dance hit "Where Did Your Love Go."
In 1998 Mekole was stabbed 10 times in a vicious attack her throat was cut she was told she would probably never be able to sing again, but through love, strength and sheer will she now stands as one of Chicago's greatest onstage signing women.
Join Mekole and our good friend Gregg Shapiro as we dish the dirt on Chicago's music scene, lesbian music, menopause, the Gay Games, and why Mekole wants to be cast in "The Color Purple" musical.
Having worked extensively with the at-risk children, the mentally disturbed and the incarcerated has given life coach G. Scott Graham more than adequate experience in dealing with us.
On today's show Fausto and Marc travel deep into their own inner psyche and relationship as they asses with the DiSC method who they are, what their relationship is all about, and how they (I mean we) can communicate better.
It's fair to say that having the thoughtful presences of Dr. Scott probing deep into our personalities and personas made us a little nervous. More giddy than daffy duck on a double expresso, we took the time to think about the questions: "If you were an adjective, what kind of adjective would you be?" "Is Fausto more acitve or thoughful in the relationship?" "What the hell are these guys talking about?"
Special thanks to G. Scott Graham for taking the time to come to Chicago and help us learn more about ourselves and our relationship!
The podcast that is in touch with it's inner "El Niño" -the Feast of Fools!
Featured Music:
Skott Freedman - Anything Worth Mentioning: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Just WHAT does the exultant phrase "Quarter Turns" mean? Boy do we get that question a lot.
Earlier this year in January, American Idol finalist Clay Aiken's squeaky clean image had a bit of a tarnish when the National Enquirer printed the "sordid" details of his one night stand with North Carolinian real estate agent John Paulus.
A lot of people in the past have declared flamboyant male singers to be gay, even having affairs with them, and in turn have had themselves taken to court. So why didn't Clay Aiken or his record label sue him? Because John Paulus had inadvertently saved the cum rag.
Yes folks, this former green beret had accidentally pulled a "Lewinsky" and had DNA evidence of his love affair with Mr. Aiken.
According to John Paulus, during their one night stand Clay demanded that John do "Quarter Turns," spin around while sitting on his member so he could feel "every one of his walls."
I don't think that I could possibly do that, or anyone else, but you have to give these guys credit for their enthusiasm! Clay never returned John's calls and was not exactly the nicest person you'd want to have an affair in a hotel room with.
Hell hath no fury like a scorned lover, and after weeks of not getting any response from Aiken, in his anger John picked up the phone and called the tabloids to spill the beans on their affair.
On our show months ago we reenacted the transcript of what may have happened that night in the hotel room. It was so popular and charming that Mr. John Paulus himself sent us an email wanting to be on the show to tell his whole side of the story.
Listen to today's show as we talk to Mr. "Quarter Turns" himself John Paulus about how his life has been since he came public with the news, how the "Claymates" (Clay AIkens' fanatic female fans) have sent him naked pictures of thier naked old bodies in order to harass him, how they got him fired from his last job, and what would John say to Clay if he were sitting in front of him today.
UPDATE: If you want to read the anger and fury that John Paulus story has stirred in Clay Aiken's fans, be sure to visit his blog ClayAkien411. If this is the level of violent language that is being directed at someone who had sex with a closeted gay pop star and has DNA evidence to back up his words, imagine what it would be like for Clay Aiken if he actually chose to come out. Maybe Clay is scared. I would be.
Every time you say "Quarter Turns" an angel downloads the Feast of Fools podcast into their iPod.
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
FOF #364 - Learn Spanish with the Feast of Fools - 08.10.06
Feast of Fools teaches you how to learn Spanish today. You have voted for us, haven't you?
Listen to today's show as our Mexi-sexy friend César Torres (check out César's Web site) comes over to talk about Pollo al Carbon, new ways to lose your money, and why Christmas has come early to Harrod's in the UK.
Vamos a aprender con la Fiesta de Tontos.
Featured Music:
Luminescent Orchestri: Site
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Whoa, it looks like there is trouble in paradise. Our newly self-outed homosexual, former teen pop idol and wannabe cosmonaut Lance Bass is having problems with Reichen, or so they say.
But we have the real scoop here on the Feast of Fools! One of our listeners works for a big talent agency in Los Angeles and managed to get this exclusive audio footage of Lance Bass begging and pleading with his manager to stay in his relationship with Reichen Lehmkuhl.
It seems Lance was supposed to lose 15 pounds as part of the contract, and he didn't. So now he has to break up with Reichen and date Joey Fatone. Poor Lance!
Listen to today's show as we talk about Auntie Esther at the Cochella Music festival (thanks Steve!), square-shaped fruit and podcasters getting robbed at gunpoint. And by podcasters we mean radio DJ's... and by fruit we mean gay men.
The podcast that is served fresh, hot and delicious every single weekday -- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Wha Happen'? Well, Sal-E says that a lotof Hispanic people say "What Happen'?" when they want to jump into a conversations that they aren't a part of. You seem to hear that a lot on this show for some reason... Wha happen'? Quiet, you! See what I mean?
On today's show our nightclub performer in residence Sal-E comes over to recap the Market Days Weekend fun, Janet Jackson's new nudie pics, smacking your lips, bar fights in China and why George Michael doesn't really care what you think about him, especially if you're a heterosexual woman.
I wonder what he thinks gay men think about him?
Warning: Listenting to the Feast of Fools podcast could get you arrested for being sexy!
Featured Music:
Pussy Tourette - Pussy Tourette in Hi-Fi: iTunes | Amazon | CD Baby
FOF #361 - Be Careful What You Wish For - 08.07.06
What did you do this weekend? We here at the Feast of Fools spent it at Northalsted Street Market Days, the largest outdoor street fair in Chicago, hanging outdoors, drinking some beer, eating some fried funnel cakes and checking out some seriously hot guys.
The Feast of Fools was out in full force spreading the our special brand of blue beauty one person at a time. Miss Ronnie, Amanda Steinstein, Sal-E, César Torres, Marc Felion and myself, Fausto Fernós were all out there working it hard and heavy giving lots of cards, hugs and kisses to the good people of the world.
We love our fans, and they love us! It kind of makes you feel all warm inside, but not in the way you feel when you've had too much to drink and you pee all over yourself.
Thanks to all the people we met who have been voting for our show every day. Without you we are nothing. (Now's a good time to go vote for the show to win us that highly coveted People's Choice Award.)
Listen to todays show as Miss Ronnie gets exactly what she deserves. What are we talking about? You'll just have to listen and find out.
It seems some German scientist has made a "stupid pill." I think the name is stupid, because the purpose of the pill really isn't to wipe out ignorance or force people to stop making bad decisions. It's function hopefully is to increase people's ability to think clearly. Is this like drinking a cup of coffee?
Also: lover's suicide pacts, prehistoric metrosexuals, and new ways of finding out you got canned.
Put some home-cooked hilariousness in your iPod with the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
David Lasley - Back to Blue-Eyed Soul: Site
This show is all backwards. We begin with the ending, and end with the beginning. So don't get confused.
A huge argument stars with Amanda Steinstein over which celebrities have played the mentally disabled in movies. Rob Lowe, Tom Cruise, Billy Bob Thorton, Rosie O'Donnell, Cindy Williams- note the trend? Maybe they aren't acting.
The search online for answers makes us all painfully aware on how difficult it still is to find accurate information, even with wikipedia, google, yahoo, imdb, and even on this show.
The highly debatable Wikipedia has been under the harsh glare of comedians this past week as both the Onion and the Colbert Report both attacked the open source dictionary for it's sometimes overwhelming inaccuracies. Although Amanda and I both agree that Wikipeida can be a mess, it still very accurate (consider that the Encyclopedia Britannica is wrong as well)
Well at least they have spell checking. We dunt.
This whole debate draws attention to the fact that facts are usually determined by the people who state them, and can be wrong. Who fact checks the fact checkers?
Also on today's show, science vs. republicans, living in the bronze age, and new hi-tech eggs that come fresh from the chicken's butt to your mouth!
Pictured on the right is Marc Felion and myself, Fausto Fernós having a grand old time with the postcards. Who took the photo? Jason Smith, of course.
Warning- do not operate heavy machinery while listening to the Feast of Fools podcast. The results could be hilarious!
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
After spending a week with the gay invasion otherwise known as the Gay Games, the big bold and beautiful Amanda Steinstein is exhausted and fed up with all things gay. To add to her homo-saturation, she recently was an understudy with the local gay comedy troupe GayCo, and she pent many days painting rainbows on people's faces.
We're so deeply touched by an injured Philippine listener Mikey D., who designed a lovely letter about the FOF keeps him company during his recovery process. "I really love your show. when you gotta have your Feast of Fools, you gotta have your Feast of Fools." Isn't the whole thing beautiful? I'm holding back little blue tears. Seriously.
Also on today's show, we talk not so much about gay topics and news, but a lot about fat and fatness. We discuss why obese and overweight people are unrealistic about their diets, why Americans are not the only people who struggle with their weight, and why you're probably fat yourself, but you just don't know it.
Miss Ronnie can't shut up about wanting a Coach purse. You may recall from yesterday's show that Ronnie got all jealous and upset when four women walkde in (in a two hour period ) all holding the exact same purse. Teasing her.
Please, people. Ronnie has champagne tastes but a beer bottle budget. Help out! Pictured on the right is the FOF's very own Miss Ronnie holding some Republican sausage in one hand, and a Coach bag in the other. She already has plenty of sausage...
If you can arrange to send Miss Ronnie a Coach purse, or even a gift certificate for one, she would be on cloud nine and would finally shut up about wanting this irrationally expensive handbag.
Our fab pal Rick Aiello came by to share with us some homemade spaghetti and meatballs he made just for us, and let me tell you: It was simply delicious! Thanks Rick. But of course Ronnie ate too many carbs before the show and look out because without a Coach purse, Ronnie was an unholy terror!
Listen as we talk about Mo'Nique's airplane rage, Mel Gibson's drunken road rage, and Barbara Walters' show rage. Which celebrity would you want to get drunk with?
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Feast of Fools podcast? The world will never know.
The surprisingly delicious combination of iced tea and lemonade is known as an Arnold Palmer, named after a famous golfer from the 1950's who allegedly was one of his favorite drinks. We assume he didn't lace it with whiskey. Yeah, right.
And of course, it's ours too! The not-so-unusual combination of these two thirst quenchers bring up on today's show a discussion on the nature of hope vs. wishing, and what it means to different people.
Listen as we beat the heat of summer with Miss Ronnie and talk about polish men, gay republicans, Lance Bass, and a huge box of preserved meats we got from a listener in Texas.
The podcast that quenches your thrist for knowledge, fun, and satisfaction- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
It's almost like a sign saying "These eggs are NOT the freshest you can find." CBS television has partnered up with some egg making company to put advertising slogans for their tv shows on the shells. We don't make this stuff up folks.
What kind of slogans would you come up with to promote the Feast of Fools podcast on eggshells? We came up with a few good ideas here. Share yours on the comments page, we promise not to advertise on any eggs now or in the future.
On today's show the Rev. DJ and his Italian stallion boyfriend Tony come over to hang with thy flaming blue one and his sexi-mexican friend César to pontificate about all sorts of eggceptional topics.
Sorry I couldn't help myself. Wont you take a moment and vote for us for a People's Choice Award? It takes the will of you, the people to help us win this historic award. (The first GLBT category for a podcast, don't you know.)
Also today, Fausto says good bye to his lovely and talented sister Talia who is leaving the windy city of Chicago to pursue her dreams of showbusiness in the big exciting world of high mathematics at UCLA! That's Dr. Talia to you good people. Bye Talia! I'll miss you so SO much.
The podcast that is always on the F-list, but never on the F-U list- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
Ferron - Impressionistic: iTunes | Amazon
My pal Sal-E came over to show me his family's not-so-secret recipie for Mexican flavored water. It's delicious!
You see folks, it's really hot here in the Windy City during the summer, and we just had to kick it back with some Agua Fresca to reminisce about our familes, sibling rivalry, and what drag is and isn't.
Listen as Chicago's Top Model of the nightclub, Sal-E, dishes the dirt on Madge's immaculate throne, 15 year old carnival queens, New Zeland lawyers in drag, and why you should REALLY watch your drink when you go out to bars.
Listen up! There are new drugs out there that assholes are using to rape women in bars. So sisters, watch your drinks.
On a happier note, today begins the offical voting for the Podcasting People's Choice Awards. Please take a moment and help celebrate Sal-E's 33rd birthday (it's today) by voting for the show! Only one vote per listener per day, and please do NOT cheat! If you want the FOF to win, vote every day until August 11th.
The podcast that tells you things you didn't think you needed to know, but now that you do, you're glad you found out! The Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | CD Baby| Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
If June parades bring out the everyday gays, what does July bring out? Celebrities, of course!
It seems everyone is coming out these days. Former N'Sync teeny bopper Lance Bass came out yesterday saying loud and proud "I am Gay." or "The allegations that I have been in a relationship with reality tv star Reichen Leihmkul are true." Either way, we're happy for him. It took him 29 years, but there are reports that he's also 35 years old. Coming out of the gay closet seems easier than coming out of the age closet. Either way, we're happy for him. Oh wait, I already said that.
On today's show, Marc and Fausto ponder Oprah and Gayle's denial and Lance and Reichens' affirmation. By the way, your favorite podcast Feast of Fools was nominated for a People's Choice Award! So make sure you help us win the GLBT gold by voting for us every day starting tomorrow. Click here to see the nomination!
Lots of chit chat on Lubbockian Texans desire to have god smile upon them, the Aussie Slang Bible, and the rocking the vote tomorrow. Get ready!
Pictured on the right is an unretouched photo of Lance Bass and Reichen Lehmkuhl at a swining party in P-Town.
The podcast that was built on Rock and Roll and things that make you go hmmmm- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Our sweet pal Jordan is moving to Japan. Why? He says he's studying abroad, but we think it's for the hot asian men, the U.S. military men, and the harajuku boys. Oh yes, the land of the rising sun is also the land of the rising cocks. And I'm not talking roosters.
For a whole year Jordan is going to be producing short pieces on being an American homo in Japan and his experiences there. Stay tuned on the Feast of Fools for updates on Jordan's travels to Japan.
Listen as we're joined by his friend Fred Boursier as we talk about knife weilding grannies, dangerous art objects, people's addiction to cell phone use during sex, and of course cocktails. Glorious cocktails. What would podcasters do without ye?
Homo Arigato Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Pussy Tourette - Pussy Tourette in Hi-Fi: Amazon | CD Baby | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Miss Ronnie is mad as hell. More than just your everyday pissed off-ness.
President Junior has taken upon himself to dash the hopes of every single person in a wheelchair living in this country by virtually killing stem cell reasearch in this country. If Miss Ronnie could smack this idiot in the head with a frying pan without spending the rest of her life in prison you know she would.
This country's top appointed official (we don't belive President Bush has ever been elected President) says that stem cell research is akin to murder, but has no problem cutting funding on the poor, HIV/AIDS, student loans, urban development, you know stuff this country needs in order to function. He happily sends people to die in a senseless war, and even in his spare time loves to put the mentally disabled to death. I guess he's scared of someone smarter than he is.
Listen to today's show for details on our hot Don Juan Dracula CD giveaway!
The podcast that is akin to fabulousness- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
Gay Games? You want your Gay Games? We got your gayest, gamiest, most delicious podcast right here. On today's show César Torres and I, your tastiest, bluest and delectable podcaster Fausto Fernós reminisce about the good, the bad, and the ugly side of the Gay Games.
In all seriousness, here at the world's most downloaded gay podcast headquarters (otherwise known as FOF Central) want to give a very special shout out to all our international listeners who bravely download each and every single show every day and listen to it in the privacy of their own iPod.
We want to salute all the tens of thousands of gays, lesbians, trannies, bi-folks and those of you who would rather not say who came this past week to Chicago to run, jump, and roll your way into our collective hearts and minds.
As difficult as it was to see most of the Gay Games events due to the hot weather, transportation and facility challenges, it was all worth it just to see your smiling faces being the best you could be at your sport.
Amidst the majestic trumpet musak, tens of thousands of gay and lesbian athletes and their fans are gathering in Chicago for the Gay Games VI, a complex sporting event that embraces homosexuality and people from all walks of life.
On today's show our in-house resident Gay Gamin' triathlete César Torres joins me to reminisce on the Gay Games opening ceremony last weekend at Solider Field that brought in a huge range of performers from tacky and wacky to loud and proud.
My good friend Jason Smith joined me as I walked around the ceremonies talking to athletes from around the world like Ricardo from Argentina, Hermie from the Philippines, Chari from New York City, Rita from Arizona and Donna and her girlfriend Gina from Brooklyn.
Photographed here on the right by Jason Smith is your blue pal sporting an ACTUAL Gay Games medal from the 1994 Gay Games in New York City. Don't ask me what I had to do to win it.
Click here for photos by Jason Smith and Fausto Fernós of the Gay Games VI Opening Ceremony.
The podcast that tests positive for HILARIOUSNESS- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Don Juan Dracula - Young Debutantes II: Amazon | Site | [Not Yet Available on iTunes]
To beat the heat of summer, Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion, Jason Smith an me, your flaming blue pal Fausto Fernós all plopped into the car and drove to our local ice-cream parlor for some delicious butterscotch sauced fried ice-cream.
Come be a fly on the wall as the one and only Miss Ronnie engages the patrons and employees of her favorite ice cream joint into submission.
Stay tuned tomorrow as we play for you some very special behind the scenes interviews with athletes and spectators from around the world during the Gay Games VI held here in the windy city of Chicago.
Our newly found fame has gotten to Marc's head. He's gotten himself some fancy "Blu Blockers" sunglasses to try to look glamorous for the media. Shutting me out is just a side benefit to the powerful shades.
The good people at BeepCentral.com, Mary Beth Nolan and Jeff Schwister have come over to our home studio to watch us record our show so Marc naturally got anxious and put on his Blu Blockers to hide from the awesome glare of the media. Awesome I tells ya.
Look at what the net dragged in. The internet that is. On the East coast Reichen Lehmkul's has caught himself a rainbow trout, and by that I mean a Lance Bass and the two have been seen arm in arm at some of the best gay parties. Have they been spotted making out, holding hands or sharing each other's clothing? Is everything going swimmingly?
But is our former NYSNC hearthrob and cosmonaut-wanna-be Lance Bass gay? Does he want to come out, or sit pretty in an air-conditioned Imelda Marcos inspired closet? Is this ambiguously gay duo are having their meatcake and eating it too? Well it sure is causing quite a stir among bloggers and and media types.
"Coming out is a personal, private decision that needs to be made by the individual. Media speculation about people's sexual orientation is not something we support." says Damon Romine, the entertainment media director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. This is a guy who is supposed to be lobbying Hollywood and the media for positive representation of gays, not defending queenie celebrities who are timid about their true sexualty, no matter how much they may want to circumnavigate the issue.
Someone should tell Reichen that Bass is a sport fish, not good for eating. But then again, Reichen is an expert fisherman who is great at the catch-and-release.
The Feast of Fools is the podcast that makes your iPod go gay. But from the looks of your playlists, it was well on its way.
Featured Music:
Eric Himan - All for Show: iTunes | CD Baby
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
FOF #347 - Stretching for the Gay Games - 07.18.06
Gay Games Week is here in Chicago, and we've been invaded with legions of handsome gay men (and lesbians) from all around the world. We're NOT complaining.
Our Mexican-American regular César Torres has gone downtown and registered to participate in the Gay Games triathlon. The interesting thing is that he's already gotten his "participatory medal" which they give to all the athletes when they pay their $195 registration fee plus $35 event charge.
The Gay Games may very corny bun in realty it's a complex mix of wholesome gay men and lesbians coming together to celebrate and compete in an embracing environment where everyone is welcome.
At the end of a race your boyfriend comes out of the stands and hugs and kisses you. Thats really cool.
Today Sal-E and César Torres reflect on the up and coming Gay Games, religious symbols in gay culture, a new documentary about Sal-E you wont be seeing anywhere soon, and why Madonna nor Kathy Griffin will perform anywhere for less than 30 grand.
Stay tuned this week for special behind the scenes interviews with gay games athletes, the opening ceremony, fans and people from far off as Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the Philippines.
We've got the Windy City covered folks on the Feast of Fools podcast!
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
David Lasley - Back to Blue-Eyed Soul: Site
Music whiz kids Tom Napack and Mike Furey met in college during a production of the Who's Tommy. Later on they collaborated on a song called "The Rejection" about Mike spurning a girl who was coming on to him on the dance floor.
A couple of months later Mike was at a cocktail party when he was introduced by his friend Peter Stern to Seymour Stein, the founder of Sire Records. To make a short story even shorter, Mike played Seymour their demo song "The Rejection" on his iPod, and just like in the movie "A Star is Born", Seymour signed him and Tom up on the spot!
We're not sure if claiming you were discovered by the same guy who discovered Madonna is a good thing, but whatever works works.
Nowadays these two hot, very likeable guys are in the process of developing their new album and are traveling around the country performing their song "The Rejection." All because of their iPod and a couple of well-mixed drinks.
Listen as we talk to the dynamic duo known as Dangerous Muse about their music, why Logic Audio Express rocks, "Ambisexuality" and how they used their iPod to land a record deal.
Dangerous Muse performs with their full band here in Chicago this Wednesday July 19th at Circuit Nightclub with queer Cuban rocker Ariel Aparicio and DJ Kimberly S. Doors open at 9pm. Tickets are $12. Sponsored by PINK Magazine. Circuit is located at 3641 N. Halsted Street in Lakeview, Chicago. Call (773) 325-2323 for more more information.
Watch this hilarious preview of Mike Furey getting slapped in the face by a girl he rejects in their up and coming video for their song "The Rejection.
Featured Music:
Dangerous Muse - The Rejection: iTunes | Site
FOF #345 - So You Think You Can Podcast? - 07.14.06
People, your prayers have been answered! After a long and difficult search to replace Miss Ronnie the "bomba atomica" of the internet returns with a vengance.
Strap yourselves in and hang on to your iPods as we take you on a roller coaster ride of laughs, freaks and fun on todays show.
Special thanks to: Cunis Diabolis, Sal-E, Patricia Fernós, William Hung, César Torres and Miss Understood for auditioning for the role of Miss Ronnie.
Amanda Steinstein is very intrigued by a delicious looking candy jock strap that our listener Jonathan from Indiana gave us when he took us out to dinner a couple of weeks ago in Chicago.
What is its is a candy necklace in jock strap form. It's the novelyt gift you might want to give someone, but in reality it would never give you the support nor the deliciousness you would expect from such a sweet sounding gift.
On other news, our good friends at GayCo, the big local gay comedy troupe are celebrating their 10th anniversary with a jam-packed show full of their best material from the past decade. And to make the show extra special, Amanda Steinstein is in it!
Yes folks, you can see Amanda in the GayCo show even though she's not a lesbian (or is she?) whoop it up with some of the brightest and best in Chicago's gay comedy scene. Click here to see the show!
Lots of talk about President Bush celebrating his 60th birthday "low-key style" which means without any friends and why DID the President of Russia Vladimir Putin kiss a six year old boy on the stomach?
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
"Quarter turns! Quater turns!" Everyone asks us on what episode the hilairous phrase "Quarter Turns" came from and just WHAT does it mean?
Well lovely and loyal Feast of Fools listeners, today we revisit a Classic Feast of Fools Podcast "Openly Clay" where the phrase "Quarter Turns" was forged from the heat of passion. Listen and find out!
[Originally posted on February 28, 2006.]
Victoria Lamarr and Marc Felion put their comedic skills and their southern accents to work to recreate the infamous recent Clay Aiken alledged sex scandal. This little sketch is based on details that Jon Paulus, the man who claims to be holding Clay Aiken's cumrag, has given to the press.
What happened on that infamous first date when Clay met John? Listen and find out.
Lots of magic moments with Garageband 3, sound effects, and the ability of mind to imagine the sound of rain to transform into the sound of a hot skillet. V-marr squeals in delight with all the new bells and whistles.
We also discuss some freaky news about urine filled dildos, George Michael gets arrested again and a man who marries a goat!
To get Pussy Tourette's fabulous song "I Think He's Gay." on Amazon click here.
The podcast that feels every one of your walls- the Feast of Fools!
A man in Corpus Christi, Texas recently pulled a Vincent Van Gogh and sent his ex-girlfriend a severed finger in the mail (presumably his) to show how they will always be able to stay "in touch."
Eeew! Thankfully most of the fabulous things our listeners send us are fruity, fabulous and fun.
If you have something you'd like to send us in the mail, send it to: Feast of Fools
5315 N. Clark Street, #242
Chicago, IL 60640-2113
We love crazy care packages of all sorts of bizzare, delicious, and discussion-worthy objects. But if you want to support the show by getting a t-shirt, that wouldn't hurt either!
On today's Black and Blue and Brown podcast- César, DJ and me Fausto chit that about stuff that makes us fat, smelling magic markers to get high, popper propaganda, creepy presents, and the many colorful uses for a swiss ball.
FOF #342 - They Hate Us for Our Freakness - 07.04.06
Happy Independence Day everyone! As you enjoy this special holiday FOF, take a moment to contact your local congressperson to inform them that you want to keep the internet free and independent from the evil corporate money grubbing telecommunications companies. Click here to learn more about the cause of Net Neutrality.
Marc's out of town, so my honey-skinned contingent of the Feast of Fools, César Torres and the Rev. DJ join me to talk to my mother about depression.
Patricia is great at curing the blues, weather it's listening to her talk about getting a massage, or actually understanding the nature of depression which is misplaced anger. You don't know why you is so mad, so you hurt someone else, or yourself. Happy 4th of July everyone!
Hate the Feast of Fools for our freedom, stay for our mouth watering ribs.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
FOF #341 - Bring Your Podcaster to Work Day - 07.03.06
Today we bring you to work! We taped this show on Saturday to show you how Marc gets to work, and to join us for the drive over to the Star Bar.
Marc is bringing his suitcase to the bar because he's going on a much needed vacation from work, Chicago, podcasting and his husband! If you guys live in the Erie, Pennsylvania area, be sure to try and get a hold of Marc the next 3 days he's there.
Listen as we bake in my crappy, air-conditionless car and muse about the internet, the printing press, and the age of colonialization.
Listen as I share my visualization secrets I learned in art school, about thinking about your world as a better place and how to make the fantasy real.
The podcast that suffers for the cause of podcasting, one drop of sweat at a time- the Feast of Fools.
FOF #340 - Why the World Doesn't Need Superman - 06.30.06
Brandon Routh South, Ruth, Rowth, Growth- all we know is he is hot and Marc and César and I were excited to see the new "Superman Returns" movie.
WARNING! THIS PODCAST IS FULL OF SUPERMAN RETURNS SPOILERS!!!
Openly gay director Bryan Singer, well known for writing and directing the blockbuster X-Men films, decided to opt out of making the third (and what seems to be the final) X-Men movie in order to direct and write a film that DC comics hopes will re-invent and launch once again the Superman franchise.
But the world has changed A LOT since the man of steel last graced the silver screen. Maybe the world hasn't really changed all that much, but the innocence of Americans and the fowl stench of nationalism is something we're all pretty uncomfortable with these days thanks to the Bush Administration.
For one thing, in this movie the phrase "the American Way" has been taken out when referencing Superman! Why? Becasue Truth and Justice (in capital letters) are no longer synonymous with "the American Way." Now that's a shame.
The film begins with Superman being gone for four years to visit the remains of his planet Krypton. We never hear what happened over there, or why he felt compelled to pick up and leave of a sudden. So of course Lois Lane feels all hurt and abandoned along with the rest of humanity, and she writes an article titled "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman" which wins her a Pulitzer Prize (the oscars for journalism.)
We never get to hear why their world didn't need Superman, but I can certainly tell you that all sexual fantasies aside, putting your hopes and dreams into some white guy in a cape is probably not a good idea. It's better to fantasize about the superman inside you, and the truth is that at the end of the day, the only ones who can save us from our problems is ourselves. So as Ru-Paul says- "You Betta Work!"
If there is a black Jesus, why can't we have a black Superman? I think super-handsome and wholesome Brosi Kodjoe from Madea's Family Reunion would be a delicious choice.
Either way, YOU SHOULD go see "Superman Returns" because it's a fun movie to watch. Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey stole the movie, and the brief millisecond Brandon Routh's pecs are flashed on the screen will forever be imbedded in my mind.
All I want to know is why Brandon wont return our phone calls? Typical Superman.
Featured Music
Gaye Adegbalola - Bitter Sweet Blues: iTunes | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We ran into Jessica Halem last Saturday at the Chicago Dyke March, just sitting pretty and lovely in her peach-colored picnic blanket basking in the fabulous lesbianess around her.
Chicago's kind of cool in that way. They hire a stand up comedian to make a lesbian health care organization hip and relevant. And boy has she done a fabulous job! Now Jessica is leaving LCCP to pursue comedy full time, so you guys will be hearing MUCH more of her in future shows.
Listen to today's show as Jessica shares the DIRT on Chicago's local political scene, why State Rep. Sara Feigenholtz should run for President, growing old gay with grace, and biological factors to fabulousness.
If you love the show, tell just ONE friend about it- together we can spread the FOF gospel of fabulousness and fun! F.O.F. stands for Fabulousness Or Fun. Don't ask us why it's a choice. It shouldn't be but it is.
Featured Music
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
This week has been a very good week for the Feast of Fools podcast. For us personally, it's been HELL!
Okay, here is why it's been good: Star Jones has left "the View" TV show, Michael Jackson is offically moving to Europe, and Rush Limbaugh has been caught once again with possesing illegal prescription drugs.
We also had a really REALLY good time hanging with the George Takei and his partner Brad Altman, as well as marching in the Chicago Pride Parade and seeing tons of our fans and hopefully making new ones.
Listen to todays show as Marc, César and myself reflect and reminsice about the Parade and the sexy and interesting people we met along the route! Check out the all the pride parade pics, thanks to Wendy Malley of the GabberJaw podcast for taking the photos.
Featured Music
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Writer Toni Schlesinger was reluctant at first to write about everyday people's living spaces for the Village Voice, but the weekly column "Shelter" quickly grew into a eight year project that has now resulted in a fabulous new book "Five Flights Up."
As a performer and playwright Toni knew the power of the spoken word and interview, but what she didn't realise was the drama implicit in the struggle for finding (and keeping) a living space and a sense of home in New York City.
Our lovely friend Richard Knight Jr. took time out of his busy schedule to bring his gal pal (and former Ms. Dick O'Day) Toni Schlesinger over to talk about the book, the nature of interviewing the everyday, and why she thinks people found her weekly column so compelling and why she thinks of the island of Manhattan as a real-world "Neverland."
For Reeling (Film Festival) Gay Games info and schedule, click here.
Featured Book
Five Flights Up and Other New York Apartment Stories by Toni Schlesinger: Amazon
Featured Music
Richard Knight Jr./Sharkskin: Site
Jen Zias - Take Me With You: Amazon | CD Baby
We live in one of the greatest neighborhoods in the world, well at least we think so because every year the Dyke March passes right in front of our home on their way to Hollywood Beach to celebrate lesbian deliciousness and congregate in the sun and fun.
Join Marc and me your flaming blue pal Fausto as we walk with the fabulous dykes all the way to the edge of Lake Michigan.
Pictured on the right is the USA Brigade whose purpose is to "reclaim patriotism and the American flag" hanging out at the Chicago Dyke March after Marc event at Hollywood Beach. More photos to come on Wednesday!
Farts aren't just for fun anymore, in fact, they can be deadly weapons. It turns out that schools of herring use fart bubbles to fight back Killer Whales when they try to eat them. Individually they don't do much, but collectively they poison the water and send a spray of bubbles that knock out Killer Whales!
You learn new things every day!
On today's show our good friend Matthew comes over to chit chat with Marc and I about race and crazy Asian internet videos. We talk about a guy in India that was born with a vestigial tail that is being worshipped as the reincarnation of their Monkey God. They touch his tail for luck! I guess its better than eating someone's body and blood.
We try to figure out the REAL reason we celebrate Gay Pride Month in June (it's not because of the Stonewall riots). Also, why do you think African American history month takes place in the cold month of February? Marc says its because the goverment fears that people revolt in summer months when things get heated up and that they fear angry African American mobs in the summertime. What's your opinion?
The best gay thing on the Internet next to porn- the Feast of Fools!
Plucking, pulling, poking, bleaching, dying and cutting- these are the things I must do to look this good for you good people of the world.
On today's show, join Marc and I as we travel down to Milio's hair salon to get the talented Mr. Sal-E get our eyebrows waxed, bleached and my hair for the gay pride parade this Sunday in Chicago.
Listen as we find out Sal-E's real name, learn about an ancient Indian hair removal process, drag queen gossip, and Marc gets ready for a big job interview. Will he get the job?
Pictured to the right here is Sal-E with gem sweatered diva Leslie Hall at her last show in Chicago.
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Luminescent Orchestri: Site
Author Kirk Snyder has dedicated years of his life to making the workplace better for gays and lesbians. Durring his research he's come across the compelling idea that business might better understand the nature of effective leadership by examining the gay expreience.
In his new book "The G Quotient" Kirk Snyder describes through anecdotes, inteviews and research how today's current workforce is the most unsatisfied in many decades, and what can business do to reconnect with their employees by hiring openly gay men (and women) into leadership positions.
While our personal expirence has been that working for gays and lesbians has pretty much been a nightmare most of the time, Kirk says part of that problem stems from those leaders not having come out of the closet and coming to terms with their sexuality.
Do you think that having a gay boss who is comfortable with who he is (or a lesbian boss with similar attributes) would be a good thing to have, or more trouble than it's worth?
Listen to todays show as we grill Kirk about his book, about the nature of greed and exploitation, and why every major company in America better start considering queer leadership if they want to survive in the 21st century.
Buy Kirk Synder's book "The G Quotient" on Amazon by clicking here, and find out if you have got what it takes to be a powerful (but kind) CEO of a socially responsible multinational corporation. If you ever find one, let us know.
Featured Music:
Leslie Hall - Gold Pants: iTunes | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We were just relaxing, soaking in the ol' jacuzzi when our agent and gal pal Amanda Sylvia Steinstein dropped by to deliver the bad news that she might be going to jail.
It seems that sweet little Miss S. has had a horrible traffic ticket that has somehow escalated into a misdemeanor, and she's all upset that she might have to serve time in prison in Bumkinville. Poor Amanda! Fortunately Amanda has a wonderful father who suprises us all with a phone call. Did the apple fall far from the tree? You decide.
Meanwhile, Marc is all excited about some "Cock Flavoured Soup" that he found at the local Mexican grocery store. Pictured to the right is Marc hold the soup packet close to his crotch. And in case you were wondering, there is a "Cock Soup for the Soul" book as well. You can buy in from Amazon.com by clicking here.
On today's show we also talk a lot about dealing with the law, scary Russian clowns, candy, Beyonce getting her ass whipped by PETA, and the results of eating fish n' chips for your entire life.
Thanks to Mike Hipp from Soy Candles by Phebes who sent us a huge box of crazy candles and candy! Be a pal and buy a soy candle from him.Mike has a hot twin that he does not fuck. So pity him and buy some candles.
W.W.J.G.D.? What Would Jake Gyllenhaal Do? He'd download the Feast of Fools podcast, of course. And get himself a Feast of Fools t-shirt too!
Featured Music:
Mystechs - Escape from Planet Love: iTunes | Site
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
We are all over the place on this podcast. My good pal César Torres came over to knock down a couple of Backdoor Petunias, and to dish the dirt on Madonna's Chicago performance at the United Center this past Wednesday.
Listen to todays show to hear lots of dirty dirty talk on Madge's hot show- why seeing Madonna being crucified was boring, why there was tons of odd-looking people there taking their shirts off reluctantly, and why her show was still worth every penny.
When César isn't busy training for triathalons or writing in his blog, he works with children to develop hilarious musical comedy shows for adults with the local theater company Barrel of Monkeys.
In other major news former Feast of Fools guest Jil Sobule has joined forces with her fellow singer/songwriters Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis to form the "Broadband" a USA For Africa inspired girl-band whose purpose is to fight the evil telecommunications companies who want to gut the internet to their purposes and to keep you from listening to this podcast, and podcasts in general (as well as limiting your access to your favorite websites if they should so choose.)
Plus: A phone call from Marc's gal pal Cunis Diabolis, who has an awesome Flickr image/photo gallery where she doctors up vintage pics of flapper girls and burlesque beauties into sci-fi fantasy backgrounds. Pictured here on the right is one of her vintage image/collages titled "Strength at the Gate."
How do you spell hilarious? F-O-F.
Featured Music:
Gaye Adegbalola - Bitter Sweet Blues: iTunes | Amazon
The Broadband - God Save the Internet: SITE
A heated conversation builds around a fan Timmy Gilmore's letter about being hated because you look gay. I've always felt that the biggest obstacle gay people face is other gay people.
This lead us to talk about the nature of conflict and dramatization, and how it's inevitable. Whats avoidable is how we deal with conflict and how we overcome our differences.
Lots of talk about conflict in everyday life and in the political spectrum, and why Amanda Steinstein should be in the Alivn Ailey dance company. They have white people dancing with them now.
What would you do for $10,000 dollars? What's the most humiliating or unlikely behavior you will do for ten "G"s?
Marc does a lot of window shopping as he eyes the guys walking down the street. He tries to find one for Amanda but darn is she picky!
Lots of talk about circumcision. A divorced couple is arguing in court about wether to circumcise their kid or not. Why won't people just leave their dicks alone? Well, because they're fun to play with, but do we really need to take a foreskin to court?
We talk about the Michael L. Jackson trial which is getting under way and other crazy stories of people gone mad- like the man who attacked Amanda, the man who attacked a family at a shopping mall and the people that attacked Kevin Avaince and oh, Madonna shopping at H&M.
The podcast that does more "Quarter Turns" than a vending machine- the Feast of Fools!
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
FOF #329 - Annie and Beth's Big Aventure - 06.15.06
Around the same time that we started this podcast, former porn-star and performance artist Annie Sprinkle and her girlfriend (we mean that in the lesbian sense) sculptor Elizabeth Stephens decided to get married.
Not in the traditional sense, but in the way only two visionary artists can, by turning it into a lavish seven-year performance art piece. For the next seven years they will be having a wedding, and walking up the indian chakra energy centers by dedicating each year to a color of the rainbow and it's corresponding energy center.
You can check out their wonderful website documenting their work together at Loveartlab.org. The org stands for orgasm.
In many ways Annie and Elizabeth's marriage symbolize a fusion of old-school feminism (porn exploits women) and new-school feminism (orgasms are liberating for women).
Listen to our double date with the Sprinkles as we talk about how making art and putting themselves out there has affected them as a couple. Listen to why Annie did her public cervix announcement, why she decided to stop doing it, how did Elizabeth fall in love with Annie, and Elizabeth's fabulous bronzed porn star academic panty collection. The collection includes a ENORMOUS set of soiled underwear by Ron Jeremy forever cast in metal.
DON'T MISS THIS SHOW! If you live in the San Francisco/Bay Area, please make sure to go see Annie and Elizabeth's new show "Exposed" this weekend Friday, Saturday and Sunday June 16-18 at CounterPULSE, a fabulous alternative art space started by our sexy friend the performance artist Keith Hennessy. Please go see the show and tell us what you thought!
Make sure to check out Annie and Elizabeth's show. It just may save your life. Call (415) 435-7552 to buy tickets. You won't be disappointed.
Hook up your iPod to the iBuzz while listening to the Feast of Fools podcast, and you can have multiple pod-gasms every day!
Featured Books:
"Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex" by Annie Sprinkle: Amazon
"Post-Porn Modernist: My 25 Years as a Media Whore" by Annie Sprinkle (This is this book that has the photo of Fausto looking up Annie's cooter) Amazon
Featured Music:
Gaye Adegbalola - Bitter Sweet Blues: iTunes | Amazon
The Wet Spots-Ribbed For Pleasure: SITE
As much we really liked this new documentary film about his famous lecture on Global warming, we think he presented just a tip of the iceberg on the issue.
The man is a politician folks. So why didn't we hear more about how politicians and people are getting in the way of policies that help combat the destruction of the environment? Why has the U.S. abandoned the Kyoto treaty? Where are the people behind this story? We want the juicy details.
Marc, Amanda and myself are all in agreement that if you REALLY want to spread the word on global warming, a porn video would be a much better way of going about it. Think of it: "Man the CO2 levels in the atmosphere have made this day really hot, and I need to take my shirt off."
We want to know from you, our loyal listener, what to call this socially aware porn video. "An Inconvenient Juice?" How about "Silent Spring in My Pants," "A Hot Greenpeace of Ass" or "Porn Free?"
Please post on the comments page your titles.
Raising awareness one podcast at a time, but with sexy results- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Today we post a classic Feast of Fools podcast epsiode recorded almost one year ago exactly with Amanda Steinstein on June 30, 2005.
One year later, Bush is still fear-mongering, the goverment is still spying on you, and lesbian poetry is still as archaic as it always has been.
One would think the more things change the more they stay the same, however the good news is that our production values today are much much better, and Bush's approval rating was around 50%, a year later it is under 30%.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We had meant to grab something to eat at the ol' Nugét D'Or (Golden Nugget) and then we discovered the brand new gay gay gay hamburger joint here in our neck of woods of Chicago, Hamburger Mary's.
One of our long lost Feast of Fools pals, our favorite waitress in Andersonville Audrey Middaugh now works at Hamburger Mary's serving up delicious hamburgers with an extra side of sass. No charge of course.
Coincidentally we ran into the suprisingly cute and sexy co-owner of Hamburger Mary's Brandon Wright (Mr. Right to you) who runs and operates the joint with his identical twin brother (identical in every single way, if you know what we mean.)
Join me, your flaming blue pal named Fausto and sexy brown-eyed boyfriend named Marc as we go out of the house to grab something to eat and take you along for the ride!
Check out Hamburger Mary's website and pay them a visit for some fabulous burgers. Be sure to plan ahead, since they are PACKED.
We really don't know how to describe this show. George Takei left us all hot and bothered, and speechless.
So today, our good friend the Rev. DJ and NYC Peter joins us to talk about all sorts of lurid, evil, nasty junk. So of course, my mother calls to tell us how much she liked the interview with George Takei, and how proud she is of all of us.
And me being the ungreatful son, I cuss her out because she can't sing "Babalu" over the phone. So sorry mom. We're so sorry.
Pictured here is the Rev. DJ dispensing wisdom and general sexyness to all these hot white clueless young men in Chicago.
The podcast that breaks all taboos, and then puts the pieces back together again with crazy glue!
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Proudly going where no other Star Trek actor had gone before George Takei got back into the national spotlight last year when "beamed" out of the closet as a openly gay man and spoke candidly about his 19-year relationship with his life partner Brad Altman.
On today's show we'll be talking with actor George Takei who's best known for playing the role of Mr. Sulu on the original Star Trek television seires and in six subsequent Star Trek films.
George Takei makes his podcast debut as he joins us today to talk about the 40 year anniversary of star trek, his personal experience as a gay man in hollywood, why he came out, and why Howard Stern was able to trick George into thinking he was arguing with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
If you live in Chicagoland area, be sure to come out to the Pride Parade on Sunday June 25 where George Takei and his partner Brad Altman will be the grand marshalls.
The parade starts at noon at the corner of Halsted and Belmont, be sure to check us out too. We'll give you something really special!
•Click here to buy George Takei's autobiography "To The Stars" on Amazon.
•Click here to buy the audiobook version on iTunes.
The podcast that foolishly goes where no one dares to go- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
For some reason, the good people at D.C. Comics are now trying to diversify the D.C. universe by having strong African-American, Hispanic and Asian characters that appeal to introverted white teen-age boys with disposable income.
What's their latest new "diverse" character? A lesbian of course! Not a truck-driving, folk-music singing lesbian, but a 5'10" big-chested, small hipped sex-bomb lesbo who of course will appeal to horned up white teen-age boys with disosable incomes. The classic Batwoman character is being re-invented as a muff-diving, carpet-cleaning bona-fide Lesbian!
On todays show we talk about Batwoman's coming out as a lesbian, which inspires Amanda Steinstein to come out as a heterosexual woman. There has been much confusion about WHO Amanda Steinstein is, so we ask EVERY single question that is on your minds to Amanda to clear the air about just who this bold, puple and passionate yenta sitting across from us really is.
And what did we find out? That she's fabulous! Lots of talk about PETA-philes and Pedophiles, the wrester Chyna's enormous endowment and toilet humor.
The Feast of Fools is breastfast cereral of podcasts- chock full of fruits and nuts, and a whole lot of flakes!
It's always Armageddon on somebody's calendar somewhere. On today's ominous show (06-06-06) the devil has taken over our computer and is messing with our microphones. Can you hear the evil undertones in our recordings? It's saying "support the Feast of Fools podcast" and "get a t-shirt."
I guess that explains why were so sucessful!
Listen to our devilish podcast with Amanda Steinstein as we talk a lot about the little town of Hell in Michigan (what part of Michigan isnt hell?) and the political history of marriage.
Plus a phone call from Sean who tries to talk to some unhappy homosexuals at the happiest place on earth, and a letter from a listener.
W.W.J.G.D.? What Would Jake Gyllenhaal Do? He'd download the Feast of Fools podcast, of course.
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Rapadura is a commercial brand name of organic dried sugar cane juice.It's unfiltered, raw and sweet but with bitter-like savory overtones- much like this podcast!
Rapadura is also the Portuguese name for the dried up sugar cane jucie in a brick-shape that is made for easier transort, and sometimes sold as candy. We like the name, and we like its taste. You can usually find it on your local organic grocer shelves as Sucanat.
If you've never had the pleasure of trying out some unprocessed sugar cane juice or Sucanat Sugar in your tea or lemondae, we REALLY think you are in for a world of flavor. The molasses like deliciousness is waiting for you at your local organic grocer (better yet, order it though us by clicking here!) This stuff makes Sugar in the Raw taste as artificial as Sweet N' Low. We also like saying the name: "Rapadura."
On today's show my good Mexican-American gal-pal César Torres joins me to talk about trainging for the Triathalon in the Gay Games this July, healthy eating, Pres. George Bush's inevitable demise and how sometimes the process of discovery can sometimes mean the process of destruction.
Upon learning that he had been diagnosed with cancer and HIV, costumed entertainment diva Jo-Jo felt like his life was going to end. Not only was he afraid to cope with cancer but he also felt he was going to lose his current boyfriend at the time due to his discovery of his HIV positive status.
But Jo-Jo's boyfriend stayed at his side for two years, but eventualy left him. Undaunted, Jo-Jo continues this day making dolls, dazzling the boring people and acting as a shaman to bewitch people at nightclubs to let it all hang loose.
Listen to the podcast as we talk to Chicago's queen of the club kid scene about cancer, his dolls, his love life and his relationship with Andy Warhol scenester Greer Lankton.
Jojo hosts Green Dolphin Street nightclub's Boom Boom Room night on Mondays in Chicago. It's considered by many tinkly homo's as THE place to be on a monday night, and we suggest you should go and check out Jo-Jo, Gigi, Sal-E and the rest of the gang.
You can buy JoJo's delightful handmade stuffed lamb on Ebay.It's realy wonderful and charming. What a great gift for yourself or a loved one!
Cabaret singer Barry Rocklin lives and dies by the Feast of Fools podcast. He's downloaded our show to entertain himself while he entertains others in his cabaret act on the cruise ship where he works.
Barry has been everywhere. From Yokohama, Japan to Sczcecin, Poland, from Stockholm, Sweden to the notorious Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Barry has delighted audiences with his cheeky mix of standards and originals with a bit of a gay flair.
On today's show Barry brings over his bestest pal Patrick O'Malley to chew the fat about the entertainment business on the cruisy world of cruise ships. Patrick owns and operates a retro 1980's inspired arcade game parlor called "Starworlds" in DeKalb, Illinois.
The fascinating thing is that Patrick didn't really have a hard time coming out to his family, since his sister is a female to male transexual who looks a lot like Patrick himself! What a fabulous family to know.
We're still trying to get over the outrageous claim that televangelist Pat Roberton also known as the American Osama Bin Laden can leg press 2000 lbs, due to drinking his special "Age Defying Shake."
We say bring it on. I would love to see this hateful, brittle, racist man snap his legs in two as he vainfully tries to leg press a ton. The weight of a small car on this man's legs would at least break his kneecaps. Check out this video where he leg presses 1000 lbs. Ouch!
Just to give you an idea of what 2000 lbs. is, world powerlifter and bodybuilding champion Ronnie Coleman's record is 2,300.
It's not surprising to anyone that Pat Robertson is going around claiming supernatural feats of strength. He is someone who is WAY out of touch with reality, and has a inflated sense of self-importance. And you thought YOU spent too much time in front of the mirror.
In 1992 Pat wrote in a fundraising letter: "The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." Charming!
Click here for an delicious assortment of Pat's thoughts. Look, it's a SLOW news week, okay?
Also on this show, lots of talk about why the elderly are getting STD's (it's because of Viagra), breastfeeding civil disobedience, why the Gay Games is a scam, and why sometimes the open source model for collaboration can become a small fiefdom.
Click here to see the "Delete Immediately" comments on the Feast of Fools entry on Wikipedia. Click here to contribute to the Feast of Fools entry on Wikipedia. Special thanks goes out to Zara Tromans for helping to save our wikipedia entry from oblivion.
Does anyone know why we sometimes don't appear in the search bar at all?
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
The good people at Apple Computer asked us to record our show at the Apple Store in the beautiful downtown Michigan Avenue location as a way to promote our program to new audiences, and for the cache of recording the show in front of a live audience.
Okay, I'll admit that Marc and I are both big geeks at heart, despite our saavy ways and dashing looks (and humble demeanors) and the exciting possiblity of recording our show in front of a live studio audience was too good to pass up. We really wanted to put the rainbow back into the Apple Logo, which for many years has been just a solid color.
Although the audio quality leaves a lot to be desired on this (we tried folks) you can still hear the enthusiasm in the audience's laughter and the nervousness in our voices as we walked the tightrope of podcasting and recorded our show in front of a live studio audience.
Listen as Amanda Steinstein talks about online photo/dating tips, V-Marr talks about about why gay men dress up in drag, Miss Ronnie speaks from the heart, and me, Fausto and Marc give thanks to some of the gay, lesbian and trannie legends that came before us to where we are today.
We've been busy little beavers getting ready for the Apple Store LIVE recording tomorrow and so Sal-E, Victoria Lamarr, Ryan Slasinsky, and Marc and I decided to put down our glitter, all our crazy stuff and decided to put together a show, all FIVE OF US!
Today lots of gory details about Ryan's infected nipple piercing, the gay gay gay moment on television on American Idol where auditioner Michael Sandecki gets to sing "Don't Let The Sun Go Down on Me" with NOT openly gay Clay Aiken onstage on the final American Idol show, pretty much obliterating any interest in the contest itself and the winner. WHO won? Who cares? All we can wonder is who was repsonsible for making this moment happen and where do we send the bouquet of roses?
Pictured on the right is Clay Aiken and Michael Sandecki singing together. They turned the volume down on Michael quickly into the number.
Lots of talk about pot, chocolate, lemonade, and new advances in science as well, but thats not what's really important now, or is it?
Only ONE more day! Come see a live recording of the Feast of Fools podcast at the Apple Store, Saturday May 27th from 7-8pm! Best of all it's FREE, and an ALL AGES SHOW!
Marc loves zombies. Don't ask me why. He and Leslie Hall, who sings Zombie Killer are big zombie fans. So much that Marc came up with another catchphrase for our show based on Oprah's Legend Ball. Listen to it and tell us if you think its funny or dumb.
On today's show the the most beautiful woman (on the internet) Victoria Lamarr joins us to talk about the world's sexiest vegetarian. No it's not the vegetarian bodybuilder Mike Brazell (although we think he should at LEAST been considered for the title.) And of course they had to give the title to both a man and a woman, but where does that leave the veggie trannies?
Lots of talk about the Da-Vinci Code, crazy stork news, mental illness, vager badgers and a special phone call from our George W Bush impersonator! Listen and find out his TRUE identity.
Only 2 more days! Come see a live recording of the Feast of Fools podcast at the Apple Store, Saturday May 27th from 7-8pm! Best of all it's FREE, and an ALL AGES SHOW!
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We've been busy trying to get ready for the Apple Store event on Saturday, so please enjoy this classic Feast of Fools episode: "Riding Rosie."
One of our most requested shows, "Riding Rosie" was originally posted May 5, 2005.
Listen to our play by play coverage of Rosie O'Donnell's triumphant return to television, as she plays an autistic woman who's father dies and needs her uptight sister (played by Andie McDowell) to take care of her and reconcile their differences (fat/skinny, rich/poor, straight/gay, vanilla/freaky, ikea/michaels arts and crafts)
Also, Victoria Lamarr talks about her theatrical troupe, Scrap Mettle Soul, a theater company composed mostly of the mentally and physically disabled, as well as several homeless people. What a gay podcast!
The revolution will not be televised, but it's now available for download FREE on iTunes Music Store in the form of the Feast of Fools podcast.
Our good fan and friend Fergal Breen pictured on the right, was the listener who traveled the furthest to meet us face to face when we had our Meet N' Greet event in New York City last April.
We TOLD Fergie- "Plan on coming a day earlier, so in case your plane is delayed, you will still make it." He didn't listen to us and of course his plane was delayed. Nevertheless we were able to meet up with him and we had a lovely time on our last day in the city of Law and Order, Special Victims Unit.
On today's show Marc and I talk to Fergal and Jordanne over the phone about our show, and about Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball which we recorded last night. Lots of discussion on gay role models and who inspires me to do the crazy things I do.
Come see a live recording of the Feast of Fools podcast at the Apple Store, Saturday May 27th from 7-8pm! Best of all it's FREE.
Check out these awesome NEW photos taken on our last day in New York City this past April 2006.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We're so excited because today we have one of the world's oldest and most famous Castrati, the incomparable Alessandro Moreschi, pictured on the right. Click on the audio file at the bottom of the Wikipedia page for Moreschi to hear him sing. It's freaky.
Alessandro joins his lesser known Castrato singing buddies, Carlo Cortaballi and Benito Nonutzis to talk about his new album of religious music.
Also Marc, Fausto and V-Marr talk tons about suicide, gay teens, Star Trek's up and coming 40th anniversary events, Christie's Star Trek garage sale, and Albert Perry the 75 year old bodybuilder, pictured here.
If you're a gay teen contemplating suicide, call The Trevor Project- operates the nation's only round-the-clock, toll-free suicide prevention hotline for GLBTQQ youth. (1-866-4-U-Trevor)
Come see a live recording of the Feast of Fools podcast at the Apple Store, Saturday May 27th from 7-8pm! Best of all it's FREE.
Featured Music:
Ellen Rosner - The Perfect Malcontent: CD Baby | Amazon
If today's supposed to be the happiest day of the year then why do we feel so lousy?
According to the Ananova.com newsource, "experts" say today is supposed to be the happiest day of the year because it's the sunniest day of spring. Yeah. Right. Then why is it raining outsisde?
Today my good pal Matthew Simonette joins me to talk about bad theater, film and music. Will and Grace going off the air (we saw, we listened, we ho-hummed) and the sexy Canadian Mounties who are getting married!
Pictured on the right is the lovely couple- Jason Tree, 27, and David Connors, 28, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, whom will tie the knot next month in their scarlet dress uniforms. HOT! Can't wait to see those pictures. Now see, this is good news we can use and use and use again.
Thanks to our lovely listener Terry Taylor from Nova Scotia, who turned us onto this real-life sexy gay couple from Canada who are getting married this week. We want to know where is the "adult" film with these themes? We looked high and low on Google and found nothing of the sort.
Come see a live recording of the Feast of Fools podcast at the Apple Store, Saturday May 27th from 7-8pm! Best of all it's FREE.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Doing a comedy show based on the lives of real people means that you don't always get to have them on the show whenever you want. As you may or may not know, Chicago's very own BMW (that's Big Mexican Woman for you ignunt folks) Miss Ronnie has been studying hard for finals and hasn't had the time to tape a show.
But that doesn't mean you can't get Ronnie whenever you want her! Our lovely listener Gary Caplehorne in the UK put together a fab assortment of audio clips dating back several months of hilarious "Ronnie-isms" to delight your ears, warm your heart and plain scare the living crap out of you. He has created a "Robo Ronnie 2006." It sounds kind of like Hal from "2001: A Space Odessey," but with a "Blaxican" (you figure it out) accent.
Listen to the show as we talk about one of our favorite new websites myscienceproject.org, poor people getting shafted by the electric company, the AIDS phone, and the unknown health benefits of radiation.
We also make apologies to Paul McCartney and his wife, Heather Mills McCartney, for their separation because of our "constant intrusion into [their] private lives" by outing Paul's amputee fetish. If you've seen "Hustler White" then you know what we are talking about.
Come see a live recording of the Feast of Fools podcast at the Apple Store, Saturday May 27th from 7-8pm! Best of all it's FREE.
Featured Music:
Ellen Rosner - The Perfect Malcontent: CD Baby | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Musician Scott Free decided many years ago that there weren't enough venues or events for openly gay musicians to perform at, so after seeing one too many Feast of Fools shows, he decided to put on a queer music festival to celebrate some of the best GLBTQ musicians out there.
In many ways Scott Free's fabulous jazz show with drag queen Vaginal Creme Davis was an impetus for us here in Chicago to develop the very first Feast of Fools show nine years ago.
Today, the Old Town School of Folk music is proud to celebrate one of the most electric, diverse nights of it's programming with Scott Free's hand-picked festival of gay and lesbian musical delights- the Alt Q Music Festival. And no, it has nothing to do with typing or computer programming.
In years past the festival has attracted some of the heavy guns of queer music like Jil Sobule, Dylan Rice with STYX's Chuck Panozzo, Phranc, Ferron, Grant Hart of Hüsker Dü and even Bitch and Animal back when they were together.
Today Scott brings over the cute and delightful young lesbi-lovely Carrie Lydon and Kate Rickenbacker to play their brand new song "A Better Life", which they will be playing in person this weekend at the show with Toshi Reagon, Erin McKeown, The Prince Myshkins and Brady Earnhart.
Come to the show! We'll be there in the front row taking pictures of the event, interviewing folks for the podcast. Will you be there?
FOF #310 - Treason is the Reason for the Season - 05.16.06
[NOTE: We've reposted this show due to tech problems.] The reason why the phone companies are cooperating with the Republicans in power to sell you out is because they want them to look the other way when they start exorting big and small websites for access to content.
If AT&T had a dispute with any Unions, it can simply block users from getting access to any website or blogs that discuss this matter in an unfavorable light. They could even block sites like Moveon.org to get favors from the current administration. Like Net Neutrality.
If you think this is paranoid or Orwellian, think again. The fact is that AT&T, Verizon, and BellSouth turned over all YOUR phone records without your consent or notification just because Bush asked for them. Blocking a site or two wouldn't be out of the question as well. Why aren't more podcasters and bloggers talking about this?
On a happier note, Victoria Lamarr suprises us all with a phone call from her can, talking about her woes in trying to get a sex change in Mexico. Lots of news about monkeys and alcohol (they like to drink just like us!) and if you live in Florida, you better watch out for those gators!
Pictured on the right is a monkey having a delicious wine cooler after a long hard day of being used as a lab animal for a major cosmetics company.
All the flavor, none of the calories, now with 20% more fresh fruit flavah, the Feast of Fools!
Featured Music:
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
The Wet Spots-Ribbed For Pleasure: SITE
FOF #309 - On the Down Low with Big Bro - 05.15.06
Don't mess with us! Here at the world's most downloaded gay podcast were part of the mega-powerful internet cartel. We're SO tight with Google you don't even know. We share a jacuzzi with Yahoo. Bill Gates dines at my house every Friday and Steve Jobs comes over to watch HBO's Big Love on Sunday evenings. Linus Torvalds and I love going to stripper bars together (he swings both ways).
And even on that, we still have to beg and plead our listeners to donate money for our bandwidth costs. For all our high-profile connections, we still depend on you, the listener, to be THE bread and butter of the Bold Blue Company.
Without your emails letting us know about the kitschiest, craziest stuff happening in the news, without your sexy pics on our frappr map, without your myspace friendship, we'd be NOWHERE. Nothing. Zilch. Kaput. Nada fucking thing.
So let me tell you what we're going to do on today's show. We're going to reveal to you, the listener, a way that you too can become a superstar podcaster! Just like us podcasting superstar types.
Listen to today's show in order to find out how you too can get hundreds of new listeners for any podcast, without even needing to post it on the internet, without any special equipment. You can do this with stuff you already have in the PRIVACY of your own home. Well, in the comfort of your own home.
Join the Rev. DJ, my sweet husband Marc and me your blue pal as we talk about this and many more delicious topics on todays show.
The podcast that can handle the truth, WE CAN HANDLE THE TRUTH!- the Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Eeew! Pete Burns is pretty creepy looking these days. Our fab nighclub personality Sal-E joins us today to talk about Pete Burns' new book "Freak Unique."
Pete Burns got his start in the 1980's at the height of Culture Club's fame with his own band Dead or Alive. His look rivaled that of Boy George's with a dark eyepatch, tons of makeup and wild hair. Nowdays Mister Burns looks like a blow-up sex doll and gets arrested for public fights with his boyfriend.
I know we said we weren't linking to the disgusting photo of him showing his jewels during performance, but here it is. Thanks to Wayne in the UK for it! NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART.
Lots of talk about immigrant woes at hair salons, the World Music Conference, the Nukak-Makú's (aboriginal people from Columbia) desire to join the modern world, drug use in nightclubs, and Sal-E's uncanny ability to guess Madonna or Cher's music by listening to half a second of their music!
Have you seen the reality TV show on Fox called Unan1mous? Well, it turns out that one of the people on the show is rumored to have been on a gay porn site. And the rumor is true!
On the show his name is Jonathan. On the gay porn site his model name was Tino. hmmm... wonder why he changed his name?
Time goes by, so solly. Time go bai, con Loli! We just can't get the fabulous "La Terremoto del Alcorcón" cover of Madonna's "Time Goes By" out of our heads. Have you seen this yet? Click here to check it out.
Today we do tons of Madge bashing. It seems Aunt Esther has decided to show off her boobies in the next issue of W Magazine in a glorious 58 page spread, dressed as a horse rider for the shoot.
Her publicist goes on to say: "Madonna still looks amazing even thought she is 47. She has always been comfortable about showing off her body… in one [photo] she is dressed as an English horse rider but there is a SEXY TWIST as she has her boobs out."
In other Madonna news, she goes on Issac Mizrahi's show to reveal that her daughter Lourdes often gets frustrated by her mother's fame. Madonna says she's a "crap mother" who like many working moms struggles to balance career with her family life.
Although we find it hard to see a "Mommie Dearest" book put out by little Lourdes in the future, we can definitively see an angry mom children's book put out by Madonna: "My Daughter is a Cunt." We wish them the best.
On today's show our good pal Matthew Simonette (picture above) comes by to chew the fat about healthcare, summer movies, urban legends, and old remedies for allergies that Japanese researches are discovering. PLUS! A special suprise phone call from a very VERY famous politician.
You SO crazy Feast of Fools.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
It's not like us to be easily offended. But Mary Cheney's dance around her rich, powerful family's politics is on the point of the ridiculous. Thank god gas prices are where they are that hopefully some of the gas companies shills will be ousted in the US elections come November. That is, if they don't get stolen.
On today's show lots of talk about the humor of death and disease, why we think comedy is a great way to cope and reflect on the challenges of life, brothers for science and religion, why Germans have pent up desires to be more colorful than they are and more immgration news.
I wonder what Yoko Ono has to say about all the Apple vs. Apple lawyer feeding frenzy?
A Feast of Fools a day helps you work, rest and play.
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Ferron - Impressionistic: iTunes | Amazon
FOFA #224 - Leslie Hall, the Glitter Goddess - 05.08.06
Today we look back at a very special "behind the scenes" show where we talked this past December to the glitter goddess, Leslie Hall. Enjoy!
The keeper of "thy gems" Leslie Hall is without a doubt a HUGE internet phenomenon. Just about a year ago Leslie was one of our first interviews on our podcast, where she had started getting the attention she deserved for her iconic photographs of herself with her hundreds of gem sweaters.
You may have seen a gem sweater on the lady at the checkout counter, on your high school home ec. teacher or on that lady that keeps on raving about the bible. But you've never seen anybody own it and reinvent it like Leslie Hall.
This past December Marc and Fausto hanged out with the Gem Sweater Diva herself as she got ready for her fabous live performance at the Beat Kitchen in Chicago, Illinois.
Did you know that Leslie's mom REALLY does make her gold pants, and pretty much anything she wears onstage. This frees up Leslie to concentrate on her music, her graphic design, the development of her website and shaking her body onstage to a seismatic intensity.
To this date Leslie is one of the most popular musicians on myspace and holds an internet following that rivals our own! (We brag, we boast.) Follow us as we talk to Leslie while she transforms from the cute college co-ed to the lighting hot rock and gem diva she was meant to be.
Heads up! If you ever go see Leslie in person, make sure you go to your local thrift store and get yourself a fab gem sweater. Remember how much you paid, because the tacky girl will ASK! Then look out, because you'll be showered with praise and perhaps even more. You'll just have to take our word for it. It's a religious experience.
FOF #305 - Tiptoeing Through the Tulips - 05.07.06
Spring showers bring May flowers and what fabulous flowers they are! Most of my family flew in from Puerto Rico to Chicago to celebrate my younger sister Talia's graduation from her doctorate program in Math from UIC. She's Doctor Talia now.
So exhausted with my family, my sister Beatriz and her daughter Victoria (V-Mo), and Marc and I went for a walk around the neighborhood admiring the flowers around to a local lesbian bar to bridge the gap between straight women and lesbians. And also give my 15 year old niece Victoria a heaping dosage of big-city lesbian culture (out on the sidewalk, of course.)
It seems some guys have been going around bars in the neighborhood, putting GHB into lesbians drinks and luring them outside. Nasty stuff.
Click here to check out the lovely pics taken during out walk.
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark is crazy about dogs. The honorary president of the Danish Dachshund Club, recently told the Ud & Se Danish magazine “Dog meat tastes like rabbit. Like dried baby goat. Or perhaps - I know! - like veal. Like the veal of a baby suckling calf, only drier.” That's hot.
According to the interview, the Prince is rarely seen without his dachshunds. He has said that he would like to be reborn as a dachshund in the Danish Court. And he has advised parents “to bring up children like dogs”.
On todays show we talk a whole lot about the love that dare not speak it's name: cannibalism. Trojan horses, Brokeback Mountain, and Clay Aiken being banished from some Christian fashion show in Atlanta. Too bad the Hotlanta Circuit Party went out of business in 2004. That would have been a good gig for him.
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Kinsey Sicks - Sicks in the City: CD Baby | Amazon | Site
El Vez - (Not all songs are on iTunes): iTunes | Amazon | Site
The podcast that melts in your mouth AND in your pants- the Feast of Fools.
We had asked comedian Margaret Cho on Monday's show if she would give former President Bill Clinton a blow job if he asked her for one, and she said yes. When I asked further if she'd give President Bush one, she declined (for obvious reasons.)
As for myself, I'm pretty bi-partisan when it comes to giving politicians blow jobs. Any President who asks for a spit shine from any of his citizens should get one, because he has his finger on the "button." Anything that helps prevent a nuclear holocaust by getting our leader a little more relaxed does everyone a "world of good." Even McDonna says so, and since I'm gay, that's good enough for me!
On today's show Amanda Steinstein and her pal Noah come over to talk about giving blow jobs to political leaders, weighing in on immigration rights, geography and the ethics of following the law. Why do we feel so qualified to talk about these things? Because we watch a LOT of C-Span. Okay?
Pictured to the right is President Bush in 2004, about to get a big fat kiss from some Republican shill. They look so cute wearing the same kimono! And he says he didn't see Brokeback Mountain.
Featured Music:
Ellen Rosner - The Perfect Malcontent: CD Baby | Amazon
Wet Spots - Ribbed For Pleasure: Site
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This show is not for children. That being said, we talk a whole lot about fairy tales and why they are inherently gay in nature. Some Judeo-Christian parents in Massachusets (of all places) are suing the public school system for reading a story about a King who marries another King (in reality they just had sex) and not notifying them first.
Did you know that Lysol in the 1940-50's advertised its product for use for female hygene? Special thanks to our listener Cameron Brown who emailed us such great scans of these outrageous ads. Click here to check them out.
On today's show Marc and Fausto talk a whole lot about Mexican immigration, seaweed wine, fructose beverages banned from schools, and why Americans are sicker than the British.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
The podcast that boldly goes where no other podcast has gone before- the Feast of Fools.
Today we tackle some of the most heated political topics of our time: immigration rights, homelessness, morbid obesity, the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the hit films made from it!
Today's show title come directly from Victoria Lamar's mouth. When we traveled last month up to New York City for our fabulous Meet N' Greet, all the way up there she said "I want to see Ground September Eleven." Every possible combination: "Nine-Oh-Oh-One, Zero Nine Eleven, September Zero, Flight Nine Eleven, America United at Ground Eleven." Every scrambled combination of the key words you can possibly imagine, all except "Ground Zero." She makes the event sound like some sort of deli meat. "Ground September Eleven, half off."
In a lot of ways V-Marr is deeply in touch with the way the rest of the country feels: confused and conflicted. Everyone feels terribly betrayed by the current Bush administration in their use of such a horrible terrorist act as a way of gaining political power and the expense of international and local good will.
So where does America go? To the movies of course! Everyone's lining up to see a giant metal cylinder hurtling towards doom. (No I'm not talking about Robin Willams' latest disaster "RV.") It seems from reading a lot of critic's reviews, the new film "United 93" seems like it's not so bad.
Comedy heroine and freedom fighter Margaret Cho joins us today in an exclusive podcast interview to celebrate the 300th episode of the Feast of Fools podcast. Happy May Day!
Born in the late 60's in San Francisco, Margaret Cho grew up in a counter-cultural atmosphere that helped shape her comedic sensiblities.
In the mid-90's she joined the ranks of comedians (Ellen DeGeneres, Tim Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, Rosanne and Drew Carey) that have had their acts turned into a sitcom when ABC televsion decided to have her star on the sitcom "All American Girl."
The behind-the-scenes conflict with tv excecutives over ethinc identity and her body plus problems with poor ratings left this critically acclaimed program canceled after it's first year.
Not to be daunted, Margaret Cho returned to the national spotlight with her off-broadway hit show "I'm The One That I Want" about her experiences on the tv show.
In 2003 she embarked on a sold-out national tour of her show "Revolution" of which the CD was nominated for a Grammy for best comedy album of the year for 2003. She also won a "Worst Dressed" award for the dress she wore to the awards ceremony.
Not a person to shy away from controversy, her comments about the Bush administration at a Moveon.org political rally (where she said "Laura Bush's pussy tastes like Lysol") made her the focus of an intense conservative backlash.
Laughing all the way to the bank, Maraget Cho now holds the distinction of having the feature film of her off-broadway show brake records for grossing more per print than any film in history ($1.4 million with only nine prints).
Margaret Cho returns to Chicago on Sunday July 16th to the Chicago Theater to perform a new show "Freedom ‘06." Click here to buy your tickets in advance.
Listen to this remarkable outspoken woman talk candidly about politics, shyness, family, career and sexuality on the 300th show of the Feast of Fools podcast.
Featured Music & Comedy Albums:
Margaret Cho: iTunes | Amazon
Ellen Rosner - The Perfect Malcontent: CD Baby | Amazon
Dennis Kitchen - GrooveIt: Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
The podcast that is as delicious as a slice of heaven in your mouth- the Feast of Fools.
The last three weeks have been a whirlwind for our big, beautiful and purple pal Amanda Sylvia Steinstein. First she went to visit her family in Massachusetts, then off to New York City for our Meet N' Greet, and then she and her mom spent an entire week traveling the Caribbean in a glamorous cruise liner. Sucks to be you Amanda!
On today's show A.S.S. reminisces on walking around Puerto Rico and visiting El Yunque Tropical Rainforest (the only tropical rainforest in the US Forest Preserve.) We also talk about our Meet N' Greet in New York City and all sorts of different types of Beauty Pageants, including the Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant. Do you guys think Amanda would win?
Pictured on the right is Miss Klingon Empire 2004 "Captain KheTara sutai Lorenssith," (Christine Evans-Arriaga.) We think she looks a lot like the winner of Miss Continental 2004.
Click here to buy your tickets to The Wet Spots "Sing Your Way to Better Sex" at the Lakeshore Theater, Chicago IL this Friday and Saturday April 28 & 29. Or call (773) 472-3492.
COMING ON MONDAY: Feast of Fools celebrates our 300th show with an exclusive interview with writer, comedian and filmmaker Margaret Cho! The outspoken comic makes her podcasting debut with an in-depth discussion about American politics, her writing process, what she really is like when she's not onstage, and what her vagina would say if it could write it's own monolouge.
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
The Wet Spots-Ribbed For Pleasure: SITE
Redefining radio one podcast at a time- the Feast of Fools.
Cass King and John Woods first started dating under the pretense of wanting to collaborate musically. The first year the couple met, they spent mostly discovering each other, you know, in BED.
These days the newly married polyamorous couple has turned their love for each other, sex and music into a superb act called The Wet Spots. Think of them as the sex-ed class you never had but should have, reincarnated as a jazzy cabaret musical show.
Check out this hilarious video of their new song "Do You Take It in the Ass?"
The Wet Spots' music seems to be a delightful fusion of "Exotica" (post-World War Two Polynesian influenced lounge music), Cabaret, rock, and lots of sexy lyrics thrown in for good measure. This polyamorous couple bring in influences of Martin Denny,Yma Summac,Esquivel and Perez Prado all into one hypnotic, entrancing, hilarious show about sex education.
Cass and John have traveled all the way from Toronto, Canada all the way to the Windy City to perform their special show "Sing Your Way to Better Sex" at the Lakeshore theater THIS weekend. Go check out their show, it looks like loads of fun. I'll be there at the second showing on Saturday night!
Listen to todays show as Marc and Fausto hang out in their swinging pad with these cool cats (Cass and John) as we talk about their show, taking it up the ass, how they met, bisexuality, polyamory, religion as a disease, and why acid and syphyllus are making a big comeback, and why embracing sexuality in all it's rich and colorful forms is so important (and fun.) Thanks to fab listeners Bradford from Durham NC and Jim Leija from Michigan for turning us on to them!
Listen to the show for details on how you can win a pair of tickets to their show this weekend!
Click here to buy your tickets to The Wetspots "Sing Your Way to Better Sex" at the Lakeshore Theater, Chicago IL this Friday and Saturday April 28 & 29. Or call (773) 472-3492.
Featured Music:
The Wet Spots-Ribbed For Pleasure: SITE
The podcast that's like a disease with no known cure- the Feast of Fools.
Come take a little trip with me and my good pal the Rev. DJ (who is neither an ordained minister nor a professional disk jockey) as we leave the house for some fun and music at the local gay watering ho' (that's gay bar in English), the Jackhammer, for the Flesh Hungry Dog Show, an evening of fabulous rock and roll bands.
Listen to us talk to Pearly Sweets, the lead singer for Baby Teeth about his music, his new albums, and why music can sometimes be a matter of life and death. Listen to us talk to Baby Teeth drummer Peter Andreatis' roommate Miriam about fisting and hear one of the strippers changing backstage at Jackhammer.
Featured Music:
Jen Porter - How it Feels: CD Baby
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
You always learn new things from podcasts. On today's show, two of our favorite animal rights activits, Mike Brazel and Sebastian Zoech drive all the way to Chicago to hang out with Ronnie, Marc and Fausto to talk about their adventures on the road.
It seems that PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) spends some money sending these handsome young men to small towns to help raise awareness of animal rights and vegetarianism. And considering how handsome and cute these guys are, who wouldn't want to listen?
On today's show Miss Ronnie opens up fab fan tribute packages, and reveals to us that the REAL Cleopatra was in fact a hairy ape. The "beautiful" Egyptian woman everyone thinks about was actually Queen Nefretiti, a totally different person.
Check out these lovely pics taken at Fausto and Marc's place.
On a lovely spring day like today, V-Marr begins the show by destroying the microphone with the power of her singing voice. You gotta understand, we're all inspired into a frenzy by the Cher/Tina Turner/Kate Smith Beatles medley that's getting passed around the internet lately like the eubola virus.
Join us on a magical mystery tour of Andersonville, the neighborhood in Chicago where we all live our lives. Come tiptoe through the tulips as Fausto, Marc and V-Marr get out of the house for some fresh air, a cup of coffee and a deep discussion with Fausto's sister Talia Fernós about math, science, and the nature of the universe.
The podcast that gets out of the house- the Feast of Fools.
Kiki, the world's most miserable lesbian joins us today to talk about personal pet peeves in interpersonal relationships.
Kiki wants to know if people out there are as fed up with mass media marketing as she is, or is she all alone? Kiki is kind of shy, so she doesn't talk much. She's a woman of action and satisfaction. We chat about her love of Star Wars and what Marc considers to be lesbian sex.
We cover some crazy topics like topless stamps in Canada and why Muslims can only shit in certain positions.
Marc gives a shout out to all our French speaking listeners at the request of Yves, who we met at the NYC "meet 'n greet." Marc got a little awkward during it because Kiki and Fausto were staring at him like he was from another planet.
One of our lovely listeners, Tom Armstrong came all the way to the USA to help celebrate my birthday and brought over an AUTHENTIC bottle of Absinthe which of course we promptly consumed.
We really didn't think it would have any effect on us, but now listening back on this show, I guess it did drive us off the cliff. You'll just have to listen to me and Miss Ronnie beating a dead horse to the ground.
What I want to know is what Cher, Tina Turner, Kate Smith, TIm Conway and Earth Wind and Fire were thinking (or what were they drinking) when they decided to do a very unrehearsed Beatles medley on the 1970's Cher show? [Note: Be patient downloading this video, it's so bad it's really good.]
In case you want to see more photos of our sexy strong-armed friend Tom Armstrong, click here to check them out.
Entertaining you by any means necessary- the Feast of Fools.
As if we can't say thank you enough here we go again. Today Marc, Ronnie and myself remenisce on all the lovely colorful people we met at our fabulous Meet N' Greet last Thursday at the Starlight Bar Lounge in New York City.
Who were some of the sexiest listeners? Who were some of the strangest?
In the picture to the right, Marc found this on a train seat on his way home from Miss Continental Plus, the worlds fattest drag queen pageant. He asked an Indian guy sitting next to him "What's that?" and his reply was "I think that it is a bra for the gay."
Everyone around chuckled. Does anyone know what this is?
Check out our gallery of pics taken at our Meet N' Greet: NYC.
It melts in your mouth, and in your pants. The Feast of Fools.
Comedian and animator Adam Pierce began his entertainment career in sketch comedy where he met his wife and began the sucessful New York based animation studio, Charged.
A former member of the comedy troupe Scary Little Town, Adam became the head of the animation department at Charged after a successful run as one of the top animators on the Fox series "The PJs" for Will Vinton Studios. Before the PJs, Adam was an animator on the long running series "Celebrity Deathmatch" and the pilot "Hormone High," both for MTV Animation. At Charged Adam has headed up animation projects for Oxygen, The Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon Movies, and The Bernie Mac Show, and well as directed a segment for the VH-1 pilot "99.9% True."
Follow Victoria Lamarr and me, Fausto Fernós as Adam shows us around his playground of hilarity, where they produce the Smoking Gun TV shorts and MTV's Celebrity Deathmatch.
Check out these lovely pictures taken from the tour of the Charged studio.
Today we take a few steps back in time and give you a behind the scenes "view" of our fabulous, glamorous trip to New York City. I really should have posted this the day we recorded it, since it seems dated, but it's hilarious nonetheless.
Fausto and V-Marr begin the show improvising a terrible B-Way musical about going to New York for the Meet N' Greet. Then at the Airport, tons of commotion happens when Miss Ronnie spots a young porn star incognito and asks him if in fact he is who she thinks he is, and will he talk with us for the show. What happened? Listen and find out.
Buy a print of the Meet N' Greet! Professional photographer Jason Smith came all the way from Philly to take some fabulous pics (they really are great) and did the liberty to post the pictures on the website. Click here to check them out.
FOF #289 - The World's Largest Gay Neighborhood - 04.14.06
Good people of the world give us your hungry huddled masses yearning for something good to put into their iPods. Give us your freaks, your misfits, your outcasts who go by voiceless and nameless and we will give you the best darn tootin gay podcast in the world, the Feast of Fools.
Today we play the "keynote" presentation from our wildy fun Meet N' Greet in New York City we recorded last night. Listen to me, Fausto Fernós, Marc Felion, Amanda Steinstein, Miss Ronnie and Ann Coulter (Victoria Lamarr couldn't make it.)
Thanks so much to all the wonderful people who came, and the good folks who help sponsor the trip to New York, and Mark Meyerhoff for helping to put it all together.
Pictured to the right is Marc, Yves, Fausto and the legendary Big Papi L who were all delightul and fabulous. Stay tuned next week for fabulous photos, videos, and podcasts from the city that never sleeps.
Thompson Square park in New York City has a special holy ground for hippies and for gays. It seems that BOTH the Hare Krishna religion and Wigstock can trace their origins to the exact same spot in this location.
In the 1960's some hippies came up with a countercultural religion based on eastern hindu/buddism, and in the 1980's some drag queens came up with a performance festival who'se cultural impact on gays, drag queens, fashion and performance reach far and wide (and on this show as well.)
Listen to our first segment taping IN PERSON from New York City, with Miss Understood, John Q Sanchez, Fausto Fernós (that's me), Marc Felion, Miss Ronnie and Victoria Lamarr.
Learn about the history of gay culture in New York City and the excitment in our voices as we prepare in anticipation for our very first Meet N' Greet, blocks away from the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern gay rights movent.
Also, on Sunday April 16, will be my 34th birthday! Wish me a Happy Birthday people! On Monday we'll be posting all the fabulous photos taken from our New York City trip.
Always fresh, fruity and delicious, the Feast of Fools.
See you tonight at our Meet N' Greet! Don't miss the fun tonight at the Starlight Bar Lounge in New York City. Join us for some informal fun, freaks, cake, and kitsch. We REALLY recommend you be there at 7pm to check out all the fun, but if you can't make it on time because of religious reasons, swing by after your supper and join us.
Last Saturday my good pal D.J. (who has never worked as a nightclub deejay) and I got all spiffied up and drove down to the Chicago Hilton for the Center on Halsted's annual gala dinner. Lots of swanky gay men walking around, and of course the TWO words we love: "OPEN BAR."
After we had filled out tanks with some delicious dinner and wine, we went and tried to enjoy Irene Cara (yes, the legendary Irene) singing her heart out despite the terrible weave she had going.
Come be a fly on the wall as DJ and I serenade you and take you out for a fancy gay night on the town in Chicago.
Just two more days to our Meet N' Greet: New York City! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $812 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
FOF #286 - Fabulous Films You Should See - 04.11.06
We're getting ready to go to New York City so today we dig up a little gem of a show Ronnie and I taped a month ago for a rainy day like today.
Marc had had a panic attack, Miss Ronnie was still reeling from Canfield's Diet 50/50 withdrawal, and I was feeling a bit amiss myself having voted for a Republican at the last elections here in Chicago. Did I make a mistake by voting for Judy Baar Topinka? We are living in screwy times.
On todays show we share with you, our lovely friends, some of our favorite films you might have seen, but if you HAVEN'T, you should.
To see the list of the movies, click on the extended entry.
Featured Music:
Ferron - Turning Into Beautiful: iTunes | CD Baby | Site
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
W.W.J.G.D.? What Would Jake Gyllenhaal Do? He'd download the Feast of Fools podcast, of course.
Just two more days to our Meet N' Greet: New York City! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $812 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Lesbian folksinger Ferron bought her first guitar as a young woman from cutting grass for $1 an hour. She was so nervous at her first gig, she could barely stand up to play.
Through the years a lot has changed, she's gotten married, is a mom, struggled with a major record company, and has become one of the seminal figures (or should that be "ovarial" figures) in women's music.
Ferron nowdays lives on Saturna Island, a small island in British Columbia with her partner. A mini isle of lesbos, she travels all over the world sharing her passion and her voice for the icon of a traveling musician. She's just release her first album of original music in over seven years, "Turning Into Beautiful."
Today we talk with the beloved lesbian musician Ferron about women's music, why Canada is such a stomping ground for lesbian folk musicians, the heated debate over transgendered inclusivity in lesbian seperatism and why she thinks that change is happening, and why heated discussions on gender might save the GLBT community in the future.
Featured Music:
Ferron - Turning Into Beautiful: iTunes | CD Baby | Site
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $812 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Fish tits, the memorable NYC drag queen Aquadesia, also known as best-selling author Josh Killmer-Purcell joins us in the house today for an irreverent debate with PETA activist Mike Brazell about vegetarianism, using animals in entertainment, pro-life and animal-rights. Josh's controversial costume has recently come into a lot of controversy because it incorporated two clear water-filled acrylic spheres holding a goldfish in each as part of his costume and as the cover of his new book "I Am Not Myself These Days."
PETA (that's People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals... shouldn't it be called PFTETA?) ain't too happy with this, and so their cute representative Mike Brazell makes an earnest plea for all future drag queens out there to NOT use animals of any kind in their costumes. We ain't kidding.
Listen to this funky conversation about why you should become a vegan or why you should enjoy having goldfish as pets. It's all over the place, and a whole lot of fun.
If you want to know more about Josh Kilmer-Purcell, check out this definitive interview we did with him this past february by clicking here.
Buy his New York Times best-selling book "I Am Not Myself These Days" on Amazon.
Check out the adorable Mike Brazell dressed up as a mad cow by clicking here.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $812 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
FOF #283 - The Man Who Put the F.U. in Funny - 04.06.06
Bruce Vilanch put the F. U. in funny for a lot of folks. And boy does he on todays podcast! Bruce comes on the show today to talk about why he's coming to Chicago in May, why the Academy Awards blackballed Brokeback and where he keeps all his t-shirts.
Bruce started his career as a journalist in Chicago, after trying to make it as an actor. His career took off as a comedy writer when stage comedy legend Bette Midler hired him to "punch up" (write jokes) her act. He later moved to Los Angeles where he wrote for television shows like Cher's post-Sonny tv variety hour titled "Cher" (imagine that!) He also wrote a lot of material for Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin and Joan Rivers. And of course, Bruce Vilanch is the man behind most of your favorite jokes that appear on the Oscars and the Tony award ceremonies. He makes these shows watchable. We think that next year he should hold his jokes hostage and demand that a gay man host the ceremonies. It's the least he can do after the tragdy of having "Brokeback Mountain" lose to "Crash."
He took over the part of Edna Turnblad from Harvey Fierstein in the popular Broadway hit "Hairspray" and talks about John Travolta taking on the role for the film adaptation of the brodway musical adapation of the original film. Whew.
Bruce will be in town on Memorial Day Weekend to host the International Male Leather Contest.This "leather get together" is a must for leather and fetish fanatics. It's always amazing to see a fancy hotel like the Palmer House Hilton overun with Leather men, slaves, domanitrixes, and all sorts of assorted sexual freaks from all over the world. Yes, we'll be there to cover the event again.
Buy Bruce Vilanch's 1999 definitive documentary "Get Bruce!" on DVD on Amazon.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $812 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
People tend to overuse the word "Diva." But sometimes, the title seems fitting. It ceertainly does in Miss Ronnie's case. She is "la bomba atomica" of podcasting. And people, stand back! Cause Ronnie is MAD for lots of reasons. If the Feast of Fools was an opera, every show with Ronnie would have an aria. Today she sings like Maria Callas.
In this show Miss Ronnie throws a huge temper tantrum because we ran out of Canfield's Diet 50/50 carbonated citrus beverage. It's like a low-calorie Squirt, and of course the name helps to add a certain "ghetto fabulousness" because you can say say "fiddy fiddy." Note: I got confused and you can't order it online anywhere except through peapod. Sorry folks!
We try and try to calm Miss Ronnie down, but nothing seems to work. Listen as we talk about new AIDS/HIV medication treatments, digital tombstones, and the loveably poisonous komodo dragon named "Faust" which recently got adobted by the local Shedd Aquarium. True story.
Biting like a posinous black tarantula- the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $812 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Today Marc and Fausto do what is unheard of in the podcasting world-they leave the house! Yes they really do. Ronnie calls us up early, well, early for us and invites us to take a trip down the street to Over Easy Restaurant for some delicious brunch. Little did she know that we were in the mood to podcast. Surprised as she was to see the recorder in our hands when we pulled up, she was a good sport about it and we had a lot of fun.
Join us in this unscripted, unedited fun as we dish out the dirt about life on the "down low." We chat about the tv show about closeted African American men that's on the BET right now and why Stella is so mad when her groove that she just got back went gay.
Miss Ronnie tells us who's been to the Dorado these days. We chat a bit about our recent adventures at Clark's on Clark and why Ronnie's apartment is like a safehouse for all the sissies that hang there.
The podcast that leaves the house-the Feast of Fools!
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $802 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
The Feast of Fools is a podcast that simply will not die. Show after show, year after year, we've gone from being a drag show at some local gay bar, to a wacky play, a musical varitey show, and now in our latest incarnation, the worlds most downloaded gay podcast.
Just what a "gay" podcast is, I guess is a podcast made by gay people, for eveyrone to enjoy. I see us as ambassadors of taste, culture and opinion on everything that crosses our fruity minds into the hearts and souls of the good people of the world. Almost 300 shows, over 1000 people on our frappr map, over 5000 daily downloads and over 3000 subscriptions on iTunes alone.
The Feast of Fools podcast is a portrait of my friends, my family, and the world I live in. We're all part of the great big time capsule that the internet is, with all these voices buzzing around. Its humbling and exciting all at the same time.
Join us today as Marc Felion, Amanda Steinstein, and me, Fausto Fernós as we reflect on the ol' odometer turning round and round, the death of Mexican-American singer Selena, and the new BCC gay re-make of the legendary sci-fi tv show "Dr. Who" or as they call him in Puerto Rico: "Doctor Quien?" Not really.
Note! We ARE NOT planning to do a show at the Hothouse on April 14th. Pictured to the right is a poster from one of our shows done way back in 2001. Check out my Feast of Fools poster gallery of show posters (the ones I've been able to find) I've made from 1998-2005.
Art. The final frontier of the mind. These are the podcasts made by the Feast of Fools. Our mission: to discover strange new people, to savor what others dare not taste, to foolishly go where others dare not go. (cue in intro music.)
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $802 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
The world's most beautiful woman (on the internet) Victoria Lamarr joins us today to talk about the personal costs of being out and gay in any profession, but especially in showbusiness.
There are some folks who've done better because of the fact they are putting themselves "OUT" there (like us), but there are other entertainers who feel like their whole careers would come crashing down around them if they ever admittied their true feelings in public. Anyone come to mind? Two words: "quarter turns."
Some talk about how we couldnt remember Chris Klucsarits's name (he's the professional wrestler known as Chris Kanyon that recently came out as gay). You can read his ALL CAPITAL LETTER HEADLINE BLOG ON MYSPACE BY CLICKING HERE. I HOPE YOU ENJOY READING IT. HE IS GOOD AND FABULOUS AND COURAGEOUS AND WE HOPE HE DOES REALLY WELL. SINCE EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS IMPORTANT, EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE IN LARGE CAPITAL LETTERS.
Marc and Fausto tell Vmarr and the listener about their little excursion in downtown Chicago today. Marc found himself trying to reach Fausto at another store and the quickest way to get there was through the quad at The Moody Bible Institute. The experience of seeing these well scrubbed young men on the first nice day of spring prompts one to ask the eternal question, "Are they Christian or Gay?" We are pretty sure that we were being cruised or maybe they were just eyeing us up to save our soul. Either way it was still sexy.
In this fast paced show we discuss President Clinton's call for mandatory HIV testing in countries that have high rates of infection(twenty-seven percent in the country of Lesotho). We talk about a Muslim man that accidentally divorced his wife while he was asleep! We read some touching and delightful letters from listeners. We even have some time to do some shout outs-were you one of them?
The podcast that sometimes adheres to the rules of thermodynamics- the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $782 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
This is what happens when you don't plan out your show. Today, Miss Ronnie, Marc and Fausto fly blind into the eye of the podcasting storm by playing some of their favorite music and talking about some of their favorite topics. Of course it all breaks down into a sexy discussion about playing music during sex and legendary comedians who talk about REAL sex. Maybe we should do this more often.
On todays show, lots of talk about divas we like, and divas we hate. How MTV and American Idol have done more to damage music than Michael Jackson's last album.
The Sensuous Black Woman was an album put out by Lady Reed (who also went by several pseudonyms "Queen Bee") who's listed on the credits of the album as "The Madam." Anyone familiar with her voice and work will attribute it to her. You can check her out on Rudy Ray Moore's films "Dolemite" and "Son of Dolemite."
Click on the extended entry for the liner notes of the album.
The fabulous flavored condoms we were tasting on todays show are from Trustex.
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Click here to buy the highly recommended Grape Flavored 12-Pack
A queen in the kitchen, a lady in the living room, and a whore in the bedroom- the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $772 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
David Lasley - Back to Blue-Eyed Soul: Site
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
We can't figure out if the Britney Spears "Pro-Life/Anti-Choice" statue is a fake or not. Either way, it's hilarious, fabulous, and freakish. Just the kind of thing we're always looking for to talk about on the podcast!
Here you have the perfect Feast of Fools news item- it combines trashy celebrities, politics, art and scandal into one delicious visual statement. Have you not heard? It seems some fanatical sculptor in New York City created this sculpture as the "first Pro-Life monument to birth." Or freaky naked trashy pregnant ladies. Your pick.
This monstrosity is showing at the Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery, 121 Roebling St in Brooklyn NY. We definitively plan on checking this one out when we go there in April.
On today's show Miss Ronnie joins us to talk trash about her trashy vegan lesbian customers she had to wait on who gave her a terrible tip. Lots of heated talk about personal liberties vs. freedom of speech. It seems employers are now looking at google, myspace and other website thing-a-ma-jigs to spy on future employees in order to secretly learn about them so they can deny them employment for whatever reasons they choose (political opinions, sexual orientation, class, etc.)
So of course, since we DO use our real names here, we're screwed. Royally. Maybe that's why the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago never promoted me at my job working for years as a graphic designer? The pope was reading my blog! (True story.)
The podcast that delivers sass and satisfaction five days a week- the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $772 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Gail Ann Dorsey - I Used to Be...: iTunes | Amazon
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Osaka Hernandez had a huge following in Japan. If Selena was the "Madonna" of Tejano music, then Osaka was considered to be the "Cyndi Lauper." Okay Osaka was a fabulous drag queen and never sang any conjunto music, but it makes a great introduction, doesnt it?
On todays show, our lovely New York City pal John Q Sanchez talks about his former life as Osaka Hernandez, his years of experience writing about weddings, chocolate fountains, open bars, and his fascination with Shelley Long's movie "Troop Beverly Hills."
Pictured on the right is the "Tippi Headren" wedding dress that John talked about on the show. For those of you who want to see the obscene cotton candy-chocolate fountain pics, click here.
Although our Meet N' Greet is officially on Thursday April 13th from 7-9pm at the Starlight Bar, we're planning to attend the night before the ThisisAdam queer networking cocktail hour, and then heading on to RUNT to hang out with short gay men. Runt is being promoted as a "gay night for short queer men and their admirers." John says that tons of female to male trannies hang out at this event (since they are naturally short guys themselves.) Will we see you there?
The podcast that never sleeps: the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $772 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
David Lasley - Back to Blue-Eyed Soul: Site
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
Homeys, grab your iPods and lets get kickin'! Today's show features some of the most fabulous queer music you wont hear anywhere else, on the radio or any other podcast. How DO these gems get past the radar of the music industry?
Our in-house music-diva Gregg Shapiro comes over with a stack of fabulous CD's and plays for you, our fabulous listener some great indie music for you to shake your bon-bon.
Pictured on the right is New York City piano siren Rachael Sage who graces the first two tracks we're showcasing for you today. She's delicious, lovely and she's going to be at Schubas' in Chicago on April 1st!
These artists have been generous to grant us license to play this music for you, so please support independent music and buy their music! Not out of pity, but because we play stuff we like and hope you'll like it too.
I wanna rock and roll all night and podcast every day with the Feast of Fools.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $672 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon | Site
Hey Willpower - Dance EP: Amazon | Site
David Lasley - Back to Blue-Eyed Soul: Site
People, we have not had a good week here on the Feast of Fools! Today Miss Ronnie comes over to share the bad news of general gloom and doom in the world today and in our own lives.
The war is still going on, wasting millions of dollars and lives, the economy is shit, Miss Ronnie got a C+ on her exam, Elvis is dead, and Marc's not feeling that good himself.
We were at the gym doing squats, trying to get buffed for our big NYC Meet N' Greet on April 13th (which we will be there, do or DIE) when Marc seemed to have a panic attack, his heart beating quickly and furriously. (He's okay now, thank you.)
Listen today as Marc, Ronnie and Fausto chat about Beards making a fashion comeback, hot guys on our Frappr map, celebrities that will not die, and Texas cops arresting people in BARS for being drunk.
To make everyone feel better picture to the right is Scott Madsen the original Soloflex Poster boy who's ad campaign launched a whole new way of looking at the male body in advertising. He was the subject of many a gay teen fantasies (he certainly was mine.)
We don't make this stuff up... well at least most of it.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $672 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon
Ferron - Turning Into Beautiful: iTunes | CD Baby
The podcast that will not die: the Feast of Fools!
Char Cepek wept when her son John Charles came out as gay. She cried because of the fear of the pain she knew her son would face in life, over the anxiety over the risks, discrimination and dangers that all gays and lesbians (and bisexuals and trannies) face in their lives. Char and her husband John already had gay friends, but now their own son came out looking for love and approval from them. He got it.
For Char and John tolerance was never an option. They took the opportunity of having a gay son to learn more about the gay experience and used it to expand awareness with hopes of making the world a place that embraces and celebrates gay people. Now years later, John and Char are leaders in one of the most effective gay rights movements in the United States, PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.)
On today's show we talk to this fabulous courageous couple about the PFLAG, advice on coming out to your parents, their gay son John Charles and their personal experience in dealing with dozens of families who are struggling with accepting their gay children and changing the world one person at a time.
Click here to download their free online pdf brochures like "Be Yourself" Questions & Answers for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth.
Also: what does their son John Charles (who's pretty handsome we hear) think about his parents? After the interview Fausto talks to JC about his family and his boyfriend.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $662 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Christopher Dallman - Race the Light: iTunes | CD Baby
Brady Earnhart - Manalapan: CD Baby
Rachael Sage - Blistering Sun: Amazon
The podcast that foolishly dares to be itself: the Feast of Fools.
FOF #272 - Miss Understood Goes to Thailand - 03.22.06
Our lovely gal-pal Miss Understood pictured on the right joins us today to talk about her month-long trip to Thailand, Thai food, massage parlors, drag queens, trannies, costumes, and why Thai people are so laid back.
Also, Marc and Fausto speculate on Clay Aikens woes and Archbishop Skeletor's (Cardinal Francis George) body language yesterday when the results of the study done on sexual molestation in the Catholic church in Chicago and all the cover-up that was done. Let's just say he's not a happy man.
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $642 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
It's like King Kong and Faye Wray all wrapped up in one: the Feast of Fools.
We met actor/singer Anthony Wills Jr. at a local karaoke bar singing "Sweet Transvestite" at the top of his lungs, drunk off his ass. Victoria was with me when I saw him and both of us turned to each other and said "this drunk bytch is hot."
Anthony's someone who you will NEVER see on American Idol or anywhere else, but he is one of the few people I personally know who makes a living working professionally as a actor. Today Anthony shares his tips for young actors on how to survive in theater. If you live in Chicago go check him out tonight at the American Theater Company.
Also on todays show we talk about a recent masturbation study which discovered that a quite a few men like to relieve themselves into the household plants, the actions of the desperate, a lesbian fantasy sex-study, and the problems with cryogenics (paying the electric bill when everyone's long gone.)
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $642 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Making friends one podcast at at time, the Feast of Fools.
Stand back! This podcast is on fire. Today Marc, V-Marr and Fausto go off on a wild wild ride through the choppy terrain of American religious fundamentalism, starting off with a little skit "starring"conservative political candidate Merril Keiser.
It seems our good friend Merril in an interview recently 'fessed up to his true feelings about homosexuals, like Sir Elton John and Vice Prez Dick Cheney's lesbo daughter Mary "Uncle Tom" Cheney. He gets badgered into admitting the only way to deal with the Vice President's daughter is to kill her and compares laws against drugs to laws against homosexuality.
Of course this takes him into a dark inner turmoil, which thanks to his "charismatic christian" to english Vietnamese translator Ling Liang Trung, everything makes sense in the end. Sort of.
Vietnamese singing lessons, Russian senior citizen adult-film craze, granny trannies, Tim Miller's 1001 Beds, Friendster, Podcasting Trust Funds, and Death and Taxes.
Pictured to the right above is the 1000th fan (1001 because we're on the map ourselves) to post his picture on our Frappr map, Bryan Blackburn. Contratulations Bryan! You win a Feast of Fools Tshirt, button, stickers, archived file DVD, and tons of other goodies!
The Feast of Fools is coming to NYC! Thursday April 13th 7pm at the Starlight Lounge in the Village, NYC. Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $642 dollars so far! If you're planning on flying up there, get your tickets through Orbitz and support our show!
Featured Music:
Baby Teeth - The Baby Teeth Album: iTunes | Amazon
Making friends one podcast at at time, the Feast of Fools.
Levi Kreis is nice. A childhood musical prodigy, his parents were blown away when at the tender young age of six he learned to play "Pomp and Circumstance" after coming home from his kindergarten graduation.
Levi spent most of his life honing his fine singing voice and musical skills, as well as dealing with being a gay man. It wasn't easy for him. In junior high he went to Exodus Ministries secretly, hoping they would be able to "cure" him of being gay. When he came out in college, he was kicked out of his dorm room and lost a lucrative christian recording contract.
But his story has a happy ending. Nowdays Levi travels with his good pal Eric Himan around playing their catchy acoustic music in venues all around the nation. He's out and proud. Levi helped compose the theme music for the show "Southern Baptist Sissies" and has his first single "I Should Go" in rotation on scattered radio stations throughout the country, and it was selected to be the theme song for the long-awaited reuniting of two characters on NBC's "Days of Our Lives." Soon after, CBS's "Young and the Restless" (or Y&R for you soap-addicts) debuted another track off Levi's album entitled "Hardly A Hero."
We'd like to think that Levi is a modern day, sexy, non-cheesy version of the 80's crooner Christopher Cross.
Listen to our in-depth interview with Levi Kreis, a deeply passionate, soulful and sensual man - it's no coincidence that this show's number is TWO-SIX-NINE! (As comedy legend Frank Nelson would say: "Oh yes.") If you have a moment, be sure to check out his website: levikreis.com
Bring the FOF to NYC! Chip any amount of money you have in your coin jar by clicking here. Help bring Ms. V-Marr, Ronnie, Amanda, Marc and your flaming blue pal Fausto to the Big Apple to meet you face to face. We've raised $596 dollars so far!
Featured DVD:
Frailty - Starring Matthew McConaughey, directed by Bill Paxton (features Levi Kreis as a young Matthew) buy it on Amazon
Featured Music:
Levi Kreis - One of the Ones: CD Baby
Rock and roll all night and party every day with the Feast of Fools.
