Deep in the mountains of rural Tennessee there is a thriving network of queer communities whose origins go back to the beginnings of the modern gay rights movement with the Radical Faeries.
Today two of our friends Tom Foolery and Maxzine Weinstein from IDA play their hilarious music and share their experience of living in a commune of gay musicians, trans pirates, lesbian warriors and pagan witches.
Deep in the mountains of rural Tennessee there is a thriving, vibrant network of communities of queer people whose origins go back to the beginnings of the modern gay rights movement with the Radical Faeries.
Planet IDA, Short Mountain Sanctuary and Pumpkin Hollow are just some of the places where folks live in an open and free environment with the goal of stimulating personal growth and creativity.
Today we’re talking to two well known residents of IDA, Tom Foolery and Maxzine Weinstein from the Eggplant Faerie Players, the community’s traveling performance group.
We met Maxzine and Tom 11 years ago on the first night of the Feast of Fools Cabaret, the live performance series that gave rise to this podcast you’re listening to right now-Feast of Fun.
Listen as we talk about living in a commune of gay musicians, trans pirates, lesbian warriors and pagan witches. What are the challenges and rewards of living in a modern tribal community?
We’ve got a lot of music and fun- including a live performance of Tom Foolery’s famous song “Big Girl,” so stick around!
Check out there performance tonight at The Flopsy Teahaus. They are strongly encouraging people to dress up as whatever Magical Creature inspires you! Time to break out that Halloween costume again!
Please donate to the development of the Feast of Fun iPhone app!
Like many news and podcasting apps, the Feast of Fun app will allow people to quickly access all the fabulous shows and content on FOF with their iPhone. You’ll be able to interact with the site by submitting you own content, like comments or blog entries, directly from an iPhones.
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Fashion photographer Adam Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, founded the “NO H8 Campaign” to promote the overturn of Proposition 8. The campaign shows photos of people dressed in white shirt against a white background with their mouths covered in duct tape in silent protest and the words NO H8 emblazoned across their cheek.
The November 2008 election dealt an unsettling blow to the gay rights movement when voters in California narrowly passed Proposition 8 a measure to take away the state’s ability to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
After the measure passed, fashion photographer Adam Bouska and his partner, Jeff Parshley, founded the “NO H8 Campaign” to promote the overturn of Proposition 8.
The campaign shows photos of people dressed in white shirts against a white background with their mouths covered in duct tape in silent protest and the words NO H8 emblazoned across their cheek. Although it began with just photos of everyday people the campaign grew to include the enthusiastic participation of families, police officers, filmmakers, actors, musicians, celebrities, politicians and even Kathy Griffin.
Although some criticize the project as superficial, its anything but. The NO H8 Campaign has galvanized people on the internet to take a very active stand and to raise funds for this important cause.
Listen to the show to find out why Adam and Jeff were so inspired to start the campaign, what risque photos are too sexy to be included and how you too can participate.
And the Hate Crime Bill is finally passed and will be signed into law by President Obama, what does this mean for you?
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork’s website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter “Feast of Fun” on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
LifeLube Your Field Guide to Gay Men’s Health
Delivering daily news and commentary on sexuality, cutting edge research, and fresh thinking on health & wellness.
2009 GLAAD Media Award Nominee for “How Are You Healthy” ad campaign.
Featured Music:
Jeffery Straker – Step Right Up: iTunes | Amazon
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Filmmaker and MySpace Matt Riddlehoover talks about his role in “Watch Out,” a dark film about an irresistible narcissist who could only make love to himself. The film’s campy narrative and graphic portrayals of self-love and violence has audiences divided.
Today we continue our series of interviews with internet celebrities from Los Angeles with Matt Riddlehoover. Matt found success on one of the first big social media sites- MySpace. Remember MySpace?
In the summer of 2006, Matt Riddlehoover became famous on MySpace for the video trailer for his short film “To a Tee,” a dark romantic comedy about a guy who falls for the same type of man over and over again.
For Matt, being prominently featured on the social media site led to the lead role in “Watch Out,” a dark film about an irresistible narcissist who could only make love to himself. The film’s campy narrative and graphic portrayals of self-love and violence has audiences divided over the film’s merits.
“Watch Out” comes out on DVD November 24.
Listen as Matt talks about the controversy, what it took to get ready for those sexy scenes and how his mother reacted to the movie.
Matt’s also working on a unusual documentary “Gaze,” a collection of audio interviews with 20 artists talking about how they redefine beauty and how these ideas of beauty affect everyone.
We’re also joined by his kooky friend, Champagne!! Champagne!!, a visual artist who combs Los Angeles in search of unusual garbage to turn into works of art. By the end of the show, she changes her name. Will it stick?
In the news:
A gay hit-man for the mob comes out of the closet during a trial.
A cat goes for a wild ride in the engine of an SUV in New York City.
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork’s website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter “Feast of Fun” on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
LifeLube Your Field Guide to Gay Men’s Health
Delivering daily news and commentary on sexuality, cutting edge research, and fresh thinking on health & wellness.
2009 GLAAD Media Award Nominee for “How Are You Healthy” ad campaign.
Featured Music:
Eric Lindell – Gulf Coast Highway: iTunes | Amazon
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Our live coverage of the 2009 National Equality March, where thousands of people marched on the nation’s capital to demand full equal rights for all GLBT people.
Almost a year ago, longtime gay rights activist Cleve Jones announced on this show that he was working on an action inspired by the late politician Harvey Milk, asking people from all across the country to demand full equal rights for all gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, NOW.
Last Sunday it really happened. Was the turnout a meager 250 thousand or a whopping quarter of a million?
Will the March re-invigorate the gay rights movement or was it just a great opportunity to see Lady Gaga out of her gyroscopic dress?
And most importantly, will President Obama listen to our demands?
Listen to today’s show as we give you highlights from the rally- Cleve Jones, StaceyAnn Chin, Kate Clinton and yes, even Lady Gaga.
Interviews with longtime gay rights activists like Equality Illinois representatives Art Johnston and Rick García, and a whole new generation of fun folks like Zach O’Connor, who started downloading the Feast of Fun podcast in 2005 while in high school- find out what happens to you when you’ve listened to the Feast of Fun during your formative years.
Click here for a photo gallery from Washington D.C. Got any photos to share? Upload them to the Flickr group and we’ll feature the best ones on the site.
Obama once again re-affirms his support for the gays, the only question is when?
Barney Frank calls the March “a colossal waste of time at best” and “the only thing they’re going to be putting pressure on is the grass.” Is he right or is he just smoking too much grass himself?
Gov Schwarzenegger signs a Gay Rights Bill and establishes Harvey Milk Day.
And the ultimate question:
What would you say if you had had the opportunity to speak to thousands of gay people?
Comment on today’s show using twitter- Include #fof1073 in your update for it to appear on the site. Learn more about hashtag searches in the Twitter Fan Wiki.
Visit out our sponsors:
Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork’s website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter “Feast of Fools” on the promo
code field to get the special discount.
How Are You Healthy? Find out at Lifelube.org
A blog on sex, drugs, physical, mental and
emotional health, spirituality and more.
Featured Music:
Tom Goss – Back to Love…: iTunes
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Comedian and interdisciplinary artist Tamale Sepp talks about her unusual dissertation, “Bound and Determined” which examines the ways we willingly get ited up in order to liberate ourselves.
Our friend Tamale Sepp has a full-sized, styled corset tattooed on her back, black fingernails, and loves to boss people around, especially in the bedroom. Did we mention she knows the fine art of Shibari, Japanese Rope bondage? So does this make her a dominatrix?
Today comedian and interdisciplinary artist Tamale Sepp talks about her unusual dissertation, “Bound and Determined” which examines the ways we willingly get tied up in order to liberate ourselves.
Listen as Tamale shares with us a couple of great stories about engaging a driver who almost killed her on her motorcycle and the vital advice she gave to a young angry goth girl on surviving high school.
China’s news agency is obsessed with phony Swedish lesbian village.
The sad story of the teen who quit high school after being told to stop cross-dressing as it was causing a disruption.
Justice Sotomayor has quite a few things to say about fetish videos. What does killing kittens have to to do with getting off and how far is too far?
And the Brazilian Orchestra de Sao Paulo lowers the price on their Chicago show after the disappointing news that the Windy City was skipped for 2016 Olympics.
Comment on today’s show using twitter- Include #fof1070 in your update for it to appear on the site. Learn more about hashtag searches in the Twitter Fan Wiki.
Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male’s Big Gay Kiss Contest
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America is offering you the chance to win $10,000 in the Big Gay Kiss Contest. Send in a video or a picture of two guys kissing and Interactive Male will donate money to Marriage Equality USA.
Featured Music:
Cupéro – Cupéro: iTunes
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Satanist soccer-mom Gigi Deluxe Gross shares with us her tips and tricks on harnessing the powers of darkness to make Halloween fabulous, fake blood recipies and how to make your eye look like it got bit off by a wild beast.
Boo! Did I scare you? Don’t be afraid, it’s only Halloween, or it soon will be. October is a month full of wild things, witches and vampires.
Today we’re talking to the spooky, kooky and glamorous Gigi Deluxe Gross.
When’s she’s not busy baking creepy cupcakes for her son’s team, this Satanist soccer mom loves to paint ghoulish works of art featuring Siamese twins, lost souls and little people.
Listen as Gigi shares with us her tips and tricks on harnessing the powers of darkness to make this years Halloween fabulous!
Fake blood recipes, zombie channel bags and how make your eye look like it got nibbled off by a wild beast.
You can see Gigi’s work at the Gallery Provocateur’s “Hellraiser- An Annual Exhibition Celebrating the Dark Arts” with esteemed author and director Clive Barker. Keep an eye out for the portrait of a porn star that Gigi’s creating for Porn Saints which takes an artistic approach to porn, a pornographic approach to art, a pornoartistic approach to religion.
In Texas, a woman gets mad her boyfriend, fries up his gold-fishies and eats them!
American Girl’s new controversial homeless girl doll- what’s next?
The Chinese little people village turns into a tourist attraction, a real-live Munchkinland.
The begging mayor in India gets things done.
WTF? Wisconsin Tourism Federation changes their company’s name.
And Lady Gaga ends rumors one and for all of her hermie dick once by performing naked, or almost naked.
Comment on today’s show using twitter- Include #fof1067 in your update for it to appear on the site. Learn more about hashtag searches in the Twitter Fan Wiki.
Human Rights Campaign Gala 2009 – Time to Shine
Join us on Saturday, Nov. 7 for the most elegant evening of the year featuring Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child and Joe Solmonese, HRC’s President. Visit hrcchicago09.com for tickets and info.
Featured Music:
Dream/Clone – Transymphonic: iTunes | Amazon
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Standard Podcast:
Gigi’s back boys! Our deluxe and delovely club-kid turned mother of two and visual artist is starting a new art group in Chicago, the Salon des Artistes Indépendants.
Gigi and other artists decided to come together to form the Salon to produce a gallery effect that wasn’t tethered to a certain theme or limited in scope. The Salon des Indépendants is basically a fancy French word for an outsider artist collective.
Gigi and her friends are sick of being told that their art is great but that it “really isn’t what we had in mind” by gallery owners so they mounted this first event.
It is by invitation only so the only way you are going to get an invite is if you email us and we plead your case to Gigi. She’s tough and she doesn’t want you drinking all her PBR, so be convincing of your love for art and we’ll see what we can do. I can’t make any promises though.
Are you looking at these wonderful pictures Fausto took of Gigi? She really is a supermom model. Gigi is so creative that she took one of our Digitally Delicious t-shirts and made a wonderfully tight-fitting black dress out of it. Hot!
Her daughter hates when she shaves her head but we think she is so lovely bald. Now, her daughter doesn’t really mind that her mom shaves her head, she just likes it when she wears a wig on it.
America, the U.S. Space Program needs your help! NASA is asking it’s visitors to the Houston Space Center to donate samples of their urine to help test out a new type of space toilet. This is kind of embarrassing. I’m sure in intergalactic space that aliens are laughing at us. Come on, Mars’ slogan after all is “Mars Needs Women” and ours is “Earth Needs Pee.” in reality though, nothing is like pee except pee. Pee has certain qualities that just can’t be reproduced so if they are going to get space toilets to work properly, they have to use the right stuff.
It seems fish are all over the news these days. Scientists have found that most animals (including our own species) ability to communicate using sound draws its origins to the grunts and chirps made by fish! The neural network that forms our speech center was created millions and millions of years ago. Even today some fish still use grunts to attract a mate.
Meanwhile in New York, one fish was taking this talking thing a bit to far. A talking carp predicted the end of the world. A fish that was destined for the knife proclaimed in Hebrew that the end was nigh and that now was the time to repent. Oy veh! The fish mongers didn’t take heed of the vociferous carp and it ended up becoming the Jewish delicacy gefilte fish. It could be worse.
Catfish walking down the street is not an everyday occurrence but it’s not unheard of in Florida. A woman saw a catfish trudging across her street and thought it was odd but then she looked further on and saw some thirty catfish emerging from the sewer, cross the street and kept on moving. The catfish used their dorsal fin to propel them much like we use our legs.
So there we have it, our speech, our fear of the almighty and the ability to walk all come from fish.
The voice inside your head that tells you to go for it- Feast of Fools.
[Originally posted on 07.22.08]
Make a comment on today’s show using twitter- Include #fofa804 in your update for it to magically appear on the site. To learn more about Twitter hashtags and how the work, please visit the Twitter Fan Wiki.
Check out today’s sponsor:
Gay, Sexy, Healthy- Lifelube.org
Your “big tent” guide to gay men’s health,
from sex and drugs to Faeries and Bears
Your friendly concierge for all that’s gay, sexy and healthy.
Featured Music:
Katy Perry – One of the Boys: iTunes | Amazon | Site
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Standard Podcast [1:00:21m]:
High heel shoes, a Louis Vuitton bag held by an arm coming from a man’s nose, a mysterious roll of pink material, a Don Rickles cut out, and a drag queen dressed up as a bunny rabbit, superimposed on a doctor’s report of a sexually transmitted disease: these are all a part of the visual language of Erik Peterson.
What’s this guy trying to say?
Today we look at longtime club personality and visual artist Erik Peterson. Erik’s artwork is part of an Erotic art & performance Exhibit, taking place at IML, the International Mr. Leather Conference & Contest, on Memorial day weekend in Chicago.
Erik’s making the bold statement that everyone’s ability to photograph themselves and share their photos online is ruining the nightclub scene. Is social media making us more self-conscious or is it revealing what’s already been there all along?
Listen as we take a look at:
The incredible minds of Vaginal Davis and Marcel Duchamp and the photography of Slava Mogutin and Brian Kenny.
Vaporized booze makes a big splash in clubs overseas, but is it safe?
A sex park opens in China- What do sexually intolerant cultures share in common? UPDATE: The Sex Park has been demolished by the government before it even opened up.
The new Venus Plump Lady Goddess statue- is it a religious icon or just really old porn?
Check out our sponsor:
Squarespace: Create and manage your website and blog.
The fast and easy way to publish a high-quality website or blog. For a free trial and 10% off your new account, go to Squarespace.com/feastoffun.
Featured Music:
Kids on TV – Mixing Business with Pleasure: iTunes | Amazon
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE | PODZINGER
CONTACT US DIRECTLY
Standard Podcast [58:48m]:
Boing boing! Gigi Deluxe, Chicago’s glamor-puss is here to talk about her new collaboration with House of Bias, a fashion forward clothing line specializing in clothes made out of rubber latex.
Think it’s too kinky for you? The clothing line hopes to mainstream latex-wear for everyone, touting the form-flattering benefits of the rubbery garments.
What’s it like to make and wear clothes made out of rubber, and where do you go to get them dry cleaned?
Listen as Gigi talks about starting her new video blog, her fan page on Facebook, fighting medical fraud and pulling a grocery cart filled with canned goods for charity in the Chiditarod race.
Who’s watching the Watchmen? Everyone. The film adaptation of the popular graphic novel so far has scored this year’s biggest box office opening knocking Madea Goes to Jail from the Top Spot.
Watchmen has more uncut cock than my favorite eastern European porn video. Is it the acting or Dr. Manhattan’s eye popping nudity that has audiences entranced over his CGI muscular manhood.
The Watchmen Condom- will it make your rod big and blue?
We got to hang out with Coco Peru this weekend at TPAN’s Chicago Takes Off. As guests of Steamworks, we had a blast watching all the sexy guys and gals shimmy and shake. As Coco said, “we were all perverts” and boy did it feel good.
Click here to see hilarious photos from the event.
Octomom’s publicist quits because she says she’s nuts. Now she notices? Where has she been?
DNA radio- a website dedicated to creating an audio visual representation of the human genome has launched an audio stream of all 3 billion sequences that make up human DNA, but can you dance to it?
Check out today’s sponsor:
How Are You Healthy? Find out at Lifelube.org
A blog on sex, drugs, physical, mental and
emotional health, spirituality and more.
Featured Music:
Astronauts of Antiquity- Rocket Science for Dummies: iTunes | Amazon | Site
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Standard Podcast [52:44m]:
Varla Jean Merman! You’ve seen her on Project Runway, All My Children and in the fun movie Girls will be Girls now discover the fabulous person behind the big red wig!
Is Varla Jean as sweet as she appears on stage and screen? Listen to today’s show and find out.
Today we have Jeffrey Roberson, the man behind drag queen talking about how he developed Varla Jean Merman into one of today’s most popular acts.
Jeffrey shares with us his roots in New Orleans, his friendship with the gals from Girls Will Be Girls the popular film and short web series and the secrets of what’s it’s like behind the scenes of Project Runway and All My Children.
Is it just a coincidence that Varla’s favorite colors are orange, pink and fuchsia, the same colors used by Baskin-Robbins and Dunkin’ Donuts or is there something more to it?
Make sure you check out Varla’s YouTube channel for lots of fun videos. If you are in Palm Springs, check out her production of Shut Up Sweet Charlotte which opens today at Palm Springs Art Museum.
There are several kinds of drag queens, which one are you?
• Tasty Fakes (Drag Queens who mimic a celebrity) Example: Cher Impersonators.
• Freaky Chicks (Exaggerating aspects of femininity) Heklina, Lady Bunny
• Sloppy Joes (Those who don’t put much effort into their look) You know who you are.
• Glamour Pusses (Fashionistas, those concerned with passing as a runway model) RuPaul.
• Cirque du So Gay (Fantasy costumes, more glitter than lipstick)
Meow! Illusionists Siegfried and Roy return to the Las Vegas Stage for a final farewell act. Will they be working with the same kind of tigers that attacked Roy several years ago?
Every time you download Feast of Fools, a drag queen gets her wig.
Check out today’s sponsor:
How Are You Healthy? Find out at Lifelube.org
A blog on sex, drugs, physical, mental and
emotional health, spirituality and more.
Featured Music:
Varla Jean Merman – The Very Worst of Varla Jean Merman: iTunes
RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE
Get ready to release the pressure! Today we put our homemade gyroscopic metal outfits to...
18 Comments 578 Online Visits
Facebook Shares
