FOFA #983 – Jack of All Trades
Interview with Project Runway designer Jack Mackenroth.
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On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status.
A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana.
He’s in Chicago to promote his Merck sponsored HIV Education Campaign Living Positive by Design– as an honorary guest of Design for a Cure.
And, he’s training to compete in Men’s Swimming at the Out Games in Copenhagen. How does he do it all?
We’ve got the sexy, fashion savvy Jack Mackenroth in the home studio. He’s taking your questions through Facebook and he’s telling it all!
Listen as Jack talks about how he manages to stay healthy, muscular and sexy, how serious he got with fellow reality TV star Dale from Top Chef and what it was like playing a dead body on the TV show Law and Order. Plus, what are the fashionistas REALLY like? Find out on today’s show.
Check out these fun pictures of Jack taken by our friend Jason Smith during the taping of the show.
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FOF #1103 – WTF, NY!
The New York State Senate votes to reject Marriage Equality, leaving the majority of people in the state who support the bill wondering- who are they representing?
Family Ties star Meredith Baxter comes out of the closet as a woman loving woman, against the advice from her gal pal Rupert Evert.
Solitaire Miles joins us to give us the scoop on Santa’s satanic sidekick, Krampus.
Solitaire Miles, Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós get attacked by the Krampus
How disappointing! The New York State Senate voted to reject Marriage Equality, leaving the majority of people in the state who support the bill wondering- who are they representing? Why the hate?
But it’s not all bad news- Family Ties star Meredith Baxter comes out of the closet as a woman loving woman, ignoring the advice from her gal pal Rupert Evert to keep her lezzie loving ways a secret, since openly gay actors have a harder time finding work in Hollywood.
Although Christmas is days away, Europeans are getting read to celebrate St. Nick’s Day, where the good kids get candy, and the bad kids get coal or even taken away by Krampus, a demonic looking figure with fur, horns and a long pink tongue.
Marc’s friend Solitaire Miles joins us to give us the scoop on Santa’s Satanic-looking sidekick.
Also making it big online:
Lou Dobbs challenges the President- will the former CNN anchor be Palin’s bottom for the Presidential ticket in 2012?
Strapped for cash this holiday season? A British couple is turning to homemade porn as a source of revenue for their wedding.
Twitter suicides, tips for the common cold and the woman named Jesus Christ.
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FOF #1071 – Like a Blowtorch in a Tornado
Two of our latino friends, visual artist and gay dad Erik R Sosa and comedian, actor and performance artist Esteban Andres Cruz join us to take an intense and inebriated look at parenting, gay rights and how conservatives are targeting openly gay men appointed by the Obama administration.
It isn’t always opposites that attract, sometimes it’s crazy upon crazier that meld together in a hot mix. Today we are bringing together two of our Latino friends, visual artist and gay dad Erik R Sosa and comedian, actor and performance artist Esteban Andres Cruz.
We’re kicking back, having a couple of cocktails, having an intense discussion on parenting, gay rights and how conservatives are targeting openly gay men appointed by the Obama administration. How do we fight back against programs like Fox News that categorize all gay men as victimizers of children?
Listen as we take a look at the upcoming biographic film on Liberace and the rumors of a highly anticipated sequel to Showgirls! Will Gina Gershon reprise her role as the bisexual villain Cristal Connors or is she too busy doing her nails on Facebook darlin’?
Kevin McGee, the ex-husband of Little Britain’s Matt Lucas, kills himself after leaving a suicide status update Facebook.
A drunken Swede wakes up with a tattoo of a large Johansen on his leg.
Hungary’s Miss Plastic Contest showcases plastic surgeons’ handiwork.
And a Phoenix man is arrested for posing as a sperm collecting doctor that makes house-calls on Craigslist after successfully convincing dozens of men to give samples.
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FOFA #526 – Heads or Tales: Jo-Jo Finds a Skull
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Our beloved Jo-Jo Baby, who works as a doll maker, club kid, artist, stylist and drag queen went onto eBay to look for mannequins. He found a guy who lives in his neighborhood who was selling three full-sized vintage African-American female mannequins- Jo-Jo just had to have them and made an appointment to view them.
Although Jo-Jo was expected, there was no one to greet him at the back door upon his arrival so he entered into what was the kitchen. On the stove sat a large boiling pot. Always the curious sort, Jo-Jo spied into the cauldron and to his surprise he saw an actual human skull rolling about with some flesh still on it! Yes, a human skull.
At that point, the owner of the mannequins came into the room and saw Jo-Jo looking nervous and tried to calm him down by saying “It’s okay, it’s from Tibet.”
What would you do in this situation?
We would have run away, but Jo-Jo REALLY wanted those three mannequins, so he followed the man into his basement to retrieve the dummies. He is that committed to his art that he’d have risked his own head by following a strange man who had a head in a pot boiling on his stove to get what he needed to do what he does. Wow. When Divine shouted “Who wants to die for art?” in John Water’s film Female Trouble, Jo-Jo certainly would have been the first to jump up and be shot by the gun-wielding trampoline-bouncing drag queen.
Jo-Jo survived the encounter and his friends, who could barely believe his story, convinced him to go to the police. Afterwards, Jo-Jo spent the entire next day talking to news reporters and camera crews from his studio in Wicker Park in Chicago. We were lucky to chat him at the end of a long day.
Join us as Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós travel to the Wicker Park neighborhood in Chicago to talk with Jo-Jo in his studio about this incredible story. His friends from the band Black Box Fever were over at the studio as well. Check them out and we might play their music real soon. We’re also counting down the days until Law and Order turns this story into one of their “shows ripped from the headlines.”
How will this affect his costumes? Will he sleep at night? Is Jo-Jo going to be all-right? Find out on today’s Feast of Fun podcast.
There’s no bones about it- it’s the Feast of Fun!
Click here for photos of Jo-Jo’s Wicker Park studio and his infamous mannequins.
Click here for the CBS Chicago news article and be sure to see the picture of his blurred out tshirt.
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[Originally posted on 05.03.07]
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FOF #983 – Jack of All Trades
Standard Podcast [48:33m]:
On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status.
A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana.
He’s in Chicago to promote his Merck sponsored HIV Education Campaign Living Positive by Design– as an honorary guest of Design for a Cure.
And, he’s training to compete in Men’s Swimming at the Out Games in Copenhagen. How does he do it all?
We’ve got the sexy, fashion savvy Jack Mackenroth in the home studio. He’s taking your questions through Facebook and he’s telling it all!
Listen as Jack talks about how he manages to stay healthy, muscular and sexy, how serious he got with fellow reality TV star Dale from Top Chef and what it was like playing a dead body on the TV show Law and Order. Plus, what are the fashionistas REALLY like? Find out on today’s show.
Check out these fun pictures of Jack taken by our friend Jason Smith during the taping of the show.
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FOF #946 – Gigi’s New Bouncy Clothes
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?
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FOF #754 – Work the Runway Steven
Standard Podcast [1:11:56m]:
Steven Rosengard was the first Chicago based designer to be on Project Runway, the fabulous reality television show where contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. Their designs are judged and one or more of the contestants are eliminated each week.
Project Runway Season Four was filled with a lot of great talent and we are glad Steven got as far as he did. He was “auffed” or kicked off of the show after re-styling a wedding dress of a women who have lost a significant amount of weight.
When given the challenge to create a new outfit out of a woman’s former favorite “fat clothes,” Steven was given the impossible task of transforming a woman’s wedding dress. As soon as I saw that dress, I knew whomever got it was going to lose.
The judges said that Steven turned her “wedding dress into a funeral dress.”
Still, Steven doesn’t shy away from talking about his design choices and explaining his reasons for making it.
Steven is a blast! We had a lot of fun with this Chi-town fashionista. He loved our idea for “Project Runway: The Musical!”
Just imagine the incomparable Elizabeth Berkley as chief “auffer” Heidi Klum and Bea Arthur as style guru Tim Gunn singing the breakout hit “Make it Work! Make it Work! Make it Work!” It’ll also feature pop sensation Gloria Estefan as Latina Nina Garcia and a dancing orange as the orange skin toned judge Michael Kors.
Of course all the contestants would play themselves and there would be awesome fashion show montages throughout the show. Jack Mackenroth is already working on his routine. Check him out in this over the top Flashdance number.
Since leaving Project Runway, Steven has spent a lot of time attending charity functions. He’s hosting Make a Statement: Design for the Cure, which showcases top fashions from Chicago’s favorite boutiques and rising designers, to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among Chicago’s 21 – 35 demographic. Presented by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago Junior Board, the event will feature models wearing t-shirts with such statements as: “Condoms: For Wieners Not Wallets,” “AIDS Apathy Makes Your Ass Look Big,” and “HIV Only Needs One Chance.”
Listen as we chat with Steven about the future of Project Runway and how its move to another network will effect viewership. Is Heidi nicer on air than she is off air?
Steven continues to further his design work. If you’d like him to make you a dress just contact him through his website StevenRosengard.com
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