FOF #1057 – Teri Yaki’s Hangover
Chicago drag queen Teri Yaki shares the spicy details of her sexy drunken birthday celebration and how she’s pounding the pavement in her six inch heels looking for work.
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Happy Birthday Teri Yaki! Chicago’s very unique and kooky drag queen Teri Yaki just celebrated her 35th birthday, and she fought hangover to come do a show!
Today Teri Yaki is in the studio sharing the spicy details of her sexy drunken birthday celebration and how she’s pounding the pavement in her six inch heels looking for work.
What’s a drag queen to do make some coin? You can also catch her every Wednesday at Cocktail for her Twisted Trivia.
Teri Yaki answers questions from you on Facebook and weighs in on freshest news and trends:
Senator Max Baucus unveils the Healthcare Bill everyone’s been waiting for, so why is everybody hating on it?
George Takei and his husband Brad Altman are set to make an appearance on TV’s Newlywed Game.
Cyndi Lauper is playing a crazy psychic on the TV show Bones- perfect casting or method acting?
A group of British school children vote to send the little lamb they raised to the slaughterhouse.
And a cult leader in New Guinea flees naked into the jungle after being confronted by police over allegations that he’d forced followers to have sex in public, promising that it would boost this year’s banana harvest. I’ll say
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FOFA #962 – A Hard Woman is Good to Find
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Today we celebrate 11 years of fabulous shows, once as Feast of Fools, today as Feast of Fun. We’ve managed to dig up a very special guest from way back when, the tragically glamorous Victoria Lamarr!
Back when we started the podcast in 2005, one of our early guests was Matthew Bogseth, a drag queen who went by the name of Victoria Lamarr. Later that year Matthew was in hospital from complications of AIDS. (more…)
FOF #1050 – Step Right Up
Brad Thomas, former ringmaster for the Ringling Brothers circus and Chicago public school teacher weighs in on Obama speaking to the nations kids and working for diversity and non-violence in schools.
Step right up, step right up, we’ve got a fabulous show for you today!
Obama is set to deliver his Back to School speech on the importance of education to children on what is for many school districts, the first day of school.
But why do some parents have a problem with it? Some Republican parents claim the President is trying to politicize our nation’s school systems and they’re threatening to keep their kids home that day.
Brad Thomas, teacher for the Chicago Public Schools and former ringmaster for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus joins us to weigh in on the controversy and to talk about education and life in the circus.
In California, parents sue the public school system over a diversity curriculum aimed to reduce violence in schools and raise awareness for GLBT people and their families.
As a teacher, Brad knows the value of diversity, tolerance and the cost of violence in schools, so how does he handle tough topics like Marriage Equality when it’s brought up by the kids?
Be sure to check out Brad and Teri Yaki as hosts of this year’s Night of a Hundred Drag Queens, the popular fund raiser for Equality Illinois, held at Sidetrack, one of the best gay bars in America.
How to dress up as Kate Smith this Halloween by recycling an old Grimace costume
A man loses his manhood.
And it looks like Lady Gaga is losing her’s too.
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FOF #1044 – Teri Yaki’s Tangy Taste
Chicago drag queen Teri Yaki returns to follow up on the Lady Vera Parker story, the unhappy birthday party and shares her own experience of being behind bars.
Teriyaki is back! And Lady Vera Parker is out of jail!
Last time we talked to the notorious drag queen Teri Yaki, she told the wild story of how another Chicago drag queen, Lady Vera Parker, was arrested for allegedly stealing a u-haul truck and committing fraud by deception. Here’s her Facebook profile.
Lady Vera was rumored to be in a gay bar in Lakeview over the weekend, doing what? Find out on today’s show.
Plus: Teri Yaki also spills the beans on the unhappy birthday party of a bar manager, being the drag queen son of a preacher man and what it’s like being in prison herself.
Have you ever had a friendship end terribly? Share your stories on the site the best ones will be read on the show.
For the drag queen who has everything, give her two favorite things in one- cracked out lip balm!
A new portable way to make crystal meth is exploding across America, will dealers turn bathrooms in bars into speedy meth labs?
Adam Lambert doesn’t want you to throw dildos in his face.
Michael Jackson’s death ruled a homicide.
A Chicago politician tries to sell a merit-less HIV vaccine to the public.
And an 8,000 calorie hamburger, served up by a sexy waitress dressed up as a nurses.
Your prescription for fabulousness- Feast of Fun!
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FOF #1038 – A Wise Latina Drag Queen and Her Mom
Rupaul’s Drag Race contestant Jade Sotomayor brings over her mom Noemi to reflect on her unprecedented success. Is Jade related to the first Latina supreme court judge Sonia Sotomayor? Lady Gaga goes gay again and Mumbai plans for their first Pride parade.
On the ground-breaking first season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, contestant Jade Sotomayor may not have won the title, but she certainly won our hearts.
On today’s show Jade’s brought along her mom Noemi Sotomayor, to reflect on her unprecedented success, performing all across America, and even at gay days at Disney.
How’s Jade and her family handling it all? We hope that this wise Latina drag queen, with the richness of her experiences, will more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.
Is Jade related to the first Latina supreme court judge Sonia Sotomayor? Did Jade have a fling with one of the contestants, and if so, was it Tammie Brown or Nina Flowers?
Lady Gaga declares to Kanye West that she herself, her music, her show and her fans are gay gay gay and nothing’s going to change that! Tell us something we don’t already know.
Who else sets off our gaydar in the music industry?
A Disney visitor is arrested for allegedly groping Minnie Mouse’s tatas-all eight of them.
A woman stabs her husband to death after he continually repeats “I’m a gay guy.”
and the city of Mumbai will soon celebrate it’s first gay pride parade since India legalized same-sex love. When will we get the first queer Bollywood film festival?
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FOF #1036 – Rise of Anna Conda
San Francisco drag queen Anna Conda, longtime gay rights activist talks about the Great Nationwide Kiss-In happeing all across America to celebrate same sex affection and draw attention to the everyday violence gay people experience.
This Saturday in cities all across America gay loving people and their friends will be holding the Great Nationwide Kiss-In, to celebrate LGBT love in all it’s lovely forms and to draw attention to the sad reality that for same sex couples kissing in public spaces can be dangerous.
We’re talking to longtime Anna Conda, San Francisco drag queen, longtime gay rights activist and fabulous Miss Trannyshack 2004!
Anna helps us to take a look at the power you have in your hands to bring about social change. How do we unchain the bloodthirsty tiger of Justice and Equality?
Be sure to check out the action happening in your city. Here’s a guide to participating in a political kiss-in.
Also in the news:
The British Royal Opera wants to collaborate with you via Twitter. How about a Feast of Fun Opera?
Keep Equality away from the gays (also known as Protect Marriage) in Washington State lost their case to keep donors privacy. Do donors have the right to keep their hate a secret?
Max, the world’s oldest dog turns 26. Happy birthday cutie!
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FOFA #942 – In The Pink With Varla Jean Merman
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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.
[Originally posted on 03.04.09]
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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 #1024 – International Drag Queen Day
Drag queen Elysse Giovani talks about starting her own gay wedding expo in Chicago after a heated argument with an ignorant vendor. The first ever International Drag Queen Day celebrating the drag queens in our lives.
Although most states in the US don’t recognize same-sex marriages, the tide is turning and six states currently allow full marriage rights to all their citizens.
Today we’re talking to Scott Booker, best known by his drag queen persona: Elysse Giovani.
Earlier this year Elysse was so upset at a vendor at an opposite marriage wedding expo that she decided to take matters into her own hands and plan a wedding expo full of gay friendly businesses, drag queens and cocktails! Sounds like it’s going to be a blast!
Listen as Elysse shares with us her insights on planning a gay wedding and how to avoid some common mistakes gays make when tying the knot. Did you know you can save money on your wedding by going digitally green?
We cordially invite you to attend the Over The Rainbow LGBT Wedding Expo on Saturday July 25 at the Center on Halsted. $5 donation goes to charity – VOHAV Victims of Hatred and Violence – a support group for queer folks who suffer from domestic violence.
Pull that wig down from the shelf, it’s International Drag Day! Didn’t know? Well it’s a new holiday as declared by British designer Adam Stewart. It celebrates the drag queen in all our lives. Leave it to a drag queens to be late for pride.
We take a look at our favorite drag queens, both national and local, and reflect on the dearly departed divas of the past. Who are some of your favorites?
A bridal bouquet crashes an airplane.
Former President Bush’s gay black list.
And a robotics company in Maryland announces plans to work on a robot that fuels itself by any organic material it can find — even dead people! What could possibly go wrong?
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FOF #1023 – Who’s the Craziest Queen of Them All?
Writer director Tony Lewis and drag queen Omicah from the musical show “Snow White and the Seven Drag Queens” return to Chicago, remenisce on real-life evil drag queens.
Who is the craziest drag queen of them all? Take your pick! The audience favorite musical spectacle, Snow White and the Seven Drag queens is back at Hydrate in Chicago. Today we’re talking to writer director Tony Lewis who also plays Dopey and his gal pal, Omicah House who plays Grumpy the hungover drag queen.
In this twisted version of the fairy tale, Snow White plays a hairstylist who provides much needed solace and protection to seven drag queens who are harassed by an evil drag queen landlord. Rent and drag queens- sound familiar?
Tony use to choreograph for Lady Vera Parker, the notorious Chicago drag queen who was arrested for theft by deception for renting out apartments that didn’t exist. What was it like teaching Lady Vera Parker to dance?
Both Tony and Omicah also hail from Kentucky where Lady Vera allegedly stole a U-Haul truck. Where do the parallels end?
Listen as we talk about the hot news that matters to you most:
Designer paint for Cubs fans comes in Pinstripe Blue, Ivy Green, and Marquee Red. Unfortunately, Beer Piss Yellow, a common color at the ballpark was left out.
Hairy Wieners are all the rage in Russia. Would you eat one?
Man arrested with woman’s panties hanging from out of his pants. He had another 40 pairs on under his clothes.
A blind man gets his sight back then exposes himself in public.
A Saudi family sues genie for chasing them out of their home.
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