FOF #949 – Feast of Fun
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30 commentsIt’s time to bring on the Samba or lay some blame on the Bossa Nova. We’ve got a gay fun show for you today with live music by Chicago Jazz singer Solitaire Miles and Brazilian guitarist Paulinho Garcia.
Solitaire grew up with me in Erie Pennsylvania, and now she’s working the new media to expand her music and photo illustration career. Solitaire hosts the popular jazz and art related podcast called Tones, where she interviews artists and musicians. She’s also a star on flickr and Deviant Art for her romantic photo illustrations which have been used on the covers of romance novels.
Paulino Garcia came from sunny Brazil to the Windy City to be part of the thriving jazz scene and share his easy going sound with the American audience.
Listen as Solitaire and Paulinho bring some jazzy Brazilian flavor to the show, singing songs about love, ducks and Cintura Fina, a real-life Brazilian Ninja Tranny Street Fighter.
A teenage lesbian sues her high school after her principal refused to allow her to wear a tux to the prom. Are we living in the 1950s where a woman could be arrested if she wasn’t wearingthree pieces of woman’s clothing?
If anyone has ever told you what you do in bed is not natural, then they’ve not been watching monkeys lately. Nine to Mine is a website dedicated to documenting all the kinky sexual acts that monkeys do which make us humans look pretty tame by comparison.
A boy with two penises underwent surgery to convert the two penises into one penis. Is it better to have one big penis or two smaller ones?
Everybody’s changing their name! What you talkin’ ’bout Willis? After 34 years the Sears Tower, the second-tallest free-standing structure in the Americas is changing its name to the Willis Tower to welcome the new London Based Willis Group Holdings as a tennant.
After 11 years, we’re changing the name of the site and the podcast to reflect upcoming changes and expanded programming. Say hello to Feast of Fun, a delicious daily mix of news, trends and interviews with a spicy gay twist.
Pull up a plate and grab a helping of the Feast of Fun.
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FOF #944 – McNuggets 911
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Spring is just around the corner and in Chicago we’ve having unseasonably warm weather, so celebrate, because we’re usually still freezing our butts off this time of year!
Our blogging friend Michael Lehet is soon headed to Amsterdam – a city where pot is legal, prostitution is regulated and girl on girl sex shows titillate audiences.
Girl-on-girl? Well, lesbian news host, Rachel Maddow was on The View yesterday and the ladies fawned over her so much you thought they were making up for how they treated Rosie.
Has The View gone gay? Supermodel To The World, RuPaul plopped on the couch earlier this week to promote RuPaul’s Drag Race and suggested some women’s husbands are slipping on their panties while their wives are away at work.
Everyone’s abuzz about the Florida woman who called 911 three times after the McDonald’s employees took her money but wouldn’t give her the McNuggets she ordered or her money back.
In this economy, we’d call the police too. She was robbed!
A new study reveals that over 60% of British people lie about the books they’ve read because they want to impress people. I lie because I want people to not pester me at a cocktail party about the one book they have read in their entire life – Running with Scissors: A Memoir. It’s just easier to lie.
Is Ugly the cat, the world’s ugliest pet? It’s really hard to decide which is uglier, the cat or the dog. I think it all depends on whether you are a dog or cat person.
Xiao Nan, the intersexed Chinese athlete gives up the medals he won as a girl to become the man he wants to be. Her dream is to have genital reassignment surgery and then go swimming in nothing but boxer shorts.
“Dude, the cat liked being in the bong!” exclaims Acea Schomaker as to why he put his hot pussy in a box.
Killer Hugging Robots just can’t get enough love or so the hoax would have you to believe. In other robot news though, Japan is developing a teacher robot that will assign tasks and take roll call.
Join us Saturday for “Chicago Takes Off” TPAN’s annual burlesque revue-style show where talented male and female dancers strut their stuff in support of TPAN.
The event raises money for charity and features the hilarious Miss Coco Peru!
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FOF #937 – A Taste of Ongina
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In the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race, the reality TV show created to produce the next drag superstar, one of the contestants, Ongina, tearfully revealed she was HIV positive.
Today we’re talking to Ongina, also known as Ryan Palao, about what it was like to boldly share this intimate detail with millions of viewers and how it’s affected his life.
Ongina also clarifies some common misconceptions people have about drag queens, gay men and Filipinos and brings some sass and class into our discussion on how costumes help us be the people we want to be.
Ongina shares with us her behind-the-scenes insight into whether Rebbecca Glasscock was trying to manipulate the outcome of the challenge in her favor by having an emotional breakdown which forced the judges to keep her on the show and get rid of Chicago’s gal, Jade.
How could the show kick someone off after they cried about having a friend with AIDS without appearing to be heartless jerks?
One thing’s for sure, after winning half of the challenges on the show so far, Ongina is the girl to lick!
I’ve asked several drag queens why they didn’t try to be on the Drag Race, since obviously it would have been great publicity and opened a lot of doors. They said they feared that drag queens would be negatively represented on the show and decided to steer clear of it.
It doesn’t make any sense to me. If RuPaul told me to jump on an airplane, fly to Los Angeles and walk the runway in drag, I’d do it in second. And so should you.
What makes these types of TV shows so fascinating to watch is how they illustrate the obstacles we all place in front of ourselves because we fear being rejected. We put those roadblocks in our way because we’re afraid to look at where we’ve failed. We feel that we aren’t good enough.
What’s probably the most uncomfortable for the contestants is how the program asks them to take the wig and makeup off, and look in a mirror. The show asks us to embrace our strength and our flaws. In that sense, RuPaul’s Drag Race and the contestants are all winners.
Listen as we also talk about Ioana Cioanac, the 71 year old Romanian woman who’s knitted an entire wardrobe out of her own hair.
Irish police struggle after they confused the Polish words for Drivers License for 50 different driver’s names- Pradow Jazdy.
Dustin Lance Black at the Oscars.
Talk about giving mixed signals! The City of New York is now offering classes on how to be a better hooker in order to rehabilitate people who’ve been arrested for cruising for sex in a dirty book store.
A big thanks to Iris for hooking us up with Ongina.
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Calpernia Addams – Next! : iTunes
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FOF #930 – Mexican Golden Girls
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Las Mujeres Doradas means The Golden Girls in Spanish and we feel a little bit like a Mexican version of the campy 80s sitcom when hanging out with our good friend comedian Bill Cruz.
On today’s show the very likable, big gay Mexican Bill Cruz joins us to talk about what it’s like to be a pioneer in the comedy scene here in Chicago.
Everyone loves his work, but in his early days he struggled to entertain audiences and even connect with his own. Once while performing in front of a Latino college fraternity, he was booed when he came out as a gay man.
One crowd that’s always loved him is the fans of the Feast of Fools. Yes, Bill shared a stage with us on one of our live shows six years ago! So where’s he been all this time?
Bill has been performing as a professional comic across the country and he’s recently been featured in Mike Player’s book Out on the Edge: America’s Rebel Comics a book that details the true lives stories of gay comedians.
Is it the downturn in the economy or the warmer weather that heating things up in Chicago? Several of our friends have been mugged lately, including me two days ago in front of the ghetto Jewel grocery store in Andersonville. Listen to today’s show for the scary details.
An Elementary school in Massachusetts sent a note home to parents explaining why the male janitor is now a lady.
A new painting titled “The Funeral of Mona Lisa” being showed at the Loov, the same museum where the original Mona Lisa is held is causing quite a commotion. Could the exhibition be an attempt by the museum to tone down the celebrity of the great masterpiece?
An article on the science of orgasms is disappointing to men because all it talks about is why woman have a hard time getting off. Why can’t the women get off as easily as men do?
And did Donny Osmond stick his foot in his mouth when talking about the possibility of going on the TV show Dancing with the Stars?
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FOF #927 – RuPaul’s Drag Race Wins
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Work the runway sweetie! RuPaul is back on television, sashaying and shantaying her way into our hearts in her critically acclaimed new show RuPaul’s Drag Race.
On today’s show we’re talking to Supermodel of the World RuPaul about how the Drag Race project came together and who she thinks is going to be the winner of the show.
“Drag Race” delivers on all six cylinders a lighthearted but touching behind the scenes look at what it takes to become a great drag queen. Borrowing from programs like “Project Runway”, “Big Brother” and “Survivor” RuPaul and her motely crew of drag queens delivers a show that’s a hit with audiences and critics alike.
Join us as we chat with RuPaul about whether there will be a resurgence in drag, what made her cry during the show and what she thinks of Lady Bunny’s sassy comments about Ru’s appearance on Project Runway.
Click here to buy a season pass of the RuPaul’s Drag Race on iTunes. We highly recommend it!
Obama is tired of your shit. Before he became our nation’s 44th president, Obama recorded an audio book “Dreams from my Father” where he quoted his foul-mouthed classmate Ray and now bloggers have extracted audio clips with hilarious results. Will Obama’s cussing be this week’s Christian Bale’s freak out? [Thanks to Marcin for the news item!]
We had such a great time at the Equality Illinois Annual Gala dinner on Saturday night. We even got to give a big hug and kiss to openly gay Ron Huberman, the newly appointed CEO of Chicago Public Schools! Marc played it cool, but I couldn’t resist tackling this hot former Chicago police officer. You have the right to remain sexy!
Click here to see photos from the gala.
Also on today’s show: Christian Bale apologizes for his outburst, Freedom to Marry Week and eunuch murders in Pakistan
Our nation’s swear jar is overflowing with quarters! Let’s break it open and rescue the economy!
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