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Tweet tweet indeed! If you think podcasts are the sole domain of the odd and unusual, you’re wrong.

A British radio station has become an unlikely hit by broadcasting nothing but a twenty minute loop of the ambient sound of a country garden with birds a-twittering in the background.

It’s lovely I tells ya, governor.

Half a million listeners who want to re-connect with nature have tuned in to the station. RSPB, the company producing the show is now getting around to upgrading the quality of the recording, hopefully supplementing it with sounds of chipmunks-a-squeaking and crows-a-cawing.

On a darker note, actor Charlton Heston, well known for starring in such sci-fi classics like Planet of the Apes and Soylent Green and in landmark biblical-inspired films like The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur, died at the age of 83.

In a 1997 speech he confused many by both praising and condemning the gays in Hollywood he worked with for most of his acting career:

“Many homosexuals are hugely talented artists and executives… also dear friends. I don’t despise their lifestyle, though I don’t share it. As long as gay and lesbian Americans are as productive, law-abiding and private as the rest of us, I think America owes them absolute tolerance. It’s the right thing to do. But on the other hand,” Heston continued, “I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton’s cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund-raisers but boycott gun-rights fund-raisers… and then claim it’s time to place homosexual men in tents with Boy Scouts, and suggest that sperm donor babies born into lesbian relationships are somehow better served and more loved.”

What-ever.

Nobody seems to remember that in his heeey-day, Charlton was seen as a gay icon for somehow making sure his shirt was off in every film. Later in life he became more conservative, uttering his famous like about gun-rights, they will take his gun away from his “cold dead hands.”

It’s time to start planing pansies. Spring is here and while the weather decides what it wants to be, now’s the time to start planing the gayest flower of them all, the purple pansy. Although I think the blue ones look nice too.

If you’re subscribed to the weekly Feast Blast, keep a look out for the “purple pansy” a delicious flowery cocktail recipe coming your way soon.

Listen as Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós talk about the fabulous trippy downtown sculpture Cloud Gate (better known as The Bean), Absolut’s Vodka ad that really offends nobody and the use of GLBT vs. LGBT which one do you prefer to use? I’m always saying “ladies first” so put the G in there.

My birthday is on Wednesday April 16th. Want to hang? Where should we go? I’m all ears.

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