FOF #899 – All Things Chocolate
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On today’s show we’ve got a guy who works with it every single day- chef Pedro Gómez. He’s here to talk about all things Chocolate: it’s rich flavor, the history of chocolate in Mexico and Pedro’s fascinating erotic chocolate sculptures.
We love to tease Pedro every year at the World of Chocolate for making very erotic chocolate sculptures and we’re pleased to have him in house to discuss his love for all things chocolate.
Pedro is a self-taught, award-winning Executive Pastry Chef for Calihan Catering in Chicago. His extensive chocolate creations have received many awards and critical acclaim, and he’s a pioneer in the confectionery arts as a openly gay Latino man.
Did you know it takes over 150 lbs of solid chocolate to make one of his hunky human sculptures? We didn’t, but there is lot we discover about chocolate on today’s show.
Chocolate or cacao was originally a savory beverage reserved for the upper class. It wasn’t until the Spanish brought it back to Europe that it was processed into the product that we know today. Learn more about chocolate at Chicago’s Field Museum website.
Join us as we chat about a Shangai crackdown on people wearing pajamas out in public. Wearing pajamas in public indicates wealth but authorities think its too obscene.
At first I thought it was a joke that Asians wore pajamas out on the the street like real clothes but Pedro insists that he sees it all the time in Little Chinatown which is just down the street form where we live. I’m going to have to keep my eye open for that. Anyone want to go for a Dim Sum reconnaissance mission?
The Benny Hillifier website will take any youtube video and apply the Benny Hill theme song to it. It’s fun to hear the Yackity Sacks music with the video but it would be really great if the Benny Hillifier could also speed up the video like the real Benny Hill.
Listen as we talk about the Pooping Obama Doll in Spanish nativity scenes, the world’s oldest brain and HIV tests at your hair salon.
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PHOTOS: Day Without a Gay Protest, City Hall, Chicago
Over a hundred people marched in downtown Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 carrying rainbow flags or hand-lettered signs as part of “Day Without a Gay” a national rally day in reaction to California’s voter-approved…
Over a hundred people marched in downtown Chicago on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008 carrying rainbow flags or hand-lettered signs as part of “Day Without a Gay” a national rally day in reaction to California’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage last month.
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FOF #894 – Santa Bear
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Santa Claus is the ultimate bear as a jolly plump fella, full of hair, flavor and gifts who is here to bring a sense of fertility and prosperity to the holiday season.
On today’s show we have our friend Jamie Williamson, a local bear community organizer, here to talk about the Chicago bear scene, movie nights and preparing to play Santa Claus in our Feast of Fools holiday video.
If you live in Chicago, you might want to hang out with other bears in a non-bar setting. Check out the Chicago Movie Bears Yahoo Group for more information on participating in this fun loving group.
Join us as we examine of the origins of choreography in Beyonce’s video “Single Ladies.”
The video is like a snake eating it’s own tail as the video is inspired by several YouTube video spoofs of Gwen Verdon’s performance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1969. That dance sequence was choreographed by the fabulous Bob Fosse.
Is this a prank or is this for real? Are Africans smoking hiv meds to get high? Can freebasing anti-retroviral drugs really get you off? Or is this just another hoax like Jenkum?
It’s reported that Disney’s Jack Sparrow is so sexy that they’ve had to lay off the actors playing the character in theme parks until a less enticing version can be made. There are rumors about women flashing their tops at the sexy pirate and men grabbing captain jacks hot butt.
Listen as we talk about a pair of puppies save a boys life, a dog downs a burrito in one gulp, teddy bears in space, and wolf watch in China.
Wednesday, December 10th is Day Without A Gay- a national day of protest where queer people everywhere are being asked to skip work and donate their time to a charity or take part in a political rally.
In Chicago, we’re meeting in front of the Cook County Marriage License Bureau at 118 N. Clark Street at 11AM. Be there and receive one of the “Defend Equality” posters designed by Shepard Fairey that Steamworks kindly printed us for us.
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FOF #890 – It’s the Little Things
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Christmas is just around the corner, so we got our friend, America’s Lesbian Comic Sweetheart, Cameron Esposito, a Lesbian Sex cook book- Lesbian Sex: 101 Lovemaking Positions
Just what she’s always wanted. A manual on nagging her girlfriend for more sex.
Cameron’s busy getting ready for her tour to the UK and South Africa. Make sure to check out her site for the tour schedule.
Cameron is also working on sitcom pilot based on her comedy and we wonder if there will there be room for a persnickety Puerto Rican neighbor and his oafish boyfriend?
Check out the the video to the right for some of Cameron’s Stand up at the Sarcastic Squad. You can totally hear Marc and I laughing in the background.
Listen as we chat about German male convicts getting their prison budget extended for free makeup. Yes, it’s a matter of equal rights, if woman can have an allowance for makeup then so can men.
Condoleeza Rice played the piano for the queen of England, but the queen didn’t hear the whole performance so we have to wonder if she was any good. She’s a trained concert pianist but she’s also the Secretary of State and she’s not very good at that.
Was she as good as Sarah the Saxophone Playing Walrus? Well, the walrus doesn’t actually play the sax but she looks like she’s having fun doing it.
Micro transactions might be a sign of terrible tings to come. If you notice small charges between $.19-.39 on credit card account, scam artists may be testing it to see if the card is good before they go for the big charge once your card proves valid.
The ultimate lesbian love story is a straight couple from California that manage to wear matching outfits every day, and on special occasions they both wear tuxedos. She ebven wears men’s shirts to exactly match hers.
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FOF #887 – Inventions Gone Wild
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If necessity is the mother of invention, then drag queens are the children of finding a shortcut to looking fabulous!
When Teri Yaki isn’t busy entertaining audiences in Chicago, she buries herself in her basement coming up with real-life inventions to patent, with hopes of making enough money one day to own her own nightclub.
Hailing from Detroit, Teri Yaki can fix a car blindfolded, hot glue herself a dress in seconds and make a one-hitter out of a tube of lipstick.
Think of Teri Yaki as Ron Popeil in drag. She’s actually come up with some remarkable ideas, including a mouse trap that plays a song whenever it catches it’s prey!
Will mousetrap jingles replace cell phone ringtones in the future as revenue sources for the music industry?
Listen as we talk with Teri Yaki about the nostalgia of Thanksgiving, the Chinese karaoke cab driver, the dangers of hairspray, and the Vatican gives a posthumous pardon to musician John Lennon for saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus in 1966. Been a long time coming!
At least they didn’t wait over 400 years to forgive him, like they did with Galileo.
On Halloween, Oct. 31 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and officially conceded that the Earth was not stationary, as the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture. Galileo spent the last days of his life under house arrest for daring to suggest that the Earth revolved around the sun.
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Halloween Pandas on Parade
I simply love the Chicago Halloween parade. It’s a great place to meet everyday people expressing their desires of who they would like to be by dressing up in crazy costumes.
From the looks of…
FOF #881 – Eric Lutz is SO Gay
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Eric Lutz is SO gay! Well, that’s the name of the new drinking game so get a glass and a bottle and play along.
Why is it so much fun to tease straight men? One pastime we gay men seem to enjoy is obsessing over the intangible nature of mixed orientation relationships.
On today’s show we have two very funny guys, comedians from the Sarcastic Squad Adam Guerino and his straight best friend Eric Lutz. Adam is gay, Eric is not.
Or so he says.
Maybe dragging Eric onto our show is a way for Adam to help his friend come out of the closet, or maybe, just maybe it’s just his way of bringing over some white hot man-candy.
Will Eric come out? Or will he stay in the closet? Whatever the outcome, we’re sure you’ll enjoy the show.
It seems all the great comedians are coming out of the closet these days. Wanda Sykes, star of Pootie Tang, was at the “No on prop 8 rally in Las Vegas this past Saturday and said:
“I am proud to be a black woman and I’m proud to be gay… How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset because of love? Gay is not a choice. That’s like telling me I chose to be a woman, I chose to be black. Are we saying that if being gay is a choice, then people are straight because they chose not to be gay?”
We are excited about the the fantastic turn out at gay rights rallies that took place across the country this past weekend. it shows that although we have a lot of hard work ahead of us, we are motivated for change.
The next rally in the Chicago area is on Saturday Nov. 22 at 5PM at 1715 Maple St. in Evanston, IL to protest Alan Stock, CEO of the Cinemark Company, who gave nearly $10,000 to Prop 8. We have to hold these people accountable for their bigotry and show the good people of America that we are here.
Where’s your next rally or protest? Please let us know!
Listen as we talk about the Indian safe sex advocating parrot and his puppy sidekick named condom, a San Francisco based artist challenges computer engineers to turn her eye prosthetic into a wireless web cam and prisoners who are forced to wear pink outfits.
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PHOTOS: National Protest Against Prop. 8, Federal Plaza, Chicago
[Chicago Gay Men's Chorus opens the rally with television cameras and crowds looking on.]
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What a turnout! Thousands of protesters flooded Chicago’s Federal Plaza on Saturday, November 15…
[Chicago Gay Men's Chorus opens the rally with television cameras and crowds looking on.]
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What a turnout! Thousands of protesters flooded Chicago’s Federal Plaza on Saturday, November 15 (today) in opposition of Proposition 8 as part of an 300 city, 50 state movement against the California amendment that passed earlier this month.
Chicago police had to close down a lane of traffic to accommodate the huge crowds, which later turned into a march down Michigan Ave. through the heart of Chicago’s downtown shopping district, best known as the “Miracle Mile.”
Event spokesperson Andy Thayer said the protesters were “ecstatic to see so many of their peers standing up for equality. We are angry that our community has been vilified by those who hate us, but determined to fight on for equality.”
Here are some cute guys from the event:
What Not to Wear – Viewing Party!
Clips from our viewing party taken at Hydrate in Chicago, Friday Oct. 17.
On a sad note,Steamworks, Hydrate for helping make the event happen. Camera: Michael Lehet, Editing: Nathan Adloff, Producer: Fausto Fernós
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FOFA #632 – Candy Corn
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Ah candy corn. This delicious but deadly candy confection connotes images of the fall in the United States, of childhood and our beloved neo-pagan holiday, Halloween.
Thanks to a growing acceptance of weird things in our culture, Halloween has grown in a big way to rival Christmas as American’s favorite holiday. For many queer folks, it’s the first time they don a drag outfit and explore what it’s like to dress up as a man or a woman. For me, it’s a chance to do really weird things in the name of Holiday Spirit. You should see me at a Christmas party. “Is that mistletoe above your camel-toe?”
One of the best things about living in Chicago is our local, small and low-key Halloween parade centered in the heart of the gay part of town, Lakeview. Also known as Boystown, the modest parade attracts people from all walks of life, but a good percentage of the audience is Korean tourists. Don’t ask me why, it just is.
Here’s a picture of me with Saan Huan, a costume-less, Korean Christian minister who somehow made his way to Boystown last year and was acting all weird around us, but somehow wouldn’t stop following us with his camera.
We invited him to hang with us for the rest of the night. It all turned bad when he thought we were putting drugs in his beer.
I love to dress up as a combo of any costume and a vampire, because it’s sexy and weird all at the same time and because it’s an excuse to bite someone on the neck! Last year I was a knight in shining armor + vampire. This year I think I’ll get myself a cowboy gear and be a cowboy vampire.
Amanda’s Halloweens turn out to be like Charlie Brown’s Christmases. One costume idea Amanda had is to take a cardboard box and turn it into a Rubix cube. Another year she had nothing to wear and so she took her purple curtains and turned it into an awkward puple ghost costume that unintentionally offended a lot of people. Think the Teletubbies meets the Klu Klux Klan.
Here’s a bad costume idea: go as a “blind” date (a date wearing dark sunglasses). Be prepared for everyone to ask you if you are Ray Charles or Hellen Keller.
Marc suggests wearing underwear, wrapping yourself up in salami and saran wrap and going as leftovers. I think he just wants to wear a costume he can eat.
Another cheap, messy and dramatic costume idea is going as the classic Sissy Spacek character Carrie. Just put on a nightgown, a blond wig and a tiara, then drop a bucket of fake blood on yourself at an inappropriate time.
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Listen as Amanda Steinstein joins Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós to talk about Halloween news, cake-sitting, offending witches, sex parties in Canada. Are you invited?
[Originally posted on 10.18.07]
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