FOF #764 – Angels, Devils and Aliens
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14 commentsThe Vatican has been huffing a little too much of its own incense. They are saying it’s ok to belive in aliens. You go girl!
This past week their cheif astronomer, the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said that the “vastness of the universe means it’s possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.”
Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like “putting limits” on God’s creative freedom.
So it’s okay to believe in aliens but not faeries.
Its okay for this centuries old cult, who’s had a history of stopping scientific and intellectual progress, even imprisoning astronomers like Galileo, to suddenly embrace the possibility that E.T. might be a Jesus loving freak just like them.
Are they dipping their toe in the waters of modernity? Is this large religious body examining the possibility of looking beyond their scripture, maybe even embracing our own sexual diversity as a good thing?
Listener Grizzly put it best in our forum: “Are aliens what God created on that day when he was supposed to rest, but got bored and doodled around a bit in the margins?”
If you live in New Orleans and love to dress up in drag and look good, stay away from the Burger King. A six-foot, 180 lbs drag queen wearing a necklace that perfectly matcher her dress robbed a Burger King in “The City that Care Forgot” last week, by climbing out the takeout window.
Police speculate that the robber was a “genuine” drag queen and not some guy hiding behind a weird costume because his outfit was so well put together. Her necklace matched her dress.
Oh cabin fever, spring fever. As the city of Chicago gets invaded by thousands of leather men, rubber fetishists and human dogs you can’t help but speculate the origins of all this sexual diversity and intensity.
We think it has something to do with chilly weather.
As T.S. Eliot said in his legendary poem: “April is the cruelest month.” What he means by that phrase is that springtime is not only a time of reawakening, it’s a way to let the sexual being inside you flourish. That is great when you have someone or someplace to flourish with, but if you’re stuck in a bad place, you gotta let that heat out somehow.
We think places where people spend a lot of time indoors may have a factor in nurturing the freak inside. But that really doesn’t explain people in sunny warm California, so go figure.
I do, I do, I do believe in angels, devils, aliens and faeries, I believe in the Feast of Fools, I believe in crystal light because I believe in me!
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Flowers in the Attic
Check out this behind-the-scenes installment of trannytalk101 with Kennidi Monroe and Reina Valentino. Fausto coaches the girls backstage at a nightclub (Mary’s Attic) in Chicago. Also featuring Jessica Savano, Friday Foster and Regina Upright.
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Stood Up and Abandoned
Determination is a drag queen’s middle name. And this photo is a good example of fortitude and endurance in the face of adversity. Actually, she does have legs, but I like this Polaroid more…
Determination is a drag queen’s middle name. And this photo is a good example of fortitude and endurance in the face of adversity. Actually, she does have legs, but I like this Polaroid more when I imagine that she is dragging herself down the stairs because she has nothing below the waist. And a drag queen under 6′7″ tall who leaves a trail of blood behind her is just too ripe for ridicule.
FOF #748 – Teriyaki Sauced
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Sit tight! We’ve got a drag-queen filled, delicious roller coaster ride of podcasting for you today.
Sal-E’s best gal-pal Teri Yaki joins us to talk about why so many people love to claim a drag queen as their best friend, why drag queens fight so much with each other and the origins of his delicious name.
I met Kevin years ago when he was a bartender and had just moved from Detroit, Michigan. Back then, he considered himself to be a performance artist and identified as a bi-guy and was dating his college sweetheart cabaret singer Amy Armstrong.
Today Kevin lives with his partner Ray in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago and performs all over the city as Teri Yaki.
Teri Yaki is quite a hoot and she crashed the taping of our live podcast at Steamworks and managed to titillate the unshockable crowd by flashing his nuts through his fish net stockings.
Why did Teri Yaki pee on top of her friend one fateful night? Why did he get kicked out of the Eagle leather bar? Who will win the drag queen wars? All this and a “Cher-Off’ on today’s show.
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Cute Boys and Drag Queens Survive the Apocalypse
I am happier than a passing tranny that I will be regularly posting my Polaroids to Feast of Fools!
Thank you Fausto and Marc for allowing me to contaminate TastyZine with some of my work….
I am happier than a passing tranny that I will be regularly posting my Polaroids to Feast of Fools!
Thank you Fausto and Marc for allowing me to contaminate TastyZine with some of my work. If you want to know more about who I am, check my bio or drop me an email.
As most of us have heard, Polaroid has decided to discontinue their amazing instant film. That is a disturbing bit of news to people like myself who have been shooting with the stuff for years and consider it their medium of choice. I have a decent stash of film that will probably last me a full year and during that time I will be taking the most amazing photographs to shock, amaze and titillate.
What I’ll do here is upload some of the new stuff as well as share images from my extensive Polaroid archive. I wondered what FoF listeners and readers would like to see and decided: cute boys and drag queens, obviously! So that’s what I will be posting… more than likely with some deviation here and there, but we’ll see how that goes.
Hope you enjoy my work! Please check back every Friday and Monday for a couple of fresh photos.
This is an older Polaroid I shot of two drag queens years ago. I love this type of drag. They’re the kind of girls who really do look as if their names are Madge and Phyllis. They’re the kind of sweethearts that won’t bother competing with the more traditional beauties and are content to dress like 13-year old girls going to their first Junior Prom. (more…)
FOF #722 – Drag Wars
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Oh girlfriend, it’s getting vicious on one page of our comments thread.
In case you don’t subscribe to comments on the blog entries, you may have missed an intense exchange by most of Chicago drag queens and nighclub performers on the show FOF #713 – 9 1/2 Inch Tiara – 02.27.08
So today Sal-E comes on the show to hopefully spread a message of peace and good humor, but I think it may have backfired on all of us. Eek!
If you see a mob of angry drag queens picketing our show Friday at Steamworks, don’t be surprised. The problem with avoiding drag queens is they look just like normal people outside of costume, kind of. Now I’m a bit afraid I went too far on the show and every time I see someone with thin eyebrows I get a little nervous.And I ask myself, will this be the ONE?
As if that wasn’t enough, Dawn Wells is in prison (get the FREE MARY ANN button here) and NYC Mayor Eliot Spitzer is going down for liking the for-pay sex services. What’s interesting about the scandal is that it’s bringing to light sex-workers who make $25,000-$50,000 for a three day sex-romp vacation. And champagne is not included.
Nobody is $50,000 ugly, so I’m sure many of us would welcome the opportunity to pay back some of those credit card bills and student loans by spending an horrible, awkward weekend with some lonely rich married man from the East coast.
How little money would it take to get YOU in the sack? My going rate is on a sliding scale, but not on money, it’s on looks. If you look hideous, you slide right off the scale.
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April 2008 is going to be the Feast of Fools 10 year anniversary and my birthday, so I’m using my tax return money and getting an iPod Nano, iPod Shuffle, a t-shirt and a mug and giving them all away at the end of the month! All you have to do is register for our brand new Feast Blast Weekly E-Mail Newsletter and we’ll be announcing it on the newsletter. Click here to sign up.
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FOF #713 – 9 1/2 Inch Tiara
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Most people look insane wearing tiaras. Even still, gay men and women all across the world compete in pageants that cost a ton of money to participate in and for what? The competition is often so stacked against you and it’s more about who you know rather than how fierce a queen you are. And even if you do win, the titles don’t necessarily advance your career.
So why do these ladies do it? Because it’s fun. Just like thousands of young people line up to be rejected on American Idol television show, some gay men just think it’s a blast to go through all the trouble and sacrifice to put on a show.
Drag ties us to something powerful and we enjoy the temporary illusion we create when lip syncing and instead of being just another gay guy, we’re Diana Ross! A little hair and make-up and the right outfit and attitude we’ve become royalty. Queen for a night.
On today’s show one of our local drag queens and behind-the-scenes pageant diva Richard Biasis, better known as Regina Upright, joins us to talk about what inspires drag queens to entertain others and themselves.
Why are these gay men spending so much time and effort to imitate strong powerful women? What makes Cher such an icon?
Listen as Marc Felion, Richard Biasis and me, Fausto Fernós talk about the British man dying from eating too many “fairy cakes” and the 39 year old Japanese man who got caught trying to show up at a high school trying to pass as a teenage schoolgirl wearing a uniform, makeup and long wig.
Oh, and yes, we unveil the DIRT on most drag queens in Chicago. What are Sal-E and Jo-jo really like? Who poured a pint of beer into my suitcase? Who stole my makeup?
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