FOF #970 – Crime and Punishment
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Last time nightlife photographer George St. George was on the show it was all about murder, madness and mayhem. Today we’re taking it easy and breezy, for the most part!
George was recently arrested for taking pictures of a sex worker at a place where he shouldn’t have been. His court date is coming up- shall we all take a box lunch to the trial?
On today’s show we’re back from vacation, talking about our travels to Texas, climbing Enchanted Rock and celebrating Easter and my birthday with friends and family in Austin. What did I get for my birthday? Listen and find out!
George is sad at the passing of Frances Milstead, the mother of the famous drag queen Divine. Why was she the mother to gay people everywhere?
George is also raising money for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago though his Facebook causes.
We’ll also be attending Make a Statement: Design for the Cure on May 7th. It’s hosted by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago’s Junior Board and showcases top fashions from the city’s up and coming designers, as well as a raffle to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among Chicago’s 21 – 35 year olds.
A Snuggie Pup Crawl takes over Lincoln Park. Wish we had gone!
Viral singing superstar Susan Boyle, continues to dazzle everyone from her appearance on the reality TV show Britain’s Got Talent. She’s being offered a million dollars to lose her virginity in a porn video. It’s an obviously cheap publicity stunt for the porn company. Should she call their bluff and collect her money?
If you thought the food from McDonald’s was bad for you, try getting smashed by their logo. A couple was crushed inside their car after a the iconic symbol came loose and flew at them in 60 mile per hour winds.
Plus- Amy Fisher, the Long Island Lolita is ditching her job as newspaper columnist and putting on the pasties as a nightclub stripper.
Gali the Alligator will terrify your children.
Drew Barrymore’s powerful performance in HBO’s Grey Gardens still haunts me. How cats do you have to have before you are considered crazy?
and the Dirty Dancing Daddy from Memphis, Tennessee- will our video go viral?
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FOF #781 – Big Bear Double Date
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Ah happy memories. It was such a blast to ride up to Milwaukee with Tracy Tyler to perform at the Pridefest Milwaukee celebration, an event that started out with a torrential downpour and ended with fireworks in Tracy’s jaw dropping number.
An hour after arriving to our hotel, I called Tracy to see when she wanted to head out to the event and she already had a romantic visitor in her room! She even put him on the phone to prove that he was there.
–Click here to see a photo gallery of our show and after-party at Stir in Milwaukee.
On today’s show Tracy shares her sexy tales of visiting Milwaukee, the Beer Capital of America and our haphazard ride up there.
We set her up with bear comedian Marc Peurye, who co-hosts the comedy night every Wednesday at 9:30pm, McDunna’s Pub in Chicago.
A new study by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute suggests gay men’s brains are similar to straight women’s and that lesbians’ brains are like men’s. The researches announced on Monday that queers and their hetero counterparts share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, highlighting some of the potential underpinnings of sexuality.
I’m not sure where trannies fit into this unusual equation, but it certainly would be interesting to see them included in the study, don’t you think? Although Tracy does say she has a woman’s brain in a man’s body and we believe her. Still, I’d like to see what’s in that skull of hers.
Sock Monkey Obama- the controversy over a Utah company’s sock doll fashioned after the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama raises some important questions about racism and how we collectively feel about the man who will most likely be the next President of the United States.
Is comparing Obama to a monkey racist or is it just a reaction to seeing a politician with big ears? After all, President George W Bush was compared to a monkey millions of times and the monkeys never complained.
The NAACP, who made the news last year by staging a mock funeral for the “N-word” responded by calling the toy ‘‘pure racism at its extreme.’’
The toy makers issued a response saying they meant no harm by it, and were only tying their affection for Obama to the children’s toy they grew up with.
Obviously the racism and inequality we live with won’t disappear overnight if the country elects its first black President (not counting Bill Clinton). Will people use the political success of Barak Obama as a way to diffuse any argument over racism in America today?
“We have a black president = we are no longer racist.”
I think one good way to fight racism is to start talking about it. If a silly doll raises this topic, it can’t be a bad thing.
Say hello to Plutoids. Not a spicy mint, but a new term for dwarf planets such as Pluto.
The International Astronomical Union feels bad that they took the title of planet away from Pluto so they came up with a new term for not quite a planet, not quite an asteroid- plutoid. We should all be so lucky to have a international association of scientists pondering the meaning of our own mass, shape and weight.
Check out Tracy in Sweeney Todd the Musical- playing Friday, Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays 2pm until June 28th at the Actors Theater Company at 1125 W. Loyola Avenue in Chicago.
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FOF #768 – Far Out Fashion
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We have a passion for fashion, especially when it gets a little weird. We found lots of hot fashion for you to enjoy.
Say hello to Hello Kitty, the fashion icon created by Sanrio,has been named ambassador for tourism by the government of Japan. As ambassador, I wonder if she will have diplomatic immunity and be able to kill at random and get away with it. i predict you’ll see it on Law and Order soon enough.
Boobs- they are not just for girls anymore. It seems boys in the Uk are sporting boobs now more than ever. There are a number of reasons why boy boobs are the rage right now but the most the most common factor is obesity. But, it’s important to realize that that the boy boobs aren’t just fat and that actual breast tissue is forming just like in girls.
Other causes for the boy boobs phenomenon is certain medications, body building drugs or even possibly increased levels of female hormones or chemicals that mimc their effect that are in the environment. Boy boobs, how long will this fad last?
Vanessa Randall created a minty fresh prom dress out of gum wrappers. It took the savvy teen three years of gum wrapper collecting and a lot of duct tape to make her Japanese inspired cocktail dress. She just finished it in the nick of time for the prom.
I just love it when girls get creative making fancy outfits out of everyday objects. Remember Scarlet O’Hara in Gone with the Wind? Or better yet, Carol Burnett’s parody of the book and movie, “Went with the Wind,” where Carol as “Starlet” makes a dress out of curtains and proclaims to Rat Butler “I just saw it in the window and had to have it.”
Electronic tattoos of the future just might save your life. A subcutaneous blood fueled display may monitor for many blood disorders, alerting the person of a health problem. What’s amazing is that the device will be powered by glucose and oxygen from your blood supply. Now, if they could just get it to be powered by the fat in my love handles, I’d be the first one in line to get one.
Join us as we chat about a Japanese parrots who made its way home, Harvey Milk Gets Busted and what are the REAL reasons Jodie Foster left her “beloved” Cydney Bernard?
“That voice is so intense it could rupture a virgin’s hymen.” Yes, it’s Amanda Steinstein on the Feast of Fools.
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FOF #765 – Fighting for Your Diva
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Don’t mess with a Mariah Carey fan! They will cut you.
A Naples Florida guy and his alleged girlfriend were listening to the music by the star of Glitter when another car pulled up alongside at an intersection and shouted the fan a derogatory name for grooving to her music.
You can probably guess what was said that quickly turned this cat-fight into a mile-and-a-half shouting match, ending with the Mariah Carey fan throwing a beer bottle back at the non-Mariah loving car, hitting the driver in the head.
Some people will go to any lengths to defend their diva and avoid being called gay.
On today’s show blogger Michael Lehet joins us to talk about the Swiss Man who may have spit himself into running for a Darwin Award, flying Russian penises and how to become a do-it-yourself oil tycoon.
First there was the Asian Tsunami, then Hurricane Katrina and now there’s the cyclone in Myanmar and the earthquake in China. As the stories and numbers of all these global disasters pile up, Americans seem to mentally give up and turn away from donating to these international causes.
Charities call it donor fatigue, but Lisa Tolin, an AP writer calls it “Disaster Fatigue” the psychological condition that people exhibit when the problem seems insurmountable, they give up.
“The more bad news there is, the less likely people may be to give.”
So while people are literally starving around the world, decadent New York city restaurants are drumming up publicity desperately by offering a $175 burger, garnished with truffles and gold leaf. Mmmm gold.
You see this dumb stunt being done from time to time. Some business offers an everyday item at an exhorbitant price, and they throw in rare, expensive and unecessary items just for the shock value.
Not to be left out of the loop, we’re offering our very own diamond covered Feast of Fools t-shirt (made with cruelty-free, vegan diamonds) for the low low price of 7.7 million dollars. Cheap!
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FOF #764 – Angels, Devils and Aliens
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The 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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FOF #757 – Pre-Cycling
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Everybody is going green these days, and I’m not talking about the incredible hulk! Whoo I’d love to be around the ONE time his pants finally ripped off when he transformed.
No, were talking about the environment. Green is no longer obscene, green is in. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the fashion world is going ga-ga over eco-friendly products, and here at the Feast of Fools, we’re keeping up with the trends.
Our web-hosting company is green and although we shun the color from the design of the site, we carry ecological concerns deep inside our hearts.
On today’s show Sal-E (pictured here on the right) comes to talk about ways you can become an eco-frinedly drag queen.
One concept we’re tossing out there is PRE-CYCLING. Re-cycling means to find a secondary use to materials or objects, to convert waste to useable materials.
Why wait? Pre-cycling is the concept of finding use for an object before it’s indeded use comes to be. You heard it here first! PRE-CYCLING.
A man in South Chicago bought his own coffin and until the fateful day comes where he meets his maker, he’s going to use it as a beer cooler.
Bill Bramanti from the South Side of Chicago loves his Pabst Blue Ribbon beer so much, he had a coffin designed to look like the can. But before he’s buried in it, he’s filled it up with ice and regularly uses it as a beer cooler on the weekends.
On a darker note, two guys just got arrested for digging up a human corpse, cutting it’s head off and using the skull as a marijuana bong. I don’t know where to start with that one.
Join Sal-E, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós today as we talk about those new concepts in ecological conservation, flogos- corporate logos in the sky and Barak Obama moving on as Hilary’s future as Democratic nominee becomes more and more uncertain.
Queers do find love! This week 70s rock icon Lou Reed got married to 80s performance icon Laurie Anderson in a private wedding.
Pictured here in this file photo making out with David Bowie, the bisexual 70s icon struggled once with his own homsexual desire and even conceded to receiving electroshock therapy to “cure” himself of being gay.
In many ways marrying lesbionic Laurie Anderson is a nice compromise, and she’s a fierce diva in her own right.
For those of you who don’t know about Laurie, she had a #2 British pop hit with her song “O Superman” in the 80s and pioneered much of the midi techonlogy found in modern music today.
She’s the innovator of the “tape-bow violin” a device that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow and a tape head on the bridge of the violin to make freaky sounds onstage. I think these two make a beautiful couple.
Hats off to Matthew Pope! The Kansas State Shawnee Mission East class of ‘08 just elected their homecoming king and queen the same person. It’s openly gay Matthew Pope, co-captain of the cheerleading squad. Isn’t he adorable?
Every time he walks out on the court the kids erupt in cheers chanting “Pope! Pope! Pope!” The school goes nuts whenever he prerofrms his signature moves, a series of back flips across half the court. I’m sure he’s popular with the male atheltes as well. Ah progress!
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FOFA #556 – Russian Robocops
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Did you hear the one about the egg-shaped Russian robocop? As far as we know, this is a true story.
A Russian six-foot tall egg-shaped robot, hailed by the Russian police force as a bold new crime fighting tool broke down on it’s first day on the job, not because it couldn’t fail to comprehend the human notion of love, but because the rain made its circuits fry.
I think it actually would be adorable to be arrested by a short little egg shaped robotic police officer. Robots are SO gay. Think about it.
Twiki from Buck Rogers? Gay. HAL-9000? Persnickety. Star Wars’ C3PO? Flaming! Even real-life robot ASIMO swishes around like a flaming queen. I think I’ve even seen the Mars Sojourner Red Rover and the Unimate robotic arm getting it on.
Do you have $40 sitting around doing nothing? Well besides investing in your favorite podcast, you can invest it in real estate. Just don’t plan on being around to enjoy it. On today’s show Amanda Steinstein joins Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós to talk about investment real estate, but the really wacky kind.
One firm Lo’ihi Development will sell you a lot of Hawaiian real estate for $40, the catch is that you wont be able to step foot on it for probably three or four millennia, since it’s located 3,000 feet below sea level on a underwater volcano.
Another developer named Dennis Hope has made over NINE MILLION DOLLARS selling acres of land on the moon (as in the one that orbits the earth) for $20. How cute! A piece of paper for $20. He’s sold his lunar land plots to celebrities like Barbara Walters, George Lucas, the deceased Ronald Reagan and even the first President Bush. I don’t know why people think most celebrities mismanage their money.
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Headline: Report of body in lake spurs search
Brief: Promoted by a report of a drowned person, a difficult search was conducted by police and fire dive teams but no body was found in Lake Michigan.
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Brief: Promoted by a report of a drowned person, a difficult search was conducted by police and fire dive teams but no body was found in Lake Michigan.
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