Yesterday’s Feast of Fools podcast with Peaches Christ inspired me to dig out some old Polaroids from my San Francisco days. Peaches, Marc and Fausto were discussing Phillip R. Ford’s sci-fi drag epic, “Vegas In Space” and I thought I’d share some photos of the director and stars of the film
I met Phillip R. Ford in the late 80s. He masterminded a drag troupe that consisted of Doris Fish, Miss X and Tippi and they were called Sluts a Go-Go. They put on manic skit comedy and produced these crazy drag productions of movies like “The Bad Seed” and “Valley of the Dolls”. Read more…

 

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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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Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall.

The internet helped him connect with the greater world around him when he couldn’t create a gay-straight alliance in his school and he left to be home schooled. To grow up a gay, eccentric and flamboyant teen has never been easy especially in a small conservative town in Tennessee.

If it weren’t for the internet where would Chris Crocker be?

Today Chris is one of the most watched and imitated video bloggers online. His iconic video of himself weeping and imploring the public to “Leave Britney Alone” made him a household name.

Chris’ videos represent the dramatic change we’re seeing in how we create and consume media. Chris’ videos are just as popular as the YouTube Presidential debates or the evening news. For millions of people everywhere, his opinion matters.

Despite this, old media companies are threatened by Chris popularity because of his bold desire to express himself at any cost. They can’t control him and he doesn’t need them.

It’s easy to question the authenticity of Chris’ videos because he’s just that good. He’s eerily in touch with his dark emotions and quickly cuts through the hypocrisy of the “haters” with his wit and words.

“Leave Britney Alone” proves to be one of the most emotionally over the top videos I’ve ever seen online. I believe Chris cried not so much for Britney Spears but rather to express the pain and suffering he endured having gone through the hell of homophobia as a teenager. In many ways, Chris Crocker represents the tortured gay youth who fought back and lived.

Chris Crocker really is a huge fan of Britney Spears, even though she has conservative leanings and a complete lack of interest in gay rights of any kind. Remember, she was FOR the War in Iraq and said in many interviews that we should “stand by our President” despite his reckless policies.

Chris sees something bigger inside of Britney. He believes her to be a liberal person trapped by the conservative world around her.

People can’t leave Britney alone or any other tragic celebrity for that matter because they help us cope with our everyday problems. When we see someone richer, more attractive and more powerful than us struggling to hold on, it makes it easy to come to peace with our place in the world.

On today’s show Chris Crocker joins us to talk in-depth about his popular video blog, his passion for following people’s horoscope and how he may team up with Puerto Rican TV astrologer Walter Mercado to reach a hip, young new audience. We also talk with Chris about how he personally deals with the vicious hate online and offline, what he thinks of all those parody videos of his work and where in Los Angeles you should hang out if you want to hook up with Chris.

And we put to rest the rumors surrounding Chris’ HIV/AIDS conspiracy as a government biological weapon gone wrong and being vilified for simply being himself and being good at it!

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Some songs are so cliché that Christopher Mast decided to just write a song using nothing but clichés.
He rocks.

 

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For many people, seeing the cult-film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” for the first time was a breakthrough.

I remember my first time in college hearing about this bizzare film experience where people threw food at the movie screen and re-enacted the entire film in costume and it had a murderous mad scientist transvestite named Dr. Frankenfurter. It was a celebration of sexuality, laughing at the ridiculousness of homophobia as we “gave ourselves over to absolute pleasure.”

One of my first experiences dressing up in drag was landing the part of a chorus member in the live musical production in Austin, Texas where we were required to wear vampish make-up, leather, lace and panty-hose. I was quite popular with the audience members, as I always found an excuse to sing the “Time Warp” song and land on some hunky audience member’s lap.

When Rocky Horror picture show was first released, it wasn’t well received despite the live musical version being a hit in London. Still some imaginative people saw gold in the celluloid and decided to embrace the film for it’s quirky campy self. The movie ignited the careers of actors Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick.

For Peaches Christ, every Midnight Mass movie event is a celebration of the queer experience in film. Every summer Peaches and her pals get together and camp it up before a sold-out crowd with their special brand of cult-film inspired mayhem. Peaches knows and loves these campy films like a momma knows the sound of her child’s voice.

On today’s show Peaches joins us to talk about some of the hottest and campiest sci-fi films every gay man must see.

Why is the film Flash Gordon so boring? It has everyting you could ask for, hunky football playing heroes, campy villians and a score by Queen. Yet somehow this film puts everyone to sleep, despite it’s decadent costume, plot and sets.

Is Starship Troopers the sequel to Showgirls? And why do gay people love blood, gore and guts with a sci-fi twist? Maybe it’s our shared experience in having to live a life outside of our own. Maybe we just like tacky movies and glittery things.

The film Xanadu, shot in the late 70s featured Olivia Newton-John playing Kira, a greek muse that inspires a struggling record company artist to quit his job and pursue his dreams. Gene Kelley joins in the fun as a big band orchestra leader-turned-construction mogul who decides to launch Xanadu, a decadent, post-modern futuristic nightclub which fused 1980s rock with 1940s swing jazz music.

The deliciously over-produced film gave us a vision of the 1980s from the vantage of the 1970s as a sexual, liberated time where people valued creativity and passion over money and responisbiloity. Boy were they off the mark!

Despite dealing a fatal blow to Olivia Newton-John’s film carreer, she married dancer/choreographer Matt Lattanzi who played a young Gene Kelly in the film (they divorced a decade later). Everyone was busy hooking up during the making of that movie!

The movie even inspired me to create my own medley for one of our past live shows.

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If you thought beauty pageants were for women, think again. Come join us as we hang out in the dressing room at the Mr. Chicago Gay Competition, 2008.

NOTE: Because some fine booty is shown, this video may not be safe for work.
Thanks to Stephen for editing this!

 

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Steven Rosengard was the first Chicago based designer to be on Project Runway, the fabulous reality television show where contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. Their designs are judged and one or more of the contestants are eliminated each week.

Project Runway Season Four was filled with a lot of great talent and we are glad Steven got as far as he did. He was “auffed” or kicked off of the show after re-styling a wedding dress of a women who have lost a significant amount of weight.

When given the challenge to create a new outfit out of a woman’s former favorite “fat clothes,” Steven was given the impossible task of transforming a woman’s wedding dress. As soon as I saw that dress, I knew whomever got it was going to lose.

The judges said that Steven turned her “wedding dress into a funeral dress.”

Still, Steven doesn’t shy away from talking about his design choices and explaining his reasons for making it.

Steven is a blast! We had a lot of fun with this Chi-town fashionista. He loved our idea for “Project Runway: The Musical!”

Just imagine the incomparable Elizabeth Berkley as chief “auffer” Heidi Klum and Bea Arthur as style guru Tim Gunn singing the breakout hit “Make it Work! Make it Work! Make it Work!” It’ll also feature pop sensation Gloria Estefan as Latina Nina Garcia and a dancing orange as the orange skin toned judge Michael Kors.

Of course all the contestants would play themselves and there would be awesome fashion show montages throughout the show. Jack Mackenroth is already working on his routine. Check him out in this over the top Flashdance number.

Since leaving Project Runway, Steven has spent a lot of time attending charity functions. He’s hosting Make a Statement: Design for the Cure, which showcases top fashions from Chicago’s favorite boutiques and rising designers, to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among Chicago’s 21 – 35 demographic. Presented by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago Junior Board, the event will feature models wearing t-shirts with such statements as: “Condoms: For Wieners Not Wallets,” “AIDS Apathy Makes Your Ass Look Big,” and “HIV Only Needs One Chance.”

Listen as we chat with Steven about the future of Project Runway and how its move to another network will effect viewership. Is Heidi nicer on air than she is off air?

Steven continues to further his design work. If you’d like him to make you a dress just contact him through his website StevenRosengard.com

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Mexican’s aren’t just gang-bangers, kitchen help or street peddlers of oranges. I should know I’m Mexican, so I can get away with bringing up such stereotypes. Actually, my entire adult life I thought I was half Mexican, but last year I found out that my dad is a quarter Apache indian too. Neglecting to share that kind of information is typical in my family, but I love them anyway and now I can make fun of Indians too. Read more…

 

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Happy Cinco de Mayo everybody! Okay, so it’s a little hard to celebrate the Mexican equivalent of St. Patrick’s day, a drinking holiday, on a Monday, but bear with us.

Sal-E joins us to start off the show right with a pitch shifted, hi-NRG version of La Bamba. Then afterwards we serve up a little multicultural “es-spanish” lesson, Feast of Fools style.

One nice discovery we made while readying the karaoke music for today’s show is that all music sounds better if you pitch shift it up and speed it up. Try it!

In today’s busy world, we just don’t have time to listen to our audio/video content the same old “real time” way, now with quicktime you can speed things up and get your heart pumping and energy flowing.

Speeding up songs and pitch shifting them up is so much fun, I’m predicting that we’ll soon hear musicians on major labels release songs pitch shifted up to make everyone sound like chipmunks at 160 beats per minute.

Instead of “chimping” think “chipping” or “chipmunking” the song. You heard it here first.

In Chile, a mayor is handing out free Viagra to men 60 years of age and older. But, who are they going to screw? There wives are probably perfectly content to have not had sex in a while and the South American nation recently repealed giving out the “Morning After Pill” free to low income women. We are hoping that the Chilean tiny drag queen superstar “La Pequeña ” will intercede on behalf of these poor ladies.

Can’t you just imagine La Pequeña at a pharmacy demanding her free birth control, right after a night of reckless sex? Check her out in a hot blooper’s session of her la Pequeña Hillary Clinton video here on the right.

Join Sal-E, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós as we follow-up on Sal-E’s baby fetish party and talk about suicide Disney style, when seals attack penguins and those dirty, dirty keyboards.

Please take a moment and spray your keyboard with some sanitizing wipes or windex on a rag to kill those nasty germs. Don’t ever spray anything directly on your computer.

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Armpits are sexy. Even sweat-drenched pits that aren’t in a dress shirt can be sexy. Am I right? My friend Donald is sexy and I know he loves his armpits because he’s always drawing them. He likes to draw his hairy legs and his crotch too and this is so great because he’s a very talented illustrator.

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