Local drag queen Miss Foozie turns 10

But is that ten-thousand? Local drag queen impresario Miss Foozie has been sending out birthday invites all over the net (via ChicagoPride) claiming to be ten years old, and has an unusual sponsor for the event- the Body Worlds Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.

I don't know about you, but I just wouldn't want the fascinating-yet-creepy Body Worlds exhibit to be a sponsor for anything that has to do with me and aging.

We're not sure if Miss Foozie plans on making an appearance at the Body World's exhibit alive or dead, but we want to wish her a Happy Birthday and many more to come.

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Great books from great people

The finalists for the 19th Annual Lambda Literary Awards are out (in both senses of the word) and three of our very own guests have gotten nominated for the prestigious award! You GO girl.

Enjoy the the podcast interviews with them, and then buy go the book on Amazon. I HIGHLY recommend these three books to you and suggest you waste no time getting them. They best represent the sass, humor and spirit that the Feast of Fools is all about.

Congratulations to Hilary Carlip, Tim Miller and Kate Bornstein for your nominations. Hope you win!

Nominee for HUMOR & LESBIAN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY
• Queen of the Oddballs by Hilary Carlip (HarperCollins)
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Nominee for LGBT NONFICTION
• Hello, Cruel World by Kate Bornstein (Seven Stories)
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Nominee for DRAMA/THEATER
• 1001 Beds by Tim Miller (University of Wisconsin)
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The winners will be announced on Thursday, May 31, at the Lambda Literary Awards Ceremony in New York City.

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Make an Elf of Yourself.

What a creepy way to promote a office supply store.

Click here to see Fausto dance like an elf.

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Our People's Choice Podcast Award wants some company up on the mantle!

We are so proud and happy to announce that the most fabulous podcast in the whole universe, also known as Gay Fun Show: Feast of Fools has now been nominated for TWO gay media awards:
• Chicago Free Press' Pressies "Best in Community" Awards (Best Podcast)

and
• Queer Click's Gay Bloggies 2006 Awards (also Best Podcast ).

[For full disclosure I am an employee of Rainbow Media, the company that puts out the Chicago Free Press, but I am in no way involved in the counting or ballotting of the awards.]

We are so pleased like a pink peach pie.

So again we're calling on our true blue belivers to sign up and vote vote vote! Help spread the FOF gospel and share the love with rest of the untouched masses.

You can vote once for each award, so make it count! Vote online for the Gay Bloggies, and for the Pressies, you must clip a copy of the newspaper's ballot and vote there.

The iPod you save might very well inspire gay people everywhere to break the shackles of their own opression and find that land of soy milk and orange blossom honey!

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Seeing Red

Apple today came out with a special edition RED iPod that comes with an added feature- it helps to fight AIDS.

With every purchase of one of these delicious looking red iPods, Apple will give $10 to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa.

We so recommend you get one too- they make great Christmas gifts, or early Chinese New Year presents as well. Don't they just look like you could eat them! If anyone wants to buy us one, we won't mind.

Can't you just see them sitting under everyone's Christmas Tree, Chaunnukah Bush and Ramadan Rug?

Everyone looks good in red, even your glittery blue pal Fausto Fernós. So go get your red iPod and fight AIDS now! However, donating money directly doesn't hurt either.

•Click here for more information about the Global Fund and (RED).
•Click here to donate directly to the Global Fund.

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Bring the Feast of Fools to Los Angeles!

Listen up folks!

Marc and I are all busy planning our speech and sewing on the feathers on the costume's we'll be wearing to accept the People's Choice Podcast Award, but before we do that, we want to throw a big party and tape a live show!

Help us have some fabulous fun in Kathy Griffin's own back yard, that is, West Hollywood as we gay it up in our last LIVE SHOW of 2006.

Before this happens, we need your help! Please find a quarter, a dime, a dollar, hell just sell that wig you haven't been wearing on eBay and donate the cash to us- we'll put it to good use. Click here to donate.

Please donate ANYTHING you can to help pay for the plane tickets. Not only will you get to come face to face with our special brand of Chi-town flavor, but you'll get to meet all our other fabulous friends who live in California.

Either way, please come meet the stars, guests and fans of Chicago's #1 comedy podcast, gay or straight: the Feast of Fools.

We'll be announcing at the event some very BIG special surprises, which you wont want to miss, plus we'll be taping our show live, with lots of very awesome visual treats you wont be able to see.

Of course, stay after the event to talk with us one on one and tell us what you think.

Feast of Fools: LIVE PODCAST RECORDING
Micky's Bar
8857 Santa Monica Blvd,
West Hollywood (Los Angeles) California
Wednesday, September 27th • 8-10pm
See in person: Fausto Fernós, Marc Felion,
Amanda Steinstein, Miss Ronnie, Sal-E and other celebrity guests.

FREE ADMISSION • 21+OVER • CAMERAS WELCOME
Early arrival is recommended.

In the meanwhile, enjoy this little desktop image I made with our faces.

Click here to donate to the Feast of Fools travel fund.

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Fan Art: Ben Hill's photo montage.

I love fan art. Thanks to Ben Hill for making this! We heart you a lot.

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Bring the Feast of Fools to the Lone Star State

We're planning our next Meet N' Greet to be in Austin, Texas on Friday August 18. However, we need your help!

Your flaming blue pal Fausto Fernós and his boyfriend Marc Felion want to come face to face with you the listener and we need your help to help make this happen.

Please donate ANYTHING you can to help pay for the plane tickets. Not only will you get to come face to face with our Chi-town flavor, but you'll get to meet all our other fabulous friends who live in the Lone Star State! (That's Texas for ya'll yanks.)

For those who donate $400 or more we'll take you out for a special all-expensives paid Feast of Fools lunch with just you and us!

Either way, please help spread the FOF gospel one iPod at a time. Thank you.

Click here to donate to the Feast of Fools travel fund.

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Welcome to the Feast of Fools! We've been waiting for you.
Grab a plate and help yourself.

We had such a great time this weekend hanging out with George Takei and his partner Brad Altman, we just HAD to remind you to listen to the full hour long uncensored and uncut interview with the man behind Star Trek's Mr. Sulu.

Click here to go to the entry "Proud to Be Takei" episode #325.

Like the show? Subscribe via iTunes for FREE by clicking here. iTunes will automatically download the shows every day and put them in your iPod.

If you don't have iTunes click here to download the FREE software and install it first. (We said it was free.)

Pictured here on the right is me, your flaming blue pal Fausto Fernós dressed up as a half-andorian half-human starfleet science officer trying to feed Mr. Sulu some delicious apple pie.

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Bring the Feast of Fools to the Big Apple

We're planning our next meet and greet to be in the middle of April (probably Wed or Thu April 12 or 13th) in New York City, and we need your help!

The Feast of Fools wants to bring Fausto, Marc, Ronnie, Amanda, and Victoria to the east coast to come face to face with their fans, and we need you to help make this happen.

If you live in New York City (or the area) and want to help us find a place to hold the Meet N' Greet, please send us an email to feastoffools[at]gmail[dot]com.

But more importantly, please donate ANYTHING you can to help pay for the plane tickets over there! Not only will you get to come face to face with our Chi-town flavor, but you'll get to meet all our fabulous friends in New York that have been regulars on the show!

For those who donate $400 or more we'll take you out for a special all-expensives paid Feast of Fools lunch with just you and us!

Click here to donate to the Feast of Fools travel fund.

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Where You At?

As amazing as it may seem, there are thousands of folks out there who religiously listen to the show every day. Well, at least their computers do. Why last month our interview with Dick O' Day alone was downloaded 9,781 times. That's a LOT of bandwidth people!

It gives us such a pleasure to look into the eyes of all our fantastic fans out there in this big blue marble we call Earth.

To celebrate the 1000th person to put themselves on our Frappr map, we'll be choosing at random (using one of those random number generator thingys) one lucky person to win a Feast of Fools t-shirt, calendar, button and DVD-collection of ALL our shows from 2005. ALL of them. Thats several DVD's folks. Why the 2006 calendar alone costs $24.99!

Since we're feeling generous, we'll also be giving the exact same prize to our 1000th person to post. So tell all your friends to click on the map and post your pic!

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A majestic interplay of color and light

For over twenty years performance artist Debbie Moore has been capturing her life through the very tangible art form of painting. If you can go see her group exbitiion tonight in San Francisco, be sure to check it out. For those who don't live there, almost all of her past works are available online for free to look at.

Featured on the right is a tribute to three legendary art-divas: Annie Sprinkle, Veronica Vera, and Linda Montano.

• Click here to see her paintings inspired by performance artist Annie Sprinkle.
• Click here to see her haunting self-portraits.
• Click here to see her whimsical nude body paintings.

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Site of the Day: Vintage Gay Paperbacks

The 1950's and 60's, in the age before the internet (hell even television wasnt as popular or available) people everywhere bought books.

These cheap dime-store paperbacks were the "porn" of their day. Reading a hot sexy juicy story was one of the way gay men (and everyone else for that matter) could find gay content of any kind. The Hollywood Hayes code prevented explicit gay stories to be shown in films, and if they were (like the film "The Children's Hour") the characters stories had to end in despair and doom.

Take a trip back in time and check out these lovely paperback covers of an era where just the very notion of two men kissing was a spicy, seedy, and scandalous turn-on.

But WHAT is up with the GOP fav-icon on the browser? Will somebody please explain that to me?

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Site of the day: When Queen meets 50-Cent

I just love smash remixes. Check out this hilarious combo of our dearly beloved Freddie Mercury and Fiddy Cent's music.

Get it while it's hot, before The Silence XPeriment gets sued by the big mean record companies.

There is just something so lovely about seeing and hearing pop music get deconstructed and recombined.

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Microscopic Porn

Marc Felion's alma matter, Loyola Univeristy of Chicago, has put up ULTRA hi-rez images that are "zoom-able" on their website. Among some of the more fascinating images are the blood smears (you can actually see the white/red blood cells), spinal cord tissue, and penis tissue.

I've head of close camera angles in porn before, but this takes the cake! Being able to see the human body, scaled, is pretty exciting. It can bring out the bio-geek in anyone.

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The Queen of Rock and Roll

Our very own Patty Elvis, a regular here on the podcast and live show, winner of the Pressie Award for "Best Local Musician" in Chicago puts on a terrific live show here with her 4-man band.

In addition to the standard Elvis covers (See See Rider, Suspicious Minds, Burning Love) Patty also does a couple of Tom Jones and Jackson Five songs, all the time trying to sit on her audience's laps.

Patty performs with her band live this Saturday, Aug 27 at Davenports in Chicago 8pm. Two drink minimum.

Click on the extended entry for details.

Continue reading »"The Queen of Rock and Roll"

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Great Websites: The Passion of the Lego Men

If anybody should accuse me of having WAY too much time on my hands, look at the Rev. Brendan Powell Smith's hilarious lego-bible site.

The Brick Testament has most of the gory, oddball, stories of the old testament illustrated magnificently with lego blocks.

Check out the scary illustrations on homosexuality. transvestites, Noah's ark flooding, Jesus looking gay, or the "passion" of the Christ.

The bible: great scary children's literature, terrible as a government policy manual.

MONDAY UPDATE:
Faithful listener Puffy Blubber Cunt (Mark Krobobkin) told me about a lego-porn site (which isn't as fab as the bible stuff, but like a pizza, it's still pretty good even when it's bad.) Check these horny lego men and women out. –Thanks PBC!

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Happy Easter

Singing rabbits, talking ducks, colored eggs, and grown men wearing hats with flowers- Easter is a spring celebration of fertility, in the grand tradition of Christians appropriating everything they can from the Greco-Romans, who appropriated everything they could from the Pagans, who today borrow heavily from the Christains. The circle of abuse continues.

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