By Fausto Fernós on March 25, 2008 | Share & Save | Link | Print |
We got your fill of diva-licious podcasting today as Jenniphre Zias is in the house! One half of the country duo The Shaker Sisters comes to talk about their brand new album “All Night Through” a delicious assortment of strong female torch songs set to a snappy zydeco-inspired sound. Jenniphre and Robyn Monks met in college and have wanted to put this album out for a long time. We’re glad they finally did.
Who were there men in Jenn and Robyn’s lives who inspired the hilarious song “It’s Not That Hard?” Would you believe that they came very close to not including the song in album at all? Sometimes it’s that short little afterthought of a song that becomes an unexpected hit.
Because we love you this much, we’re giving away the song for FREE on tomorrow’s Feast Blast, which you can only get by subscribing to our weekly e-mail mini-magazine.
Jenniphre was all too happy to give us a Henrietta Chicken to play with. Make sure to thank her for all the lovely sounds it makes.
Easter has come and gone, so what have you done? We spent it dying blown out eggs. For some crazy reason Marc and Jen can’t imagine Hispanic people (mostly Mexicans) making cascarones, confetti-filled dyed eggs during Easter. On the same level I personally find forcing children to hunt after hard boiled eggs covered in tacky shrink wrapped eggs to be a terrible idea.
Living as a pre-teen in Puerto Rico at the time of my parents divorce my mom struggled to make sense of her changing world by taking us to a Liberal Episcopalian Church in the suburbs of San Juan. On Easter, I loved tweaking out on jelly beans, chocolate rabbits and gumdrops on Easter Sunday. Easter and Christmas = CANDY.
The terrible thing about the annual egg hunt was that many of the parishioners didn’t have any children, so they reluctantly boiled eggs and wrapped them in this freaky plastic wrap just to go through the motions, which in a tropical lawn attracted ants and made smelled awful in the warm sunlight.
Fortunately, my mom and all of the kids back home blew out the insides of the eggs and dyed some beautiful assortments of eggs with food coloring and crayon. To this day my mother still has some of them in her home in Austin Texas.
Please don’t crucify yourself this Easter! The Philippines government has issued an Easter public heath warning, on the dangers of self-crucifixion. It seems some overzealous Jesus-freaks in the Asian country love to ACTUALLY nail themselves to a wooden cross every spring as a way of understanding what Jesus went through 2008 years ago, more or less.
Meanwhile in merry olde England, a hotel chain has started offering condoms, lube and sex-toys in the mini bar as a way of promoting pleasure and safe sex in their hotel rooms. When will the Hilton, Double-Tree and Mariott adopt this? If American hotel chains are serious about reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, they will all at the very least offer lube and condoms in every hotel room, like Steamworks already does for free.
And in case you didn’t already know, REM frontman Michael Stipe, well known for his hit songs “Man on the Moon” and “Losing My Religion” came out officially, legit as a 100% gay man. This leaves us all to ponder if there ever was a time when anyone considered Michael Stipe to be anything other than a flaming pole vaulter.
The strange thing about Michael Stipe announcing he’s gay is that not too recently he’s appeared in Butt magazine talking about his man-on-man sexual relationships. If this is what he considers being in the closet, this guy needs a serious reality check.
So of course we had to compare him to Liberace, because the bejeweled Las Vegas musician because the man spent his entire life denying his gay identity, despite his overwhelming life of glamorous decadence, gay lovers and outrageous costumes.
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hyperprone says:
March 25, 2008 at 08:34My family blew out eggs also but not sure it was a hispanic thing. I think it was more of a cheap thing because my mother used the egg yokes after! Ewww!
Anyway, loved the show! Happy Easter! Jennipher was great, hope she comes back very very soon!
BrewCityCrooner says:
March 25, 2008 at 08:39I work for Intercontinental Hotels in Milwaukee, and we offer a “intimacy kit” in our minibars as well, it consists of lube, condoms, and sani-wipes (for after sweet lovin is over) I think it is a great thing, and our guests love having them. Instead of drunkenly asking front desk where the closest 24hr Walgreens is.
Great show as usual…
gabe says:
March 25, 2008 at 11:19i can also confirm that confetti eggs are very hispanic indeed. we didn\’t do it so much here in the states when i was a kid, but when we used to visit my father\’s family in durango, mexico, and you could buy confetti eggs at the local park square.
also, my justin\’s family (also mexican) does the eggs during easter - in their family, these eggs can be lethal. he has two brothers the size of football players, and when they throw those eggs, they THROW those eggs. i will see if i can find the picture of our friend audrey after one easter - she has welts covered in confetti on her back.
Pete says:
March 25, 2008 at 12:34this podcat is so raza now…what\’s next? reminiscing about putting chili powder on lollipops or using CDs as display ornaments on your rear-view mirror?…but seriously, i love the latino culture fausto infuses into the show. represent.
michael stipe coming out as gay is like oprah coming out as black. i knew as a 9 year old watching the losing my religion video on MTV.
i love the shaker sisters song but i think its funny how often musicians say how many of their big hits \”almost\” never made the album. good show and glad you guys are back!
Jim_ATL says:
March 25, 2008 at 13:14I saw photos of Michael Stipe participating in an orgy back in the mid 80s. A very close friend used to work in a 1 HR photo processing shop where one of her regulars brought in several rolls of film on which he captured the event. I recall several clearly revealing Michael engaging in a little c*ck smoking. He appeared to be rather coked up as well. It was the 80s after all. I don\’t think she kept any copies (couldn\’t do so legally) or I would send you a JPEG. But most of us knew the first time we saw him in any REM video.
Fructose Cornsyrup says:
March 25, 2008 at 16:40My family never actually BLEW the eggs out, but rather, cracked about a dime sized hole at the top of the egg, and then took the egg out (you know, when my mom would make us \’huevitos revueltos\’) and then we\’d rinse the inside and save them. After that came the dyeing and filling with confetti, and finally we\’d cut little square shaped pieces of tissue paper and then use that to glue the the hole shut. The great thing about these cascarones was that, if you were gonna get confetti on someone you liked, you\’d sort of break the egg in your hand before scattering it all over the person\’s head. If it was someone you totally couldn\’t stand, say like, your obnoxious brother in law for example, you could slam that egg as hard as you possibly could and then pass it off as just the regular celebratory Easter tradition. Good times.
Jake Snow says:
March 25, 2008 at 22:34OMG the chicken was hilarious! You need to stroke that chicken every so often for that great sounding sexy result. This show was way too short too! Too much fun.
PureeTofu says:
March 26, 2008 at 07:44I love hearing from Marc\’s high school buddy.
That chicken though, dear god, sounds like you threw a squirrel in the dryer. What was funny was my senior English teacher had the same chicken and wore it around her neck while reading the Rhyme of the Mariner. The funny part was if you fell asleep the chicken would come flying across the room from this 4\’ 10\” woman and *SQUUUAAAAK* across your head!
I never got the e-mail with the song link (last one didn\’t work either, I run Safari 3.1).
Either way, can\’t wait to hear a non-super-pre-recorded show.
MouseGirl says:
March 26, 2008 at 20:43I thought Michael Stipe came out years ago. I remember more than five years ago my friend saw him at a gay bar in Atlanta. I didn\’t know it was a secret. It\’s almost to the point where everyone is assumed gay and straight people have to come out.. or go in. Wait, I just confused myself.
Mateo says:
March 27, 2008 at 13:41I thought Jen was great. You should definitley have her on again! The chicken bit was funny!
StevenvanL. says:
March 28, 2008 at 12:05I read an interview in Butt a couple of years ago with an ex of Michael Stipe, stating Stipe could (and I quote) \’f*ck the chrome off a bumper\’. A phrase I had never heard before, but it sounds like a compliment.
Marc Felion says:
March 28, 2008 at 15:34The expression is \”suck the chrome off a bumper\” not fuck. But if he said fuck that would be really funny.
StevenvanL. says:
March 28, 2008 at 15:55Ok found the quote (dammit you made me do research!) Butt, summer 2002: \’People give him hell, but he was a good lay. He could Fuck the chrome off a bumper. He definitely fucked the shit out of me. That was fun.\’ So there you have it folks.
SAL-E says:
March 30, 2008 at 14:29Was that really the chicken you were squeezing?
Was Amanda there?
Come on now!
For Real?
For Real?
-SAL-E
SAL-E says:
March 30, 2008 at 14:32Fuck the Chrome off who? I want to meet this Bumper dude.
Love ya
-SAL-E
Mark Wilson says:
April 2, 2008 at 14:10Here’s a little “tidbit” you may not know about Easter:
Easter is early this year. Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full
moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter
is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover,
which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.
Based on the above,
Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that is pretty rare.
Here’s the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will
ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population
has ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have
ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier!
Here are the facts:
1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will
be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was
1913 (so if you’re 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for
that!).
2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22,will be in the
year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818.
So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!!
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fausto Fernós created the Feast of Fools in 1998 as wacky artists variety show in Chicago, Illinois.
Along with his partner Marc Felion, he hosts the world's most downloaded talk show for gay people on the internet, Feast of Fools.
Fausto loves pomegranates, waterfalls and 70s retro funk music.
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Fabs says:
March 25, 2008 at 05:24Hey Guys!
Hope you actually did have a happy easter. Great show! Great guest! Jen is such a lovely and funny person. It\’s a real petty she hasn\’t been on so much yet. I loved the chicken by the way. I think it\’s sound eaven beats the whistle.
Looking forward to tomorrows show!
And Jen in case you are reading these comments: PLEASE COME BACK SOON! AND COME BACK OFTEN!
Lots of love to you all!
Fabs