Nick a/k/a VocalJazzFan just sent me this adorable video starring Ken, of Ken & Barbie fame, Billy and MC Hammer. It is a clever send-up of MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This” that was created for a language school. This was too cute and too gay to pass up.

Just in time for IML, too!

Remember, folks– enunciation is key!

 

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Live in Chicago? Go see Avenue Q the Musical. Now.

The furry, award-winning musical conceived by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx is now playing in Chicago at the Cadillac Palace Theater until June 7.

Avenue Q the Musical pays a satirical homage to children’s television programs like Sesame Street and The Electric Company. It is a hilarious two-hour show featuring a tight ensemble of sassy people and puppets facing adult problems instead of those faced by pre-schoolers.

These guys are on the same wavelength as us, so you can imagine my delight when they won the Tony for “Best Musical.”

The razor sharp performances by Carla Renata as Gary Coleman and Robert McClure as Princeton & Rod, the closeted gay character based on Bert from Sesame Street were wonderfully funny.

It’s one thing to see the YouTube clips and another to see the full-color, fur-loving fun unfold before your very eyes. If you’re like me and grew up watching these children’s show, this intelligent, super-funny take on our collective struggle with sex, failure and purpose is something you won’t want to miss. Did I mention the starting price for seats is $25? It’s a giveaway.

Click here to get your tickets for Avenue Q in Chicago.

On today’s show Curtis Jensen, pictured here at the Halsted Street Market Days comes to talk about the up and coming IML Weekend and the parties taking place at Steamworks.

During our conversation on taboos, sex, and fetishes, we learned that Curtis once had sex with a “sex-machine,” which is a device that is a box with a phallic member attached to it. Turn on the power, and the phallus moves back and forth.

I could never see myself having sex with R2D2, but I could see myself getting frisky with a sexbot that looked like Jude Law in AI.

What would it take for you to have sex with a machine or a robot?

We were sitting in a Vietnamese restaurant last night and like many Asian restaurants, they have a Big ScreenTV set playing in the background, when the commercial for Poop Freeze came up.

Why anyone would want to freeze their doggy’s business is beyond me, but you have to admire their slogan: “Just frost and toss!”

David Archuleta (whom we declared the winner months ago) was runner up in last night’s big contest on American Idol. Sorry David but I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of you. And I have to ask, was there a straight man on that American Idol stage?

Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan Ltd has created a solar bra that could feasibly generate enough energy to power an iPod. The bra is really just for show and not for go because other than Madonna, what woman wears a bra outside in the hot noonday sun?

We are excited about the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie. I’ve been a big fan of crystal skull mythology for years. I even had a crystal skull puppet that acted as my sidekick before Marc came along. Mu Mu A’ Chu, the crystal skull, was created by aliens to save the human race. He crash landed on Earth and the impact cracked his skull leaving him a little off kilter. He had the personality of an old man and his favorite sex act was, of course, skull f***ing!

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After the GayCo Show “Whitney Houston We Have a Problem!” we talked to Chicago funnyman Jim Bennet about his wonderful “gay voiced” character, a powerful media mogul who just doesn’t seem to like anything he sees in the show. It’s one of my favorite parts.

Andy Eninger came up to do a contest, who is funnier: Jim or Andy? Either way, we’re all winners.

Go see GayCo’s show “Whitney Houston We Have a Problem!” running at the Center on Halsted in Chicago until May 25.

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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!

Visit Michael at his blog What’s A Boy To Do?

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As Coco Chanel, self-assured film legend Katherine Hepburn swans her way through the finale of Broadway’s “Coco,” then reveals a singing voice every bit as distinct as that of Lauren Bacall. The intricate set is by Cecil Beaton, and the gowns are a selection of Chanel designs from 1918-1959. Thank you, TimNyTx!

Similarly: Bette Davis does a groovy-granny routine to promote “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” on the Andy Williams Show. Read more…

Two hunky guys: one giant muscle stud and a hot twink make out at a gay bar. It was so hot I just had to capture it on video. Don’t worry, we got permission from them to put it up online.

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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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I can appreciate all types of drag, even the girls who go for the beaded gowns and Dynasty-era styling. This type tends to be a little too serious, but I will bow down to their effort, dedication and attention to detail. The opposite end of the drag spectrum is what I really love, Skag Drag. I think the first time I ever heard the term was from the late artist Jerome Caja. Read more…

Remember Friday’s show with the cute cheerleaders from the Chicago Spirit Brigade?

Well we ran into Mary La Pierre hanging out on Clark Street in our neighborhood, Andersonville the very next day. She was holding onto a t-shirt we gave her as a present, where we caught her red handed regifting the t-shirt for her hunky friend Carmello.

Have you ever been caught re-gifting a present?

 

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Ever wonder what Amanda Steinstein was like in high school? Pretty much the way she was today. Surprise surprise!

Join us for a very special Feast of Fools as Amanda is reunited twenty years later with her high school gal pal Louise who has since become a man named Lukas.

Lukas compares discovering what his true gender to being hit by a truck. A bit violent perhaps, but we get his drift- it was a irreconcilable life changing awakening that he really had to be a guy.

We talk with Lukas about what happened to the butch dykes and sissy nellies of yesteryear? Is trans just a better way of explaining the same idea or what? We laugh when Lukas calls bull dykes antiques as thought the term has become obsolete.

Of course, Amanda is still hung up about the pregnant man and thinks that is strange to be pregnant and be called a man.

Did Louise have a crush on Amanda in high school and does Lukas have one on her today?

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Blossoming every day into a beautiful bouquet of flowers- Feast of Fools.

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