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Get ready to pinch your pennies. On today’s show we’ve got Jay Shaff- gay photographer and long term tightwad here to share with us his quick and easy tips on saving money and surviving the downturn in the economy.

Listen how you can save money on food, transportation, socializing and utilities- how can you make the most of what you got.

If you hang out in gay bars in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, also known as Boystown, you’ve probably seen Jay clicking away. Jay finds the best hunks, skunks and drunks to feature in his photo blog on ChicagoPride.com.

He also discovered supermodel Ronnie Kroell and was instrumental in helping him ignite his modeling career. In case you don’t remember who Ronnie is, he was the runner up in Bravo’s last spring reality tv show, Make Me a Supermodel. Ronnie developed an intense friendship with one of his fellow contestants, who claimed to be straight but many speculated went much further than just a “bromance.”

What’s it like taking pictures of hunky gay men in bars? Who will be our next Chicago gay supermodel? Jay shares it all.

Hop abroad the gay taxi! A Russian cab company now offers gay-friendly cab rides with hopes of reducing violence to gay men in Moscow.

The regular looking cabs are being offered by a private company after openly violent attacks and abuse against gays have become more acceptable in Russia. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov repeatedly bans Gay Pride events and last year called gay people “Satanic.”

[Note: listen to our interview with Russian gay rights activist Nikolai Alexeyev
in “From Russia with Love.”]

Sorry kids, Kosmo the Clown has AIDS. Children’s writer Glenn Huser has written a dark story for kids about a clown dying from AIDS in the book, Touch of the Clown. I know, funny title. The story revolves around a little girl that has had more trials and tribulations than Oliver Twist. Her parents are drunks, her sister is missing a kidney and her dad won’t let her go to clown college. She goes anyway and befriends the clown only to watch him die. It’s recommended for grades 5-9.

An Italian man holds a vigil for his girlfriend who leaves him to join a nunnery. The poor guy has camped outside the convent with banners and signs imploring her to come back, but the reverend mother has asked him to go away. Sounds like he got the idea from watching the movie musical “Sound of Music.”

We’ve got the skinny on Republican V.P. nominee Sarah Palin’s tips on staying fit and eating healthy. Caribou Barbie eats lots of wild Alaskan seafood, moose burgers and she runs three miles every other day. She even runs at midnight if it’s light out.

Digitally delicious- Feast of Fools.

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