Happy New Year
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Queers who make Chicago great: us!
Belive it or not, we made into Time Out Chicago's Personal Best for 2006 for the Feast of Fools Podcast. The article is a "partial list of artists and activists who reshaped the GLBT world in 2006 right here on the Third Coast."
On the list is our good gal pal Jessica Halem and her partner Red Tremmel for their work in fighting breast cancer and promoting burlesque throughout the known universe. Respectively. Although we're sure they will combine forces not just between the sheets, but on the streets.
Stay on the lookout next week as Jessica and Red appear on the show to promote promote Gurlesque Burlesque with Margaret Cho on Saturday January 13th.
Thanks to Jason A. Heidemann for writing the article.
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FOF Video - Regifting - 12.20.06
We just can't help ourselves. To end our fabulous holiday season, we bring you a very special Feast of Fools movie which celebrates the true meaning of Christmas- violence. Poor Ronnie, she never saw it coming.
No divas were hurt during the making of this video.
Happy Holidays, Peace on Earth
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Attention Puerto Rican Listeners!
If you live in Puerto Rico, I'll be attending a very fabulous reading of Daniel Torres's new book, Mariconerías: Escritos desde el margen, a collection of essays, poems and short stories by one of the most outstanding gay Puerto Rican writers living in the U.S.
"Mariconerías" brings together Torres's reflections about growing up in Puerto Rico, living in Ohio, and spending several months a year in México, where his partner lives. Torres wrote the first Puerto Rican novel to engage the topic of AIDS, Morirás si da una primavera, which won the Letras de Oro prize in 1993. He is also the author of a book of short stories, Cabronerías o Historias de tres cuerpos (1995) and of several collections of poems and essays.
His new book, Mariconerías, will be presented on Thursday December 21 at 7:00 pm at La Tertulia Bookstore, Calle O'Donell 201, in front of the Plaza Colón, in Old San Juan. Mariconerías will be presented by Mayra Santos-Febres, Moisés Agosto, and Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, email Larry La Fountain at lawrlafo@umich.edu.
PUERTORICAN QUEER BOOK READING
Thursday, December 21, 7pm
Tertulia Bookstore
Calle O'Donell 201, in front of the Plaza Colón, in Old San Juan.
FREE ADMISSION
Call (787) 724-8200 for directions.
Map of 204 Calle De Odonnell
San Juan, PR 00901-1707, US
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I would love to meet you in person!
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FOF #449 - World of Vodka - 12.19.06
Getting together with friends over the holiday season, sharing some fine wines, spirits and beers sitting around the dinner table sharing funny stories is one of the things I enjoy the most in life.
Can't you tell? That's what the show mostly is. Friends, talking, spirits and good times!
Listen to today's show as our friends Sal-E, Maciej Radzik and Steven Peterson share with us some of their personal favorite flavored spirits from Poland and California.
Visit the site tomorrow for the recipe on how you can make your own flavored vodkas in ginger, mixed berry and coffee vanilla. (Sorry, I had a long day.)
The podcast that (hic) just (hic) does (hic) awww, forget about it- the Feast of Fools.
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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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We made the cover of Time Magazine! (Sort of)
Before you say to yourself: "Pffft. Must have been an awfully slow year." Time Magazine really did put us on the cover of their December issue as "Person of the Year."
But by "putting" I mean a photoshopped mock-up and by "us" I mean ALL OF US.
Time Magazine made podcasters, bloggers, photo-bloggers, video artists and all the good people who tirelessly make up so much free content on the internet as People of the Year. Why? Because we really are making an impact on the way all media is created, consumed and thought about. Shows like the Feast of Fools represent the future of entertainment and media.
As Time says: "Web 2.0 [podcasting, blogging, videos, etc.] is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail... [it] harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred." Boy do we know what they mean.
So congratulations everyone, we finally made it! That means you too!
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FOF #448 - Putting the X in X-Mas - 12.18.06
Christmas season breeds a certain kind of desperation. Consumerism disguised as spirituality, traveling and family pressures all put your patience and good will to the test. Thank goodness that many cocktails are the center of many holiday events.
But before we all go on our separate ways to our respective families, Marc Felion and I joined our friends Wendy Malley and Steven Peterson to talk about the holiday season, and what kind of terrible gifts and great gifts we've gotten.
In Puerto Rico, right after Christmas, on January 6th all the little children put straw in their shoes for the magical three kings' camels to eat while they deliver even more presents. Sound familiar? Yes, in Puerto Rico we celebrate TWO Christmases: one for gift giving, and the second one for re-gifting the gifts we got.
I guess historically Frankincense and Myrrh were the first re-gifts. Listen to today's show as we also take questions from our listeners via Instant Messenger and talk about having your birthday during the holidays, a cloned cat gives birth to kittens who are not the second coming, making the holidays sexy and pole dancing as a present.
We're bringing sassy back- the Feast of Fools.
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FOF Video - Nutt Cracka - 12.16.06
It's that time of year again! This video podcast features most of the folks who bring you your favorite podcast.
Please enjoy this sick and twisted rendition of the Nutcracker, based on our live show "XXX-Mas on Ice." The voices in this movie are done by Marc Felion, Victoria Lamarr, and Fausto Fernós. Appearing in the video is Amanda Steinstein and Link Pinks as well.
Check out this wonderful photo gallery of the stage version.
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Marc Loves Housework
Note: this film is silent.
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Happy Holidays from Deji!
I had the pleasure of meeting Deji in London.
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Get Your Fresh & Hot iPod Bug Fix!
Some good folks have been flooing our emails with problems in playing long mp3 files (podcasts) on your iPod, causing it to crash. Today Apple came out with an iPod updater to fix this known bug.
From Apple's site:
Fifth Generation iPod resets when playing some mono MP3 songs and podcasts
Symptom: some customers may experience an issue where a Fifth Generation iPod will reset when attempting to play certain MP3 files or podcasts encoded as MP3. This symptom may occur with any MP3 file encoded at 32Khz or higher with a mono channel.
Products affected
Fifth Generation iPod
iPod Software 1.2
Certain MP3 songs and podcasts with a mono audio channel
Solution
Update to iPod Software 1.2.1 or later using the latest version of iTunes.
One of our listeners, Alec wrote:
"I get no crashes now, even w/ equalizer and soundcheck on."
Be careful though! Since this is a fresh new update, we don't know if there are any new problems. Proceed with caution and make sure to back-up your files if possible. We take no responsiblity for your iPod.
Check out the document about this issue here.
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FOF #447 - Photoshop Psychic - 12.15.06
After her surgery to repair a hole in her heart, jazz vocalist Solitaire Miles turned to her computer and photoshop as a means to heal.
And what a journey it has been. Drawing on imagery from her spiritualist faith, Pre-Raphaelite inspired art and her passion for the nude female form, Solitaire under the pseudonym Cunis Dianolis landed an enormous following on Flickr (a fabulous photo blogging site).
And she went to high school with Marc Felion.
Marc, Solitaire were among a tight knit group of friends who terrorized the well-deserving small-town misanthropes. Years before there were any straight-gay alliances in high schools, they keep in touch decades later.
One of the only psychic mediums in the jazz community in Chicago, Solitaire's passion for the music of Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Pearl Bailey influence her own work on her up and coming CD release "Comes Love."
Listen today as we talk to our favorite lesbian stalker Shannon about her friend who was killed, and Solitaire gives her a reading which surprisingly was spot on. We also talked about nicknames, subconscious sexual imagery on Kellogg's Fruit Twistables and why Marc loves to eat glazed donuts.
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FOF #446 - Santa Has Moved to China - 12.14.06
"Santa's moved to China, cause that's where my toys come from. I don't send my letters to the North Pole, I address them to Hong Kong."
Today we give you a "sneak peek" at a new off-key Christmas song Marc and I wrote about the Foxxcon "slave camps" in China we heard about several months ago.
Several Chinese journalists found out about the inhumane working conditions at the iPod assembly factories where workers were forced to work over 60 hours and six days a week, living in dormitories packed 100 to a room, earning $15 a month and being denied visits from non-employees.
The facility in Longua was reported to hold 200,000 workers behind it's fences, mostly uneducated young women and girls.
When Apple computer heard about the story, they quickly investigated the allegations, sent in their own team to audit the situation and brought relief to the laborers.
Nevertheless, the reputation of offshore tech manufacturing is less than sparkling, and so we wrote the song to poke fun at the companies that take advantage of this situation.
In other Chinese news, Rosie O'Donnell got into trouble for approximating Chinese on her show. When she talked about Danny DeVito's drunken appearance on the show she said: "The fact is that it's news all over the world. That you know, you can imagine in China it's like 'Ching chong ching ching ching chong-Danny DeVito-ching, chong, chong chong-drunk-The View-ching chong.'"
Which prompted a response from Guy Aoki, president of the Media Action Network for Asian-Americans: "Many Asian-Americans have experience classmates taunting them with 'ching chong' imitations of how Chinese, or Asian people in general, supposedly speak... it's a way to denigrate us."
In the 1920's my father's nanny in Puerto Rico would try to scare off kids off their yard by screaming at them in what she thought was english: "Henny Mai, Whachi Mai." Nobody thought it was offensive, only hilarious in her naiveté.
I guess it's offensive when the approximations of somebody else's language reflect a power structure. Do you think Rosie was wrong in saying what she did? I don't. Buy maybe you do.
Join our fabulous NYC friend John Q Sanchez, Marc Felion and me (Fausto Fernós) as we talk about Lucious Pussay, Jose Feliciano's hit "Feliz Navidad" song, Pee Wee Herman's Christmas Special and more on our New York City Meet & Greet.
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FOF #445 - Getting It Out of Your System - 12.13.06
The intense pressure of being a People's Choice Podcast Award winner sometimes gets the best of us and we snap. We go nuts. Crazy. Not crazy in the Steve Martin way, crazy in the Margot Kidder way.
You can't podcast from inside an insane asylum. I needed to take action to prevent us from sending yet one more of our own off that precipice. Nobody looks good in white after Memorial Day.
I marched down to my new-age tech-guru store to get myself a meditation and relaxing device, the "Tranquil Moments® Sound Therapy System". It's a little machine that makes a broad range of sounds designed to help you relax.
But of course, like the film Altered States I tapped into a deep part of my ancient brain that is ugly and wrong with nasty results. In other words, business as usual.
LIsten to today's show as Miss Ronnie, Marc Felion and I Fausto Fernós conjure up the Christmas spirit as we talk about celebrity book signings gone wrong, tips on relaxing and crime fighting Santas.
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FOF #444 - Second Coming - 12.12.06
Oooh Microsoft got an ass whooping last week! In attempts to illustrate their official blog, someone up in Redmond linked to a photo without asking permission from somebody's website. Why? Because they thought creative commons means take as you like.
So the pissed off photographer switched the picture with a porn image and before you know it, Microsoft is a pornographer. So immediately they took the picture off and apologized to the photographer and to the readers who may have seen the naked sexy picture.
Creative commons really means "share and share alike" with one major exception. You gotta say where you got it from. We always ask people when using photos we've taken to say "courtesy of www.feastoffools.net" as a way of recognizing our efforts.
But then again, we really can't stop you now, can we?
Listen today as Amanda Steinstein joins Marc Felion and me, your flaming blue lovable pal Fausto Fernós to talk about the topics we wanted to talk about on yesterdays show but ran out of time. Magical things like celebrity love-making devices, gay rabbis, and beer for the blind.
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Feast of Fools Meet Up NYC Photos Are Now Up!
Boy did we have fun at Vlada.
It's not too big like those annoying gay mega-bars and not too small like those dirty little dives. Vlada was the porridge Goldilocks wants to choose, and we just loved it too! Dozens of purely delicious flavored vodkas (all without fructose corn syrup) made into concotions that tickled the sense of us and our guests last Thursday night at the Vlada Lounge in New York City.
We absolutely loved all the fab folks who turned out for the event!
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FOF #443 - Let's Get Sirius - 12.11.06
It's a world unto itself, with people walking the streets in a frantic pace trying to succeed in the pursuit of their dreams. Like so many of those people, last week Marc and I traveled up to there to meet up with our fans and to promote the show on Sirius' Out Q talk shows- Derek and Romaine, Generation Q and Out Q in the Morning.
We share much in common with our satellite radio counterparts: we're trying to make a successful enterprise of creating gay content for gay audiences and we want that audience to grow. We recruit. We want to give a heartfelt thank you to Larry Flick and his staff and to the Derek and Romaine Show. It really meant a lot to us to be on the show and the experience was invaluable.
The pacing of their shows however are very different than what we do here on the FOF. For one thing they had lots of ads cutting into the conversation during show. Maybe it's the tradition of radio that makes them sound different to me, but being on their shows really made Marc and I appreciate the intimate space we create every day here in our home or out on the street.
Listen to today as Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion and I, Fausto Fernós, talk to our favorite stalker and full time lesbian Shannon as she gives her take on our sattelite radio debut, the pressures of high-money media, and why we enjoy podcasting so much.
We also talked a bit about how some people couldn't pronounce Marc's name right. Here's a link to the history of Marc's family name which he translated from the original French for a distant cousin. Bet you didn't know he was that talented.
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FOF #442 - Latino Christmas - 12.08.06
Sal'e tips and ticks on how to survive the holiday season and how to best celebrate it, Mexican style. And you better check this one out!
The second half of the show gets taken over by what we thought would be a short phone call to Yayi, but then turned into this long conversation about an obscure bible quote, Yayi's breast augmentation surgery and her up and coming face-lift. Yayi is proud to say she's 61 years old and loving every minute of it.
We wanna wish you a merry Feast of Fools podcast.
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We Are Coming To New York City!
Christmas comes early this year. Well, sort of.
Fausto and Marc are going back to the Big Apple and they hope to see you there. We're travelling to New York City to be guests on the Derek and Romaine show on Sirius Out Q. We'll be on the Wednesday Dec. 6th show. We'll be on the show on December 6th so tune in. You can get a free online trial here to listen to the show.
Since we are in town, why don't we get together? Hmm... good idea! Well, we've decided to have a little Meet Up at VLADA Lounge. The place looks fabulous! VLADA Lounge is a gay bar in Hell’s Kitchen that offers a wide selection of infusions- 15 varieties of infused vodka, including fruits, herbs, spices and more. Some are flavored like apple-cinnamon, coriander, plum, raspberry, tarragon, cherry, and even garlic and horseradish. You know we love our cocktails and we can't wait to sample some of these delightful libations with you.
So come meet me, Marc Felion and my hubbie Fausto Fernós, our good pal John Q. Sanchez and other Feast of Fools listeners and guests just like you!
See you there!
Feast of Fools Meet Up: New York City
Thursday, December 7th
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
VLADA LOUNGE
331 W. 51st Street
Located in Hell's Kitchen Right near the theater District between 8th and 9th Avenues.
(212) 974–8030
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FOF #441 - Journey into the World of Chocolate - 12.07.06
As delicious as it sounds, every year one the AIDS Foundation of Chicago organizes their holiday fundraiser in a ballroom filled with pastry chefs, choclatiers and all-around chocolate experts for their one-of-a-kind event- World of Chocolate.
This year was their most successful event yet, drawing over 1,500 people from around the midwest to the most delicious AIDS fundraiser you will ever lay your taste buds on.
Listen as Amanda Steinstein, Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós, explore this magical world of chocolate as we talk to all the fans and makers of that thing that Montezuma gave to Cortéz almost 600 years ago.
Whats your favorite type of chocolate and it's form?
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FOF #440 - Broadway Broads - 12.06.06
I think a lot of gay men have a love/hate relationship with Broadway. What is happening in the state of affairs of Broadway today? Do we really need stars to sell a show? Can't a show just be good and people will come see it? Do we really need Rosie or Usher to fill the house?
Today we have comedy couple Smith and Grimm in the house to defend the title to their show "Give Our Retards To Broadway." Are they insulting mentally challenged people or Broadway performers? You decide.
Well, we put their talent to the test and these guys certainly passed with their intro song for the Feast of Fools. We hope you like it too.
Lots of live cabaret music on today's show including "Ya'll I Saw His Balls" a country styled song that about the shock and awe of seeing someone's scrotum peek out from under his shorts. So be careful around these two and don't make them angry or they will immortalize you in song. And they sing a Christmas song about Balls as well. Hmm I think I am noticing a theme here-balls, balls and more balls.
Jim talks about his experience as performer aboard a cruise ship. And in case you missed it because Marc's joke got all stepped on-He thinks lesbians are inherently lazy and that's why they like to go on cruises and sit and watch the leaves change because they want the leaves to do all the work.
Attention Chicago Area Listeners! Listen for details on how you can win tickets to see Smith and Grimm in concert at the Lakeshore Theater this Saturday night, Dec. 9th. Come hang out with Fausto and Marc and enjoy the show. Oh, and Smith and Grimm are both single so stay after the show and get some digits.
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The Fiercest Gay Podcast in the Universe
The good people at Camp Magazine based out of Kansas City wrote this fabulous article on your favorite podcast (and fiercest), the Feast of Fools. Did you hear that? We are FIERCE.
From the article:
"As the most widely downloaded gay podcast, its availability has brought LGBT-themed programming to listeners in cities, towns, and rural areas across the country and around the world."
"More fun and a helluva lot gayer than most Lenscrafters."
Thanks to Bradley Osborn for writing such a great story.
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Cocktail: Priscillas Bittersweet Chocolate Martini
1 shot vanilla vodka
1 show coffee liquer
1 shot chocolate syrup
1 shot Bailey's Irish Cream
1 shot heavy cream
Add vodka, coffee liquer and chocolate syrup into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake and strain carefully into a martini glass. Clean the shaker (or use another one) and mix cream & Baileys thoroughly. Pour over back of spoon to top, chocolate mixture. Drizzle with additional syrup.
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FOF #439 - Surviving Show Biz - 12.05.06
Do you know how to survive growing up in a rich and famous Hollywood family? I know it's probably not your concern, but just suppose you were someone like Drew Barrymore or Liza Minnelli. What would you do? Would you be any better adjusted than they are?
On today's show we have author, food critic, founder of the famous "Night of a Hundred Drag Queens" and school teacher, Rick Karlin, in the house to discuss his new book, "Show Biz Kids." Rick's book follows the lives of six children growing up in Hollywood’s “Golden Age,” with all its hidden desires and intrigues. These children of celebrities in turn grow up to be celebrities themselves.
It's a wonderfully campy story set against the backdrop of historic events such as the JFK assasination, Stonewall and the Bicentennial Celebration. The book traces the outrageous follies as the kids try to step out of the shadow of their famous parents and become true to themselves.
The characters, although celebrities, come from varied backrounds, races, genders and sexual orientations. They all share a yearning to express themselves. How they transform their lives and come to terms with their identities is the importnat message of this book.
Attention Chicago Area Listeners! Go see author Rick Karlin tonight at Big Chicks at 5024 N Sheridan Road. RIck is going to read some of his book at our good friend Scott Free's Homolatte, a night of queer words and music.
Now boarding for the good ship Feast of Fools!
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FOF #438 - Carol Channing is Burning - 12.04.06
Shoot first, ask questions later. Sometimes you wonder what's going on in GLBT journalism circles when you hear about the whole misunderstanding with Carol Channing. You may have missed it since the Rosie-Kelly-Clay tiff took so much of the queer tabloid's mindshare. Well, we'll give an inside look into the whole affair.
On today's fabulous podcast, our good NYC pal John Q Sanchez joins Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós, to talk about the recent Carol Channing debacle.
Carol Channing had been interviewed by writer Kaizaad Kotwal for the Gay People's Chronicle who asked her why she thought she had such a large and loyal gay fan base. According to the article she was quoted as saying "I don't think about them. I'm grateful that they seem to like me. They're terribly loyal to me. But I'm knee-deep in the Bible, and you know what it says about that."
Boy you can imagine the response. Carol Channing has had a long and colorful acting career and was one of the most outspoken celebrities to stand up for gay men and HIV/AIDS causes. So it seemed a bit odd to a lot of people.
So the gay biweekly Los Angeles Magazine gave her a rebuttal interview where she tried to dispel the notion that she's had a change of heart on gays.
In the rebuttal Channing said "I never said that! I've never read anything in the Bible about being gay, or at least I haven't read that part. But it is true that I don't think about them in that way. They are gay. Who cares? The Bible says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself."
Even though she's trying to explain her views, she still comes across as someone who really likes her new found religion and her bible. I wonder what her pal Elton John, who has recently came out of the "I hate religion" closet, has to say to her about all that.
Why is it that children and the elderly love their religion? Is it that they are closer to dealing with death (recently born, soon to die), that in their minds the world is very uncertain or what?
So now the damage is done. The JC Penney Carol Channing Ventriloquist Dummy had originally sold for $49.99 has been slashed down to $39.99 and now is going for $29.99. Gay men are buying the cheap dolls and burning them in effigy, and let me tell you the dolls do not look pretty melting in the flames.
So join us as we chat about Carol Channing, her impersonators, celebrity vomiting trend including "The Chunder from Down Under" from Elton John and Paris Hilton's vodka induced on-stage yak fest, gay life in Australia, the low ratings of Madonna's concert on NBC, Orgasms for Peace, more news about the package from Thailand, and Josephine Baker.
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