GORE VIDAL INTERVIEW

Gore Vidal
By David Barsamian


Gore Vidal is a gold mine of quips and zingers. And his vast knowledge
of literature and history---particularly American---makes for an
impressive figure. His razor-sharp tongue lacerates the powerful. He
does it with aplomb, saying, "Style is knowing who you are, what you
want to say, and not giving a damn." He has a wry sense of noblesse
oblige: "There is no human problem which could not be solved if people
would simply do as I advise."

Now eighty, he lives in the Hollywood hills in a modest mansion with
immodest artwork. I felt I was entering a museum of Renaissance art. A
stern painting of the Emperor Constantine was looking down upon us as we
sat in his majestic living room. A Buddha statue from Thailand stood
nearby. But all was not somber. He had a Bush doll with a 9/11 bill
sticking out of it on a table behind us.

His aristocratic pedigree is evident not just in his artistic
sophistication but also in his locution. In a war of words, few can
contend with Vidal.

"I'm a lover of the old republic and I deeply resent the empire our
Presidents put in its place," he declares.

Vidal moved gingerly and was using a cane. A recent knee operation left
him less mobile. He says, "The mind is still agile but the knees have
grown weak." We sat in upholstered chairs. On a nearby table I saw the
galleys of his second memoir, Point to Point Navigation. It will be out
this fall. His earlier one, Palimpsest, came out in 1995.

Prolific does not even begin to describe Vidal's literary output. He's
the author of scores of novels, plays, screenplays, essays. In 1993, he
won the National Book Award for his collection of essays, United States.
His recent books (he calls them "pamphlets")---Perpetual War for
Perpetual Peace, Dreaming War, and Imperial America---have sold in huge
numbers. When I asked him what was the point of his work, he said, "I am
chronicling America." The prose, whether polemical or fictional, is elegant.

Distantly related to Jackie Kennedy, he does not romanticize JFK. "He
was one of the most charming men I've ever known," says Vidal. "He was
also one of the very worst Presidents."

He's been a Democratic candidate for the House from New York and for the
Senate from California. Today, he ridicules the Democrats for supineness.

He sees a certain continuity in U.S. foreign policy over the last fifty
years. "The management, then and now, truly believes the United States
is the master of the Earth and anyone who defies us will be napalmed or
blockaded or covertly overthrown," he says. "We are beyond law, which is
not unusual for an empire; unfortunately, we are also beyond common sense."

I talked with him on a hot afternoon in mid-April.

*Q:* In 2002, long before Bush's current travails, you wrote, "Mark my
words, he will leave office the most unpopular President in history."
How did you know that then?

*Gore Vidal:* I know these people. I don't say that as though I know
them personally. I know the types. I was brought up in Washington. When
you are brought up in a zoo, you know what's going on in the monkey
house. You see a couple of monkeys loose and one is President and one is
Vice President, you know it's trouble. Monkeys make trouble.

*Q:* Bush's ratings have been at personal lows. Cheney has had an 18
percent approval rating.

*Vidal:* Well, he deserves it.

*Q:* Yet the wars go on. It's almost as if the people don't matter.

*Vidal:* The people don't matter to this gang. They pay no attention.
They think in totalitarian terms. They've got the troops. They've got
the army. They've got Congress. They've got the judiciary. Why should
they worry? Let the chattering classes chatter. Bush is a thug. I think
there is something really wrong with him.

*Q:* What do you think of the conspiracy theories about September 11?

*Vidal:* I'm willing to believe practically any mischief on the part of
the Bush people. No, I don't think they did it, as some conspiracy
people think. Why? Because it was too intelligently done. This is beyond
the competence of Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld. They couldn't pull off a
caper like 9/11. They are too clumsy.

*Q:* Today the United States is fighting two wars, one in Afghanistan
and one in Iraq, and is now threatening to launch a third one on Iran.
What is it going to take to stop the Bush onslaught?

*Vidal:* Economic collapse. We are too deeply in debt. We can't service
the debt, or so my financial friends tell me, that's paying the interest
on the Treasury bonds, particularly to the foreign countries that have
been financing us. I think the Chinese will say the hell with you and
pull their money out of the United States. That's the end of our wars.

*Q:* You're a veteran of World War II, the so-called good war. Would you
recommend to a young person a career in the armed forces in the United
States?

*Vidal:* No, but I would suggest Canada or New Zealand as a possible
place to go until we are rid of our warmongers. We've never had a
government like this. The United States has done wicked things in the
past to other countries but never on such a scale and never in such an
existentialist way. It's as though we are evil. We strike first. We'll
destroy you. This is an eternal war against terrorism. It's like a war
against dandruff. There's no such thing as a war against terrorism. It's
idiotic. These are slogans. These are lies. It's advertising, which is
the only art form we ever invented and developed.

But our media has collapsed. They've questioned no one. One of the
reasons Bush and Cheney are so daring is that they know there's nobody
to stop them. Nobody is going to write a story that says this is not a
war, only Congress can declare war. And you can only have a war with
another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against
paranoids. Nothing makes any sense, and the people are getting very
confused. The people are not stupid, but they are totally misinformed.

*Q:* You've called the country "The United States of Amnesia." Is this
something in our genes?

*Vidal:* No, it's something in our rulers. They don't want us to know
anything. When you've got a press like we have, you no longer have an
informed citizenry.

I was involved somewhat with Congressman Con-yers on what happened in
Ohio during the last Presidential election.

Conyers is the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, and he went
up there with a bunch of researchers. They went from district to
district, and they found out how the election was stolen. He wrote a
report that was published by a small press in Chicago. To help out, I
said I'd write a preface for him on how the election was stolen. We were
thinking that might help. But The New York Times and The Washington Post
were not going to review the book about how we had a second Presidential
election stolen. They weren't going to admit it.

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was
responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about
the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to
them, and lie to them.

It's so stupid, everything that they say. And the media take on it is
just as stupid as theirs, sometimes worse. They at least have motives.
They are making money out of the republic or what's left of it. It's the
stupidity that will really drive me away from this country.

*Q:* When were the media better?

*Vidal:* They've never been much good. They belong to the people who own
them. But they were better, the level was higher. There used to be
foreign correspondents in other countries. There's nobody abroad now.
The New York Times gave up being anything except a kind of shadow of The
Wall Street Journal. The Washington Post is the court circular. What has
the emperor done today? And who will be the under-assistant of the
secretary of agriculture? As though these things mattered.

*Q:* What do you think of the public advertising of one's faith among
political leaders? They make a show of going to church and participating
in ceremonies.

*Vidal:* Personally I find it sickening, and very much against what our
Founders had in mind. Remember that the country was mostly founded by
Brits, and England's always gotten credit for having invented hypocrisy.
So we are reflecting our British heritage when we hypocritically talk
about how religious we are.

*Q:* Is the U.S. more like Sparta than Athens?

*Vidal:* We're not so good as either. We certainly are not warlike.
Spartans were based upon military service. We don't want that. We want
to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable
things about Americans. We didn't want to go out and conquer other
countries. We wanted to corner wheat in the stock market or something
sensible like that. So we are very unbelligerent. We were dragged
screaming into World War I. Well, we were slightly enthusiastic about
that, but we were very innocent farm people in those days. In World War
II, we fought to stay out of that war. And every liberal figure in the
United States from Norman Thomas on was anti-war. They were
isolationists in the old populist tradition. So we never had a chance of
being Sparta.

*Q:* Talk about the role of the opposition party, the Democrats.

*Vidal:* It isn't an opposition party. I have been saying for the last
thousand years that the United States has only one party---the property
party. It's the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has
two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

*Q:* What can people do to energize democracy?

*Vidal:* The tactic would be to go after smaller offices, state by
state, school board, sheriff, state legislatures. You can turn them
around and that doesn't take much of anything. Take back everything at
the grassroots, starting with state legislatures. That's what Madison always
said.
I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true
Jeffersonian.

*Q:* Do you see any developments on the horizon that might suggest an
alternative?

*Vidal:* Newton's Third Law. I hope that law is still working. American
laws don't work, but at least the laws of physics might work. And the
Third Law is: There is no action without reaction. There should be a
great deal of reaction to the total incompetence of this Administration.
It's going to take two or three generations to recover what we had as of
twenty years ago.

DISCO PEOPLE'S COURT

Disco divas, Carol Douglas ("Doctor's Orders) and Sharon Brown ("I Specialize In Love") bring to the court an interesting melody. And Carol! How about Dentist's Orders, for chrissakes?

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OSAMA AND THE B-52'S?

While he's still alive and could reasonably
have her killed, one of Osama Bin Laden's former mistresses, the much
maligned Sudanese-American novelist, feminist supporter of Israel and
undercover Super Agent for the SPLA, Kola Boof, is releasing a
scathing tell all book that reveals his freaky sexual habits, his gift
for writing poetry, his hatred for Sadaam Hussein, his plot to kill
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, his obsession with the B-52
song "Rock Lobster" and his love for all things Sudanese. Kola Boof's
autobiography, "Diary of a Lost Girl" (ISBN: 0971201986), hits America
in August 2005

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THE EMANCIPATION OF ME ME!

Honey, when a friend called last night with a free ticket to see Mariah at Madison Square Garden, I squealed one of those high bird notes she does! (OK, so my squeal was a bit more like a pig's.) I'm a big fan, but I've never seen her perform. I've never really been to many large concerts. My parents were too cheap to splurge for tickets as when I was a kid, and as an adult, there just aren't many artists I'd pay to see. I travelled to Philly to see Prince's last tour, I caught Cher's farewell tour--easy enough as it lasted 5 years--but besides Patti Labelle, who I've seen 5 times, I don't usually think the concerts are worth the ticket price. Yikes! I guess that means I'm as cheap as my parents... Besdes, I never even saw Patti when she was at her highest chart status, so to see Mariah, the top-selling female artist of all time with 17 #1's at the peak of her comeback, was quite a thrill.

Sean Paul opened. He's sexy, energetic, and his 3 female dancers were outrageously talented. But even though his songs are super-hooky, a little dancehall goes a long way with me. And that constant "Get your hands up!" shit is so annoying. I'll put them up when I want to , not because you've yelled it at me 15 times! Now if he' said put you legs up, that'd be a different story!

He finished, an after a 15 minute break, the MC-monogrammed curtains opened. Miss Thing's stage set got a staning ovation. I think it was by Bennny Meina who use to work with J-Lo, but crystal fringe curtains were hanging off of butterfly-encrusted spiral staircases with neon MIMI signs--you get the idea. She pulled out all the stops for this one. Incluing cameos by Jay-Z and P. Diddy--if you care. It was refreshing to see P. walk out without having his mouth hanging open, as he usually poses. Nope, this time, he walks out onto the Maison Square Garden stage with a toothpick in his mouth--the new look, which says "down-home hip-hop mogul." There were other rapper cameos as well, but I was more interested in Mariah's costume changes an the rhinestone-encrusted mic's which accompanied them--in each color! Next up? Rhinestone-covered mic stands, for her I'LL BE THERE duet with Trey Lorenz.

I've heard singing teachers discussing how Mariah has ruined her voice, how she has no more middle range, just the high squeak an the whispery lower register. They agreed on this with such authority that I may have even posted something about this, because she was supposely using a lever on her mic to turn up a pre-recorded vocal track when she couldn't/didn't want to hit a tough note to augment her lip-synching with the track. Seeing her from a 6th row seat with huge video projections, I din't see any such lever manipulations. Nor was there any part of her register which she did not hit with glorious ease.



I'd heard complaints that her costumes were "drag-queeny". And? What's the problem with that? Theyre were a lot of rhinestone aplliques and side-slits, which do indicate budget Vegas, but as an afficionado of those looks I didn't mind a bit. Seated practically right between the editor of V magazine an Marc Jacobs, I'm sure they may have been a little more judgementally fashion forward, but my only beef with her look is the bare midriff's. I heard Mariah say on a talk show something like "I was tired of everyone telling me I was fat, so I lost weight." (That never occurred to me.) So lose weight she did, and even in the bare midriffs her abdomen looks tight. But it just doesn't indent enough to look good in a bare midriff. (I wonder what it was that made those 60's Hollywood bikini babes look so curvy? Waists trained inward by girdles?) She looks fine in the side cut-outs which bare the sides of her mid-section, becuase that strip of fabric down the center, like the several long rhinestone strand necklaces she worked, cut down on the size of her waist effectively. (Look out for one on me, soon! Or Maybe I'll try wearing two.)



Her hair was long an goddess-y and I was glad to see her working her "stadium-style" paint, with lots of thick lash on top. She seemed to be in a great mood, poked fun at her ups and downs, and had one slight diva moment when the pastor who was supposed to begin one number could not be found backstage. She laughed this off and handled it with ease. I recall sone interview she i right after her "crack-up" and the interviewer was trying to say that one of her singles had flopped. She countered, a little testy, with "Actually it was #1" and he says, "Yeah, but the single was being sold for 99 cents." I wish she had told him "Well actually, I'm the singer, so I don't put the stickers on the cd singles." But the interviewer seemed as if he was trying to get her to admit "I put out a flop record and movie and went crazy!" I'll admit that the MTV strip episode made her seem a little weird, but I really think she just focuses on the music, singing an promotion. And must work herself to death to be sound this great--and lose weight at the same time!?!

I'm an "old school Mariah fan", so I'm not as fond of the hip-hop flavored recent hits, which are really just repeating a groove taken from Tom Tom Club's GENIUS OF LOVE or Mtume's JUICY FRUIT or whichever classic jam--she oes choose uneniably great jams-- and riffing over them. The songs like HONEY and FANTASY, etc. But she's at her best when she can get behind some chord changes and milk them in songs like WE BELONG TOGETHER. Leave the choppy, light-on-melody cuts to the light-on-talent r&b divas who need them. But Mariah needs that choppy sound if she's to remain current--and it's obviously worked as evidenced by her massive comeback. It worked for Nelly Furtado, too. To me, it's real shame that someone responsible for a great song like Nelly's I'M LIKE A BIRD or Mariah's VISION OF LOVE would be forced by the unsophisticated tasted of today's listeners, to come out with PROMISCUOUS GIRLS or "those chickens is ash and I'm lotion", which Mariah sings in IT'S LIKE THAT from her latest album. However, seeing Mariah sing the self-penned "take charge of your life" anthem MAKE IT HAPPEN trumped any luke-warm feelings I had towards all her hip-pop flavored cuts. Adding EMOTIONS and SOMEDAY to her set would have made it perfect! But the blast of pink crepe paper butterflies which exploded over the audience was a sweet touch that left you feeling as if you'd been caressed, as they floated down, by the presence of this major diva.

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EPHESIANS PAJAMAS!

At last! Don't these satin ARMOR OF GOD pj's look comfy-womfy? And they fend off evil in the night. I sure wish JonBenet had had a pair! Anna and Samuel dolls also available. If your brats already own these, remember to get them those violent religious video games so that your kids can learn early on how god loves to smite folks and how religion and bloodshed are inextricably linked a la George W. Bush. And the Islamic jihadists, for that matter.



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Y'ALLBONICS

The Association of Southern Schools has decided to seek a
grant designating Southern slang, or Y'allbonics, as a lang-
uage to be taught in all Southern schools. The following are
excerpts from the Y'allbonics/English dictionary.

1) ALL - (noun) - A petroleum-based lubricant. Usage: "I
sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup
truck."

2) FAR - (noun) - A conflagration. Usage: "If my brother
from Jawjuh don't change the all in my pickup truck,
that thang's gonna catch far."

3) TAR - (noun) - A rubber wheel. Usage: "Gee, I hope that
brother of mine from Jawjuh don't git a flat tar in my
pickup truck."

4) TIRE - (noun) - A tall monument. Usage: "Lord willin'
and the creek don't rise, I sure do hope to see that
Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

5) RETARD - (verb) - To stop working. Usage: "My grampaw
retard at age 65."

6) FAT - (noun and verb) - A battle or combat; to engage
in battle or combat. Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n,
n' ah'm gonna whup yuh."

7) RATS - (noun) - Entitled power or privilege. Usage: "We
Southerners are willin' to fat for are rats."

8) CHEER - (adverb) - In this place. Usage: "Jest set that
bare rat cheer."

9) FARN - (adjective) - Not domestic. Usage: "I cuddin't unner-
stand a wurd he sed . . . must be from some farn country."

10) DID - (adjective) - Not alive. Usage: "He's did, Jim."

BOY GEORGE CELEBRATED

Boy George tossed out some really good taunts at the paparazzi during his community service last week, contained in the article below. I was guest dj'ing at Mr. Black on Friday and he was hanging out, painted up and in a great mood. And happy to be headed home on Saturday. I was sweet and didn't upset him him by weaving in the intro of DO YOU REALLY WANT TO HURT ME ("Give me time, to realize my crime") and I hated that I didn't have his request handy: Betty Wright's CLEAN UP WOMAN! Just kidding!

By Jonty Skrufff of www.skrufff.com

Daily Mirror columnist Brian Reade celebrated Boy George’s ‘Bulldog spirit’ in standing up to the American media as he carried out his community service in New York this week, declaring ‘Thank God for Boy George’.

“What joy to see an English-man in New York tell the world generally, and America specifically to go screw itself with such style and conviction,” he gushed.

“Boy George in the New York gutter looked a bigger star than at any time during his days as a prancing geisha girl. If only our politicians had the same bottle when backed into a corner by American bullies,” he added.

The popular columnist went on to praise George’s working class values and straight-talking no nonsense approach, which he demonstrated with a superlative response to a particularly snobby US TV reporter.

“You think there’s something wrong with sweeping the streets,” said George, “Get a fucking life’.

“My mum was a cleaner, my Dad was a builder, I don’t give a fuck. I just want to do my community service. Now fuck off.”

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PLEASE HELP HIM!

Rant: Trying to set personal masturbation record. Any Help?

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Date: 2006-08-22, 8:38PM EDT


Breaking new records in my mid 30's. I decided to have periodic happiness days. I called out of work, rented the first two seasons of the sopranos (finished season 1)smoked pot, drank a case of coke and ate a 24 inch sub loaded with nitrate packed deli meat. Masturbated to internet porn. The problem:

Kinda out of porn ideas. Started off with the usual (teen, latina, ebony, anal, big dick, facials etc). As the day progressed I had to reach further (granny, hardcore, shemales, thai ladyboys, anime, gagging, creampie, dp, gangbang, pantyhose etc).

Managed 17 times so far today. Would love to clear twenty and go to bed with that feeling of accomplishment, the kind my mother always told me about. Need ideas to get my motor revving again. A website? Perhaps a new technique. Thus far I have used to sock, a variety of lotions, backhand and forehand grip, the under glans tickle, the side sheet-rub, guitar chord method etc. 25 years of preparation for this big day. I have pulled out all the stops. I am commited to victory. If you could see my steely countenance you would know I am serious.

In case anyone is wondering I navigated the chaffing and soreness with a combination of A&D ointment and over the counter non-steroidal anti-inflamatories (Advil).

Cant imagine why my wife left me. But its days like this that make me glad shes gone.

HELP ME!

From Lypstinka! It's more Madame--this time with Debbie Reynolds!

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And while we're on the subject of up do's and headresses, check out this fantastic 1976 clip of Dalida which Michael Lucas sent me:

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NITE OUT

NONA HENDRYXX

Caught Miss Nona's act at Joe's Pub last night, and she reminded the crowd that there were 3 powerful voices in Labelle, Patti's 70's funk-rock trio which spawned the massive LADY MARMALADE. The other member of the trio, Sarah Dash was present, and let's just say that Nona has remained amazingly trim compared to her former bandmates. The exotic beauty could be a cousin of Iman's, and she let the crowd have it with her 3 energetic back-up singers and tight band. Of course, the crowd went nuts to her version of Labelle's WHAT CAN I DO FOR YOU?, since I doubt if Patti even performs that in her shows anymore so it's rarely heard live. There wasn't a dry eye in the house during the tunes "we need peace" refrain, and if you like funky music and don't know the song, check it out on itunes--it's from Labelle's NIGHTBIRDS album and it's a funk-rock-rare groove masterpiece with a drumbreak which is known to create pandemonium.

STYLIST STEPHEN SPRIGGS AND SARAH DASH COMPETE FOR BEST SMILE AND CLEAVAGE

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ROBERTA KELLY: ZODIAC

I bought this album way back when for the cover. Never even heard the song until now. Is it too late for a refund? That doo doo doo doo break is sickening!

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And in case you're in the mood for another astrological ditty, thanks to anonymous for sending in this insanity! You're right, it IS worse!

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JOAN CRAWFORD AS WONDER WOMAN

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BETTY BOWERS IS AT IT AGAIN!

America, the kid at the UN with ADD, has something new to take its mercurial attention away from the craziness in Iraq: the even crazier John Mark Karr. Talk about snakes on a plane! Finally, a bobble-headed pedophile to make Michael Jackson look, if not blandly benign, at least less heavy-handed with the tattooed eyeliner. We are told that Mr. Karr was in Thailand to have his testicles removed for $1,625. Apparently, he decided that the more cost-effective approach was simply to be a notorious child molester in a maximum security prison. That way, his unwanted balls will be removed by a gang of inmates without charge or handling fee.


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HOT NEW TREND IN NYC!

If you're a designer or desperate pop star scavenging for white hot NYC street trends, a new one's afoot: CLOWN DRAG. Vlada, a Hell's Kitchen venue which hosted a birthday bash for Rose Royale, attracted more than a dozen of the freaks, as well as other circus-inspired looks. Why Lavinia Co-op, who performed a vaudevillian Cinderella number, even arrived in a male clown look, and changed into another at showtime.

LAVINIA CO-OP



Having joined London's famed drag clown troop BLOOLIPS decades ago, "Lavvy" knows her circus attire, even accessorizing her arrival ensemble with an open beer, as if she were a bumbling alcoholic walking the streets. Ha! The folly of it!

"GEE, YOUR WIG SMELLS TERRIFIC!": XAVIER AND SHERY VINE



Sherry Vine and singer Xavier caught outside against a wall of BRICKS. Sherry later regaled the birthday girl with a spirited LA VIE EN ROSE. Sherry's tiny birth nose has always enfuriated me--and she's a jew! Now before you haul off and call me anti-semitic, I'm jealous of anyone of any race with a nose that petite. Now you're really gonna call me anti-semitic. Someone just forwarded me Stephen Spielberg's letter to Mel Gibson. I am not knowledgeable about Mel's dad's views on the Holocaust, didn't see THE PASSION and have never cared one bit for Mel, his views on gays, his cocky alpha male roles or anything else about him. But I have to treat someone who's spouting off when very intoxicated with a little more leniency. Lord knows, there've been times when I've blacked out and have no idea what I've said for hours. From what I've read, Mel seems like a belligerent drunk who fell off the wagon and started mouthing off. He was clearly off his gourd--he was antagonizing the same cop who was running his fool ass in! Does this guy sound like someone in control of his faculties embarking on a measured hate campaign? Or a loudmouth drunk?

SHERRY'S BUTTON NOSE



Based on THE PASSION OF CHRIST (which I did not see) it's imagined that Mel harbors resentment against jews which he's never voiced publicly. It's not like he held a press conference while sober saying "I hate jews." I don't care if his career does end since I'm not a fan, but I don't think anyone who's ever blown their top--ooh, sounds hot!--or harbored hidden hatred towards any group should be blacklisted based on their drunken outbursts. Whoever has never felt any dislike of any group or gotten totally sauced can cast that stone--not me. Think he's the only bigoted entertainer out there? He just one who got his ass caught. Perhaps he was particularly upset about the escalating Israeli attacks on Lebanon when he drunkenly spouted that nonsense about jews being responsible for every war. CNN reported yesterday that there was growing sentiment among Israelis themselves that their govenment had attacked Lebanon too aggressively. So maybe just a teensy, weensy bit of negative feelings, not towards jews worldwide, but towards the Israeli government's military aggression, was warranted, since it was even on the minds of some Israelis themselves? God, did I water that down enough? I wouldn't want Hollywood to blacklist ME. Of course, I guess they have to know who you are before they blacklist you. Gee whiz! Do I ever know how to bring down a party!

BIRTHDAY GIRL ROSE ROYALE POSES GIRLISHLY IN A DUSTY PINK ENSEMBLE. LOVE THE BETTE DAVIS (LATER YEARS) EYEWEAR!



A popular cocktail waitress from legendary party Jackie 60--arguably one of the best parties in NYC during my lengthy apprenticeship here--Rose is also a well-loved regular at all of drag empress Sweetie's affairs. And speaking of Sweetie, what would any circus theme be without the fat lady?



Why, there's just more of her to love! The poor thing could barely handle the ardent affections of these two young bucks, who pawed at her finery until she almost lost her ladylike hostess's composure.



An alluring bearded, beaded lady was on hand with Linda SImpson, who selected a colorful print sheath dress, accessorized rather oddly with a black bag. No, I don't mean Xavier, behind her--her black clutch handbag!



LATINA LOVELY ANITA GREENCARD TOOK CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AMFAR AT THE DOOR.



(Though knowing Anita as I do, she may have taken a few contributions FROM AMFAR as well!) Promoter/East Village Radio jock Daniel Nardicio goofed around with Harry, who featured a balloon bra.



Nothing can make this fun-loving fox look bad, and I just had to get a full-length shot of her fantabulous gams. And lemme tell ya, it's only the young' uns that'll letcha snap 'em from underneath! (Sweetie galloped down those stairs before posing, as I myself would have!)



In fiery red striped with glitter, Tabboo! certainly knows how to make an entrance!



And if you don't notice her right away, she's quick to reveal her nuts, nestled girlishly inside her pantyhose! "It's natural!"



The Lucky Cheng's gals were out in full force, including the buxom Baby Ru. This is one 'baby" who could breastfeed her damn self!



Also, Cheng's fav's like Brie and these lovelies, whose names I'm ashamed I don't remember. But the Cheng's girls turned it. Brie did her famous water-drenched version of MY HEART WILL GO ON and you gotta hand it to this young asian fox, this outfit shows a lot of effort for a Monday night!





Former Cheng's regular Codie Ravioli looked ravishing. The cunt's been around since Boybar, on through Disco 2000 and all of Pat Field's incarnations. HOW DOES SHE DO IT???? Naturally, there was a hunky young man close by her. Or is that her son?



And new Cheng's girl Violeta gave us some serious coiffure action. She lip-synched to a fiery monologue I'd never heard about baton-twirling from DESIGNING WOMEN.



Lavinia disappeared (as did the contents of her beer, I imagine) and reappeared as a shemale clown.



Her Vaudevillian number about a forlorn Cinderella brought the house down. Look closely and you'll note a young girl, enraptured with the veteran performer, literally stroking her pussy!



Rainblo, looking chic with expertly applied make-up, sang a funny little original ditty called EAST VILLAGE COCKSUCKER, which I'm sure took her years of research to write.



But the tension in the air was palpable, as it was rumored that drag diva H.R.H. Princess Diandra would be recreating her fabled Diana Ross impression as a birthday treat for Rose. But what's a birthday without a surprise? Diandra gagged us all by showing up as Arsenio Hall instead! Or was that Robert Guillaume?



DJ Johnny Dynell did his very best to keep up with the "girls" poorly-labelled, skipping show cd's.



But tempestuous diva Diandra let him know that she was going to REACH OUT AND SMACK SOMEBODY'S FACE if they did not gt the right track on!



Once the brief technical kink was worked out, Diandra, as always, slayed them like 1000 pounds of dynamite!



A tough act to folow, I took off after D's medley. Pity. I was told that one heifer with jugs bigger than Baby Ru's did a strip-tease which involved tits and cock dangling, right down onto a beer bottle which she then drank from! Then Julee Atlas Muse took to the stage as Jon Benet Ramsey, complete with wound marks!

Brandon Oleson was shocked!



But not as shocked as i was when I arrived home to see Anderson Cooper discussing palm prints, footprints, and the DNA of the alleged Jon Benet murderer. Exhaustively covering the background of a man who may have killled a girl who died years ago. I sure wish we were a little more concerned about the Iraqi teen who was raped by a US soldier and then watched while he and other soldiers murdered three of her family members. Aren't you glad your tax dollars are paying for rape and murder?

SOMEBODY STOP HIM!

Man With Two Penises Getting One Removed

NEW DELHI (Reuters - Aug. 19) - An Indian businessman born with two penises wants one of them removed surgically as he wants to marry and lead a normal sexual life, a newspaper report said Saturday. The 24-year-old man from the northern state of Uttar Pradesh admitted himself to a New Delhi hospital this week with an extremely rare medical condition called penile duplication or diphallus, the Times of India said.

"Two fully functional penes is unheard of even in medical literature. In the more common form of diphallus, one organ is rudimentary," the newspaper quoted a surgeon as saying.

The surgery was expected to be challenging as both organs were well-formed and full blood supply to the retained penis had to be ensured to allow it to function normally, he added.

The newspaper did not disclose the identity of the man or the hospital to protect the patient's privacy.

There are about 100 such reported cases of diphallus around the world and it is known to occur among one in 5.5 million men, the newspaper said.

It is caused by the failure of the mesodermal bands in the embryo to fuse properly. The mesodermal bands are one of three primary layers of the embryo from which several body parts are formed.

THE BOOB JOB THAT SAVED A LIFE

JERUSALEM - An Israeli woman's breast implants saved her life when she was wounded in a Hezbollah rocket attack during Israel's war with the Lebanese group, a hospital spokesman said Tuesday.

Doctors found shrapnel embedded in the silicone implants, just inches from the 24-year-old’s heart.


MORE: MSNBC



On another tit-illating note, Russian born jewish porn star Michael Lucas will not cancel his scheduled stri-tease appearance in Tel Aviv next week. You can read more about it on his blog. But here a few of the comments that have been praising/attacking his appearance.

"WE DON' T WANT YOU HERE ! GO AWAY ! SHAME ON U !"
"Visit also Lebanon !"
"First Hollywood Freeks... now Michael Lucas!"
"Don't put God to the test"
"Stay Away Lucas Garbage"
"Lukas could be the moschiach!"
"Stop bashing him. You should thank him! He is defending the land of Israel."
"His more of a man than Hollywood Jews"
"I'm a straight guy, but this is just great. Having this guy in Israel will show everyone that Israel is everything that Hezbollah is not: strong, open, proud and tolerant. "
"World gay pride in jeruslem and now this. What a nasty thing to be JEWISH AND GAY!"

PENIS PUMP JUDGE SENTENCED

BRISTOW, Okla. -- A former judge convicted of exposing himself while presiding over jury trials by using a sexual device under his robe was sentenced yesterday to four years in prison.

Donald Thompson spent almost 23 years on the bench and served as a state legislator before retiring from the court in 2004. He showed no reaction when he was sentenced.

At his trial this summer, his former court reporter, Lisa Foster, testified that she saw Thompson expose himself at least 15 times during trial between 2001 and 2003. Prosecutors said he also used a device known as a penis pump during at least four trials in the same period.

Thompson, 59, was convicted last month of four felony courts of indecent exposure for incidents that took place in his Creek County courtroom.


JOKE GIFT

Thompson, a married father of three grown children, testified the penis pump was given to him as a joke by a longtime hunting and fishing buddy.

"It wasn't something I was hiding," he said.

He said he may have absentmindedly squeezed the pump's handle during court cases but never used it to masturbate.

Foster told authorities she saw Thompson use the device almost daily during the August 2003 murder trial of a man accused of shaking a toddler to death. A whooshing sound could be heard on Foster's audiotape of the trial. When jurors asked the judge about the sound, Thompson said he hadn't heard it but would listen for it.

Police built a case against the judge after a police officer testifying in a 2003 murder trial saw a piece of plastic tubing disappear under Thompson's robe.

During a lunch break, officers took photos of the pump under the desk.

Investigators later checked the carpet, Thompson's robes and the chair behind the bench and found semen, according to court records.

THE RIGHT WING NY TIMES

FROM HUFFPO. Click on a headline photo to see it as a right-winger would:

HUFFPO

URETHRA FRANKLIN

Aretha impersonator on THE GONG SHOW:

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GRACE'S PLACE

From www.worldofwonder.net's WOW REPORT:

Grace Jones, the tempestuous legendary diva, is being sued by the landlords of the luxury London flat she rented but no longer lives in. She allegedly owes $10,000 in back rent on the $75,600 yearly rent and $18,900 in damages.

THE DAMAGES INCLUDE SPOONS WHICH ARE BLACKENED ON THE BACK!

READ MORE: WOWREPORT

IS BUSH AN IDIOT?

FROM HUFFPO, BY JOE SCARBOROUGH

The greatest political gift a politician can receive from enemies is the gift of being underestimated.

Democrats have always played into Republican presidents’ hands by dismissing them as dimwitted dunces who somehow stumbled their way into the most powerful position on Earth.

Eisenhower was supposedly a dope who frittered away his time on golf courses.

Chevy Chase portrayed Gerald Ford as a bumbling, accident-prone commander-in-chief in countless SNL skits.
Ronald Reagan was branded a lightweight for years and described as a confused old fool in Tip O’Neill’s autobiography.

For the past six years George W. Bush has been the target of ridicule from liberal circles. But now, instead of laughing at Democrats’ ill-directed arrogance, Republicans are quietly joining the left in questioning the President’s intellectual prowess.

READ THE REST: HUFFPO

MCDONNA

MY RESPONSE TO YOUR RESPONSE TO THE RECENT POST CALLED MAMA, DON'T PREACH:

MCDONNA, BY ALBERT CRUDO



I guess should give ol' McDonna more credit. I've never had more comments on any of my blog posts ever! I often voice opinions which could be construed as controversial, but I've NEVER done so in a foolish attempt to draw people to my site out of controversy. What's could I possibly gain from that? Hi, I'm inviting you to check out my site so you can hate me! I write what I feel, and if people respond, cool. But for those of you who can't believe that anyone would ever dislike your precious pop princess enough to slam her unless they're trying to call attention to themselves, you're dreamin'! If I secretly liked her, but criticized her just to spotlight myself, I'd be guilty of the same empty controversy which I'm accusing her of.

But even if I was...HA HA, SUCKERS!..it worked! Like Madonna, who will gladly eat the hatred of religious leaders who've denounced her cross bit as long as it gets her headlines, I'll accept your hate mail as long as you're visiting my site. I'll learn from this legendary i-con, That's con as in con man.) Every hateful hit I get, including the nasty comments, I can use to sell ads on my blog! So thank you for making that site visitor graph soar! And thank you, Madge! But you'd better not "cross" me again or I'll crucify you!

Hmmm. And for those commenters who indicate that they dislike her as much as I do, maybe I could burn an effigy of her and sell tickets... Nah, that's not scandalous enough to snatch any headlines. Let's mount her on a crucifix and have AIDS-infected children from Africa dance around the effigy. Then have a black Jesus (a la the LIKE A PRAYER video) go to jail for it all while I blow him.

Since popular blog The Wow Report posted a link to my Madonna slam, a lot of strangers to my blog have read MAMA, DON'T PREACH. So let me offer you a little introduction to www.LadyBunny.net. I don't shy away from strong opinions or the twisted, mean-spirited humor which the handful of my fans in my miniscule career have come to expect from me. So if you want all sweetness and light, I suggest you log onto Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm's blog. Oh wait! She doesn't have one anymore, since I KILLED HER. But don't worry, I raped her first.

Part of humor is exaggeration. Of course, I don't actually hope to see Madonna fall off a mechanical horse and break her bones any more than I went around rejoicing when she fell off that real horse and broke her collarbone. I don't walk around chanting "Kill Madonna!" every day. (I do it every other day.) But if you are in such a Pretty Pony TM fag-as-teen-girl mode that you are imagine my post was timed as a cruel birthday present for her because you're sitting in your home hosting a birthday party for her playing her songs all night, then SORRY, but you need to GET IT TOGETHER! My birthday was 8/14 and I didn't even remember that until 2 days before. So I'm certainly not keeping track of the birthday of an entertainer I don't give a shit about!

I dj'ed last night and played HOLIDAY. Everyone shrieked while they danced. I'm well aware of Madge's massive appeal and I like some of her music. I don't deny her appeal to OTHERS, but why are fags so HUNG UP on her that I can't have a different opinion of her without your going on attack mode? It's that slavish devotion which I can't comprehend. One commenter referred to her as the "gay savior." CUCKOO! I actually don't understand the need for a savior of any kind. Yep! Proud to be going to hell--but if your silly ass is relying on a bubble-gum "singer" with lotsa nice costume changes to save you....then you just might be seeing me down there.

Intelligent responses to my writing, even those who disagree, are welcomed, and I thank you for taking the time to write to share your viewpoints. But to the haters out there, lemme tell ya a little BEDTIME STORY. My dad used to always tell me something which I couldn't understood and always hated. Every night he'd tell me, "Do your sister's homework while you suck me off!" I'm kidding! (He never had to tell me to suck him off.) But he did get my goat when he'd accuse me of something, and I'd shoot back "Well Jaan (my sister) did it last week!" He'd then infuriate me by saying "We're not talking about Jaan, we're talking about YOU!" Ooh, that shut me down every time and Good Lourdes! how I despised it throughout my childhood. As an adult, however, I've come to understand that he meant "Don't change the subject. We'll settle the problem at hand you, and then we'll move on to another issue.

Some of you are very childish and could use a word with my dad. You're so incensed that I'd criticize the gospel according to Madge that your first impulse is to attack me. Now I used some strong words and expected a strong reaction. But no insult you can hurl at me addresses my gripe about Madonna's pathetic use of a crucifix in her concert and her senseless attempt to explain it away as a means of focusing on sick kids in Africa. Now she may have inspired you, made you dance, given millions to charity and many other things I cannot ever do, but that doesn't change the fact that slinging herself up on a cross is a calculated, empty use of religious controversy, which she's used before, to grab headlines and sell tickets. But many of her bratty fans can't even hear WHAT I'M SAYING--they can only look at who is saying it. And lash out. It's like those robots in the Austin Powers movie who he short-circuits with his zany dance moves. You can't take any criticism of your idol and seriously weigh it up. You get short-circuited, irrational and go on attack mode.

Hey, I'd vigorously defend my idols, too. No one seems to be attacking Rip Taylor and Charlotte Rae too often these days, but when they do, LOOK OUT! I idolize Patti Labelle, but not so blindly that I can't even hear a differing viewpoint or call her my fucking gay savior, for chrissakes.

And your attacks on me--how predictable! I've already admitted to your main disses in my original post! Like Madonna herself, ya ain't too original. Let's look at what they focused on.

I'M JEALOUS

Again, I admit to this! What performer doesn't dream of sold-out arenas? But if this were plain jealousy on my part, why wouldn't I be smearing other top-selling artists? Just because I'm a performer, my criticisms of a more successful performer lose all their validity? (To an idiot, yes, I guess they do. Bunny, stop talking to yourself.) I wasn't walking around seething with envy when I wrote MAMA, DON'T PREACH, but that crucifix story caught my eye on the news and I thought, "Here she goes with THAT crap again!" Many of you have an attitude of "She sells out stadiums, so there!" I never said she didn't. As tired as I think she is, I never questioned the enormity of her popularity. But I don't value financial success over everything else. Of course, the Material Girl is the product of the 80's "Greed Generation", so maybe many of you do. Meaningless controversy involving religious symbols don't offend you, just make that $. That's all that counts, right?

Adrian Acosta aka Amnesia Sparkles, who has his own blog, touched on an interesting point: Madonna and I are both born under the astrological sign of Leo. Now Leos can supposedly be territorial cats and snap viciously at each other, if you put any stock in astrology. This could have been an initial reason for my dislike of Madge. I caught her Leo vibes and hissed, but she went on to provide many more solid reasons for me to dislike her. A lot of her music, her acting and her PR stunts. I am willing to concede that possibly, my birth sign predisposes me to want to snarl at her. Our birthdays (8/14 and 8/16) are 2 days apart, though Deee-Lite's Lady Miss Kier's birthday falls on 8/15and she and I are close friends. But the moment she starts selling out stadiums again, I'll burn that fucking bitch out of jealousy!


I'M FAT

So I dig pancakes AND pancake make-up! Am I trying to keep this a secret? Or rather, do I joke openly about my double chin, pendulous gut and ever-prescent support hose? But I don't care if I'm a morbidly obese shut-in whose only contact with the outside world other than diner delivery boys is this blog I type with pudgy fingers on a grease-and-crumb-stained keyboard, that does not lessen the validity of my opinion one iota. I have an avid appreciation of female beauty, and though Madonna's had some great looks over the years, her new physique with wiry arms and a waist so worked out that it doesn't curve in anymore doesn't appeal to me. Nothing you can say about my own weight will change my taste in womens' physiques. And as for the fool who is imagining my stretch marks, I ain't got none! I think you have to actually lose weight to attain those, and I never have managed to lose, pumpkin.

I will admit that in the photo I used, Madonna appears to carrying something in each hand, so perhaps her arms seem more muscular than they actually are. Poor thing! Forced to carry her own bags! The shame of it!

Elton John blasted Madonna for her nomination as best live act awhile ago. Why? Because she often lip-synchs at her over-priced concerts. Like me, Elton is overweight. Unlike me, he's a musical legend who can sell out large venues with his treasure trove of heart-felt, magical, inspired-by-something-other-than-"Let's-ride-this-new-trend-and-make-a-hit" masterpieces. I was brought to tears watching him sing accompanying himself on piano--no band, no costume changes, no special lighting and no dancers. Madge tried that too, with a guitar, and even hardcore fans were forced to admit it was skunk. But my point is, Elton wasn't slamming Madonna because he's fat or jealous, as you claim I am. He's reading her because he thinks she's bogus, as I do. Is Elton as outlandish, mean-spirited asshole as I am? Or is he simply unafraid to expose a hoax?

For the record, I never read Madonna for her age. I'm only a few years younger than she. Plus I love my mature divas. Carol Channing and Charo really float my boat, and they've stuck with their trademark looks for decades. I much prefer this to constant reinvention. I guess I'm old-fashioned.

But maybe my advanced age has cause me to recall something which you youngins' don't. As a very sexy, older rock star friend who still sells out stadiums has told me, "Madonna killed music." Before the popularity of MTV, songs were judged by their sound, not the way that the singers looked in a video. Madonna's had some fantastic videos, but she is a pop star who looks great, not a musical powerhouse. I liked her best musically when she was essentially a girl session singer for top-notch producers, with little input. Except for EVERYBODY, which I admit to liking. She wrote it. But her song-writing can be atrocious. Someone mentioned the lyrics in I LOVE NEW YORK:

"I don't like cities, but I like New York
Other places make me feel like a dork"

PEW!

Before you rush to her defense, let's call a truce for a second. If you can stop despising me for just a minute, I'll admit to being a fat, jealous, no-talent cow if you'll just seriously consider those lyrics' on their merit. But I don't think you can call a truce even for a second. I think you're so brain-washed by mediocrity that you can't separate your actual thoughts from the effects of decades of her marketing strategies. If you really consciously love Madonna, then fine. Enjoy her! But if you hate anyone who has a different viewpoint about her, you're a successfully-programmed Moonie who can't think for themselves. I'll never forget a drunk fag running up to me begging me to play the Madoodoo/Shitney duet a few years ago. I said 'I hate that song", which doesn't have a single hook in it. I mean, if you're going to base your career on marketing research, hire decent researchers! The drunk fag's face was cracked as he said "What do you mean? It's Britney and Madonna! What's not to like?" Two successful marketers, who've worked their magic, apparently, on this guy. So brainwashed by these two generations of pop tarts that he's unable to even evaluate their music anymore. THEIR MUSIC: the reason they are supposedly here!

MAMA, DON'T PREACH was forwarded to two gays in the music publishing business. Consider that they might have a bit more knowledge about behind the scenes biz talk than you or I. Both agreed with me wholeheartedly on the post and commended me for my insight. One of them took me to task for one point, that I'd said Madonna can "dance OK." His words:

"All is I can say is that you could not be more accurate in your views on Madonna. I have had countless debates with the kids as to why I think she is overrated and certainly not worthy of the all praise she gets. I am so sick of hearing people say "I love Madonna because she "constantly" reinvents herself". Puhleeze!! More like bites, borrows, and pimps, gay culture, black culture, latin culture, and everything else she can get her hands on.
 
You actually gave her more credit than I would. (You mentioned that she "can dance ok.") Honestly, I'm still waiting for this artist who is known for her dance music to bring it to me in terms of dancing. All that yoga, posing, etc, does not really qualify as dance in my book. And her VOGUE in 1990 was tired, she should have really studied how the kids bring it at the balls and Christopher Street and then she might have done it justice."

The only other footage I saw from the tour was of the mechanical horse. The horse was less mechanical than Madonna! Another concession: I did not see the concert. One sweet commenter who sent me a personal email vigorously disagreed with MAMA, DON'T PREACH. He claims that Madonna brings up lots of relevant issues in her concert. I'll admit that my only exposure was through news clips and articles online which included her publicist's quotes. I did NOT see the CONFESSIONS tour. Another commenter suggested that I spend the $300+ on a ticket to see it instead of drugs. How about this? If you really wanna convince me that she's so great, chip in and send me $600+ and I'll buy a ticket and see her on lots of very good drugs. Maybe I'll have a religious experience and she'll become my "gay savior." Or maybe I'll scalp the ticket and actually have an enjoyable evening.

Besides thanking regular commenter Aaron for watching my lard-covered back and keeping the haters from the comments section in line, that's all I have to say on this subject. From all these comments, it's clear that that many gays love their Madonna. I sure wish they cared a little less about defending some "singer" and a little more about the pitiful situation the world, including their hanging-by-a-thread civil rights, is in. It seems they'd rush to defend a straight zillionaire or vote on AMERICAN IDOL before they'd even take the time to defend themselves! But, crushed, I have to admit that it's possible to worship McDonna and a social conscience. Though from some of the comments, I'm not sure that Maonna worship can co-exist with the study of spelling, grammar or punctuation. MUAH!

And if you need any more evidence of her tired publicity stunts, she recently announced that she and hubby Guy would be renewing their wedding vows. Right. So you're swamped on tour for months and suddenly decide to renew your li'l ol' wedding vows via a press release. To me, this seems like a calculated announcement to either get more press for the show or get out a positive story in the midst of the religious controversy, which is getting a little too hot. Designed to send the sweet message. "Awww. They're still in love. They want to re-do the traditional religious rite which unites them." Bullshit! This manipulative woman would even pimp out the love for her husband to tweak her image/sell tickets.

A comment from SFGATE.COM

Her people are shooting out a release a day trying to recover from the crucifixion toe-stubbing. Madonna donates. Madonna will renew her vows. What's next? Is she gonna adopt a baby? Shave her head for charity? Make another movie? NO, ANYTHING BUT THAT!!! PLEASE, PLEASE, BACK ON THE CROSS!!!


GRACE JONES STRIPS...

...into a Keith Haring body-painting! From the movie VAMP:

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CNN ANCHOR APOLOGIZES TO NED LAMONT

For calling him "the Al Quaeda candiate" during his Connecticutt primary run against Joe Lieberman. Propaganda, anyone? If you are anti-war, according to the "liberal" news channel CNN, you support Al Quaeda.

WATCH VIDEO: CROOKSANDLIARS

"PEOPLE ARE DEFINITELY SCEPTICAL"

Interesting article from the UK Guardian about skepticism surrounding the recent "alleged" London terror attack.

"It was not in horror or panic that thousands of ordinary people contacted the BBC or posted points on the Guardian's Comment is Free website in the hours after last week's terror plot. The mood of many seemed to be one of profound caution, even scepticism, over the allegations of a murderous scheme in which 50 people would try to bring down up to 20 planes between Britain and America."...

..."In my opinion it is a cover-up because of what's going on in Lebanon," says Munir Khan. "When you turn on the TV you see innocent people getting killed. This [plot] distracts from that."

A moderate Muslim who has been a member of the Labour party for nearly 20 years, Khan quit about eight months ago to join the Lib Dems. He does not trust the evidence coming out of Pakistan in relation to this latest alleged terror plot. "The Pakistan government will say anything for money," he says. "If the UK government gives them money to say something, they will say it."

MORE: GUARDIAN.CO.UK

ROCKY MOUNTAIN DRAG

I dj'ed and performed in Denver, Colorado over the weekend at the stunning new home of a sweet gay couple. They'd moved into a ritzy nabe called Cherry Hills Farm and wanted to host a housewarming party that their straight, upscale neighbors would remember. This included a silver spray-painted chick adorning a sushi buffet (!), Cirque de Soleil-type performers greeting the guests, and my crazy ass providing sweet family entertainment like ALL THAT JIZZ and DON'T LET YOUR SON GO DOWN ON ME. Thinking I might break the ice, I told the crowd how shocked I was at what the couple had done to the place: "I was here last night for rehearsal and am simply amazing at the overnight transformation--where on earth have they hidden all the porno, giant dildoes, hustlers, sling and that meth lab?" Everyone kept asking me if I was affected by the altitude--I thought they meant my wig! Hey, just warmin' up.

But I did get in the day before and got to check out an authentic western drag club during their amateur night. It was Friday night and a little slow. Locals call it drag school since it's an amateur night. But what a treat--there were more queens than customers!



I love ye olde tyme drag shows--where else are you going to see two queens keeping forgotten numbers like the Whitney Houston/Deborah Cox duet SAME SCRIPT, DIFFERENT CAST alive? The Empress of Denver was on hand and was as gracious with her tips as she was in posing for me.



Wearing a modest Friday-night tiara with jeans, an Empress of The Imperial Court must never fly in the face of royal protocol and appear without her imperial consort, who escorted her, in a medallion and jeans, to the stage for each tip given to the performers who synch'ed their hearts out before this tulip and drama mask-festooned backdrop.



One energetic showstopper took to the the stage in a Charo-esque strips dress which screams Vegas razzle-dazzle, even though her black bra was clearly visible from the dress's bare shoulder.



I didn't catch her name, but her pouffy wig with roots was major.



Why Denver even boasts it's own club kid drag!



And crossdressers! This gal turned "her" head, but she wore no wig or make-up, only sleek, shaved legs and pumps as she sidled up to a sultry tan blonde with full bangs. Just call me the new Nan Goldin.



WHY SO SAD, PRETTY LADY?



I left before this buxom fox went on, but her look, with black roots and a shiny platinum ponytail was ovah! She was chatting at the bar with a cute, older preppy gent who didn't seem to be too fond of flashbulbs.

MY FAV MADGE DEFENCE

Comes from a myspace pal:

MADONNA WOULD LOOK LIKE JESUS IF SHE DID DRAG AND PUT ON A BEARD AND MUSTACHE! WOULD THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY? I HAVE A THEORY THAT IF YOU HATE HER, YOUR REASONS ARE IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF, YOU BOTH ARE LEO'S AND THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE QUEEN OF THE JUNGLE, SO GET OVER IT! PREHAPS SHE IS JESUS, PERHAPS HE CAME BACK AS A WOMAN! HAVE YOU CONFESSED? OR ARE YOU GOING TO HELL?? IM BURNIN UP! BURNIN UP FOR YOUR LOVE.

SANDRA BERNHARD'S MAC AD

The lippy lesbo's pushing MAC's new Plushglass Collection and the results are pretty sassy:

MAC

THINK YOU HAD A WILD PRIDE?

Check this out, from a Vancouver gay mag!

Surrendering control to Pride & Joy
DIRT ROAD DISPATCHES / Private fantasies need good event planners by ROBERT BIRCH

An excerpt from a night at San Francisco pride which ends...in a church!

The next night my Radical Faery friend, Stardust, puts me in his harvest gold bathtub, hands me a cup of herbal tea, sits on the toilet and proceeds to interrogate me with a 40-minute checklist out of a book called S&M 101. Within the hour I am dressed, dog collared, blindfolded, and riding public transit to the centre of the city.

WHOLE ARTICLE: XTRA.CA

MAKE YOUR BRAT LOOK LIKE JON BENET!

PHOTOGRAPHYBYKARENSONNIER

Guess I'm not the only one who's inspired by these adorables. After you check out Karen's pix, then enjoy this twisted animation sent by Christian: STUDENTPAGES

MAMA, DON'T PREACH!

JESUS CHRIST, MADONNA!

Like many in the gay community I ‘m passionate about Madonna. The only difference is that I can’t stand her.

And old Madge is at it again with her religious antics--mounting herself on a crucifix in her concert in Rome. Ooh, how shocking she is! Now I could care less about the catholic church and welcome any slam against it. While she’s at it, let's reduce all religious symbols to what they really are—meaningless, ancient props which charlatans have used for centuries to keep the faithful in their fold. But Madoodoo ain't fooling me with her tired bag of "scandalous" tricks. I'd be more shocked if she came out with some decent music, instead of the lead single from her latest album which samples a cheesy Abba disco record. It was actually one of Abba’s least cheesy, but so long after the let-sample-a-disco-record craze has faded! Girl! You used to set the trends, not fall behind them.

Or did she? No, not really. She just kept her ear (or her helpers' ears) to the streets to determine which trend was developing enough to stick and then clamed it for her own--like voguing or electronica. Maybe it was cutting edge to the folks in Kansas, but honey, I keep my ear and sometimes whole face is to the street--ok the gutter, actually --and I've always thought of Madonna as behind the times. And the constant reinvention? Well, if she'd started out with anything more meaty than flavor-of-last-month girlie-pop trash to begin with, maybe she wouldn't have to change it so often and so desperately. I realize that stars use different looks to announce new projects to send a clear message “Hey! You bought that last album, here’s a new album with a new look—so buy this one now.” There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s an effective marketing technique. But to me, Madonna is more marketing technique than artist.

Oh, I can feel the hate mail brewing. What do I know? I'm jealous. I'm a complete failure in comparison to Madonna and her mega-stardom. Well, that's true. But who isn't, really? She obviously has something a lot of people love or she wouldn't have a record-breaking world tour after 20 years in the most fickle of businesses. And the more everyone worships her and crams her down my throat, the more I tire of her.

Music is a matter of taste. I'll admit to liking a few of her songs over the years: HOLIDAY, LUCKY STAR, SPOTLIGHT, VOGUE and NOTHING REALLY MATTERS. (Of course my hatred of bubblegum trash like TRUE BLUE, LIVE TO TELL, PAPA DON’T PREACH and MUSIC almost cancels them out.) And she's certainly pretty and can dance ok . I loved the Marilyn-esque dress and hair in MATERIAL GIRL, however much I hated the song. And her body is amazingly toned in the HUNG UP video. Here's where the hate mail is directed towards my weight. I may have flabby, untoned, aging schoolteacher arms but at least my flab is a naturally-occurring condition—if you consider 5 meals per day natural. What is wrong with her stringy, muscular arms? Is it just me or do they look horrible? Certainly not sexy in a feminine way. Maybe that's one more reason why fags worship her--she looks like she's on steroids now.



And worship her they do. I'm always shocked how new generations of fags flock to her every new incarnation. I guess gay men are always gonna love the latest girlie sensation, whether it's Kylie or Britney or Stacey Q. Remember Stacy's TWO OF HEARTS?

Now I did get excited when footage from Madge's current tour showed her riding a mechanical animal… I’d hoped she might have another riding accident and break some more bones! OK, now I know that's just plain mean, but I do get testy on the subject of Madge and her, in my opinion, undeserved goddess status. After she french-kissed Britney on that awards show, some fag sent me an email claiming that this was Madonna's way of supporting same-sex marriage. Hungh? This was a desperate old whore trying to seem scandalous by swapping spit with a more current and equally undeserving superstar, who’s also mostly hype. And you'd think that I, if anyone could, identify with another desperate old whore! Actually, Madge’s whoring and taste in men endears me to her the most. I love that she snatched hunky Carlos Leon's sperm and said "That's all I wanted, thank you." I'm also fascinated with reports of how she used to cruise the once seedy East Village in a limo picking up multiple puerto rican lovers in one night—if they were in the 9” and over club. Basically hooking for free if the trade was fierce enough. So at least she and I have one thing in common. And I’ll give her unqualified kudos on another aspect of her career—her acting! What a natural comedienne Madonna is—especially in her serious scenes!

Now I know that I’ll be crucified by the gays for blaspheming against The Material Girl, but what bugs me the most is her misuse of religious controversy. It’s totally empty and meaningless, just like the jailed, black Jesus she caresses in her LIKE A PRAYER VIDEO. She’s claimed that the cross scene is accompanied by slides of AIDS-infected children in Africa and related statistics in order to raise awareness of the disease’s huge toll on the continent, but a cross has nothing whatsoever to do with AIDS or children who have it. Mounting herself on a giant onion has as much relevance to African kids with AIDS. So why choose a crucifix? To get press for her overpriced tour.

There are so many real life controversies which she could be calling attention to, even within the church. How about the rampant child molestation by priests? Or challenging the Vatican’s claim that condoms don’t prevent AIDS transmission? The Vatican is so glued to it’s antiquated preachings that it lies to it’s followers about safe sex, sending them to their deaths by preaching against condoms? Or why not draw attention to the quest of your massive gay fan base for same-sex marriage/equal rights? Global warming? The pointless war in Iraq? There’s a ton of issues to pick from. But, she prefers hollow controversy for controversy’s sake. And she’s gotta pick one that will not offend the Clear Channel so that her music will get played. The Material Girl cares about one thing only: your money. (If that’s what the Kaballah teaches, she must be a saint.) Oh, and kids in Africa with AIDS. God, she’s even biting Bono and Brangelina’s style on that cause. She probably did marketing research to see if their popularity increased after their fight for African children’s health. Give it a rest, honey.


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7 KINDS OF SEX

From the Kansas kook, Jan!

The 1st kind of sex is called: Smurf Sex.. This kind of sex happens when you first meet someone and you both have sex until you are blue in the face.

The 2nd kind of sex is called: Kitchen Sex. This is when you have been with your partner for a short time and you are so horny you will have sex anywhere, even in the kitchen.

The 3rd kind of sex is called: Bedroom Sex. This is when you have been with your partner for a long time. Your sex has gotten routine and you usually have sex only in your bedroom.

The 4th kind of sex is called: Hallway Sex. This is when you have been with your partner for too long. When you pass each other in the hallway you both say "screw you."

The 5th kind of sex is called: Religious Sex, which means you get Nun in the morning, Nun in the afternoon and Nun at night.

The 6th kind is called Courtroom Sex. This is when you cannot stand your wife any more. She takes you to court and screws you in front of everyone.

The 7th kind of sex is called: Social Security Sex. You get a little each month - but not enough to live on.

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CAZWELL: ALL OVER YOUR FACE

New video featuring Amanda and other downtown freaks reworking Loose Joints classic IS IT ALL OVER MY FACE:

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GOT SALVE?

Graphic hemorhoid pix from the vile Esther Gin, scourge of the Hudson Valley:

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I'm so thrilled that 'rhoids got their own site now!

And while we're on the subject of glaring red ass-cunts, here's an oldie-but-doody which is a little cheerier:

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YOU KNOW YOUR A REDNECK WHEN...

The new version is out!

1 You take your dog for a walk and you both use the same tree.

2. You can entertain yourself for more than 15 minutes with a fly swatter.

3. Your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.

4. You burn your yard rather than mow it.

5. You think "The Nutcracker" is something you do off the high dive.

6. The Salvation Army declines your furniture.

7. You offer to give someone the shirt off your b ack and they don't want it.

8. You have the local taxidermist on speed dial.

9. You come back from the dump with more than you took.

10. You keep a can of Raid on the kitchen table.

11. Your wife can climb a tree faster than your cat.

12.. Your grandmother has "ammo" on her Christmas list.

13. You keep flea and tick soap in the shower.

14. You've been involved in a custody fight over a hunting dog.

15. You go to the stock car races and don't need a program.

16. You know how many bales of hay your car will hold.

17. You have a rag for a gas cap.

18. Your house doesn't have curtains, but your truck does.

19. You w onder how service stations keep their rest-rooms so clean.

20. You can spit without opening your mouth.

21. You consider your license plate personalized because your father made it.

22. Your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

23. You have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say "Cool Whip" on the side.

24. The biggest city you've ever been to is Wal-Mart.

25. Your working TV sits on top of your non-working TV.

26. You've used your ironing board as a buffet table.

27. A tornado hits your neighborhood and does $100,000 worth of improvements.

28. You've used a toilet brush to scratch your back.

29. You missed your 5th grade graduation because you were on jury duty.

30. You think fast food is hitting a deer at 65.

NANCY SINATRA NEVER KNEW!

She sang the original of the remixed version of BANG BANG, which Kim Aviance lip-synch's to here:

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CHERYL LYNN: ENCORE

Great song! Sick video!

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HELP HERSHAE' CHOCOLATAE!

OK, this is just so insane that I had to post it. Having chosen the ridiculous Lady Bunny as my stage name myself, I can identify--sometimes, it's just too late to change it! But it seems that a very earnest, young female impersonator from Ohio is being taken on by the giant chocolate factory Hershey's, due to a similarity in their names. Here's Hershae's plea:

"Recently, someone with an axe to grind sent an email complaint to the Hershey Company that Hershae' Chocolatae' has been representing herself as an heir to the Hershey fortune, a member of the Hershey family, and/or a representative of the Hershey Company. The Hershey Company is taking this very seriously and their attorneys have contacted us with the threat of a possible multi-million dollar lawsuit. We have been in contact with the company and hope that this will be something that we can easily remedied and that's where your help comes in. If you have been to a show or know Hershae' and I personally, we would appreciate an email from you stating that you have never seen Hershae' make any claims to being a part of the Hershey Company, a family member or an heir to the Hershey fortunes. Any mention of the pronounciation of Hershae being different than Hershey would also be appreciated. We only have through the weekend to get as many letters of support as possible.

Please send your email to chocopromotions@aol.com and make sure you put your name and address on the email. We thank you in advance for your assistance!"

Jim & Hershae'

Hershae Chocolatae
"often imitated, never duplicated"
www.hershae.com

Miss Stiletto's Queen of Queens 2006/2007
Miss PowerDiva 2005/2006
Miiss Cleveland International 2005/2006
Miss International Ambassador 2005/2006
Miss Toledo Pride 2005/2006
Miss Deco 2005/2006
Performing Artists of Detroit's Best Out of State Performer 2003 & 2004
Stiletto's Best Dancer 2004 & 2005
Miss Cleveland Gay Pride 2004/2005
Miss Stiletto's 2002
Miss Rhouse 2002
Miss Club X 2000

OK, SO I'M CHILDISH!

Camille has beauty and brains.

She's a former model and a Phi Beta Kappa with a master's in education. There's a part of her, though, that's not so perfect.

She smells like spoiled fish.

Camille says when she taught, students wouldn't come near her.

"They would say things like, 'Ew, this classroom stinks like dead fish.' They would call me 'Miss Fishy.'"

She asked that her last name not be used because telling her story was difficult for her. Camille described the odor as "a very heavy, intense, dark, deep smell."

"I didn't know why I was emitting such a strong odor. I mean, it can fill an entire room. Recently, it filled an auditorium," Camille said.

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COUNTESS GRACE JONES?

The diva's a "hit" in London!

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STILL HATEFUL

I've been working in Vancouver, but finally have a sec and a few things caught my bloodshot eye amongst today's headlines.

There was a large oil spill up here in British Columbia, with 100 birds affected. Sorry 'bout that, Canada! Dropped my li'l ol' make-up kit!

Paris Hilton has sworn off sex for a year. Since her announcement, the number of reported hepres outbreaks in LA and St. Tropez have dropped drastically. Especially among barnyard animals.

Older whore Madonna will renew her wedding vows with hubby, she took time off from her world tour to announce. Hmm. Do you think that these meaningless announcements about the inactivity/inactivity of their cunts have any relationship to the fact that one has a record out and the other's trying to sell concert tickets? And why are either of their pronouncements news? Are either of them even interesting? Why am I even writing about them?

Fidel Castro claims that he'll be back to work in 2 weeks. Shit! There were rumors of free trade opening up with Cuba if he died. And if you've ever seen those Cuban boys' trade, fuggedaboudit!

Pamela Anderson hinted during a call-in to Ryan Seacrest's radio show that she might have a bun in her lovin' oven. Hope it likes the taste of silicone-flavored milk!

I know you've all heard about Lance Bass of N Stink coming out of the closet as a gay and admitting to a gay love relationship with Reichen Lemkuhl. I guess the tale which didn't get told as loudly was that Lance's came out after his mom caught wind of the gay rumors after a July 4th weekend of the couple's carrying on in P'town! Here's what the Washington Blade managing editor Kevin Naff had to say about Lance--and child, this queen can read! His editorial is called . Don’t cry for Lance Bass. Reporting the facts doesn’t constitute outing and public figures looking for privacy shouldn’t party in Provincetown gay bars..

Oh, and it just so happens, Kevin points out, that ex-military hunk Reichen has a book coming out soon. We've all got something to sell--at the bottom of the editorial--hey, no jokes about Kevin's sexual preferences here!--there's an ad for Provincetown rentals. Whee! You can go pay out the nose to party with next season's outed-after-no-one-cares-anymore celebs. Or see hags like me perform at the A House like I'm doing this year in August. Yes, we've all got something, however putrid, to sell.

I did think Kevin's editorial brought out some interesting points, mentioning readers' emails, etc. Definitely worth a gander. I was much less impressed the week before, when performing in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, I picked up the Washington Blade to find a column penned by ex-military hunk Jeff Gannon. Remember him? The fake reporter from a fake news agengy who'd show up at White House press conferences to make sure that Bush got some easy questions? And then it was discovered that Jeff was an ex-prostitute catering to military fantasies on his own website? And that he recieved hundreds of clearances to the White House, though only a handful were for official duties? He was doing somebody's doody up in there.

Anyhoo, Jeff's opinion piece was about black pastors walking out of a screening of FACES, a new documentary about AIDS in the black community. I was really with him for the first few paragraphs. His initial point is that we can't only blame the black community's intense homophobia leading to a "down low" lifestyle for the growing transmission of HIV among black women. To solely blame the
"down low" would ignore the roles of unsafe sex, IV drug use and prison rape as causes of HIV's spread. I continue to agree with the following paragraph of his article:

"Conditions in the African-American culture make it a rich environment for a disease is transmitted through irresponsible behavior. Young black men are inundated with glorified images of players, thugs, gang bangers, drug dealers and pimps while their female counterparts are denigrated as “ho’s.” These are not the type of role models that promote development into responsible adults prepared to enter into healthy relationships."

It's true. And who knows safe sex better than a hooker? But then Jeff winds up with a typically republican conclusion:

"THE DIFFICULT SITUATION many African Americans find themselves in is further exacerbated by a national political party that draws power by reinforcing a mentality of victimhood instead of encouraging empowerment through self-determination and entrepreneurship."

Yes, you republican hack, entrepreneurship, the same cherished ideal that has the US destroying Iraq, is the answer to everything. Democrats, with their social services nand assistance, offer only "victimhood." In other words, blacks should ditch the democrats, get off welfare and live your republican American Get-ahead-by-any-means-necessary Corporate Dream and they won't get AIDS as much? Sorry, but I wouldn't go switching parties just yet. Your republican party has failed to educate children of EVERY color, but with a drop-out rate of ONE HALF of all black and hispanic kids nationwide, don't you think spending more on education might keep some black folks out of jail, or boost low self-esteem among black women so that they aren't as tempted to accept cheating men or reduce their safe sex standards and get infected, or lead to some job options other than those which get you busted? Hell, with sex education the republicans wanna fucking preach abstinence over safe sex and ignore the existence of AIDS transmission. So they certainly aren't worried about stopping it. To paraphrase Larry Kramer, the establishment is thrilled that blacks and gays are killing themselves. So they barely even have to think about doing away with undesireables. Just make sure that if we do live, we can't be married.

And just when you are about to slit your wrists, the anti-war dems get a big boost from Lamont beating Hobbit-impersonator Joe Lieberman!

SHE HEE!

DIVINE'S "BORN TO BE CHEAP" ON LETTERMAN

It's 1984 and big momma is cookin'. There's also an interview with her and John Waters in the clip which follows. John and David look so cute!

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COULTER: "I'LL GET BACK TO YOU"

Watch the bitch flub her facts on Canadian troops and get called on it:

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EDITH MASSEY INTERVIEW

With poetry! Loving her all over again! That delivery! And with those teeth she could eat strawberries through a picket fence. Every which way AND loose. Those are her "summer" teeth. Summer there, sum ain't! Was she bi and is that her skittish dyke lover she introduces at the end?

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FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE WAY TOO SERIOUSLY

Here's some "wisdom" from the web. Author unknown.

For Those Who Take Life Way Too Seriously..........

1. Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
2. A day without sunshine is like...night.
3. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
4. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
5. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
6. Remember, half the people you know are below average.
7. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
8. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
9. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap.
10. Support bacteria. They're the only culture some people have.
11. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
12. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
13. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.
14. How many of you believe in psycho kinesis? Raise my hand.
15. OK . . . so what's the speed of dark?
16. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
18. Every one has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.
19. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?
20. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
21. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
22. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
23. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
24. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened?
25. Just remember - if the world didn't suck, we would all fall off.
26. Light travels faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
27. Life isn't like a box of chocolates.... it's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt tomorrow.

EWF'S BIGGEST LITTLE FAN

As in Earth, WInd and Fire!

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GIANT WOODPECKER!

I don't know much about woodpeckers, so I don't have a clue as to what part of the country this picture of a GIANT woodpecker was taken.



But, as far as woodpeckers go, it's got to be the biggest on record!




DON'T YOU THINK?

SOMEONE SAMPLE THIS!

Classic Zsa Zsa!

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BEST WAY TO KEEP COOL

BUSH STUMBLES

You don't have to search hard to find an idiotic look on our president's face, but I think I prefer this one:

OVER THE RAINBOW IN KANSAS

Maybe Hillary Clinton cold pick up a few presidential votes by defending THIS flag... I know it's Meade, Kansas, but it this story really makes me appreciate NYC, while realizing what a bubble I'm in here.


For J.R. and Robin knight, owning a bed and breakfast is everything they've always wanted. "We came here in search of our dreams, my wife always wanted a bed and breakfast and I always wanted a restaurant," says California native J.R. Knight.

But recently their dream has turned into a nightmare, all because of a flag they're flying outside. “It's a rainbow flag - to some people it means friendship to some people it means gay pride," says Knight. But for knight, it was just a souvenir from his 12-year-old son.

Knight says the local Meade newspaper is trying to put him out of business and was frustrated when it ran an article about the flag and did not even bother to contact him regarding why he put it up. In fact, most people we spoke to in Meade said they didn’t even know what the flag meant until the article ran. But once word got around, the reaction was harsh.

Knight says the radio station has called him threatening to remove the restaurant’s commercials if he does not remove the flag. A local pastor stopped by said it was equivalent to hanging women’s panties on a flag pole. When Knight jokingly said he might consider that – the preacher said he would have him arrested.

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PIECE OF ASS

"HIS" MILKSHAKE

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BUNNY NEWS

Don't ask me how, don't ask me why (as if I know fashion!), but yours truly has been added as a weekly WORST OF THE WEEK fashion commentator in The Star. In case you missed my first coupla columns, here they are!

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ANN HATHAWAY'S TOUGHEST (OR SHOULD I SAY ROUGHEST OR RUFF-RUFFEST?) ROLE TO DATE

Apparently, stylist Patricia Field keeps a photo of me on the set of every shoot she styles, including THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. Well, Ann caught a glimpse of my pic and asked "What is that?". In short, she's planning to impersonate me this Hallowe'en and has even contacted my designer to create a "Bunny" wig and well, an A-line dress. I'm so flattered that I think I'll go as her, too. Hence, donations are being excepted for my gastric bypass, eye- and lip-enlargement, and neck-stretching. Actually, I'm just going as myself and going to try to hunt her down for a photo op.

IT'S TONITE!

For those of you who have inquired about purchasing my music, I don't have an album out, but there is an electro-disco vocal song track out which you can download if you like. It's called IT'S TONITE!, by The Boneheadz featuring Lady Bunny, on a London label called OH MY! It hit #2 on the Sirius OUTQ station, though it will not be officially released as vinyl until late August. It is, however, available as a download on expressbeats.com, so check it out! Listening is free! It's currently #12 on xpressbeats.com's list of new releases/promos on the left of the homepage:

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I will be upating ladybunny.net in the coming months and yes, actually including a schedule of performances in the update version. Until then, you can check out my MYSPACE page for my schedule. One gig I'm really exciting about is right here in the Big Apple, at a brand new comey club where I'll perform and dj at the after-party. The headliner for the 9/14 opening is crazy lady Sarah Silverman! Can't wait to meet her!



LADYBUNNY.NET UPDATES

If there are any features of the site which make you find it non-user-friendly, now is the time to let me know so that I can try to change them while making other upates. OK, OK, tips besides removing all my frightening photos and music!

WIGSTOCK 2007: CANCELLED!

Wigstalkers, we are taking at least one year off from the festival. I don't really want to get into the many details that went into Scott Lifshutz (my Wigstock partner) and I making this decision. And although I don't like depriving Wigstock fans--we'll miss you, too!-- of their annual festival, the way things have shaped up this year on a variety of fronts, trust me, it's the perfect year to knock off and come back (hopefully) fresher. But I do urge you to investigate our former parent festival's HOWL's many other events this summer, because they do work their butts off to offer a wide variety of free cultural events in the East Village, from 9/8 to 9/16. HOWLFESTIVAL.COM



SOME PIX FROM LAST YEAR'S FESTIVAL. MORE AT WIGSTOCK.NU

ANITA GREENCARD (photo by Jeff Jackson)


LADY KIER'S DANCERS AFTER A MOCK SHOOT-OUT


FFLOYD AND WACKY ACTRESS JANE ADAMS


HURRICANES CHICHI LARUE, LADY BUNNY AND SHIRLEY Q. LIQUOR APPROACHING NEW ORLEANS!

AT SOUTHERN DECADENCE ON 9/-9/4!