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This line is for the front preview page: Watch my new YouTube Contest entry to meet Kathy Griffin.
Now ever since the Great Barrier Reef when I met the mother of a teen who survived testicular cancer and told me they were there with the “Make a wish foundation.” and was in remission, I’ve been asking, “So when do I get to make my wish come true.”
This guy lost his left nut and got a trip to Australia, and I’ve survived HIV for 25 years, when not many have, and what do I get for that?
Is it not too much to want to meet Kathy Griffin. When it comes to HIV, senority must mean something? Doesn’t it?
Now the video.
Truth be told, I missed the deadline for the first video, and that was just for a DVD. Even then I was disappointed. But life is too short for regrets as the stars came together for a better contest, a meet and greet, plus tickets to PrideFest in Milwaukee this June.
This is much better than a crappy DVD that I can buy online for 15 bucks, and that’s Canadian.
I decided to go green, and recycle, reuse, and reduce. I redid the same video, slightly modified, edited and voilà, it was like it was meant to be.
Given the bit of work that went into it, and those who have to suffer through me posting it everyone, I think this is a much better prize, and more in line with my dream to meet Ms. Griffin.
Now, here’s the thing. I’m pretty sure there is only one other video, as of yet – and the deadline is this Saturday, April 10th, so who knows what could happen.
The competition: a frumpy college girl who’s singing a song about Kathy’s mother who likes her wine boxed, “I was raised by a box” say Kathy in her act. The song is called Tip It, and it’s cute, and she’s obviously put some work into it.
That’s why I’m driven to have more viewings on my video entry than her, and so far I’m beating her two to one, and I want to keep it that way.
So please watch my video. At least click on it, let it play go watch the dishes or to another site, I don’t give a crap. Just click on the damn thing and help a guy out.
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Recording artist, producer and actress Erkah Badus managed to whip up a media frenzy and judgement from her recent strip tease not only due to the public nature of her nudity, but also her choice of location: the assignation site of president John F. Kennedy, historic Dallas’s Dealey Plaza.
You be the judge.
“Window Seat”
At first, without any context of the entire video, or song, the media played over and over a short snippet of the video. Many were quick to condemn her. I wasn’t so quick.
Yes, it was bold and provocative statement of a performance art piece.
The Inside Edition, known for their hard-hitting celebrity news – yes I do sometimes stop and watch a bit while surfing – declared that it was bad because the “children,” and were “innocent victims.”
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The other day I was taking a shower while I left the internet radio playing [my apologies Proud FM, but it wasn’t you….if I only you could stream you through my Apple TV – the device that connects your computer to your tv and sound system].
As I pulled the curtain, the über cheery — like quick I’m going into diabetic shock — song by the Brady Bunch, Sunshine Day, was emanating from the living room. It seemed a little surreal as I dried off to this cheery little camp tune from the 70s as if suddenly the LSD I had done in the 80s was resurging in a flashback.
They warned us about flashbacks in our school “Just Say No” campaign but I didn’t believe them.
Another reason for a metaphorical “Sunshine Day” is my next topic of my baby website I gave partial birth to last December.
On April 1st PositiveLite.Com , a light-hearted take on poz living, will be going live with a new look as part of a hard launch – moving it out of its beta phase.
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I’ve had many moments of saying to myself, “How the hell did I end up here?”
I’ve rhetorically asked myself this question since the age of 18 after running off to Vancouver, carried on when I moved to the south of France at 19. Many of these moments in fact have been well documented.
It reminds of that song Drinking in L.A. (a hit in 2006), “What the hell am I doing drinking in L.A. at 26?.” just substitute L.A. for any number of cities in any number of countries.
Soon, it’s pretty certain that I will be feeling that way again, just not in a bad way.
I am off to New York to be interviewed by the RuPaul’s Drag Race reality show contestant, Ongina, for her Logo TV project “HIV & Me” on Friday for the weekend.
I have to tell you, honestly, as we sit there at 11 am come this Saturday, I am going to be struck by “How the hell did I get here?”
They were looking for people to be interviewed for this project. When I read the email, it stated an age range of 20 to 40.
We all know which side of the numerical value outside of which I fall.
Nonetheless, I decided to write them anyway. (more…)
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Last Thursday a friend had invited me along to see Joan Rivers at Centre for the Living Arts.
This was the first time I had seen her live. To be expected were the numerous of blue-hair rinses with expectations they were coming to an evening of “coffee chat” with Joan Rivers, and we were out in Mississauga.
Instead, I’d venture to say they probably never have heard references to female anatomy in all its forms in their entire lives than they did that evening.
Having never seen Joan River’s live, I’ve heard that she puts it all out there and crosses every line there is to be crossed. What I discovered was a very funny 76-year-old woman who could care less about what you thought.
One of the reasons I think she can get away with it is that she has a history of community involvement, and raising a lot of money for charities.
For example, was she got on to the subject of AIDS, I laughed quite a bit, mostly because she dared go there and pulled it off.
“There was a time when AIDS was killing everyone, now it’s a long-term chronic illness. I don’t want to be delivering meals to the same guy three Thanksgivings in a row, and then watch him go off to the gym. Either AIDS is going to kill you, or I am!” she says motioning as if she holding a knife up.
At Spirits for their weekly Open Mic night, a friend and I had a recent conversation about how you don’t come to comedy and then complain about being offended. “Comedy is how we work all this shit out in our lives.” says my friend, a comic herself.
Having said that, one guy that night told a joke about rather than go to Canada’s Wonderland to wait in long line ups, and pay 60 dollars to feel like you were going to die for five minutes, why not just go get an HIV test done.
He lost the audience on that one, and had to work to get us back. But that’s comedy, people take a lot of risk: Sometimes it works, sometimes doesn’t. I wasn’t offended, but slightly uncomfortable for a second. The rest of his set was quite funny and he did win us back.
Joan continued on with her brand of inappropriate humour.
On Jennifer Aniston:
“She’s so needy that a rapist wouldn’t even go near her” Pretending to be Jennifer Aniston talking to the rapist, “Will I see you again?”
On getting older:
“Nobody told me when I was going to get old my vagina was going to drop. One day I looked down and I was wearing bunny slippers. Now I can have sex in one room, and watch TV in the other.”
On 9/11:
“Did you know that the families of people who died in 9/11 all got five million dollars, five million dollars. Really I can think of a few relatives that should have been there. Oh grow up! Just wait until Thanksgiving and look around the table.
It was a great night out, and I hadn’t laughed that hard since I’d seen Kathy Griffin.
I now know the litmus test of a good comedy night is when people walk out, something both Joan and Kathy can easily make people do.
Tags: aids, comedy, gay, GayGuideToronto.com, GGT, GGT 2.0, GLBT, HIV, joan rivers, lgbt, Positive Lite, PositiveLite.com, stand up, Toronto, trans
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Oh the French always know how to do it.
I have to admit, being an avid fan of the sport, these images make me want to rush out and buy a carton of smokes.
For some reason that wasn’t the intention of this French anti-smoking campaign. “Fumer c’est être l’esclave du tabac”, or “Smoking, be a slave to tobacco,” is the caption under each photograph. (more…)
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Since I’m pimping my videos, which I call experimental video instead of experimental theatre, I thought I’d through this recent one out. It’s my submission to win a free DVD from Kathy Griffin. Of course I can just by the damn thing, but this is such more fun. Of course it is probably NSFW
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The Real Housewives of Orange County,” and ”The Real House Wives of Atlanta and New Jersey” got me talking with a friend in the buidling on how we should make our own show. Always to be the one to take crazy ideas and make them reality — you don’t become a hooker with a passport unless you’re not that kind of person — and grabbed my camera and set out to make my first John Water’s inspired Canadian Content of ”The Real Hags of Cabbagetown.”
I start with the first two hags, Jone and Roxy, but there are more. So for a cheap Monday morning post, I will share with you my train wreck.
It’s not pretty. And like I say, it can only get better.
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Valentine’s Day is right up there with the December holidays! The only thing I like about it is February 15, because the chocolate is on sale. Despite the sales, February 15, bugs me as well with our provincial holiday called, “Family Day,” which sounds far too Christian too me.
Why hate such a holiday? Well, anytime I was in a relationship I rebelled at anything that felt contrived and forced upon me without my consent. Suddenly, because Hallmark says so, I’m supposed to be so in love that I want to go buy a gift, do a dinner or something.
Usually the day ended up in a fight, without the make up sex. Perhaps this is why I’ve learned this Pavlovian response to the day. One time I was traveling across the country, arrived back home quite late, and didn’t have a card or anything and all hell broke lose. Sure, I know, I was a bad boyfriend.
To me it’s like doing drag. All these guys who put down the drag queens can’t wait to put on a dress come October 31st, as if they somehow now have permission to do it. I’ve never felt the need to have permission to get into a costume, especially having been a make up artists. I can do this anytime of the year.
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Trust me, babysitting is not my evoluntionary role in life.
Study reveals potential evolutionary role for same-sex attraction
One possible explanation is what evolutionary psychologists call the “kin selection hypothesis.” What that means is that homosexuality may convey an indirect benefit by enhancing the survival prospects of close relatives. Specifically, the theory holds that homosexual men might enhance their own genetic prospects by being “helpers in the nest.”
Physorg.com
That’s one theory, because this one sort of went out the window when they selected the Pacific Island of Samoa to look at a group of “effeminate” men who primarily had other male sexual partners, and were considered a third gender. This isn’t the part that threw me; it was when they were deemed “Super Uncles” to the family’s nieces and nephews.
It pains me to say this, but I’m only starting to like my niece now that she’s getting older. If this puts it into context at all, I’d take her any day as a Hannah Montanna-loving tween, over one day of her younger days.
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