Hell hath no fury like queer radio listeners scorned.

The dust is barely settling since last week’s sudden firing of not one—but four—Proud FM radio personalities: Deb Pearce, Patrick Marano (the morning team), Mark Wigmore and Shaun Proulx (the afternoon drive team). Read the full story

Okay Poodles, here it is. I just turned 44. I’m 350 lbs and my only cardio is eating chips. Which I’m very good at. I even have a shirt dedicated to the task. But it’s not good and I’m not proud. So when the advertising team at 103.9 Proud FM came to me to see if I wanted to work out with G-Force Training, I was insulted! “Are you calling me fat?” …is what I would’ve yelled if the very act of being insulted hadn’t winded me. So I took it as a hint from God and I jumped at the chance. Okay, I didn’t exactly jump…that’s too much like exercise, but I did see this as a once in a lifetime chance at taking control of my fat fatty fag fat ways and making a change in my life. Let’s face it, youth and fitness are lost on the young. I’d rather be fit in my later years so that I can still get out of bed, go to the toilet AND wipe my own ass without the help of some registered stranger. But I digress. Let me first say that I hate working out. I don’t like sweating. I don’t enjoy muscle fatigue (what did you call me) and I don’t glow in any kind of post workout high. It’s a main reason why I’m fat. Hell, I don’t even like video games with too much running and jumping. I would never come up with “working out” as an activity on my own which is why the G-Force opportunity is so great. Gidon, my trainer and owner of G-Force comes to my place twice a week and works me out for an hour…cool down and meditation included. He brings all the equipment so there’s nothing to buy unless you need sweat clothes. I sweat so much that I consider all my clothes sweat clothes but that’s not what Gidon meant. Anyway, he varies my workout so I don’t get bored and he’s structured a meal plan designed to keep me from self sabotaging all my sweaty, whiney efforts. Did I mention that I live moments away from a Baskin Robins? Jesus hates me. It’s probably because I’m gay. But again, I digress. Seriously, working out is not an activity I would come up with on my own but I am loving the results! I’m two weeks into our 3 month program and my balance is better, I’m not so winded when I walk up the 4 flights of stairs to my apartment (yes, you heard me…fatty lives on four) and I’ve already lost 10 lbs! Suck on that Doritos! Needless to say I’m thrilled. I still don’t like the idea of working out but I’m liking what working out does! Already I’m seeing a change in my endurance and and it’s totally improved my quality of sleep at night. So I’ll be keeping you up to date about my trials and tribs in the fitness field over the next 2 and a half months and touting the fabulousness that is G-Force! Seriously, if you want to change your life, change your trainer…and give away that chip eatin’ shirt!

Brace yourself. I’m about to gush with excitement and trust me, any of the two men I’ve ever dated will tell you, I don’t gush! For one glorious day Gleethe best TV show show ever, will merge with 103.9 PROUD FM to create the epicenter of Global Gleek-dom: 103.9 Glee FM! Seriously, I wouldn’t lie about this! On Monday April 12, to launch their return to TV on Tuesdays, and to complete of season 1; Season 1? I thought this was season 2. Hell, with that hiccup in programming last year it should be season 2.5 But this nerd-vanna isn’t Battlestar Gallactica and … I digress. For one glorious day, Glee is taking over Proud FM and why shouldn’t they? What better place for a show about outcasts and social pariahs to promote themselves than on a radio station that caters to a community of those very outcast? I’m talking homos people! I’m also talking Gimps, Foreigners, Fatties and Whores. But homos have it worse! Let me paint a picture for you: My public school had a bunch of deaf students, some with one hearing aide, some with two, they were all in one class no matter what age they were despite the fact that they were there in the first place to integrate them into the public school system. Well these poor deaf bitches didn’t stand a chance! They were tortured daily during recess! It was relentless…that was until Fat Fatty Fag Fat showed up. Yep, I was a two fer: fat AND gay! It was like Bulley Heaven on Earth. Even the gimpy deaf kids picked on me. Sometimes I feel it’s our planet’s hate of gays that truly holds us together. Which is why I love Glee and am happy to let them take over my gay radio station! That show reminds us that we’re not alone and that no matter how many “slushy facials” we got or how many times we were thrown in a dumpster (they had the football team throw me … seriously, I was one huge fat fatty fag fat!) we can still pull ourselves out of the garbage, wipe ourselves off and throw down a fabulous musical number including backup dancers! As Christina Aguilera once sang: Thanks for making me stronger! Now bring on Glee FM! Okay, she didn’t actually say the last part but if we were friends, like we are in the theatre of my mind, she fucking would have!

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Ok, so we’ve all been at those concerts where you’ve come with your friends, you’ve paid the big bucks, you’re unimpressed with what is going on on stage, but you force yourself to sway back and forth, gyrate around a bit and hum along to avoid being the stick in the mud… right?  Am I alone in this? Read the full story

La La La, La La La La La

La La La, La La La La La

Ok, so we’ve all been at those concerts where you’ve come with your friends, you’ve paid the big bucks, you’re unimpressed with what is going on on stage, but you force yourself to sway back and forth, gyrate around a bit and hum along to avoid being the stick in the mud… right?  Am I alone in this?

I know SOME of Kylie’s music.  I only enjoy SOME concerts I go to.  And I am SOMETIMES hard to impress.

But curtain down, cuz here comes Kylie Minogue!!  The key word to describe the concert, FUN!!

She’s basically a drag queen that has had a ton of money thrown at the production, and I loved every minute of it!  Even songs I didn’t know, I found myself grooving to.  And the crowd was basically everyone off of Church Street.  Take a bow girl, you deserve it!

For weeks now on PROUD FM we have been having the people in from TICOT  (The Imperial Court of Toronto) talking about the election and coronation of their newest Empress.  For those who don’t know (as I didn’t), there are courts in many many cities in Canada and the U.S..  The members of the court basically raise money for charities.  Two candidates stood before us.  One, well spoken, in full face, bearing gift bags.  The other, not in drag and still drunk from the night before.  This went on for weeks, with one candidate clearly the front runner (in my mind anyway).  Finally the elections took place and we anxiously awaited the announcing of the new empress at the coronation.  I didn’t get to go, but Mark, a well known face in the Village, did (see pic below).  The result?  An upset!  Follow the progress of TICOT as we continue to interview them on BREAKFAST IN BED with PATRICK & DEB on 103.9 PROUD FM, M-F 6-10a (www.proudfm.com)

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!!

It has been an exciting week for me starting with a Facebook chat with my sister. She said: ‘I have four dreams, do the dreams have to be realistic?” Well yes, they do have to be realistic and achievable, however I did not want limit your creativity and also I did not want you to have a definition of what realistic is, for this could be a matter of perspective.

My Friend and fellow coach Michael Moniz has finished his list of 100 dreams. Way to go Michael! Michael writes a blog for the gay and lesbian community out of Florida in the United States. In it he writes about Living Life Out Loud. Visit his post perhaps find some inspiration from it.

What Do You Really Want? or 100 Dreams

I will be holding off on my next Video post until after I discuss the the “Dream List” with Shaun Proulx  on Proud FM (you can listen at this link) on Monday. In the mean time I’m fulfilling one of my Dreams. I’ll leave you with a little taste Click Here.

Brandon Williams, Life Coach

www.btscoaching.com

Did radio kill the video star? Nope. Never.  But this video star just got a helluva nice promotion!

Never be afraid to put yourself out there for something you want… even if that means working for free, because it can take you from intern to Morning Show Host on the World’s First Commercial Queer Radio Station like it did me! Read the full story

When Dorothy says in The Wizard of Oz, “There’s no place like home.”  She wasn’t kidding.  After so many years in Southern California and being so far away from my family and old acquaintances, it was great to be home in Toronto!

Now that I was back, I wasted no time.  Read the full story

“When mom comes to visit you next week, what are you going to tell her you do?” asked my brother on the other end of the line from Montreal. I skirted the subject by making a joke, but wondered how much my brother had figured out on his own.

I was just back from Italy. We had shot “When In Rome”, and my pockets were flush with cash. Mom’s visit to L.A. went off without a hitch.  ”How’s the bar?” she’d ask. I told her I was bar backing and go go dancing at a couple of bars in West Hollywood. What? Don’t give me that look, it’s not so far off the truth! That’s how I got discovered by Chi Chi LaRue, while go go dancing at Micky’s!

With Chi Chi LaRue & Johnny Hazzard

Anyway, she left L.A. happy in the knowledge that I was doing alright for myself, if not totally aware of how I was achieving it. And doing well for myself I did. I continued on as a Rascal Exclusive for Chi Chi, traveling Europe and the United States, picking up awards and nominations all over the place, modeling for Tom Ford, T.V. interviews, books, magazines and even my own dildo!

Promoting "Stone Fox"

Now what? I had a decision to make. Years had gone by, and I had achieved more than what most porn stars ever do. I needed to continue to grow, and the only way to do that was by moving home to Canada. I wasn’t abandoning the industry, but I needed a shift in my life. I had done a radio interview as Eddie Stone with Shaun Proulx of The Shaun Proulx Show on 103.9 PROUD FM in Toronto. PROUD FM is the world’s first and only queer commercial radio station. People have always told me I had a voice for radio, so I decided to move to Toronto and look up PROUD FM to see what could come of it.

I thought that the move away from L.A. and the pursuit of other avenues, like radio, would end the eternal questioning of “Are you going to tell your mom?”

I would never have guessed that a move home would force me to face and answer that question once and for all!