On today’s show we’ve got Curtis Jensen, director of marketing for Steamworks- with an update on San Francisco’s struggle with it’s own Halloween Celebration and his return to dressing up in drag! Yoo hoo!

After all, in the late 80s Curtis was well known in Salt Lake City, Utah as Marlene Lovebird- one of the hottest fund raising drag queens with killer heels.

Although it seems pretty likely that Barak Obama will be our nations next president, the fight for equality has just begun. Will a favorable political outcome on November 4 diffuse the pressure for change?

Sarah Palin announces her new political enemy- French fruit flies. The You-Know-What to Nowhere is mad that federal money is spent on studying fruit flies in Paris, France.

What Palin doesn’t understand is that fruit flies are used by researchers to make scientific discoveries that are valuable to just the very causes she says she supports. Without fruit flies we wouldn’t have the advances in genetic research we need to better understand and treat possibly genetic diseases, like Autism.

Is Daniel Cowart, the racist terrorist plotting to kill 88 African Americans including Barak Obama while wearing a white tuxedo and matching top hat a trannie? Maybe not a trannie, but he could be a little bit of a cross dresser. File photos seem to show him wearing eye makeup and pretty bright pink lipstick. While fashionable, they don’t exactly match his black swastika tattoo on his shoulder.

PLUS we perform a dramatic reading of a slash fiction story written by a devoted fan, Tanya, on how Feast of Fools made the two brothers from the Supernatural TV show gay for each other! There is a whole genre of slash fiction revolving around these two brothers.

Technically, this is incest, or as they call it, “Wincest,” but that doesn’t stop the fans from loving it!

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On today’s show Jim Bennet, the funny man from GayCo, Second City’s gay offspring comes to dish it up about politics.

They’re teaming up with Schadenfreude, another local sketch comedy group to put together a sizzling new show “This Country is F$cked,” an evening of election-themed comedy, music and videos.

Listen as we talk with Jim about dragging his comedian friends out of the closet, his thoughts on Sarah Palin wanting to play Tina Fey and White People for Obama.

Bubba the tranny cat! Desperate pet owners turn to a pet psychic to better understand their finicky feline’s anti-social behavior, then were told that Bubba hisses at strangers because he is really a she! Now, they are trying to raise money to give their tranny tabby a sex change.

The hunky cannibal and former Mr Gay United Kingdom Anthony Morley is on trial for what he had for supper. He is accused of killing Damian Oldfield and then frying him up with some olive oil and spices.

Queen Latifah doesn’t care that you think she’s gay, even though she probably is, allegedly. Maybe. Kinda. Whatever!

A British man terrorizing the public and police in riot gear while skinny dipping in a moat at the Emperor’s castle in Japan. Why are people so afraid of a naked, chubby old bald guy? Oh, yeah, he looks like Golem from Lord of the Rings.

Google now offers a e-mail virtual breathalyzer to keep people from sending angry emails when they are drunk- the new service is called “Mail Goggles.”

Plus- art abuse, Kurt Cobain’s stolen ashes smoked in a spliff and Diane Von Furstenburg’s wonder woman inspired fashion.

More fruits and nuts than a bowl of breakfast cereal- Feast of Fools.

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What was up with that red carpet? It hurt my eyes!

Wasn’t it great when Tom Brockaw told McCain to get out of the way so he could finish the show?

Obama came across once again as eloquent, well informed and level headed. Is America ready to have a competent leader? I think so, Yes we can! Nail McCain to the wall Obama!

What does the sound of a failing political campaign sound like? “TERRORISM!” Last weekend Gov. Palin and Sen. McCain both directly declared their political opponent associated with terrorists and even scoff indifferently when their supporters jokingly threatened to kill Senator Obama. Is this what the election has boiled down to?

One way the Republicans can win this election is to simply lock away Sen. Obama in Guantanamo bay, but as Harold and Kumar showed in their movie, it’s way easy to escape.

I went with Michael Lehet to see the Scooty and JoJo’s Carpenter’s Halloween, a reenactment of Halloween John Carpenter’s Halloween set to the music of the Carpenters. It’s truly an odd mix of horror and camp. If you are a fan of camp, drag, the movie Halloween or the music of the Carpenters then this is a must see for you.

Get your tickets now if you want good seats. Also, the set is in FULL COLOR and you won’t believe how good it looks!

Michael and I also saw Watch Out based on Joseph Suglia’s book that features the super sexy Matt Riddlehoover as narcissistic Jonathan Burrows, who is only sexually attracted to himself and even makes love to a blow up doll that looks like himself.

Through Jonathan’s journey we encounter many strange characters, all of whom are sexually attracted to the very handsome protagonist but in who he has no interest whatsoever. He delivers a condescending diatribe against them about why he would never find them attractive and even kills some of them. This movie is a totally over the top cross between Strangers with Candy and Jeffrey Dahlmer.

Michael convinced me to go the Improv Everywhere’s MP3 Chicago which I initially didn’t want to go because it sounded a bit hokey- I was to download an mp3 audio file, be at a specific location and do what ever it told me to do at a precise time. Now, I’ve seen enough X-Files or Twilight Zone episodes to know how terribly wrong things like this can go. For all I know it could have turned me into a government assassin.

But, after a long night partying with Miss Tracy Tyler we all hopped in the car and experienced what turned out to be a very fun day. Sometimes it is fun to do just let yourself go and let someone else call the shots. And I totally kicked ass in the Epic Battle.

Listen as we talk about the bizarre Anglican Reverend Peter Mullen, who suggests tattooing gay men’s butts with health warning signs. How about tattooing priests faces with “Religion can seriously damage your mental health.”

What’s the secret to the Beckhams beautiful skin? Bird Poop! Yes, they are both getting sh*tfaced for beauty. Its an exotic beauty treatment for Japan.

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Steamworks didn’t disappoint with their fantastic twister inspired booth. With the hunky guys playing the colorfully spotted game, we had to play and certainly enjoyed being on the bottom of a pile of beefcake.

Musician Eric Himan brought out the fans and listeners of the podcast. We had a fun time with so so many Feast of Fools listeners in the audience. We’re glad we were able to introduce so many of you to his hot indie-rock music. It was great to see so many of you cheering Eric on and buying his music after the show!

We have a big angry mob of fabulous guests today! Don’t miss today’s show as Tracy Tyler, Hot Boy Luke, Teddy Jay, Marc Felion and me Fausto Fernós talk about the Market Days madness and take a break from the festivities to hang out at home in the home studio on Saturday night.

As if Market Days wasn’t enough, the Olympic games also started this weekend, the Olympic Olympics, you know the trademarked one, as thousands of athletes from around the world gathered in China to compete. Watching the dazzling opening ceremonies on TV, I was quite taken by all the beautiful athletes marching onto Beijing Birds Nest Stadium floor. I felt like Mae West in her final film “Sextette.” Boys boys! There’s plenty of Fausto to go around.

Marc was bested by a chicken hawk- and not the kind you are probably used to hearing about in the gay bars. You may remember Marc telling the story about how he tragically killed his niece’s baby chicken by accidentally putting a cage on him and effectively crushing the poor thing to death. Well, the little girl just recovered from the horror of losing one of her favorites chicken to witness only a few weeks later another chicken being carried off by a chicken hawk (a real one- not an old gay man who preys on young men). So, he is no longer the bad guy.

I feel a little sad seeing John Edwards getting politically tarred and feathered after the revelations of an affair with a woman hired to produce campaign videos. It was a brief affair that his wife knew about so get over it America.

Many bloggers and tv pundits say it’s not going to hurt Barak Obamas chances, but anything that takes American’s minds off our mortgage crisis, the need for true universal healthcare, and ecological and energy woes could mean another four more of the Bush-Rove-McCain style of leadership.

With McCain getting so much media coverage comparing Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears (two women who are closely tied to the Republican party) is not only distracting the American voter, it negates his promise not to run a sleazy campaign.

Has the debate become like an episode of Seinfeld- “a show about nothing?” Discuss.

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One looks like the angry old man next door chasing children off the front lawn with his rake, the other looks like a “historial figure.” I was so impressed with his speech, referencing a very mature idea of global citizenship not heard from any political candidiate since the late 1970s, when Carl Sagan brought up the idea in his book and award winning PBS miniseries “Cosmos.”

Reaching out to skeptics back home, Obama Herladed the “dream of freedom” declaring:
“I love America… People of Berlin, people of the world this is our moment. This is our time… I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.” Wow.
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Obama promised us a bucket of hope and delivered a all-you-can-eat buffet, with self-serve sundae bar of hope!

On today’s show- we follow-up on the kick off of the M-Network, the gay social event we helped to launch in Chicago, our live podcast on alcohol and the Reveal Party for the TLC’s reality tv show “What Not to Wear.”

Despite being on Monday night was a big success! The intimate crowed enjoyed the performances by performance artist Tim Miller and comedian Adam Guerino. We’re really excited about this venture and we hope it grows. Please join us next week as Master Sommelier Alpana Singh to host a Zodiac Wine Tasting where she’ll match world-class wines with your zodiac sign. Wine and light food will be provided.

The live podcast at Sidetrack about alcohol and the GLBT community will be up later this week. It went off without a hitch and was well received by everyone in attendance.

A special thank you to everyone who came to the Reveal Party for TLC’s What Not To Wear. Amanda looked fabulous in her purple dress, silver pumps and new hair style.

The highlight of the evening was when the director, Jen, asked what people liked the best about her new look and Amanda’s friend shouted “her boobs!” and then proceeded to fondle Amanda. Although it won’t make the final cut, we can only hope that TLC will put out a “Too Hot for What Not to Wear” video.

The new X-Files movie features the ultimate boogie men, a gay couple married in Massachusetts! This may be a bit of a spoiler but when is Hollywood going to learn that that gays or trannies aren’t the enemy?

SPOILER! The movie started out ok and we felt like were seeing old friends on the big screen but we were really disappointed when the storyline devolved to feature a psychic link between a convicted pedophile priest and his former victim who kills with his boyfriend to get a new body. End Spoiler!

I remember the X-Files being smart and savvy and I just wonder what the hell they were thinking of producing this lackluster and insulting film. We waited all these years for this?

PLUS: We have an interview with author and talk show host Scott Sherman, who’s got a fabulous new book out First You Fall: A Kevin Connor Mystery, a funny mystery about a sexy gay hustler with a heart of gold. Makes an excellent summer reading, and why not? The main character loves to listen to the Feast of Fools.

Scott’s has produced two podcasts, Digital Photography Show and the archived The Gay Parenting Show. We met Scott last year at the New Media Expo when were both up for the top award for best podcast. Neither of us won and as Scott says “I’m kinda glad neither of us won or else we wouldn’t like each other.” Well, we would have liked you anyway Scott, if we had won.

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Today we’re thrilled to have our good friend, writer and health advocate Jim Pickett joining us to dispel some rumors, conspiracies and misconception surrounding HIV/AIDS and healthcare.

We are very happy to announce that the Feast of Fools is the proud recipient of the Esteem Awards for best GLBT podcast presented by Windy City Black Pride and Pride Index. We’re sorry that we weren’t able to attend the awards ceremony on July 2 as we were in Pennsylvania. We’ve been honored to have such African Americans on the show as RuPaul, Alexyss K. Tylor, Rev. Charles Straight, Mr. Gay Shar Devon, author Frederick Smith, actor Marcus Patrick and video blogger B. Scott just to name a few.

The ACLU is condemning the crackdown on saggy pants in Flint, Michigan. The Flint Police Department routinely stops people who wear saggy pants that hang below their butts and issues misdemeanors for the offense citing disorderly conduct and indecent exposure laws.

The police cheif is even accused of asking the alleged offenders to lift up their long shirts so he can see just how low their pants sag. We know know that the only people that wear their pants like that are black kids in urban settings or white kids in the suburbs. I wonder which type the police are targeting.

Since we are always on the subject of safe sex, remember condoms aren’t the only way to protect yourself. You should always make sure that the place you are having sex is a safe and secure one. For example Taiwanese couple were making love in the back seat of their car when their car suddenly plummeted 150 feet down the cliff side. Although the unfortunate couple were bruised and battered, they did manage to climb back up the hill and get some help. We hope the woman’s husband doesn’t find out about the accident as he wasn’t the man in the car.

Wisconsinites, don’t run off to California for your same sex marriage just yet! Same sex couples that get married in California may get arrested in Wisconsin. An obscure law from 1915 states that it is a crime for a Wisconsin resident to enter marriage in another state if that marriage is illegal here. It carries a fine up to $10,000 and nine months in prison. Now you know what to get the couple for their wedding gift- bail bonds! We can’t wait to see how this plays out!

Don’t forget to join us for “Let’s Take a Glass Together” on Wednesday July 23 at 6pm, at Sidetrack for a live podcast forum on the LGBT community and alcohol. Come discover how we can have a healthier relationship with alcohol in this unique event presented by LifeLube, Project CRYSP and the Chicago Task Force on LGBT Substance Use and Abuse.

I’m not sure what to say about this controversial New Yorker magazine cover depicting our possible future president Barak Obama and his wife Michelle as a muslim terrorist and a radical black activist. I love satire, I love crossing the line and I love to poke fun at political leaders, no matter who they are.

Some are easier to poke fun than others. The New Yorker claims this cover is just a send-up of all the ultraconservative, loony misconceptions Obama’s critics have tried to create. Tasteless and offensive as it may be, they have every right to run this image and for us to react to it.

This country, and the world can not afford another four more years of Bush’s policies, and divisive, fear based politics. Having Barak Obama as President means taking a look not only at our own racism, but also how we criticize our political leaders. I think it’s healthy for the public at large to have a massive purging of our hateful feelings, but at the same time, covers like this might just have the unintended consequence of bringing us four more years of an environmentally, economically and militarily disastrous leader, John McCain.

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Mary did you know? It’s been confirmed, former contestant David Hernandez has not only confirmed the rumors he was a nude stripper in a gay bar in Arizona, but that he’s getting the green light from American Idol to stay in the contest.

You just know second season contestant Frenchie Davis, an early popular contestant on the second season of the show must be upset at this blatant display at hypocrisy. So hot gay guys get to pass on the nudity, but voluptuous black women don’t? That’s not cool.

But the real cliff-hanger we’re all feeling is the results of yesterdays U.S. primaries, as Hillary won Texas, Ohio and Rhodes Island and Barack got Vermont, but Hillary has an upHILL battle in the coming elections, and might lose the nomination anyways.

Will someone please just be president already?

I want my candidates to fight for my love. I don’t need hope, I don’t need experience. I want to see these candidates SWEAT. I think in the long run either of them is going to whoop McCain’s short little butt and this is why we’re all so passionate about who will be the winner in the Democratic primaries.

I hope for Hillary, but I will relish the experience of having Obama as my President.

John McCain became the official Republican contender in the 2008 Presidential Election as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced his concession, prompting millions of Americans to ask “Mike Huckabee was in the race?”

You know it’s bad when you can’t even remember the candidate’s name. Kerry who?

Drag Queen Wars- in case you haven’t noticed, our past guest Regina Upright’s dishing the dirt on Chicago’s local drag scene hit some of our past guests like Aurora Sexton. Check out the debate happening here.

Tiaras are breaking, nails are breaking, hearts are wrentching. When will the bloodshed end? Ladies, ladies! This is just a comedy talk show.

Let me remind ALL drag queens and trans folks who read this blog and listen to our shows that you put on these fabulous shows not for the money. You do it because it’s fun! I know that most of you put every penny back and then some into your costumes and act. You do it because, like me, you love the attention and the ability to share with an enthusiastic audience your craft.

You are beautiful, in every single way. Words can bring you down. So don’t you bring me down today.

I want every drag queen in Chicago within the sound of my voice to start video blogging, and show the bytches on YouTube and MySpace how it’s done. The audience for one video can augment anything you do in any bar.

All you really need is a cheap ass video camera and start recording those videos. You can even do a little monologue when you get home from the bars or before you go out. An iMac is makes it really easy to do so, and all the equipment is built right into the screen. The learning curve is ridiculously easy.

Some of you think nothing of investing a grand on a new ball gown, so why not get yourself a great computer and put on a show in the comfort of your own home?

Check out how creative some of these YouTube divas are: Victoria Lamar, Kennidi Monroe, B Scott or Amnesia Sparkles. They are just the tip of the iceberg.

Listen to today’s show as Marc and I talk about the racism and diva-ness inside all of us, pigs feet stew as the new super-food and the tragic mess that is Shirley Q Liquor.

Faster than a speeding drag queen, able to leap tall metaphors in a single bound and more than willing to pull a train with porn star Pavel Novotny- it’s a blog, it’s a talk show, it’s the Feast of Fools!

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