It all started with a simple tweet: ““Please retweet. I am offering my male genitals (full penis, testes, scrotum) as a meal for 100,000 yen…. I will prepare and cook as the buyer requests, at his chosen location.””

From Calorielab:

On Sunday, April 13, Tokyo illustrator Mao Sugiyama (who goes by the nickname “HC”), publicly seasoned and braised his own genitals on a portable gas cartridge burner, and then served them to five eager diners who each paid about $250 for the meal (a sixth was a no-show). The genitals had been returned to the asexual Sugiyama, frozen and double-bagged in plastic, following elective genital removal surgery on his 22nd birthday in early April.

Also:

Sugiyama had also intended to include his nipples on the menu, but his attempt to burn them off with sodium hydroxide did not result in anything usable.

Read more, including photos that you don’t really want to believe are real.

A wry look at #zombies after the zombie apocalypse.

If you love Cher’s music, you’ll love her delightfully crazy tweets. Check out our video series as we examine all the hot news and more: Lady Gaga is Haunting Elvira, Scott Herman gets attacked and should we become gay missionaries?

The tweet read: “Remember Amy Winehouse by downloading the ground-breaking ‘Back to Black’ over at Zune:social.zune.net/album/Amy-Wine…”

No, no, no.

After a noisy backlash on Twitter, Microsoft apologized, saying: “Apologies to everyone if our earlier Amy Winehouse ‘download’ tweet seemed purely commercially motivated. Far from the case, we assure you.”

Here’s a pro-tip for anyone who needs to be sincere about their apologies: it’s not technically an apology when your statement is conditional. If you mean it, don’t use the word “if” in your apology. Acknowleding you made a mistake and taking ownership of it is the right thing to do. Moving the attention away from yourself and onto others by making it conditional “I’m sorry IF I offended you” just makes you sound like an even bigger marketing douchebag.

Here’s what I would have liked to see them say: “Whoops! Sorry for our earlier Amy Winehouse tweet, some of you thought it was in poor taste, and we agree. Here’s a coupon to download any of her songs on us. Sorry.”

Why are marketing people so bad at marketing and just being decent human beings?

Courtney Love is paying out of court $430,000 over her possibly defamatory rants against L.A. fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir. I always say “it’s not slander if it’s true.” In this case, we’re not sure what’s going on, but she probably paid them off to avoid the public scrutiny of a messy court battle.

I’m guessing Kanye and Charlie Sheen didn’t want a precedent set, making celebrities liable for their angry tweets.

Where's my check? I had to look at Courtney Love's photos, they are not pretty.

The lawsuit contained several postings written under Love’s former Twitter account, courtneylover79, that accused Simorangkir of theft and of having a criminal background. The case had been scheduled to go to trial in February, and was expected to be the first trial in which a jury decided whether a celebrity’s Twitter posts could be considered libel.

We could have had some amazing court battles.

– Source

Amanda Palmer (formerly of the Dresden Dolls) and partner-in-crime Jason Webley are taking the capital by storm this weekend, with concerts and an appearance at Webstock, a conference for internet experts. Palmer spoke at Webstock about how she wants to use the internet as a tool for democratization, specifically for cutting out the middleman of the record industry and connecting artist and audience more directly.

One of the ways she’s been doing this is by throwing “ninja gigs”, free all-ages acoustic performances whose time and location she posts on her Twitter feed about 24 hours ahead of time. Ninja gigs offer the twofold benefits of entertaining her underage fans who may not be able to attend her shows in 18+ venues, and also giving out “free samples” of her work (as Dave Awl put it) to those who don’t know it yet or who are undecided about buying tickets to her shows later in the week.  Palmer and Webley wowed the crowd at Civic Square last night with just ukelele, guitar, accordion and their unamplified voices: photos of the event here.

Clearly Palmer’s also drawing on her background in street theatre and performance art.  It’d be interesting to see her fellow chanteuse/performance artist Lady Gaga doing something like this, but she has such high production values it’d take ages to cordon off and set up.

Is that really the real real James Franco on twitter? Here’s my video response to James Franco’s sinister sounding video announcing his “real” Twitter, Facebook, page and so on.

All those other ones are impostors.

James Franco has joined Twitter and he wants you to know he’s for real.

Twitter exchange between conservative GOProud Chairman and a sensitive soul.

Pictured here is a Twitter exchange between a sensitive twitter user, Thomas Bloom and Chris Barron, the chairman of the conservative gay Republican organization GOProud. You may remember them as the idiots who invited Ann Coulter to speak at a conference last year.

To me, they don’t really appear to have any agenda other than mock the left

What do you think of the expression “man up?” Personally, I hate it. It just sounds stupid to me and it’s as if you don’t know what else to say or you don’t have a compelling reason to get someone to behave the way you want them to behave so you insult their manhood. It’s the language of Sarah Palin’s anti-thought process gut-instinct mentality.

You got our attention Tori, now what? Hope you didn’t freeze your booty on the snow.

Cold is the new black.

Looks like twitter is getting a make over.

HuffPo has “11 Things You NEED To Know About the New Twitter“

But that’s not all! She also took to YouTube for give her first inaugural address to all her little Monsters! Watch below.

If you are keeping track of the Royal lineage of Twitter Royalty, ou may recall that not too long ago Britney took the title from Ashton Kutcher (aka @aplusk). Everyone loves a good “changing of the guard!” But something tells me that mother monster can hold onto this for awhile!

Congratulations Queen Mother Monster! Send your love via Twitter to @LadyGaga and include #GagaTwitterQueen in the message.

Moments ago, right before taking stage, Mother Monster addressed her fans via twitter regarding her concert proceeding as normal.

“The Monsterball is by nature a protest: A youth church experience to speak out and celebrate against all forms of discrimination + prejudice” -Lady Gaga via Twitter

“Tonight we will continue to actively protest social and political injustices in Arizona. We will sing, we will stand up, + we will be heard” -Lady Gaga via Twitter

She tweeted about her daily life and her friends and she was followed by quite a few famous people.

Her last tweet read: “going to have my lunch now will be back later.” Sure hope she doesn’t mean it.

BBC News – UK’s oldest Tweeter Ivy Bean dies at 104.

Here’s the five best according to the Daily Caller

1. @normative: “To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous liberals, or to quit halfterm, and by opposing, rake in speaking fees” #shakespalin

2. @spsenski: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some are just picked by John McCain’s aides.” #shakespalin

3. @Zagrobelny: “O Levi, Levi, wherefore art thou Levi?” #shakespalin

4. @chriscesq: “Two households, both totally devoid of dignity, in fair Wasilla where we lay our scene.” #Shakespalin

5. @jerekeys: “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is Russia, and Putin is in the airspace.” #Shakespalin

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/19/palin-as-shakespeare-the-top-five-shakespalin-quotes/#ixzz0uC53fNhx

Ok, it’s time to take the fight to the internet! Remember back in grade school when my imaginary friend could beat up your imaginary friend and there was no way to prove who the winner was? Well now there is – only you’re using your Twitter icon instead of an imaginary friend.

Check out this great new “game” that pits your Twitter Icon (or anyones icon) against a forbidding opponent of your choosing. Your icons are broken down into little “men” (or women, they’re too small for me to tell for sure) and then they battle against each other – until a winner kills the other players crystal or a timeout occurs.

Check out the game here

And oh yeah, come on lets battle because apparently my Twitter Icon is a badass and I’ve beaten everyone I’ve battled so far…bring it on bitches!

My Twitter id is: @whatsaboytodo

The internet can be addicting…come on, you know it is! So creative genius Patrick Moberg has taken those sites on the web that we love so much and made a fair comparison to their drug related vice!

Here’s the Twitter comparison to Cocaine.

Check out the rest of his comparisons.

What’s your favorite vice? Mine is the Feast of Fun!

We are thrilled to finally receive the trophy for our 4th People’s Choice Podcast Award for “Best GLBT Podcast” in the mail and to celebrate we invited songbird Melissa Young to come over and shoot the breeze.

Listen as we chat with Melissa about the iPhone Madonna app, the upcoming Madonna Glee episode and the unusual Facebook page asking for a million people to have Lady Gaga be the single voice for gays. Good luck! Right now they have 963 fans.

Hot news:

The other shoe drops in Twitter’s master plan as the social media giant announces they’ll make money by placing ads in searches and eventually into your own updates. Will users get a cut of the action or will we all become slaves to that little blue bird?

Lady Gaga reveals to a press crowd in London that despite her love of sexually outrageous things, she’s actually not having any sex right now, saying she wants to celebrate celibacy.

A British food retailer is using chemicals to turn male moths gay, to keep them from mating and destroying fruit crops with their larvae.

Liza Minelli is a woman of few words.

Mike Huckabee tells gay couples who want to adopt children to go get a puppy.

And we give a standing ovation to Billy Elliot the Musical, now running at the Oriental Theater in Chicago. The fabulous adaptation of the popular film features children ballet dancing spastically onstage, a cross dressing boy and a brave young man who dances for his dreams. Go Billy!

Featured Music:
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings – Dap-Dippin’ With: iTunes

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE

No matter how much teen prom queen Constance McMillen fights for the title of “America’s Lesbian Sweetheart,” our gal pal comedian Cameron Esposito will never give it up! Nice try though Connie.

Cameron’s thrilled to announce that her hilarious new comedy album “Grab Them Aghast” ( iTunes or Amazon) has dropped. Today she joins us to talk about making her album and why she appears on the cover looking like a blow up doll with a pearl necklace.

Cameron also recounts her experience performing at our live show at Steamworks bath house for men. Find out what Cameron thinks of the space, the naked men and the mouthwash drinking fountain.

Plus hot news:
John McCain flip flops on being a Maverick.

A new study shows that Twitter can accurately predict box office sales of most mainstream films opening weekend.

The world is in shock as a plane full of Poland’s top government, military and religious officials crashed, killing everyone on board including President Kaczynski, the first lady and many dignitaries including Poland’s former deputy prime minister, Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, an outspoken gay rights advocate.

Designing Women actress Dixie Carter dies at age 70.

And little actor Meinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in The Wizard of Oz and proclaimed the Wicked Witch of the East was ‘really most sincerely dead’ is now ‘really most sincerely dead’ himself. He was 94.

Visit our sponsors:

Steamworks Gym, Sauna and Baths.
Visit Steamwork’s website and register to get a discount
on your next visit. Enter “Feast of Fun” on the promo
code field to get the special discount.

Featured Music:
Stephen Leonard – With a Pen: iTunes

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE

The Golden Globes awards ceremony recognizes outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, but because it’s also a dinner party, it’s a great excuse to see drunk celebrities and laugh at their tragic fashion choices.

The hilarious Lizz Winstead joins us today to dish about tweeting the entire Golden Globes from her cozy couch with her two dogs in New York City. Why does director James Cameron look like Bea Arthur? How fast is Mo’nique’s wild ride from God? Why were so many winning shows and movies so depressing? Will the Oscars be as tragic?

As a co-founder of the popular Daily Show, Lizz has a unique perspective on the ongoing late night talk show wars. Should Coco and the Chin ditch TV and just start their own podcasts?

As a talk show host herself, Lizz has had some strange encounters with guests, including two respected writers from Jezebel, Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, who appeared to be intoxicated on her show and were glib and dismissive about sexual assault. The two later claimed they were set up for a “gotcha” moment which Lizz denies. Boy do we feel Lizz’s pain!

Lizz also tells us how she gave MSNBC anchor and lesbian media darling Rachel Maddow her first big break on Air America.

Also hot news:
Zombie twitter accounts.

The crisis in Haiti continues.

Roller coaster grandmas.

And Lizz’s hilarious list of political slogans for Massachusetts teabagger centerfold Scott Brown.

Featured Music:
Val Emmich – Little Daggers: iTunes | Amazon

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE

Links:
Prop. 8 trial to include unprecedented testimony- LA Times article.
The American Foundation for Equal Rights- live updates.
Mercury News- live updates, not limited to 140 characters.
Prop 8 Trial Hacker- live blogging.
Pam’s House Blend - Open Thread with News Sources.

Listen to our interview with Nick back in 2008.

“A basic search of the social-networking site for OYG or Jeff Mob, the gang based in the Jefferson Houses in East Harlem, yields shout-outs and throwdowns.
“I knoe bitches from oyg that would dead mob yah s—t in harlem,” one girl wrote in a series of tweets aimed at drawing out a rival for a fight.
Investigators are monitoring the traffic in hopes of sweeping up gangbangers before the bloodshed – and searching Twitter after attacks for clues.”

With the exception of Esperanto and Klingon, most languages develop as a result of war. In the year 1066, William the Bastard changed his name to become William the Conqueror when he conquered England, bringing with him dramatic changes to the English language by infusing it with French words. As some new words grew in popularity, others fell out of favor and eventually became taboo.

In this sense, William the Conqueror gave us profanity. And that dear listener, is how all your favorite cuss words – f*cking, sh*t, and c*nt came to be naughty.

Our friend Bill Cruz, a William the Conqueror of Comedy joins us today to take an irreverent look at history and discuss why the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the historic invasion of England got him in an uproar.

Wearing his hat and sunglasses during the taping of today’s show, Bill has his poker face on, but when it comes to giving up the laughs, he ain’t bluffing.

The Human Rights Campaign’s new study on the surprisingly high number of queer people who stay closeted in the workplace but are out to their friends and family.

We may be broke, but Twitter isn’t! The social networking and micro-blogging service has been declared to be worth $1 billion by various financial analysts.Can I have a cut?

An Ohio woman gives birth after being implanted with the wrong embryo. Ka-ching! You know she made money from that.

A not so Itsy Bitsy Spider enhances the popes creepy, zombie-like demeanor.

And a Chinese girls sells her hand in marriage to save a sick friends life.

You can see Bill Cruz perform Oct 17th at Mikey O’s Chicago Latino Comedy Fans.

Comment on today’s show using twitter- Include #fof1066 in your update for it to appear on the site. Learn more about hashtag searches in the Twitter Fan Wiki.

Visit out our sponsors:
Interactive Male’s Big Gay Kiss Contest
Interactive Male, the hottest gay chatline in North America is offering you the chance to win $10,000 in the Big Gay Kiss Contest. Send in a video or a picture of two guys kissing and Interactive Male will donate money to Marriage Equality USA.

Human Rights Campaign Gala 2009 – Time to Shine
Join us on Saturday, Nov. 7 for the most elegant evening of the year featuring Michelle Williams of Destiny’s Child and Joe Solmonese, HRC’s President. Visit hrcchicago09.com for tickets and info.

Featured Music:
Gaye Adegbalola – Gaye Without Shame: iTunes | Amazon

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE

Gay Marriage may be the next big thing to come to Illinois. Today we’re talking to Illinois State Representative, Greg Harris- he’s been working for gay rights for years, he’s HIV+ and he’s fabulous!

Greg replaced Larry Mckeon, who was also openly gay and HIV+ when he retired in 2006. Since then Greg’s run unopposed in this overwhelmingly Democratic district.

Listen as Greg gives us a behind the scenes look at life as a State Rep, the state of marriage equality and Health Care Reform.

Greg stands apart from his peers by embracing new media, keeping his people informed by updating his Facebook status from the floor of the State’s capitol. It is certainly exciting to follow the ups and downs of his efforts to bring a successful marriage equality bill to the state of Illinois.

Facebook is great but why don’t politicians use Twitter to keep their constituents informed?

Greg takes questions from you through our Facebook page and talks about why there aren’t more openly gay politicians, why that state passed a resolution honoring Michael Jackson and weighs in on all the crazy Governors- Palin, Sanford, Spitzer and Blagojevich.

Are we pushing President Obama enough for gay rights?

Moonwalking for Hate- Westboro Baptist Church or are they Shirley Phelp’s Kids’ parody Michael Jackson’s song “Beat It”- are they for real?

And one simple, easy thing you can do to bring about political change in your part of the world.

Make a comment on today’s show using twitter- Include #fof1027 in your update for it to magically appear on the site. To learn more about Twitter hashtags and how the work, please visit the Twitter Fan Wiki.

Featured Music:
Baby Teeth- Hustle Beach: iTunes | Amazon

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE

Everyone deserves their own fantasy lesbian bar – ours is called the Charleston Chew and it’s in South Carolina. Where’s yours?

America’s lesbian sweetheart Cameron Esposito is back in town and you’re gonna be in trouble, hey la dee la, but that’s okay, because she’s hilarious.

Listen as we talk about Cameron’s trip to the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival, where she was a hit! If you live in Chicago, be sure to catch Cameron at the Town Hall Pub on June 26.

Cameron is sporting a pretty fierce pair of Spidey socks. Is Spider Man a lesbian icon we didn’t know about?

Twitter on Paper-a New York City artist’s paper based online project quickly became too much to handle.

Despite the Iranian government’s crack down on the media people are taking to the internet like never before to protest the outcome of the recent election. The revolution may not be televised, but it may be posted in 140 characters or less.

Texas Gay Mayor now living in Mexico with his young lover and hopes to return with him someday.

Rhode Island says “Yes We Can” to pot.

Naked burglar flees and is then arrested dressed in woman’s clothing.

Did David Letterman do the right thing by apologizing for his tacky joke, or are comedians now liable for offending anyone, especially politicians?

Blowback from Bareblack, Katy Perry sues a girl and she doesn’t like it and Rat Island is now rat free-maybe

Check out today’s sponsor:

How Are You Healthy? Find out at Lifelube.org
A blog on sex, drugs, physical, mental and
emotional health, spirituality and more.

Featured Music:
Baby Teeth- Hustle Beach:Amazon

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE

He was also one of the first podcasting super-fans, actively participating as a listener and informal contributor in many of the online shows we now know as podcasts.

The fun ended when he got outed as a gay man on one of his favorite shows, Nobody Likes Onions.

Nick sold his blackberry cell phone and a listener bought it and sent his gay online personal ads to be ridiculed for the world to hear.

Later he came into the national spotlight when he attempted suicide and micro-blogged about it on Twitter. He got a lot of sympathy from his friends, family and an in-depth article about the experience in the New York Times.

Today Nick is looking great and living a healthy, happy life as an openly gay man in San Francisco.

Listen as we talk with Nick about cyber-bullying, guilt over what turns us on and the future of podcasts and online communities.

Ernest Borgine, star of such classics as The Poseidon Adventure and Marty credited the secret to his longevity to masturbating. The 91 year old actor told Fox and Friends that he likes to release the pressure in hushed tones but it was picked up by his mic. Love that Ernest-ness!

The Internet and television is all a buzz about what’s on US Olympic champion Michael Phelps’ iPod. He seems to never be with out it in photos these days. Could he be listening to Feast of Fools? I don’t know but the idea of him spending some time listening to Tracy’s sexy stories, or Sal-E take on the nightlife, or even Amanda’s sci fi geek tangents makes me giddy.

Finally a president you would want to see shirtless! Photos of Barack Obama playing in the surf in Hawaii are making the rounds. Maybe Obama took a page from former Russian president Vladimir Putin and decided to sex up his image by appearing shirtless. We We hope and pray that McCain doesn’t do the same.

Plus- beer milkshakes and believe it or not, Nathan Lane’s Lip Plumping Lip Balm.

The podcast that makes its own gravy- Feast of Fools.

Don’t miss our Meet & Greet in San Francisco!Click here to donate to our travel fund.

• Meet & Greet in San Francisco
Meet Fausto Fernós, Marc Felion and Peaches Christ unmasked!
Thursday, August 21, 2008 • 7-10pm
Pilsner Inn
225 Church Street, San Francisco, CA

See you there!

Featured Music:
Gaye Adegbalola – Gaye Without Shame: iTunes | Amazon

RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES
SUBSCRIBE ON: GOOGLE