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What if we were all inside an egg inside an egg inside Lady Gaga’s egg-shaped vessel? Think about it people.
Today, artist and blogger Angela Wells joins us to crack the case on the origins of egg decorating, strange party games and how the humble egg has inspired everyone from ancient Persians, to chocolatiers to Lady Gaga.
Fausto Fernós is the host of iTunes’ #1 LGBT talk show, the Feast of Fun podcast, which he produces and hosts with his partner, Marc Felion.
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fausto Fernós created the Feast of Fools in 1998 as wacky artists variety show in Chicago, Illinois. Feast of Fun grew out of an audio blog to promote the live show into the world’s most downloaded talk show aimed for gay people.
When he’s not blogging, recording or sleeping, Fausto can be found at the gym or appreciating the beauty found in nature.
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Have you guys seriously not head of pink shirt day?
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2007/09/18/pink-tshirts-students.html
I’m sure we reported on it before but it all gets like mush in my brian sometimes- Day of Silence, Pink Shirt day, Coming Out Day, Glitter Day, International Drag Queen Day, etc.
You’re forgiven. I’ll go back and take down all those nasty posts I wrote about you on Facebook and Twitter. -)
Why doesnt she have a British Accent?
She’s not British.
LOL! What’s funny is I’d probably be asked that if I had a New Zealand accent. A lot of folks have no idea what New Zealanders sound like. Charlie Sheen actually accused his costar Melanie Lynskey of faking her Kiwi accent while out of character on the set of Two And a Half Men. She must’ve really boiled his tiger blood! 😀
Fabulous show with Angela, also known now as the egg lady! I absolutely love Easter because then usually we can enjoy in Germany the first warm days after a cold winter and everything is so colourful. The tulips and pansies blossom and everywhere you can see the colourful Easter decoration. At my apartment I always go crazy with the Easter decoration each year.
I did not know before that the tradition with the Easter tree is from Germany. I am so used to it that I never questioned where it is actually from. Some weeks before Easter you can see them here and there in Germany.
I also know in Greece it is an old tradition to put one egg in the grave (box) with the bones every year. In some parts of Greece they first bury the dead and after 6 or 8 years they take them out of the grave before Easter, polish some bones and the skull to put them in a box with an egg. It has been also a tradition in some parts of Greece not only to put an egg in the box with the bones but also to drink wine out of the polished skull before Easter. When I was a child and teenager I traveled with my family to a small Greek island not far from the Greek city called Volos every year. Just about 12 people lived there during winter and during summer many Greek tourists and some German tourists came to the island. There are two small mountains on the island, one with a monastery and a graveyard. We always to had to pass there when we went from the house to the small village on the other side of the island. Three times the Greek children who I played with took me there in the late evening while our parents drunk wine at a tavern. They took out the skulls of the box and played with them together with the flashlight in the dark. The first time I was so scared but then it was actually fun to scare tourists with the skulls and a flashlight who passed the monastery and graveyard when they went back, often a bit drunk, from the village to their houses. Then we put the skulls back in the boxes carefully so we did not break the eggs inside the boxes.
Thanks, Andy. That Easter tree is beautiful, like something out of the land of Faerie! And LOL @ you and the Greek kids playing with skulls! I never had fun like that!
You totally went form charming to creepy!
That’s how I like it. 😉
Since the show was about eggs, I thought I share the creepy story. I would not do it today but with 9 or 10 I didn’t care, of course.
I always thought Faberge eggs were real eggs as well. Womp.