Michael Buckley will do almost anything to entertain you; cartwheels, hand stands and even a little skin show.
Flipping snarky catchphrases with insightful quips on celebrity news and popular culture, Connecticut based Michael Buckley’s video blog “What the Buck” bitingly comments at lighting speed on the nature of celebrity and the ridiculousness of fame.
His quick-paced, [...]
Michael Buckley will do almost anything to entertain you; cartwheels, hand stands and even a little skin show.
Flipping snarky catchphrases with insightful quips on celebrity news and popular culture, Connecticut based Michael Buckley’s video blog “What the Buck” bitingly comments at lighting speed on the nature of celebrity and the ridiculousness of fame.
His quick-paced, insightful take on popular culture rivals the best of entertainment based television programs and is completely written, produced and created by the man himself.
Michael Buckley works several hours every day writing, editing and taping his award winning videos and still manage to juggle a day job and a husband.
With over two million views every month and over 100 thousand regular subscribers, Michael’s high speed commentary has put him on the map and on Fox News as a regular commentator.
Where does Michael’s seemingly boundless energy and enthusiasm for making fun of celebrities com from?
Listen as Michael shares his secrets on how he makes his award winning videos, the universal appeal of scatological humor and our fascination with tragic female celebrities.
We take a look at Miley Cyrus as she’s working a double shifts filling the gaping media hole left by the skanks of 2007 Britney, Lindsay, Paris and Nicole who have left the spotlight in search for a better life.
Also why Enrique Iglesias embraces his gay male fans and who Michael thinks is going to win this seasons American Idol reality TV singing show.
To find Buck’s latest videos as well as daily blogs focusing on celebrities, the online community and anything else that comes his way visit Buckhollywood.com
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Aren’t they cute? Comedians Jim Bennet and Andy Eninger from GayCo, the Chicago based queer comedy troupe join us today to celebrate over a decade of fun-filled shows.
GayCo began as a lesbigay focused workshop at the famed Second City Comedy Troupe in Chicago. Remember when everyone thought Whitney Houston was a closet lesbian? Their first [...]
Aren’t they cute? Comedians Jim Bennet and Andy Eninger from GayCo, the Chicago based queer comedy troupe join us today to celebrate over a decade of fun-filled shows.
GayCo began as a lesbigay focused workshop at the famed Second City Comedy Troupe in Chicago. Remember when everyone thought Whitney Houston was a closet lesbian? Their first show “Whitney Houston We Have a Problem” was so well received that they continued putting on shows not just in Chicago but around the country.
The material still holds up a decade later, as the hilarious Jim Bennet and Andy Enninger with a solid ensemble wow the crowds at the Center on Halsted until May 25.
Andy and one of two of his lesbian co-stars from the show decided to have a baby together.
Did you know that Jim spearheaded the effort to save Big Chicks, one of Chicago’s most fabulous gay bars? About five years ago, pressure from developers got the city to start enforcing some very old zoning laws in order to get the long-term Uptown bar to shut it’s doors.
The irony here is that business like Big Chicks help to turn the Uptown neighborhood around and make it a desirable place to live in Chicago. It also was the first regular venue where we did our live Feast of Fools shows ten years ago. Can you believe it?
Because of Jim and other activists efforts, we were able to put pressure on the city and state government, passing a state law to allow the bar to stay. Needless to say, drinks are on the house for Jim.
Is this somewhat famous person gay? Jim and Andy are convinced he’s gay, in a gay show, with a gay theater company, but he’s just not ready to come out. What do you think?
Do you have “gay-dar”? How about “disease-dar” or “HIV-dar?”
Do you think you can tell someone is HIV+ just by looking at them? A new site run by MTV networks Posornot.com challenges this question with a delicious array of people. I’d like to start a whole YouTube trend with people recording their reactions to playing the online game. is that bad taste?
We found the great site on Jim Pickett’s excellent LifeLube blog, which is always a great resource for cutting edge gay health news with a spicy twist.
Although the site does a great job at throwing those myths into the wind, we still can find the “newly awakened bicyclist” and “I used to be a heroin addict hooker but now I’m a poetry studies major” in the group of people.
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Warning! NOT safe for work as Barbie gets a little frisky with Fausto and some nudity is exposed.
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Check out this behind-the-scenes installment of trannytalk101 with Kennidi Monroe and Reina Valentino. Fausto coaches the girls backstage at a nightclub (Mary’s Attic) in Chicago. Also featuring Jessica Savano, Friday Foster and Regina Upright.
Warning! NOT safe for work as Barbie gets a little frisky with Fausto and some nudity is exposed.
If you’re ever attacked by a shark or giant beast, there really is one thing to do: poke it in the eye. This poor guy survived a shark attack which could have killed him. The Australian swimmer described his technique for escape as “I found it’s eye and I poked it in the eye, and [...]
If you’re ever attacked by a shark or giant beast, there really is one thing to do: poke it in the eye. This poor guy survived a shark attack which could have killed him. The Australian swimmer described his technique for escape as “I found it’s eye and I poked it in the eye, and that’s when it let go.” And you think you had it rough at your local meat market bar.
Iron Man- the movie is one of the funniest sci-fi action films I’ve seen. We’re still laughing at the ridiculous premise of a rascally genius who builds not only a quasi perpetual motion reactor but also a semi-indestructible iron suits of armor in order to fight middle-eastern terrorists and evil American weapons manufacturers. Marvel always finds a good way to simultaneously glorify and criticize the American military and our struggle to responsibly use weapons technology.
The movie pokes a lot of fun at superhero conventions, but sadly lacks homo eroticism except that Downey and Jeff Bridges both look like they are ready for action at a leatherman’s conference, like IML weekend. Still, there are some major flaws in the plot such as Gwyneth Paltrow as Miss Pepper Pots complete incompetence in being able to call her boss when she learns of the murder attempt on his life and his rival’s ability to build another super suit over the weekend. It just seemed ridiculous!
The Sex And The City ladies were in London to premiere their new movie. It is surprising that a film based around New York City came out in England first. And yes I get told I look like Mr. Big played by Chris Noth and no, I don’t mind if you say it, but please include “but younger and cuter” when you tell me that. I really like being told I’m cuter and younger than a famous rich celebrity.
If you live in Chicago be sure to check out the musical parody MOLLYWOOD created by Scott Bradley and Jonny Stax of the Scooty and JoJo Show. The event is a crazy mash-up of all the John Hughes classic 80s films that featured actress Molly Ringwald.
Originally meant to be a tribute to Pretty and Pink, writer Scott Bradley quickly decided to fuse Pretty in Pink,Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club into the plot. It’s amazing how he was able to intertwine these three movies into one story. Although at times we were left wondering just WHAT the plot was, the mixing up of story lines led for a joyful and campy spectacle.
Scott’s uncanny take on Anthony Michael Hall almost steals the show from the perfectly cast Charis Boyd as Molly Ringwald. Her hair was great and it made Molly Ringwald’s 80s hairdo as iconic as Mickey Mouse ears thanks to the wonderful hair styling of Eric Daley.
Arrive early since both venues have limited seating and drink a lot, cause it will make the show seem even funnier. If you love 80s teen movies, you won’t want to miss this one.
The acoustic duo Coyote Grace joins us to talk about their new album, fascination with the Rainbow Brite character and their appearance at the ALT Q Festival.
The honky tonk pair of Joe Stevens, a transman singer/songwriter from Northern California and Ingrid Elizabeth on vocals and upright bass will be at the Alt Q Music Festival at the Old Town School of Folk Music on May 17th. We hope you can all make it out to this fabulous event filled with top notched musicians.
Join us as we chat about David Archuleta’s father being banned from American Idol set, a Chinese Man invents a beer bottle solar water heater, a final resting place for those who love the sea,Neptune Memorial Reef, a crazy new umbrella called the NUBRELLA the umbrella for people who have $60 to blow on an umbrella that makes you look like a Sid and Marty Kroft Character.
Are my pads showing? An exposed boob pad is not as bad as a trail of toilet paper stuck to a high heel, but it’s still somewhat upsetting to see. I suppose it’s a small price to pay…there are so many other things that could happen that would create a much worse wardrobe malfunction. [...]
Are my pads showing? An exposed boob pad is not as bad as a trail of toilet paper stuck to a high heel, but it’s still somewhat upsetting to see. I suppose it’s a small price to pay…there are so many other things that could happen that would create a much worse wardrobe malfunction. (more…)
Kennidi is sorry. And she apologizes too. Kennidi told us she’s really really sorry for picking on video blogger Chris Crocker in the show comments last week.
Fessing up that she was doing it all for attention, our southern belle promises from now on to keep her videos focused on positive ideas and outrageous tranny [...]
Kennidi is sorry. And she apologizes too. Kennidi told us she’s really really sorry for picking on video blogger Chris Crocker in the show comments last week.
Fessing up that she was doing it all for attention, our southern belle promises from now on to keep her videos focused on positive ideas and outrageous tranny delights, and not spend her time trying to find faults in others.
She’s really really sorry! So please forgive her.
Kennidi is heading down to Houston Texas to work with her DJ mixing pals, hoping to put out a couple of songs to rock out the good people of the internet. We say, you go girl. Go down to Texas. And come back with a hit! If you are in the Houston area, make sure to look her up.
Orchids are like trannies, beautiful, alluring and oh so precious. Some orchids mimic the look of female wasps and encourage male wasps to pollinate them by tricking them into mating with them by appearing like the female of their species. Sound familiar? Drag queens and trannies are just like those orchids.
The males, during what they think is sex, ejaculate and unlike mammals, once they are spent they are spent for good and will not likely be able to ejaculate again. This process takes a lot of male wasps out of the procreation cycle and helps keep the wasp hive in balance. Female wasps only need male wasps to procreate if they want to create female offspring.
Kids and drugs. It’s always about kids and drugs. You never hear in the news about old people and drugs. Why is that? Is it because they vote? That seems to be the key to old people getting their way all the time. Legislators in Georgia want to ban pot flavored candy. As of July 1, 2008, if you are a minor, you won’t be able to by such delightful candy flavors such as “Chronic Candy” or “Pot Suckers.” Now, we’ve never tasted these candies but if they taste anything like bong water you’re not missing much.
Kids in Russia got a special dessert with their lunchtime meal. They got delicious ectasy. No, that isn’t like ambrosia or some other trashy dessert, it’s MDMA. It seems someone spiked their food and the kids started wiggin’ out. They started dancing, stripping and climbing the walls. In other words, they turned the cafeteria into a gay bar circa 1997.
Join us on today’s show as Fausto FernĂłs and Marc Felion give Kennidi a (NSFW) non-surgical sex change, tease her about her questionable upbringing and convince her not to huff highlighters. She is a good sport about it all so please give her some kudos, in other words comment on the show.
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Yesterday’s Feast of Fools podcast with Peaches Christ inspired me to dig out some old Polaroids from my San Francisco days. Peaches, Marc and Fausto were discussing Phillip R. Ford’s sci-fi drag epic, “Vegas In Space” and I thought I’d share some photos of the director and stars of the film
I met Phillip R. [...]
Yesterday’s Feast of Fools podcast with Peaches Christ inspired me to dig out some old Polaroids from my San Francisco days. Peaches, Marc and Fausto were discussing Phillip R. Ford’s sci-fi drag epic, “Vegas In Space” and I thought I’d share some photos of the director and stars of the film
I met Phillip R. Ford in the late 80s. He masterminded a drag troupe that consisted of Doris Fish, Miss X and Tippi and they were called Sluts a Go-Go. They put on manic skit comedy and produced these crazy drag productions of movies like “The Bad Seed” and “Valley of the Dolls”. (more…)
Everybody is going green these days, and I’m not talking about the incredible hulk! Whoo I’d love to be around the ONE time his pants finally ripped off when he transformed.
No, were talking about the environment. Green is no longer obscene, green is in. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the fashion [...]
Everybody is going green these days, and I’m not talking about the incredible hulk! Whoo I’d love to be around the ONE time his pants finally ripped off when he transformed.
No, were talking about the environment. Green is no longer obscene, green is in. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the fashion world is going ga-ga over eco-friendly products, and here at the Feast of Fools, we’re keeping up with the trends.
Our web-hosting company is green and although we shun the color from the design of the site, we carry ecological concerns deep inside our hearts.
On today’s show Sal-E (pictured here on the right) comes to talk about ways you can become an eco-frinedly drag queen.
One concept we’re tossing out there is PRE-CYCLING. Re-cycling means to find a secondary use to materials or objects, to convert waste to useable materials.
Why wait? Pre-cycling is the concept of finding use for an object before it’s indeded use comes to be. You heard it here first! PRE-CYCLING.
A man in South Chicago bought his own coffin and until the fateful day comes where he meets his maker, he’s going to use it as a beer cooler.
Bill Bramanti from the South Side of Chicago loves his Pabst Blue Ribbon beer so much, he had a coffin designed to look like the can. But before he’s buried in it, he’s filled it up with ice and regularly uses it as a beer cooler on the weekends.
On a darker note, two guys just got arrested for digging up a human corpse, cutting it’s head off and using the skull as a marijuana bong. I don’t know where to start with that one.
Join Sal-E, Marc Felion and me Fausto FernĂłs today as we talk about those new concepts in ecological conservation, flogos- corporate logos in the sky and Barak Obama moving on as Hilary’s future as Democratic nominee becomes more and more uncertain.
Queers do find love! This week 70s rock icon Lou Reed got married to 80s performance icon Laurie Anderson in a private wedding.
Pictured here in this file photo making out with David Bowie, the bisexual 70s icon struggled once with his own homsexual desire and even conceded to receiving electroshock therapy to “cure” himself of being gay.
In many ways marrying lesbionic Laurie Anderson is a nice compromise, and she’s a fierce diva in her own right.
For those of you who don’t know about Laurie, she had a #2 British pop hit with her song “O Superman” in the 80s and pioneered much of the midi techonlogy found in modern music today.
She’s the innovator of the “tape-bow violin” a device that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow and a tape head on the bridge of the violin to make freaky sounds onstage. I think these two make a beautiful couple.
Hats off to Matthew Pope! The Kansas State Shawnee Mission East class of ‘08 just elected their homecoming king and queen the same person. It’s openly gay Matthew Pope, co-captain of the cheerleading squad. Isn’t he adorable?
Every time he walks out on the court the kids erupt in cheers chanting “Pope! Pope! Pope!” The school goes nuts whenever he prerofrms his signature moves, a series of back flips across half the court. I’m sure he’s popular with the male atheltes as well. Ah progress!
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Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall.
The internet helped him connect with the greater world around him when he couldn’t create a gay-straight alliance in his school and he left to be home schooled. To grow up a gay, eccentric and [...]
Chris Crocker turned to the internet to escape the torment of being chased by gangs of boys at the mall.
The internet helped him connect with the greater world around him when he couldn’t create a gay-straight alliance in his school and he left to be home schooled. To grow up a gay, eccentric and flamboyant teen has never been easy especially in a small conservative town in Tennessee.
If it weren’t for the internet where would Chris Crocker be?
Today Chris is one of the most watched and imitated video bloggers online. His iconic video of himself weeping and imploring the public to “Leave Britney Alone” made him a household name.
Chris’ videos represent the dramatic change we’re seeing in how we create and consume media. Chris’ videos are just as popular as the YouTube Presidential debates or the evening news. For millions of people everywhere, his opinion matters.
Despite this, old media companies are threatened by Chris popularity because of his bold desire to express himself at any cost. They can’t control him and he doesn’t need them.
It’s easy to question the authenticity of Chris’ videos because he’s just that good. He’s eerily in touch with his dark emotions and quickly cuts through the hypocrisy of the “haters” with his wit and words.
“Leave Britney Alone” proves to be one of the most emotionally over the top videos I’ve ever seen online. I believe Chris cried not so much for Britney Spears but rather to express the pain and suffering he endured having gone through the hell of homophobia as a teenager. In many ways, Chris Crocker represents the tortured gay youth who fought back and lived.
Chris Crocker really is a huge fan of Britney Spears, even though she has conservative leanings and a complete lack of interest in gay rights of any kind. Remember, she was FOR the War in Iraq and said in many interviews that we should “stand by our President” despite his reckless policies.
Chris sees something bigger inside of Britney. He believes her to be a liberal person trapped by the conservative world around her.
People can’t leave Britney alone or any other tragic celebrity for that matter because they help us cope with our everyday problems. When we see someone richer, more attractive and more powerful than us struggling to hold on, it makes it easy to come to peace with our place in the world.
On today’s show Chris Crocker joins us to talk in-depth about his popular video blog, his passion for following people’s horoscope and how he may team up with Puerto Rican TV astrologer Walter Mercado to reach a hip, young new audience. We also talk with Chris about how he personally deals with the vicious hate online and offline, what he thinks of all those parody videos of his work and where in Los Angeles you should hang out if you want to hook up with Chris.
And we put to rest the rumors surrounding Chris’ HIV/AIDS conspiracy as a government biological weapon gone wrong and being vilified for simply being himself and being good at it!
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For many people, seeing the cult-film “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” for the first time was a breakthrough.
I remember my first time in college hearing about this bizzare film experience where people threw food at the movie screen and re-enacted the entire film in costume and it had a murderous mad scientist transvestite named Dr. [...]
I remember my first time in college hearing about this bizzare film experience where people threw food at the movie screen and re-enacted the entire film in costume and it had a murderous mad scientist transvestite named Dr. Frankenfurter. It was a celebration of sexuality, laughing at the ridiculousness of homophobia as we “gave ourselves over to absolute pleasure.”
One of my first experiences dressing up in drag was landing the part of a chorus member in the live musical production in Austin, Texas where we were required to wear vampish make-up, leather, lace and panty-hose. I was quite popular with the audience members, as I always found an excuse to sing the “Time Warp” song and land on some hunky audience member’s lap.
When Rocky Horror picture show was first released, it wasn’t well received despite the live musical version being a hit in London. Still some imaginative people saw gold in the celluloid and decided to embrace the film for it’s quirky campy self. The movie ignited the careers of actors Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick.
For Peaches Christ, every Midnight Mass movie event is a celebration of the queer experience in film. Every summer Peaches and her pals get together and camp it up before a sold-out crowd with their special brand of cult-film inspired mayhem. Peaches knows and loves these campy films like a momma knows the sound of her child’s voice.
On today’s show Peaches joins us to talk about some of the hottest and campiest sci-fi films every gay man must see.
Why is the film Flash Gordon so boring? It has everyting you could ask for, hunky football playing heroes, campy villians and a score by Queen. Yet somehow this film puts everyone to sleep, despite it’s decadent costume, plot and sets.
Is Starship Troopers the sequel to Showgirls? And why do gay people love blood, gore and guts with a sci-fi twist? Maybe it’s our shared experience in having to live a life outside of our own. Maybe we just like tacky movies and glittery things.
The film Xanadu, shot in the late 70s featured Olivia Newton-John playing Kira, a greek muse that inspires a struggling record company artist to quit his job and pursue his dreams. Gene Kelley joins in the fun as a big band orchestra leader-turned-construction mogul who decides to launch Xanadu, a decadent, post-modern futuristic nightclub which fused 1980s rock with 1940s swing jazz music.
The deliciously over-produced film gave us a vision of the 1980s from the vantage of the 1970s as a sexual, liberated time where people valued creativity and passion over money and responisbiloity. Boy were they off the mark!
Despite dealing a fatal blow to Olivia Newton-John’s film carreer, she married dancer/choreographer Matt Lattanzi who played a young Gene Kelly in the film (they divorced a decade later). Everyone was busy hooking up during the making of that movie!
The movie even inspired me to create my own medley for one of our past live shows.
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If you thought beauty pageants were for women, think again. Come join us as we hang out in the dressing room at the Mr. Chicago Gay Competition, 2008.
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If you thought beauty pageants were for women, think again. Come join us as we hang out in the dressing room at the Mr. Chicago Gay Competition, 2008.
NOTE: Because some fine booty is shown, this video may not be safe for work. Thanks to Stephen for editing this!
Steven Rosengard was the first Chicago based designer to be on Project Runway, the fabulous reality television show where contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. Their designs are judged and one or more of the contestants are eliminated each week.
Project Runway Season Four was filled with a lot of great talent [...]
Steven Rosengard was the first Chicago based designer to be on Project Runway, the fabulous reality television show where contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. Their designs are judged and one or more of the contestants are eliminated each week.
Project Runway Season Four was filled with a lot of great talent and we are glad Steven got as far as he did. He was “auffed” or kicked off of the show after re-styling a wedding dress of a women who have lost a significant amount of weight.
When given the challenge to create a new outfit out of a woman’s former favorite “fat clothes,” Steven was given the impossible task of transforming a woman’s wedding dress. As soon as I saw that dress, I knew whomever got it was going to lose.
The judges said that Steven turned her “wedding dress into a funeral dress.”
Still, Steven doesn’t shy away from talking about his design choices and explaining his reasons for making it.
Steven is a blast! We had a lot of fun with this Chi-town fashionista. He loved our idea for “Project Runway: The Musical!”
Of course all the contestants would play themselves and there would be awesome fashion show montages throughout the show. Jack Mackenroth is already working on his routine. Check him out in this over the top Flashdance number.
Since leaving Project Runway, Steven has spent a lot of time attending charity functions. He’s hosting Make a Statement: Design for the Cure, which showcases top f
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