Category: ‘Fierce (and not in a Tyra kind of way)’

Unabashedly Served: The Legends Ball

July 6th, 2010

I only participate in gay pride festivities in cities where gay visibility is needed.  I look forward to the future fag functions in my new home of Iowa City, Iowa, where hate groups à la Westboro Baptist Church still line the parade route using their inbred children as pawns.  LA, New York, San Francisco: count me out; I’m not interested in the fracas.

But then there are the subsets of the major cities’ festivals.  Black gay pride festivals take place in Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and this past weekend, Los Angeles Black Pride.  Among day trips to the beach in Malibu and dance parties downtown, one of the pinnacle events was The Legends Ball hosted by Mother Devine Chanel and Arnold Allure of House of Chanel and House of Allure, respectively.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, wiki it or rent Paris Is Burning, but be gone until you do so.  [Pics after the jump.]

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OVCowzwPWY

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Unabashedly Quotable: De-Ball

May 30th, 2010

Great Aunt: She um…what do they call it…de-balled him?

Me: Emasculated him?

Great Aunt: Yes, that’s it.

Me: Word.

Unabashedly Quotable: Says Lydia Lunch

May 8th, 2010

“For the most part entertainment irritates me because I don’t find it very entertaining: I find it annoying and stupid, boring and dull.  Uninteresting.” (03:36)

Unabashed Queer Manifesto

May 5th, 2010

Unabashed Dream Deferred

May 1st, 2010

To be the only white female cast member on In Living Color.

You have to be in the back of the cast photo but you’re still the only funny cracker bitch.

Unabashed Crusader: Paul Mooney

April 23rd, 2010

I’m on another Paul Mooney kick again.  I love this man.  He is one of my comedic heroes.  Take four minutes and get familiar.

Unabashed Head Turn: Naomi Campbell

April 22nd, 2010

It’s just fun to provoke Naomi.  While the “thankyouverymuches” are good, the head turn at 00:18 is the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI3ZPRjHE7s

Unabashed Summer Shoe

April 22nd, 2010

These are mama’s summer shoes.

Unabashed Defecation: Do the Doo

March 30th, 2010

Okay, I used to dream of creating my own satire of the NOH8 campaign called NOSTR8 and maybe one day I’ll realize that dream.  Until then, there is DEFEC8…and my Queerty article about it.

Unabashed Schooling: Sandra B. READS Kathy G.

February 25th, 2010

I came across audio from the Howard Stern Show with guest Sandra Bernhard waxing poetic on fake, phony, and one shtick pony, Kathy Griffin.

Feasting on a Kathy Salad

Feasting on a Kathy Salad

Stern: We had Kathy Griffin here yesterday.

SB: Oh God.  Jesus Christ.

Stern: Tell me your feelings.  I want to know because you are an elder statesman of comedy.

SB: Well she’s no spring chicken but listen…she came to success late in life.  She loves my ass and she’s come to see many times and she’s taken my basic premise which is to disseminate pop culture.  However, when you’re somebody of my level and intellectual ability, I take it and I layer it.  I don’t just throw a cake.  I  give you a seven-layer sacre torte.  She came and took the base elements of what I did and–who can’t put on a Kate Gosselin wig and go “Gahgaghgahgahgah!”  I mean that’s all she does, “Gahgahgahgahgah,” like a shrieking harpy freak.  Every time she has a special on Bravo it’s the same fucking special every goddamn time.  I’ve written fifteen shows in the past ten years and every one of them touches on something new and interesting that is really revealing where we’re headed as a culture.  I don’t just jump into the waters of present culture.  I’m on the precipice of what is happening.