HARD HIT BY RECESSION

BEST CAMPAIGN SIGN!

DICK OR TREAT

ZOMBIE KIDS LIKE TURTLES

THE DAY THE PENIS ASKED FOR A RAISE

THIS IS SOOOOOO STUPID! LOVE IT!


I, the Penis, hereby request a raise in salary for the following reasons:

* I do physical labor.
* I work at great depths.
* I plunge headfirst into everything I do.
* I do not get weekends or public holidays off.
* I work in a damp environment.
* I work in a dark workplace that has poor ventilation.
* I work in high temperatures.
* My work exposes me to contagious diseases.

Sincerely, P. Niss

The Response:

Dear P.Niss,

After assessing your request, and considering the arguments you have raised, the administration rejects your request for the following reasons:

* You do not work 8 hours straight.
* You fall asleep after brief work periods.
* You do not always follow the orders of the management team.
*You do not stay in your designated area and are often seen visiting other locations.
* You do not take initiative - you need to be pressured and stimulated in order to start working.
* You don't always observe necessary safety regulations, such as wearing the correct protective clothing.
* You will retire well before you are 65.
* You are unable to work double shifts.
* You sometimes leave your designated work area before you have completed your assigned task.

And, if that were not all, you have been seen constantly entering and exiting the workplace carrying two suspicious-looking bags.

Sincerely, V. Gina

BUSH PUMPKIN

COSTUME IDEAS, ANYONE?

HEAVENLY HUFFPO

FROM HUFFPO By Sam Stein

McCain Camp Busses In 4,000 School Kids To Fill In Crowd

The most cringe-worthy political moment of the day, so far, came when Sen. John McCain called out for his new buddy Joe the Plumber to stand up at a rally in Ohio, only to be greeted with confused silence. Joe the Plumber wasn't there.




I GUESS THE PLUMBER HAD SOME OTHER SHITTY MESS TO ATTEND TO--EVEN THOUGH HE ISN'T ACTUALLY A LICENSED PLUMBER!

BEYONCE'S TS CHOREOGRAPHER?

Apparently, a blogger has decided that Beyonce's new video, SINGLE LADIES, features a tranny dancer who may also be the video's choreographer. "She" looks pretty good to me, though there is a broader rib cage in motion. But they are dancing their asses off and if you can stand up next to Beyonce the fox and look halfway decent you're doing alright in the looks department. And I give Beyonce or her people credit for including "her"--it's a risky move in the homophobic hip-hop community. Maybe with Isis on America's Next Top Model, our attitudes are actually starting to become more accepting of transsexuals--as long as they look good, that is. Now I just wish Beyonce would put out some better music. SINGLE LADIES is one of her worst songs to date.

HEE HEE!

LABELLE AT THE APOLLO

The legendary group’s one and only public performance for 2008 and their first full concert since 1977!



WHO: Labelle (Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx, Patti Labelle)

WHAT: Celebrating the release of their first studio album in over 30
years ‘Back to Now’ (Verve), Labelle will perform songs from their
incredible career including “Lady Marmalade” and the new single
“Superlover.”

WHEN: Friday, December 19th - 7:00pm doors; 8:00pm showtime

WHERE: The world famous Apollo Theater
253 West 125th Street
between Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd & Frederick Douglass Blvd.

TICKETS: $200 Gold Circle - VIP package; $125 Orchestra; $100 Lower
Mezzanine; $75 Upper Mezzanine

Tickets available at the Apollo Theater Box Office, 212 531 5305 and
through Ticketmaster, 212 307 7171, ticketmaster.com

Three decades after the release of their last album, the formidable
group Labelle (Sarah Dash, Nona Hendryx and Patti LaBelle) returns in
full form with ‘Back To Now’ (Verve). The anticipated new full-length
album produced by Gamble & Huff, Lenny Kravitz and Wyclef Jean “adds
a contemporary vibe without taking away from the funky Labelle that
longtime fans remember.” (Billboard, 10.18.08) ‘Back to Now’ features
original songs with the vocal firepower, lush harmonies, sassy
lyrics, and funky melodies conveying messages of empowerment and
passion.

THE COMEDY YA DON'T HAVE TO WRITE

THE DAILY SHOW ON SENILE MCCAIN:

AMY SEDARIS ON CHELSEA HANDLER

WEIMAR NY: THIS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY AT JOE'S PUB

Are you biting your nails off until the election results are in? Then please join me as I host the second of two nights of Weimar New York--Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters hosts the first--a politically-charged cabaret with an eclectic mix if some electrifying entertainers:



PENNY ARCADE
FLTILLA DEBARGE
ADAM DUGAS
GINA LEISHMAN
AMY G
CYNTHIA HOPKINS
DAVID ILKU
THE LIBERTY SISTERS
DIRTY MARTINI
TIGGER

There's even special recession-buster discount for Lady Bunny blog and bulletin readers!

Save $5 when you purchase your tickets in advance using code JPTIXA2.
JOESPUB

Joe's is located at 429 Lafayette Street NY NY--IT'S LATE SHOW AT 11:00 PM!

OBAMA FUNNY

ARETHA COVERS TOUCH MY BODY

Via Princess Brittany's blog, who calls her, Urethra, Queen of Soul Food! ReRe looks like she's having a blast and so does the audience!

ELECTRIC DAYS, ELECTRIC NIGHTS

PALIN EFFIGY W/ NOOSE IN WEHO!

FROM LADY ESTHER GYN

For Halloween this year I'm just wearing pants. When people ask what I'm dressed as, I'll say, "I'm premature ejaculation...I came in my pants".

CUTE CASINO AD

BLATANT VOTER FRAUD IN COLORADO, OHIO

THe Secretary of State is even being sued for purging 10's of thousands of voter rolls. This isn't a myth--The White House has intervened in the Ohio election (again) pressing the state to question 200,000 voters who do not jive with some new election standards. 200,000 votes (or non-votes) could easily swing swing-state like Ohio.

READ MORE: DEMOCRACYNOW


FOR WHAT YOU CAN DO TO COMBAT THIS, CHECK OUT STEALBACKYOURVOTE

WHAT THE IRAQ WAR BUDGET COULD HAVE BOUGHT

FROM HUFFPO:

He calculates $1 trillion could pave the entire U.S. interstate highway system with gold _ 23.5-karat gold leaf. It could buy every person on the planet an iPod. It could give every high school student in the United States a free college education. It could pay off every American's credit card. It could buy a Buick for every senior citizen still driving in the United States.

READ THE REST: HUFFPO

ADULT INTERIOR DESIGN

There's a whole site dedicated to analyzing the decor in pics used for online dating. With my dump, I' sure I wouldn't pass their test, but it's fun to have giggle at pics like this and the witty comments which follow at LuridDigs.com.

Here's one example:

DIRTY DIANA AS ME FOR HALLOWE'EN

I guess this was a test but I think she did a pretty good job! Diana is such a well-known fag-hag on the LA scene that she was actually just given an award!

INTERESTING NEW POLLS FROM ABC

New polls say that voters say that they are more uncomfortable with McCain's age than Obama's race. But you have to watch a really irritating ad first.

ABCNEWS

I WANT TO BE EVIL

Documenting the tragic slide from good girl to bad. Many dolls were harmed in the making of this video.

NEW ANTHONY AND THE JOHNSONS VIDEO

Featuring the lovely Lola, a NYC scenester, doing an interpretive dance. The songs called ANOTHER WORLD.

WATCH: PITCHFORKMEDIA

BABY, IT'S YOU

LOVE THIS SONG!

FALL SHENANIGANS

FAST FORWARD TO 2:30 INTO THE SONG.

HEE HEE!

Imagine a beautiful beach with white sand, listening to the gently rocking background noise from the waves. Beautiful bodies enjoying the warm sun, your third beer just emptied and dozing off in the sun lounger. Suddenly, a cloud appears, making you realize that your tranquil peace is about to change .


YOU LOOK UP




AND HOLEY MOLEY!

ANN COULTER SLAMS MCCAIN

WASSUP 2008

OBAMA SUPPORTER ATTACKED!

PRESIDENTIAL DANCE-OFF

OBAMA IS BEAUTIFUL WORLD

WHITE TRASH

This McCain campaign worker actually claimed that a tall, black man robbed her at an ATM and carved a B onto her face with a dull knife because she had a GOP bumper sticker on her car. At one point, she claimed that her assailant told her "You are going to be an Obama supporter!" After he stole $60 from her he's going to campaign to his victim with a knife--oh, I mean a dull knife. Totally implausible. Surely the big, black man would have raped her prized white pussy while he was at it, right? (Well, she's no beauty--inside or out,)

After inconsistencies popped up in her police statement, SHE is now charged with a false report. The B stands for bitch and she left of the S for Stupid Bitch. And for some reason I can't understand, her lie detector test results are not being released. Some crazy racist is actually cooking up this scheme to heighten racist tensions and possibly make Republicans attack innocent blacks or Obama supporters of any race? Whee, let's have race riots! Is this just one lone nut or are we going to see more ridiculous freak shows like this orchestrated by the GOP as a half-black president seems to be winning? Maybe some rednecks will be inspired by this and actually kill someone of color and claim Obama is next.

I mean, the GOP is so desperate that they've recently accused Michelle Obama of running up room service bills ordering caviar and lobster at the Waldorf Astoria--AND SHE NEVER EVEN STAYED THERE! Republicans can't run on the issues--their economic policy put us in the current recession and they insist on staying in Iraq, which 80% of the country rejects. So fear and division is all they have left.

And let's not forget that McCain's only perceived strength is on national defence. If his campaign workers are carving themselves up, is a hoax of a terrorist attack so out of the question? If another anthrax attack broke out, or something was bombed, which candidate would undecideds go for--the black peacenik with a muslim middle name or the war hero who wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years? Am I too cynical? Ask me after November 5th. If the election results aren't contested.

WHOOPS! This just in from HUFFPO:


John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established -- and even told reporters outright that the "B" carved into the victim's cheek stood for "Barack," according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions. If you follow the link, the local police are concerned that this might blow up into a "national incident."

So like a spoiled brat, if he can't win, he'll just toss up the Monopoly board to fuck everytthing up. The only problem is that our lives and the institutions which govern us are the figures on that Monopoly board.

There's a long list of respected Republicans lining up to endorse Obama, going against their party. Like Colin Powell and CC Goldwater. If any Republicans read this, I can understand why you are a Republican, but how on earth could you support McCain's pathetic, dirty campaign? I would really like to hear from you so that you could explain. McCain and Palin are a couple of dirty, lying bastards and I don't see who could possibly vote for them with a clear conscience. Unless you don't mind embracing failed economic and military policies and you're also a proud to be homophobic, misogynistic, racist. And don't give me any support the troops crap" either. Obama's too much of a gentleman to even mention it, but McCain, the great war hero, recently got a D grade from a leading veterans' association, based on how many times he voted against their rights. (Obama got a B.)"

MORE: HUFFPO

WHERE'S MY CHIPS?

AMAZING ATHEIST RANTS

GAY SCIENTISTS ISOLATE CHRISTIAN GENE

I DREAM OF DOGGIE

PETER RAUHOFER GOT HIS TEETH FIXED!

PERFORMANCE BY ROISIN MURPHY!

PALIN THE SUPER-SLUT!

ANOTHER IMPORTANT DECISION ON 11/4

I don't have a scientific bone in my body, but as far as I can understand, affordable internet seems important. It's probably even more important in states outside of New York, where less people are aware of this situation.So if you live in NY, click on the link for Nadler. If not, visit one of the links at the bottom of this post. This email is a little dry, so I thought I'd post an eye-catching image to remind us why we love inexpensive internet to get your interest up!



FROM FREEPRESS.COM:

A huge decision is going to be made on Election Day that could change the lives of millions of Americans.

And it's not about Obama or McCain.

On Nov. 4, the Federal Communications Commission will vote on whether to open unused television airwaves to provide affordable Internet services nationwide.

Tell Washington: Open the Airwaves for Everyone

Opening up these vacant airwaves -- called white spaces -- might be our best opportunity to close the digital divide.

They can transmit an Internet signal over mountains and through concrete walls. But that hasn't stopped the National Association of Broadcasters from deploying their lobbyists to try to keep us from delivering a better Internet for everyone.

FCC engineers just completed an exhaustive study that shows white spaces can be used to connect millions to the Internet without harming TV signals. But the NAB doesn't like the results, and they're trying to get Congress to intervene.



Right now, NAB lobbyists are lining up outside the door of your representative in Congress, Jerrold Nadler . Rep. Nadler needs to hear your side of the story:

Tell Rep. Nadler: White Spaces Belong to the Public

It's time we ended the NAB's decades-long effort to control our airwaves. We must move quickly to make sure we don't lose this tremendous opportunity to connect all of America to affordable Internet services.

In rural parts of the country, more than 75% of TV airwaves sit vacant. Even urban areas, where the spectrum is crowded, stand to gain from opening white spaces. Making these airwaves available for Internet access has bipartisan support at the FCC and in Congress. It just makes sense.

On Nov. 4, the FCC needs to simply follow good science with good policy -- shedding outdated standards that have placed our airwaves under the lock and key of the broadcasting lobby.

Time is running out. Make your call today:

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (202) 225-5635 or (212) 367-7350

Unless we urge Congress and the FCC to push back against the NAB and open up white spaces, we could miss out on one of our last, best chances to build a better Internet for everyone.

Thank you for taking action,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
FREEPRESS
SAVETHEINTERNET

RON HOWARD'S CALL TO ACTION

ADORABLE AND TRUE! RON ROLLS BACK THE CLOCK CREATING CHARACTERS FROM THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW AND HAPPY DAYS. I WISH MICHAEL LEARNED WAS STILL ALIVE SO RON COULD STILL PLAY JOHN BOY WALTON TALKING TO HIS MOMMA. LOVED HER, BUT I GUESS THAT'S NOT REALLY THE ISSUE!

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

I FOUND 2 BOOBS BIGGER THAN MCCAIN/PALIN!

YUP! SIZE 120 Z's!

THIS IS TOO RICH

VIA JEZEBEL AND HUFFPO:



While the country expresses outrage over Sarah Palin's enormous wardrobe budget which flies in the face of her "hockey mom" image, she was spotted in Reno wearing this scarf, which encourages voting...FOR DEMOCRATS. She wasn't wearing it during her speech, so some trickster probably approached her with it in the after-speech frenzy of photos and autographs and she didn't notice what it was. I know how she feels. After I leave the stage after an appearance, one does experience a rush--to the exits, of my few remaining audience members. And no one wants to take my photograph or get my autograph--just refunds. And I'm often drunk as opposed to brainwashed like Sarah. So it's not inconceivable that someone could pin a NAMBLA button on me and snap a pic with me in it claiming that I abused underage boys. (Actually, I prefer that they abuse me.) The whole thing means nothing. Except to laugh some more at a clueless troll who is already the butt of the nations' jokes. Wait--I mean Sarah, not me!

STOP POSSIBLY ILLEGAL ROBOCALL SMEARS

Across the country, people are picking up the phone, usually in the evening, and hearing a recorded voice recite vile smears about Barack Obama. The voice could be Rudy Giuliani's, or Sarah Palin's, or someone anonymous, but the pattern is the same: overheated rhetoric spreading distortions and lies designed to whip up fear or anger at Barack Obama.

The calls are so bad, even some Republicans have come out against them. Republican Senator Gordon Smith's spokesman said, "Senator Smith does not condone these sort of calls."

Susan Collins "urges the McCain campaign to stop these calls immediately." Even Norm Coleman in Minnesota has distanced himself from the calls.

It's time we get all Senators and House members on record about these calls. Follow this link to listen to a couple of these calls, and then fax or call your elected officials and urge them to condemn the McCain-Palin robocalls:

TRUTHFIGHTSBACK

We've been working hard at TruthFightsBack.com to highlight these types of political tactics. We need to make these tactics unacceptable, make it politically painful to run these types of smear campaigns.

Our country deserves better than the slash-n-burn politics of the past. So fax or call your Senators and your Representative in the House and ask them to come out against these calls.

CANDLEABRA EFFERVESANCE (DAVID ALAN GRIER)

DON'T LET THIS BE YOU!

BETTE MIDLER STUMPS FOR OBAMA IN VEGAS GAY CLUB

PICS AND VIDEO:

TOWLEROAD

THE JOANS: CHRISTINA!

I FEEL VERY VANILLA

AFTER WATCHING THIS KINKFEST ON XTUBE:

XTUBE

DAVID SEDARIS ON UNDECIDED VOTERS

I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist.
Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who
want a lot of attention?

To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The
flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and,
eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the
chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with
bits of broken glass in it?”

To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and
then ask how the chicken is cooked.

WHICH WITCH IS WHICH?

FREE HALLOWEE'EN CABARET FROM TABBOO! AND BRANDON OLSEON AT TELEPHONE BAR

YOUR MOM'S SO FAT...

anildash: @djchall you moms so fat ACORN registered her to vote *three* times
about 23 hours ago · Reply · View Tweet

anildash: Yo moms so fat Russia can see her from *their* house.
about 23 hours ago · Reply · View Tweet

anildash: Yo moms such a ho they set up robocalls for all her booty calls.
about 23 hours ago · Reply · View Tweet

MORE HERE: TWITTER

EXCITING NEW CANDIDATE ANNOUNCED!

SINGLE MAN DANCES TO BEYONCE'S "SINGLE LADIES"

PUT A RING ON IT? HE NEEDS TO PUT A WIG ON IT!

HORROR BRUNCH!!!

1ST OPENLY GAY RACEHORSE

NYC SUBWAY AD

HARLEM 1 STOP

FROM THE NEW BIMBO JONES ALBUM, WITH AMAZING VOX BY KATHERINE ELLIS:

GRACE JONES i'VIEW IN THE GUARDIAN

READ: GUARDIAN


AND ANOTHER IN DEPTH ARTICLE FROM THE SHROPSHIRE STAR

AN EXCERPT:

And do you think people want to make a cartoon, a caricature out of you because in a way you’re so fluid, you’re so non-specific, you’re so sort of boundary crossing that that’s actually quite scary and they need to fix you in a position that’s comic?

“Yeah I guess - yeah it makes the scary easier for them actually. It makes them put less value on it. So they can kind of laugh it off and say oh no this isn’t serious you know.”

What are they laughing off? What is it that’s quite threatening?

“Well they’re laughing off the scariness. You know sometimes when you are sort of scary to some people it’s their concept. Because I’m not scary - the people that really know me know that I’m not scary. I pretend very good scary. I can be very good scary.”

Why do you want to do that?

“I think it’s probably because of the way I was brought up actually. Because you know I was brought up in a very, very strict way. I was brought up in a scary way. And maybe that’s probably why my personality has this scariness. I’ve finally realised why I am the way I am and that scariness comes from the dark,, edgy part of my childhood.

“But I’ve embraced it and I understand it, and when I turn it around and I put it out there to the public or on the stage or whatever they’re just as scared as I was when I was little.”

Okay, so it’s kind of therapeutic then?

“It is.”

READ THE REST: SHROPSHIRE STAR

KEITH HARING DOC OPENING

"THE UNIVERSE OF KEITH HARING by director Christina Clausen is an intimate portrait of world-renowned artist Keith Haring whose mantra was that "Art is for everyone!" The film is a thorough and intimate exploration of the background and career of one of the most popular and significant artists of the 20th century. The film features interviews and archival footage of Fab 5 Freddy, Jeffrey Deitch, Kim Hastreiter, Grace Jones, Madonna, Yoko Ono, David LaChapelle, Kenny Scharf, Carlo McCormick, Andy Warhol, Ann Magnuson, Tony Shafrazi, and Junior Vasquez, among many others. Audio excerpts from original interviews with Keith Haring, were conducted by Haring's biographer John Gruen (Keith Haring: the Authorized Biography). The film's theme song is by the famed DJ and record producer, Junior Vasquez, with an original soundtrack by Angelo Talocci. The film was edited by Silvia Giulietti."

The film is opening here in New York City this Friday, October 24th, at the Cinema Village Theatre (22 East 12th Street) Please join me at the 7:15 show time where the director , Christina Claussen, will host and "q and a" after. By attending the 7:15 showing, you will gain access into the after party which will be held at the Submerer ( downstairs at The Mercer Hotel, 147 1/2 Mercer Street at Prince) from 9p-12a with music played by grammy award winner Hex Hector.

To purchase tickets, please go to CINEMAVILLAGE. Yuu must click on "showtimes and tickets". Then go to the "showtime" drop down menu and enter Friday October 24th, and you will see it there. Please choose the 7:15 show. If you have any problems, the number to the theatre is 212-924-3363. Please scroll down to view invitation.

GOLDEN GIRLS/ELECTION 2008

THIS IS A MESS!

NILE RODGERS ON "I'M COMING OUT"

It was inspired by transvestities! This is one of the greatest musicians on the planet in my book!



And on writing WE ARE FAMILY:

A VP WE CAN FUCK

This is so disgusting to me. Idiotic straight guys donning the goofy gear similar to what they wear to sports stadiums at a Palin rally. They want a VP they can fuck. And if she gets into office, especially is McCain croaks, she'll fuck over the whole country. Guys thinking with their cocks is nothing new and I'm just as critical of fags who defend CNN's "journalism" by saying that Anderson Cooper is hot--what does that have to do with the motherfucking news? If you want sex, go get your ass laid! Are you really gonna jerk off to a newscast or elect a VP because she's attractive? And these straight dickheads even try to justify their pick in this article by claiming that it would be good for women. This is really sad. To have the country in such a mess and think that eye candy is the answer. The picture below says it all. She's such a maverick that she ignores the laws of Alaska and was found guilty of abuse of power. Right on, dude! So let's get her into the White House. Awesome! Maybe she'll be such an maverick-y wild card that she'll haul off and shoot John McCain once they're in office. Aren't mavericks impossible to predict? Or maybe her witch doctor pastor will take the notion that Cindy McCain is a witch and drive her out of the White House like he did that African villager before he became Wasilla's leading religious light. So full of hate right now for anyone who lets a wink disguise a monster.

Among Rock-Ribbed Fans of Palin, Dudes Rule by Mark Leibovich



An excerpt:

And Ms. Palin tells ’em, peppering her rallies with references to guy-themed stuff — hunting, fishing, hockey. She introduced her husband, Todd, as Alaska’s First Dude.

“He is a guy who knows how to work with his hands,” she said to loud applause.

Her recent events drew scruffy high-schoolers in backward baseball caps, tank-topped bikers in bandanas and long-bearded veterans in berets. They crashed the rope line for photos and autographs. “Marry me, Sarah,” a man implored in Weirs Beach, N.H., while Ms. Palin held up a tow-headed toddler and patted his little chest. She ignored, or didn’t hear, the proposal, but signed the dude’s ratty baseball cap.

Yes, some men come to ogle the candidate, too. “She’s beautiful,” said a man wearing a John Deere T-shirt in Weirs Beach. “I came here to look at her,” he said, and his admiration for Ms. Palin’s appearance became more and more animated. Sheepish over his ogling, he declined to give his real name (“Just call me ‘John Deere’ ”).

WHOLE ARTICLE: NYTIMES

WHEW! WHAT A LOAD OFF MY MIND!

It may not rank as one of the great scientific mysteries of all time, but the riddle of worm grunting has been solved, apparently.

Worm Grunting, Fiddling, and Charming—Humans Unknowingly Mimic a Predator to Harvest Bait (PLoS One)

Worm grunting, also known as worm fiddling or charming, involves driving a wooden stake into the ground and rubbing the top of it with a leaf spring or other flat piece of steel to make a grunting or snoring noise. Done in the right place under the right conditions, the result will be hundreds earthworms appearing on the surface of the ground. Worm grunting is practiced in parts of the southeast to obtain fish bait.

MORE, COMPLETE WITH VIDEO: NYTIMES

SYBIL ROUGE: SUPERSTAR

One of London's most elegant scenesters is lovingly interviewed by Pippa Brooks for PonyStep.com. I believe I met Sybil in the mid-80's in London, and I've been under the spell of this statuesque beauty ever since! So I was thrilled to find this in-depth chit-chat.

SYBIL ROUGE: SUPERSTAR by Pippa Brooks

I remember vividly the first time I saw Sybil Rouge. I’d not long lived in London, it was about 1989 and I’d just met Link Leisure. His friend Matthew Glamorre was putting on a show at Heaven and he suggested me for a supporting role. Sybil, obviously, played God. How apt...



I arrived for rehearsals, and a skirt-shaped scaffolding was being erected on the stage, almost to the ceiling. There were crucifixes hanging on either side from wire so they could spin around. This would be the Easter Show at Heaven. The part of God would be played by Sybil. As my eyes swept around the room, Matthew barking orders, the most glittering clubkids who I’d seen out at Bang, Heaven and Freds milling around and Sybil flanked by admirers, topless with Rita Hayworth waves of perfect red hair, I felt that London was finally delivering all I’d hoped for. I’d just left art college and was consumed by a fascination with Warhol and his factory of superstars mixed in with the people I read about as I pored over i-D magazine through the 80’s… somehow all roads had been leading to this moment!

Pippa Brooks: "So, Sybil, I couldn’t say I met you on this occasion, I saw you, was a satellite to your main attraction, in fact I was tied to one of the spinning crucifixes with the instruction to can can as best I could and for god’s sake 'Smile!' You were God".

Sybil Rouge: “Which has been great for my resume ever since! People ask me, “Have you ever been on the stage?” I say, “Yes, I played God…..topless!....smeared in fake blood”

PB: And the scaffolding was covered with your ‘skirt’, which was covered in vaginas through which clubkids were born! How high up were you?

SR: “My head was virtually scraping the ceiling”.

PB: "Sybil, you beat me to London by a few years".

SR: “The first day I ever lived in London was the summer of ‘86 I worked at the Limelight and I met Matthew Glamorre. Seventeen year old Matthew Glamorre was working the coatcheck in true Boy George style. After a prickly first week and a half he realised I wasn’t the threat he’d imagined I was, and we became friends. He was ruling the roost somewhat even though he was only 17. Now this was the glory days of the Limelight, sadly its now an Australian themed bar called Walkabout". I was the waitress in the VIP room, even though I served very few drinks as the room was about 5m square with a bar in one corner so no-one actually needed a waitress, they were right next to the bar ….so I would just stand around and chat up celebrities! The regulars included “Boy George, Lemmy , Siouxsie Sioux and Chrissie Hynde were permanent fixtures….I used to have to break up fights between Siouxsie and American girlfriend of mine who was 6’2” and she and my friend always used to get a bit drunk and start sparring off and I’d have to step in between them, but apart from that it was really quite friendly due to the enormous amounts of drug inhalation going on!”

WHOLE ARTICLE AND MORE HEAVENLY PIX: PONYSTEP

DANCING WITH THE STARS

EARTH, WIND AND FIRE: "REASONS" LIVE

AND WHILE WE'RE O THE SUBJECT OF DISCO-ERA SOUL BALLADS, HERE'S HEATWAVE'S "ALWAYS AND FOREVER":

SHORTAGE OF COCKSUCKERS IN MICHIGAN

Police arrest Mich. man for car wash vacuum sex

THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after "receiving sexual favors from a vacuum" at a car wash.

The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County's Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.

Police Sgt. Gary Breidinger says a resident called to report suspicious activity at the car wash about 6:45 a.m. An officer approached on foot and caught the man in the act.

The suspect, whose name wasn't immediately released, is being held in the Saginaw County Jail.

COMPUTER TIC TAC TOE

SEE IF YOU CAN BEAT THE COMPUTER!

TICTACTOE

OOKIE COOKIE

Barry Morse has written and directed a new video short called OOKIE COOKIE, which is an homage to Tom Rubnitz's 1980's shorts starring Sister Dimension, Billy Beyond Maria Ayala, RuPaul, David Dalrymple, Lahoma Van Zandt and myself. In this homage which easily does Tom's original vison justice, Jackie Beat appears as a young me! Click on October 17th once you get to the site and get ready for an outrageous treat!

GOTHTOBER

PALIN AS PRESIDENT

Make sure you click on all the windows, trash can, etc, but save the red phone for last.

PALINASPRESIDENT

MEET TWAT LAROUGE!

And I thought I had big hair!



Form more pix, visit her myspace page--you MUST see the masks of this South Florida queen!

SICK NEW VIDEO FOR DIESEL'S ANNIVERSARY

SOMETHING TELLS ME...

RACIST MCCAIN SUPPORTERS INTERVIEWED

He's half white, you idiots! How is he gonna hate white people? And you've been bitching about his christina pastor--how can he be a muslim?

RED STATES VS BLUE STATES

DEAR RED STATES,

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states. We get stem cell research and the best beaches. We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss. We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You get Alabama. We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of single moms. Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war, and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and they don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percent of the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent of America's quality wines, 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all living redwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools plus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT. With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health care costs), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all Southern Baptists, virtually 100 percent of all
televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacredunless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and 61 percent of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico.

Peace out,
Blue States

NILE RODGERS: STATE YOUR MIND

MUSIC VIDEO FOR ONE THE CHIC'S PRODUCERS:

A MESSAGE FOR SARAH PALIN

FFROM THE YOUNG WOMEN OF AMERICA: YOUTUBE

WFMU'S PHOTOSHOP COMPETITION

Many fun entries, but this one's (wiht Larry Craig) is my fav.



VIEW MORE ENTRIES: WFMU.ORG

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO STEPHANIE CRAWFORD?

The former jazz-singin Whispers headliner is now in the San Francisco Bay and has a cd out.



MOIRE: ALLMUSICSERVICES

MADNESS FROM CHER: 1981

THE REAL DEBATE!

D.C.'S COMEDY GOLD!

I don't care who you are voting for, these are some hilarious jokes for both candidates!

MCCAIN:



OBAMA:

R.I.P. EDIE ADAMS

I'LL ADMIT I'D FORGOTTEN ABOUT EDIE UNTIL MISS POLLY GRIP SENT ME THIS FABU COMMERCIAL:

THIS DEBATE PIC IS NOT DOCTORED!

IT'S AN ACTUAL PHOTO TAKEN FROM THE LAST DEBATE WHEN MCCAIN REALIZED HE WAS GOING THE WRONG WAY--FROM HUFFPO.

And Obama was criticized for being professorial. That's better than off your meds. I just wish that when McCain had said "I'm not George Bush. If you wanted to run against George Bush you should have run four years ago," Obama had shot back "I wish I had. Cuz You lost then, too!" SNAP!

GET ON DOWN AND PARTAY!

LABELLE CD SIGNING AT SPLASH 10/21!

SARAH, NONA AND PATTI ARE BACK AND LOOKING TERRIFIC!



October 21st….Labelle’s “BACK TO NOW” CD hits stores….and where else would the Ladies want to do a CD Signing…but our very own SPLASH BAR!! Virgin Records will be on- site to sell the NEW CD “Back To Now”…and for those of you who have purchased a copy…the Ladies will be on hand to sign it for you…from 10pm – 11:30 ONLY….BE THERE EARLY… they have an early morning LIVE TV Show the following day and will have to leave promptly at 11:30pm!!

A MESSAGE THE GRAVE

DO YOU SUPPORT SARAH PALIN?

Not only does Sarah Palin believe that abortion should be practiced for rape cases, she even believes that even victims of incest should be made to give birth to their father's, uncle's or brothers child. If you know a Palin supporter, please share this with them.

"Talk about baby daddies! She wants you to have daddy's baby." --Randi Rhodes

(I'm quoting from memory so those not may her exact words.) And of course rape is never funny, unless you are raped by a clown, that is.

JANELLE MONAE!

CHECK HER OUT NOW! HOT SONG, WILD VIDEO AND LYRICS AND SHE'S GORGEOUS!

JANELLEMONAE

TOM TOM CLUB: WORDY RAPPINGHOOD

FUCKING GENIUS! AND THE OVERSIZED BOWS!

A MESSAGE FOR ALL WOMEN

No, I don't think I am one. But this is fascinating. And I know that a lot of women don't vote. Though they aren't a minority, they do get treated like one.

(AUTHOR UNKNOWN)



THIS IS MOVING. ?HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET.....IF ....WE EVER KNEW......?

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.



The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.'



They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.



Thus unfolded the?'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.



When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeksuntil word was smuggled out to the press.

SUFFRAGE/NWP/PRISONERS

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because--why, exactly? We have carpool duties?

We have to get to work?

Our vote doesn't matter?

It's raining.

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the cu rtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But theactual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk
about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said.
'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just
younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'

HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history,social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhereelse women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

History is being made.

A WHIFF OF SCANDAL

You can sign up for this english pop culture newsletter at POPBITCH.COM. Here's a juicy tidbit from the latest issue.

Perfume ad unlikely to make screens

People buy perfume for the fundamental reason
that they think smelling nice will get them a
shag. Perfume advertising reflects that but
tries to get creative about it. Rive Gauche
perfume recently showed an experimental advert
to some very important Parisian perfume
retailers. The advert cuts to a boy in his
bed talking on the phone to a girl. They're
obviously having phone sex, and it looks
as if she uses the long, round perfume bottle
to pleasure herself. So far, so arty. Then
the boy gets up, sprays on some Rive Gauche
and walks out of his bedroom down a corridor,
past some family pictures. At that point you
realise the girl from the phone sex was...
his sister.

NEW VIDEO i'VIEW W/ GRACE!

She's at London's Q Awards and seems lit in her wasp woman look with an english accent!

WATCH IT HERE: PRINCESSBRITTANY.BLOGSPOT

SOPHIA LAMAR INSULTING?

"The Magick H8-Ball"
Featuring Sophia Lamar.
Video installation by Daniel McKernan.
Premiering at MIX 21 The New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
October 15-19, 2008
210 Front Street (at Beekman), Manhattan, NY



An interactive video installation featuring Sophia Lamar, which is a dark comedic reinterpretation of the classic fortune-telling children's toy, the Magic 8-Ball. After asking a yes-or-no question, the viewer presses the "H8" button of the piece; Sophia's floating head appears and reads the fortune in her infamously hateful & insulting manner. Special thanks to Burle Avant, Ned Stresen-Reuter, Mikey Lamar and Evan Monster.

HEE HEE!

(CLICK PIC TO ENLARGE)

TIMES REALLY ARE HARD!

MEET BURGER QUEEN!