SORRY, BUT I JUST LOVE THIS SERIES!

DON'T MISS THIS INTERNATIONAL NUTJOB!

Celebrity Air Hostess PAM ANN Launches
Worldwide Tour of Her New Hilarious One-Woman Show in New York,

“AROUND THE WORLD”



Inspired by the title song of ABC-TV’s Pan Am, comedian Pam Ann returns to NYC to launch the worldwide tour of her brand new one-woman show, “All Around the World”. Dubbed the original queen of the skies, Pam Ann continues to take passengers on thrill rides at thirty thousand feet above ground in all her raucous productions. Says the Sydney Morning Herald, “Glamorous, vicious, camp and larger than life, the bitchy yet heart-warming trolley dolly in tight candy-pink uniform, enormous hair, huge lashes and disco boots rules the skies.” So shut the F**k up, sit the F**k down, lock your seats in the upright position and prepare for the ride of your life. PAM ANN – AROUND THE WORLD crash-lands at The Triad NYC every Thursday in February at 9pm. The Triad NYC is located at 158 West 72nd Street (2nd Floor)

For more PAM ANN info, visit: www.facebook.com/pamannairhostess & www.pamann.com

KEEP UP THE PRESSURE--IT SEEMS TO BE WORKING!

FROM ROOTSACTION:

A sweetheart "settlement" between the White House and big banks guilty of mortgage fraud has at least been delayed. Now that a new investigation of the banks has been announced, we need to increase our pressure -- especially when President Obama, in his State of the Union, is still blaming borrowers for taking out loans they couldn't afford. We can’t let the big banks off the hook. Tens of thousands of us have already contacted state Attorneys General to block a White House/bankster sweetheart deal. Please join us, and please forward this to your friends.

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The Obama Administration has been working on a sweetheart mortgage fraud settlement with the big banks, but attorneys general in several states are pushing back.

Encourage leading attorneys general to stand strong.

Obama's speeches stress fairness and equality, but a settlement granting immunity to big banks is not fair.

Robosigning and other fraudulent practices are ongoing. The White House is offering the banks a plea bargain in the middle of a crime spree. We must insist that:

the fraud be stopped;
the amounts under discussion for a possible settlement be rejected as way too small;
a serious and fast investigation of the big banks be launched;
no immunity from prosecution be granted;
the current $750 billion in negative home equity be written down, beginning with mortgages owned by the banks rather than pension funds or other investors;
the Obama administration comply with Freedom of Information requests for information on its secret negotiations with banks in this matter.
Attorneys general in Delaware, New York, Massachusetts, Nevada, California, and other states are pushing in the right direction.

Tell leading attorneys general not to settle for less than an adequate settlement.


SIGN: ROOTSACTION.CM

THIS SUNDAY IN DC!

Joining my sister Joey Arias in DC this Sunday as his special guest at his weekly gig Speak Easy!

Reservations for this early dinner show at L'Enfant here: LABOUMBRUNCH

ILL!

XL OPENING THIS WEEKEND!

AND COMING TO XL ON 2/8 EVERY WEDNESDAY, I JOIN FORCES WITH BIANCA DEL RIO, SUGGA PIE KOKO, MILAN, JIGGLY CALIENTE AND SKYLA VERSAI FOR A WEEKLY DRAG REVUE CALLED HOT MESS! It's an early, full-length drag show that's heavy on the lip-synch and from comedy to Gaga to disco to Eryka Badu to Broadway, there will be something for everyone! Doors open at 8 and show starts at 9PM weekly at this gorgeous new venue!



MORE INFO/TICKETS HERE: SHOWCLIX

RALPH NADER ON OBAMA'S SOTU: FASCINATING

I know many people hate Nader, but don't blame the messenger!

DRONES W/FACIAL RECOGNITION IN NYC?

DOUG SHINGLETON: "NYC can now follow you via drones after the facial recognition software, purchased in 2008, detects you from the network of security, and city installed cameras was set up in 2005. all of these initiatives need is one mayor, governor or president to negotiate collusion into an action. These laws, combined with alleviation of our rights to Due Process, as enacted by signing of NDAA on Dec 31, 2011; Are the exact types of laws enacted in setup to the worst annihlization of people in the 20th Century. The only difference between Germany in the early 1900's and USA of 2000's is that we have not identified who will be mass exterminated yet."

BUNNY NOTE: I believe that London's extensive surveillance system was revealed to yield no significant # of arrests and therefore regarded as a waste of time. Unless, catching crooks isn't their goal...

CBS: Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes
Miami, Cities In Texas Also Said To Be Trying This New Way To Be Eye In The Sky

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes.

But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Apple to keep an eye on New Yorkers?

More and more people believe it’s inevitable, reports CBS 2’s Don Dahler.

Drones are unmanned aircraft that can fly at low altitudes and shoot live video — or shoot live missiles.

Surveillance cameras already dot the city’s streets, but is the NYPD exploring the use of even more eyes in the skies, in the form of drones? Some evidence points to yes.

MORE: CBSLOCAL

LYPSINKA AS JOAN CRAWFORD!

HOLD OBMAMA TO HIS PROMISE AT SOTU

Finally some good news. LET'S MAKE IT STICK!

Forty-eight hours ago, as state Attorneys General and the Obama Administration met in Chicago, it seemed a near certainty that the President would announce a weak, sweetheart foreclosure settlement with big banks during the State of the Union.

But last night, it was clear that President Obama had heard the calls of the 99%. In the speech, the President announced a full, federal investigation into the fraudulent activities of big banks.

A big congratulations to all of you who took action to achieve this amazing victory. It was because of you and work that we have gotten to this important step in holding the Wall Street and the 1% responsible for our economic crisis accountable.

But the fight doesn’t stop here. The big banks are powerful and they will do anything to stop this investigation in its tracks. We need the administration’s full resources brought to the investigation to make sure it uncovers the truth about the activities of the big banks. We also know that we need at least $300 billion in principal reduction to reset the housing market and rebuild the economy.

Can you contact President Obama today and tell him that we want an investigation with real teeth and that we need at least $300 billion in relief for homeowners to reset our economy and bring justice for families?

By taking action together, we showed the President that a sweetheart deal with Wall Street is unacceptable.

Now let’s make sure Wall Street is held accountable held accountable for its crimes and that we have an economy that works for all of us.

Thanks so much for your action,
Ian, Tracy, Ilana, and The New Bottom Line coalition

P.S. Like our work? Make a tax-deductible donation to the The New Bottom Line, "Most Valuable National Coalition of 2011" according to The Nation Magazine.

Your support will help us keep families in their homes and make sure we hold big banks and elected officials accountable to the 99% in 2012.

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A REVIEW FROM THE JULIE BLOG

I said goodbye to Matt as we were walking out of the taping because I had to run down to Escuelita on 39th Street to meet my friends for the Lady Bunny cabaret show "That ain't no lady".

If you're in NYC or coming to visit- And you love crudeness and rudeness and bad manners like I do- You should by all means go see the show. Here's a link to buy tickets.

Linda Simpson was at the door and greeted me with a hug. The Cowboy from The Village People and Richie Rich were in the audience. The show is really action-packed and seriously nasty. And hilarious. And we are so going back. My friends who went with me both came out of it like "We're telling our friends and coming to this mess again." Amen.


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TWINS! AND HIS VOICE IS HIGHER THAN HERS.

1ST CAVE-TRAN UNEARTH: CAN YOU DIG IT?

SHE HAS A LOVELY SMILE!



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DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I LOVE ART?

I CONFESS!

HE'S SUCH AN AUTHORITY!

BEEDLE-LEE-DEE-DEE-DEE TWO LADIES!

Lady Chablis meets Lady Bunny--this past Saturday at Club One in Savannah, GA. I actually caught my first glimpse of her when I snuck into a gay bar around age 13 and she hanging out with my favorite local queen, Chattanooga's Own Bubbling Brown Sugar and 20th Century Fox, Miss Tasha Le'ne Khan! Seeing them in action in the parking lot was one of the reasons gravitated to their world. So I was a fan of Lady Chablis long before Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil book or movie came out. She once performed at Allan Gold's and introduced herself as Chablis' cousin, Lady Ripple--who lip-synched to that disco song popcorn with her teeth blacked out and a crown hanging off of her wig. Lip-synching to an instrumental=BRILLIANT! Since then, Chablis and I have worked together over the years anklet me guarantee that she is as feisty and hilarious today. What a mouth on that bitch!

HILARIOUS!

DON'T SHOOT!

FAREWELL, ANGEL SHERIDAN!

THE END OF AN ERROR--I MEAN ERA! I am so sad that my friend Angel Sheridan, the boisterous emcee with the only hot glue couture who will sit and rhinestone an entire pump to match a dress, is leaving NYC and her long-running gig as headliner at La Escuelita. The place won't be the same without her and that's a fact. When I perform late night with the regular cast, we girls would gripe that Angel's opening monologue was running so long because we were eager to get onstage and do our thing. At the same time we knew that it was running long because the audience was loving her spanglish reads and unique wit. So if you've enjoyed this latina diva over the years, let's give her a fantabulous send-off that's worthy of all the talent she brought to the joint for decades.

STOP THIS CROOK! CALL NOW!

ZOLANSKI? C'MON!

Just when I thought I couldn't hate Nicki Minaj any more: check out these lyrics from Stupid Hoe. I despised Super Bass but Turn Me On was listenable and at least not hateful and stupid.

Cause I pull up in that Porsche but I aint a Rossi
Pretty bitches can only get in my posse
My name is Roman, last name is Zolanski
But no relation to Roman Polanski
Hey yo, baby bop, f-ck you and your EP
Who’s gassin’ this hoe? BP?
Hmm thinks, 1,2,3, do the Nicki Minaj blink
Cause these hoes so busted
Hoes is so crusty, these bitches is my sons
And I don’t want custody

Nicki Minaj's "Stupid Hoe" takes aim at Gaga and other fellow pop stars

MORE: http://blogs.westword.com/backbeat/2012/01/poptimystic_nicki_minajs_stupid_hoe.phpWESTWORD

WOW!

CARE TO KICK IN A FEW $?

The Joneses - a feature length documentary by moby longinotto & aviva wishnow

The search for true love by transgender trailer park matriarch Jheri Jones and her two adult sons in Bible belt Mississippi.



KICKSTARTER.COM

LOST IN TRANSLATION

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RARE VAGINAL DAVIS APPEARANCE 1/29 IN LA

Davis' My Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin) is a Lesbian Separatist tea party that will combine pre-recorded music, spoken-word narratives, and live performance to explore the utopian promise of Los Angeles and the dystopia of the late 1970s through the lens of the Woman's Building, gender issues, and her own career as a performance artist. The event will also feature a high tea reception and the publication of a zine-a special signed artist's book that chronicles and supplements Davis' performance. The tea party will unfold through the reading of letters (fictional and not) and the spinning of records that reflect upon the history of Los Angeles in relation to the counterculture performance scene, especially that of gay and transgender performers and the activities of the Woman's Building. Designed as an homage that seeks to pay tribute to such pioneering culture workers, Davis' piece seeks, in part, to fill the gaps in the performance history of LA by creating narratives for figures that are frequently overlooked or left out of the popular record. The biographical element is strong in the work, as Davis herself was just starting her career as a performer during the 70s in L.A.
Over the last four decades, Vaginal Davis has produced a diverse range of work that absolutely defies categorization. This performance marks a timely homecoming for the artist, who recently relocated to Berlin.

My Pussy Is Still in Los Angeles (I Only Live in Berlin)
Sunday, January 29, 1:00-3:30 PM
Bullocks Wilshire at Southwestern Law School
3050 Wilshire Blvd, 2nd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90010
Tickets: $50 (Limited edition, handmade, signed artist book and High Tea Party with finger foods, pink bubbles...)
Purchase tickets at www.westofrome.org/future
Or by calling 626-793-1504
Contact Information: 626-793-1504 or
info@westofrome.org
Limited Capacity, Reserve Your Ticket Now!

MADONNA'S W/E: WHATEVER!

Bun-Bun hit the red carpet to attend Madonna's premiere of W/E at the Ziegfield. I did not enjoy the very confusing film, which Madonna introduced to a very impatient audience cuz it was almost an hour late and she gave a dud of a speech.

And then the film? Make that W/E for whatever? She fancies herself a story-teller? You can't act, so...direct? A complete head-scratcher whose plot lost me in the second scene. In the very first scene, a woman does two things no one ever does: takes a drag from a cigarette and then gulps some booze before exhaling (!) and then unzips her dress before removing her high heels? Never! Ladies, don't we always kick off the uncomfortable heels first? Unless you have a crap director who doesn't know what she's doing and isn't capable of catching stuff like that. Had to split halfway through. Some pretty shots in it but that's just a big budget.



However, I'm not above popping out to get a little press out of it!

STARCASM: "Madonna’s film W.E. had its New York premiere last night at the Ziegfeld Theater and those in attendance included Madonna herself, Ewan McGregor, Julia Stiles, Lucy Lawless, Gayle King, and Calvin Klein. But none of those red carpet pros could hold a candle to show-stealing drag queen Lady Bunny who wore an eye-popping ummm… I have no idea.
Didn’t I see this same look on a recent episode of Toddlers and Tiaras?"



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I HAD AN UNHAPPY CHILDHOOD

THE ORIGINAL TROUT POUT!

GO TO THIS SITE TO SOME SOMETHING SICK!

YOURDICKLOOKSGREATINTHOSEHEELS.COM

CHARLES ATLAS RETROSPECTIVE AND CLAYWOMAN

“New York City 1988. Raging homophobia. A killer on the loose. Disco dancing till dawn. Performers struggle to survive. Delilah seduces Samson in song. Gender illusionists go shopping. Samson and Delilah, 1991.”


PROGRAM
Son of Sam and Delilah, Video, 27min., 1991
Butcher’s Vogue, Video, 5min., 1990
Staten Island Sex Cult, Video, 10 min. (excerpt), 1999
Instant Fame! Donald, Video, 5min., 2005
Mrs. Peanut Visits New York, Video, 6min., 1992-99
The Draglinquents, Video, 7min., 1990
I Fell In Love With A Dead Boy (from Turning), Video, 4min., 2012
“New York City 1988. Raging homophobia. A killer on the loose. Disco dancing till dawn. Performers struggle to survive. Delilah seduces Samson in song. Gender illusionists go shopping."
Samson and Delilah, 1991.



Dirty Looks presents an evening of video work by Charles Atlas. With a career that spans 30-years, Atlas is one of the world’s most stalwart and vibrant videogrpahers of queer cultures and contemporary dance. This program will host a premiere of material from Turning, a feature-length collaboration between Atlas and Antony Hegarty, on the eve of the Museum of Modern Art commissioned Antony and the Johnsons' Swanlights performance at Radio City Music Hall. Turning will premiere in early 2012. Atlas will also be featured in the upcoming 2012 Whitney Biennial. With special performances from Leigh Bowery, Antony, and Carlos Morales (via Atlas' rarely screened porn film, Staten Island Sex Cult), the works in this program cover more than twenty years of portraiture and collaboration at the vanguard of queer artistic practice.



The event will also feature a complimentary publication featuring writings and original artwork.

MORE: DIRTYLOOKSNYC.ORG



SEE MICHAEL CAVADIAS (AKA LILOIY OF THE VALLEY) AS CLAYWOMAN--A TRULY BIZARRE DRAG THEATER CREATION:
January 21, 22, 28 & 29 | 8 pm February 4 & 5 | 8 pm



Blending live performance and film, The Mystery Of Claywoman is the story of Claywoman, a 500-million-year-old enigma who, legend has it, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. She, along with her canine musical traveling companion "Craig," travels the universe searching for souls to heal and planets to save. Written and performed by Michael Cavadias. Directed and performed by Rob Roth.

The Mystery of Claywoman begins with a "found, unfinished, severely damaged and restored" documentary film that introduces the theories and mythology surrounding the Claywoman character. This mockumentary raises questions concerning our need for faith, ritual and validation through interviews with characters played by such performers as Alan Cumming, Edgar Oliver, Amy Poehler, Justin Bond, Debbie Harry, and Ruth Maleczech.

With irony and wit, this fictional film sets the stage for the live lecture. Commenting on our "need for answers," the lecture explores the scientific and historical evolution of humanity from the perspective of a 500,000,000-year-old extraterrestrial.

Special guests will introduce the piece every night including Jake Shears and Ana Matronic (Scissor Sisters), Michael Musto (Village Voice), Kembra Pfahler (The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black), and Rachelle Garniez (Citizens Band).



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I STAND WITH KUCINICH!

Overturn Citizens United: Sign the petition today to support H.J. Res 100. Let us change our campaign financing system so that we can truly claim to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Two years ago today, in the Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court opened the doors of our electoral process and democracy to shadowy, undisclosed, unlimited corporate spending in our elections. In his dissent Justice Stevens remarked "The Court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions across the Nation."

It has undermined our democracy. Citizens United allowed more money to be spent in 2010 than any prior midterm election, and will allow even more money to be spent in 2012 than any prior presidential election.

The funding of our electoral contests has a direct effect on who controls our political process. Corporations are overwhelming our political system with massive contributions leading directly to corporate control of the government. A government truly responsive to the public interest requires public financing of the political process.

To save our democracy, we shall turn to the document that established it. This week, I introduced a Constitutional Amendment which would require that all federal campaigns be financed exclusively by public funds and prohibit expenditures from every other source.

My amendment, H.J. Res. 100, would change the way we finance the elections of our Presidents, Senators and Representatives. It is our chance to return the government to the control of the people.

Sign and share the petition today to support H.J. Res 100. Let us change our campaign financing system so that we can truly claim to be a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.


SIGN: KUCINICH

I LIKE HER AND I GET IT ON THE WEIGHT BUT...

How do you cancel tours due to throat problems when you smoke?

MAYA RUDOLPH'S MOM

TOUCHE!

SO NUTS!

EVERY TUESDAY AT 8PM: THAT AIN'T NO LADY!

The raunchy, demented drag diva of Wigstock fame presents her first full-length one wo-man show in almost a decade at the popular latin nightspot La Escuelita every. Fast-paced and action-packed with glitzy costumes and Bunny's trademark gravity-defying bouffant wig, THAT AIN'T NO LADY! is a cabaret designed for a night club crowd--no lengthy monologues or sappy show tunes here. For mature audiences who enjoy irreverent humor! Since there are a lot of pop music parodies, this show is especially well-suited to audiences who have some familiarity with pop music so that they'll know the original versions which are being parodied.




Though she just finished her second season of RUPAUL'S DRAG U on LOGO as the Dean Of Drag giving contestants "Lady Lessons", Bunny's deliciously bawdy brand humor is far from ladylike. Bunny re-works pop songs into hysterical parodies, using recent smashes like Ke$ha's TIK TOK (which Bunny transforms into BIG COCK) to classics like ALL THAT JIZZ. No musical genre is sacred so expect to hear from everyone from Katy Perry to Taio Cruz to Britney and Whitney. Sprinkle in zany Laugh-In style joke routines for added politically incorrect fun.

The wacky blonde will also re-create some of her hit youtube videos, including her rap debut with a parody of Like A G6--the ode to uncircumcised men entitled Like A Cheese Stick, which was featured on Perez Hilton and Dlisted. Finally, a tribute to recently departed musical giant Amy Winehouse. And just wait until you get a load of Bunny as the monstrous "Scare" in a wicked spoof of Cher in BURLESQUE.

With a ticket price of $14.98 that's as cheap as her humor and a recession-friendly 1 drink minimum, THAT AIN'T NO LADY provides over an hour of laughs for a decidedly affordable price. However, since Bunny's singing has been known to drive audiences to drink, there is a strictly-enforced 25 drink maximum. And this show re-introduces a quintessentially NYC venue with a great stage and atmosphere while bringing some much-needed trash back to the increasingly Disney-fied Times Square area

TIX/MORE INFO: BROWNPAPERTICKETS

GOOD CLEAN FUN!

OBAMA: INVESTIGATE THE BANKS!

Obama is trying to appoint bankers to top positions liken chief of staff. Even Larry Summers may be making a comeback! Of course, Obama has his hand out to bankers for campaign contributions so he's probably not going to be that hard on them. UNLESS WE SHOW THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO US! Otherwise, we'll bail them out again and have them scoot off to make record profits as we drown in and debt and lose our homes and jobs.


FROM MOVEON.ORG:

We're getting down to the wire. Reports are out that in the next 48 hours, President Obama could make the call on whether to hold Wall Street accountable by opening an investigation into the banks' role in the housing crisis, or agree to a sweetheart deal that lets them off the hook.1

You're one of 360,000 progressives who's called on the president to investigate the banks, rather than giving them the broad immunity they seek. But we need to ramp up the pressure this weekend before the decision is made.

This could be the make or break moment. Can you share the petition right now on Facebook, Twitter, and email to make sure the president hears loud and clear that we're counting on him to stand up to Wall Street?

Click here to share the petition right away.

On Thursday, at events across the country, MoveOn members delivered our signatures to the president asking him to investigate.2 Now, we need to keep building grassroots pressure with more people signing on. We'll send new petition signatures to the White House throughout the weekend.

This weekend could turn out to be the most crucial moment in this campaign. By sharing the petition on Facebook and Twitter, and making sure as many of your friends and family as possible sign, you can turn our voice into something President Obama can't ignore.

Click here to share our petition and hold big banks accountable: MOVEON.ORG

DITCH CITIZENS UNITED!

IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO THINKS THAT THERE SHOULD BE MORE $ IN POLITICS? OUR LEADERS ARE ALREADY BOUGHT AND SOLD--THE CITIZENS UNITED RULING MAKES IT EASIER TO BUY AND SELL THEM. AND YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY THEM SO YOUR INTERESTS WILL NEVER BE REPRESENTED. I DON'T SEE HOW ANYONE FROM EITHER PARTY COOULD NOT SIGN THIS. YOU WANT UNLIMITED $ FROM ANONYMOUS, OVERSEAS DONORS DETERMINING THE POLICIES WHICH AFFECT YOUR LIVES? I DIDN'T THINK SO.

Today is the two-year anniversary of the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court ruling. That case gave corporations like Exxon or Bank of America approval to spend millions of dollars buying elections.

It is already happening, and it is wrong.

Changing Supreme Court decisions can take decades. A better alternative is to pass a constitutional amendment.

A new campaign called United for the People is underway to do just that. And, since we don’t have time to waste, this effort needs support from the
very highest levels. Today we're petitioning President Obama to support a constitutional amendment to boot big money out of elections.

Will you sign our petition to the president?

Support from President Obama would give a big, early boost to the movement for an amendment. The president has already condemned Citizens United as a bad ruling. If the president comes out in
support of the amendment, it will inspire millions of people to believe in the idea, and a lot of members of Congress will follow, too.

Amending the Constitution will require the support of 2/3 of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, and then must be ratified by 3/4 of the states. That is a big hill to climb, but it isn’t impossible. State legislators will also follow the president’s leadership when he backs a constitutional amendment.

So let’s get started off right.

SIGN: REBUILDTHEDREAM.COM

GSN WITH MIKE DIAMOND!

SOMEBODY GIVE THIS SICK PIECE IT'S OWN SHOW, ALREADY!

RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE SEASON 4

I gotta say that there are some really imaginative looks on these girls. I can't believe that one from Florida who is 21 years old and giving you a crayon dress! At 21 I was combing thrift stores for anything that glittered and fit! Legendary Cher impersonator Chad Michaels, Willam Belli (star of Ticked Off Trannies With Knives) and two NYC favorites Milan RuPauls DragRace and JigglyCaliente Brooks are also competing this season. This cast will definitely get me watching!

R.I.P. ETTA JAMES--NO REALLY!

This look is so punk! Until the camera zooms out and she's performing in a cardigan!?! Amazing voice. A true original. Was she the first blonde black star? She doesn't even need the instruments--in fact she's better just riffing in the intro before the band comes in. I think she really passed this time. At Last.

MORE OF THIS SERIES

RARE EARTHA KITT

Was this during Eartha's blacklisted from Hollywood period? What a concept--wear no make-up, an odd outfit, sing Hurdy Gurdy Man, sing the second verse to a hat on a hat rack but make sure that none of the other hat racks have hats on them, walk over to the band, then switch into a worse outfit and sing a worse song. Love her to death--but this is an odd video.

WILD AND INSANE!

And the art direction--tin foil on a drum? Guess they couldn't afford a steel drum. Wah wah! This is so kooky and fun!

UMMMMMM...

Jay-Z has reported that he will no longer use the word "bitch" since the birth of his daughter. Is it me or is it just a little ironic that he a top ten hit out now called N*ggas In Paris?

ESCEPT THAT ISN'T A SMOKEY EYE AT ALL

CHLOE SEVIGNY: TOAST

MEET BIG FREEDIA

This is interesting. I like the King Kong concept of the video but I wouldn't exactly call this a song. I never like any of that New Orleans rap sound. But in the video description they call this person "she" and she's referred to as a drag queen on the comments. I guess Freedia ends with an "a" which is more common in female names. But this looks like a man in boots to me--I don't see the drag element. But there's lists of energy to it if you like chants--which if Who Run The World?, My Lip Gloss Be Poppin', Whip My Hair and many of Fergie's solo hits induce that people do--you might enjoy this. Lots of energy to it. So go on, girl!

HERE'S A VERSION OF BIG BROTHER I'D WATCH

It's from Brazil, he strips and he is big!

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ZING!

YOU GET SCREWED BY THE PRICE ALONE!

Laugh all you want at these designer condoms, but I think "I had Marc Jacobs in my p#ssy" makes a nice switch from the "I had Marc Jacobs" that you hear soooooo often.



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1998 WIGSTOCK POSTER BY MICHAEL ECONOMY

MORE INSANITY!

I WANT TO PLAY WITH THIS TEAM!

PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD!

THE WHOLE COUNTRY WANTS OUT OF THESE WARS AND WE DON'T HAVE $ FOR SCHOOLS OR HEATING SUBSIDIES FOR THE POOR OR POLICE YET MILITARY SPENDING HAS DOUBLED IN THE LAST DECADE? INSANITY! WE ALREADY SPEND MORE THAN EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD COMBINED ON DEFENSE!

The "puppet masters" pulling the strings in Washington are not all on Wall Street. Some of the biggest are to be found in the neighborhood of the Pentagon.

Tell Secretary of "Defense" Leon Panetta to stop doing the bidding of corporations.



An Obama appointee, Secretary Panetta is protecting powerful military contractors by obstructing the public demand for serious cuts in military spending, which has doubled in the last decade.

Some people are more equal than others in our money-corrupted system, and some of the most powerful "corporate persons" buying our elections go by names like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, BAE, and whatever Blackwater calls itself this week.

When these corporations' rights were much more restricted, Eisenhower called them the Military Industrial Complex. We can now call them corporate persons on steroids.

And Secretary Panetta is their protector, in the face of demands to transfer war spending to civilian needs.

SIGN: ROOTSACTION

Tell Panetta to listen to people of flesh and blood, the kind his weapons kill.

Please watch this video on “War Profiteers” and forward this email widely.

PRETTY SONG, BUT...

Could he ever use a stylist and director!

VERY LONG BUT FASCINATING!

THERE IS NO LIBERAL MEDIA!

And the supposedly liberal NY Times editor has written an editorial asking readers if they want to hear he truth? Ludicrous! Cenk hammers the Times.

CURRENT.COM

Wolf Blitzer’s ‘salute to politicians’ proves CNN won’t ever ask tough questions: CURRENT.COM

OBAMA SUED OVER NDAA

Obama sued over indefinite detention and torture of Americans act



Hedges announces his effort to take Obama to court, and says his team of attorneys will challenge the president over the legality of the Authorization for Use of Military Force, a provision promised under the NDAA.

In his explanation, Hedges says the signing signals “a catastrophic blow to civil liberties.”
“
I spent many years in countries where the military had the power to arrest and detain citizens without charge,” writes Hedges. “I have been in some of these jails. I have friends and colleagues who have ‘disappeared’ into military gulags. I know the consequences of granting sweeping and unrestricted policing power to the armed forces of any nation. And while my battle may be quixotic, it is one that has to be fought if we are to have any hope of pulling this country back from corporate fascism.”

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I agree with Jezebel that you can't criticize Dolly's fashion sense cuz it's just so nuts. I love Dolly so I hate to say this, but her fashions can come off. That face can't. In the first pic she looks like Sharon Osborne. Sharon's attractive, by Dolly was never this witchy. Oh well! I still love her!

JEZEBEL

HBUNNY & BIANCA'S HOT MESS AT XL STARTS 2/8

THERE'S SOME HOES IN THIS HOUSE! I am so excited to announce a new drag night I'm doing with Bianca Del Rio, Milan RuPauls DragRace, Sugga Pie Koko, JigglyCaliente Brooks and DjCollins Skyla Versai! This is going to be similar to the drag shows I grew up watching down south with production numbers, costumes, choreography, a brilliant emcee (Bianca), some serious dancing, a little celebrity impersonation and of course, lots laughs! All set against the million dollar show palace that is XL with a gorgeous big stage and state of the art lights and sound. We're even going to rehearse! It'll be an early-ish show every Tuesday at XL starting Feb 8th! (pic by Billy Erb)

BA-DUM-PUM!

BEEDLE-LEE-DEE-DEE-DEE TWO LADIES!

THIS SATURDAY I JOIN THE GRAND EMPRESS OF THE SOUTH, THE LADY CHABLIS, AT CLUB ONE IN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA! It's where she's reigned since stealing that movie Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil just playing herself!

I was interviewed by Savannahnow and somehow got onto this subject.

She may be dirty in her stage act, but the Lady Bunny is pure of heart.

“I’d love to lock up the Kardashians, Mob Wives, all of the Real Housewives and all of these other horrible reality stars who make women look like money-hungry, back-stabbing, weave-snatching harpies,” Bunny says.



“Last time I checked, real housewives cooked, did laundry and picked their kids up from school,” she says. “They didn’t bicker over cocktails at lunchtime with bad nose jobs.

“I may be dirty in my act in adult nightclub settings, but I have to agree with the Girl Scouts’ recent report that watching this reality garbage sets a very poor tone for young ladies,” Bunny adds. “And I know that Savannah is known for its well-turned-out young ladies with exquisite Southern manners. With the exception of Lady Chablis, of course!”

Bunny, who started life as Jon Ingle, will perform Jan. 21 in Savannah with Chablis at Club One.

MORE: SAVANNAHNOW

HOW THE MEDIA MANIPULATES THE WAR INTO WAR

As 1 war draws down, are we preparing for another one in Iran? Here's an excellent video which shows how our media whips the public into supporting wars which we do not need to fight. We realize years later that we were manipulated by propaganda masquerading as news. So maybe we should be a little smarter and learn from our mistakes as we may be preparing to attack Iran. Or just keep up the senseless attacks, loss of US and foreign lives and trillions of $. The info is out there. The proof that the government uses mainstream media to trick us is out there. Please watch this before you become a misguided cheerleader for war with Iran.

WATCH THIS AMAZING VIDEO WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE: BARACKOBAMA.IR

GOP CHRISTIAN TROLL OF THE DAY

Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.

MORE: THINKPROGRESS.COM

And remember--this is what an elected official says in public? Imagine what evil these fundamentalist turds spout when they are in their demonic churches in between speaking in tongues. This country loved mocking muslims' beliefs that suicide bombers get would earn them lots of virgins in heaven. But as evidenced by this sadster, our own Christian beliefs are just as absurd.

THE GRAPES OF RAT

WHO SAYS NYC IS TOTALLY SANITIZED? (Not yet, Bloomberg!) Subway workers are having a delightful competition on who can take the best rat pic while at work.

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HAPPY MLK DAY!

This song is one of my favorites--I found it on one of those great Mastercuts cps years ago. It quotes Martin Luther King, Jr in the middle. But it is very empowering to anyone feeling a little down regardless of their race or situation. The song claims "I am somebody and the universe is mine." That may a little ambitious, but it's ok to think big in the face of adversity. Like the kind that 98% are facing in the US. ENJOY!

THAT AIN'T NO LADY! IN THE NEW YORKER!

THE NEW YORKER REVIEWS THAT AIN'T NO LADY! You have to buy it or be an online subscriber to read it, but it's a good one and here's a snippet: " In it, Lady Bunny flashes her devil-may-care bravado and happy mean-girl seductiveness, which adds up to a lot of fun, and a surfeit of knowing wickedness." --Hilton Als



THE LAST 2 WEEKS WERE SOLD OUT BUT THERE ARE SOME TIX FOR TOMORROW AND IT IS EVERY TUESDAY OPEN-ENDED AT LA ESCUELITA AT 8PM. (And now I'm looking up surfeit to see what that means.)

MORE INFO/TICKETS: BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM

AMEN!

BIANCA DEL RIO?

He wore movie-star-sized sunglasses, a tan scarf around his head and a winter coat on a warm day. But his motive Saturday morning was not high fashion, it was disguise.
At about 9:20 a.m., a man dressed as a woman walked into the Capital One bank at 3540 St. Charles Ave. and handed a teller a note demanding money, according to a news release from the FBI's New Orleans office.


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MIKE DIAMOND IS BACK WITH PART 2!

CATCH PART 1 ON YOUTUBE.

GET $ OUT OF POLITICS & MAYBE OUR VOTES WILL MATTER

FROM UNTUED4THEPEOPLE.COM:

Citizens United was one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history. Not only did it declare that corporations are people, but "people" with the right to buy our elections.

That's why, this upcoming Friday, on the second anniversary of Citizens United, we're joining with MoveOn, Common Cause, People For The American Way, the Coffee Party, Campaign For America's Future and many others to launch a campaign to end it now:

Find a launch event in your community, or learn more at United4ThePeople.org.

By taking part in your own local event, you'll be joining countless Americans across the country speaking with one voice: it's time to end corporate personhood, and end the nightmare that is Citizens United.

The Other 98% will also be coordinating several powerful direct actions highlighting the key role played by corporate pillagers like Koch Industries and the Chamber of Commerce in passing and then exploiting the Citizens United ruling. Our actions will produce striking footage that will help set the stage for challenging the corporate status quo throughout this critical election year.

Join us, and we'll show the corporate elite what it really looks like when Citizens Unite.

JOIN/MORE INFO: UNITED4THEPEOPLE

AND WE THOUGHT OUR SENATORS WERE STUPID!

CHECK OUT THIS FOOL FROM THE PHILLIPINES!

Masturbation is Abortion says Sen. Enrile



And we thought our Senators are insane: "The latest RH Bill plenary debate has enlightened millions of Filipinos as the Honorable Senator Juan Ponce Enrile labeled the act of masturbation as a form of abortion, Enrile says, it comes from his belief as a Roman Catholic.

The Roman Catholic Church views masturbation as an act that constitutes a moral disorder and absolutely and without any excuse, a seriously disordered act that has the same category as bestiality and sodomy.'

MORE: URBANMETER

HAW HAW!

OBAMA'S PICK FOR CHIEF OF STAFF

TAKE A LOOK AT WHO OBAMA WANTS AS HIS NEW CHIEF OF STAFF--ANOTHER BIG FINANCIER JUST LIKE DALEY, WHO JUST STEPPED DOWN AS THE OLD CHIEF. REPUBLICANS LET THE NEW GUY SAIL RIGHT THROUGH WITH NO OBJECTIONS--BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT LEW WANTS WHAT THEY WANT WHICH IS WHAT "DEMOCRAT" OBAMA WANTS--BANKS CONTINUING TO SCREW US AND THE ECONOMY! Here's a little about Obama's pick:

Prior to his appointment as a deputy secretary at the Department of State, Mr. Lew was Chief Operating Officer of CitiGroup’s Alternative Investments group.

Do you know what Alternative Investments are? They’re things like hedge funds, who buy things like credit default swaps! Credit default swaps are essentially the ability to buy insurance on someone else’s house in one hand as you hold anything else—the adjustable-rate mortgage you know they can’t pay off, or the capacity to sell that mortgage and therefore generate more mortgages like it, or a gasoline can—in the other hand. This is what Jacob Lew invested in!
I
n 2008 and the beginning of 2009, Mr. Lew took in $1.1M from CitiGroup.
This included a $900,000 bonus.

Mr. Lew doesn’t think financial deregulation was one of the problems adding up to the financial crisis that has persisted since 2008.

MORE: OBSERVER.COM

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ON MLK WEEKEND

JOANSMACKED

SUPPORT OUR GREAT MEN IN UNIFORM!

AS THEY PISS ON MEN THEY'VE KILLED. And no one even knows why we are still in Afghanistan. And each soldier costs us broke taxpayers $1 million per soldier per year. So glad that I'm funding this!

SAVE THE INTERNET: NYC PROTEST

Genuinely historic: Next Wednesday we're taking it to the streets.

The New York Tech Meetup is organizing a protest of the PROTECT IP Act (the Senate version of SOPA, the Internet censorship bill) outside of the offices of New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.

We're hoping for thousands of people.

That's 12:30 PM on Wednesday, January 18th at 780 Third Avenue (at 49th St.) in NYC.

Schumer and Gillibrand are ignoring concerns about the impact PROTECT IP will have on the Internet and the New York tech community. It's time to call them out.

Please do your best to make it on Wednesday: There's never been a protest like this in support of Internet freedom in the United States. Click here to RSVP.

NYC PROTEST DETAILS: NYTM.ORG

THAT AIN'T NO LADY! EVERY TUESDAY AT 8PM!

I am so thrilled that my show has been extended and thanks to good reviews, we;ve been packing them in and even selling out! I know it will run through the end of February. It took me 10 years to do a cabaret show--so if you have any desire to see it, do it now cuz I may not be alive in 10 more years!

TICKET INFO: BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM

Watch out Lady Gaga... Lady Bunny is back, and her bouffant wig is bigger than Times Square!



In her first one-woman show in 10 years, Lady Bunny makes a fierce comeback to a packed crowd at La Escuelita Cabaret Theatre. While this self-professed “trash-talking filthy sewer mouth[ed]” drag queen keeps the audience deep into the gutters, only three blocks away, Mary Poppins is flying over the heads of children everywhere. Gotta love New York.

Between the disco lights, shirtless bar staff, and casual, club-like atmosphere, you immediately realize this isn’t going to be your typical cabaret. Lady Bunny knows how to get her audience up and going. Right away, she shouts, “Let me hear you scream like a bunch of teenage girls at a Justin Bieber concert!” She then alternates between hilarious Laugh-In style comedy routines, utterly raunchy pop song parodies, and pornographic videos on large screens. 90 minutes of pure, unsterile filth... and not a single person complains. In fact, those dirty smirks will be left on everyone’s faces long after the show ends.

MORE: BROADWAYWORLD

NY TIMES:

Under the Bouffant, a Sewer Mouth on Go-Go Wings By DAVID ROONEY

A once proud and subversive warrior tribe that deified freakdom, drag queens have become awfully mainstream. Tame transvestites are now passing for Kardashians, while biological women all over television are communing with their inner drag divas on shows like “Mad Fashion,” “RuPaul’s Drag U” and “The Real Housewives of You Name It.”

"That Ain't No Lady!": Lady Bunny mixes filthy stand-up with filthy song parodies in her show at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater.



But whatever happened to authentically scary, sewer-mouthed, gutter-glam fierceness? That endangered but not extinct form of alternative entertainment has a resplendently tacky old-school flag bearer in Lady Bunny, frugging with infectious abandon on a toxic cloud of Aqua Net in her first cabaret show in 10 years, “That Ain’t No Lady!”

Playing Tuesdays at La Escuelita Cabaret Theater, this 90-minute set of filthy stand-up and pornographic song parodies strives to awaken the ghosts of a pre-sanitized Times Square. After an opening mash-up of X-rated Katy Perry revisions, the Lady warns, “That concludes the PG portion of tonight’s entertainment.” She’s not kidding. Much of what follows makes “The Book of Mormon” seem like “Bambi.”

MORE: NYTIMES

URGE YOUR FAV WEBSITES TO SHUT DOWN? YES!

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. We need internet companies to follow Reddit's lead and stand up for the web, as we internet users are doing every day

SIGN: SOPASTRIKE

MADONNA'S PREPARING FOR HER COMEBACK!

BUN-BUN ON DEREK AND ROMAINE 1/16!

Lady Bunny is scheduled for a live in-studio interview with Derek and Romaine of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Monday January 16th at 8PM EST. The interview will last about 15-20 minutes. This will broadcast live on Sirius XM OutQ 108. Listeners and fans are welcome to participate by calling 866-305-6887. For those who don't subscribe to Sirius, a free online trial is available at www.siriusxm.com

THIS WOULD MAKE ME VISIT MALLS MORE OFTEN!

In fact, I think I'd be a guaranteed shopaholic!

WATCH: XHAMSTER

UGE WIKIPEDIA BLACKOUT B SIGNING/DONATING

Quick request: Wikipedia is considering going dark to protest SOPA and PIPA, the Internet censorship bills.

It'd be huge news, jar rank-and-file Internet users out of complacency, and serve as a turning point in the effort to beat these bills.

Will you encourage Wikipedia to protest censorship by going dark? Just click here:

DEMANDPROGRESS>ORG


RUN ON A SHOESTRING OUT OF THE LOVE FOR KNOWLEDGE, WIKI IS ALSO ASKING FOR DONATIONS AS LOW AS $1 TO KEEP THIS SITE GOING. I KNOW I USE IT ALL THE TIME. WILL YOU CONSIDER A TINY DONATION?

OBAMA-GAGA

DAID DRAKE HAS A NEW LOOK!

The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me star David Drake dons drag in new comedy
Feb. 17 - March 2 at The Laurie Beechman Theatre

Buy tickets HERE.

Obie Award-winning playwright/performer David Drake (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) makes his long-awaited return to New York with the premiere of MY TAWNY VALENTINE. Written by and starring Drake, this drag tragicomedy with music is directed by David Briggs (film: Karen Black Like Me) featuring musical direction by Lance Cruce (Joan Rivers' longtime pianist, Karen Finley's Make Love). Performances begin February 17th at The Laurie Beechman Theatre.

MY TAWNY VALENTINE marks the unheralded return of Tawny Heatherton, a lovably eccentric showbiz survivor and “one hit wonder” of the disco zeitgeist of the early 1980s. Tawny brings her singular blonde-swept brand of sunny, funny optimism while recalling stories of wandering the globe performing her disco "hit," her headline-grabbing turn as the unwitting "Pyro Girl of Long Island," her short-lived stint as a "Hee-Haw Honey," and reuniting with her long-lost aunt Joey Heatherton at the Mohegan Sun Resort & Casino.

DAVID DRAKE is an actor-writer-director best-known as the Obie Award-winning playwright/performer of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, one of the longest-running solo shows in Off-Broadway history. David also starred in Vampire Lesbians of Sodom (succeeding Charles Busch for 856 performances), originated the role of “Miss Deep South” in the hit Pageant, as well as co-starring with Jim J. Bullock in End of the World Party at the 47th St. Theater, and with B.D. Wong in A Language of Their Own at The Public. His TV credits: Law & Order, The Beat, NY Undercover. Feature films: Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia, as well as It’s Pat, Naked in New York, David Searching, Bear City, Longtime Companion, and his own adaptation of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me. As a stage director, David has twice been a Directing Fellow at the Sundance Theater Lab, and has directed new works at The Public’s Under the Radar Festival, Joe’s Pub, and Rattlestick, among others. Most recently in New York, David was a director of the 2009 world premiere of Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge, which made the “10 Best Lists” in The New Yorker, The NY Post, The Advocate, Paper Magazine, and won a 2010 Village Voice Obie Award.

MY TAWNY VALENTINE runs Feb. 17, 24, & March 2 at 7:30pm. The Laurie Beechman Theater is located inside West Bank Cafe at 407 West 42nd Street -- at Ninth Avenue, accessible from the A,C,E,N,R,V,F,1,2 & 3 trains at 42nd Street). Tickets are $20 plus a $15 food/drink minimum. To purchase tickets, call 212-352-3101 or visit www.SpinCycleNYC.com.

HURRICANE BUNNY HEADS TO AUSTIN 1/14!

Making my annual pilgrimage to Austin, Texas this Saturday!



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