RuPaul kicked off his #RuPopUpShop at Sweet! in the Hollywood and Highland complex today in grand style! RuPaul was there to sign hard to find RuPaul dolls, out of print books, Glamazon fragrance, and candy bars! Swing by Sweet! in Hollywood to pick up your RuPaul goodies! And don’t forget to tune in to RuPaul’s Drag Race: Reunited on Monday, May 19 at 10PM on Logo TV!
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We know you don’t have time to read every article, every think piece, and every blog post people send your way. That’s why we’re offering up the Sunday morning Longer Reads section. Here’s your chance to catch up on some of more interesting news items you might have missed.
Isn’t it ironic? We were all wrong to sneer at Alanis Morrissette in 1996. Turns out she actually DID understand irony, and Salon explains why.
The Daily Mail has a piece on the Chinese performance artist who had a rib removed onstage without anesthesia, then made a faaaaaabulous necklace out of it.
The Daily Beast asserts that Hilary is going to run without any challengers for the Democratic nomination.
Tina Brown pontificates on how Monica Lewinsky changed the media and “midwifed modern culture.”
Vanity Fair reports that the Queen is backing out of royal obligations due to “heavy garments.” Oh dear. It’s the beginning of the end, isn’t it?
A fascinating review in the New York Times of the Charles James exhibit at the Metropolitan Costume Institute.
In praise of Courtney Love via i-D magazine.
HuffPo explains how #hashtags became the raised fist of punctuation.
For the love of being liked: The New York Times thinks you and your desperate, approval-seeking tweets are pathetic.
The Daily Mail profiles Irene Triplet, the 84-year-old woman who is the only person still getting benefits from a civil war veteran (her father). Not as sweet and uplifting a story as you might expect.
And the different faces of Godzilla through the years.
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Death & Taxes has the story (and pictures) of the dead New Orleans socialite dressed in a pink feather boa, with a cigarette and champagne flute, propped up on a bench during her wake, overlooking the festivities. So punk rock.
Speaking of punk rock: Dangerous Minds has a report on why transgender punk pioneer Jayne County was banned from Facebook.
VICE has an A-Z Guide to Pizza that’s worth your time.
Salon, God bless ‘em, goes undercover to discover why having sex in a reststop men’s room is so much fun.
And for the ladies: My Boobs, My Burden.
Vulture has eight up-and-comers to watch this summer movie season. All you need to know is two words: BRENTON THWAITS! BRENTON THWAITS! BRENTON THWAITS! OMGOMGOMG.
From New York magazine: Why you need to deep-clean your Facebook account NOW.
Be Aware: Brunei has begun phasing in antigay law and will soon allow Death by Stoning. Read more in The Advocate.
The New York Times has advice on how to calculate the division of rent among roommates when rooms are of different sizes, have different amounts of closet space, or get varying degrees of light. It’s called Sperner’s lemma, and you’ll never, ever, ever understand it. Just split three ways and agree to pay the light bill for the one in the little room.
What does Joyce Carol Oates think of Twitter’s “lynch mob mentality”? Find out here!
In Slate: Linguistics professors look into the science of beatboxing.
After last week’s skin-crawling lethal injection disaster, The Daily Beast has an article about botched executions. Just ugh.
And finally, did you know that Will & Grace‘s first audience didn’t realize it was about a gay man? Queerty has a great quote from Debra Messing about that.
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Vulture argues: At this point George W Bush is actually a better artist than James Franco.
Vulture also has a fun interview with Neil Patrick Harris about Hedwig, dressing rooms, and how he gets all that glitter off every night.
BuzzFeed goes deep inside Bryan Singer’s wild Hollywood world of upwardly mobile twinks and the men who prey on them, oh my!
Vaguely related: Meet the Hollywood screenwriter by day, go-go dancer by night, Jeff Tetreault, who tells New York magazine he’s having “an awesome dick day.”
The Daily Mail uncovers why the British are such fashion victims. HA! Also how trends are interpreted by the various classes, which is something the British have always obsessed about.
30 internet famous people YOU NEED TO KNOW.
And a poignant interview with a formerly famous internet star.
Simon Doonan just wants everybody on TV to PUT THEIR DAMN CLOTHES ON.
To celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday this week, Harper’s Bazaar has listed the best fashions from our favorite Shakespeare films.
Frazier Glenn Miller, the former KKK leader and anti-Semitic murderer, was once arrested with a black, cross-dressing hooker. The Daily Beast says that according to psychology and history, it’s not that surprising.
Slate has the poignant story of a daughter and the gay father she never knew.
Why Joan Rivers, Madonna, and, um, “OTHER CELEBRITIES” don’t owe you an apology, in Salon.
and The New York Times listens in as Liz Smith and Jess Cagel (of People and Entertainment Weekly) dish on just about everyone from Jackie O to Kim K.
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David Foster Wallace long ago warned that irony is ruining our culture. Salon thinks we ought to have listened.
Dame magazine reports that trans semantics is causing an uproar within the community, but is language REALLY the issue here?
Slate explores the science behind Transcendence. So… when will be able to upload Johnny Depp’s brain? And, more importantly, why would we want to?
After James Franco called the New York Times theater critic “a little bitch” on Instagram for giving his performance in Of Mice & Men a bad review, The Guardian says we have now entered into a new age of counter-criticism.
The Daily Beast tallies up every woman Don Draper has ever slept with.
And Vulture asks a serial killer expert to analyze every episode of Mad Men for links to the Manson Family murders (because OBVIOUSLY Megan is about to be killed by them).
Alice Hoffman has some… um… out-of-the-box suggestions for getting you started on that novel you’ve been meaning to write.
Newsweek reports on how Laverne Cox transformed the audience at the GLAAD Awards.
New York magazine announces that we have reached “Peak Beard Saturation” and has the scientific proof the trend is is OVER.
A lengthy piece on Cartoon Network’s iconic Adventure Time declares it is a “deeply serious work of moral philosophy, a rip-roaring comic masterpiece, and a meditation on gender politics and love in the modern world. It is rich with moments of tenderness and confusion, and real terror and grief even; moments sometimes more resonant and elementally powerful than you experience in a good novel.” And I thought it was just fun to watch in a k-hole.
The New York Times obituary for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and over at Slate: What he meant to the people of Colombia (and why we can never TRULY get his novels).
Also in the Times: The complicated life of one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s heroin connections.
Salon exposes Leonardo DiCaprio’s DARKEST SECRET: He’s actually deeply uncool.
Newsweek has earthshattering nerd news: Dick Grayson ISN’T DEAD after all! The former Robin-turned-Nightwing-turned-Batman (for a period) has gone deeeeep undercover and become… a secret agent? Yep, he’s basically Archer now. Greeeeeat move, DC.
Oh My Gah. Going braless is SO NORMCORE.
And finally, a rather salacious article in The Daily Beast goes inside Bryan Singer’s infamous twink pool parties. I saved it for last because you’re going to need a Silkwood shower after reading it.
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OMGOMGOMG! An interview with Brienne of Tarth! An interview with Brienne of Tarth! Game of Thrones star Gwendolyn Christie talks to IGN on the new challenges her character faces now that her quest with Janie Lannister has ended.
Have you heard about the cherry tree that was raised on the space station and stunned scientists by blooming six years earlier than it would on earth? Read about the far-reaching implications of that in the Daily Mail.
From Dior’s New Look to Bianca Jagger’s birthday party at Studio 54, Harper’s Bazaar has the most iconic moments in fashion history.
The Geldofs were Britain’s first celebrity family, long before the Osbournes and the Beckhams. The death of Peaches is the latest cruel twist in a tragedy the nation has watched unfold for decades. The Guardian tells the tale of one family’s epic suffering for Americans who don’t understand the fuss.
Mickey Rooney gave his life to show biz, the least you can do is read his obit in the Florida Sun Sentinal.
The Daily Beast implores you: For God’s sakes, don’t remember Barbara Walters for The View.
OMGOMGOMG! You MUST READ this investigative report about why people loathe “upworthy” headlines. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
From Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry to Swan in The Warriors – Dazed Digital ranks the most rebellious screen icons of all time
Salon debunks the myths of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Slate has some data on how Hilary could make a difference.
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In boingboing: Filmmaker, writer, and trans activist Andrea James writes about LGBT reactionaries throwing drag queens under the bus for “transphobic language” and the growing rift between the drag, gay, and trans communities.
Trans icon Calpernia Addams passionately sounds off on the same subject in the Huffington Post.
In The Atlantic: Scientists create Mars-like community in Hawaii to see if astronauts will get SPACE MADNESS when we begin colonizing it in the ’30s.
A fascinating tribute to the lasting legacy of DJ Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House music in The LA Times.
Moby reminisces about Klaus Nomi, the ’80s club scene, and the ’90s rave drugs in Vulture.
Just how risky is oral sex? Find out here. (The answer might surprise you)
The Daily Star says the comedian Jonathan Ross is starting his hunt for Britain’s Next Drag Superstar…
Noah is just the latest film to earn the wrath of the Christian right. Read about five other blasphemous movies in Salon.
Then read: The 10 Weirdest Things the Christian Right Thinks Will Turn Your Kids Gay.
From Slate‘s advice column: “Dear Prudence: My twin brother had a one-night stand with a girl, gave her my name and number as joke, then she and I started dating. We’re engaged now, should I tell her the truth?”
Gen X catastrophe in the making: How the coming inheritance boom is going to DESTROY THE NATION.
Slate asks: How do we instill journalistic ethics into our robot reporters?
The New York Times decrees that mankind is inherently spiteful, but you know what? That’s a GOOD thing!
A fun Q & A with Cyndi Lauper in The Guardian.
BBC News: A French couple has gathered a thousand on-line fan tributes to Pharrell’s “Happy”
So the Black Death wasn’t really the Bubonic plague after all? Read the new theories in Slate.
Swoonworthy rates the top ten hunks of Game of Thrones. (Grey Worm should have scored higher, just sayin’)
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Always tackling the most important stories of the day, HuffPo has 19 Very Real Struggles of Women with Big Butts.
The much buzzed-about New York Post article: “L’Wren Scott’s Suicide Reveals Tragic Side of City’s Glitzy Scene.”
Slate uses music theory to explain the genius of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (Maybe next year they’ll tackle why “Happy” is so goddamn annoying).
Nile Rogers writes about Studio 54, Grace Jones, and the Disco backlash in New York magazine.
From Salon: Why Entertainment Weekly‘s decision to start paying writers with “prestige” rather than, you know, actual money is terrible for both writers and readers (and does not bode well for the future of pop culture).
Also in Salon: Why Gwyneth Paltrow’s utterly obnoxious “conscious uncoupling” letter proves she’s the last, great star, “worthy of the legacy of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.”
Mental Floss investigates: Is the Five-Second Rule real?
The New York Times says millennials in the work place are shallow, callow, unmotivated, and undependable… just like every generation since the middle ages.
Also in the Times: Exploring the Salton Sea, the Sunken City and other modern ruins of Southern California.
Lead singer of cult metal band GWAR David Brockie aka Oderus Urungus found dead at 50. Read about it in Rolling Stone and Daily Mail.
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Nickelback, Smash Mouth, Goo Goo Dolls: Salon has the 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years. (But no fun.? No Mumford & Sons? I demand a recount!)
The must-have coffee table book of 2014 about the mob hit men of Murder Inc. will cost you exactly $4,200. But YOWZA, what a book! Read about it in the New York Times.
Washington Post has a fascinating obituary of the villanous Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.
And HuffPo has the LGBT reaction to his death.
Arkansas school doubles down on decision to ban gay student’s coming out story in yearbook.
For all you hardcore Benson fans out there (you know who you are), Salon has the answer to how the series was supposed to end.
For when you absolutely need purple pleather harem pants on the run: Fashion trucks are about to become ALL THE RAGE.
Coming soon to the Great White Way: James Franco and Chris O’Dowdare reimagine Of Mice & Men as a bromantic comedy
Absolutely riveting video (if you’re into this sort of thing): Alexander Wang, Prabal Garung and Eddie Borgo analyze the concept of style at the SCADstyle 2014 conference. At Style.com
Liza Minnelli talks to the LA Times about Ellen, that blue streak, and her new show.
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg must NEVER EVER retire from the Supreme Court in Slate.
Of Hippos and Kings: Archeologist and anthropologist Eric H Cline has a new book called 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, and it sounds remarkably like today.. Read the review in the New Yorker.
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Air & Space magazine magazine has a fascinating article about a 727 airline that vanished from Angola in 2003.
Daily Mail claims that the pilot of missing Flight MH370 was a political fanatic. This comes as police are investigating the possibility that he hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre political protest.
OK, so we all think Flight 727 was hijacked, but just in case that gets disproven, New York magazine has other theories ranging from mechanical failure to alien abduction.
Kitty Genovese, whose 1964 rape and murder was witnessed by 37 bystanders who DID NOTHING, became a symbol about the unravelling of society, racial fears, and the lack of care exhibited by city dwellers for their neighbors. Now Off the Grid reports that Kitty was a lesbian. Did that have something to do with her neighbors’ responses (or lack thereof)?
The New York Times writes about the growing transgender presence in pop culture, talking to icons-in-the-making Laverne Cox, Janet Mock and wowlebrity Zachary Drucker.
Has the tv-star-to-movie-star career trajectory become outmoded? Vulture thinks so.
Why Mel Gibson deserves a second chance: Deadline pleads his case.
Salon has an expose on how to behave at an orgy.
10 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice, also at Salon.
One man’s mission to name an island after Busta Rhymes in Slate.
LAST WEEK’S LONGER READS:
What the hell happend to Jay McInerney? Slate examines the ’80s literary superstar’s unrealized potential.
Finally, someone details the difference between Death Metal and Black Metal.
The Independent examines the culture of rape in men’s prisons.
Semen allergies, broken penises, and spontaneous orgasms: Salon has six weird consequences of sex they don’t teach you in sex ed.
The New York Times Style section has a breathless investigation into the return of the monocle as the fashion accessory du jour for hipsters.
Slate has a bit of fun with Beyond the Monocle: Five Ideas for Future New York Times Hipster Trend Pieces including ruffs, powdered wigs, and plague doctor masks. Which, of course, I was wearing before they were cool.
Nightclubbing 101: An oral history of New York’s Pyramid Club as told by the trailblazing drag queens and performance artists who performed there.
Is belly dancing racist? Salon decrees it so.
The New Yorker has a humorous piece about 59-year-olds who look down their noses on 56-year-olds. Insolent pups!
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Sunday, March 2, 2014:
The inimitable Cindy Adams predicts tonight’s Oscars, as only Cindy can.
Who thanks who at the Oscars (No surprise: Meryl gets thanked more than God)
The Guardian has a piece imploring Academy voters not to give the Oscar to the documentary The Act of Killing (in which Indonesia’s political mass-murderers restage their slaughters).
The brilliant Douglas Rushkoff writes in Politico: “How Technology Killed the Future”
Slate has the 19 most common questions a trans person is asked.
The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with trans activist and memoirist Janet Mock.
New York magazine asserts the latest sartorial rage among hipsters is Normcore: the dad-brand non-style you might have once associated with Jerry Seinfeld.
Riveting stuff: Furniture shopping habits of the rich and famous at Salon.
Gawker profiles the adorable 101-year-old man who’s running for Congress, and really ought to win.
Fascinating article in The Economist about the controversial heroin treatment used in Switzerland and the Netherlands which sets up safe sites where users can inject while monitored by health-care staff and – in some cases – provides heroin itself free.
An investigation at Slate into the impenetrable time signature of The Terminator‘s musical score. Honestly, I wouldn’t mention it if I didn’t think it was REALLY INTERESTING.
W has a piece on venerable downtown fashion designer Andre Walker’s comeback. I still kick myself EVERY DAY for not buying some of those cookie-cutter outfits back in 1985 when I had the chance. STUPID JAMES!
The New Yorker translates what Ted Nugent was really trying to say when he called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel.”
Slate covers an exhibit at the National Museum of Australia showcasing convict love tokens – coins that had been smoothed over and then engraved with messages that prisoners gave to their sweethearts before leaving for penal colonies in Australia in the 18th and 19th century.
And finally, the Daily Beast has an update on Michael Alig and his post-prison plans.
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May I call you Jiggly? Yes, you may. Jiggly Caliente from RuPaul’s Drag Race is on this episode of Ring My Bell! Watch now!
Call Jiggly Caliente at (323) 319-4777 or you can call them at wowpresents on Skype (SET UP YOUR SKYPE ACCOUNT NOW), and make those connections, guuuuuuurl! (Only your voice will be recorded.) If the phone keeps ringing, don’t get impatient just wait and we’ll try our hardest to connect your call!
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I wrote this for a magazine but it was deemed too anti-business (and this was me trying to be PRO-business, so I guess that says something about my biases). Still, I think communicating the truth to people ultimately shows *more* faith in them than lying or pandering
At the White House Correspondents Dinner – the annual opportunity for the President to engage directly, and humorously, with reporters who cover him – I expect most of the gibes to be at the President. Sure, he gets the chance to defend himself, but it’s pretty much a roast: a leading comedian is invited every year to make jokes, while the Commander in Chief tries to laugh instead of squirm.
Maybe that’s why I was so jolted when this year’s headliner, comedian Joel McHale of TV’s The Soup, took such a hard swipe at Google. “America still has amazing technological innovations. Google Glass has hit the markets. Now, just by walking down the street, we’ll know exactly who to punch in the face.” It got a pretty good laugh – perhaps because both the press and the politicians in the room were relieved to have been spared for at least one joke. But the violence of the imagery, and the intensity of the rage that it expressed, gave me serious pause: are we in the midst of a new kind of tech industry backlash? And is it for something these companies are actually doing, or have the simply lost control of the technology story?
This is more than the traditional sort of commentary and critique of digital media and culture that we’ve seen waged against everything from television advertising or fashion iconography in the past. When the artists called Like4Real rebel against the ubiquity of the Facebook “Like” by holding a funeral for the thumbs-up symbol, it comments effectively, if acerbically, on the changing nature of social relationships in a commercial space. Meanwhile, artists from KillYourPhone.com are encouraging people to make special pouches for cell phones and PDA’s, which prevent them from receiving signals. Again – agree with them or not about the need for an occasional digital detox – it’s clever, provocative, and memorable satire.
But the notion, even expressed jokingly, of punching people in the face for wearing Google Glass – as if the device somehow signals a traitor to the cause of humanity – pushes things over the top. Yes, we can all imagine how people wearing an augmented reality device might be annoying: they can surf the web while pretending to converse with us or, worse, record us when we don’t know it. But it’s as if the public is now being primed to go after early adopters – almost to a point where one might be reluctant to put on the device.
Are technology companies such as Google shouldering the blame for too much? It seems as if they are bearing responsibility not only for people’s fears about the future of technology, but the excesses of corporate capitalism.
Consider the hullabaloo now centered on the buses that convey Google employees from San Francisco to Silicon Valley. This winter, protestors waylaid one of the Google shuttles, going so far as to hurl a brick through one of its windows in protest of what they see as the tech giant’s gentrifying influence on the city. When San Francisco introduced the new Muni 83x bus line, locals were quick to point out that its sparsely-utilized buses run suspiciously close to Twitter headquarters. More protests, and more vitriol ensued.
Of course, in reality, Google’s buses spare the highway a whole lot of traffic, and the atmosphere from countless tons of carbon emissions from what would otherwise be an extra few thousand cars on the highways every day. And suspicions about local government adding commuter lines to accommodate Twitter appear to be unfounded.
The deeper angst in San Francisco appears to be over the way each new tech IPO creates another few thousand millionaires who want to buy apartments, jacking up the real estate prices for everyone else. And, like all corporations, Silicon Valley giants externalize the costs of private enterprise on public infrastructure. But even this local economics issue seems unlikely to be motivating such widespread disdain for tech business. Besides, there are a number of corporations with much worse records of displacing residents or hurting local business than the new tech giants.
No, I think the reason these young corporations are getting so much pushback is that they were once seen as the upstarts – as the companies on the people’s side of things. Digital technology was supposed to disrupt business as usual, create new opportunities for both self-expression and small business, and – perhaps most of all – change the very nature of the corporation and its relationship to real people and places. They’re being held to a higher standard than companies of previous generations.
Now that these little garage businesses are some of the biggest companies in the world, it’s a whole lot harder for them to exhibit the qualities that once made them the darlings of the culture and counterculture alike. Yes, digital companies are being held to a higher standard than companies of previous generations. But this is largely because we all understand that they are building the infrastructure in which our economics, culture, and perhaps even a whole lot of human consciousness is going to take place.
That’s why they have to pay more attention to communicating their intentions than might otherwise seem justified. Steve Jobs was famous for keeping great secrets, but Apple is largely a consumer electronics firm. We like being surprised about the features on our next phone. A company like Google can’t be as secretive when they purchase a military robotics firm. Without clear messaging about the reasons for such acquisitions, the public mind reels, particularly in the wake of NSA disclosures, jobs lost to automation, and movies from Her to Transcendence.
Instead of balking at our widespread suspicions, the leaders of Silicon Valley must begin communicating honestly and effectively about what they hope and dream for. If people are scared of Google’s Glass, of Facebook’s purchase of a virtual reality company, or of Twitter’s use of big data, then it’s up to those companies to explain loud and clear how these developments will serve us all. Unless, of course, they don’t.
For once, protecting strategy secrets has to take a back seat to clear communications. If these companies really are building the world we’re all going to be living in, they have to let us in on their plans. Otherwise, we’re going to feel like we’ve been left off the bus.
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“Scientists report that older mice were stronger, more active and alert after being injected with the blood of young mice – ‘Four crates of baby mice, please.’ said Madonna.” – SNL, Weekend Update
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Well, Conchita WON! Conchita Wurst, the onstage drag persona of Thomas Neuwirth, was the runaway winner with her performance of the ballad “Rise Like A Phoenix.” Wurst scored 290 points to become Austria’s first Eurovision winner since 1966. “For me, my dream came true. But for society it showed me that people want to move on, to look to the future. We said something, we made a statement.” Watch. It’s kind of genius and the production, lighting, camera movement and set makes American Idol look the high school talent show, it’s become.
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All this last week, there was so much to do and see in New York – more than usual which is a LOT. New York Magazine sponsored their annual Vulture Festival and they organized a Mother’s Day brunch concert at 11 AM with Rufus Wainwright at Milk Studios which thankfully, is just up the street from me. (Saturday night I had a little too much fun at a friend’s birthday party and so did my date, who was a no-show after going to see Saturday Night Live and the after party… I still don’t have details) Anyway, Rufus was in conversation with comic Julie Klausner and in between talking, he performed 8 songs. It was a bitter sweet Mother’s Day as his mom, Kate McGarrigle, passed away in 2010 of a rare form of cancer. He spoke of her a lot and also sang a song she wrote about the relationship she had with Rufus’s father, Loudon Wainwright, “The Walking Song”. He sang some songs from his latest “Best Of” album “Vibrate” including, “Beauty Mark” and “The Art Teacher” and many other beautiful songs he has written. But it was fellow Canadian Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” that literally brought me to tears. Here he is singing it live in Atlanta, earlier this year. Or as Shangela would say, “Halleloo!”
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After Michael Sam made history by becoming the first openly gay player to be drafted into the NFL on Saturday, he gave a big smooch to a mystery guy. The very emotional video clip was broadcast on ESPN and made waves across the country, but everyone wants to know who’s Sam’s boo? He’s 23 year-old Vito Cammisano – Sam’s boyfriend. They both attended the University of Missouri, where Cammisano was on the swim team. Some people’s heads may explode from watching this video. I say, if so – GOOD. It’s called life in 2014. Get used to it.
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The Top 4 became a Top 3 on RuPaul’s Drag Race last week. Extra Lap Recap breaks it down and sissies that walk! “Now, pose…”
Yes, ma’am… Before you could say “I’m a winner, Baby!” and re-enact the deranged high-speed-modeling in the car scene from Mahogany, we saw the Top 4 queens of Season 6 dancing, posing and acting their big gay hearts out! And we all learned a little about the semantics of “Sissyography,” we discovered that being a fresh new young model in town can be rather thankless, and that nothing is more fun than watching drag queens stage their own on-camera meltdown. Yay — we all win!
And alas, one queen sashayed away. But lord have mercy, she did give it her all. And at least now we do have a proper and old-fashioned Top 3. But, now this is when things get really rough. Who’s your winner, kids?
The RuPaul Has Two Faces! (And I just have an eyepatch.)
And while we’re talking winners, can we just give a Cable Ace Award to Ms. RuPaul herself, for basically chewing up the scenery right along with the queens this week, playing multiple roles in the music video scenes. Yes, Gawd… Mama Ru is versatile. She’s the boss, Miss Ross!
Next week is a recap is Season 6′s most twisted moments, and then on May 19, RuPaul is gonna crown America’s Next Drag Superstar. And she better not f*ck it up! For reals!
“Four queens stand before me…” Well, five if you count the fool with the mustache.
SPOILER ALERT: If you’ve not yet watched this week’s Mahogany-inspired episode, sissy that walk over to LogoTV.com and get caught up first. Cheers!
Hey, Miss Bling… RuPaul dropped a “Glitter Ball” on the Top 5 queens on this week’s RuPaul’s Drag Race. Extra Lap Recap has your sparkly recap!
Yes, it was all about “sparkle Neely, sparkle!” as our gals had to shine bright like diamonds (and rubies, sapphires, and topaz and… rose quartz?) in this week’s challenge. After getting bitchy reading each other with puppets, then they had to whip up 3 semi-precious runway looks for the Glitter Ball on the mainstage. And these gems were not conflict-free (duh… these are drag queens), because all the gals chimed in about sending one queen home, then the lip-sync battle gave us a sense of deja vu, and the outcome was gag-inducing!
And we got return visits from Drag Race super-judges Bob Mackie and Khloe Kardashian. And by episodes’s end… WE’RE DOWN TO THE TOP FOUR!!! Are you feeling it? Are you gob-smacked? Are you feeling like a “banjee girl”? One that can take her little baby brother to school…??????? (Go watch Paris Is Burning immediately if none of this makes sense.)
“Um, Courtney girl… you got a little something on your forehead, there.”
SPOILER ALERT: I’m gonna tell you who had to sashay away this week in my recap, so if you’ve not seen the episode yet, you’d better go watch it first. LogoTV.com can help you with that.
And then next week comes the last full-on, real episode of the season! (Before the flashback-inducing clip show, and the big mega-reunion finale!) Will the Top 4 get chopped down to a Top 3? Oh yes she better watch!
While the Bianca puppet chews on my arm, I do my best Wacky Gay Inflatable Tube Man in a Sequins Dress impersonation. You’re welcome.
Queerly beloved, it’s Drag Wedding time on RuPaul’s Drag Race! Which bridal makeover queen gets an “I do” and who gets an “I can’t”? Watch this week’s Extra Lap Recap to find out!
Yes, for Season 6, the annual makeover episode turned out to be a big fat drag wedding extravaganza with real couples getting hitched, but with a hitch… The ladies were grooms and the men were brides! Kind of a draggedy twist on marriage equality? (Like you never saw THAT coming…)
Also, for the mini-challenge our queens got messy making drag-stract artworks using just their bodies and some big splashy paints and canvases. It was artsy-fartsy… Very “Georgia O’Queef.” (Warning: I get excited and get a bit “Sunday in the Park with George” and Barbra’s “Broadway Album” up in here. It’s not pretty.) And Drag Race got a visit from real-life couple Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, who are so damned adorable they make ME wanna get all coupled up!
Speaking of “Georgia O’Queef”…
Anyway, enjoy this week’s recap, and I hope you catch the bouquet! And be prepared, this week’s departure is a heartbreaker. (So, yes… She gets a special tribute at the end of the recap. Watch ’til the end! Props 4ever!).
BenDeLaCreme and I respond to this week’s elimination. Waaaaaaahhhhh!
And SPOILER ALERT: I’m gonna spill all the drag wedding what-nots in this recap so if you’ve not watched the episode yet, then march down the aisle to LogoTV.com and take care of that first.
Now, Everybody Say LOVE!!!!
Cher’s family, Paula Abdul and a bunch of jungle creatures invaded RuPaul’s Drag Race last week. Let’s discuss the shenanigans in a new Extra Lap Recap, chickens!
Yes, animal lovers… The runway became a heavy petting zoo as birds took flight, cheetahs pranced, elephants walked and Paula Abdul even rush-rushed in for a she-union with her former Idol pup Adore Delano. An extra-large version of the Scruff Pit Crew stunk up the runway with their man-scent for some mini-challenge wordplay called “Hungmen.” And… CHER’S ENTIRE IMMEDIATE FAMILY played couch potatoes and tested our Top 7 queens’ talk show hosting duties. Love you, Georgia. You too, Chaz! Tell your mom I said “hi!”
And contrary to Cher’s Burlesque braying, it turns out you have seen the last of “You’ve Got SheMail,” as a six-season tagline got retired tonight. You can follow different sides of the debate about that on Facebook, the Huffington Post and at your local Wig Emporium, but I’m adopting the Jinkx Monsoon school of thought: “Water off a duck’s back!” Or maybe “Baby oil off a tuck’s crack?” Wait… I’m not sure that even makes sense.
Anyway, we’re down to our top six now, because one beloved queenly firebird has left us all smoldering in her wake. SHE WILL BE MISSED. And holy f*$k!! How about that lip-sync??? Who knew Paula Abdul’s “Vibeology” was the killer lip-sync jam of all time. Go Paula! I’m in a funky way… Still!
SPOILER ALERT: I spill the “T” on which of our wild runway animals was set free this week, so if you haven’t yet watched the episode, steer your safari Jeep over to LogoTV and take care of that. And because someone often asks, this week my “No Shade” sweatshirt came from the fabulous Patricia Field store in NYC. Later, cheetahs!
“Oh Scruff Pit Creeewwwwwwww!”
“Dumbo-no-she-bettah-don’t!”
This week, life got Rupersized as we got two RuPaul’s Drag Race episodes in one night. So, we’ve got two Extra Lap Recaps for you, too! Paint on some Glamazon makeup and then get ready to smudge it all up giggling at the “Drag Queens of Comedy!”
Yes, first up when the queens have to make commercials for RuPaul’s Glamazon cosmetics for ColorEvolution, things get tricky. Working in pairs brings out their bitchiness, and when it’s time to sell the product, some of our supermodels flop when their lip gloss should pop! And brace yourself for a shocker of an ending!!!
And then below, I’m recapping the “Drag Queens of Comedy” episode, where our queens hit the stage in a good old stand-up comedy smackdown. Who’ll slay ‘em? Who’ll slump? You may be surprised…
And a quick final note, to snatch up some of Ru’s Glamazon cosmetics and fragrance, sashay over to ColorEvolution.com! And if you’re into my sassy T-shirt in the “Drag Queens of Comedy” recap, hit up the bearishly fabulous lads at Big Boy Vintage. Grrrrr!
SPOILER ALERT: I tell you wins and who goes home in these recaps, so if you’ve not watched yet, do that first at LogoTV.com. And no matter how you watch, just please be sure to look painted and glam doing it… After all, “the most unforgettable women in the world wear… GLAMAZON!”
“Oh, Yes They Better Did!” This week’s our RuPaul’s Drag Race queens laid down some ’90s-girl-rap realness! Who was spicy like Salt-N-Pepa? And who could have truly used some TLC? Watch a new Extra Lap Recap and get served.
That’s right… With legendary lady rappers Eve and Trina in the house, our queens were asked to put their things down, flip it and reverse it! And they DID — with varying results! Were you feeling Team Panty Ho’s? Are were all about the Ru Tang Clan? And cutting to the chase, kittens… This week’s elimination is a divisive one. Watch and sound off! But… SPOILER ALERT: I spill all the T on who won and who got booted, so if you’ve not yet watched, visit LogoTV.com first and have at it.
AND, if you’re loving the tune “Oh No She Better Don’t” by RuPaul, DJ Shyboy and the queens, do the Dougie over to iTunes and purchase it for your sexy self. Proceeds of the sale will go to benefit the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center‘s outreach services for homeless LGBT youth. Props to that!
Finally, I’m leaving you with two things. 1) Yes, that IS Roxanne Shanté on the pink T-shirt I wear for a minute in this week’s recap. Her bust-out hit “Roxanne’s Revenge” was my junior-high jam! And 2) If you like my Keith Haring T-shirt I got it at Patricia Field in NYC, which is basically where all good things come from!
Everybody say love! And then everybody say “#GUNNTY!” XO!
Two words, kids: SNATCH GAME! Yes, tonight RuPaul’s Drag Race featured guest appearances by such stars as Judge Judy, Dame Maggie Smith, Paula Deen, Kim Kardashian – and the late Anna Nicole Smith and Julia Child. Who scored? Who bored? Watch and find out!
This season they made The Snatch Game the entire heart and soul of this episode… Did you like? Did it measure up to Snatch Games past? And did you dig the runway parade of the queens serving “Night of 1,000 RuPauls”??? So much identity theft going on! Who was the smoothest criminal?
Watch this week’s Extra Lap Recap and sound off! But SPOILER ALERT I do spill the beans on who gets sent home, so if you’ve not watch the real episode yet, flounce on over to LogoTV.com and take care of that, pronto!
Not to be left out, I took a twirl with my own lewk for “Night of 1,000 RuPauls.” We’ll call this pic below A Scary Brady Sequel. Boo! Mrs. Cummings IS BACK!
That’s Mrs. Cummings, if you’re nasty.
Attention Broadway Babies! Last week on RuPaul’s Drag Race, our queens got their Patti LuPone on as they staged “Shade: The Rusical!” Let’s recap… “Add ‘em up, Bobby! Add ‘em up!”
Our fair ladyboys went for it lasts week… Singing! Dancing! They could have pranced all night! Some were “Dreamgirls”… Some weren’t. But all in all, I was living for this musical remix of Phantom meets Rent meets Cats meets 42nd Street meets… Dreamgirls! And yes, for last week’s Extra Lap Recap I felt the need to dress up. IT’S OPENING NIGHT, after all!
Also, look for glam appearances in the episode from the legendary Sheryl Lee Ralph, contemporary trans icon and musical genius Our Lady J, the ever-cute and talented Lucian Piane (Ru’s music producer) and watch to see if our queenly music veterans (Aussie Idol alum Courtney Act, American Idol vet Adore Delano!) defy gravity… Or are they losing their minds?
I don’t think I’m using this tape properly…
SPOILER ALERT: I’m gonna tell you who shuffles off to Buffalo in this recap too, so if you haven’t watched the full episode, get to LogoTV.com now. See you at Joe Allen’s after! And all that jazz…
Also, watch and find out which queen gets a loving parental message in Untucked, which queen doesn’t understand fart jokes, and which queen just needs to suck on a big fat cork! Don’t you just love theatre people???
Hey, scaredy-cats! Colby Keller joins me this week as Extra Lap Recap gives you all the gory details about this week’s horror-ific episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race!
This week, the queens were finally all competing together and it was a massacre, Mary. Officially! Yes… Not since Paris Hilton got slayed in House of Wax has it been so much fun watching gals get their scream on! And the icing on this demented devil’s food cheesecake: Guest judges Lena Headey (aka Game of Thrones’ HBIC Cersei) and thriller movie legend, her fierceness Linda Blair! #AllPeaSoupAllShade (I stole that from Sharon Needles).
Colby and I get our scream on!
Enjoy the recap! Get into my Elvira T-shirt! Get into my extra-special guest Colby Keller and his WoWie-Award-winning blog (NSFW)! Goodness knows he’s worth screaming about! Rowwwrrrr! And sadly, say goodbye to the fierce eliminated queen who didn’t survive this week’s bloodbath. SPOILER ALERT: If you’ve not seen the episode yet, get over to LogoTV.com and spook it. NOW!
Also, expect more fun Colby Keller hijinks here this week. We’ve got a special #JohnPollySays interview coming at you, soon!
Got Milk? How about Bianca Del Rio? Or maybe a big ol’ drink of Darienne Lake? Yes, the second batch of queens arrived on RuPaul’s Drag Race this week, so let’s RECAP!
Oh, squirrelfriends… Last week as feathers and shade were flying, we watched a gorgeous Aussie liven up the party, and we saw a whole lot of Joslyn Fox‘s bushy little tail. And since we’re on the subject of ladies’ nether regions, aren’t you glad to know that Khloe Kardashian has a large and in-charge cooter? Hurrah!!!
Anyway… Please enjoy last week’s recap shenanigans. And look out for special cameos by Drag Race alumni Morgan McMichaels and Jade Jolie! And in case you’re new to this gig: There will be SPOILERS! So, if you’ve not yet watched last week’s party-hearty episode, please go do that first at LogoTV.com.
And just for laughs, here’s shot of me, Morgan and Jade inhaling toxic bird feathers in the studio. GACK.
If you need me, I’ll be breathing heavily in my cow mask. (Watch the recap; it’ll make sense.) Or you can just follow me via @JohnPollySays. Moooooo!
The wait is over! Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race has begun and I’m back again with a new season of Extra Lap Recaps! Make like the queens did this week and “Jump in!” WATCH!
So, what did you think of last week’s premiere episode? Did you like getting to know the first 7 queens? Are you ready for tonight’s SECOND premiere? Do you agree that two big openings are better than one?
Queen-wise, who do you love? Do you adore Adore? Is LaGanja smokin’? Is Gia Gunn firing blanks? Enjoy the recap! And check me out… I’ve got two heads, too! Eat that Vivacious!
And if you need to watch the premiere episode before letting me talk too much and spoil it all for you, then go to LogoTV.com and get into it!
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At a Met Ball after-party, Jay Z was attacked by his wife’s little sister, fashion icon Solange. It went down in an elevator at the Standard hotel in New York. From TMZ:
In the video … Jay Z, Beyonce and Solange step into the elevator … and then Solange goes crazy, screaming at Jay before unleashing a violent attack. A large man — who appears to be a bodyguard — attempts to hold Solange back, but she manages to connect at least 3 times. At one point Solange throws a kick and Jay grabs her foot, but never attempts to strike her. Beyonce stands by without getting physically involved.
The reason behind the altercation is unclear, but in a photo of the group as the emerge from the elevator, Solange looks piiiiiiiiiissed, while Beyonce looks strangely amused.
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Obviously, having an out-proud NFL player is VERY TROUBLING, and your kids are going to have lots of questions. Here’s how to deal with the problem of Michael Sam.
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On this episode of Alyssa’s Secret, Alyssa and her drag daughter Shangela tell the story of how the two divas met! Click over to watch!
Get into new episodes of Alyssa’s Secret every Monday on WOWPresents!
Previous Episode:
Alyssa is joined by her drag daughter Shangela from RuPaul’s Drag Race seasons 2 and 3 for Mother’s Day and shenanigans ensue.
Alyssa Edwards tells the story of how she was pulled over by the police in full drag! Did her beauty get her out of a ticket? Watch this episode of Alyssa’s Secret and find out!
Alyssa Edwards talks about her first kiss on this episode of Alyssa’s Secret!
Alyssa Edwards dyes some good ol Easter eggs while she talks about her Easter traditions and how she celebrated Easter as a kid! On this special episode of Alyssa’s Secret!
Want to know what Alyssa Edwards does before she performs? What does Miss Alyssa have to do before she can kick, dip, spin, and pose? What’s her poison before taking the stage? You’re going to have to watch this latest episode of Alyssa’s Secret to find out.
Ever wonder what Alyssa Edwards has for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? What’s the first thing she does when she wakes up? What time does she get home from work? What does she do after work? Find ALL of that out in this video!
Alyssa Edwards experienced her first earthquake while she was in LA and she lived to tell the story on this episode of Alyssa’s Secret! I think we can all agree that Alyssa Edwards would be the most fun person to be around during a natural disaster, am I right?
This episode of Alyssa’s Secret is jam-packed with bloopers of miss Alyssa Edwards doing what she does best!
On this episode of Alyssa’s Secret, Alyssa Edwards tells a hilarious/LIFE THREATENING story about the time her and Vivienne Pinay were in Jamaica! I think we can all agree on one thing, Alyssa Edwards is one of the greatest story tellers!
On this episode of Alyssa’s Secret, Alyssa Edwards talks about being a business woman fish at Beyond Belief Dance Company!
Want to know what Alyssa Edwards would be doing if she wasn’t getting up in drags or dancing at Beyond Belief? Watch this episode of Alyssa’s Secret and find out!
Watch more episodes!
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Hot boys! Pretty boys! Nerds, bears and twinks! We’ve got Hollywood’s hottest dudes RIGHT HERE! Aaron Johnson! Colin Jost! THE RED POWER RANGER! Check them out NOW!
An ovary-bursting image if ever I saw one! Aaron Taylor-Johnson poses with wee Carson Bolde at the 2014 An Evening with Women Benefiting LA Gay & Lesbian Center at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Omg, this makes me want a gaybie to dress up and pose with!
Chris Hardwick, the geek Gosling, also at An Evening with Women.
New Weekend Update hunk Colin Jost (COLIN! COLIN! I LOVE YOU! OMG! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEE!) leaves the NBC studios. Now, that there is some HUSBAND MATERIAL. Whooo.
Adam Levine debuts his new denture-colored hairdo. Looks like one of those five in the morning “oh-my-god-let’s-dye-your-hair!” tweaker project.
A Red Power Ranger sighting! A Red Power Ranger sighting! What a sight! What a thrill! More elusive than Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood and Doris Day COMBINED, hunky Andrew Gray – from the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers of course – is photographed filling up his car at a Los Angeles gas station.
Aaaaaaand we move further into “unfamous celebrity” territory with Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall at 102.7 KIIS FM’s 2014 Wango Tango at StubHub Center in Los Angeles. I have no idea who they are, but what a bromantic pic. I will definitely check out their next movie/song/YouTube project.
Finally, for the ginger fetishists out there, I have Domhnall Gleeson, who is to appear in Star Wars VII, seen here at the ITV London Studios after appearing on the Paul O’Grady Show.
Photos: Pacific Coast News
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That’s it, the Maleficent movie clearly needs a re-shoot because they cast the wrong mistress of all evil! This fabulous portrait – showing off Deven Green’s true talents – was created by the wonderful Franz Szony. Here’s what he has to say about his piece, titled “Cast By Spell:”
“Maleficent has been my favorite animated character since I was a child. It seemed the perfect time to create a piece of art in homage to the 1959 Marc Davis animation. Using black paper and smoke grenades, I transformed the fabulous Deven Green into this incredible villain.”
Make sure to follow him for more of his amazing work on Instagram, and if you’re not already following Deven Green on every social media platform available to man – then what’s wrong with you?
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The guest judges of RuPaul’s Drag Race season six read The World According to Wonder backstage on set! Check out the exclusive pictures after the jump!
You can get your copy of The World According to Wonder on Amazon or on the iBook store and be just like these RuPaul’s Drag Race guest judges!
(photo by Thairin Smothers)
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Spoiled brats at a posh school commit a monstrous crime. Been there, done that. But THE CAST. Omg, the cast of The Riot Club contains only the HOTTEST GUYS IN THE WORLD: Max Irons, Douglas Booth, Sam Claflin, and MY FAVORITE Freddie Fox. And the female lead is none other than Natalie Dormer – UM, MAERGERY TYRELL ON GAME OF THRONES! It doesn’t get better than that. I absolutely INSIST you watch the trailer RIGHT NOW.
Fabulous, right? “I am SICK TO DEATH of POOR PEOPLE!” “HERE! HERE!” It’s a mashup of The Secret History, Dead Poets Society, Fight Club, gay porn, and The Skulls. I am SO DOWN.
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World of Wonder’s The Last Beekeeper is now available on iTunes! Read about the film after the jump and download the film today!
Download The Last Beekeeper on iTunes today!
Bees are vanishing. Examining the enormity of this loss, Jeremy Simmons’ Emmy winning documentary The Last Beekeeper follows the lives of three commercial beekeepers (from South carolina, Montana, and Washington) over the course of a year as they struggle with Colony Collapse Disorder.
When they take their bees to California’s enormous annual almond pollination (an event so large it requires nearly all the bees in the US), it becomes painfully and poignantly clear the bind they are in. “If all the bees die, what do you have to live for?” asks one of the beekeepers. It’s a question for all of us.
Jeremy Simmons’ Emmy winning documentary The Last Beekeeper, a World of Wonder film produced by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, had its world premiere at the SXSW film festival on March 14, 2009, and premiered on Planet Green on September 12, 2009.
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Hang on to your cowls, kids, director Zack Snyder just tweeted a pic of Ben Affleck in the new Batman suit from the upcoming Batman Vs. Superman movie, and it is AWESOME. According to commenters at io9, who lightened the image, it’s got creepy veins or uneven seams or SOMETHING ODD going on. And the bat insignia is MUCH LARGER. He looks bulkier, more menacing, more like Bane in a batsuit. This is not your older brother’s Batman, not by a long shot. Goodbye, Christan Bale. I LOVE THIS.
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From MTV News:
Just a passing glance at the new Batsuit, with its stubbier ears, large emblem and gauntlet-like gloves, that this is the Batman from The Dark Knight Returns.
Batman’s suit obviously plays into that, but also the man beneath it. Soon after Ben Affleck joined the movie, there were rumors floating around that he had already started to bulk up. Those rumors now appear to be very, very true. While Christian Bale wasn’t exactly lean during his tenure as Bruce Wayne, Affleck is built like a bulldog.
Since Snyder took the first photo in a low-contrast monochrome, many of the other details in the Batsuit are hard to make out. It’s possible that the main portion of the costume falls in line with the Dark Knight Returns gray aesthetic, but we’ll have to wait for a color photo.
The suit itself has a texture that looks almost sinewy. Random scratches in the texture hint at the description of a worn-down Batman that we’ve been hearing for some time now. The scuffs even extend to the symbol on his chest. This Batman has seen some hard times.
His belt is a good deal blockier than any Batman before, making it probably the most practical to date. You can also just barely make out blades along his forearms.
The reaction to the suit thus far has been positive, but this is a comic book movie we’re talking about. By the time you read this, there may already be backlash to the backlash.
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The Plastics are a singing group consisting of Toby Sheldon – the man who underwent $100,000 worth of plastic surgery to look like Justin Bieber – RuPaul’s Drag Race season three contestent Venus D’Lite – who spent thousands to look like her idol Madonna – and Kitty Jay who spent $25,000 to look like Jennifer Lawrence. The song is, of course, about their many plastic surgery endeavors, and it’s probably the most brilliant thing you’ll hear all day. Trust me. You’ll want this on your iPod cardio jam playlist.
And how ’bout that Toby Shelton? Hubba hubba, right? MONEY WELL SPENT, I’d say.
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