Beverly Hill’s poshest pooch is Prince of Pumps starring La Toya Jackson’s precious pomeranian, Prince! With the voice by Latrice Royale! Watch episode three where Prince drools over La Toya’s Giorgio Christian Louboutin heels!

And don’t forget to tune into OWN tonight at 10PM to catch the all-new season of Life with La Toya!

Previous Episodes:

Giorgio Armani

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Christian Louboutin

Salvatore Ferragamo 

Ralph Lauren

Prince of Pumps is light-hearted web series that takes us inside the head of La Toya Jackson’s prize pup as he shares his unique point of view on her to-die-for designer shoes.  Each episode  Prince talks about a different pair of Mama Toy-Toy’s pumps. The voice of Prince is provided by RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 favorite, Latrice Royale. Prince of Pumpspremieres Saturday on World of Wonder‘s original channel, WOWPresents. New episode of Prince of Pumps every Saturday morning, only onWOWPresents. And his master’s series Life with La Toya premieres Saturday, June 7th on OWN.

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My list of THE HOTTEST MOVIE STARS ever to grace the silver screen, from the silent era to this afternoon. They’re all here. Check them out after the jump. (PS This list is NON-NEGOTIABLE). 

1. Richard Barthlemess: You can have your Valentinos and John Gilberts. For my money, the hottest silent actor was Richard Barthlemess, star of DW Griffith classics Broken Blossoms and Way Down East. So gorg. And always so watchable. Check him out in 1921′s Tol’able David, and you’ll be smitten too.

2. Ramon Novarro – Mexican silent fim star whose lurid death-by-lead-dildo at the hands of two hustlers often overshadows his career.

3. Tyrone Power: Never in the history of motion pictures has there been anyoone as breathtaking as the young Tyrone Power. MY GOD, he was MAGNIFICENT. Just a pretty, pretty man. Unfortunately, he drank away his good looks, and by his 30s he was merely adequate-looking. Very sad.

4. Farley Granger:  Farley made a career out of being wide-eyed and perennially out of his league in films like Strangers on a Train and Rope. In real life, Farley was openly gay at a time in Hollywood when it was dangerous to be so. A personal hero of mine.

5. Sal Mineo: From his career-making role as the little gay boy in love with James Dean in Rebel without a Cause to his controversial later roles like Who Killed Teddy Bear, Sal broke boundaries and lived on the edge his entire life . Definitely an icon for the ages.

6. Brando: Only the manliest man to ever walk the face of the earth.

7. Tab Hunter: In his recent autobiography, the ’50s matinee idol talks about the burden of being SO BEAUTIFUL as a teenager that he LITERALLY caused riots in the schoolyard during recess, with swarms of girls pulling at his hair and ripping his clothes off. How fabulous is THAT?

8. Paul Newman: It doesn’t get any better than Paul Newman. Young Newman took your breath away. Old Newman was just as hot.

9. Alain Delon: Whatta man. The pride of France. Yes, he’s a bit of an asshole (see: his treatment of his son by Warhol Superstar Nico) and he grizzled into a bit of an ogre, but to see him in Purple Noon is to see A GOD UPON THE EARTH.

10. Leonard Whiting: Easily the best-looking Romeo of all time, sorry Leonardo. To see him in Franco Zefrelli’s 1968 version of Rome & Juliet is to glimpse perfection.

11. Richard Gere: Three words: American Gigolo OMG

12. Johnny Depp: To be clear, we’re talking ’90s era Johnny. Cry-Baby, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow. Nothing past Chocolat.

13. Leonardo DiCaprio: Our golden-haired boy. What would the ’90s have been without him?

14. Brad Pitt: There was a time, around Meet Joe Black, when the audience LITERALLY GASPED every time the camera went on him.

15. Ryan Gosling: The hottest man of the 21st century, no doubt about it.

16. Zac Efron. Just let me have it. No arguing please. I think he’s our generation’s Tyron Power.

17. Michael B Jordan: Future Oscar winner who’s only going to get better with age.

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A primer for millennials on the 75 must-have albums they need to own, because whether they want to believe it or not THERE ACTUALLY WAS MUSIC BEFORE BEYONCÉ. 

Some albums EVERYBODY needs to have. Albums like The Beatles Abby Road or Carol King’s Tapestry or, I don’t know, Duran Duran’s Rio. (I’m from the ’80s). Those albums aren’t included here. That’s not what we’re doing. These are the GAY ESSENTIALS. It’s the music that captivated, inspired, and defined generations of gay men… before Gaga. It’s a syllabus of required listening that every gay man absolutely NEEDS to hear before he dies. It’s Homo 101 on the WOW Report.

Like my previous list of the 50 Movies Every Gay Man Needs to Watch, the music here is aimed at millennials and includes mostly pre-90s music that I think they really ought to be acquainted with.

So here we go. The 75 Albums every gay man NEEDS to own (in no particular order, get your panties out of a bunch):

1. Judy Garland, Judy at Carnegie Hall: Universally acknowledged as “The Greatest Night in Show Business History,” Judy’s Carnegie Hall performance is absolutely mandatory, there’s no two ways about it. Judy was pretty much a slurry old has-been by 1961 – a drug addict who couldn’t be counted on to even show up half the time, much less make it through a show. But this time was different. When she took to the stage at Carnegie Hall, she opened her mouth and she sang and she sang until she BROUGHT THE MOTHERFUCKING HOUSE DOWN. She sang like she was drowning and the notes were oxygen. Nobody has ever lived each phrase, each line, each word like Judy. Not Beyonce. Not Adele. Not Amy Winehouse. This is the real deal. You aren’t really gay until you’ve done Judy at Carnegie Hall.
2. Barbra Streisand, The Second Barbra Streisand Album: Any of those first albums will do, actually. Any of the music she made before the ego and the brittle perfectionism got in the way of THAT VOICE. Barbra, unhinged, is a force of nature. Listening to her as she careens wildly from note to note is absolutely intoxicating, and when you hear, say, “Like a Straw in the Wind” or “I Don’t Care Much,” suddenly you’ll understand the Church of Barbra.
3. Billie Holiday, any Billy Holiday collection. Billie doesn’t sing so much as open a vein onstage and bleed for you. Poor thing. She was so beat down – by poverty, by drugs, by racism, by the men in her life – it’s a wonder she could sing at all. But, by god, she dragged herself onto that stage every night and infused every note of every song with that heartache and despair. Her unique voice and phrasing isn’t always pretty, but you need to experience it. It will actually hurt your heart to hear it.
4. David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust: Glam-Rock at its best. Loosely based on a story of a fictional alien rock superstar named Ziggy Stardust, this album did more for generations of sexually ambiguous freaks and outsiders than a million gay pride parades.
5. The Velvet Underground and Nico: Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico – with its songs about drug abuse, hustlers, S&M and all sorts of fabulous sexual deviancy – shows the kids that their generation didn’t invent sleaze and decadence.
6. Lou Reed, Transformer: Dismissed by Rolling Stone when it came out as “artsy-fartsy, sort of homo stuff,” that’s exactly reason you’re going to love it. Songs like “Perfect Day,” “Satellite of Love,” “Andy’s Chest,” and of course “Walk on the Wild Side” still speak to us today and remain important hallmarks of gay culture.
7. T-Rex, The Slider: The mascara’d beauty of Marc Bolan coupled with over-the-top glam-rock power chords make this a must-have album for every gay cock-rocker. Bulges and glitter, baby.
8. Blondie, Parallel Lines: See why gay men of a certain age still SWOON when they see a pic of legendary frontwoman Debbie Harry. With her combination of underground grit and old-school glamour, she made the testosterone-heavy punk scene accessible to gay men. Every single song on this album is sheer perfection.
9. Siouxsie & the Banshees, Hyaena: There is a whole generation of gay men (myself included) who openly weep at the those first chords of “Dear Prudence.” Wither our lost youth?
10. The Smiths, Meat Is Murder: Ditto “How Soon is Now”
11. Cher What can we say about Cher that hasn’t been said a gazillion times? She’s timeless. She’s camp. She’s the ultimate gay goddess. Cher’s ’70s disco albums are probably her most fun, although there was usually only one KILLER single on it and A LOT of filler. So go for a “Best of” collection. Just make sure that it has “Bang Bang,” “Half-Breed,” “Take Me Home,” “Dark Lady,” and “Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves,” of course.
12. Diana Ross, Diana: Diana reinvents herself again – post-Supremes, post-disco era – with a fresh new sound and a youthful new image. And even though ”I’m Coming Out” was a huge gay anthem, at the time straight people had NOT A CLUE that’s what it was actually about. Which made watching them sing along to it on the radio ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL.
13. Madonna, The Immaculate Collection: Before she was a gristly old lady embarrassing herself with younger guys and flashing her nips at concerts, she really did change the world. See what the fuss was about with this “Best of” collection.
14. Kylie Minogue one of the Best of or Greatest Remixes albums because she’s Kylie and nobody loves you more than Kylie does.
15. ABBA, Gold: The perfect party album. Livens up any gathering.
16. Grace Jones, Nightclubbing: The most glamorous most provacative genderfuck (YEAH, I SAID IT!) ever, Grace has been the object of fetishistic worship for gay men since the early ’70s. When you saw this album in someone’s dorm room, YOU KNEW they were gay
17. Sylvester, Step II:  Our Sister of the Heavenly Voice made everybody feel mighty real on the dance floor. Listening to these songs was the VERY ESSENCE of the ’70s gay experience.
18. Deelite, World Clique: Only THE GREATEST ALBUM OF THE ’90s, of course. Local scenesters made good. When Deelite broke out, it was a victory for every clubkid, every drag queen, and every dancefloor superstar. Lady Miss Kier was one of us, and the love and pride we felt for her was overwhelming. I’m tearing up just writing this. World Clique wasn’t just a great album, it was the validation of an entire LIFESTYLE.
19. RuPaul, Supermodel: And then there’s Ru. And the album that started the drag revolution. Fabulous beyond fabulous, of course, and one for the ages.
20. Rocky Horror Picture Show: Lipsyncing along to “Sweet Transvestite” and “Time Warp” alone in your room is something all little gay boys should experience, don’t you think?
21. Dream Girls: Not the movie version. The original cast album featuring Jennifer Holliday, pleeeeeeeease. If you’ve never heard her versions of “And I Am Telling You” and “I Am Changing” WHAT ARE YOU DOING READING THIS LIST? Hurry. Go to Youtube IMMEDIATELY. Then get the whole album.
22. Cabaret: Liza, Joel Grey, music by Kander & Ebb, what’s not to love? Not one throw-away track on the whole album. “Maybe This Time,” “Money,” Mein Herr”… They’re classics for a reason.
23. Hedwig and the Angry Inch  It doesn’t always get better, does it? Sometimes life gets worse. John Cameron Mitchell knows what it’s like to be too sensitive for this world, to be ahead of your time, to be misunderstood. Howl along with Hedwig, honey. Get it all out. 
24. Little Shop of Horrors: Marvelous camp-fest featuring a Motown-singing, man-eating plant. But it’s the ballads – “Suddenly Seymour” and the heartbreaking “Somewhere That’s Green” – that make this a must-have for every gay man longing for Mr Right.
25. Rent: I don’t know. I’ve never seen it. But there seems to be an absolute religion that’s sprouted up around it, so I’m including it.
26. Queen, Day at the Races: Frontman Freddie Mercury’s bombastic, stadium-filling gayness was one of those weird, unexplainable ’70s thing. I guess it was the power of the music and the purity of Freddie’s voice that transcended sexual identity and brought gays and straights together.
27. Culture Club, Color by Numbers: It’s Culture Club at the very height of their popularity, with perfect MTV-ready songs sung by the quintessential ’80s pop confection, Boy George. Doesn’t get better than this.
28. Malcom McLaren, Fans: The mastermind behind punk rock attempted to fuse opera with hip-hop in this 1984 album. The result was something of a flop, but a glorious flop, and, oh, how the glitterati loved it. “Madame Butterfly” was absolutely the height of chic that year, and to this day nothing says FAAAAAAABULOUS like those opening chords.
29. The Cocteau Twins, The Pink Opaque: The title here just sums up the sound in a nutshell. It’s the aural equivialent of an out-of-body experience. Perfect k-hole music.
30. Bronski Beat, Age of Consent: Angsty gay boys to the dance floor please! Haircuts + politically-charged gay anthems = Dance pop perfection. Every song on this album speaks to the solitary, disenfranchised homo sobbing alone in the corner.
31. Erasure, Wonderland: Same message as Bronski Beat but with a slightly lighter tone. This is the mainstreaming of the gay agenda aimed squarely at the MTV audience.
32. Marc Almond, Mother Fist and her Five Daughters: Marc is the ‘80s equivilant of Kurt Weill and his music speaks to the eternal, dark underbelly of gay culture. He takes that Wildean adage of looking at the stars from the muck of the gutter to new extremes. It’s art. But it’s raunchy art. And you can dance to it. So… you’re going to love it.
33. Jobriath, Lonely Planet Boy: A super-gay glam-rock god who was unfairly relegated to the dustbin of pop culture history, his music has been described as a cross between early 1970s albums, with some decidedly Jaggeresque vocals. His lyrics combine science fiction imagery with S&M themes and tributes to female movie icons. It’s all wildly flamboyant and perversely over-the-top, trust me, you’ll love it.
34. Dead or Alive, Youthquake: Dead or Alive may have arrived in Culture Club’s wake, but they were freakier, more fetishistic, and kind of more fun. George wasn’t wearing ass-less chaps and a jockstrap like his evil twin, Pete Burns. And whereas George coyly sang about karma chameleons and churches with poisoned minds, Pete just put it out there: He wanted to fuck. Hard. Now.
35. Missing Persons, Session M:  Frontwoman Dale Bozio was Gaga before Gaga. The plexiglass bra, the kooky colored hair, that NOSE – watch the videos for “Words” and “Destination Unknown” and tell me she isn’t sitting at home every night, sobbing and cutting herself watching Gaga videos.
36. Berlin, Pleasure Victim: The song “Sex” hit like a bombshell in 1983. It’s message that literally anything goes in the bedroom was both titillating and dangerous in a decade that was just waking up to the danger AIDS.
37. Nina Hagen, Any of the following albums – Nina Hagen Band, NunSexMonkRock, Fearless, or Ekstasy – will do. Nina, of course, is blessed with a vivid and commanding voice that can literally do anything, from gutteral growls to bird-like chirps. Her music is so fun, you don’t need to speak German to enjoy it.
38. Bjork, Debut: The ultimate ’90s alt-girl with a hyper-specific voice that can go from 0 to 60 in one note.
39. Yma Sumac, Legend of the Sun Virgin: The Peruvian soprano with the four-octave voice was always a bit of a mystery: Was she an Incan princess, as she claimed? Or a Brooklyn housewife named Amy Camus (Yma Sumac spelt backwards)? Who cares. The voice. The music. The overall nuttiness. It’s euphoric.
40. Klaus Nomi, Klaus Nomi: File under: Know Your Gay Icons. The highly theatrical art-world star looked like a New Wave pierrot and sang with an other-worldly operatic falsetto. Visionary New York underground chic at its finest.
41. Divine, The Story So Far: Not much of a singer, granted, but a helluva performer, and if the music on these tracks is a little generic, the sheer force of her personality will win you over.
42. Eartha Kitt, Purr-fect:Greatest Hits:  Eartha was sexy, she was smart, she sang about gold diggers, cha cha heels, and lusting after muscle men. She was more of a  drag queen than most drag queens. Discover her provocative pre-Catwoman career.
43. Donna Summer, Bad Girls: The quintessential disco album, a must-have for ’70s-themed parties. 
44. Millie Jackson, Live and Outrageous: A primer for every bad-ass, loud-mouthed, shit-talking drag queen out there. With extended monologues about cheating men and kicking the ass, you’ll see this is still one thoroughly modern Millie.
45. Patti Labelle, Spirits in It:  Her rendition of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is probably the gayest song of all time. Listening it automatically turns straight men into foot-stomping, finger-snapping drag queens. By the time she has belted out that last note, you are literally tucked and wearing a wig.
46. Bette Midler, The Divine Miss M: It’s hard to imagine the seismic effect this album had gay culture in the ’70s, but oh lordy, it did. There wasn’t a gay man from WeHo to P-Town that didn’t have this on their turntable every waking moment of their day. It was EVERYTHING. It was LIFE. If Beyonce and Gaga and Lana Del Rey and Katy Perry and Rihanna all sang “I Am What I Am” to a throbbing disco beat, it wouldn’t be HALF as gay – or as popular – as this album was.
47. Liza Minnelli, Liza with a Z:  Based on the groundbreaking 1972 television concert (produced by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, with costumes by Halston) Liza with a Z was a fizzy combination of popular songs and standards, music from Cabaret, and songs specifically written for her by Kander and Ebb that helped cement her ’70s it-girl status. You can’t listen to it without gasping at the powerhouse she once was. Truly, her mother’s daughter.
48. Nancy Sinatra, Boots: Pop nepotism at its finest. Nancy had perfect look for the time, and the perfect pop sound for the time. And to this DAY, drag queens can still lipsync to “Boots” and it feels just as fresh as the first time you saw it.
49. Sade, Diamond Life: And here’s your music to fuck to. Diamond Life set the mood. When somebody put that album on, you knew your were going to plowed. But GOOD.
50. George Michael, Faith: The ultimate ’80s A-gay made his solo debut with this album, and the QUEENS WENT BANANAS FOR IT. Every single song was better than the one before it. “Faith,” “I want Your Sex,” “Father Figure,” “Kissing a Fool” – Why, he was the new Elton John! Such a magical time in pop.
51. Kate Bush, The Kick Inside:  That shocking  pixie voice singing those highbrow ballads, Kate Bush is so odd, but so compelling. She is a complete original.
52. Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes: The alt-rock salve for your sexually-damaged soul.
53. Yaz, Upstairs at Erics and You & Me Both: The criminally underrated dance goddess Alison Moyet still sounds incredibly fresh today. This is electronic music with soul. There is no excuse for you not to have these two albums. Period.
54. The Carpenters, Singles: The syrupy-sweet brother/sister duo consistently churned out hit after hit for 70′s AM Radio. Often critically panned as fluff, but universally idolized by generations of tomboys and delicate ladyboys. (And Karen Carpenter’s shocking death from anorexia in 1983 made her a weird camp icon.)
55. The Partridge Family, Greatest Hits: The “band” was a studio manufactured result of the hit television show of the same name. Their success can be attributed as the blueprint of modern-day cross-merchandising. David Cassidy was a hot teenage dream that little girls, and many little boys, understood very well…  Without Cassidy there would be no Bieber, no 1 Direction… but beware, his rise was as swift as his fall. A cautionary tale for the would-be pop star.
56. Dionne Warwick, Best of: Her partnership with prolific songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David made her one of the biggest hit maker of the rock era. With 56 singles making the hot 100 between 1962 and 1988 her honey/whiskey voice inspired generations of love-hungry boys and female impersonators. She was also an early champion of AIDs awareness with financial proceeds from her superstar collaboration with Elton John, Stevie wonder and Gladys knight with “That’s What Friends Are For” going to AIDS research.
57. Patsy Kline, Best Of: Patsy was a timeless, unparalleled pioneer for female performers. Her brash, feisty rope-’em-and-tie-’em-up sensibilities have struck a chord with legions of gay fans who idolize her strong, no-nonsense – yet incredibly heartbreaking – song stylings. Also: It doesn’t hurt to have Jessica Lange star in your posthumous life story either.
58. Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner’s Daughter: Loretta was country when country wasn’t cool. Ultimately, she’s an American success story, rising from a dirt poor, child bride in the seeded hills of Kentucky to become a bonafide, Wesson Oil-fried superstar. She sang about subjects considered risque and taboo – birth control, adultery, alcoholism – during a time when women and minorities had few rights and fewer national platforms for vocalizing their opinions. A classic champion for the underdog in us all.
59. Dolly Parton any Best of collection (as long as it has “Jolene” and “Coat of Many Colors” on it): Dolly loves and understands her LGBT fan base just as much as we love and understand her. As Dolly often states: “I’ve always said it’s a good thing I was born a woman or I would have been a drag queen.” As gay men, we relate to her flamboyance. We also love her outgoing personality, and her unwavering mantra of acceptance. She inspires us all to be who we are.
60. Dusty Springfield, Dusty in Memphis: With Dusty, it’s all about her zeitgeist-y look – with those the big, false eyelashes and that peroxide bouffant – and those theatrical hand gestures that every drag queen emulates, knowingly or unknowingly (I’m looking at you, Lady Bunny.) Blue-eyed soul at it’s absolute best.
61. Janis Ian, Between the Lines: Janis was an ugly girl who sang songs for ugly girls, and what lonely teenage gay boy can’t relate to lyrics like:

And those of us with ravaged faces
Lacking in the social graces
Desperately remained at home
Inventing lovers on the phone
Who called to say “come dance with me”
And murmured vague obscenities
It isn’t all it seems at seventeen…

62. Janis Joplin, Greatest Hits: Proof that you didn’t have to be pretty to make it in rock. You could be ugly and messy and have demons and not fit in – and still be an icon. Janis was blatently bisexual in a time when that was still SHOCKING. She screamed for peace, she screamed for equality, and lived life on her own terms. She might have been a mess, but she was a mega-talented mess – a force of nature, really – and even though she paid for it with her untimely death, Janis still speaks to us today.
63. Stevie Nicks, Bella Donna: What is it about Stevie? Obviously, she touches something primal in gay men. All that twirling and lace and chiffon and witchy wackiness speaks to us on a deep level. She does her own thing. She goes her own way. She’s deep. She’s profound. She still plays dress up. She believes in magic. She’s the best of us and everything we want to be.
64. The Bodyguard Soundtrack:  Whitney yeah yeah yeah, but get it for Drag Race legend Michelle Visage and her big Soul System hit “Lovely Day.”
65. Cyndi Lauper, She’s So Unusual: She was just SO UNUSUAL. Unlike anything we’d seen before. Not quite punk. Not quite new wave. She ushered in a new kind of infectious anything-goes ’80s style that CHANGED THE WORLD. And the songs! Every one of them a perfect pop cupcake with sprinkles. Cyndi is another FOREVER ICON whose message of celebrating freaks and outsiders has always endeared her to gay audiences.
66. Janet Jackson, Control: The year was 1986. Suddenly, just like THAT, Janet Jackson was grown up, and suddenly, just like THAT, she was a FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH. It was the year her brother began showing signs of eccentricity that made him harder and harder to relate to. Janet had the same towering talent, but was one of us. Janet was our SISTER, too. Every queen understood her need to TAKE CONTROL, to assert herself. The album was a giant metaphor for “coming out” to your family, and Lord, how we loved her for it.
67. Tina Turner, Private Dancer:  It’s a jaw-dropping story of redemption and one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Tina’s iconic backstory of triumphing over adversity, of overcoming her brutal marriage to Ike Turner, and returning to the spotlight again – on her own terms – made her an unlikely MTV superstar at age 45.  Oh yeah, AND it’s a great album, too.
68. B-52s, The B-52s or Wild Planet  either one. The ultimate after-hour party albums.
69. Gershwin, The Essential George Gershwin:  Because you gotta class it up sometimes.
70. Cole Porter, The Very Best of Cole Porter: Witty, urbane, and chic-as-fuck, these ditties are really what we ought to aspire to as gay men. Just sayin’.
71. Olivia Newton John, ONJ (Greatest Hits): You can have your ’80s “Physical” Olivia. You can even have Grease Olivia. For my money, it’s early ’80s soft-rock songbird Olivia that’s the go-to when I’m sad or lonely. Her “Best of” early hits on the ONJ album include classic sobbing-alone-in-your-kitchen-cupboard songs like “If Not For You,” “Let Me Be There,” “If You Love Me Let Me Know,”  ”Please Mister Please,” “Have You Never Been Mellow,” “Sam,” and  ”I Honestly Love You.” Trust me, you NEED this album.
72. Vince Giraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas: How gays do Christmas music.
73. Whitney Houston: Whitney Houston: It was the album that introduced us to the powerhouse voice, the silky stylings, and the show-stopping glamour that was Whitney. She was gorgeous, classy, talented… she was our ultimate pop princess . We projected all our fantasies onto her. Of course, it was all smoke and mirrors, as we would later learn.  In reality, she was a nutty old crack whore – “BOOOOOBBBY!” – but for just a little while she was pure perfection.
74. En Vogue, Funky Divas: It was that magical ’60s girl-group aesthetic  with a ’90s twist. With their silky-smooth harmonies, En Vogue effortless crossed over from R&B to pop, and without them, there would be no destiny’s child, and no Beyonce. Give them all your thanks.
75. Whatever Album I’ve Forgotten. Whatever you’re INCENSED that I left off, plug it in here.

Agree? Disagree? Tweet me @JSJdarling with your thoughts.

(A big thank you to my friend Brett from Texas who sat on the phone with me for HOURS arguing endlessly over who should stay, who should go, and which album defined who and why.)

UPDATE: Cannot BELIEVE I neglected to list Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Spice Girls, Joni Mitchell and everyone else you’ve been tweeting me. Mea culpa. I could have easily made this list 100 or even 200.

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The camp classics that defined generations of gay men seem to have been all but forgotten lately. After the jump, I’ve listed the 50 most captivating, inspiring, and important movies that you absolutely NEED to see before you die. It’s Homo 101 on the WOW Report.

During a recent episode of Transformations, Bianca Del Rio casually mentioned that she’d given a list to Joslyn Fox of classic movies she needed to see “to make her smart and funny” – movies like Auntie Mame, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and All About Eve. It seemed funny to me at the time that gays don’t watch these movie in utero, as they did in generations past, but I’ve seen so many requests on Twitter for Bianca to release her complete list, that I thought I’d come up with a list of my own. Here are the 50 camp classics that every gay man NEEDS TO SEE before he dies. You don’t need to watch them in this order, but I’d start with the handful at the top and work your way down.

And for God’s sake, DON’T WATCH THEM ON YOUTUBE. I mean, really.

1) Auntie Mame: Rosalind Russell is Auntie Mame, the woman who taught gays to be gay. Start here, and if you aren’t captivated, forget the rest of the list. You obviously haven’t got a camp bone in your body.
2) Sunset Boulevard: Gloria Swanson as an absolutely demented silent film star trying for a comeback with the help of her creepy butler, Max, and a reluctant gigalo. Probably the most oft-quoted movie of all time.
3) Breakfast at Tiffanys: Slightly dated, but Audrey Hepburn’s role as a flighty call-girl is still the be-all and end-all of New York chic.
4) All About Eve: Bette Davis’ volcanic performance as a fading theater actress is at turns bitchy, bawdy, and tragic. Another one you’ll be quoting for years.
5) Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: Towering egos Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are aging sisters locked in a deadly power struggle. Gorgeously grotesque performances all around.
6) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Real-life married couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton viciously and deliciously mind fuck each other while torturing their guests at a boozy after-hours party. 
7) Suddenly, Last Summer: Homosexuality! Cannibalism! Dementia Praecox! and Elizabeth Taylor in a see-through white bathing suit. One of the nuttiest movies ever made, based on the play by twisted sister Tennessee Williams. It’s the movie that made me the queen I am today. 
8) The Women: The 1939 original, darling, not the anemic remake with Meg Ryan (shudder). The Women stars the greatest female stars of the ’30s (not a man in sight) as society dames who gleefully rip each other to shreds. “JUNGLE RED!”
9) The Thin Man: Three reasons to see this: Myrna Loy, Myrna Loy, Myrna Loy. She’s witty, sophisticated, and able to drink her husband under the table – who doesn’t want to be her?
10) Gypsy: Another Rosalind Russell powerhouse performance, this time as a smothering stage mother trying to make her daughter a star in vaudeville. 
11) Sweet Charity: Shirley Maclaine as a plucky dime-a-dance girl looking for love in ’60s Manhattan. Come for Shirley’s unforgettable performance, stay for the awesome Bob Fossee dance numbers
12) Valley of the Dolls: Based on Jacqueline Susanne’s all-time best-seller, this lurid show-biz drama traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze, pills, and men get the better of them. Trashtastic good fun.
13) A Streetcar Named Desire: Vivien Leigh as a fragile Southern belle who takes refuge at the home of her sister and her sister’s savagely sexy husband (played by Marlon Brando at the height of his hubba-hubba hotness)
14) The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone: Vivien Leigh as an over-the-hill actress who moves to Rome so she can sample the local cuisine, by which I mean pick up street hustlers.
15) Lolita: A man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her teenage daughter in one of the most wickedly funny and intellectually challenging movies of the ’60s. 
16) Cabaret: Liza Minnelli wows as a free-spirited singer at a divinely decadent cabaret in pre-war Berlin.
17) Barbarella: ’60s psychedelic-sci-fi- meets-soft-porn marvel featuring Jane Fonda and her anti-gravity breasts.
18) Midnight Cowboy: Naive country bumpkin Jon Voight moves to New York to become… a Times Square hustler? Fantastic must-see cameo by Sylvia Miles and a groovy Warhol-esque party scene (starring actual Warhol superstars).
19) Rosemary’s Baby: It’s all about Mia’s hair here. And a chance to watch Ruth Gordon chew some scenery.
20) Freaks: Tod Browning’s 1932 cult masterpiece about circus life starring real-life sideshow freaks. Chilling and heartbreaking. “Gooble Gobble, one of us!”
21) I Want to Live!: Powerful story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) a perjurer, prostitute, liar and drug addict. Now THAT’S acting!
22) Harriet Craig: Joan Crawford as an over-the-top, tough-as-nails, slightly mannish bitch-goddess. In other words, herself.
23) Straight Jacket: Joan Crawford, in the twilight of her career, as a recently paroled axe murderer, clinging to what’s left of her sanity.
24) Now Voyager: Bette Davis transforms from dumpy spinster into soigné society beauty due to the love of Paul Henreid.
25) Of Human Bondage: Young Bette Davis at her volatile best as a tawdry Cockney waitress who absolutely DESTROYS poor Leslie Loward.
26) Long Days Journey Into Night: Long and talky, but Katherin Hepburn’s turn as an Edwardian morphine addict is one for the ages.
27) Picnic: William Holden is a little long in the tooth to play the studly drifter who drives everyone wild with passion, but Rosalind Russell delivers one of her best performances ever (and that’s saying A LOT) as a sexually repressed school marm. Her big scene at the picnic will haunt you for the rest of your days.
28) Bringing Up Baby: Katherine Hepburn is positively incandescent and Cary Grant is boner-inducingly adorable in  the definitive screwball comedy of the 1930s. 
29) Qui Ete Vous, Polly Magoo?: ‘60s Fashion 101. Scathingly satirical art house movie spoofing the fashion world and its excesses.
30) Mahogany: Diana Ross as THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MODEL IN THE WORLD, determined to become a designer instead. Camp beyond camp.
31) Funny Face: Audrey Hepburn is a reluctant supermodel, Kay Thompson is a Diana Vreeland-esque fashion editor “(“THINK PINK!”), and Fred Astaire is a Richard Avedon-like photographer. Absolute heaven. 
32) Funny Girl: Arguably Barbra Streisand’s best role. As the legendary stage star Fanny Price, Barbra is a revelation. If you aren’t gasping at her big “Don’t Rain on My Parade” number, well, you just aren’t gay, that’s all.
33) Some Like It Hot: Arguably Marilyn Monroe’s best role. With Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis doing booger drag. Vaguely insulting, but the drag revolution had to start somewhere, I guess.
34) Die! Die! My Darling!: One of your only chances to see the iconic Tallulah Bankhead on screen. Schlocky ’60s horror, but, oh, that voice. Like a foghorn dipped in molasses.
35) Mommie Dearest: Fay Dunaway absolutely CHANNELS Joan Crawford in the most important biopic you’ll ever see.
36) Manhattan: Woody Allen’s elegiac ode to New York, both sidesplitting funny and timelessly romantic. Don’t let Woody’s creepy affair with the 16-year-old Mariel Hemingway ruin the film for you. 
37) Annie Hall: Woody at the absolute pinnacle of his genius. One of the greatest movies of the 20th century. Dianne Keaton at her la-di-da best, setting fashions and inspiring a generation of actresses. 
38-40) Pink Flamingos/Female Trouble/Polyester: I list all three John Waters peerless masterpieces starring the late, great Divine, because you can’t choose just one, obviously. I suggest an all-night Saturday night marathon with friends. 
41) Andy Warhol’s Trash: Drag superstar Holly Woodlawn is absolutely heartbreaking (Paul Newman campaigned to get her an Oscar nomination!) in this low budget art house classic, also starring a frequently nude Joe Dallessandro (only the hottest guy of the ’60s). 
42) Pink Narcissus: ’60s experimental homoerotic classic. Once you see it, you’ll notice it’s influences everywhere, from the photography of David LaChapelle and Pierre et Gilles to the fashions of Jean Paul Gaultier. 
43) Double Indemnity: The noirest of films, with Barbara Stanwyk as a ball-busting bitch plotting to kill her husband for the insurance policy. My GOD, she’s magnificent.
44) Imitation of Life: Lana Turner stars in this three-hankerchief weeper about an actress who sets up housekeeping with a homeless, black widow and her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her mother by trying to pass for white. A favorite of your old, gay uncle’s. 
45) Leave Her to Heaven: A rare Technicolor film noir, with Gene Tierney as perhaps the nastiest femme fatales ever to appear on screen.
46) Choose any of the following Marlene Dietrich/Joseph Von Sternberg collaborations: The Scarlet Empress/Devil Is a Woman/Morocco/Blonde Venus/Shanghai Express
47) Choose any of the following Douglas Sirk movies: All that Heaven Allows/Magnificent Obsession/Written on the Wind
48) Mildred Pierce: Joan Crawford fights her way up from the gutter to own a chain of diners. Her snooty daughter Vida is embarrassed of her mother’s lower class roots. It’s Joan at the absolute height of her Joanality.
49) My Fair Lady: Not one of my favorites – I find the premise rude and the character of the professor nasty and misogynistic – WHY WOULD SHE WASTE HER TIME WITH HIM? – but the Ascot scene (by gay god Cecil Beaton) is beyond sublime, and the Lerner & Lowe songs are among the best ever written, so…. yes, you need to watch it, sigh.
50) The Boys in the Band: I haven’t included many gay films here – you know, movies about actual homosexuals – because usually they’re either too dreary or too earnest and lack that certain “quotable quality” that makes something camp. The Boys in the Band, however, manages to be both an important milestone in queer cinema AND catty good fun.

Agree? Disagree? Well, these are MY gay essentials. Feel free to tweet me your own @JSJdarling #gayessentials

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The blog that features everything and everyone cool in NYC, New York Natives, is celebrating celebrity stylist Patricia Field tonight and her boutiques two-year anniversary on the Bowery. And as everybody knows, Pat is the true mother of Downtown NYC fashion, fun and fabulous freaks. The party starts at her store on Thursday, July 10th, from 7-10pm (rsvp ingrid@patriciafield.com) with DJ Valissa Yoe, and performances by Dai Burger and The Ones. Then head over to Alan Cumming & Paisley Dalton’s poptastic party My Chiffon Is Wet  at Easternbloc for the official afterparty, hosted by Dina Delicious, Patricia Field stylist Leo Gugu and Ruby Roo. DJ Paisley Dalton.

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Shane Klingensmith
50 Cent
Allyce Beasley
Brian Van Holt
Camilla & Rebecca Rosso
Dalai Lama
Della Reese
Geoffrey Rush
George W. Bush
Gregory Smith
Heather Nova
Inspectah Deck
Jennifer Saunders
Kate Nash
Nancy Reagan
Ned Beatty
Robin Antin
Sylvester Stallone
Tay Zonday
Tia & Tamera Mowry

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Well, I missed the fireworks in New York City Friday night, I was invited to a rooftop party but I couldn’t be bothered to drag my ass out. The Macy’s (televised) Fireworks have been on the Hudson River years now but (I guess in fairness) they will go back and forth from the East Side to the West Side. Well, that won’t matter anymore. THIS the future of fireworks viewing right here. THIS makes great use of a drone. Bravo! I’m going to watch it again now.

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If you live in New York City, you discover various “weekend escapes” not long after arriving. I’ve been going “upstate”, as we say here, for more than half of my life. It’s been a low-cost alternative (compared to the nosebleed expensive Hamptons) that I’ve seen grow in popularity over the years. What happens is, people get weekend places, meet someone, fall in love, make a family and often-times make that permanent move to their own small town. If you want to read more about the psychology of moving “upstate” check out “30 Things You Need to Know About The Hudson Valley Before You Move There”, here. It’s right on the money. And speaking of money, you CAN get a small two-bedroom upstate for about $100K – if you really look (but you’ll need to put in $50-75K to redo the kitchen, bathrooms and finishes, almost surely.) But two hours away from the city $250-300K is the sweet spot. If you drive further away, it gets cheaper.

This is all backstory to a new project called Hudson Woods. My old buddy and former photo editor for Us Weekly, photographer Brittain Stone, has a place nearby in Accord with his InStyle Creative Director wife, Rina and their two kids. Last year, he told me of this new project he was involved in and I was intrigued to see it come to fruition. On 131 acres, Hudson Woods is 26 architect-designed houses crafted from locally-sourced, sustainable materials. They’ve made it their mission to connect with local craftsmen, retail, food sources, you name it, so this isn’t a foreign zone plopped down but an integral part of the area, that will help sustain it. These houses aren’t cheap, but they seem to have everything you could dream of. You’ll find yourself in the midst of like-minded neighbors (most probably New Yorkers) in an idyllic setting. Being upstate all these years, I’ve dreamt of projects like this – gathering together my city pals to make a utopian community in the woods – but these guys have actually done it! (No small feat.) If you think there are lots of modernist houses upstate, I can tell you too, that the inventory is practically zero. Plus, if you’re going to spend $600-700K you might as well have that investment in a community rather than as a one-off, which makes it harder to resell. I hope someone I know buys one so I can check it out. In the meantime, I can dream, can’t I?

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Venus D Lite from the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race takes your calls on this all-new episode of Ring My Bell! Watch after the jump!

New episodes of Ring My Bell every Sunday on WOWPresents!

Is that Madonna?! No it’s Venus D Lite! Venus will be taking your calls on Ring My Bell, Wednesday, May 7th at 3PM PST! Click over to find out how you can talk with her!

Call Venus D Lite 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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Welcome to our Sunday morning Longer Reads section. It’s your chance to catch up on some of the more interesting and  obscure news items you might have missed during the week. Today, we look at the feral life of Justin Bieber, explore why we don’t gave a gay A-lister yet, and discuss Mexico’s troubling World Cup chant.  

Absolutely riveting account of Justin Bieber’s cosseted and feral life in Vulture. Seriously, if you read ONE article this week, read this one.

Slate explores why we don’t have a gay A-lister in Hollywood yet.

When Mexico chants “Puto” during the World Cup, it’s actually a rather sophisticated bit of word play.

New York magazine reports: Publishing bigwigs gather to deal with problem of Amazon.

An interesting article in Salon about a death doula.

Bruce Villanch on How to Write for the Academy Awards

In PAPER magazine: The 25 gayest cartoon characters of all time.

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The true history of the Stonewall riots at Back to Stonewall

New York magazine has a pictorial history of the early days of Gay Pride.

“Don’t sneak” – A dad’s unexpected advice to his gay son in the 1950s, at NPR.

At Salon: The history of heterosexuality. It’s shorter than you think.

At the Daily Dot, a level-headed, non-screechy, non-judgemental look at those infamous Bryan Singer parties.

Justin Vivian Bond writes a level-headed, non-screechy, non-judgemental artical about the “t” word in The Stranger.

Quite out of the blue, a group of chimpanzees in Zambia have started following a “fashion trend” by wearing a blade of grass in their ear. Read about it at The Science of Us.

A survivor of Auschwitz teams with a German rap duo. Read about it in the New York Times.

In The Daily Mail, scientists simulate sending quantum particles back in time. Yes, TIME TRAVEL IS BECOMING A REALITY! YOU HAD BETTER WATCH OUT SCOTT JACKMAN IN 8TH GRADE! I’M COMING FOR YOU!

And Fear Not the Coming of the Robots.

An interview with Rufus Wainright at ChicagoPride.com.

Slate explains why people hate Cristiano Ronoldo.

The Daily Beast revisits the the ’90s when Judas Priest went to trial over the suicides of two teen boys.

And finally, in New York magazine, just how in the hell did Hilary Clinton become Marie Antoinette?

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Linguist and language creator David Peterson teaches a new course: “Conversational Dothraki.” Read about it in Salon.

PAPERmag has nightlife survivors discussing how much cooler New York used to be. Duh.

Interesting article in The New Yorker about how a gay kiss between SIMS characters changed video games forever, and how it happened quite by accident.

Porn star Aurora Snow explains to the Daily Beast why threesomes are never fun in real life.

The Vulture thinks that Shakespeare’s tragedies, like, totally suck and are soooo unbelievable.

The story behind that “Go You Chicken Fat, Go” song in the Apple commercials is actually pretty fascinating. Read all about it in the Daily Kos.

Uh, we have pubic hair FOR A REASON, guys. Stop shaving it off.

Teller, of Penn & Teller, writes in The Smithsonian about the neuroscience of manipulating the human mind.

Jezebel investigates the dangerous and grotesque trend of rosebudding. DON’T READ. PROMISE ME YOU WON’T CLICK OVER AND READ. YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.

Woman who became famous for blogging about her son’s illnesses is arrested and charged with poisoning him. Read about it in The New York Times.

i-D magazine has Harmony Korine’s five most iconic looks (yes, the Bunny Boy from Gummo makes the list)

Important: Slate breaks down the YouTube controversy, where artists (including Adele, Radiohead, and Arctic Monkeys) who don’t agree with their (unfair) terms will be removed from the site.

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In HuffPo, a father discovers his 9-year-old son has a “type”: Pretty boys with dark hair.

Man gives up sitting for an entire month. Read the day-by-day account in New York magazine.

Make no mistake: Jayne County is the REAL Hedwig.

Salon lists the 8 things Americans get wrong about sex.

The Daily Beast asks: If not Hilary, then who? Without her, the Dems have NO ONE.

The Daily Beast also asks: Is Jack White the last real rock star?

Louis CK goes up against TMZ

The New York Times on the Uber revolution.

NASA’s obstacle-filled path to Mars.

In The Telegraph: The man who coined the term “metrosexual” says it’s all about “spornosexuals” now, i.e. sporty, porno-looking dudes. Um, yeah, no. That’s not going to catch on, dude.

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From The Guardian: Will Self pontificates (in that way that he has) about the death of the novel. Fascinating and upsetting and very likely true.

The Hollywood Reporter wonders if Justin Bieber’s racist jokes will negatively impact his career (SPOILER: They won’t).

Remember that time Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch? The Village Voice examines our mass delusion because IT NEVER HAPPENED.

From tween fashion blogger to feminist editrix to Broadway and movie actor, Tavi Gevinson is embarking on her next project: being a grown-up. (How is that possible?)

The Washington Post reports on a project to send religious and historical artifacts to the moon for safe keeping, just in case, you know, we all blow each other up.

Hey. Why don’t we have flying cars yet?

Vulture has a spoiler-laden guide to making it through The Fault in Our Stars without crying.

Speaking of tears: Here’s a touching story in The Daily Mail about an airline gate attendant who brought Detroit Metro Airport to a standstill when she sang the National Anthem to a group of World War II veterans as they boarded their plane to France for the D-Day festivities.

Flashback: Here’s how The New York Times covered D-Day back in 1944.

A few years ago, Beyoncé Knowles was like any other record-breaking pop star in an already crowded field. Then something changed. The New York Times canonizes Bey.

Banana Facts!

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The New Yorker investigates how a raccoon became an aardvark thanks to the weird phenomenon known as Wikiality – wherein an error that appears on Wikipedia then trickles to sources that Wikipedia considers authoritative, which are in turn used as evidence for the original falsehood.

Near death experiences, explained in Salon.

The Stranger has a moving account of one boy’s coming out in Iran, where being gay can get you killed.

Is he harmless? Dangerous? Kind of cute but ultimately annoying? A timeline of Unkranian reporter Vitalii Sediuk’s red carpet “pranks.”

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard has written a 6-volume, 3,600 page autobiography that endlessly details the most pointless minutia of his life – and apparently it’s MESMERIZING! BRILLIANT! UN-PUT-DOWNABLE! Discover why critics and fans are falling over themselves to proclaim him THE NEXT LITERARY GOD in New York magazine.

In Saudi Arabia, they’ve translated Frozen into the Arabic equivalent of King James’ English. The New Yorker‘s explanation of why they did that is more interesting than the actual movie.

So apparently “vocal fry” is the new “uptalk” – The Science of Us explains why talking like a Kardashian makes you less attractive, less competent, less educated, less trustworthy, and ultimately less hirable. (As if you couldn’t have guessed)

HuffPo has an interview with Valencourt Books publishers James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle whose mission is to rediscover and republish early gay literature.

Slut-shaming and class: Why rich girls think lower-class girls are whores and why lower-class girls think are rich girls are whores. In Slate.

RIP Massimo Vignelli, the graphic designer behind the cult classic 1972 NYC subway map. Read about the creation of that here, and read what other designers thought of him here

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David Lachapelle is interviewed in OUT magazine about the about the firestorm of controversy his Love Ball poster has caused in Austria.

PAPER magazine lists the top 40 drag queens in New York.

The Daily Mail has the strange story of the twice-married,  51-year-old virgin. Really. You gotta read this one.

The Spectator has a piece on how chasing the Pulitzer has destroyed American journalism (which is why we’re all edited by Brits).

Kate Bornstein blogs about the T word.

Vulture has 10 theories about tonight’s mid-season finale of Mad Men (my money is on Megan’s plane going down).

The New York Times has an an interesting picture of the young Teddy Roosevelt watching President Lincoln pass by in a parade. Not exactly topical, but fascinating for history buffs.

Speaking of history: Open Vault has the complete public access debate about whether gay marriage should be legal… from a 1974 episode of PBS’s The Advocates.

The DMV lays out rules governing how self-driving or autonomous cars are tested by manufacturers on California roads. Which is one of those weird “THE FUTURE IS COMING! THE FUTURE IS COMING!” moments we should all acknowlege.

Conner Oberst talks to Lorde about being young and “it” in the Times music section.

The Alternative Press has why 5 Seconds of Summer are more important than you think.

The Anatomy of a Look: Vanity Fair has the breakdown Angelina Jolie’s villainous transformation in Maleficent.

The Atlantic looks back on Frank O’Hara’s iconic Lunch Poems – “21st Century Poems Written in 1964… Full of pop-culture references, Lunch Poems has all the brevity, informality, irony, and at times chatty pointlessness of modern discourse without having been influenced by it… O’Hara’s Lunch Poems — like Facebook posts or tweets— shares, saves, and re-creates the poet’s experience of the world.” They are, of course, ABSOLUTE BLISS.

Finally, a bit of fun from The New Yorker: “If You Let Your Teenage Daughter Sleep in on a School Day”

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Always the optimist, Michael Musto lists 10 ways New York nightlife is better than it was in the ’80s.

The New York Times states the obvious: Being bullied is bad for your health.

So you’re still confused about normcore (and avant-normcore and hardcore-normcore and brokecore and florcore)? The Cut breaks it down for you. (Short answer: Dress like Seinfeld)

Trend sherpa Bradford Shellhammer tell Medium the 5 ways to navigate design politics.

i-D reflects upon the 20-year anniversary of the making of the most expensive video of all time: “Scream” by Michael and Janet Jackson.

Molly Shannon’s party etiquette in W magazine. Sure, why not?

History, literature, religion and the arts are receding from public life, replaced by technology, statistics, science and math. Even the most elemental form of communication, the story, is being pushed aside for numbers and data. The nerds have won. They’ve taken over the world. Now what?

New York magazine says it pays to be overconfident, even if you have no nidea what the hell you’re doing. (Look to Kanye as your spirit animal)

Andy Warhol: The first king of selfies.

Gift ideas: Why not check out the 9/11 museum gift shop?

The paradox of art as work, in the Times.

The future of fashion is 3-d. Duh. It’s the future of EVERYTHING.

New York magazine asks: How much French do you need to know to live in Paris?

Also: The things that New Yorkers do that stun Parisians, and vice versa.

and The Atlantic investigates what the death of home pages means for the future of news and the future of blogging. Oh dear. On second thought: NEVER MIND! NOBODY READ THAT! IT’S NOTHING BUT HOGWASH AND POPPYCOCK! KEEP IT MOVING!

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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.

The Guardian has grim news for authors: Not even award-winning best-selling authors are making money in publishing anymore.

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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Two VERY YOUNG and cute boyfriends in NYC, Carlos Santolalla and John Tuite, are documenting their love for each other and pot in new short film 420. “It’s about how weed can act as an aphrodisiac,” Santolalla explains. “A fantasy about when ‘lemme hit that’ becomes ‘lemme hit that.’” You can check out more of their fine romance on their shared instagram/jarlos420.

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RuPaul’s Drag Race Extra Lap Recap‘s John Polly will be taking calls at 1PM PST on Tuesday July 8th! Click over to find out how to call him!

Call John Polly at (323) 319-4777 or you can call him 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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Mathu Andersen cartoons Raven! I will encourage Mathu to do more of these as I think they are absolutley wonderful. Comment on Mathu’s post on Raven page HERE.

Utterly preposterous! (t/y Mathu)

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On this episode of Alyssa’s Secret, Alyssa Edwards answers more Twitter questions from her adoring fans. Click over and watch!

Get into new episodes of Alyssa’s Secret every Monday on WOWPresents!

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Alyssa Edwards is joined by Ts Madison to discuss Independence day, share secrets, exchange rolls, and play “What if?” Between these two ladies, the fireworks definitely go OFF!

Alyssa Edwards tells you exactly how to look picture perfect during your not so picture perfect times!

Alyssa Edwards answers questions from fans from Twitter!

On this episode of Alyssa’s Secret, check out never-before-seen footage! Jam-packed with Alyssa Edwards shenanigans! RuPaul, Shangela, and Vivienne Pinay make appearances!

Alyssa Edwards talks about how much a snitch she was as a little boy! Watch and hear the story of how she got her sister in trouble for drinking a “purple passion!”

Alyssa Edwards and Shangela talk about what it takes to be in the House of Edwards!

Watch part one!

Alyssa and her drag daughter Shangela tell the story of how the two divas met! Click over to watch!

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!
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This is almost belated, I just realized it’s SD’s birthday. I’ve posted this before – it’s one of my favorite things on earth. Gets me every time! Happy birthday, Shelly! What?!

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After repeatedly trying to wedge into what may be the world’s largest parking spot, watch the result of this driver’s seriously prolonged parking fail. The guy filming asks “should I go help her?” before silence indicates the obvious: no you should not, and you should continue to film so we can all relish and relive this extreme incompetentce. Like most things in Portland, this doesn’t seem real, and yet thankfully somehow it is.  I’m crying. The pleasure I get from this is a specific type of schadenfreude. I don’t wish the driver any general misfortune, apart from parallel parking!

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Listen to the demented genius maniacs of Lady Bunny and Bianca Del Rio take over the Derek & Romaine radio show ! If you like this then please donate money for Hurricane Bianca: The Movie. A comedy about a New York teacher who moves to small town Texas, is fired for being gay, and returns disguised as a mean lady to get revenge on the nasty town.

Only 9 days left!!!!

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Help Big Dipper, the newest member of World of Wonder’s multi channel youtube network, make the video for his newest single “Vibin”!

From Big Dipper’s Kickstarter:

I am so amazed at what my life has become in the last two years; I’m truly lucky that I get to make music and videos and share them with the world.  All this awesomeness started right here on Kickstarter, almost 3 years ago when I launched the campaign to raise money for DRIP DROP, and now we are back again.

We need to raise $9,000 to make the most epic and amazing Big Dipper music video yet! :) The song is VIBIN’ ; a catchy pop song that I love so much.  The video is going to be artistic and sexy and slick and choreographed. It’s all about beach vibes and summer love feelings. This time we are going to focus more on performance, choreography, and a very stylized visual aesthetic; and less on an overarching narrative. More glamour for Dipper!

I have learned so much through the process of making music and videos. I have poured my heart and soul into what I do and I’ve worked with so many amazing artists who do the same. It is an absolute struggle to be a working artist and to juggle the work you truly love with the work that pays the bills. By raising the money here for a music video budget, we will be able to work on Vibin’ in a much more dedicated way that allows the true vision to be brought to life. And a slick execution of this video will both make my team proud as well as bring you (and much of the internet) joy and entertainment :).

Help out Big Dipper and donate to his kickstarter!

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On this week’s all-new episode of Milk’s LegenDAIRY Looks, Milk shows you how to create the “Fang Bang!” Click over and sink your teeth in!

New episodes of Milk’s LegenDAIRY Looks every Monday on WOWPresents!

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Nancy Kerrigan

Little Ho Peep

Budding Bearded Beauty

About the series:

MOO-ve over, James St. James! There’s a new transformations web series coming to WOWPresents, starring RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 6 breakout star, Milk!

The LegenDAIRY Queen is known for her unique looks and wicked sense of humor. Discover how Milk creates each signature look, how to build a crème de la crème ensemble, and what type of makeup to paint that barn. Throw some paint on that hide, and start LIVING with Milk, every week!

“Even if you’re lactose intolerant, you’re going to cream yourself over these looks!” said Milk. “They’re udderly fabulous!”

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Trying to give Marvel a run for their money, no doubt, by getting the Atom out there before Antman, TVLine has announced that former Superman Brandon Routh has been cast in the role of Ray Palmer aka The Atom for the upcoming third season of Arrow.  The site reports that Palmer will serve as a love interest for Felicity Smoak as well as become the new head of Queen Consolidated. A previous report on casting also teased that we’ll be seeing Palmer suit up as “a tech-powered superhero.”  Which isn’t quite the same thing as as saying he’ll be shrinking down to battle villainous germs, but I’m there. I like Brandon.There were a lot of reasons to hate the 2006 Superman, but he (and his superbulge) were not among them. He’s incredibly, and he’s a much better actor than most people give him credit for (see: Chuck, Scott Pilgrim, and the vastly underappreciated Enlisted).

On the downside, it always sort of feels like Arrow is for DC’s second-string heroes. They’re the B-squad that aren’t good enough for the Justice League movie. And as fun as the show is, it has a history of ret-conning and ruining some fun DC characters (Huntress, Katana, Deadshot, and Black Canary), so we’ll just have to wait and see about tis one.

(via Coming Soon)

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