Category: My Life

  • While the Wealthy Partygoers Mingle…

    While the Wealthy Partygoers Mingle…

    When you’re hired help at a party it’s tacky to whip out a camera and start snapping photos. So when I got a job earlier this week hosting an upper-crust birthday bash (Thanks Garrin and Viva for the gig!), I politely confined my picture taking to backstage of my fellow entertainers.

  • Manila, Manila

    Manila, Manila

    Every time I see Manila Luzon, the pretty Filipino contestant from NYC on RuPaul’s Drag Race, two things come to mind. 1) The first time we met and discovered that we both hail from Minnesota.  (She’s mixed heritage, explaining her taller-than-average stature.) 2) My memories of visiting her namesake—the capital of the Philippines and the…

  • Shocking Internet Trivia!

    Shocking Internet Trivia!

    Finally!   After not having Internet service for several days (and being unable to post on my blog), I can once again mindlessly surf the Super Information Highway! For instance, I just discovered what the #1 image is when you Google the words “ugly” and “drag queen.” It’s my nightlife colleague Sugga Pie Koko!

  • Color Psychology

    Color Psychology

    Bright colors, we need ya, after such a long gray winter! While we wait for sunny days and flowers and plants to start blooming en masse, here are some pix to perk you up—featuring the colorful gal known as Sequinette from when she appeared in my action-packed photo novella Bitches in the Sky.  

  • Yummy, Yummy, Cherry Vanilla!

    Yummy, Yummy, Cherry Vanilla!

    I’m reading the best memoir —Lick Me by Cherry Vanilla (which was published late last year). Man, oh, man, does she candidly celebrate her life as a nympho rock & roll groupie (and a poet, singer, actress, etc.) during the sexual revolution of the 1960s and ’70s. I’m half-way through the book and she’s already…

  • I Admit It—True Confession Time—I Had a Nose Job!

    I Admit It—True Confession Time—I Had a Nose Job!

    After all these years, I finally decided to go ahead and have the chop!