I LOVE ROCHE

In all seriousness, I am unusually sober this year and on a 'cure' treatment, which I mentioned before. I'll spare you images of the 2 fashion color injectables and all the cerulean blue capsules I have to take. I'm supposed to feel like total crud but I feel fantastic, my workouts keep stepping up, my diet is great and the doctors feel that I am responding in a way that in 9 months I may be cured - for real. People want to know the secret as to why my skin is becoming so gloriously and unnaturally young looking the past few months - and although I do put the highest concentration of glycolic acid available on my face 2X a day as well as green tea vitamins block and moisturizer (exfoliating and religiously shaving my face helps bring out a fresh coat as well) - I must confess that my secret is a weekly injection of a mild chemo like fluid called interferon, product name Pegasis.

The interferon up close looks like streamers at a very fabulous party


Whereas the Ribaviron pill, who I affectionately call 'Riba', resembles more of a cute puppy with a bone

KURT! - MY T SHIRT OF THE WEEK

I always thought it looked like a shot of his last moment, but I don't think he was quite so alert at the time.

I'M NOT A DECOMPOSED BODY FOUND AT MCCARREN POOL

Link to reported information above. As you can see in my blog, I was just at the pool a few weeks ago (July 6 - 'Ronnie Spector... Mccarren Pool'). But, you know, I really resent these articles about a 'decomposed body'. I just took a nap for a few days after a binge. I really think the reporting of a 'foul smell' in the room when waking me was really uncalled for (and mean) in the article - you're not perfect either. R

MS. PILLATHA

I actually don't hate her. That's what confuses me.

LADYFAG ON THE TERM 'FOY' & BETTE WHITE

Hey Faggots,

Everyone reading is included in that seemingly exclusive greeting. I do apologize to the few Foy's (I just made that word up... nonjew is a Goy...nonfag is a Foy!) but I realized that almost 90% of my mailing list are fag's. I only thought of this cause I'm showing around some old friends of mine from Chile. After a few nights out with me, my friend says that it seems that almost everyone in NY is gay. To which I laughed and said, no... it's just that almost everyone in MY New York is gay. Maybe I should start a foy tourguide company of Gay NY...and to our left we have a famous landmark...The West Side Club Bathhouse... $$$

But here's the craziest (and gayest) part of the story. My friend from Chile (who I met on a volcano 8 years ago in Costa Rica! Trust!) subletted an apartment from some NYU professor and while looking over their wall of family portraits I found the photo below. Yes, that is a photo of me, in shock, holding a photo of Betty White!!!! My friends are randomly staying in a Golden Girl's family's apartment. I don't really know what else to say except that... THE CARD ATTATCHED WOULD SAY... THANK YOU FOR BEING A FRIEND...

No truly... thanks ya'll for being a friend and if you need guest list for this weekend please RSVP by 8pm night of the party.
Brujas Y Besos,
Ladyfag

CASSETTE HEAVEN - JACK'S HOUSE

I wired the best cassette player I could find to my computer and have been converting some of the best House from my collection and others for over a week. I have over 1,800 minutes of tracks so far and my gym workouts from weight lifting to cario have been unbelievable listening to them. I have entered a deep dark reverberating constant track in my head that keeps turning out the gems one top of one another, making me drunk with movement - messing with my mind!


JACK'S HOUSE

In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove.
And from this groove came the groove of all grooves.
And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldy declared,
"Let there be HOUSE!"
and house music was born.
"I am, you see,
I am
the creator, and this is my house!
And, in my house there is ONLY house music.
But, I am not so selfish because once you enter my house it then becomes OUR house and OUR house music!"
And, you see, no one man owns house because house music is a universal language, spoken and understood by all.
You see, house is a feeling that no one can understand really unless you're deep into the vibe of house.
House is an uncontrollable desire to jack your body.
And, as I told you before, this is our house and our house music.
And in every house, you understand, there is a keeper.
And, in this house, the keeper is Jack.
Now some of you who might wonder,
"Who is Jack, and what is it that Jack does?"
Jack is the one who gives you the power to jack your body!
Jack is the one who gives you the power to do the snake.
Jack is the one who gives you the key to the wiggly worm.
Jack is the one who learns you how to walk your body.
Jack is the one that can bring nations and nations of all Jackers together under one house.
You may be black, you may be white; you may be Jew or Gentile. It don't make a difference in OUR House.
And this is fresh.

-FINGERS

THE CUTTING UP MAG DOT COM!

It's the KiKi & the Cutting Up & the 'Conflamma Miss Thang so Learn It! Told.
My friend Onyx Noir (of the club party "Make Up Room" infamy) was nice enough to showcase some of my digital art in his online mag: thecuttingup.com HELL-AY-OH.
Besides having a really cool REAL birth name, Onyx Noir is also an extremely talented, innovative yet classic designer of custom clothes. He makes a living out of creating custom fitted evening wear for women - which I have always admired. His men's underwear is also awesome and I actually intend to buy and get all up into a pair myself. IT'S OVAH!!!!!! R

VERA SCARVES - UPPER EAST SIDE THRIFT STORES

This shirt is not a Vera textile (it's 'Verdina' lol... nice try!), but it reminded me of her scarves. I bought the shirt for a friend while on a roll through some of the best thrift shops EVER today - all on the UES below 86th st.
These used to be our secret places to shop in the club days as they has RACKS of gowns from the 60's & 70's in the 1980's-1990's because nobody wanted them (esp. Girl's Club)! There were many more that have been lost. They all still have amazing things (and I've really given up on thrift stores in nyc) at shockingly low prices. Lets's face it, those UES gals die and they gotta ship those garments out quick while their greedy children put the real estate on the market! I made out with a new polo collection myself at $10- an item. I met my Momma at two different coffee shops today and at the second one, on 42nd st & 9th, she confessed that she bought a real ruby cross for the price of costume paste at Arthritis Foundation. I must say I was particularly amazed at Arthritis Foundation thrift store today more than any others:
*Housing Works (at location of what used to be the Girls Club Thrift shop): 202 E 77th Street bet 2nd & 3rd Ave.
*Arthritis Foundation Thrift Shop Inc: 1383 3rd Ave.
*Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Thrift Shop: 1440 3rd Ave.
*Spence-Chapin Thrift Shop: 1473 3rd Ave.
Unfortunately the store "Out Of The Closet" - a fabulous deep cave of a thrift store run by a pair of old queens on 81st bet 2nd & 3rd - is now a bakery called "Alice's Teacup". Gee I wonder if it still has gay owners...

There is no site that really covers Vera Scarves to any extent that may give them justice. All I can say is that there is a lot of them and they must be bought if you run into one



Somewhere there is a bedspread made of Vera Scarves

RESPECT THE VAN GODS

Honda's new Pagan theme van commercial. I wonder if radical Christians are freaking out over it. R

INDIAN DESIGNER MANISH ARORA WEBSITE

Starting at about 00:50 on this you can see the same mask:

SMACK JACK

I love this recovery fabulous theme in the new LGBT Center 25th anniversary ad campaign



There was 'scraffiti' which was scratched in with an implement or done with acid, but now the latest form of graffiti attacks the rubber decals on phone booths by cutting pieces out - like here where they cut the gun out in strips and made accessories out of them!

I wish someone would graffiti this one

DARK?

You know, someone said they liked my blog but it was 'dark.' I agree - but darkness has an upper hand and edge on so much graphic imagery. The most wicked people in history (that had ad campaigns) had the strongest sharpest pulled together product image, i'm sorry to say. Fascist imagery has been characteristically seductive. Also, deco imagery is cold and icy in it's perfection. The polar opposite being, say, modern spiritual leaders or gurus. You love them, but their promotional images water down to pastels or unmemorable sketch drawings and other bland imagery.
Ok and i bitch A LOT. But I'm truly the most retarded and really don't take myself so seriously.
In person I love people! I love cheer! I love sunshine! And who knows what I'm enjoying in this spliced image of me in some off colour moment that some wise guy took! R

Right after posting this I went out for a midnight snack of scrambled egg whites and feta cheese and this was what was hanging right in front of my building. This might put a kink in my lofty 'dark' imagery theory!

...in this tangled web the stoplights are against you...

BONEY M

I MISSED them in Miami - in the late 90's i think. I always wanted to see them perform in rainbow outfits smack in the center of Palm Beach. Love the early blue screen in 'Ma Baker'. R




DADDY COOL

MA BAKER

SUNNY

BABY vs. COBRA & 'BOUNCIN BEBE

Only in India. I guess they figured that with it's fangs and venom removed, all the cobra could really do was throw a... hissy fit.

This is so whacked out that it achieves a sort of demented humorous quality near the end because it's just so unbelievable!

BONEY "MAD 'DANCIN SKELETON"

EITEL ART IN LIGHTS

The smallest, the circle, is about 4' wide made of printed thick satin stretched over dense canvas stretcher and then covered in a molten clear plastic that had to set and was then blow torched. The 2nd, Amanda Lepore is much bigger and it warped and cracked. The last, called "Mad Pussy", is about the same size. R

TIGHT OBAMA IMAGERY

Link above 4 purchase. I know it's not an official Obama campaign donation, but I got this button in the 'colossal' 6" size and intend to frame it. Anything strong with rays coming out of it gets my vote. Additionally, I bought a matching t shirt and some Obama 'fist' imagery buttons. R

RONNIE SPECTOR OF THE RONETTES AT McCARREN POOL

It's a great space. Everyone was less than wow'd at the small localized speaker setup.

The fine art of carefully cultivating a tan as dark as a brick wall... without the texture of one!

A tip sign only to be found in Williamsburg. I love Lila's purse but... HEY it has mustard and pickles all over it!!!


Hannah Moorehead emerging from the "Royal Flush" porta complex. Hannah is actually a descendent of Carole Lombard (not Agynes Moorehead)

Carole Lombard emerging from a deco lavatory

Chezza having a cigarette and not doing a bat hit

The benefits of generous backstage sponsorship

"Jelly!"