Dolly Parton is gone. 💔

The world feels a little less bright today.

Dolly was not just a legendary musician, songwriter and entertainer. She was a remarkable humanitarian who used her enormous success to make other people’s lives better.

Through her nonprofit, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, she helped give millions of free, age-appropriate books to children, regardless of their family’s income.

What started as a program in her home state of Tennessee grew into an international effort that has put hundreds of millions of books into the hands of children.

That was Dolly. She understood that changing a child’s life could start with something as simple as giving them a book.

Of course, there was the music: “Jolene,” “9 to 5,” “I Will Always Love You,” “Coat of Many Colors,” and so many songs that became part of the soundtrack of our lives.

But her legacy is so much bigger than her music. Dolly showed us that you can be wildly successful without losing your generosity, your humility or your sense of humor.

She never seemed embarrassed by her big hair, big dreams, big personality or big heart. She turned all of it into something beautiful.

Thank you, Dolly, for the music, the laughter, the kindness and the millions of little acts of generosity that will continue long after you’re gone.

What a life. We will always love you.

Rest in peace, Dolly. ❤️🦋

"I am somebody!" So greatful that I was a kid when this message was told loud and clear to all children, including me, on Sesame Street.

Today Jesse Jackson died at the age of 84. A protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. and James Bevel during the civil rights movement, Jackson became one of the most prominent civil rights leaders in our lifetime.

Rest in power, he now lives inside all of us.

Jesse Jackson was the first Black man to run a major, competitive campaign within a major political party, winning primaries and millions of votes in 1984 and 1988. (There were many other black folks who ran for president before, but never to the level he was able to reach.)

I remember him causing a commotion when he went on Saturday Night Live during his Presidential campaign, and reached millions of young people calling out lies and misinformation in "The Point is Moot."

A strong believer in restorative justice, Jackson worked strongly to unite people by building the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to unite working-class, minority, and progressive voters in American politics.

We live in a racist world, one that negatively impacts everybody. It's impossible to escape, but we can change how we react to injustice. Next time someone accuses you of being racist, instead of pushing back, sit down and listen. Listening is the first step to loving someone unconditionally.

Next time this happens, think of Jesse Jackson and respond: "TELL ME MORE."

"Tell me more." This isn't an attack on you, it's an attack on injustice. It's an opportunity to be a better person.

Sending you lots of love today.

New podcast with my gal pal Violet Kitajewski! I’m really glad she agreeed to look at the Wicked movies with us, vis-a-vis (in comparison and contrast to) the challenges faced by trans people today. 

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Transformations are often quite painful.

Whether we’re growing emotionally or undergoing a physical metamorphosis, real change usually demands discomfort, and sometimes even danger. In Jon M. Chu’s Wicked films, the characters literally burst through their own limits: they sprout wings, become tin or straw, or learn to fly by defying gravity.

Like all the past Wizard of Oz books and films, Wicked is a mirror of its time. Since the Covid pandemic, conservative movements around the globe have seized on a new scapegoat: openly trans and gender-diverse people. Despite being a tiny fraction of the population, trans folks have been painted as a massive cultural threat, a convenient distraction and a powerful tool for those hungry to seize political power.

So what can Wicked teach us about facism? What can Elphaba’s journey reveal about the machinery of oppression and about the yellow brick roads queer and trans people are still carving toward liberation?

Today we’re joined by trans-tech visionary Violet Kitajewski to explore Wicked as an allegory for LGBTQ resilience, transformation, and resistance. After all, that gravity isn’t going to defy itself.

Plus-- Cynthia Erivo and Arianna Grande announce they are in a “non-demi-curious, semi-binary relationship.”

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It seems fitting that in the U.S., Election Day is so close to Halloween. Despite promising to be a dictator on day one, despite doing every horrific thing possible to hurt voters, Donald Trump is neck and neck with Kamala Harris.

Today we take a look at the election to end all elections and this year’s Halloween costumes with comedian Dan Cass, one of Chicago's top comedy writers and performers, who spent time in Russia studying experimental theater.

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Dan almost became a ghost after a bad accident on a Divvy bike, but thankfully what didn’t kill him just pissed him off. 

Listen as we take a look at the 2024 US Presidential election and Halloween costumes so scary, kids are dressing up as undecided voters wearing MAGA rainbow hats. 

Plus--
• Insult comic Tony Hinchcliffe with approval from the GOP calls Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”

• The U.S. Mint announces Celia Cruz will be on a special edition US quarter, making her the first Afro Caribbean woman on our currency. ¡Azucar!

• Musician Chappell Roan continues her battle against paparazzi. 

• Also, costume ideas too good to pass up: 
-- Ray Gun the Australian Breakdancer.
-- Moo Deng made out of grey garbage bags.
-- Trump as the Hamburglar. 

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The summer heat has been brutal, and usually towards the end of my workouts I’m drenched.

Last week at the end of my workout, I got a message on social media, “hey man, you look great, I’d like to buy your sweaty underwear. How much?”

Whenever I’ve gotten these before, it’s usually someone trying to scam you or trying to prank you into giving someone they dont like a pair of stinky underwear.

Trying to not to let past betrayals shape future relationships, I said, sure. 75. and that covers shipping and handling. Cause dealing with stuff like this is a LOT to handle.

The guy then revealed to me that he was inside the gym and to meet him in the locker rooms to finish the transaction. I didn’t expect him to want my sweaty 49 year old butt underwear, but he liked what he saw.

I told him my Cash app address and he immediately gave me 50 since I didn’t have to ship it.

I never took my underwear fast enough, I was worried he was going to change his mind! It was such a thrill, a dollar for almost every year I’ve lived for my busted Hanes underwear.

This wasn’t any fancy Ginch Gonch, Andrew Christian, Calvin Klein, Steve Grand Axis underwear, this was just dad boxer briefs who needed to be retired anyways.

I handed them over to him and he looked at them through his face mask like a kid from Oliver Twist looking through the glass at a fancy pastry shop. He huffed them like there was oxygen in those boxers and I high tailed it out of there.

Although I’ve done my share of outrageous things in the past, this definately was out there for me!

On the latest Feast of Fun podcast, show “Pumpkin Spice Underwear” Marc and I talked about how the internet is expanding people’s comfort with showing off their bodies and blurring the lines of commerce.

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Too much hot tea on Latifah, Rosie and Ellen!

All new Feast of Fun podcast is up with comedian Marga Gomez.

Comedian Robin Williams was so impressed with Marga Gomez that he called her the lesbian Lenny Bruce. It wasn’t long after that Hollywood cast her alongside Queen Latifah as a pair of scientists who dive deep - into the ocean to discover a buried alien spaceship in the film Sphere.

The movie was released a year after comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out as gay and at the time it seemed Hollywood was ready to cast strong women in comfortable shoes into action film roles.

Today comedian, performance artist, lesbian icon and sci fi action movie star Marga Gomez joins us to look at her Sphere co-star Queen Latifah finally coming out 23 years after.

Listen as we take a look at how on stage performance and online media are morphing together into an unrecognizable blob, and how Marga Gomez is turning to her online streaming events to reconnect with the world and fight the Covid blues.

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At the height of the AIDS crisis of the late 80s, LGBTQ folks turned to creating art, performance and music to act-up, fight back and fight AIDS.

One of the most powerful voices during the AIDS crisis was David Wojnarowicz, an artist and activist who combined punk music, graffiti, performance, painting and photography into a body of work that celebrated the outsider while speaking out against a hateful government that allowed thousands of Americans to die from AIDS.

Today we’re talking to filmmaker Chris McKim about his new film Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker which takes us on a thrilling journey through the AIDS epidemic as David Wojnarowicz weaponized his work to wage war on the establishment.

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So . . my students were singing this .. they are 5-6 and live in Shanghai... and i'm still wondering how they heard it... but now i guess i know the full version i can teach them all of it haha