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Tigger!

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who’s beautiful? Tigger! The secret to his gorgeousness? Tigger said, “The best thing I ever did for my body was start SHOWING it…” Good for his body and good for us! Tigger is so beautiful and such a warm and wonderful guy. I love all his ginger hair and tiger stripes! He reminds me of a character out of a Jean Genet novel. Dangerous, beautiful, lithe and ferocious all at once…

Red

Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who is beautiful? My friend Red, who is about to get top surgery, which is a chest reduction for trans guys. He is beautiful, so beautiful. I am really proud of him and excited for him. For many transgendered folks, the body can be a great source of pain and frustration, and so surgery has helped quite a few people realize their true selves. I think it is wonderful that science can bring us closer to who we really are. No matter what, before or after, Red is stunningly handsome always.

People’s Choice Awards

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I really want Kelly to win this!! She really deserves it!!! Please vote.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Charlotte Gainsbourg is beautiful. Her legs are miles long and her face just makes me want to cry. Fragile and sweet, she is an awesome actress and has the best parents around…the late Serge Gainsbourg and inventor of the birkin bag, Jane Birkin.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JKPXPJryp3g

My Birthday

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A break from the most beautiful list to show off this awesome card from my friend, Lorene Machado! Thanks Lorene!!!

Kal Penn

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who’s beautiful? Kal Penn.

Totally gorgeous and amazingly talented…while watching “The Namesake,” I wanted to suck on a pickle and cry and cry the whole way through. Not only is he beautiful and fine, he is also a very nice guy. Everyone is madly in love with him! Seriously, I don’t know one person who doesn’t want to kiss him full on the lips - even straight guys! (actual quote: “I am not gay but that guy’s handsome.") But he’s so cool it hasn’t gone to his head; he can even take time out of his busy schedule to teach a university course at U-Penn on Asian American images in the media! Yay!!! Hot for teacher!!! I love him love him love him and I cannot wait for “Harold and Kumar 2.”

I am pretty sure his eyebrows are magical.

John Roberts

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

John Roberts. Oh, he is funny and beautiful and cute. I can’t stop watching this video:

or this one:

Both characters are so funny because they are so frighteningly real.

You can still see that he is gorgeous, through the wigs, the tape, the christmas sweaters. I think he looks like the also unbelievably beautiful Rufus Wainwright. I love him!

Alotta Boutt�

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Alotta Boutté is beautiful. She has such a lovely figure and gorgeous face, and she is an incredible dancer. Love her… and love her name!

Photo by Micah Joel

Photo by urbanshutterbug photography

Photo by by Don Spiro

Patton Oswalt

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who’s beautiful? Patton Oswalt. I have always thought he is such a darling boy, just sweet faced, good hearted and incredibly funny. He used to live one street over from me, right by the Holy City Zoo in San Francisco. He lived in an unruly comic’s den with Blaine Capatch and Brian Posehn. I thought they were all babes.

Dani Campbell

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who is beautiful?

Dani from A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. Maybe it is because she’s a firefighter, maybe it is her amazingly cute face or her toned and fit firefighting body. Who knows? Dani’s adorable and I ain’t afraid to say so. I also like her sincere butch ways. I don’t know who Tila’s going to pick but if I were her I would totally go for Dani. She’s gorgeous and true and refreshingly sane in the world of Reality TV. GO DANI!!!!

Miss Dirty Martini

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who’s beautiful?

Just a work of art, I really think Dirty Martini is the most beautiful woman in the world. She brings a tear to my eye. During the Sensuous Woman shows, I would speed my way through costume changes just so I could get a glimpse of her every night. She’s so creamy and lush. She’s got the kind of beauty rarely seen these days. She might have fit in better during the Italian Renaissance. Still, I am glad we have her now.

Photos by Jo Boobs

Jane Lynch

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Who is beautiful?

Everyone has a list. They come out during the year to much fanfare and applause and it is always the same people, which is fine if you really think Orlando Bloom is gorgeous or you can’t imagine anyone finer than Penelope Cruz. I think all those same people are lovely, and they might make it on my list someday. Maybe, but until then, let’s make a list for ourselves.

Jane Lynch is beautiful. She is tall and lean and elegant. I just love her. Her neck is long and graceful and her eyes are sparkly and smiley and bright. She is the kind of person that is really illuminated from within. Like there are candles inside!!! She’s also really funny and fun to be with, very important criteria for my most beautiful list.

What is Beauty?

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Beauty is something I struggle with all the time, and since I am writing a show about it, I would love to hear what your thoughts are on beauty. Do you feel beautiful? Did you always feel that way? Were you told you were beautiful as a child? Are you told you are beautiful now? How does it make you feel? Do you tell yourself you are beautiful? Do you tell other people they are beautiful? These are all tough questions.

I feel beautiful now because I try to tell myself that I am, and then since I bring it up, other people tell me that I am. One time, when I was at the airport, there was an older man, who seemed a little off…not homeless, because there are rarely homeless at the airport, just kind of ‘off.’ He had a big ceramic button on his lapel of a white sheeted ghost with a word balloon that said “BOO!” and it was nowhere near October. There was just a look of untuckedness to him – shirttails out, very very wide corduroy, no laces in athletic shoes. A man coming undone. Like he had been shaken out somehow.

He stood behind me in line at the Southwest counter, and when I turned to face him he said, “Wow”… not “boo!” I said, “What?” and he took a minute. It was like he lost his bearings. Lost his breath. Lost his composure just slightly. Not in a scary way. Just a momentary loss of his personal cabin pressure, but the masks didn’t drop down. And he said, “Wow…I am sorry. You are just so beautiful.” I was really shocked. I wanted to turn around and ignore him. I wanted to run away. I wanted to be angry. But I also didn’t want to lose my place in line. So I said, “Thank you.” He wasn’t finished. He kept saying, “Wow. Yeah… Your face. It is beautiful. You are like… a sunrise.” And I didn’t say anything. And it was like that second we were frozen and I had to face my entire life of feeling ugly and hating myself and here was someone to say, ‘no you are not ugly at all. you are beautiful.’ And I was scared and mad and freaked out and flattered and wanted to cry and ignore it, and thank God I heard, “Next!” and I was able to flee into the safe arms of the gate agent and away from this scary man, so scary he had the word “BOO!” on his chest, who was telling me I was beautiful. But you know it stayed with me. That feeling of seeing someone knocked out by my beauty. Maybe is something Kiera Knightly feels every day. She probably gets sick of it. But it’s a rare occurrence for me. And it is nice.

Introducing Hunter

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Hunter is all the rage…

The Burn

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Look at my burn!!! It is terrible!!! Right on my forehead. It is really big and sometimes throbs. I got it from using Selene’s curling iron last week. Here is how it happened. First of all, it is all my fault, and it is hygiene related. My hair was really greasy. Last week I was so exhausted from doing shows that I just gave up on washing my hair. If you ever see me doing a show, and it looks like my hair is wet, it is actually not wet, it is greasy because I am tired!!!! People who are working with me, like Ian, usually notice this and then start to yell at me to wash my hair. Anyway, my hair was really greasy and I saw Selene using a curling iron and her hair looked so nice and not greasy and I thought that if I used it that it would somehow make all the strands lie together. Only a dummy wouldn’t realize the only way to have the strands all lie flat together is to wash it, but of course I was too lazy to do that. So I took Selene’s curling iron to my weary head and tried to scoop up my greasy, separated bangs with it. The iron was as hot as it could be, and sizzled when it hit my hair. There was a distinct bacon smell. Then I started laughing and showing off to everyone about how my hair was greasy and now it smelled like bacon. As I was going on and on about it, the iron slipped through my greasy bangs and landed right on my forehead! It burned!!! I was so mad that I burned myself and desperately looked around for someone to blame but it was all my fault!!! Now I have this terrible burn!! Please be careful if you are a showgirl or fancy type who must curl your bangs!! Make sure they are clean!! Do not show off about the dirtiness of your hair that smells like bacon!!! Don’t burn your forehead like I did!!!

New DNA Evidence in WM3 Case

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

The best coming home present so far has to be this….

WM3.org

Thank You All

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

I just got home after two months of doing “The Sensuous Woman” and now, after what was a nonstop whirlwind of activity I am really not sure what to do with myself. I want to thank everyone in the show, especially our NY cast members who joined us near the end, Jo Boobs and Tigger, and of course the incredible Dirty Martini. I was really anxious about losing Kelly and Pleasant, but Jo and Tigger rocked it every night, and I could never get enough of Dirty!

Thanks to everyone who came out to see us in Chicago and New York. I had so much fun with you all and I learned so much.

Now I am going to work on my new standup show, “Beautiful"….I am so ready to get out there and do standup again! But I am not leaving “The Sensuous Woman” behind! Kelly and Ian Harvie will be joining me on my new tour! Exciting!!!!!

Sensuous Woman Photos from Jo Boobs

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Here are some hot shots from Jo Boobs, who joins the cast of The Sensuous Woman this week!

Selene’s Problem

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Selene’s got a problem!

My Crane

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

Yay! I got a tattoo from amazing artist Chris O’Donnell! He is so incredible and I love my tattoo so much! I know I look like I am not enjoying myself but it really wasn’t so bad. And Chris is hell of fine!!!