Photo by: Eric Harvieux

For a show about disco there sure were a lot of unusual non-disco songs.

A lot of songs featuring poop.

Solid Poop. Solid. And SOLID SOME THING pooped all over the stage… or it could have been chocolate. It’s difficult to judge.

:] faux king awesome xo

OPALTEEN & FAUX KING AWESOME

JORGE

COCO CANAL

APRIL MEI JOON

VIVVY ANNE FOREVERMORE

PHATIMA

DONNA PERSONNA

LADY BEAR

VIVVY ANNE FOREVERMORE

MUTHA CHUCKA

GLAMAMORE

I love my city.

It’s got a great climate, beautiful views, fresh air, clean water, amazing food, hot boys, pot and drag queens everywhere. It’s basically heaven for a guy like me. And I love all the other crazy things that come with The City: Folsom Street Fair, Bay to Breakers, The Tenderloin, Gavin Newsom’s hair grease, and sourdough bread, oh and I love tourists too! But the one thing we got that you probably can’t find anywhere else is a viable progressive candidate running for one of the highest offices in the city who is also a drag queen.

Anna Conda.

After shuttering her weekly drag show Charlie Horse at the Cinch after a five year run due to ridiculous complaints from those living in the new expensive condos built next door she decided to run for office. Now running for office sounds kinda easy right? Well it’s not, in fact it’s exhausting, stressful and expensive, but she managed to run a tight campaign, garnered all kinds of support and volunteers in a very short time and now she finds her campaign turning some heads that did not really consider her candidacy noteworthy.

If you live in District 6 (Tenderloin, SOMA, Treasure Island) and you are able to vote, then please, please throw your support for Anna Conda. She’s the real deal. She talks like a real person, one concerned with finding solutions to problems rather than just pointing them out and grandstanding for attention and political gains. She is a progressive candidate supportive of the poor, down and out, and middle class. She wants to fight to keep our city for the people who love to live here and participate in the community, not those who sweep in with their dollars and buy up real estate to have some second, third, or fourth elitist perch on the pacific coast. Those are not the real San Franciscans. We are.

Vote November 2nd.

:] xoxo

I really loved every number that evening. Each was very entertaining, even Primadonna Reed, who had me laughing so hard I could barely hold the camera steady. Highlights were lips syncing in Spanish (especially Stanley Frank Sensation’s spot on telenovela sync, and Glamamore’s Spanish hog reina), Oxana Olsen and Tess Tickle’s American Gladiator fight, and Vivvy Anne Forevermore and Elijah MIneli’s amazing, ripped right from YouTube, rendition of the Olsen Twins’ “Gimme Pizza.” Priceless.

Enjoy the videos below and stay tuned for more info on Ambrosia’s Doble Quinceañera.

:] xoxo FKA

Primadonna Reed

Vivvy Anne Forevermore & Elijah Minelli

Glamamore

April Mei Joon

Stanley Frank Sensation

Oxana Olsen & Tess Tickle

Ambrosia Salad

Glamamore

I’ve always seen David as a drag mentor. He knows about the outfits, the makeup, the wigs, the moves, the lip sync, the style, the music, the look. He can talk to all of this; it’s really amazing to have so much wrapped up into one person. So the drag wonders at SOME THING celebrated Mr. David’s birthday with a special night of performances from some of his nearest and dearest, and newest friends.

Please check out performances below from Hoku Mama Swamp, Putanesca, Vivvy Anne Forevermore, Miss Rahni, Fauxnique, Suppositori Spelling Nikki Starr and more.

:] xoxo FKA

Hoku Mama Swamp

Vivvy Anne Forevermore

Miss Rahni

Phatima

Chi Chi Vargas

Alexis Blair Penney

Tina Benez

Suppositori Spelling

Kalisto

Monistat

Honey Mahogany

Suppositori Spelling… Again!

Putanesca

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy

Fauxnique & Stanley Frank Sensation

Nikki Starr

Fauxnique, Vivvy, Hoku, Puta & Spaz

Happy Birthday Mr. David

Our friend Ben Wa put together a fabulous video mash-up to help celebrate the stylish and exciting night. Check it out!

:] xoxo FKA

“It’s SOME THING with Class,” I told them as I took a chug and popped a mento into their hands. “I didn’t plan to be this classy for the show.” I’m just always this classy.

Amazing performances from Martha The Failed Actress, Glamamore, Katya Smirnoff-Skyy, Mercedes Munro, Honey Mahogany, Kalisto, Turleen, Margaret Cholo, Elijah Minelli and April Mae Joon.

I got video below.

Martha The Failed Actress

Margaret Cholo

Kalisto

Elijah Minelli & April Mae Joon

Katya Smirnoff-Skyy

Turleen

Honey Mahogany

Mercedes Munro

Glamamore

Hoku Mama Swamp, Glamamore, hostess Vivvy Anne Forevermore, Mutha Chucka, Shakey Gibson, Virginia Suicide and more graced us with their wettest. Hoku made the most of the new shower installed next to the stage (see video below). It’s almost unbelievable, and only in San Francisco.

Here’s some photos of Mutha Chucka:

Here are a few video clips I got of Hoku, Glamamore, and Hoku again:

Peaches Christ gives good grindhouse with evil twins Jade and Nikita Ramsay

I got a first look at it when Joshua screened a cast and crew show late last year at the Victoria Theater. It was great to see all the folks from the set back in the theater where we filmed. And All About Evil was awesome! Experiencing the movie again this month at The Castro with so many fresh eyes watching it for the first time was a raging hoot! We all laughed so hard, people heckled, I even discovered new things to laugh at this time around. That is a great sign. Any good cult movie gets funnier the more times you see it because you recognize more things and find different levels of humor in some things than you did before. Plus the shared experience cannot be beat. You have to experience this at the cinema.  And Peaches Christ is taking this movie on tour all over the US complete with a pre-show dragstravaganza that is sure to give you more bang for your movie buck. Check out this link to see if it’s going to come to your hometown. Not coming to a theater near you? Then I would suggest starting a Facebook page to demand it come. Many cities like my hometown of Detroit did just that. We gotta show booked within days!

The SOME THING EVIL show was a riot. Lots of fake blood, horror movie references, torture and laughs. Here’s some pics:

Mercy Fuque gets Psycho

Drill, Baby, Drill. Hoku makes a nice Wednesday Addams

Ric Ray introduces an eyeless gal

Vivvy Anne Forevermore and Peaches introduce Mink Stole

Juanita MORE! sparks up some seductive evil with the help of Mr. David

Charlie Horse embodied the same vigor, imagination and rebellion that my parties did; so it’s no small wonder that after discovering my alter ego I approached Anna Conda to see if she’d let me perform. I said, “I have this idea, I don’t know if it’ll work, but I wanted to know if you’ll let me do it.” Through a cocktail or two Anna told me, “I don’t care if it doesn’t work.”

Low expections? Try NO EXPECTATIONS! That works for me! Not that I wasn’t nervous my first time, but at least it didn’t matter if I failed. I had my foot in the drag door, I did what I loved and people actually thought it was cute. I’ll take cute. Then I continued on, conjuring up all kinds of ideas that I was allowed to realize on that two-pool-tables-together stage. In less than a year Anna gave me my own pre-show, every last Friday. Reverend Awesome’s Tent Revival Show. Wow! I was shocked. I never expected this opportunity, way outta left field you know?

I liked Charlie Horse. I loved it. I “got” it. It’s irreverent, retarded, fierce, insane, just plain awful charm/performances. And I feel beyond lucky to have shared that stage with such amazing performers: those homegrown like myself, and also drag legends, folks from the famed Trannyshack stage, Aunt Charlie’s Lounge, etc. I learned a lot from these folks and I am grateful. They’re all very funny and I have several fond memories hanging out back stage, helping each other get ready, fastening buttons, spraying wigs, touching up makeup, dodging sewage dripping from the ceiling, pissing in the basement, jumping into the cooler after burning it up on stage. I spent some nights pacing in the basement, waiting to go on, others staking out my position at the foot of the stage to engage the performers with my camera. And I always had fun regardless of the performance caliber (some nights were admittedly just bad) and this is what made it great. Realness, a truth in the air, the ability to laugh at yourself.

Post-Trannyshack, Charlie Horse was the last of the old school alternative drag parties that kind of held vast drag factions together. I’m not saying (and I don’t think) that different groups are adversarial, but in the year and I half that I spent clicking picks and roaming about The Cinch I saw just about everyone there, whether they performed or not. This collective memory is important as it will shape the future of what we ALL do going forward. There are civic powers that want to control what we do and where we do it. The developers and corporations have plans for the city, big plans, and the better educated you are about what they are proposing the better. Make sure you do your homework before you vote next time, especially if you voted for Newsom last time. READ THE GUARDIAN EVERY WEEK!!! It’s the best local news. Ask me questions! I love it!

In the end we ALL have to work together to keep what is important to us. I suggest taking more drag to the streets. Hoku Mama and my Tiara Sensation drag family led a hilarious and inspired group of performers through the city last month. And although we were met with threats from authorities at every turn, we still created a visibility that can’t be denied, and laughter and joy that will be the highlight of many vacations of tourists who clicked our pictures and applauded our delightful antics. Why not just have a weekly performance in front of city hall? All you need is a sound system and a dream. Do it guerilla style.

I would like to thank Anna Conda for slinging drag every week for over five years in a dirty Polk Street saloon, and for her courage and tenacity when it comes to voicing herself politically, motivating others to take action as well. Thank you!

Adieu Charlie Horse, Adieu!

Faux King Awesome