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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Popping culture: Detox & Friends plump up with 'Silicone'; Jinkx Monsoon channels Little Edie once more

After pulling off hilarious hits such as "Boy Is a Bottom" and "Chow Down at Chick-fil-A," recent RuPaul's Drag Race alum Detox Icunt and Willam Belli, along with their good friend Vicky Vox, have come up with another great parody of/homage to pop culture.

Entitled "Silicone," this love song to all things plastic surgery features Detox at the forefront, tongue planted firmly in a self-deprecating cheek. Take a peek.

And while we're on a musical tip, the recently crowned winner of this season's RuPaul's Drag Race, Ms Jinkx Monsoon (#teamjinkx), has recently paired up with Two Dudes in Love to create a track called "Schizophrenic."

 

The track features Jinkx once again channelling Little Edie Beale, in a spoken-word presentation about Beale's alleged issues with mental health. Check it out.


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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Popping culture: Jinkx Monsoon dreams on

It's no secret that I am a big fan of Jinkx Monsoon.

From her moments of narcolepsy to her killer performance as Little Edie on RuPaul's Drag Race, this monsoon is leaving the competition drenched.

Jinkx is a force to be reckoned with, on and off the show. But she went beyond the call of duty recently at a performance in New York where she once again donned her kerchief as Edie and, in a brilliant mix of pop-culture references, sang "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Mis as Miss Edie.

Watch the bravura performance below, and listen to the crowd eat it up.

 Sickening. 

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Popping culture: It's a drag

Although it's too early to tell who will win this season of RuPaul's Drag Race, it is easy to see who is the most entertaining. 

I've already talked about Ms Jinkx Monsoon, but I recently discovered that someone has created a Twitter feed dedicated entirely to Alyssa Edwards' face.

Genius.

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Speaking of genius, I recently found out that West Coast drag legend Jackie Beat is having a bit of a hard time with ill health. In fact, Beat is now in need of a double hip replacement. Beat has gone the crowd-sourcing route to help with the cost of the operation, since Beat doesn't have insurance. "I have ever given you a chuckle or made you crack a smile; please slip a little something into the brandy snifter here on mama's piano," Jackie says. You can donate by checking out their Give Forward page. 

To remind you of how awesome Jackie is, check out "Beaver."


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Thursday, February 28, 2013

Popping culture: Discovering Jinkx Monsoon

After her brava performance during this week's episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, Seattle's self-described "premier narcoleptic drag queen," Jinkx Monsoon, has been popping up a lot more on the internet. Case in point: this wonderful mini-documentary/interview with Jinkx, aka Jerick Hoffer, delves into how Jinkx came to be, her influences and her ideas. It also includes a lovely surprise at the end: her amazing singing voice.

Check it out.


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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Popping culture: Little Edie is reincarnated on RuPaul's Drag Race

Kudos to Jinkx Monsoon. Boo to the queens who didn't know who Little Edie was.

On the latest episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, the lovely -- and narcoleptic -- Ms Jinkx Monsoon was getting ready with the rest of the queens for this year's edition of the Snatch Game, where each queen dresses up as various celebrities and characters. Well, Ms Monsoon decided to perform her own homage to the kookiest of all high- (and low-) society dames, Little Edie Beale, of the famed Grey Gardens

Now in my book, if you're a gay man and don't know who Little Edie is, then that is unfortunate. If you're a drag queen who makes it onto RuPaul's Drag Race and you don't know who she is, then you, my child, are -- if I can appropriate a term -- ovah.

When Jinkx announces her character to the rest of the crew, many of them don't know who she is. Some of the younger (read: inexperienced) queens may be given a little slack for not knowing about Beale, her mother, the Bouvier-Kennedy-Onassis connection, the house, the cats and the raccoons. But for queens like Coco? That's just sad.

Monsoon is genius in the game, throwing shade in ways that goes right over some of those ladies' heads. 

Gawker has video of the episode, or you can watch the whole thing on OUTtv. And really, you should watch the whole thing. 


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