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. 

After explaining the fundamentals of reading, Zebra Katz is now trying to learn why he does what he does.

In his latest video, the openly queer MC rhymes over a spacy and dubby beat, with his wonderfully gravelly voice and smooth delivery.

You can check out more of Katz's videos at his YouTube channel. In the meantime, check out his latest video.

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.

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. 

Ten years ago, two friends from separate musical projects decided to collaborate. But they lived in separate cities, and so their musical endeavour became subject to the mail, as they would send each other lyrics, melodies and chords. That collaboration would become named, aptly, The Postal Service. Their album Give Up featured such beautiful songs as "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight" and "We Will Become Silhouettes." It would become Sub Pop Records second-best-selling album, after Nirvana's Bleach.

Unfortunately, there was never a second album. There were rumours, but nothing ever really materialized. Until now.

Sub Pop is putting out a 10th-anniversary edition, along with two new tracks, featuring Rilo Kiley alum (and she of the immortal line "He touched my breast!" from The Wizard) Jenny Lewis. Today, one of the tracks, "A Tattered Line of String," was released on YouTube.

Photographers are often the most difficult people to photograph. But what if the photographer is a paparazzo?

In 2006, Joseph Gordon-Levitt decided to turn the tables, or rather the camera lens, on a duo of paparazzi to see what they would do. He then follows them to ask them questions, which they avoid answering by insulting him. But the interesting part is how one of them ends up flirting with him, in a roundabout way. (Via Gawker) 

*language NSFW

After their lovely homage to Wilson Phillips with "Chick-fil-A," Willam Belli, Detox Icunt & Vicky Vox have done it again, this time with a very NSFW-ish video. 

"Boy Is a Bottom" is about a "total tops total dream," with a little bit of a nod to En Vogue (watch it and you'll see/hear it). 

Check it out.

Tuxedo Stan, the much-beloved kitty candidate from Halifax's 2012 mayoral race, is ill.

The penguin-suited cat has renal lymphoma, a type of cancer common in cats, reports The Chronicle Herald.

The cat made local news when he ran for mayor, opting for a platform that would help with the local pet population. He later became known globally as his story was picked up by news reports, even being mentioned on such shows as Ellen and Anderson Cooper.

You can find out more about Stan's health, as well as his ongoing campaign, at tuxedostan.com.

We here at Down East wish him a speedy recovery.

Anderson Cooper decided to throw his hat into the ring over the whole "Did she or didn't she?" fracas in terms of Beyoncé's recent performance during Obama's inauguration.

Although one may have expected him to perhaps have a giggling fit, he was able to contain himself and applauded her performance, no matter what it turns out to have been.

The life of a celebrity is one of secrets, some of them open and some of them carefully (and sometimes expensively) hidden.

One of the most well-known open secrets in Hollywood was about Jodie Foster's sexuality. 

In a time where our attention span has become minute, it's sometimes important to remember how and why Foster is a special case. She's been in the spotlight since she was a toddler and was even the object of desire for a very disturbed individual who ended up shooting a president, "just to get her attention." To say that she's been in the spotlight her entire life is to put things mildly.

Which is why it makes sense that Foster has kept certain things private. Yes, her career was strong enough for her to do and say many things that might be deemed controversial, even outside of coming out. This is a woman who has publicly defended Mel Gibson.

So in her speech last night during the Golden Globes, where she received the Cecil B DeMille Award, Foster took the time to say a few things she had on her mind. To some it may have seemed to be a "rambling" speech, but if you take into consideration the context of what Foster's life has been, her pressure-valve release of a speech is a moving example of what it's like to be a celebrity in today's world.