Memory Lane: Morgan McMichaels

Walk with me down memory lane.....

Imagine how surprised I was when I turned on Rupaul's Drag Race: Season 2 and saw two of my friends from Los Angeles competing in it. The whole time we would watch I would brag about my friend Morgan McMichaels. I wasn't really that close to Raven, but Morgan and I really go back. All the way back to my drag days when we would work together at the bars around town. I remember talking shop with her backstage waiting for our numbers to come on. We would talk about everything from costumes to the method in which we would tuck. Good Times!

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Morgan. If I remember correctly we started doing drag around the same time, and back when I was still performing, we were almost on the same level and growing together. Aside from my personal history with here though, she is absolutely amazing to watch on stage. There is just something fun and energetic about her that always entertains. There were a great deal of shady bitches in the drag scene but that was never her. I have to say that she is probably one of my favorites.

When I cut off all my hair and started living as a gay boy again I lost a lot of my friends I had made in that life. It is probably one of my only regrets about not doing drag anymore. There were some who stayed in touch but the relationship was never the same. I guess as life changes you go through different stages and along the way you lose and gain friends. Though drag was a majority of what Morgan and I had in common, even after the change we maintained a level of our friendship and that was enough for me.

I LOVE YOU BETCH!!

Memory Lane: Prince Poppycock

Walk with me down memory lane....

Several years ago there was a club in Los Angeles by the name of FUBAR that had an event each week called DIRTY DEEDS. It was actually kind of a big deal, they had CHI CHI LARUE in the DJ booth and hot porn stars dancing and doing live shows all over the place. It was actually quite an entertaining night. It was where all of the pornstars and their admirers would come to commingle with one another. One of the few places we could go to get away from the labels and judgements that followed people in the sex industry.

Now back to the story at hand, working the door was this amazingly sweet guy who we all knew as Prince Poppycock. Most of the time he was dressed down but when he would dress up it was absolutely AMAZING. Big white wigs and old victorian type costuming, it was an astonishing transformation. Well the other night DYLAN was watching television while I was blogging. I got up to walk to the room for something and saw this guy on AMERICA'S GOT TALENT who was singing opera..I was like "hmm looks like my friend Prince Poppycock" and keep going thinking nothing about it. When I came back through, to my surprise, it was Prince Poppycock. I knew that he was amazing to look at but had no idea the bitch could sing.

BRAVO PRINCE POPPYCOCK !!!

Childhood Obsession

SAILOR MOON

Sailor Moon has been my favorite cartoon since the first time I saw it come on the Cartoon Network. It was part of an afternoon lineup called TOONAMI when I was in middle school. It would come on at 3:30pm and I wouldn't get out of school until 3:15pm so I had to pass on riding the bus home and run the two miles to my house in order to catch it. I remember that thirty minutes each weekday being the happiest I remember being as a child.

Now Cartoon Network only played the first two seasons on their station so I knew nothing of the other three seasons and three full length feature films that were out there. When I started making good money escorting and having a disposable income, the first order of business was to locate and buy every Sailor Moon media I could find. That began a two week search across the internet and most of southern California for what I needed. It took a lot of hard work and dedication but I was finally in possession of everything I wanted.

Sailor Mercury had always been my favorite of all the scouts. She was always the smart one in the group and her powers were water based, which as a Pisces I loved. When I started watching the rest of the series and learned of all the other scouts that were introduced later, I quickly fell in love with Sailor Pluto instead. She was the eldest of the group and by far the most powerful. Very mature and only came around in times of desperate need. I admired how hard she worked to keep the others together and make sure that things didn't get too out of control.