Thoughts on being gay in the 00s.  Also re-discovered my literary ambitions (maybe).

The relationship between being unemployed and podfading.

Things I learned on my spiritual journey.

Sometimes winning a box of (unintentionally) ironically-named candy bars makes you take a good hard look at your own life.

Lots of changes in my life: I turned 27, I got laid off, and I found out some fun things about my former (for real this time) office crush.

Also: sweet voicemail from listener "Yorky."

I talk about me and the things people say about me.  Me!

Links:
Wanda Wisdom

AmeriNZ

 

So I got laid off recently.  Starbucks here I come!

What I did on New Year's.

Ever wonder whatever happened to Matt Blender?

 

This is my last podcast before I move.  I won't post a new show for at least a month.  I'm going to post "best of" shows (note the ironic use of quotes) in the meantime.

My annoying roommate moved out and we finally reached some common ground.

I have an office crush.

 

 

Some news about my annoying roommate.

I'm (hopefully) going to be relocating soon.

I used to have an interest in this guy until...

I'm passing out condoms at bars once again.

I reflect on my trip to San Fransisco.

My marathon training has been really inconsistent.  I've had a couple big mess-ups so far.

I've decided that I'm going to dedicate my run to someone's memory.

I got some hatemail from some bigot relatives.

I recorded this on my brand new (expensive) binaural mics and the audio is shitty.  Sorry.

My PNS Explosion experience.

I visited home (Detroit) last weekend and I'm going to San Fransisco in just two weeks.

An update on my marathon training and my fundraising.  You can donate, too!

Links:

PNS Explosion
Tranny Wreck Radio
Zillafag
Adam from This Boy Elroy
Kalvin from Hello Waffles

Lesbians, crushes from the near-distant past, and killer chafe.

Links:

Madge Weinstein
Adam from This Boy Elroy
Alden
Justin Feed

Donate to my AIDS Marathon Fund, please.

This is my 100th episode and also my one-year anniversary of podcasting.  I reflect on being mugged a year ago and unveil the new face of...

okaysoradio.com

!

Get excited.

An update on my marathon training: I'm doing very well, except for when I got caught ogling a hot runner.

I have lots of things planned for Memorial Day.

I think I might be losing my best friend.

I'm stressed out and ended up snapping at a Save the Children person.

Plus: I see weird things at my workplace on the 25th floor of a skyscraper.

 

I feel conflicted about Jerry Falwell's death.

I'm upset about the gang murder of a South Side high schooler.

I need your help!  This is extremely important.  I'm training for the Chicago marathon with the AIDS Foundation of Chicago and I'm trying to raise money for this organization. 

Please, please donate to AIDS Foundation of Chicago on my donation page.  I really need your help right now.

The link is right here.

Thank you.

 

I did some dangerous peeing before my marathon time trial.   I'm trying to reconcile my credit debt.  Larry Kramer and Madge inspired me to pursue activism.

Links:

Madge Weinstein
Democracy Now interview w/Larry Kramer

I'm going to train for the Chicago Marathon.

I do some major hand-wringing just moments before going to make a big decision.

I take scary journeys through the South Side and personal financing.

My podcasting has plateaued.

The story behind my fake internet name.

Plus: theatergoers that incite my white shame.

Music: Lola's Theme by Shapeshifters.

I spend most of this podcast talking about exercising and obsessing about my looks.  I'm deep like an ocean.

Pick what you think should be the (possible) picture that will be on the new Okay So Radio logo here.  Let me know what you think in the comments, please.

So embarrassing.

In conclusion: links.

Archer Radio
Online Podcast

I feel conflicted about the Virginia Tech shootings, happy about seeing The Color Purple, apprehensive about visiting DC with my Republicunt family, and excited about my trip to San Fransisco (it's happening!)

This weekend I checked out hot, ambiguously straight hipster boys.

An audio comment from a listener.

The latest on my San Fransisco plans.

I talk about actress Kathleen Turner, some kid bugging me on the subway, and travel plans while I'm on my way to the grocery store. 

Links:

Wanda Wisdom
Cheryl Merkowski
Mikeypod
Madge Weinstein (happy belated birthday, Madge)

I talk about some fucked-up things I've witnessed as an usher.
  Also, my birthday was yesterday.

In this show:

I tell the tale of overhearing my landlord having sex, with a dramatic re-enactment.

I also talk about my upcoming birthday and the latest developments with Okay So Radio 2.0.

The thrilling conclusion to my foray into beardom.

And also: hating on heteros during St. Patrick's day.

Yes, I have no shame.

So I'm postponing going to ad school.  I also started my new second job as an usher.   I get paid to watch Wicked over and over again while I (secretly) lust after the choir boys.  Good times!

Things that are gross:

1.  the guy with the mystery skin ailment I sat next to on the el.

2.  my roommate's all-natural granola tampons.

3.  the YMCA I go to.

It was really late at night when I did this podcast and I didn't want to wake up my roommates.  Anyways, I got that ushering job and things are generally looking up right now. 

I've had some epiphanies since my computer crashed.  For example: I've realized that I'm addicted to the online.  I think I (unintentionally) intimidate strangers.  I've become one of the insincere phony adults I loathed when I was a kid.  And I've made a big decision about my future.

I'm back!

I don't remember what I talked about on this podcast because I recorded it a week and a half ago.  You don't think I actually listen to my own podcasts, do you?

All I remember is that I announce the identity of my Valentine.

 
This weekend I volunteered at my friend's roller derby game.

My mom worries about me too much.

Things are looking up for me.  I'm eating better and I'm starting to get my life back on track.

I called in sick to work today.

My reaction to Anna Nicole Smith's death.

Voicemails: The Drunk Dialing Edition.

I'm seriously considering going to ad school.

I might get a second job.

I was a guest on a few podcasts recently.

My condolences to Richard Bluestein.

I wish I could hybernate through the next three or four months.

This weekend I saw Dreamgirls (good) and watched the Superbowl (BAD).

Some guy fainted in the lunchline today and I had no sympathy for him.

I reply to a comment left on my website while I'm podcasting.

I'm fat.

Mikeypod.

Music by the Ex-Boyfriends.  They're great- vote for them for Spin underground band of the year.

I need a second job.

My birthday is coming up and it's going to be a rough one.

This is also fatcast #2- sort of.

I'm thinking about moving.

I got groped at the bars over the weekend.

Voicemail from Kalvin.

One time I saw Puppetry of the Penis.  It was a free show and it still sucked.

Queer Eye is cancelled and I say good riddance.  That show has always been a sore issue for me.

I also give my take on the homophobe that's on Grey's Anatomy.

I need a new catchphrase.  Suggestions?

Link: January is the most depressing month of the year.

Voicemail!

Why I'm attracted to masculine guys.

Why I think the gays like to fetishize straight men.

And speaking of fetishizing straight men:

Sean Cody (LINK NOT SAFE FOR WORK- and anyways, please.  Like any of you people listening to this shit don't know Sean Cody.)

I was cold and tired on the train to work this morning when a fight broke out.  I was miserable.  Then I started thinking about the bigger picture and came to realize some things.

Also: my friends and I saw a guy try to break into an apartment building and I work at a place where dreams go to die.

I talk about meeting celebrities at the gay bar.

I got laid off from my third temp job.  Now I'm on temp job #4.

I play a message from Zillafag.

I'm tired and crabby on this podcast.  But who cares, because this is the debut of my NEW THEMESONG.  FINALLY.
 

Why should anyone care if I decide to alter my mannerisms?  Why is The Man trying to hold me down?  And who's buying those giant dildos at the sex store?  I ponder these and other questions on my way home from work.

Apparently I'm obsessed with trying to become a straight guy.  Dude.  Bro.

Ringing in the New Year: Buddhist style.

Someone kissed me at midnight.

2007 is going to be great.

I'm way too tired for shownotes right now.  Deal with it.

I went to my sister's wedding last weekend.  There was a lot of crying and unintentional outing of myself (these two things are unrelated).

An embarrassing Megabus ride and an annoying CTA bus ride.

I'm going through a quarter life crisis and it sucks.

I thank some people.

This story is sooo embarrassing.  But it's a good one.

I think about the difference between being a kid in school vs. an adult in the working world.

I'm really desperate for change in my life.

White trash all over the country are stealing trees for themselves and I AM OUTRAGED.

Intro produced by Christiaan Huygens from the Saturn Cast.

I play a clip from the Lady Raptastic Podcast.

My sister is getting married and it reminds me that I'm cool with growing up.

I had a talk with the monk from my temple.

My respose to a listener's criticism.

Voicemail.

I started a new (temp) job on Wednesday and some shit went down.

I was a guest on Real Men Wear Pink!  Check it out.

Cuntgratulations to Madge on her 500th show.

It was so cold out that I skipped my meditation service.

My hairdresser likes to remind me that my back is hairy.

I bitch about my roommate.

Remember how I was supposed to go into surgery on Tuesday?  It didn't happen.  I KNOW.

I recorded this in Detroit, my hometown.

I talk about one of the two things I normally avoid discussing.

I tell a story about the Holy Spirit possessing religious pre-teens.

My chihuahua has an attitude problem but I still managed to get her on the podcast.

I saw Flags of Our Fathers and I'M IN IT!

Podcasting while unemployed.  What I plan on doing to get a job.

I need career counselling.

(LONG) voicemail from Marti Abernathy from the Fat Tranny Circus Podcast.

I taped this walking home from work at 11 pm on Friday.  It
 was creepy: satanic-y woods, rat communes, etc.  I think about where my life is headed and also what it's like to be a temp.

Tales of woe on my way home from work. 

I had another shitty experience at the shit hospital.  I have to get another surgery.

My temp agency has been late with my paychecks.

My current temp assignment is ending and I have a simple request for my last day.

 

So I recently went to a gay job fair (seriously).

I'm also having problems with my insane new roommate.  Bitch crazy.

 

Bad news on the job front.

Voicemail.

Intro music courtesy of The Hazzards.  Watch their "Gay Boyfriend" music video NOW.  You'll love it.  I promise.

Don't fuck with me.

And also: I went to a Halloween parade in Boystown with some friends yesterday.  It was a freaky night with a bathhouse, Maya Angelou, and gay superheroes.  But what about the children?

And speaking of children: I play a political attack ad.  Plus voicemail and an update on my movie.

Podcasting in bed. 

I went to a Halloween party.  The next morning I went to my Buddhist service hung over.

This podcast has really benefitted my writing.

I talk about how each of my podspirations has influenced my own podcast:

PNS Explosion
Yeast Radio
Wanda Wisdom

 

I did this podcast walking home from work.  Rats were underfoot and I got all shrieky like a wussy girl.

Anyways, I went to a bowling party last weekend where I got to go bowling with lots of fellow queercasters.  And speaking of striking out, I was also boo'ed off a karaoke stage.

Links:

Intro provided by Mikeypod

Wanda Wisdom (pictured)

PNS Explosion

The Daily Purge

JayT Online

Zillafag

Drink Till We're Funny

Windy City Queercast

Yeast Radio

 

In the grande tradition of old school Okay So Radio, I freak out about my broken fingers, my future, and my health.  I also have some more entertaining anecdotes about handing out condoms in gay bars.

Chit chatting about crap on my way to work.

Isn't it ironic how my own show notes are much worse than the show notes I write for Richard?

Some voicemail from Archer.

I get flustered talking about meeting up with my crush.

I entered my tongue in a talent competition at Estrojam.

I weigh in on the death of Madge Weinstein.

I'm meeting up with a crush tonight.  Exciting!  The day-after self-loathing should be even more exciting.


I'm officially starting my Weight Loss Odyssey.

Why I'm a bad Buddhist.

I'm going bowling with Madge (or maybe "Richard Bluestein"?) and Wanda.

I want JayT and Adam to go too. 

RMWP.

Coming soon: new Fatcasts.

All the leaves are falling, and the skys are gray.

Buddhism update. 

I address the whole "show queen" issue raised by Adam.

Myspace mystery.

Pill popping.

Embarrassing incidents at my meditation class. 

I respond to some listener mail. 

Check me out on Archer Radio, y'all.

Updates on my crooked up fucked up fingers, hospital fantasies, and good news about my asshole roommate.

 

I was in a music video AND a major Hollywood movie.  Jealous?

 

 

I recount my tequila-soaked weekend, college-party-cruising, drunken-hijinx-filled weekend. 

I also reply to a listener comment and make my formal statement on the whole "bear/cub" issue. 

Also check me out on a recent Yeast Radio (although I don't recommend it).

 

 

On this episode of Okay So Radio I freak out and lose my shit.  Then I tell a story about the time I got mauled by a Blue Jay. 

Whatever. 

 

I had my first fickle listener leave in a huff.  Tragedy!

"Adrian" left me a mean comment and then claims to have left in a huff.  Thanks for the memories, Adrian.

I blather incoherently about the sad state of the media and our country's ignorance on political issues.

Don't shop at Urban Outfitters.

I talk about my first meditation class at my temple.  I of course managed to retard it up.  Then I blather incoherently about Buddhist philosophy.

Okay So Radio!

I tried to upload this yesterday but Libsyn sucks.

Anyways.

Summer's almost over and I get a little retrospective.

I read a funny (to me) iTunes review Anonymous wrote for this podcast.  I address the negativene, complainy tone I've been using on this podcast.  (More on this on the next show).

Thanks to Zillafag for helping me with my website.I tried to upload this yesterday but Libsyn sucks. 

Random link of awesomeness: PNSExplosion.  Like you didn't already know.

So recently on Madge Weinstein's show I got made fun of for being fat.  I do my Madge Weinstein impersonation during my dramatic re-enactment of the whole mess.  I was pretty upset after hearing that episode of Yeast.

But there were some upsides to the whole debacle.  I got lusty emails from chubby chasers Gay Trucker and Zillafag.  Plus I'm really motivated to get healthy again.

In other news: I got plugged on dreamy Adam's podcast, This Boy Elroy. 

Pornstar Buck Adams from Fruitventure Radio left me a very nice comment, too.  So did video blogger Cranky Person With Aids.  Please check out his amazing vlog.

And finally: I think it's time I step away from the internet.

Random link of awesomeness (you'll thank me for it later, trust me): Threadless T-Shirts.

Trying out doing a little intro.

My online pseudonym comes from a certain famous, cruel lesbian podmother of podcasting.

McKenzie almost died of meningitis last week and I was freaking the fuck out.

I might start biking.  Hopefully I won't get myself killed.

60 Minutes on The Science of Sexual Orientation.  Of course I manage to find a way to turn the report back to me.

Thank you Kiko of Visitronix Radio!

 

For this episode I decided to mix it up a little bit.  Instead of talking about myself I review some reality TV shows and discuss Hollywood.  Democracy Now this is not.

I give my opinion on the latest Rock Star Supernova and Big Brother All Stars. 

Then I discuss some surprising Hollywood developments.

I also give a bit of an update on my weightloss non-progress.

 

This show is a paradox of inspiritation and self-loathing.

I give an update on my Buddhist experience.  I talk about meditation and how I'm trying to integrate Buddhist principles into my day-to-day life.

If you think all that's boring, I also talk about how fat I am and how I gross myself out.  If you're a chubby chaser then this is the show for you.

Also: can anybody make me a website and logo, please?

And also: can someone PLEASE write me a goddamn review on iTunes?  Thanks.

I'm back, bitches!

I complain about losing my last job.  I also finally come clean about how I've been paying the bills for the past five months.

Also: I'm out of my cast now and I have my right hand back.  Shazam.

And also: I talk about my Market Days experience, where I almost got beaten up by Muscle Marys and then passed out condoms to strangers. 

I also got to meet a fellow podcaster, JayT.  Check out his Real Men Wear Pink podcast, too.  I'm digging it.

Shout-out toDavid and that enigmatic crazypants, Adrian.

I had a cold during this one and I struggled a little bit. 

But, some good news: Madge Weinstein plugged me on her show!

In this show I do a brief run through of all the gay, flaming things I did as a young gay child.  Heeey!

Thank God this week finally ended!

I went speed dating recently.  Even though it wasn't quite what I was expecting, I ended up having a pretty decent time.  Until I got my results the next day. 

I also went to the PNS Explosion listener party.  I did a lot of drinking and socializing.  It was awesome.  Some guy was taping the PNS guys for a documentary he's making on queer podcasting.  He interviewed me, which was also awesome.

Up next on the podcast: the Gay Games ceremonies.  Finally.  Thank you, Mikeypod.

Hi Chris!

Gay Games and some personal revelations.

I volunteered for the Gay Games opening ceremony and I got to be on the field.  Even though I'm having fun with the Games, they somehow made me feel depressed about my life. 

Meanwhile, Madge called me "mopey" on her show, which helped me put everything into a little more perspective.

I might talk about my recent Speed Dating experience/debacle.

Housekeeping stuff:

I'm on iTunes now.

Thanks to Podshow and amb26 for my intro music.

Finally, I have a special request to my listeners.
 
Thanks for listening, bitches!

Sometimes I really hate the gays.

On Friday I got dissed by some LA douchebags from the LOGO network.  Then I got the runaround from the most famous drag queen in Chicago after I lugged her luggage around all night like a chump.  This isn't helping my  victim complex.

The whole incident was really petty and stupid, but it brought up a lot of issues I have with my own self worth and the problems I have with the gay community.

Oh well.  At least I had a Z List celebrity encounter that night.

What a week(s). 

I finally got to see the nasty Frankenstein shit the doctors did to my hand. 

I also got to march in the Pride parade and I got a little sentimental/emotional.  If my life were a TV show, the editors would play my parade experience in slow motion over piano music. 

And finally, I went to a Zen Buddhist temple to tap into my spirituality (and also do a little cruising). 

It's all about the multitasking on Okay So Radio.

New theme song- comments?

4th of July memories.  Drunken debauchery.  Mystery bruises.  Yelling at my crush about my lack of a vagina.

Yelling at my friends.

Homicide.

My undying loyalty to my listeners.

Hospital visit.  Prisoners.

Wolfgang Tillmans exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Remember how I said I would stop talking about my mugging and my broken fingers?  Me neither.

Surgery.  Crying.  Some nasty surprises.

Gay library book burning arrest.

Special shout-out to my listenturds.

I got into a snit with the Retard Red Eye over their coverage of the Gay Games.

My take on Kevin Aviance's assault.


Gay people: please remember that America hates us.  Be safe.

Emotional breakdown.

Dealing with a psychobabbler at the hospital.

The day after I got mugged and beat up.  I showed up at work the next day with a broken hand and stitches in the back of the head.

Going to the hospital to get treatment.  An upsetting experience.

Upsetting phonecall with my dad (right before taping).

Sunshine and lollipops.

My best friend McKenzie visited me on Memorial Day. 

Depression.

Naked frat boy hotness.

I got mugged and beat up about two weeks ago.  I recorded this the day it happened.