There will be a new Okay So Radio tomorrow.

 

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.

 

 

I was on Lucky Bitch Radio last night.  Check it out.

 

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.

The second part of my podcast with Kalvin.

Links:

Adam from This Boy Elroy
Dan: here and here

Kalvin and I walk through the Castro and discuss Pride going-ons.

Check out Adam's amazing Pride pictures here and here.

I taped this podcast with Adam from This Boy Elroy and his boyfriend, Brad.  I translate a German article about porn star Francois Sagat and the three of us give an update on SF Pride events.

My plane to San Fransisco leaves tonight.  I'm going to be hanging out with Adam and Kalvin all weekend.  Expect some fagtacular SF pride podcasts next week.

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.

You can donate to my AIDS Marathon Fund Online here.

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 wrote this poem awhile ago.  It's about a burn victim.

 

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.

Archer from Archer Radio joins me on the show and we end up talking about me and my "issues" for most of the episode.  Oy.

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

A short vignette about my seminal visit to the porn shop.

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 get stressed out trying to help people when I'm working.

I read some dirty phrases in foreign languages.

Plus: a three-minute baby interview with my baby sister Jenna.

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.

 

1. Lucky Bitch Radio Appearance: The Sequel (Superstar!)

2.  Getting Political on Archer Radio.

3.  Getting Political Some Mo' on Archer Radio.

 

The thrilling conclusion to my foray into beardom.

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

Very "special" guest Beck Nay from Tranny Wreck Radio talks with me about her life and gender politics.   We were all over the place, but we're fabulous so you'll just have to get over it.

Yes, I have no shame.

I was a guest on Lucky Bitch Radio. 

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.

 

Last week my iPod busted, so I loaded my current favorite songs onto my iRiver. 

Then my computer busted.  Now I can't load any new music onto my sole mp3 device.  I've been listening to the same playlist ad nauseum since then.

Here's that playlist:

1. I Summon You- Spoon

2. They Never Got You- Spoon

3. Launch Yourself- Adem

4. A Pillar of Salt- The Thermals (this song is so awesome I haven't gotten sick of it.  Yet.)

5. Think I'm in Love- Beck

6. Pictures- Timo Maas

7. Breathe on Me (Jacques Lu Contâ??s Thin White Duke Mix)- by that crazy redneck q-ball-head bitch.  Whatever her name is.

8. Beyond the Beyond- Rjd2

9. Horny as a Dandy- Mousse T. Vs. the Dandy Warhols

10. Bossy- Kellis

11. Move Aside- Bugz in the Attic

12. Camera (Rubber Bullets Remix)- Editors

13. All Sparks (Phones Remix)- Editors

14. Pink Motorcycle Helmet- Thunderbirds are Now!

15. Shine (Babylon mix)- Cyndy Lauper

16. Energy- Apples in Stereo

17. Bounce That- Girl Talk

18. Raspberry, Cherry, Lemon & Lime- Muscles

 

 

 

Update: my computer's still crashed.

But if it weren't, here's a list of the personal issues I would address on my latest podcast:

1.  I hate my horse-faced, annoying New Zealand roommate.  She's having a guest visit this week.  She left me this ridiculous note about it and I won't get into specifics until I'm podcasting again.

I want to move to Boystown and live by myself.  As the weather changes, so too will my living arrangements (hopefully). 

2. I still don't know what to do with my life.  This makes me nervous because my 26th birthday is coming up soon.

3. I've started working out again.

4. It was really crowded on the el to work.  Then some Coach-eyeglass-wearing asshole had to squeeze in and force me to get close to some homeless guy that smelled Ungodly.

5.  I've become a robot on a couple different levels when I'm at work.

 

My computer crashed last night.  Let's hope I find a computer repair guy who isn't nosy about the embarrassing ammount of porn I have stored away.

Anyways, I don't know when I'll post a new podcast.  So you'll have to find some other way to live your life without me.

 

 

How did I go from this



to this?



Whatever.  Tomorrow is Weight Watchers Day 2: Electric Boogaloo. 

 
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.

Real Men Wear Pink

Archer Radio

Ramble Redhead

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.
 

So lately I've ground out only one podcast a week and there's probably only one person who cares.  But I apologize for being a lazy podcaster.  I'm in a slump right now.  I'll do better.

SHUT UP ADRIAN I DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT.

My good friend Aaron and I talk about politics, children's lit, and top-secret college boy circle jerks.

PS I fucked up.  This is really supposed to be episode #65. 

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.

Believe it or not, I got this survey from Ragan Fox.

End of the year meme

Was the year too fast or too long: Painfully slow.  I can't believe this year is finally over.

Major Events: going through three temp jobs in a year, long periods of unemployment, weight gain, my sister's marriage, getting assaulted, starting my podcast, becoming a Buddhist

Biggest accomplishments: Getting through the past seven months.

Biggest failure: Not having the balls to go after what I want.

Biggest regret: Taking a shortcut through a poorly-lit residential area by myself at 2 a.m.

Best memory: Marching in Pride. 

Worst memory: Calling McKenzie the morning after I was assaulted.

Most prideful moment: My 2-second performance in Flags of Our Fathers.

Most embarassing moment: The first two months of my podcast.

Number of people slept with:  I am a gentleman.

Started with a significant other: started what?

Ended with a significant other: what?

Ending the year with more money, or less: I never had money this year.

Best Friend: McKenzie.

Biggest Enemy: I didn't get their names.

Favorite TV Show: Veronica Mars, Heroes

Favorite Movie: Flags of Our Fathers because I was in it.  Holla.

Favorite Book: What Color Is Your Parachute?  Reading this book is going to lead to bigger and better things in 2007.

Favorite Bands/Singers: Annie, The Avalanches, Basement Jaxx, Spoon, Kelly Clarkson, Shapeshifters, Feist

Concerts: I barely went to any this year.

Places Visited: I didn't really go anywhere this year.

Best Trip: See above.

Worst Trip: the trip to Stroger for surgery.

Looking forward to in 2007: Reaching my goal weight, moving into an apartment (by myself) in Boystown, continuing my spiritual journey, dating, getting published, bringing my podcast to the next level, finding and pursuing my calling.

Dreading in 2007: Constantly having to push myself to do better.  The possibility of failure.  Turning 26.

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.

Zillafag comes on the show to gossip with me about fellow queercasters and share stories from his sordid past.

Queercasters we reference:
Becky from Trannywreck Radio
Twinkleboi
Peter Mavrik from Windy City Queercast
Wanda Wisdom
JayT
Madge Weinstein

Links:
Freak Network
Nellygator
Podsafe Music Network

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.