Okay, so, first off you need to know that I leave my apartment for work EARLY in the morning. EARLY.

So I'm walking to the train and on the corner near my apartment there's this HUGE drag queen with big blonde hair like Divine in "Pink Flamingos" (only crimped), and a flouncy purple angel blouse, capri pants and freakin' CHA CHA HEELS.

Just standing there in the morning dew, minding her business.

So I get on the train, zoom downtown, get out, and what's standing on State Street when I emerge from the subway station?

ANOTHER DRAG QUEEN!!!

This one looked a bit like Lady Chablis, with a ratty Donna Summer wig. She was wearing a dirty red kimono, rainbow socks and a pair of black swede Adidas lowtops.

WHAT'S WITH THE DRAG QUEENS THIS MORNING?!?!


I think they're taking over. It's about damn time, I say.

Anx said:

luv4all7 said:

i thought she was inspiring!

Anx said:

Okay.

Anx said:

Agreed, they're taking over

WE better fight their power

kanamit said:

i can't see how they'd possibly do a worse job of governing than the government. i'm all for a dragulous coup.

Anx said:

HELL YES!!! I hope the wind blows them this way too! The world ALWAYS needs more drag queens

Anx said:

You r already governed by a drag...G WC Bush

applekisses said:

i agree! i just don't think i got the memo saying there were gonna be morning drag queens. they're usually an evening phenomenon.

Anx said:

Do you think they were left over from the night before?

Anx said:

if you had gotten the memo, would you have gone out in drag?

applekisses said:

reading that i had this vision of that part of "mary poppins" where the wind blows all the othe nannies away. imaging them all as drag queens made me giggle pretty hard.

cborgman said:

I'm telling you...we ALL need that!

applekisses said:

the dirty kimono one might have been, though there's nowhere in downtown chicago for a drag queen to be other than maybe the baton nightclub, and that's not really close to where dirty kimono was hanging out. the other drag queen was petal fresh, honey.

yay for drag queens!



This reminds me of my first super-backpacking trip. We arrived in Koln, Germany on the first Sunday morning train. We were WRECKED as we had spent the night before sleeping on the floor of a train station in Belgium. (We had just been to the Torhout Festival...Bjork and Beastie Boys LIVE!)

Anyways. We arrive in Koln, crack of dawn Sunday and the trainstation is crawling with drag queens. I'm talking Priscilla style drag queens with super headdresses and everything. In our wasted state I remember we just were like "wow this must be a cool town."

So we find our way to the hostel, pass out for HOURS and then wake-up. We start asking around about what to do in town and discover it's gay pride (hence all the drag queens) and we had totally slept thru the parade. Woopskies!

applekisses said:

actually the thought of this scares me a bit!

endorphin74 said:

you get to have all the fun!!!

Anx said:

You just described what I would call the beginning to a PERFECT day. It just sounds so lovely
I should start going to work earlier.

eleven said:

i'm all for the kind of hostile takeover in which media reportage of the violent dictators includes color commentary.

Anx said:

I agree! I can see the fake hair, cha cha heels and fun fur flying around in the background shots!

applekisses said:

they'd make better boasty-threat videos than al kaida, that's for damn sure.

Anx said:

Can you imagine what the kidnapping videos would be like?

"If you do not comply with our demands of declaring 10 percent off MAC Makeup Thursdays, we will outfit this construction worker in full Jody Watley regalia!"

applekisses said:

instead of being forced to greet each other by saying "hello, comrade" or "hello brother/sister", we'll have to say hello to each other by saying "HEY BITCH!"

which i already do when i'm drunk, so bring it on i guess.

Anx said:

Anx said:

M

crimped

HereToRockYourWorld said:

sadly, for many midwestern drag queens, it will always be 1989.

Oh I forgot to tell you I was in town again and I brought a few friends with me from Seattle.


They stole my cha cha heals

Anx said:

so tonight we're gonna crimp it like it's 19 - 89
[Edited 8/17/06 10:53am]

cborgman said:

Nice avatar...