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Happy Monday!
Catching up with the mailbag, I came across this lovely note about an interview I did with the one-and-only Carol Channing on my former radio show:
Shaun – An endearing, utterly beguiling interview with a legend. You handled it with such aplomb and skill and it was obvious Carol adored chatting with you. I brought carol to NH in 2007 and again in 2008 to do a couple of AIDS benefits and her interactions with those infected and affected was amazing. Your interview style is delightful and you captured the Carol I have been privileged to know for many years. Bravo!!! Sincerely, Paul Brogan
Thanks Paul! If you never caught the kooky convo, check it out below – and keep scrolling down to find out which Y&R legend thinks pot should be legalized!
And which star of Y&R thinks marijuana should be legalized? Puffa-puffa!
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Hey, so we’re adding a commentary element to The Shaun Proulx Show on OUTtv, based on my popular daily “4:20″ commentaries I used to give every day at … 4:20 … on my former radio programme. Leafing through old scripts I wrote, I came across the one below from April, 2009. It’s in keeping with my earlier post featuring recent video of Toronto neighbours in confrontation with local door-to-door evangelicals. xS
And now a word on Jesus.
So a long weekend approaches, we’re off because Jesus died and was resurrected about this time a while back.
God, Jesus has caused a lot of strife, hasn’t he? I mean, the faith founded in his name still wrestles with the ultimate question of Who He Is. During his lifetime his followers had differing answers and after his death it took more than 300 years of violent contention and suppression before even the murkiest answers emerged.
I’m sure he didn’t mean for all this when he came to us in that manger way back, that star in the sky blinding him like a disco ball.
But, even today, the Christian right sure like to use the poor bugger as they perform their most un-Jesus like acts, trying to stop people from loving people.
Understandably, too, these days people are turning their backs on Jesus in record numbers.
Then there’s those of us who take his name in vain far more frequently than probably HE would appreciate, and did I mention a fair number of wars seem to have been caused in His name?
But throughout recorded history, people have always had spiritual needs. We have a need for a basic understanding of life. We have a need for a sense of meaning, and purpose. We have a need to feel connected to something greater than ourselves.
As we celebrate Easter, be it on the dance floor, or by hunting chocolate eggs in the most unusual of hiding spots, or attending Church to praise Him, wouldn’t it be nice if we could all take pause and remember one little thing?
Jesus said LOVE, bitches!
Cazwell Drives The Ice Cream Truck. Photo: Shaun Proulx Media
Okay, so, Toronto is a sauna. The humidity is so oppressive I’ve fashioned a muumuu from gauze, and that’s that.
No, it’s not, actually. Here’s something that’ll either cool you down or heat you up, courtesy of Cazwell, he of the addictive ‘All Over My Face’ single two summer’s ago (his other song about Beyonce and Burger King never caught on as well).
Every gay man I know is currently sharing this on Facebook. So watch, enjoy, and if you happen to see the dude in the blue undies, bring him to me.
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I Love The Way You Love Me!
Back from just the most remarkable week in Vancouver, a city I fell in love with. A great balance of shooting Pride Vancouver 2010, shooting the show (great chats with Cris Derksen, Darcy Michael, Candis Cayne, and Bif Naked!), seeing the city, plus a day trip to Victoria to visit Andrea, my high school pal. Reunited and it feels so good! Here’s what else I’m loving as we move into another summer weekend:
Prop 8 overturned – it puts same-sex marriage up in the air in California again, which is a big step forward from flat-on-it’s-back-over. Love is love, and that can never be trumped.
Maura West is joining Y&R as the new – and third – Diane Jenkins. I really liked the former actor to play her, Susan Walters, who sizzled opposite arch-enemy Phyllis – but West is AMAZING. She is on the soon-to-be-kaput As The World Turns and even though I don’t watch that soap, at my old gym they would have it on the TVs and I’d do my workout with an eye on her scenes ’cause she’s that compelling. More info! (Speaking of Phyllis, will we see any catfights with her other arch-enemy Skeletor Cricket, now that ‘the bug’ is back?) Lastly, while fans are divided regarding Victoria Rowell’s approach to her issues with Y&R on her Twitter, I get her, and I’d love to see her back doing Dru.
I journal daily. I call it my Love List. It’s an appreciation, one page, of my life as it is, mixed with some forward-feeling of the way I desire it to be. One page, no audience in mind, and I never re-read it. Something I almost always write is: “Opportunity is attracted to me like I am the world’s strongest magnet”. It works, and works often: First text received upon landing back in Toronto was a work opportunity for my consideration – and a mighty fine one at that.
Law Of Attraction: Eddie likes to get his hair cut whenever he visits a city, and Vancouver was no exception this past week. The question remained though: Where to go that gave good lid? That question put out there, we could only look at each other and laugh when, during the Vancouver Pride Parade two days later, this uber-hot goth chick leaves the parade route, bee-lines it straight to Eddie, and gives him a little pin with the words ‘Chop Shop‘ on it. And he took it – he never takes promo shit people hand out! Two days later, one fun cut, just what he wanted, inspired by the World Cup sexy hair that was everywhere. Ask, and it is given. And it’s the small stuff that’s easiest to notice, which allows you to then notice the big stuff.
Vancouver Pride. Such a blast, an amazing Parade, and to see the community gather by English Bay surrounded by Vancouver gorgeousness was a queer celebration like I’ve never seen. Here’s a peak of what’s ahead on our Summer Of Pride special on OUTtv:
I Am Here.
In Vancouver to continue shooting the ‘Summer Of Pride’ series for OUTtv (Happy Pride, Vancouver!), as well as interviews for the show, including a chat with Bif Naked. I love her energy – any woman who tweets that she is grateful for her ears so she can hear her beloved dog snore is A+ by me.
Speaking of dogs and gratitude, I love that I have friends I know and trust who will watch over my home and beasts while Eddie and I are away
This has been a Blast From The Past Week: Tuesday I saw the Soulpepper production of David French’s comedy Jitters with my bff Amanda; we met 20+ years ago when I co-starred in it with her father. Tomorrow I’m day-tripping to Victoria to rendezvous with Andrea, an old high school friend. I haven’t seen her in 21 years – I sat behind her in math class and used to pass her crude notes when I was bored out of my skull. Memory Lane!
Law of Attraction: Yesterday I chatted with my pal Brandon, who blogs (‘Step:2‘) over on HIMBO’s sister site, GayGuideToronto.com. He’s working on a post that looks at the difference between ‘attraction’ and ‘effort’ and we discussed our ideas on this. Brandon noted a lot of people say to him that the Law of Attraction requires a lot of effort, but to me, it’s the opposite, it’s about eliminating ‘effort’. The concept of ‘effort’ for most people has built into it ‘pushing against’, ‘trying’, ‘resisting’, ‘have to’, and ‘work’, when really, the key to attracting what you want is to loosen all that up. All day every day we put out requests for what we want, whether we verbalize, write it down, or simply put it out there with little thought attached. IE: If someone is rude to you, you want people to be nicer. If you open your wallet and you have no cash, you want more money. If you see a hot pair of boots in a shop window, you might (as I do) say aloud to no one in particular: “Must. Have. Those.” Since you’re asking asking asking constantly, the trick becomes NOT then worrying about the ‘how’, NOT controlling what everyone is doing around you that may or may not prevent you from getting to what you desire, NOT putting in long hours working thinking it’s the only way to achieve what you want. Instead it’s about focusing on what’s pleasurable around you, thinking thoughts that feel good, putting in time at the beach, taking the dogs for a hike rush-free. This puts you in the positive alignment that you’d be in if you had the things you wanted, so the things you want can then come. Trust me, it’s taken me a trip to get this. I’ll be interested to see what Brandon has to say!
This week here on HIMBO! saw the most unique visitors I’ve ever had – a very healthy number that even surpasses (by 50%) what we normally see daily on GayGuideToronto.com, which has been online for 8.5 years compared to just 1.5 for HIMBO! Translation: THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING MY WORK!
Have a great weekend (long weekend to Ontario readers!), Happy Caribana, peace and love!
And The Last Word goes to … Abraham! “In the same way you cannot set your radio tuner to 98.6 and receive the songs playing on 101 FM, you must set your own vibrational tuner to one of Well-being … feelings of love, joy, passion, exhilaration, fun, interest … are indications of your match to that …”
One of the things I’ve really appreciated about having a show is that it gives me an opportunity to be supportive of some great Canadian talent. Yesterday was a taping day; here are some pics from my chats with two hot Canadians: Ivana Santilli and Nancy Rancourt.
I so have the hot-pants for Ivana in a gay-man-crush way, and we get along A+ well. We discussed her new album, Santilli, love, genius and funk, as well as our mutual admiration for Tommy Lee. Nancy, the lesbian dance diva whose latest single ‘Glamour’ is excellent, her best yet, was named by L.A.’s Curve magazine as one of their ‘Women To Watch’. Just hours before our taping, Rancourt announced she’d gotten married – to a man.
So in other words – two fun convos on the way on The Shaun Proulx Show – only on OUTtv.
Honestly We Did Not Plan To Co-Ordinate Like This.
Two Giggly Schoolgirls Or Two Adults? You Be The Judge!
Ivana Will You Marry Me?
The Woman Known As The Lesbian Dance Diva Explains What Happens When Love Takes Over.
I Love It When Even Seated I'm Taller Than People.
