June 17, 2007

So on Wednesday afternoon, the Bassment Records (a primarily hip-hop based record store) asked me to bring in a little House set to the Fiestas Puertorriquenas in Humboldt Park. I asked Bear Who? to spin and some of my dancer friends to party it up. Bear did a fabulous job, a bunch of people got up onstage (kids, a one-armed man, everybody) and it was a great party atmosphere with Househeads coming and showing love.

The one big negative about the festival was the blatant and offensive military representation, with army guys having booths galore, giant "cute" black blow-up dolls of service men, and families taking pictures alongside what is essentially a representation of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money being spent on genocide. So while Bear and the crowd wear jacking it up, the military men had the nerve to come up onstage, put up a pull-up bar, and proceed to have a pull-up contest!! "Who can do the most pull-ups???" yells the mc, and me and my dancers were like, "hells naw!" So that proceeded to go on for a long time, the music had to change, and that pretty much ended the House set. I could not believe these goons had the nerve to come up to what little time we had to present House, and do some gay ass contest. Go on with your downlow selves.

the famous pull-up contest that stopped the House set...

Luigi my doggie, my party buddy, got drunk on Pina Coladas just like me. All my friends were there and we had a great old time.

Luigi wearing a PR flag and tipsy on Pina Coladas

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