As our trip to IKEA finally draws to a close we find our OccasionalFags waiting for David b's shelving units, loading up the rented truck and driving back to Manhattan.

Hej!

Links to the previous Trip To IKEA episodes:

Trip To IKEA part 1
Trip To IKEA part 2
Trip To IKEA part 3
Trip To IKEA part 4

The Recipe:

Put Four Queens in a car and mix liberally over a one week period of time with 14 new (to them) coasters to ride (and get credits on) in four different amusement parks in three different states.

Parks visited:

Knoebels
Holiday World
Indiana Beach
Cedar Point

Stir and enjoy...

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Occasional Fags Brian G. and his partner Mr. Who were invited to The Woods, a gay campground in the Poconos (or as he likes to refer to them - the "Poke-Oh!-Nos"), by friend Jamie L. for it's weekend "Illuminations" presentation: an evening when each campsite decorates it's grounds using lights and luminaries and a dance is held where all are invited to paint their bodies with day glo paints and dance under black lights.

Here is a video of that weekend.

Side Note:  Brian G. uses plural pronouns like "we" and "us" to describe creating and setting up the decorations for the campsite he and Mr. Who stayed at, but it really was the people who invited them that did all the work conceptualizing and creating.  Three cheers for Jamie L.!

Second Side Note: Occasional Fag David b and his partner Leon were also invited but couldn't make it this year.  Next year for sure...

Third Side Note:  The music that this video is set to is from Jerry Springer: The Opera. 

Enjoy!

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Here it is, part two of this year's video of the incredible Fire Island Dance Festival. 

It's kind of a jumble of still and moving images from rehearsals, performances and back stage, but then the Festival itself is such an incredibly jam packed weekend of so much going on if you are working it that, this is, to a great extent, what it feels like.

The dance companies featured this year included:

-Alvin Ailey American Dance Company
-Atlanta Ballet
-Bad Boys of Dance & Jerry Mitchell
-Ballet Hispanico
-Jermaine Browne
-Dance Plus Ballroom
-Vernard J. Gilmore
-Jacoby and Pronk
-Jennifer Muller/The Works
-Parsons Dance
-Jason Samuels Smith
-Ellis Wood Dance

(Note: OccasionalFag Brian G. and Ellis Wood danced together in the same piece back when he was in grad school at UCBerkeley!  And yes it was great to see her again.)

The hosts this year for were Whoopi Goldberg and Caroline Rhea.

Performing at the Leadership Party (which was in video part one) were Felicia Finley and Jose Llana.