This episode kicks off the “Bear Soup Joke Contest” with Ron reading some of the submissions. Also featured are Bear Gone Wild, Falcon Studios, and other rag news.
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This episode kicks off the “Bear Soup Joke Contest” with Ron reading some of the submissions. Also featured are Bear Gone Wild, Falcon Studios, and other rag news.
Ron reads the article “Grizzly Men, Otters and Wolves and Bears, Oh My!” By Carl Swanson. Also featured is the Bear Handbook, John Waters’ “Dirty Shame”, “A Bear’s Life” etc.
Ron reads the essay “Partner’s Death Ends Happy Life on Ranch” by Jessie Torrisi and a “Brokeback Mountain Grocery List”.
Ron remembers Lurch and Ed Costa as this edition begins. Ron also notes the closing of American Bear, a “review” of George Clooney, the announcement of the “Bear Soup Joke Contest” and an advisement from “Alaska Fish and Game”.
Review of More Bear Cookin’; US Grant on the USD $50 bill; animal rights activists from PETA track Prince Charles and Camilla to urge end of bearskin caps on Palace guards; “Scooter” Libby writes of sicko sex with four-legged bears and young girls; Karl Rove seen at Mid-Atlantic Leather 2004 in DC; humpy pocketbear, Mr MAL 2004, Jim “Tug” Taylor.
“Why Can’t Two Manly Men Marry and Share Benefits of Matrimony?” an essay by Rowland Nethaway; book review of “More Bear Cookin’: Bigger and Better” by PJ Gray.
“Literary Bear Growls: Shame,” William Henderson’s “In Newsweekly” article about the exclusion of Ron’s book, Bears on Bears, from a New London, CT literary festival; and from Bears on Bears, an excerpt from “Hoping for Something Bigger,” an interview with comedian Bruce Vilanch.
Sean Abley’s article, “The Politics of Fur” from the July 18, 2005 Advocate; “Bears Eat Keeper Who Took their Bile”
“Moving the Mountain: A Love Story,” Ron’s essay for the 2004 anthology, “I Do/I Don’t: Queers on Marriage” edited by bear publishers Ian Philips & Greg Wharton; announcement for the Vermont Bear Film Festival.
Ron’s essay on contemporary issues of bisexual (in)visibility: “Bailey Study, as Reported in Times, Demonstrates Bisexual Erasure,” and an introduction to Bi Men: Coming Out, the nonfiction anthology Ron edited with bi bear Pete Chvany, including an endorsement from The Bear Book editor Les K. Wright.