author, activist, and anthologist of books centering on gay and bisexual male subcultures
News, Shmooze, Skews, and Interviews, Readings, Humor, & more for the online ursine community with “Bears on Bears” author Ron Suresha. Featured on BearRadio.net, Mondays & Wednesdays 10pm Eastern/Pacific. Sponsored by Bear Bones Books.
Tune in tonight to the re-premiere of Bear Soup podcast (episode #50a, streams online live tonight, Monday, August 17, at 10:00pm Eastern on BearRadio.net. Joining us in the Bear Soup hottub this week: * Interview with singer/songwriter/musician, former Judybats lead man, now solo artist and all-around cool Knoxville dude, Jeff Heiskell
* tribute to Northeast Ursamen, BCOTY 2008, and good wishes for Daddy Mike
* Turkish bear joke
Our nominations for the “Beariest Movies of 2006,” Jackass 2 and Borat; “CCBC,” a short story by Marc Anders from Ron’s new book of masculine bisexual literotica, Bi Guys: Firsthand Fiction for Bisexual Men. We note the sad and unexpected passing of Chris Nelson, the photographer/author of The Bear Cult. Happy 2nd anniversary and final episode of Bear Soup! Good luck to BearPodcast and bTalk on BearRadio.net! Finally, we drain the Bear Soup hot tub and clean the filters. Now go home!
Cub McCallister’s 2006 romantic comedy; Three Dates; and the first part of the wikipedia.org entry on “bear community.”
Political Yahoo! groups “Bears Against Bush”, and “Bears Who Hate Bush”; The Leather and Bear Club Protocol; and the Best of the Bears survey from thecompletebear.com.
Holiday shopping tips: Bearhide Designs (http://www.cafepress.com/bearhide); how to say “Bear” in dozens of languages from around the world; fudge packers from Brown Bear Resources (brownbear.org); the perfect holiday gift, Ron’s new fiction anthology, BI GUYS, and Richard Labonte’s book review; Panda Porn; and audio from an interview with wine expert Terry Thiese on sweetness.
Responses from LiveJournal pals to the letter read on Episode No. 44 about bearclubs and group identity.
Ron reads and responds to a long email letter, commenting on bearclubs, bear identity, and Ron’s use of the term “grizzlicious.”
In honor of Bear Lust being published in German last year by Bruno Gmunder Verlag (as Power-baren), Ron reads the first half of the bear-lusty story, “Forged by Stalbjorn,” by Furr, in which the thunder god Thor gets his magic hammer worked on by the blacksmith Hephaestus, first in German, then in English. OK, maybe not German. Next week, I’ll do the second half in ASL.
Facial-hair fashion: “Paul Bunyan, Modern-Day Sex Symbol,” a NY Times Fashion section article on big bushy beards on the trendy fashion runway; a Boston Globe piece on the beards sported by this season’s New England Patriot offensive linemen; and http://Style.com on the new urso-erotic Mark Jacobs print ads by photog Juergen Teller featuring NYC make-up guru Dick Page and his husbear, James Gibbs.
Bear Soup spotlights L.A. literary husbears Dave White, columnist for Instinct magazine, and Alonso Duralde, former arts editor of the Advocate. “Exile in Guyville” is Dave’s collection of humorous essays, and “101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men” is Alonso’s new book, both from Alyson/Advocate Books.
