"A Beautiful Swan on Ice"

Johnny at rehearsal in Beijing.

Photo posted to Weibo by Joveta Leo 

with a lovely and moving note. 

Please scroll to the end of today’s post 

to read her thoughts.

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"Rose-Colored Memories of You..."

Johnny at the end of his final Artistry on Ice 

performance of Born This Way in Beijing last night.

 Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. 

Please click twice for glorious full-size view 

to see the exquisite detailing on this costume.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: 

The livestream of last night’s entire Beijing show 

is available for viewing here!! 

Don’t miss this. It’s absolutely amazing. 

Do be forewarned: It may take forever to load. 

But it’s sooo worth the wait. 

The Weiborama Continues...

Johnny at the Guangzhou press conference. 

UPDATE: New Johnny + Stéphane pics from the 
Shanghai presser plus more Guangzhou pics below! 

Photo courtesy of the amazing Fannie Wang.

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BREAKING: New video!! 

Wonderful Artistry on Ice promo piece 

about Johnny, just posted! 
Video link: YouTube, 
or HD version on Youku. 

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Megamax Monday: The Weibocalypse Has Arrived

Johnny performs “Born This Way” 

at Artistry on Ice in Taipei.

Exclusive photo © Joveta E. Leo.

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Words normally go here.

But who needs words when we have Weibo, the international gathering place of Johnny love that needs no words, where photos are posted faster than the human eye can perceive....

Postcards from Taipei

Johnny in Taipei on Thursday 

with more beautiful flowers! 

Photo via Johnny Pandas / JovetaELeo on Weibo. 

Please click twice for full-size image 

because it’s pleasingly huge.

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So it’s a little challenging to try to stay current with what’s happening in Taipei, since it’s currently Friday morning here but it’s already Friday night there, so no matter what I do I’m basically lagging behind because the future is happening now and I’m still sipping the first coffee of the day (or the last coffee of the night, because my understanding of “day” and “night” is fairly fluid anyway, by which I mean constantly fueled by coffee-drenched fluids 24/7), but anyway here’s all the latest stuff I could find from what I could best identify as adorably meaningless constructs known as “Thursday” and “Friday,” although I’m pretty sure more Friday stuff is coming any second now but we’ll just save that for some other round of coffee... 

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Taipei Travelogue, Or: Waiting for the Weibocalypse...

Johnny at the airport in Taipei 

with beautiful flowers from his fans! 

Photo via Johnny's Pandas / 

JovetaELeo on Weibo.

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Kayso Johnny arrived safely in Taipei about 6 pm-ish New York time on Tuesday which for him was about 6 am-ish Wednesday morning in Taipei (confused about the time difference? Check the handy clock in the blog sidebar to see when Johnny is! It may not help, but the little ticking numbers are oddly mesmerizing...), where he was greeted by fans bearing flowers and gifts, as always, despite the bleary-eyed early hour, which is partly to blame for the fact that we only have a few photos of his arrival since because zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... But here they are:

Vision

Johnny.
Exclusive photo © David Ingogly.

Please do click twice for full-size view. Gorgeous.

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When we allow ourselves to exist 

truly and fully, 

we sting the world with our vision 

and challenge it 

with our own ways of being.

— Thomas Moore

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Friday Fun: Megapost

Johnny.

More beautiful black-and-whites below.
Exclusive photo © David Ingogly.

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Today we have a special post by a guest blogger, but first, here’s what’s been happening in Weir-Voronov World whilst I’ve been busy completely missing all the fun... 

Hero

Johnny arrives at the Delaware Valley Legacy 

Fund’s HEROES event on Sunday, May 19, 

at which he received the 2013 National Hero Award. 

The honor has previously gone to various nonprofit 

organizations; Johnny is the first individual 

to be recognized as DVLF’s National Hero.

Exclusive photo © David Ingogly.

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So that was a completely amazing event and worth every minute of the 14-hour drive there and the 14-hour drive back.

The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund, a nonprofit LGBT organization that, like so many things in the past three years, I had never heard of until suddenly there was a Johnny connection to it, is a really wonderful group of people who work tirelessly to help the LGBT community, primarily through fundraising, education, and grant-making.

They also know how to throw a (classy but really really fun) party.

Table for Four? Yes Please

Kayso I had way too much time on my hands suddenly yesterday, so this happened...

...inspired for Throwback Thursday by, of course, the classic movie, My Dinner With Andre, and by the incredible fact that I spent the day suspended in geologic time while my car was being fixed, but a re-creation of the poster for Waiting for Godot didn’t really seem to apply to the exciting news at hand that, as mentioned previously, the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund is raffling off dinner for two with Johnny and Victor! It’s one of the prizes at their annual Heroes event this Sunday in Philadelphia, at which they also are presenting Johnny with the 2013 National Hero Award.