The Best of Binky's Johnny Weir Blog: SWTS

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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

OMGWTFBBQSWTS

Johnny at the meet-n-greet

at Holiday Dreams on Ice, December 11.

Not sure what he's reacting to here,

but this is pretty much the look on my face

after last night's SWTS ...

Wow. Well, this will be brief because I didn't see that coming and I'm still in shock. Jonny Moseley, my personal SWTS favorite (after Denis, of course, but let's not dwell) did NOT make it to the finale, so instead it's the lovely Rebecca Budig going toepick-to-toepick with OMG-What-The-Actual-F*ck-Just-Happened-Here--yes, she who suddenly went all sicky-sweet Splenda on us last night, and sort of cried or something after her free skate.

And so of course the only rational response was to immediately vote vote vote for Rebecca and Fred on every available phone and with every possible email address, including a brief foray into pondering whether, if my beloved grandfather were still alive, he would use email (yes) and what he might have chosen for his address (hmmmmm) and whether or not he would be #TeamRebecca (most definitely) ...

Online voting actually continues today until 3 pm EST / 2 pm CST / 1 pm MST / 12 noon PST, so please, VOTE NOW if you have any votes/assumed identities left!

Johnny seemed to be in a good mood throughout the show--which keeps improving every week, IMO, and I really hope ABC will give it a chance at a second season to settle in and find its audience--despite signs that he's still fighting a cold, and he was classy and kind toward OMG-She-Cannot-Possibly-Win-This-Thing-Can-She, to his credit. But my very favorite Johnny moment was this, when Vernon (after all these weeks I'm still NOT o-) Kay (with his performance as host but oh well now it's almost over) announced that Johnny would be performing on tonight's finale:

My other favorite moment was when the judges gave Jonny and Brooke their scores, during which Johnny is clearly cracking up for some unknown reason, which makes me crack up too even though I have no idea what's going on with him and Laurieann:

But wow, I am so bummed about Jonny and Brooke. Fortunately, Wendy Stevens came to my rescue almost immediately by uploading Johnny's Kaleidoscope performances so I could use them to wipe my mind of images of Skeletor on Ice:

Johnny's Ave Maria performance from Kaleidoscope,

December 8, 2011, San Antonio, Texas ...

... and his Bad Romance. About which I can only say: WOW!

And then click "replay" ...

So that helped. As does the fact that Johnny is performing in the finale with Denis Petukhov (yay!), Keauna McLaughlin, and Jennifer Wester in a group number choreographed by Laurieann to Alicia Keys' "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart." I can hardly wait for the fabulousness!

But seriously: I'm still shaking my head over this finale. How on earth is it not Jonny and Rebecca? As the news exploded across Twitter last night, my friend JEKitten offered this explanation:

Lolololololol. Votevotevotevotevote ...

The cover art for "Dirty Love" is now

on Amazon and Johnny's website. OMGIDIE.

The finale of Skating With the Stars

airs TONIGHT,

at 8 pm EST / 7 pm CST!

Don't miss it!
(Dear Santa: All I want for Weirmas
is for Rebecca to WIN THIS THING!!!)

Designer T. Rains and Johnny have teamed up to raise money and awareness for The Trevor Project! This organization is "determined to end suicide among LGBTQ youth by providing life-saving and life-affirming resources." Proceeds from the "Army of One" t-shirt sales will go to The Trevor Project foundation. Order yours today! Your support is greatly appreciated!

For more information, please visit www.thetrevorproject.org.

Yes! You can own a fine art print of Johnnyperfect for any/every room in the house! Prints of artist Peter Jurik's "Showtime!" are available for purchase from his website.More info here!

Here it comes: Johnny's quarter-century memoir,Welcome to My World, will be availableJanuary 11, 2011--that's less than a month away!You can preorder it now on Amazon!Or pre-order a special autographed Collector's Editionfrom Premiere Collectibles!

Please remember to register to receivethe JW Art Project's email newsletter!
They have great tidbits to offer,
and you get a special sneak peek at an exclusive photo
from the Artbook when you sign up!

Monday, December 20, 2010

Random Stuff in No Particular Order Because Even Alphabetical Seemed Hard But Hey Here's More Pics!

Random "Dirty Love" performance pic from Holiday Dreams on Ice,

December 11, 2010, courtesy of David Ingogly.

OK, there's a bunch of stuff we need to go over but I'm not really caffeinated at the moment hence the lack of any discernible organizational method other than that there are words and pictures together on a page.

First of all, a major heartfelt squeeeeee left over from Friday for anybody who might have missed it:

Which means he actually got to read everybody's beautiful messages of love that were screen-capped (thank you again, NinjaGirl!) from his Facebook fan page and blogged here. And that is just one big happy. :)

Next there's this article, which was posted on his official website AND tweeted by Tara--and that was all it took for us to ROCK THIS VOTE! I LOVE this, because not only does the writer diss She-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named-(But-If-She-Were-I-Would-Do-So-By-Taking-Her-First-Initial-and-Using-It-to-Replace-the-"W"-in-"Witch"):

"Bethenny has decided she does not care what the judges say, which is mostly that she’s awful, and instead says she is skating for America. America wants you to know, Bethenny, we agree with the judges."

The writer also gives props to Johnny for his "You Don't Care/I Don't Care" critique of I'm-Sorry-What-Was-Your-Name-Again-I-Couldn't-Hear-You-Over-Your-Stridently-Appalling-Attitude on last week's SWTS:

"Finally, [Johnny closed out the year] with his stint as a judge on Skating With the Stars and let Bethenny have it on episode four--and it is safe to say this diva definitely OWNED that diva."

So when I first saw this article Sunday morning, Kate Gosselin was ahead in the voting for Biggest Reality Diva of 2010 by a huge margin. But once Johnny's fans got ahold of the link and started FB'ing it and tweeting it everywhere, it took less than 12 hours for him to grab the lead decisively. IDK when voting ends, but please let's just keep going till they make us stop cuz it's fun and this writer is my new bff.

And then there was Kaleidoscope, the San Antonio show in which he performed on December 8 with a world-record case of jet lag and which was broadcast on Fox yesterday afternoon at various times around the country, resulting in a huge FB and Twitter Johnny lovefest after it aired. Here's just a sample:

Which brings us to today and tomorrow and the finale of Skating With the Stars! (Hey, actually this is kinda in chronological order! Which is pretty good for someone who has no idea WTF time it is right now.) Tonight the final three pairs will perform, and one pair will be eliminated (please Sweet Weirsus, Holy Mother of Gaga, and of course Santa Claus, let this be the end of Frankel-My-Dear-I-Don't-Give-A-Damn tonight ...). And tomorrow night the final two couples will compete, the champion will be crowned, but more importantly, Johnny will be performing again in a special number with Jennifer Wester, Keauna McLaughlin, and Denis Petukhov, choreographed by Laurieann Gibson! Can't wait!

And so, as a reminder to Rhymes-With-"With-An-'E'"-Which-Apparently-Very-Few-of-Her-Fans-Realize-Or-Else-They-Really-Really-Just-Can't-Spell that it's all about the SKATING, please enjoy these additional random HDOI pics of someone who knows that all the way to his soul. And who can even skate while he's singing (whereas she can't even skate while she's skating ...):

Very special thanks to my son, David Ingogly,
for all the HDOI photos!
(Memo to self: Don't leave home without him
when attending Johnny events...)

The cover art for "Dirty Love" is now

on Amazon and Johnny's website. OMGIDIE.

The next episode of Skating With the Stars

airs TONIGHT,

at 8 pm EST / 7 pm CST!

Don't miss it!
(Dear Santa: All I want for Weirmas
is STILL for Bethenny to please please just go away.)

For more information, please visit www.thetrevorproject.org.

Yes! You can own a fine art print of Johnny perfect for any/every room in the house! Prints of artist Peter Jurik's "Showtime!" are available for purchase from his website. More info here!

Here it comes: Johnny's quarter-century memoir, Welcome to My World, will be available January 11, 2011--that's less than a month away! You can preorder it now on Amazon! Or pre-order a special autographed Collector's Edition from Premiere Collectibles!

Please remember to register to receive the JW Art Project's email newsletter!
They have great tidbits to offer,
and you get a special sneak peek at an exclusive photo
from the Artbook when you sign up!

Friday, December 17, 2010

For Johnny: Out of Ugly, We Made Something Beautiful :)

Johnny at the end of Ave Maria,

Holiday Dreams on Ice, December 11, 2010.

Photo courtesy of David Ingogly.

Dear Johnny:

As you know, your very direct comments on this week's SWTS to Bethenny Frankel--which many of your fans wholeheartedly
applauded--were not well-received by some of Bethenny's fans. Not that we'd expect anything different from them. They've proven themselves to be a direct reflection of their idol, Bethenny, in all her dark, careless, disrespectful, incredibly self-involved, hypocritical snarkiness.

So some of them decided to "like" your fan page on Tuesday just so they could post hideously ugly and hateful comments. Fortunately, admins responded quickly, and the posts were deleted.

But while fans were waiting and repeatedly flagging those posts, the ugliness inspired Louise Fecher to post this:

(Please click on any of the screen caps for a larger view.)

And the responses started pouring in.

I'm a little short on words this week, but as it happens, I need very few again today because so many other fans have such eloquent ones. And because I don't know how often you get to stop by the fan page these days and read our posts, here they are, in the order they appeared--a tribute to you and all that you stand for, and to one of the most powerful lessons we have learned from you: "Out of ugly, I think the most important thing in life is to make something beautiful."

I didn't have a chance to add to this discussion earlier, but it's been on my mind all week. "Three reasons why I adore Johnny Weir ... gaaaaaaaah! How can I limit myself to just three??"

And so I waited for the God of my heart to help me find the right words.

And while I waited, I thought about the amazing journey that this Year of the Weir has been, personally, for me. All the fabulous people I've met; how, right before my eyes, thousands of people who didn't know each other came together in all their diversity to become a powerful force--voting, petitioning, fundraising, tweeting, making signs and banners, buying tickets to as many of your appearances as we could afford and also some we couldn't, posting, commenting, discussing--sometimes arguing--but always united in our support of one amazing man; and how often I've read words like "otherworldly," "ethereal," and "angelic" in our attempts to describe you and the effect you've had on so many of us.

Yes, we know, you're just a person like everybody else--a young man trying to make his way through this world, imperfect like the rest of us, sometimes crabby, sometimes falling short, sometimes maybe not his best self, sometimes lying curled up on the floor of his apartment bitching and whining and driving his parents crazy.

You're also absolutely extraordinary.

It was your Festa 09 Poker Face routine that first captured me, when a Twitter friend casually tweeted the link to me this past January, having no idea at all how that tiny gesture would completely transform my entire life.

But it is your brilliant, soaring, breathtaking Fallen Angel performance from the 2010 Olympics that, to me, is the heart and soul of Johnny Weir laid wrenchingly bare, in exquisitely agonizing beauty.

And it's the aftermath of those Olympics, as well, all that you've done since then, that also speaks volumes about who you are as a man.

And as I pondered these images in my head, looking for the words to somehow sum this all up--it came to me, in sudden, blinding clarity, the same way the God of my heart first shattered my whole world with all the beauty that I had been missing until I saw you.

Three simple things I love about you that, for me, are the foundation of everything everyone has said:

You are light.
You are truth.
You are love.

And you inspire me, every day, to be the same.

The cover art for "Dirty Love" is now

on Amazon and Johnny's website. OMGIDIE.

The next episode of Skating With the Stars

airs next Monday, December 20,

at 8 pm EST / 7 pm CST!

Don't miss it!
(Dear Santa: All I want for Weirmas
is STILL for Bethenny to please please just go away.)

For more information, please visit www.thetrevorproject.org.

Very special thanks to NinjaGirl,whose tireless screen-capping abilitiesmade this post possible...
Please remember to register to receivethe JW Art Project's email newsletter!
They have great tidbits to offer,
and you get a special sneak peek at an exclusive photo
from the Artbook when you sign up!