Family-Friendly Friday: Going Home

A pensive Johnny gazes out the window 

on the way to his hometown book signing 

in Lancaster, PA, January 14, 2011. 

Moments before, Tara had explained to him 

that 11-year-old Michelle Babineau, diagnosed with 

an incurable brain tumor, would be coming to the signing 

to fulfill a dying wish: to meet him. 

Michelle had been offered the chance to either 

go to Disneyland or to see Johnny. 

She chose Johnny.

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On a wintry Friday evening in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, two families and their extraordinary children came together for a brief but heartfelt moment in the name of love.

BGJW2 Screencapalooza!

Johnny listens intently during BGJW2, episode 4, 

as Ice Theatre of New York executive director 

and event producer Jirina Ribbens offers her advice 

on getting his "Spectacular" off the ground.

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Today's Action Items:

(1) Freak out that Finlandia is a week from tomorrow. #flail Pester every single fan in the world one more time to PLEASE. FIND. A. LIVESTREAM.

WTMW and WOW!!!

OK, first some highlights from Tuesday's WTMW book signing in Clifton, New Jersey:

Johnny's ready to sign some books, bitches! Thanks to Lisa Basile Lawless for posting the photo on Johnny's Facebook fan page. The fabulous Coco Chanel cuff he's wearing is available from Lisa's sister, Wendy Basile, owner of Decotrashland--check them out on Facebook. Company slogan: "Recycled vinyl records magically made into arm candy!" Love it.

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Ready for their close-up in Clifton are KarenW, KarenB, Agentress Tara, Beth, Jenn (Oh She of the Magic Gif Skillz), and Natalie!

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Meeting Johnny for the first time at the Clifton book signing were very happy fans Annie, center, who has been fighting cancer, and her wife, Kathy. Together for 26 years, the couple married in 2008 in Massachusetts and reside in New York. They're hoping to come see Johnny perform at Skate for Hope this June!

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For more fab pics and stories from Clifton, please visit Maggie Strasser's awesome photo album on Facebook, and Ava Gacser's blog!

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And now, the WOW!!!! From the official press release posted officially on Johnny's official website:

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Milojo Productions is partnering with Charlie Corwin’s Original Media to produce the second season of the hit docu-series Be Good Johnny Weir, scheduled to air later this year on Logo Television. In addition, Milojo and Original Media, along with Weir’s Fireworks Sports Marketing, will spearhead the development and production of his upcoming stage show “Spectacular,” a theatrical ice skating performance. The announcement was made jointly by Original Media and Milojo Productions.

WOW!!!!!

And also:

The second season of Be Good Johnny Weir will be executive produced by Corwin and Peterson for Original Media, Ripa, Consuelos and Albert Bianchini for Milojo and David Barba and James Pellerito for Retribution Media.

YAY!!!

There's more stuff about some other stuff on the release so you can go read the rest of the stuff but I'm stuck on the WOW parts!!! As in WOW there's really going to be a Spectacular (Sweet Weirsus please let it be somewhere that lots and lots of fans can get to at some point when most of us can go I don't evan know what that means but please) and WOW that is so cool of Mark and Kelly (who is such a fangurl of Johnny's and also a wise businesswoman OBVIOUSLY) and WOW this is just really great news for Johnny!!

Note: And can I just take a moment to applaud again the genius of David and James--our beloved Butch and Grämz--for seeing what a story there was to be told in Johnny Weir, and for their determination and brilliance in pursuing their vision and bringing it to the screen. We love you so hard.

So I'm just going to roll around in this announcement for a while with "Dirty Love" rattling the windows in the background, and then go follow Milojo Productions and Original Media on Facebook.

And then sit around being thrilled for my favorite fierce pirate ninja skater singer author guy for the rest of the year. ♥

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Hey, Johnny's performing in St. Petersburg, Russia,
on March 8 in a special ice show
that is a tribute to the legendary skater and coach
Alexei Mishin!

More info on Johnny's Events page!

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OK, I know it's a few months away,

but you can get tickets NOW to see Johnny

in Skate for Hope on Saturday, June 18, in Columbus, OH!

(Same weekend as the Annually Awesome

Columbus Gay Pride Parade--win-win!)

And yes, a VIP package is available!

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Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

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Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

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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!

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copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

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Hey Babe. Go Get Your Book Signed. Did I Mention It's Johnny?

Kayso Johnny has tweeted about tonight's book signing at the Barnes and Noble in Clifton, New Jersey, three times now in the last three days, including a tweet with my kind of math:

So I think he wants people to come.

If you need more motivation than math (although who could possibly resist an equation with a ♥ in it?), here are some .gifs from Babe Walker's backstage-at-Villionaire video that I just cannot get enough of (special thanks to Jenn Kittler for her mad .gif skillz!):

Click to hear Johnny say, "OMG Babe, hi!"

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(The line of people now officially changing their name to "Babe" forms here....)

Click to hear Babe (that could be you!) say,

"I LOVE Johnny Weir ..."

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Oh, and here's one more leftover goodie from Fashion Week: Another view of Johnny's performance at Elise Øverland's show!

Pros: It's Johnny. And the video is from a slightly different angle than I've seen before. Also it's not at warp speed like the video from the Wall Street Journal that appeared just everywhere but unfortunately sounds like the Chipmunks singing "Dirty Love" while Johnny skates as if he's had one too many Starbucks spiked with Four Loko.

Cons: They dubbed over it with a different song, so it's not "Dirty Love." :( And it's only a portion of his performance. Did I mention that's annoying?

Pros: It's Johnny. And the song they chose to go with is "I Wanna Give You Devotion" (yes,  go on ... ?), which includes the line, "on the dance floor like a sexy potion." (OK, that works.) Also it's Johnny.

So roll around in these for awhile, and then get yourselves over to Barnes and Noble tonight to show Johnny some love! Do it for all of us who are stuck in the middle of nowhere and cannot drive 933 miles to get there by 7:30 tonight especially since we lose an hour going east but don't think we haven't spent the night on Google maps trying desperately to figure it out and then realizing that had we left an hour ago instead of staring at .gifs, imagining signing our checks "Babe," and looking up songs from 1991 on the Internet, we might have had a shot at it.

And bring the family!

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Get your copy of Welcome to My World autographed

at Johnny's book signing in Clifton, New Jersey,

TONIGHT, Tuesday, February 22!

More info here!

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OK, I know it's a few months away,

but you can get tickets NOW to see Johnny

in Skate for Hope on Saturday, June 18, in Columbus, OH!

(Same weekend as the Annually Awesome

Columbus Gay Pride Parade--win-win!)

And yes, a VIP package is available!

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Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

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Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

---

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!

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copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

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Pre-Oscar / Post-NYFW Roundup: Best Random Recent Johnnyness That Totally Makes Me LOL

Best cameo appearance of sunglasses in a short film or
documentary, first nominee. From this behind-the-scenes video
of the Indashio show by Anna Castillo of Ink Cosmetics.
This shot appears for like three seconds around 4:01.

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Best cameo appearance of sunglasses in a short film or
documentary, second nominee. From the same video. Although
it took me a while to notice he was wearing sunglasses here...

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Best self-introduction during absolute chaos (also from
Anna). "Hi, I'm Johnny Weir. This is ... ME, live,
with Ink Cosmetics!"

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Most favorite video from Fashion Week: Babe Walker
from White Girl Problems goes behind the scenes at Villionaire.
Only two brief Johnny bits, but they're perfect.
And her commentary cracks me up every time I watch this
("Not SUUUUUURE about that bite....").
Also love Richie's interview answers
("Heaven or hell?" "I like both.").

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Best photo of a starstruck person with Johnny
at Fashion Week. Oh Isaac. You and your helplessness
in the presence of Johnny are adorable.
Though Tara's not SUUUUUURE about this moment....

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Most fabulous front-row attendees at any show.
Tara and Johnny with Andy Cohen of Bravo.
Plus bonus points for Johnny's gorgeous brooch from Isaac,
and for Isaac calling his show "Poodles and Cake"
and including actualfax cake in the show.

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Best srs bsns moment at NYFW. (Click for larger view.
Thanks to Jenn Kittler for Johnny's caption!
Uncapped version also available.)

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Best product placement.
Whatever he's selling, we'll take ten.

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Best pre-Fashion Week .gif moment from an interview show,
first nominee. Johnny at the end of his spontaneous
"personals ad" on the Joy Behar Show:
"I enjoy long walks on the beach, Mario Lopez,
Justin Timberlake, and Moscow, Russia."

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Best pre-Fashion Week .gif moment from an interview show,
second nominee. Johnny during the (in)famous Howard Stern
interview, just getting himself ready....
Not SUUUUUUURE I want to know what that involves....
(Thanks to Natalie Maxwell for both .gifs!)

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And finally: Because it's always about the sunglasses.
Best macro moment, courtesy of Jenn Kittler.

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Get your copy of Welcome to My World autographed

at Johnny's book signing in Clifton, New Jersey,

tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22!

More info here!

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OK, I know it's a few months away,

but you can get tickets NOW to see Johnny

in Skate for Hope on Saturday, June 18, in Columbus, OH!

(Same weekend as the Annually Awesome

Columbus Gay Pride Parade--win-win!)

And yes, a VIP package is available!

---

Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

---

Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

---

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!

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copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

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Binky's Foreign Studies: Shopping and Fashion

See, when I shop, it looks like this:

Binky shopping: WRONG.

But when Johnny shops ... :

Johnny shopping: RIGHT.

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Well, between all the designer names (#clueless) and the bazillion Fashion Week events, I am feeling just slightly out of step with Johnny's world (see top photo above). But I'm excited to see the media coverage that I hope will be coming out of all this Fashion Week stuff--unlike the HRC dinner Saturday night, which, while focused on an enormously worthwhile cause--marriage equality--was practically a media blackout, seemingly cloaked in be-robed secrecy and sorely lacking in instantaneous posting of vids and photos of Johnny. Hello. What were you people doing at this dinner? Don't you know there are 80,000+ Twitter followers and now more than 50,000 (yay!) Facebook fans staying up till all hours waiting for just the smallest crumb of a Johnny twitpic to come drifting our way from your lofty NYC heights...?

(-crickets-)

(-tumbleweeds-)

(apparently not).

Only NealB in NYC kinda came through for us, and we're still waiting patiently, in the way that gnats diagnosed with ADHD and completely strung out on crack are patient, for his promised vids to show up on his site.

Anyway: Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (four words that are really completely lacking in meaning for me but I'm trying. to. grasp. the. concept.) comes roaring our way this Wednesday, beginning with the Red Dress Collection, the charity event that opens Fashion Week tomorrow night. Johnny will be attending, and hey! CBSNews.com is offering a live webcast! Which is a thing that should always immediately follow the word "Johnny" in any given sentence. So I'll be tuning in for that and looking for clues as to what, exactly, a Fashion Week is, and why.

But the real excitement for Johnny fans is Thursday, when he'll be walking in Richie Rich's "Villionaire":

This is the only Fashion Week show I know of that has ever been opened to the public (Richie, you are awesome). Tickets are very reasonably priced, so please don't miss out if you can possibly be there--proceeds are going to two wonderful charities, and the location--The Hammerstein at Manhattan Center--is amazing. I know some fans have already bought their tickets, and I am literally green with envy it's not an attractive lewk really thrilled beyond words for them. Please oh please remember your less-fortunate compatriots and TWITPIC THE HELL OUT OF THIS EVENT.

I also see from his website that Johnny is walking in shows for Asher Levine and Indashio (Google is my friend); skating (skating!) in Elise Øverland's show; and walking in Adrienne Landau's show, for which he also has designed some pieces. (Check out Adrienne and Indashio on Twitter--they're so excited to have Johnny in their shows!--and this article on Asher and Johnny's collaboration.) He's also attending other shows, including Chris Benz and of course Isaac Mizrahi.

So it's a big week in Johnny world, but for those of us who reside outside that sparkly stratosphere and must live forlornly vicariously through media coverage of these events (yes, of course I have Getty Images bookmarked at the top of my favorites list. You?), let us content ourselves with these fab clips from his appearance on The Dish this past Sunday night, which just crack me up every time (thank you, Wendy Stevens, for completely understanding how quickly these things need to be up on YouTube ... ):

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Johnny tweeted recently:

"Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes.

Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold

takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!"

THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO
IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR.

You know what to do.

Please buy the song from Johnny's website,

or just click the "Buy" button on the player

at the top of the blog!

---

Hey, Welcome to My World also is available

as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website!

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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.

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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!

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copyright 2010 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved