The Best of Binky's Johnny Weir Blog

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Finally! The NewNowNext Awards Are, Like, NOW!

Gay Video & Lesbian Movies - Logo: Fierce TV

Here's a NewNowNext teaser clip that includes

the opening number from the show

in which host Cheyenne Jackson sings to/about Johnny!

And you can see Johnny and Tara in the clip!
(The fun starts at about marker 2:14)

Yes, at LAST: The NewNowNext Awards from more than a week ago (which aren't really new or now or next at this point, actually, but I'm still overly excited about them) will be revealed tonight!

The awards show, taped last Tuesday, June 8, will air on LogoTV. Pre-show is at 9:30 p.m., followed by the awards at 10 p.m. and again at 11:35 p.m. (all times EDT). If, like mine, your cable company maintains an overbearingly parental attitude toward you as its customer, patting you on the back and gently but firmly redirecting you toward I Love Lucy reruns every time your hand hovers over the remote trying desperately to find RuPaul's Drag Race somewhere on your channel lineup, then you can join me in watching the awards on www.logotv.com, a delightfully progressive website that has moved beyond reflecting the patriarchal values of 10th century Afghanistan, which is to say, the ones they embrace there today.

So now we can FINALLY all come out of the closet where we've been hiding since June 4 after we finished tweeting 100,000+ #realityWEIR votes for Johnny and hoping that that was enough for him to win "Most Addictive Reality Star," a hope that grew even stronger after we saw his tweet from 2:30 in the morning last Wednesday about the show that's tonight in which you can watch him enjoy whatever happened nine days ago that we think we know but we can't be sure until we watch him do whatever he did that night, tonight--at which point our reality can finally catch up with his. Because it's like he's been living nine days ahead of me since last week, enjoying celebratory luncheons and then moving on to merrily Windexing his balcony, while I'm still wondering what will happen newnownext, which he already knows.

(That reminds me: Johnny, did you get my e-mail where I asked you to buy me some Powerball tickets for the day before yesterday to hang onto while you wait for me to catch up with you in the future, which would be later this evening ...?)

You may have guessed by now that SyFy movies about time travel make my head hurt.

Anyway: Here are some screen caps from the awards show to pass the time while you're waiting to go back to the future of last week tonight.

Johnny enjoys host Cheyenne Jackson's opening number

from his front-row seat.

Johnny and Tara react to Cheyenne Jackson's lyrics:

"Lady Gaga's here / Oops, that's Johnny Weir..."

In the meantime, alert Facebook fan Wendy Stevens notified us yesterday that Johnny will be appearing in an episode of MTV's When I Was 17, a show he taped earlier this year that will be broadcast on Saturday, June 26, at 11 a.m. EDT, and rebroadcast on Sunday, June 27, at 8:30 a.m. EDT. The show is a look back at when he was 17, which was like nine years ago, and it was filmed about three months ago, and I've now set my TiVo to pick it up on my future recordings list.

So now I'm thinking that when Johnny declares, "The future is mine!" which is the title of the season finale of BGJW that will air on June 27 at 9 p.m. EDT on Sundance and which will offer a look back at this year's Olympics and all the stuff that happened after that as well as (I think) what his upcoming plans are: He's not kidding.

The future IS his. He's already been there. Just waiting patiently for the rest of us to catch up to his indescribably wonderful, glittery, eye-opening, boundary-breaking, gender- and mind-bending reality.

Which, BTW, is indeed MOST addictive ...

PLEASE KEEP VOTING HERE for Johnny to win

the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

Hey! Facebook fan Julie Findon has two
extra tickets to Skate for Hope this Saturday!
She wants to sell them and donate the proceeds
to our Ride for LIfe project!
More info is available here!

Monday, June 14, 2010

Special One-Time Offer! Act Now! Quantities Are Limited! Call Today!

Today's big news should be Johnny's response to the Grand Prix assignments that were announced yesterday, but so far all we've gotten from our beloved boy are haiku-like tweets about rain, Japan, and hip swivels, and also a good night to us kittens, all of which does not answer the burning question of will-he-or-won't-he but does send us to our happy place, so in the meantime we are going to go with the OTHER big news which is this:

HEY! We had nearly $1,100 donated via Paypal last week for our Ride for Life project! So as of 12 noon CDT today, we are at $7,362.66, or 98% of our goal!

WE ROCK!!

And so, in the spirit of rock, and roll, and also in light of Johnny's upcoming singing debut with the release of his single, "Dirty Love," we are pleased to present this exciting infomercial brought to you in large part by Facebook fan Trish Aaron-Misiura, who admits she watched WAY too much TV as a kid.

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[Cheesy voiceover]

YES, IT'S TRUE! THE NEXT 1,000 PEOPLE WHO DONATE $2 TO OUR RIDE FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN WILL BE ENTERED IN A CONTEST TO RECEIVE AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF JOHNNY'S FIRST ALBUM--AVAILABLE SOON, AND JUST IN TIME FOR THE UPCOMING 2010 HOLIDAY SEASON!

K-TEL RECORDS PRESENTS:

"CHRISTMAS WITH JOHNNY ~~MATHIS~~ WEIR!"

[Scene: A rustic, hunting-cabin-style living room. Johnny skates in wearing something indescribably bright and sparkly and very, very Christmasy--yes, thousands of tiny, strategically placed light bulbs are involved--does a fabulous spin, then comes to a smiling stop in front of a roaring fire. A huge, ceiling-high Christmas tree is to his left.]

THIS IS THE ONE ALBUM YOU MUST BUY THIS YEAR! SURE TO BE AN INSTANT CLASSIC! FEATURING THE UNIQUE HOLIDAY SONG STYLINGS OF THE ONE AND ONLY JOHNNY WEIR!

[Cue music. Johnny breaks into "Here Comes Santa Claus," Elvis style. Ass swivels. Lip curls. Pelvic thrusts. More ass swivels. I'm sorry, what were you saying ... ?]

YES, THEY'RE ALL HERE: THE TIME-HONORED HITS YOU REMEMBER FROM CHILDHOOD CHRISTMASES, ALL ON ONE VINYL RECORD (which you can't play anywhere)! SOON TO BE A TREASURED COLLECTORS' ITEM! ALL YOUR FRIENDS WILL BE AMAZED!

[Cut to Johnny atop a yak inside the cabin singing the "Sleigh Ride Song": "Giddy-up, giddy-up, giddy-up, let's go / Let's look at the snow..." Viewers are riveted.]

ONLY THE FIRST 1,000 WHO DONATE WILL BE ENTERED IN THIS DRAWING! SO ACT NOW!

[Johnny is joined in the cabin by a reindeer, to which he gently and carefully applies M.A.C. powder while singing: "Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer / Had a very shiny nose ... "]

AS AN ADDED BONUS AND AT NO EXTRA COST TO YOU (except $12.99 shipping and handling), WE WILL INCLUDE A SMALL BOTTLE OF WATER CONTAINING THE ACTUAL MELTED ICE FROM JOHNNY'S BLADES, BOTTLED AFTER HIS LAST PRACTICE BEFORE THE OLYMPICS (note to self: grab some bottles, fill with tap water ...)

[Surrounded by adoring woodland creatures, and draped in tinsel, Johnny sings the bridge from "Winter Wonderland": "In the meadow, we can build a snowman / Then pretend that he is Parson Brown / He'll say: 'Are you married?' / We'll say: 'No, man, / We're waiting for Prop 8 / To be thrown out ...' "]

AND . THAT'S . NOT . ALL!

HERE'S ANOTHER AMAZING BONUS! DONATE WITHIN THE NEXT TEN MINUTES AND WE WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE DUST FROM JOHNNY'S VACUUM!

[Johnny shoos the woodland creatures away, clucks at the mess they left behind, then grabs his new Dyson and sings with gusto over its roar: "We wish you a Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!"]

ACT NOW! DONATIONS ARE POURING IN!

YOU MUST BE ONE OF THE FIRST 1,000!

SO ACT NOW! ACT NOW!! ACT NOW!!!

CALL 1-888-ALL-I-WANT-4-XMAS-IS-JOHNNY-

BUT-I'LL-SETTLE-FOR-THE-ALBUM-

AND-HEY-HOW'S-THAT-ACTION-FIGURE-COMING?

PLEASE KEEP VOTING HERE for Johnny to win

the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

And please keep pimping out

our official ALC donation page

and our Ride for Life PayPal donation page

to everyone everywhere through July 31!

Very special thanks to Facebook fan
Trish Aaron-Misiura, without whom
this post would not have been possible! :)

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Oh Yeah. I'd Watch Him Dance. Or Do Anything. Or Nothing. It Doesn't Really Matter As Long As It's Johnny ...

Oh, I'm sorry.

Did I say I thought Dancing With the Stars was a giant cheese-fest best described as the "Portal to Oblivion"?

Goodness. That sentiment is so last season.

As usual, events move quickly in the Whiplash World of Johnny Weir, and I am racing to keep up, gasping for breath and looking a bit flushed, as if something far more interesting and athletic than blogging was going on here ...

The dust has not quite settled on our Ride for Life fan project--
and hopefully Atomic Kitten is enjoying a very long nap on an extremely comfortable bed while we continue to pimp and donate through July 31--and already we have NEW news and NEW fan projects with which to occupy ourselves in between refreshing Johnny's Facebook page every 30 seconds or so waiting for Tatiana or Linda to post yet more never-before-seen-and-totes-swoon-worthy pics or videos.

So the news is: Grand Prix assignments were announced early
this morning. Johnny has been assigned to Grand Prix of Figure
Skating-Skate Canada Oct. 29-31 in Ontario, Canada, and to Grand Prix of Figure Skating-Trophée Eric Bompard Cachemire Nov. 26-28 in Paris, France. You can link to the .pdf file from here (click on "Entries Men - All 6 Events"). I have no idea what any of this means. But it kind of tastes like it has paper close to it.

I'm much better at comprehending fan projects, and our latest one began when Perez Hilton posted this cheery tidbit yesterday on his site:

We want Johnny Weir on Dancing With The Stars — and it just might happen!

Johnny reveals:

"I hope [I'm going to do Dancing With the Stars]. I met Karina Smirnoff a few weeks ago and she was like, 'Johnny, you are the perfect height for me. Let's dance.' So … it's on. I've chosen my partner, I'm ready."

So is Karina up for it? Sounds like it! She adds:

"I'm a big fan of Johnny. His heart, his guts, he's got balls in every routine and I love that. I think for Dancing With the Stars, you gotta have not only determination, but you gotta have that drama, that deeper side of you, and Johnny has it! I’m rooting for him to be on the next season of Dancing With the Stars."

Us, too! And we think Karina would make a great partner for Johnny.

What do U think?

And that last is not just a rhetorical question on Perez's part.

In trolling the dark, secret, underground tunnelways of the Interwebz, where I often find myself at odd hours of the night, sucking down Coke Zero from a flask whilst glimpsing the occasional glow of a cigarette out of the corner of my eye or detecting faint, deliberate heel clicks somewhere off to my left, I overheard whispers from shrouded but trusted sources that DWTS is something Johnny would really love to do ...

... and that we fans might be able to help make it happen by flooding Perez's site ASAP with thousands of positive comments!

So let's get on it, people! DWTS producers just may be paying attention to the response that Perez gets from floating this idea out there.

But wait, you say. Didn't we just agree a couple of months ago that Johnny is way too cool and not nearly orange enough for DWTS? And that most of the comments at perezhilton.com are so incredibly hateful that it's really best to avoid that whole comment thing altogether over there ... ?

Yes. Yes, we did. But that was then. This is now. Please try to keep up.

Today we not only think this is a wonderful (read: well-paid and high-exposure) opportunity for Johnny, we think DWTS is such an exciting show and we can't believe we've never watched it before! Although there's a simple reason for that: Johnny wasn't on it. But now he might be. So I'm getting ready to program my TiVo as we speak.

And not only will I watch the show if he's on it, I think his mere presence will elevate it into something really quite fascinating, unpredictable, enjoyable, and far more classy than it's ever been before. I am so there, just waiting to see what he'll wear (OMG! sparkles? feathers? mhalos? finger condoms? maybe full-length evening gloves? plus balls in every routine? the possibilities simply boggle the mind ...), how fabulously he'll dance, and how much he'll make me smile. And how exciting it will be to see a whole new audience fall in love with him.

After all, he is pretty damn addictive--or so we hear.

And here's the bottom line, just speaking for myself as a proud uber-stan: If Johnny wants it, then I want it for him. And I want it to be the most marvelous fun he's had, ever. Because I think that's kind of what he's thinking about it: That it could be just, you know, FUN. And fun that he gets paid to have. Wow. Yes, I really, really want this for him.

So let's all meet over at Perez's and post a million comments while we try to avoid reading the really awful ones there (just avert your eyes and keep typing!) about how much we would totally watch DWTS (which certain parties with a vested interest will read as: how high the ratings will be and how many advertising dollars the show will bring in) if our beloved Johnny is on it! It's just one more way we can support him and his dreams--and hey! It's free! So post a comment! Or twelve!

And BTW, we've also started a group on Facebook that you can join to help promote this idea. Facebook peeps are the ones who got SNL to offer a hosting gig to Betty White, so let's use the power of Facebook (when it's not being completely lame and randomly locking people's accounts just because today happens to be a day with the word "day" in it), to get Johnny on DWTS!

Because orange is so five minutes ago ...

PLEASE KEEP VOTING HERE for Johnny to win

the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

And please keep pimping out
our official ALC donation page

and our Ride for Life PayPal donation page

to everyone everywhere through July 31!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Welcome Home, Atomic Kitten!

Here's a big kiss from Johnny and all his fans to say thank you, thank you, thank you for representing us in our Ride for Life fan project for AIDS/LifeCycle!

The ride officially ended today with closing ceremonies in Los Angeles. And you so totally rock for having done this that there are hardly words for it--so these will have to do:

Thank you for volunteering to be "Rider X" a.k.a. Atomic Kitten; for cycling all 559.2 sometimes breezy, sometimes grueling miles, through a skinned knee, assorted bruises, a numb pinkie, and an injured shoulder; for tweeting and twitpicing along the way (loved the Vegas-themed porta-potties!); and for inspiring all of us Johnny fans to be a part of this project in every way we can.

And I personally want to say: I have enormous admiration for your strength, dedication, courage, and grit in competing this ride.

So while Atomic Kitten now gets (I hope) some long and well-deserved rest NOT in a tent on the ground next to a seismic snorer, please remember that we can still donate through July 31!

As of this writing, we have collected $5,812.83, which is 78% of the way toward our $7,500 goal. There also are donations in our PayPal account that have not yet been added to this total.

Even a simple $1 gift is $1 that helps save lives, so please donate today by credit card, debit card, or personal check at Johnny's main ALC page, or via PayPal at our Ride for Life website.

Thank you again, Atomic Kitten, for coming up with this idea
and for making this herculean effort. And thank you, Johnny,
for partnering with your fans in this project.

We love you both. Mwah!

"Therefore we pledge to bind ourselves to one another ...

to do all good things,

knowing that we are more than keepers

of our brothers and sisters.

We are our brothers and sisters."

--Maya Angelou

Please keep pimping out our official ALC donation page

and our Ride for Life PayPal donation page

to everyone everywhere!

AND PLEASE KEEP VOTING HERE for Johnny to win

the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Beware of Geeks Bearing .Gifs ... (Although Geeks Bearing Donations Are a Good Thing)

Hey, Johnny, BB?

Um, we're working on that AIDS/LifeCycle thing.

Atomic Kitten is pedaling away, up and down those California hills,

and right now we're at $4,651.70.

Which is 62% of our goal.

Oh, BB.

See, this is Johnny's face when people don't donate.

We don't want to see this face.

We feel bad when we see Johnny cryface.

Although it's hilarious when it's about five excruciating minutes

into him trying so, so hard to speak Japanese.*

But we want to see Johnny happyface

when it comes to our fan project.

Like the face I imagine he might have had on Tuesday

at the NewNowNext Awards,

based on his tweet very late that night after the show:

So please, everybody.

Please donate whatever you can--

even just $1--either here or here.

And please join me every day, won't you,

in your own personal pimp-a-thon of this project,

whoring out these links to everyone you know,

e-mailing everyone in your address book,

snagging everyone at work and at the grocery store

and the scrapbooking shoppe and the corner bar

and the drycleaner and oh, a couple of daycare centers

and wherever else you won't get arrested

for loitering or panhandling,

and asking them to please donate.

Saving lives is hard work.

But it couldn't be more important.

And now we've got quite a reputation to live up to,

being the best fans in the galaxy and all

(thank you, BB!

We couldn't love you more,

especially when you tweet sweet nothings

onto our computer screens

at three o'clock in the morning ...)

(... mmmmmmmm ...)

So please,

let's do everything we can to meet our goal!

(evan if it means channeling some orange-filled spirit

that exhorts us to give 150%!)

(--gaaaaaaaaaaack--)

Pretty please?

With a big, beautiful

white bow on top?

ZOMGWTFBBQSQUEEFLAILOMGIDIE!

How can anyone say no to this vision
of devilishly angelic beauty?

Please keep pimping out our official ALC donation page
and our Ride for Life PayPal donation page
to everyone everywhere!
AND PLEASE KEEP VOTING HERE for Johnny to win

the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

*around marker 14:20. Not to be missed.
Thanks to Facebook fans Jessica Lane and Nicole Davis
for their inspired help with this post!

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Good Luck, Johnny's Bikertress! You Are Atomically Awesome!

And she's off!

The AIDS/LifeCycle bike-a-thon officially begins today at 6 a.m. PDT, and Johnny's Bikertress--a.k.a. our own Atomic Kitten--will be among the thousands of riders enjoying a police escort out of beautiful San Francisco to begin her journey on behalf of Johnny and all his fans.

You can follow Atomic Kitten's progress on Twitter or on our Ride for Life Facebook fan page! And check out the new pages at the Ride for Life project's website! Our main page has now been translated into Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish, and Korean is coming soon. You can also find out more about Atomic Kitten here. Be sure to click to the Ban.do photos page to see her super-glam helmet, and check out the designs from the Russian fans and from Facebook fan Mary Mimi Dzyacky that Atomic Kitten will be sporting on her T-shirts during the ride!

As of 2 a.m. PDT, our donations stand at more than $3,800: $3,570 on our official ALC page, and about another $300 in PayPal donations. That's excellent progress for a project that just began last Wednesday, and already puts us at about 52% of our goal of $7,500! Fans have been actively pimping away, both on Johnny's Facebook page and around the web, posting the link everywhere we can and alerting other celebrities and their fans via Twitter and Facebook. Though the ride ends next Saturday, June 12, fundraising continues until July 31.

And Johnny himself tweeted about our project last night! That means his 59,069 Twitter followers got the message and started tweeting it to their followers, who started tweeting it to their followers ...

Which reminds me: I am amazed and humbled that Johnny has partnered with us, his fans, to do this project. Much of the credit goes to Atomic Kitten, a dedicated and energetic fan who came up with this idea just about a month ago. It is largely through her efforts--laying out the concept for Johnny and his team, promoting the project, networking, encouraging others to get on board, and generally just driving every aspect of everything in addition to maintaining her grueling training schedule in preparation for the 545-mile ride--that her idea became a reality.

But it also says a great deal about Johnny that he agreed to make this happen. He's been involved from the very start, because of course we could not use his name or his official photos without his permission. This is the first time, to my knowledge, that he has teamed up with his fans in this way, and he's taking an enormous risk by doing so. He is wholly entrusting us with his name, his image, and his reputation--not something every celebrity would do, and not something we can take lightly. But Johnny truly loves, appreciates, and believes in his fans, and also he's very, very much about turning any celeb spotlight that comes his way toward humanitarian causes, particularly efforts to fight AIDS.

So it is both a privilege and an enormous responsibility that we have before us. A lot of our success rides on the sparkly Ban.do-ized helmet and strong legs of Atomic Kitten, without whom this project would not be possible. The rest is up to all of us other fans, to work together to bring in every donation we can, big or small or in-between.

Because every $1 donated is a $1 that goes toward saving lives.

And the closer we come to our $7,500 goal--or to exceeding it--the higher we boost Johnny and his fans among the top fundraisers for AIDS/LifeCycle. And also the more we help Johnny realize his dream of using his gifts, his heart, his love for others, his whole addictive self--and the accompanying celebrity spotlight that is shining ever brighter on him--toward accomplishing something truly, wondrously good, for other people.

As we embark on this journey--Atomic Kitten pedaling away, all of us pimping away, and Johnny soon heading to LA for those NewNowNext awards--let's join with Facebook fan Gary Podschun, who has been tireless in his efforts to promote our project, and offer words from the classic and beautiful Irish blessing to Atomic Kitten:

May the road rise to ... meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face ...

until we meet again ...

--A Blessing from St. Patrick

Bless you, Johnny Weir and your Bikertress. You are both atomically awesome, and we couldn't do this without you!

Please keep pimping out our official ALC donation page
and our Ride for Life PayPal donation page
to everyone everywhere!
AND PLEASE KEEP VOTING HERE for Johnny to win

the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

Special thanks to Facebook fans Lizzy Pine for her artwork,
Maggie Strasser for the phrase "atomically awesome,"
and Gary Podschun for his inspiring posts!

Friday, June 4, 2010

The End of #realityWEIR ... What's NewNowNext for Us?

Yeah, I think you're going to have the last laugh

on those idiot judges, BB...

Well. I guess I'm about to tweet my last #realityWEIR, since the NewNow Next awards voting ends today (though I'm not sure what time, so just in case, I'm going to keep #realityWEIRing thoughout the day...)

But this feels a little ... bitterstweet.

The party's pretty much over, the balloons are droopy and misshapen, there are only unappealing, squashed-up bits of cake left that I'm probably just going to throw away, and all that glitter is now only an irritant on the carpet for the cats to eat and then later throw up.

And so I'm kinda bleah. And also a little waaaah.

#realityWEIR has been my constant companion on Twitter since LogoTV first announced that Johnny was a nominee for NewNowNext's "Most Addictive Reality Star" back on April 14, and that I could vote for him simply by tweeting #realityWEIR. It has faithfully attached itself to tweets about my new blog entries, my fascination with late-breaking news from every corner of the world, my complete and utter contempt for Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck, my lols at and appreciation of various Twitter friends, and of course dozens of @replies to @JohnnyGWeir's tweets, whether it's a twitpic of his latest mullet color or musings on The Dingles. No matter what 140-character message I just had to say, #realityWEIR was right alongside, ending every tweet for me with #hotBETTYWHITE and flair.

And power.

Because wow. You get a few people on Twitter to put #realityWEIR in their tweets, and then to retweet each other's #realityWEIR tweets, and then to retweet each other's followers' #realityWEIR tweets, and a scant seven weeks later you've got a tidy little pile of about 100,000 tweet votes--let alone the number of votes on the NewNowNext site itself.

So #realityWEIR, the little tweeting engine that could, may very well have helped us achieve something really, really cool for our beloved JWe. Just our little way of collectively thumbing our noses at those Olympic judges and declaring: "Oh, btw: YOU SUCK."

Speaking of the Olys, I would be remiss if I did not offer recognition to our own Olympic Tweet Team! From Monday, May 24, when we first started tracking our home stretch, to today, our top tweeters were (in alphabetical order):

@AddictedtoJWe
@blackren101
@Cheddar_Cat
@JGW_fangirl
@JWe_account7
@KittenGlitterHD
@MaggieStNJ
@maxonat
@mommaowie
@Moo58
@realityWeir
@princessjhnylv
@swandefender
@TheJerseySlore

Thank you so much to everyone who tweeted like maniacs or voted endlessly on the NewNowNext website! Now we just have to sit tight and see if we accomplished what we set out to do. The awards show will be taped this coming Tuesday, June 8, at The Edison in downtown Los Angeles, and Johnny will be one of the award presenters. But we'll have to wait until the show's broadcast on Thursday, June 17, to learn who the winners are. The pre-show will start at 9:30 p.m. EDT, with the award presentations set to begin at 10 p.m. EDT. If, like me, you don't have satellite and your cable company's broadcast philosophy is still rooted in the time of the Salem witch hunts and overseen by a prim triumvirate of executives named "Prudence," "Fear," and "Chastity," who have chosen to protect you against your will from the scandalous fare that is the LogoTV channel, you can watch the awards program on the web at LogoTV.com.

But even though #realityWEIR will soon be no more, we still have several other important issues that require our votes! So if, like me, you're now not only addicted to Johnny but also to the act of voting for him or something related even tangentially to him, you can:

*Vote for Johnny to win USFSA's Readers' Choice Figure Skater of the Year. Because he most definitely should.

*Vote to encourage Pepsi to fund sorely needed physical activity programs for kids through the n'Play Foundation. Johnny is one of the board members of n'Play.

*Vote for Beauty Bear Eric Alt's salons to win "Favorite Salon" in New Jersey Life/Health and Beauty magazine's Beauty A-List awards.

And of course, our current number-one priority is to pimp out our AIDS/LifeCycle "Ride for Life" fan project! We were so excited to see that the story has already been picked up by The Advocate and by Towle Road! As you know, the ride starts this Sunday, and our goal is to have $5,000 in donations by then. So please pimp this baby out, people!

Also: Thanks to everyone who voted in our "Name Rider X" survey! Johnny's Bikertress will now be known (at least to us, but maybe not in any official press releases...) by the fans' top vote-getter: Atomic Kitten!

And finally: Even though #realityWEIRing will soon be a thing of the past, we have much to look forward to in the coming weeks and months:

June 19: Johnny will perform at Skate for Hope in Columbus, Ohio, and tickets are still available! And the lovely director of that event, Carolyn Bongirno, was kind enough to donate to Ride for Life in Johnny's honor!

June 27: It's the hour-long season finale (I refuse to say "series finale") of Be Good Johnny Weir on Sundance!

July 10 - 11: Johnny is performing at "Fantasy on Ice" in Niigata, Japan.

July 24: Johnny will be the headliner at the Sun Valley Summer Ice Show in Sun Valley, Idaho

July 31: Johnny returns to Lake Placid, New York, to perform in the Citizens Bank Summer Ice Series

September: Johnny will be skating at another event in Japan, according to his tweet.

January 11, 2011: Johnny's book will be released! You can pre-order it now on Amazon, where it debuted at #58,372 and within 24 hours had moved up to #4,378...

So there's a plethora of stuff to get excited about, most immediately the ever-increasing response to our "Ride for Life" project. Please share the info with everyone you know and encourage them to donate just $10 to this wonderful cause!

But I'm still going to miss you, #realityWEIR ...

PLEASE KEEP VOTING FOR JOHNNY
as "Most Addictive Reality Star"
in the NewNowNext Awards! Vote here

(he's the last one listed in the fifth category--scroll down!)
or on Twitter by constantly tweeting

and retweeting #realityWEIR.

VOTING ENDS TODAY (sometime...)!

PLEASE also VOTE HERE for Johnny to win
the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

Thanks to Facebook fan Jennifer Cataldo Rosa
for the term, "Olympic Tweet Team"!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Vote-Donate-Tweet-Post-Pimp-Repeat ...

“The best place to find a helping hand

is at the end of your own arm.”

-- Swedish Proverb*

Vote-donate-tweet-post-pimp-repeat ...

...Yes, that is currently my life, thanks to Mr. Johnny G. Weir himself...

...and I couldn't be happier about it. :)

Yesterday, in the midst of our final push to log the most Twitter votes ever recorded in the history of humankind as we head into the final 48 hours of the NewNowNext awards voting, we also launched our biggest fan project ever: "Ride for Life," uniting Johnny fan groups from around the world in support of AIDS/LifeCycle.

And we proved that, as far as multitasking crazy people go, we are among the world's finest.

Within 45 minutes after the announcement was made on Johnny's Facebook page, we had received almost $500 in donations from fans.

Within less than 12 hours, that number had shot up to $1,500.

And in that same timeframe, we also managed to tweet #realityWEIR more than 2,300 times; post the "Ride for Life" announcement on dozens of Facebook pages; alert media outlets, including Greg in Hollywood, Outsports, and Perez Hilton; continue voting directly on the NewNowNext website; and persuade friends we haven't seen since kindergarten to vote for Johnny as USFSA Figure Skater of the Year because we've run out of our own .gmail addresses to use.

So once again, I say: WE ROCK!!

And I wish I spoke more languages so I could find a million different ways to say that, because we are simply amazing (which, because I type hastily, and my fingers as well as some of my keys on my keyboard tend to stick, often comes out as "amaxing." And that also works, in my opinion, as in, "We are a-maxin' out this votin' and donatin' and pimpin' thing right up to the very tippy-top of Johnny's ever-lovin' pompadour, darlin'," which also offers some insight into how often I chat with Michael Mazzella).

Although I think I can best translate "We rock!" into Weirlandian, in which it comes out as: "We are strong fierce free bitches, baby, and we totes have that shiznit covered!"

Which, BTW, is a gender-neutral statement and also quite complimentary here in Weirlandia.

So here are today's action items:

Vote-donate-tweet-post-pimp-repeat. Please do whichever of those activities works best for you. Not everyone is in a position to donate in these difficult times, so we'll all just do whatever we can, and everything will work together for the good of the project! And please know that every vote, every tweet, every penny, every posting of the AIDS/LifeCycle link, every pimping effort, is very, very much appreciated.

Please remember to vote in the "Name Rider X" survey! You can vote as many times as you like. And thank you to all who have voted already--we've gotten some really fabulous write-in suggestions! The survey closes tonight at midnight, and then the project leaders will present the top choices to Rider X so she can help in choosing a name that best represents Johnny and his fans in this humanitarian cause.

Oh, and hey: Check out what the Ride for Life website looks like in Russian! So cool. Thanks to Facebook fan Tatiana Edrenkina for translating. More languages coming soon!

OK. No more time to write. Gotta get back to my groove, people!

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PLEASE KEEP VOTING FOR JOHNNY
as "Most Addictive Reality Star"
in the NewNowNext Awards! Vote here

(he's the last one listed in the fifth category--scroll down!)
or on Twitter by constantly tweeting

and retweeting #realityWEIR.

VOTING ENDS TOMORROW!

PLEASE also VOTE HERE for Johnny to win
the 2010 Readers' Choice Skater of the Year Award
(voting ends July 15)!

*Thanks to Facebook fan Gary Podschun
for this caption, and for matching it
to the perfect Johnny photo. :)