The WOW Report
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Podcast 6-25-08
James McGowan brings in the custom leather lazy-susan he made for Randy's house, then leaves. James St James deconstructs Kate Moss and company on the cover of the W with Randy and Fenton in it. Talk about the Heidi Fleiss doc at the LA Film Festival. Steven thinks Fenton will be pleased to see the ...
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Podcast 6-18-08
It's a shortish one, with the trinity of James, Steven, and Lydia to entertain you. Pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears vs Angelina Jolie. Summer staycations. Gaycations. James finds it creepy and wrong that Vh1 is repeating episodes of Hogan Knows Best which feature John Graziano, whom Nick drove into a veg ...
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Podcast 6-12-08: Wii the People
James revisits his thoughts on the Dina Lohan and Denise Richards reality shows. Cute guest podcaster Tim Hancock, head of development at WOW's London office, hasn't seen the shows, but is sure they wouldn't go over in the UK. Fenton points out that with the addition of Tim, the Brits are three to t ...
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Podcast 5-28-08
James raves about former club kid Mikel Tron's 20-foot-high genitalia on display at an LA gallery. The show, he says, is sold out. We suspect he might be exaggerating about the size of the works and the number of sales. James and Fenton go over highlights from the opening of the "Dial M for Madonna" ...
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Podcast 5-7-08
That new guy you don't recognize is Mick Kaczorowski, executive producer at Animal Planet, who happened to be in the office when the podcast was began. And he happened to be in the office because he's working on a project with WOW, but no one needs to know that yet. He leaks that when Meerkat Manor ...
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Podcast 4-30-08
Madonna queen Steven Corfe shows off his $29.99 deluxe Hard Candy package featuring actual hard candy and a megamix bonus track for the gays. James says her fan base now is old gym queens, like Traci Lords' is old men in raincoats. Madonna vs Mariah re fan relations. American Idol and Paula Abdul. I ...
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Podcast 4-24-08
Due to unavoidable delays and technical detours of this latest World of Wonder podcast, the management regrets we can offer no assist for you in the form of a lengthy synopsis. The discourse is as lively and controversial as ever, of course, but the curious will have to brave the uncharted territory ...
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Podcast 4-9-08
Priscilla Presley vs Julie Newmar. Randy's not-from-Target grey hoodie. Dancing With the Stars. James sniffs out a gay behind-the-scenes affair. Johnni Javier, WOW creative director at the London office, calls and a transatlantic pop-cultural exchange of sorts follows. James brazenly brings up the G ...
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Podcast 3-26-08
On Easter Sunday, says Lydia, her mother didn't know how to use the zoom feature on the video camera so just moved closer to people. James isn't excited about American Idol, yet the subject incites discussion. David Archuleta's ass. The Australian. "God Bless America." Scots vs Irish. South Park ha ...
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Podcast 3-13-08
Arguably our most animated podcast to date. James announces "Dial M for Madonna" as the next art show in the (newly renovated) World of Wonder Storefront Gallery. Much excitement over American Idol. Fenton asks: "If Sarah Jessica Parker is perfume, who is bags, who is shoes, and who is baby bling?" ...
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Podcast 3-5-08
Fenton, James, and Lydia convene in the conference room, where Fenton is fondling the Adult Video "Oscar" WOW received. "It was a a big AVN year," James says, bringing up the Jenna James controversy. Oh, the crossover perils of aging porn stars. Crossover drag queens. RuPaul achieved his due to a "p ...
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Valentine's Day Massacre
A gunman killed four people at Northern Illinois University this afternoon, before turning his gun on himself and committing suicide. Seventeen people were injured, with at least three in critical condition. Developing. (CNN)
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Service Man
After watching the WOW podcast I couldn't help but start thinking about the word service. There are so many different connotations: performing a good service, in service, out of service, being in the service, faithfully serving, servitude, service with a smile, being served, getting served. And afte ...
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Podcast 10-31-07
All over the place. Fenton brings up seeing Max Raabe and the Palast Orchester at Royce Hall on the UCLA campus, but James intercepts with the non sequitur, "Eat it! Lick it! Snort it! Fuck it!" Will the writers strike cripple the soaps? Fenton struggles to find something profound to say about writ ...
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Podcast 10-24-07
Britney apparently really liked Party Monster when she saw it at Sundance, says Fenton, because she didn't have to think about it. Now she's put a song called "Freakshow" on her Blackout album and it's become James' new theme song, of course. Might she be reading Freak Show to her boys at bedtime? P ...
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Podcast 10-10-07
Randy, James, Lydia, and Steven pull up to the bumper this day. Randy says he's Tyra'd of watching reality shows of late, but he just had to watch Wayne Newton on Dancing With the Stars. Find a clip of Newton doing the tango on YouTube, he says, "and I swear you'll rewind it 15 times!" Marie Osmond' ...
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Podcast 9-26-07
Randy, James, and Lydia welcome you to this week's podcast. The new TV season anyone? Chuck. Bionic Woman. Private Practice. Randy could not care less about the new season, and can't believe people are still watching television. Take Grey's Anatomy, for example; nothing is believable on it anymore, ...
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Podcast 9-12-07
Fenton, James, and Steven talk about Britney and the VMAs and Sarah Silverman's stab to the dead body, reminding Fenton of the RuPaul-Milton Berle "diaper" incident on MTV some years ago. Don't remember that? Ask your parents. The pod squad has poz and neg thoughts on the VMAs; John Norris reminded ...
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Podcast 9-5-07
See more at World of Wonder. Fenton is back in the pod squad, Steven is on board as usual, and James, inexplicably dressed like a gay Lawrence of Arabia (that's redundant, sorry), complete with turban ("we're all one world," he will say later), begins talk about his Freak Show reading in Phoenix, w ...
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Podcast 8-29-07
See more at World of Wonder. This is the podcast that almost never was. It was lost for a week and on its way to becoming one of those legendary recordings that surface to much acclaim decades later, like a new Beatles tune or a Dylan basement tape. But we flatter ourselves. Anyway, those of you wh ...
The WOW Report
