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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Jinkx Monsoon Held a Very Long Note on Television Last Night

Posted by on Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM

As you may or may not know, Julia's on Broadway throws a viewing party every Monday for RuPaul's Drag Race hosted by Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme. A LOT of people already know about this—by last night's 8 pm pre-show, people were being turned away in droves. What you get at the viewing party is Jinkx and BenDeLaCreme bantering during commercial breaks and taking questions from the audience and bantering further and performing songs and still more bantering. Occasionally, there are special guests, as there was last night. I squeezed myself into the crowded room to bring you the highlights.

• Jinkx on how packed it was: "I'm going to try crowd surfing later."

• BenDeLaCreme on being stuck in an airport in Chicago recently: "Airport bathrooms are not as much fun as they sound on the news."

• Jinkx on what it was like watching the show in San Francisco last week: "I have to tell you guys: Doing a viewing party in a different city really made me miss doing the viewing party here." San Francisco is full of "mean, mean people." She was talking about her Grey Gardens-related victory last week, which prompted lots of people to make fun of all the drag queens who didn't know what Grey Gardens is—teasing that went too far, Jinkx said. "I never thought when I was a 15-year-old drag queen: 'I hope one day I have to tell the whole internet to shush!'"

• BenDeLaCreme on the plot development in this week's episode about recording a song to benefit homeless youth: "So the proceeds from Coco's lyrics—they're going to help the homeless youth? It's almost like they don't want them off the streets."

• Jinkx explaining the difference between stage makeup and TV makeup. She overdid it in a big way last night, and did not think she looked good, and chalked it up to a learning experience.

• The special guest at last night's viewing party was... Latrice Royale!! From last season. Although, alas, Latrice was not in drag. She was a he, and the he was wearing Birkenstocks and socks, of all things. White socks. "I'm like a mess, I'm like a bum," Latrice said. "This is a very Northwest look," BenDeLaCreme commented.

• Jinkx on what she was doing when the cameras were off (everyone was isolated, to make sure all the interpersonal drama happened onscreen): "Most of the time off camera was spent at Jack in the Box or in my hotel room watching TV."

• Jinkx on whether she'll be doing anymore theater at the 5th Avenue or Balagan any time soon: "Nothing's nailed down. I will say I'll go in to audition for Into the Woods, for a role once played by Bernadette Peters... a role I've always wanted to play."

• BenDeLaCreme diffusing something Latrice Royale was trying to start: "Latrice, we don't start fights in Seattle. We burn sage. I have a gluten intolerance."

• Jinkx: "Ru said to me: 'Artists go through periods.'"

There's another viewing party at Julia's next week. Jinkx will be there.

 

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Matt from Denver 1
This has nothing to do with the post, but the heading of "HOMO/TV" looked so much like "KOMO TV" at first glance, that I couldn't help but imagine a local TV station with that name.
Posted by Matt from Denver on March 5, 2013 at 12:25 PM
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I love when Jinkx said "You don't need to waste time trying to impress the people who aren't going to accept you for who you are."

Also why the eff aren't we liveslogging RuPaul's Drag Race?
Posted by Subdued Excitement on March 5, 2013 at 12:51 PM
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San Francisco really isn't full of mean people.
Posted by LukeJoe on March 5, 2013 at 12:55 PM
blip 4
San Francisco is not full of mean, mean people, but our drag culture prides itself on being more substantive and quirky than the kind of female impersonator pageantry that RPDR seems to value so highly, this season in particular. Jinkx was also appearing at Honey Mahogany's viewing party the week after she was sent packing so I suspect the daggers were probably sharper than usual.
Posted by blip on March 5, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Cienna Madrid 5
I really appreciate Jinkx's grace and understated humor on the show. Everyone else this season strikes me as rather blah (although I love Alaska's outfits). If she's eliminated, I don't know if I'll keep watching.
Posted by Cienna Madrid on March 5, 2013 at 3:48 PM
kittenalarm 6
You forgot the best part, when Jinx came out last nightdressed as Little Edie!!!
Posted by kittenalarm on March 5, 2013 at 3:51 PM
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The reason people were so viscerally angry with the queens who didn't know GG was NOT because they didn't know it but because of their mean condescending treatment of Jinkx. Let's face it there was no shortage of that last year with some never hearing about LGBT rights in the past and Stonewall, regardless of working there. But they received nowhere near the vitriol ad these mean girls this year.

But even RuPaul tweeted he's given up expecting this generation to be culturally literate. Then when a person tweeted him that it's not "easy" to know references from 30 years ago, he simply tweeted back "Bitch, please". lol. But yes, I believe that the PacNW is a much kinder place than most others.
Posted by allegory on March 8, 2013 at 4:07 PM
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The witch in Into The Woods!!???? Yes please!
Posted by Eckstein on March 9, 2013 at 3:51 PM
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I've gone you the last two Seattle viewings and Jinkx was fantastic. His version of Bohemian Rhapsody was fabulous. And Bendelaceme next season is calling !!!!!'
Posted by Dodgegirl on March 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM

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