I think about things.My real name REALLY is Fausto Fernós and I was born and lived until the age of 16 on the Island of Puerto Rico.

You might be thinking, "funny, you don't look or sound Puertorican," but I am. Living in San Juan, we grew up speaking both English and Spanish, watching a ton of American made television programs like "Alice" and "The Jeffersons." I learned how to talk this way from watching Flo and Florence sass around at their jobs.

fofwallpaper-01-fausto-marc.jpgI've always dreamed of being a talk-show host. When I first saw the David Letterman TV show I was floored by the creative, hilarious gags they did on the show. Remember Dave throwing watermelons off the roof? In slow motion, they looked like fruit flavored fireworks. I was stunned when Sandra Bernhardt and Madonna held hands and told the world they were dating. I remember Grace Jones coked up rolling on Letterman's desk. I knew I had to have this in my life.

I work seven days a week on a popular talk show I produce with my husband Marc Felion called the "Feast of Fools." It's an amazing job recording a talk show that is heard by tens of thousands of people, especially gay people all over the world. It sometimes blows my mind the power of the internet to bring individuals together from such great distances. Teenagers in rural Alabama, senior citizen lesbians in California and Muslim gays living in Iran listen to the show.

As American as apple pie- Fausto feeds George Takei some apple pie before the parade to keep his energy up!I've had the opportunity to talk to celebrities, musicians, writers and activists from all walks of life. I sat in the back seat of Kathy Griffin's limousine and was invited to grab her breasts to check if they were real (they were real). I fed apple pie to Star Trek's George Takei (it was delicious). I asked Paula Poundstone point blank if she was a lesbian and she said no (she's asexual).

I fought with a Madonna impersonator at the Apple store in downtown Michigan Avenue:

One thing most of the celebrities that have been on our show have in common is that they are generally optimistic people. They don't let themselves get bogged down in petty conflicts, they are happy people. They embrace new technologies and a new opportunity to speak about themselves and their work to an audience that might not always know that side about them.

One thing I treasure most is the interviews with people from parts of the world were just being gay is still illegal, where slavery is commonplace and where women are treated as second class citizens. We've spoken to activists from Nigeria, Russia and Thailand and asked them all the same questions at the end of the interview that we asked the celebrities- What makes you mad? What's for dinner? What happens when we die?

Marc Felion and Fausto Fernós wear their black "Digitally Delicious" shirts!At the beginning of every show we ask our listeners to buy a t-shirt and then remind them that "without you, we're nothing." Indeed we are nothing with out them. My loving partner Marc Felion is the other half of the heart that makes the show pulse. I couldn't do it with out him.

The Feast of Fools gets it's title from an essay from early gay rights activist Harry Hay who felt gays should "embrace a certain frivolity." Hay envisioned a future where people felt free to express themselves fully and honestly and therefore “act foolish.”

I hope my talk show is part of Harry Hay's dream of equality being made into a reality.
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Just for fun, here is a sexy photo montage of Hollywood hunk Chris Evans:
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