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Things have been a bit slow here at TheOccasionalFag...  So many life changes that putting together a short video for this podcast, well... there just isn't the time that there used to be. 

One thing that stays stable, though, is how OccasionalFag Brian G. continues to want to prove that gay men can be as everyday dull as their straight conterparts.  With that in mind, in this video he does his laundry...  What do you want for a podcast?  You want drama?  Watch the Housewives of Tabatha's A-List Brad, Brad World...  This is the internet.  We have no money for it... Or even less than Bravo TV seems to have.

Enjoy!

Merry Christmas All.

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About time we here at TheOccaisonalFag made it to downtown Manhattan for the most exciting thing to happen in activism in a decade: Occupy Wall Street.

Though we're not a part of its' undertaking (yet...), we're there with them in spirit (as is most of the 99%, it seems)

Enjoy the walk through.

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Editing this video made OccaisonalFag Brian G. wish he had been a bit more prepared with the information in his shpeel about the dance company, Streb Extreme Action, and why they were in the meatpacking District of Manhattan to present Elizabeth Streb's latest "action" piece, but hey... this is TheOccasionalFag, not the BBC or NBC News...

He constantly refers to the equipment - that he got to oversee the fabrication of at his place of employment - as the "Ladder", because that is what they called it in the shop.  In Streb Speak, the ladder is "Ascension", and it's an amazing piece.

The music that is tacked on for this video was not a part of the original presention, but is just one of Brian G's favorite American Music Club songs.

Enjoy!

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OccasionalFags David b and Brian G. travel to Middlebury Connecticut to discover the pleasures of Quassy Amusement Park for the very first time.

There they ride the brand spankin' new Wooden Warrior roller coaster designed by The Gravity Group and built by Gravitykraft Corporation.

Enjoy!

Our show from Pride48 2011. We speak with James Wentzy of AIDS Community Television Digital Archive and Preservation Project (ACTDAPP) about preserving hundreds of hours of footage of ACTUP activist video footage.  You can help with this project by making a tax deductable donation at FIAR. When making a donation please note that it is for ACTDAPP.  

Find out how to help save hundreds of hours of priceless AIDS activist video footage before our history is lost forever. Listen to TheOccasionalFag - LIVE - on Pride48.com Sunday September 18th at 12pm EDT.

No pictures to post, no title, just Brian G and David b chatting.

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Ah, Fire Island...  Where the scenery is beautiful, but can't hold a candle to the dancers of the yearly Fire Island Dance Festival produced by DRA - Dancers Responding to AIDS.

Here is the yearly video that OccasionalFag Brian G. creates after volunteering to be a part of the festival.

It's always fun.

Enjoy!

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You know...  Sometimes OccasionalFag Brian G. just gets a bee in his behind to make a boring video: something a bit too long, with repetative and poorly timed editing...  Nothing much happens, becasuse sometimes -in the world, even the fabulous world of Occasional Fagdom - life is comprised of slow moments of blandness.

The party the night before is over and all is quiet the morning after at The Woods campground, a LGBT clothing optional campground if you're a regular viewer here at TheOccasionalFag you seen many times before.

Grab a strong cup of caffeinated anything and enjoy this snoozeworthy tribute to a very still moment in time...

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More of an amazing Pride weeekend here in New York City.

Enjoy!

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LGBT Pride weekend (the last weekend in the month of June) has come and gone, but what a glorious weekend it was...

Presented here, in part one, is the Friday night Drag March put on by the Raical Faeries and the Church Ladies For Choice of New York City.

As you may or may not know, the Drag March ends in front of the Stonewall Inn where the riots that occured in the summer of 1969 are considered the genesis of the modern Gay Rights Movement.  In other words, we landed 300 wild queens in front of the Stonewall just minutes (maybe 45...) before the vote on Marriage Equality came in.  The crowd numbers swelled into the thousands after the vote, but we can proudly say that we - and you our viewer - were there first!

Enjoy!

For Gay Pride we present a episode of the "Wild Recorrd Collection".

Enjoy!

Brian G and David b chat

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OccasionalFag Brian G. has an inguinal hernia on (under?) his right groin and a lipoma on his left flank that need to be taken care of. 

Surgery is called for here. 

For him it is the first time going under the knife, that is, if you don't count the lasik he had done back in the nineties (always trendy, that Brian G.)...

This is just a short two shot video of before and after; keeping friends, family and the tens of tens of fans of TheOccasionalFag abreast of what's going on for one queen in Queens, New York.

Enjoy!

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Presented in this episode are the - no doubt - narcissistic ramblings of a twenty-first century gay man starting May the 20th, 2011 - 24 hours before the eve of destruction as predicted on billboards all over New York City.

End of time, judgement day, end of the world, rapture...  Is there a difference?  For individuals who buy into the whole sin and redemption game, there probably is, but we here at TheOccasionalFag are playing fast and loose with words that are just externalizations of Christian power mongering and resentment.  Don't play pedant with us, we don't care...  To us, the rapture is not much more than a great idea for the ultimate roller coaster.  Think of it...  Wouldn't it be fun?

Join OccasionalFag and walking/talking head Brian G. as he spends 24 hours before the beginning of the end rifting and musing on what it all means to him.  Or don't...  No rapture did take place after all...

Ah well, the more time that Christians are focused on the rapture, the less time they're thinking about how to destroy the gays...

Now the FamilyRadio.com website is down, so I can't even do the research to find the name of the myopic fool who preached about this trash in the first place.  Ain't life a bitch?

Enjoy!

Enjoy!Enjoy!

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Occasional Fag Brian G. fabricates a hat and journeys to the fabled Easter Parade of New York City.

Not really a parade as such, but rather a collection of individuals sporting their sunday finest on a closed off 5th Avenue between 47th and 59th streets.

Enjoy!

On April 16 a new amusement park, Scream Zone, is scheduled to open at Coney Island.  On Sunday 4/10 David b was out at Coney as one of the new rides was tested!  Watch and enjoy.

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Several months back Occasionalfag Brian G. got to oversee the construction of and the loading in of a huge piece of scenery for one of the most amazing productions of theatre opening in New York this Spring season: the "Nashscape" for the Lincoln Center production of War Horse. 

The "Nashscape", so named after its' inspiration - English landscape artist Paul Nash, was created for the New York Production of War Horse and is not in the London National Theatre production that then transferred to the West End.

Presented here are what images Brian G. could capture when not at work supervising the Load-in.

Enjoy!

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After having requested them almost two years prior, tickets for a free taping of the ABC late morning gab-fest, The View, finally arrived, so it's off work and over to the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a morning of "audiencing" with the "Ladies".

We couldn't take the video camera into the studio (although you will see in one shot we kinda did), but the "Ladies" of The View can be seen every weekday morning and this is our podcast, so this is about simple, mundane little us and our time before and after waiting in line...

Enjoy!

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As a special celebration of our one Hundredth video here on TheOccasionalFag we present to you snippets of our favorite activist darlings, Church Ladies For Choice, and our very favorite gay folk singers, Rick and Andy, from a recent concert here in New York City at the People's Voice Cafe.

Also, if you like the graphic included with this posting and you want it on a mug or a t-shirt or a tote bag, then head on over to www.cafepress.com/churchladiesforchoice where you can shop for this and other Church Lady items.

Enjoy!

This week David b is all by him self, well... with guests.  David talks with Ron and Tony from public access tv's The Wild Record Collection.  The Museum of the Moving Image is doing a show on NYC's public access and Wild Record Collection will be a part of it on Friday 2/11 at 7pm, and Saturday & Sunday 2/12 & 13th at 5pm. 

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C/O The Wild Record Collection

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Old Chelsea Station

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Winter in upon us and what better way to spend it than to watch a video of a holiday weekend in July?  And yes, it took us this long to edit this piece, but what do you want for nothing more than your time to watch it?  Gold stars for everyone!

Here at TheOccasionalFag.com we have no budgets; all part of the fun.  Actors and scripts are for people making "media", we're in this to make something akin to art.  But, when we think about taking that which others might consider dross or mundane and turning it into a work of video art, here is what is going on in our minds:

-Being gay isn't all about mindnumbingly thumping music or humpy shirtless men grinding against each other hours on end.  Sure, these aspects of homocity have their place in the life, but there is more, even if that more is considered by most, less... 

-Politically, we wish our lives where as promiscuous  as the Homo-hating Right  - in a very telling way - makes us out to be, but they're not, and it is important to put out images of gay men being other ways than the stereotypes both negative and positive that we're bombarded with daily.  Gay men can be boring, and ennui is'nt always a bad thing.  Even if it bores you, our sameness to others is an important point to present.

So, this video is about friends gathered in the country to enjoy a simple pleasures weekend.  No script.  Mostly images.

The ambient music in the background of this video is from the "Twelve Munite Travelogues" podcast available on iTunes.  It is used with permission (a rarity here at TheOccasionalFag...) and created by musician Joe Wall of Baltimore.  More information about Joe can be found at www.sonacast.com.

Enjoy!

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The OccasionalFags, David b and Brian G., travel to the heart of Times Square to take in the holiday specticle of the Donnie and Marie Broadway Christmas Show.

We simply cannot show you any of the D & M show because we're not in any possition to record it.

Instead this is us, being the rambling (not redhead) homos that we are going on about winter in New York City as we dine and head on over to the show.

Enjoy!

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Feeling less than redneck, greasemonkey butch as of late?  Well then join us at TheOccasionalFag.com for a trip to the Connecticut Antique Machinery Fall Festival in Kent, CT.

We OccasionalFags love gears, pistons, flywheels; anything that moves (and pumps) with a consistant motion, and, of course, we're gay men, so all events with the word "antique" in them always hold that oh-so-special attraction (even if we're not all that into antiques...  Go figure?).

You'll find we also love images of men on tractors.  Maybe just 'cause there were so many to be found at this event.  Slow, good fun.

Like a machine, this video is low on content, high on repetative images of said tractors.  It's been a slow Fall here on the East Coast for TheOccasionalFags.  What can we say...

Enjoy!

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Every year the good, good people at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS host a Flea Market in the heart of the theatre district, Times Square.

Every year OccasionalFag Brian G. is there, Flip camera in hand recording where and when he can while volunteering to help set up, run parts of and strike the days events.

It really is an amazingly fun event.

Enjoy!

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Being footloose and fancy free for the first time as a single man for the past year, Occasionalfag Brian G has had the time to focus on items outside of the concerns brought on by hibernating in a relationship and what he thinks he has discovered in his foraging about in the gay community is that the collective nature of those men who call themselves Bears seems to have changed drastically in the past few years.

To challenge and help elaborate on this topic he and his fellow Occasionalfag David b have called in friends Aaron and Cyrus for a FagFest chat on the spectrum of all things Bear.

Now keep in mind that the name of this podcast is neither The Authoritative Fag nor The Academic Fag.  We suppose we could have called in an expert on Bear identity, but then it wouldn't have been so much of a conversation, but a lecture.  We'd rather stumble around a bit in the darkened cave and that we do, with no help from skype as technical glitches chewed at this podcast as much as we did...

Enjoy!

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