Kind of a Drag
It looks like Rupaul’s Drag Race is off to a bad start already. The top vote-getters seem to have discovered a way to subvert the online voting process. It’s probably just as easy as cleaning out your cache and deleting your browser’s cookies in between every vote you make for yourself. Nothing else can really explain the discrepancy between the leaders and other top vote-getters, like the demure Raya Light. How could such a sweet, delicate flower like Raya not be winning the race? It defies all logic.
Raya also posted a blog entry on her profile to comment on how fishy it is to see such a wide gap in the total votes between the front runners and the also-rans. The only fishy thing I want to see in this contest is Holy McGrail! The only wide gap I want to hear about is the one between her . . . oh, never mind. You get my point, don’t you?
In her blog, Raya also suggests that only registered voters be able to vote in the subsequent casting rounds. That’s a wonderful idea. I was voting as an unregistered voter earlier in the competition, but I grew weary of filling out those annoying Captchas. Still, I’ve got to give credit where credit is due. To those girls who are leading the race by voting for themselves, your tolerance for mind-numbing mediocrity is a lot higher than mine. I applaud your tenacity, even if it isn’t going to get you anywhere.
Holy McGrail
Well, it’s probably a little too early in the competition for me to choose a favorite to win RuPaul’s Drag Race, since the show is only into its first round of online casting. Nevertheless, I’m on Team Holy McGrail now. How could you not fall in love with that face?
It seems that this lovely lady is really a lady — a “faux queen.” On her profile she writes ”Drag is my passion and not just some hobby.” She goes on to reveal ”I also love the joy I bring to other real women who never thought that real women could ever be gorgeous drag queens.”
While I don’t believe that her eye makeup is appropriate daywear for the high-powered career woman, I can’t say that I wouldn’t be delighted to see it on anyone, at any place, or at any time. Holy admits that she doesn’t wear a lick of makeup when she isn’t doing drag, but that’s okay with me, too. At least she has the guts to embrace her fabulosity once in a while. We should all be inspired by her example. Just imagine how much fun she’s having while the rest of us sit at home, leafing through The Star and pondering the philosophical implications of Mischa Barton’s cellulite.
I hope that the producers of the show find her to be inspiring, as well. It would be a shame to dismiss her in casting because she was born with a you-know-what. That would be like telling those pesky Canadians that they couldn’t be on Survivor. Oh, wait — they already do that. Never mind.
RuPaul’s Drag Race
After a couple of consecutive season finales of America’s Next Top Model that can only be described as tragic, I was delighted to learn that RuPaul’s Drag Race is currently casting. While the details of the show are currently up-in-the-air, it sounds a lot like ANTM, only with girls who don’t need training wheels. It’s going to be fabulous!
If you visit the site, you can click through the profiles of several contestants, including the unsinkable Tammie Brown, above, whose understated elegance leaves me wanting more! Any girl who spells Tammie with an I and an E is okay with me, too. Just don’t spell it with a Y or I’ll kick you in the box.
