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Bad Weeds 198: Super Sexy Cookie and Hunky MC2! ARCHIVED from 2006!!

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Mon, 2 Mar 2015 22:29:00 -0800

THIS PodCast was originally recorded in November 2006.
What a funny bit in the background when Cookie is talking about doing some sketchy deal regarding a drag queen named Page Turner and Versace.

Cookie Dough passed away suddenly on January 29, 2015. I am so grateful he was a part of my life.

Cookie Dough and MC2 discuss "Mercury Rising," their show which is currently featured on Bad Weeds (BWSF 197 and 199).

Listen to the intervew with Cookie and MC2

Check out CookieVision!

in Colorado, millions live on...

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 07:29:00 -0700

if I was in a movie theater
sitting beside my beloved
munching popcorn contentedly
and figuring out if this
new thing is the
best one
yet
the last
thing that I'd
expect is for a man in full metal jacket
gear to shoot us...
kill me, injure my husband...

for all the dead, the wounded, the witnesses, the families and friends
and for the millions that live on
in peace

end the cycle of violence

Cracked Pitcher

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 08:03:00 -0700

IN a moment of
forgetfulness
I poured hot water
into a thin glass pitcher
and
it
cracked.

Audition later tonight.
Doing it so I can build a relationship.
Getting gigs in SF is one grand game of networking.

Fog ... bleh

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:01:00 -0700

"The fog creeps in on little cat's feet..." Robert Frost

... and the cat pees in my bed.

that's how I feel about fog. pb

Is it time to take it down?

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:16:00 -0700

Every time I contemplate pulling the plug on Bad Weeds I just can't do it. Why can't I do it?
Here is a list of the reasons I keep it up:
1. It is an archive of interesting stuff from my life for at least 2 intensive years from 2005 to 2007.
2. I still see that people from around the world listen to the episodes.
3. I think the world can still use a queer voice from San Francisco. Especially when they are fucking hanging queers in Iran and threatening to outlaw us in Uganda.
4. I still might have more to say.
5. I just named my Tumblr account Bad Weeds San Francisco
6. I want to do some theatre art in SF under the aegis of Bad Weeds

hitchin a ride

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:45:00 -0800

My Father's Birthday

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:56:00 -0800

Today is my dad's 82nd birthday. Happy Birthday Dad!

Dad died ten years ago, just 21 days shy of his 72nd birthday, on December 9, 2000. It's strange to me that he's not here.

When I was a kid my dad decided that he did not like having his birthday five days after xmas anymore. So, for just maybe one or 2 years, my mother staged Dad's "half-birthday" on June 30.

I don't remember a lot about his half-birthday. Except that we all felt that it was yet another attempt on the part of my father to hijack a perfectly good day of the year and make it all about him!

Nearly all Saturdays were my father's days. In so far as we were all pressed into service to work on whatever projects dominated his agenda that day.

But here it is, legitimately my dad's 82nd birthday, and he's not able to lay claim to it.

Maybe I'll go change my Honda's oil in his honor.

Bad Weeds 243: Three Plates Spinning

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:07:00 -0700

Click Here

Bad Weeds 242: Actor's Story

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:40:00 -0700

CLICK HERE for Patrick's story about coming back to the stage and his latest project... Broadway Bound at Chanitcleer's Theatre in Castro Valley, CA CLICK HERE for tickets!

When does a podcast become a museum

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sun, 4 Apr 2010 09:29:00 -0700

Should BadWeeds be retired?

Bad Weeds are Hard to Kill

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:09:00 -0700

Hello Weedlings!
I used to post podcast episodes on this site... fairly frequently!
Now, not so often anymore... well none in about about a year.

I leave the podcasts up because I like how they represent a time in my life -- a story. I'm particularly proud of the episodes from my trip to Uganda in 2006.
Some of the stuff is a bit racy... I guess I might tone it down if I did more episodes. I'll let you find that stuff on your own!

I'm thinking about starting it up again with a focus on my journey as an artist. We'll see.

Stay tuned!

a Long Day's Journey Into Night begins

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:25:00 -0700

Hi All
It's been almost 5 months to the day since I posted last on Bad Weeds. I hope you missed me.

So much has transpired since late April that it would be futile to sum it all up here and now. I'll spread it out a bit over the next few posts. Which is to say that there will be a few posts upcoming? Perhaps. We'll see.

Most recent news first.

I'm in a very exciting production of one of American theater's greatest plays -- "Long Day's Journey Into Night". It's at City College of SF in mid-November. The play is by Eugene O'Neill. He wrote it in 1939 - 1941 at his home not far from here in Danville, CA, "Tao House". O'Neill stipulated the play never be produced on any stage and that it not be published for 25 years after his death. O'Neill died in the early Fifties at age 65.

Well long story short, his widow Carlotta succumbed to financial pressures in 1956 and published the play. It won instant acclaim as one of his greatest works and took New York by storm in a production starring Fredric March and Jason Robards.

You might be familiar with the motion picture featuring Katharine Hepburn and Robards, made in 1962.

Fast forward to 2008.

I read about auditions for the play in mid-summer and set my mind upon auditioning. Auditions were ten days ago. It was a whirlwind process.

I showed up to an empty theater, except for director Susan Jacskson, on a dark foggy night out at City College. She looked grateful for the company since she was literally there alone. I did my monologue and afterwards we chatted. My monologue was from the play. I worked on it 14 years ago in an acting class. I always loved it and was delighted to perform it. (It may have been during that class that I first fell in love with "Long Days..." Susan liked it and asked me to do it again. We talked a bit about my connections with the College as an instructor. I pointed out I'd done "Urinetown" two years earlier. (There is at least one podcast from that ... check it out.)

I left after 20 minutes or so feeling pretty good. She already told me to come back for call-backs on Sunday afternoon. It's good when they don't make you wait to hear.

Well Sunday arrived and I headed out there at 4 pm. The place was a lot busier. There were 5 men reading for my role, Jamie. Three men were reading for Edmund (the younger brother ... based on O'Neill himself.) Just one man, the boyfriend of a good friend of almost 14 years, read for the dad, Tyrone. The most exciting aspect, among others, was that TV actress Lee Meriwether (Catwoman from the Batman pilot movie in 1966, Miss America 1954, and lots more TV in the past 40 years) was already cast as Mary Tyrone, the mother.

Susan was very organized; she had already grouped us into scenes and mapped it out on handouts. We took turns going into the theater to read for her and Lee. (The production was Lee's idea a few years back. Lee is an alum of CCSF and does a play now and then at her alma mater.) While we were waiting to read for them we practiced in the lobby of the theater.

It was telling but interesting that I read with Dirk (my friend's boyfriend) and Joshua at that point. I only read with these two during the entire callback. We really had a great chemistry. Josh is great... more on him later. But at that point I felt like my fate lay with these 2. Dirk was the only one reading for Dad and Josh was a ringer for little brother. But there were 4 other 'Jamies' reading...

One of the 'Jamies' looked a bit more the part, I thought, because he was thinner and looked more 'dissipated' (O'Neill's term for advanced alcoholism...) I was worried he'd land the role based on that (and that I look healthy, fit and fabulous... : )

For about a half hour I was worried that Jamie 2 was edging me out. He even read with MY EDMOND (Josh)! I was jealous.

But at the end of the auditions Susan looked at me and asked which scenes I'd read and I pointed out I'd not read one of the last scenes that the other guy (Frank) had read with Josh. She said "Oh come in and read that..." I felt much better after that point.

Just before I left Susan said I'd know something that night by phone... IF I got the role. If not ... no call.

I went home excited, hopeful, but anxious. We had friends over for dinner and I was on 'tenterhooks' waiting to hear. It got to be after 8 pm and I started to worry. Even though it was only two hours since auditions ended. You know how the mind distorts time when you are waiting for news...

Anyway, we were sitting eating and my phone rang. It was Susan's number on caller ID (new iPhone... love it btw.) I said casually "Oh it's her!" I answered and she said "It's Susan Jackson and we'd like to offer you the roe of Jamie Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night.

I said yes!

Well there's lots more since then to blog about. Maybe I'll podcast it. But suffice to say I was exhilarated. I still am when I think of that call, those words "we'd like to offer you the role...". I've had a lot of NO CALLS and NO WORDS... as every actor does. But this time it was YES. For one of my favorite plays. With a TV legend no less! Oh my. Fun fun fun.

Bad Weeds SF 241: Sexy Sunny Day

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:29:00 -0700

SF Stu and I enjoy a sexy sunny day
SF Corruption
Homelessness
Summer of Love
Coming out 30 years ago in SF>

Bad Weeds 240: San Francisco Stu's Point of View

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Fri, 4 Apr 2008 23:44:00 -0700

Meet San Francisco Stu -- a native with a distinctive point of view!
San Francisco's glory days
Public Transit scandal
Cruisy toilets at the Ferry Bldg

Meet San Francisco Stu!

Bad Weeds 239: Body Image Politic

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:56:00 -0800

Body Image Politic
body image and queer guys
digging in the dirt
Obama-phobia

Bad Weeds SF 238: Panning for Gold

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:39:00 -0800

Panning for Gold
Gold Rushin'
Sex in the bushes
I heart Mike Hipp

Bad Weeds SF 237: Under the Table

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:08:00 -0800

under my table --->
Mouth + brain connected?
Who cares who won
Under my furniture
got Milk?

Bad Weeds 236: and the Wiener Is...

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:37:00 -0800

and the Wiener Is...
Oscars
Hollywood memories
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
and more...

Bad Weeds 235: The Baddest Weed

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:37:00 -0800

Who's the Baddest Weed of All?

Bad Weeds 234: Tiger Tales

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:04:00 -0800

BWSF Kicks Off 2008 a little Late!

Corkey is MIA

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:38:00 -0800

Hi Gang!
Happy New Year and Martin Luther King, Jr., Day etc....

I've not posted a podcast in a bit. Curiously, there's been a lot of hits on BWSF #211 "Nipples" !?

What does that signify? Basically, the numbers went from 30 visitors a day to 300! since mid-December.

So anyway, expect a podcast soon. Flirting with the idea of putting some of my vacation footage together. What I think would be most interesting would be the video I took at Buchenwald and the new-ish Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin.

So stay tuned and be patient. And maybe I can squeeze out 1 podcast a week? We'll see.

By the way, sad news about Heath Ledger. He was a good guy. Oh well. We all got to go sometime.

Also, just saw Juno and Cloverfield over the weekend. Both rocked. Juno definately deserves all the kudos it is garnering.

Seasons Greetings!

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:15:00 -0800

Hi
Well I think I can count on ONE hand the times I've written a post with no podcast attached.
But I'm in a jam. We leave for the airport for our 2 week Germany/Spain trip in about 5 hours and there is so much to do. Recording a podcast just ain't one of them.

So I just wanted to say HI to all my friends and thanks for a great year. Happy Holidays!

Duncan and I will be traveling in the former E. Germany Dec 18 through 28. First we'll be in Thuringia State visiting such towns as Erfurt, Eisenach, Weimar, and Gotha. Every small town has it's on Weinachsmarkt (Xmas-market). So we'll soak in the Xmas cheer in great supply. Onto Berlin on Dec 22 for six nights. Of course, Berlin is a moveable feast. So we are really excited. Half a million queers! Art, history, shopping (which we won't afford with our impotent dollars) and more Xmastmarkts. On Dec 28 we fly to Madrid for 3 nights and 2 days of art, tapas, and the intoxicating pre-New Years buzz. Winging home on Dec 31 in time to ring in 2008 in Pacific Standard Time!

Keep your eyes and ears peeled because there just MAY be some podcasts emanating from our trip. No promises.

All our love,
Corkey and Duncan

Bad Weeds 233: Inside Ramble Redhead

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:23:00 -0800

Meet Ramble Redhead, podcaster extraordinaire!
Ramble Redhead and I recorded each other for our podcasts. For a peak INSIDE CORKEY MINEOLA (OMG!) click here

Bad Weeds 232: Gay Husband's 5 Questions

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:36:00 -0800

Five pressing questions from Duncan Grant

Bad Weeds 231: Naked or Nude?

badweeds@mac.com (Corkey Mineola) — Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:59:00 -0700

is Corkey naked or nude?

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