Has Beens Unite

Let's face it, people like me are all stuck in the best moments of their lives even if it's still some of the best. While brainstorming guests for Season 4 of The Fabulous D Show it was remarked that my list was full of has beens! Upon taking a look it made me realize that I find it very hard to take interest in new things. It's just not that interesting to me if it doesn't have a connection to something that helped spark me originally. That doesn't mean I made a list of people you've already heard on my show (or heard anywhere for that matter). It means I made a list of people who are not particularly on the radar anymore.

What delighted Rosie O'Donnell most on her talk show was having her childhood infatuations on to interview. That theme has been seen again and again on almost anyone's show. There are always new things tantalizing the newest generation. To us it will never be like the stuff we first fell in love with. It's just like how a child born into Myspace has never felt quite right with Facebook. Just like how The Internet's First Super Stars would never feel all that comfortable in the 21st century social networking era of the Internet. I will always want to have more people to interview from before than after, just because it brings me a fuzzy feeling of nostalgia along with unearthing some relics for you all to take a peek at. If we didn't have talk show hosts clinging to their first inspirations there would be far less variety for the new to pick from. Neopostmodernism at it's finest, we've all taken a little of then to make a lot of now.

Did RuPaul bring Michelle Visage on as a regular to RuPaul's Drag Race just because Michelle is fabulous? While that's reason enough that wasn't the reason at all. They were hosting The RuPaul Show when I was just a baby queen. They had history. History with each other and history with all the baby queens they communicated to. What is the first thing I thought when I saw Michelle again? Not about the fierce divas they are, but who they were to me. It's Ru and Michelle back together just like "we were" in 1996!



Speaking of drag, that's a fine example of how the way things were will never be how they are. Any old queen will tell you how unamused they are with what the drag scene has become. It's a fill in the blank broken record: I remember how it was when we __________, the ________ scene of today is shit!


It all relates back to the time we were unconsciously having a good time. There is something about who we become that is too aware. Since people still experience this today all I can figure is it really is just an age thing. There's a time when we're invincible, we don't think about our health or what we're doing to our bodies. We have a damn good time in whatever scene exists at that time. Then as we grow up it all changes and no matter how invincible we remain, we feel differently. The Queen of England reminisces about the good old days, but she's still the Queen of England!


There are still superstars of old ravaging the new. I'm still here. Ru and Michelle are still on TV. But it's 2011, not 1996 and to tell you the truth, that seems to be the problem when it comes to nostalgia. It was really good back then because it's really over. Memories can be warm and fuzzy even when they weren't really. On one hand we go on long diatribes about how great it used to be, but we were in just as much turmoil and confusion as we are today. If not more then than now! Memories can be so safe and attractive just because they are moments that are over. Whether they know it or not, some people latch on to memories just because they lived through them. Unlike the history they are making today which is still up in the air.

I have no problem having friends from the 90's back on my show so we can sit around and talk about how great it was compared to how great it will never be again. Even though that's a total lie.