I've mainly been spending my bar allowance at Model T's. There's always a weird drag show going on there, but the real show is offstage. I was shocked to hear last night that Elxxa Rogers passed away. Did you know her? I thought she was really nice, and was sad to hear she's gone. Any drag performer that'll do Dusty Springfield and Petula Clark is ok in my book. They said they're doing her a covered dish memorial in March (when her son will be in town....)

I don't know if it will be as surreal as the covered dish memorial they gave Deline Cion upon her passing last year... Now THAT's a story.. It seems that Deline (who exclusively did Celine Dion numbers with a manic seriousness usually reserved only for NASA space scientists) passed away just days after erroneously being named Miss Model T 2004. The judges announced her as Miss Model T, but after placing the crown and sash on her, realized they'd tabulated the scores wrong and had to take the crown off her head and put it on Frisky Brewer. Well, Deline Cion collapsed on the floor in convulsions, an ambulance was called, and honey, she died some days later. I'm not kidding.

But it doesn't end there.

So Frisky Brewer was crowned Miss Model T 2004, but several weeks into her reign -- Frisky went missing... When we asked of her whereabouts we were told that Frisky (who has big silicone titties and cheekbone implants) had gotten her truckdriver's license and was driving a big-rig 'cross country. Well, apparantly a misunderstanding at some truckstop caused Frisky to pull a gun out of her purse and threaten a man's life in the restroom. The cops were called and Frisky was jailed in some midwestern state for attempted murder. The bartender said, "I TOLD Frisky, 'them truckers ain't gonna accept you!"

Can you believe all that? Well I guess Frisky got out of jail, because Elxxa was staying with her when she died. They said Frisky got up one morning to wake up Elxxa, and that's when she found her dead in bed. There's no way you could make this shit up.

And then there's Sadie Calhoun, the drunkest drag queen in Atlanta. I thought she was crippled for the longest time before I realized that, no, she's just drunk. On Halloween, she did Laura Brannigan's "Gloria, and spent the entire number trying to get the hem of her long dress uncaught from her heel. We were crying! Another drag queen had to go up on stage and help her get her dress unstuck from her heel. And I swear the second she got that taken care of, poor Sadie got tangled up in a spider web decoration they had put up on the back of the stage! (More recently, Sadie snatched the microphone away from the MC in order to sing an impromptu acapella version of "Maybe This Time" to her serial killer-ish boyfriend...)

Well, I just wanted to say hi and hopefully give you a chuckle. Send me a line when you get a chance. Hope all's well, and I'll be keeping up with Gaytona.com!