Talking with Villinda Vile Horror Entertainer - Episode 47

Harry Hawk's conversation with Sal Virelli about the creation and development of Villinda Vile and other drag personas is the first episode in a series of conversations about gender artistry.

Sal describes a dark past with which he used to build and embellish the characters Linda and Villinda. Born and raised in Michigan Sal has explored community theater, sewing and fashion. He is a polished entertainer and a rising star in the drag community.

Sal's drag persona Villinda Vile entertains at an annual Michigan haunted "house." Sal has taken his self proclaimed, "dark past" and used it as inspiration for scaring the paying public.

You can find Villinda Vile on Facebook and Sal Virelli on Instagram. Sal'sBlack Rainbow Custom Clothing & Costumes is also on Instagram.

Listen to other conversations and view photographs about gender artists on Draggedy.com a project created by @hhawkand @rainbowsquirtle with stories releasing throughout the summer of 2016.

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Rant - Smashing Burgers 001

My Love Affair with Burgers: Starting To Flip I've helped sell more than 100, 000 burgers and I've cooked them 5x at the James Beard House. I also won the 2008 Burger Battle of the Boroughs. This is my story about my love affair with the hamburger. I've decided to start to tell this story because on Jan 17th 2015 I'll be cooking a burger pop-up in Brooklyn. If you are reading this before that date, you can buy some tickets and taste my burgers --> Jan 17, 2015 Tickets. You can visit the Schnack Web Site which is still online, or check out the Blog.

I mention the Gowanus Yacht Club in this episode, learn more here.

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A Juicy well cooked, medium rare slider burger (a Schnackie) on a NY Handmade Breads Brioche bun.

This "Slide" ran at the local Clearview movie theater promoting Schnack burgers and meals.

A view inside of Schnack designed by James Mamary the most amazing restaurant designer I've ever met.

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Coming Soon!

Talking About Everything with Harry Hawk

In a few weeks..

I will be launching several podcasts... each with a narrow focus.. Now for something rather different.

TalkingAboutEverything.com will be a master collection of all of the audio interviews, reports and commentaries that I make... As well as original reports and interviews created specifically for TAEP (Talking About Everything Podcast).

Totally Episodic:
Most episodes will feature a 15-20 minute Interview, Report or Commentary; where possible each of these "shorts" will be accompanied by the "full length", "raw" and (nearly) un-edited "live to tape" master.

What do you mean Raw & Uncut?
Of course like any devotee of Truthiness.. what I really mean is, "slightly edited and mildly processed." Basically I'll take out some of the noise and anything that might get me sued or be insulting to my guest(s)... 

Ummm, but.... You Know... 
I'll remove some of those as well.. and anything else that I wouldn't want my mother (or my students) to hear.

The Truth -- Just Admit It!I just did.. let's face it, "Full Length, Raw and Uncut" is a much better sound bite than "mildly edited for content and reputation, and processed, EQ'd, and compressed for noise reduction, to meet the -16 LUFS standard and silence removal".

Rain or Shine
Every Thursday -- yes, you should be expecting a new podcast to be posted every Thursday.. with exceptions for the USA arrival of space aliens, 200 Million people buying the same winning ticket for a Powerball(tm) drawing with a prize of $50 Million, and the Vingean Singularity; please note that the arrival of a techno rapture is not an acceptable substitute for a Vingean Singularity, do not pass Go, nano nano (not!). Honestly, I didn't expect you to read this far... (EOL).

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