In my endless need to help the GLBT community here in Santa Fe blossom I am working on bringing ya'll an old fashioned Sunday T-Dance. However I want it to be the kind of event YOU want and not what I hope you want. SO I have created the polls below to help me figure out just what you would enjoy most out of your Sunday T-Dances so I can best serve you! Please quickly answer each question for me so I can get a better idea of how Santa Fe wants to spend their Sundays and leave a comment on the poll afterwards if you want to add more. The T-Dances should start mid-August at Max's (natch) She's closed so I'm gonna take over the joint, move some tables, put on some music, serve some food, have beers, mimosas, maybe some drag and definitely LOTS of fun! I'll keep you posted and THANKS!
Well hi babies! I have moved the old Mobile Home once again (for more info on that you can read my blog down at the bottom of this page all about THAT mess.) and settled down out west; Southwest to be exact. Santa Fe! Went and opened this little Diner so as I can chat with all my old and new friends and frankly, pay the freakin' bills. So much to tell you! So much to get started on! So sit back, look at the menu, see what cha' ya hungry for and then sit back and get ready for the hottest dish on the web! To your left is your Diner Menu. Click around and see what your hankerin' for. "Home Fries" is all about me and my home page, "Blog Plate Special" is my ramblins about this and that to read, "TV Dinners" is episodes of my TV show to watch, "Letters Home" is some more writin' and ramblin' to friends and family members to read, "Sweet Treats" is all kinda pictures to look at, "Chef Suggestions" is other websites I have enjoyed visiting and thought you might too and "Trannyshack Southwest" is pictures and videos from the amazing event I hosted recently here in Santa Fe. Eat all you want honey! There is more comin!  Where to see Wenda Live! | 
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The on-line companion to New Mexico's The Voice column "Gay 101"
Well Hi Babies !
It's me your old pal Wenda Watch. Lord what a rocky road it has been! For those of you who go way back with me to my days as cable access queen and host of my very own white-trash cooking show beamed directly from my mobile home to yours it is so good to be back with you again! For those of you I am just meeting allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wenda Watch and I have been involved with the gays now for over 20 years, and really through no fault of my own. What happened was like I said earlier back in the late 80's I was just mindin' my own business, doin' my cooking show when somehow the satellite beam got screwed up and off it shot over San Francisco right into the home of my now dear friend Sister Zsa Zsa Glamour of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Well she thought my show was funny or campy or somethin' like that (To this day still not real sure why. I was just cookin' my favorite Spam recipes. Nothin funny ‘bout Spam.) Anyway, she asked if I would come to San Fran and do her show Lavender Lounge. Well my husband Burl is on the road truckin' so much and all of the kids is gone, well ‘cept for Goat and he's so busy what with runnin' his tattoo parlor out there in the converted carport garage that he never misses me so I said ‘why not!'
Well before I know it I get swept off into the dizzying highs and horrible lows of the queer lifestyle. Party after party star after star. Before I knew what was happening I was wisked off to nowhere else but Hollywood! Just like a slightly larger Lana Turner (who said “who?!”) I was taken to La La Land to be a part of QTN; the first international privately run Queer Television Network! Yes Babies, Miss Wenda was on her way! How thrilling that little ‘ol me was picked by a television network to criss-cross dress America and travel from state to state exploring the wondrous world of drag queens and kings and report back to all of you about all of it.
Of course, with all of the love, support and desire that our wonderful country America has to give to welcome diversity and embrace the gay culture that it has, the damn thing went belly up within the year.
Well you can imagine my shock and chagrin. There I was already getting signatures on the petition to give me a star on the Walk of Fame (If Donald trump can have one I can too, besides my wigs look better anyway.) when the heel dropped and I was out on my ear stranded in Hollywood. (Burbank actually and honey let me tell you it is a long hike over that hill!) What was a girl to do?
Luckily, about this time Burl had pulled through Silver Lake where I was staying (don't ask) in his big rig and was gonna drive me back home to Oklahoma. Well, as we were goin' down I-40 I realized we would be passin' through New Mexico and I had always dreamed of seeing Albuquerque and Santa Fe! Now that I have seen ‘em I'm not quite sure why I had always dreamed that but in any state that is so brown I stick out like some exotic tropical flower I can't help but love it, so I stayed. Got me one of them what they call Casitas in Santa Fe and started lookin' for my gays.
Well! You can imagine my shock and horror when snooping around the town so many of the fags back west call Santa Gay that I wasn't able to find even ONE gay bar. Well, there is one but its more like paying a visit to my great aunt Chubby at the retirement home back in Oklahoma affectionately called “God's Little Waiting Room” than it is visiting a gay club. Anyway, when I did run across the occasional gay, lesbian or (thank God!) a tranny I was just dumbfounded to learn they knew nothing of their, your, our fabulous gay heritage and history. No no no! This would not do! I immediately called up my dear friend Ryan at The Voice and I said “Who ever has been passing out gay cards around here is asleep at the wheel! Being gay means SO much more than sleeping with someone of the same sex you barely know and will regret meeting in the morning! It is more than knowing Brittany's precise location of every freakin' moment of every freakin' day. (Jesus can you imagine where that girl would be if she was talented? All this on a whiny voice and Manic Depression. Shit, if that's all it takes my closet should be filled with Grammy's by now!)
Anyway, I realized that once again the GLBT community was in desperate need of Miss Wenda's help! Wonder Wenda to the rescue. So here's how its gonna go down kids. I will do my part to help the community by bringing fabulous, famous, wonderful GLBT community members to our dried up little neck of the woods here in New Mexico (Can anyone say Trannyshack Southwest starring Heklina of San Francisco fame? Stay tuned—I've got her comin' with a whole gaggle of Trannys in May!) But you're gonna have to do your part too. I am revoking everyone's gay cards as of now and we are all going back to school! I will be assigning ‘homo-work' for you all each week and the following week we will discuss what we learned and then get our new homo-work for the next week. You may be asked to read a book, download a Shirley Bassey song. (Who said ‘Who?!” See this is EXACTLY what I am talkin' about!) You may be asked to watch a camp classic movie or find out who Harvey Milk is before the big new Sean Penn movie about his life comes out.
Eventually I hope to host gay movie night at one of the local theaters where we can all join together in a darken room, finally for once without a mirrored ball hanging from the roof and the smell of poppers hanging in the air. We can all come together in our faggotry, dykeness, and trannydom and bask in the glow of Judy in Oz, or Divine in Baltimore both magical wonderful moments in our Queer history.
So-nice to meet ‘cha! If you see me out you'd better say ‘howdy!” Rest up ‘cause schools back in session starting next issue. Oh babies we are gonna have a ball together joyously trudging down the yellow brick road of our incredible GLBT history and heritage. So- stay tuned! I've got so much fun up my sleeve you'd think I was Doug Henning. (Who said “who?!”)
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