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FEW MOMENTS WITH PRECIOUS
By Bobby Pins
(written for the unpublished Fake
magazine;
Spring 1998)
Bobby Pinns: So, Precious, who was
your greatest childhood influence?
Precious Moments: Jamie Summers. I
love the Bionic Woman. She had it all: She was beautiful
without ever trying. Intelligent. Funny. And just like
a little gay boy, she had a really big secret. And she
always used her powers for good. Plus she had her own
goddamn TV show! Who could ask for more.
BP: I love your shit-eating baby act.
It's horrific.
PM: It's about freedom. And acceptance.
Like my Dyke Drag, when I bring the outsider chicks
to the spotlight in clubs that ordinarily might not
even welcome these women.
BP: You've been living in Provincetown.
What have you been up to?
PM: Lot's of theatre and rock and roll.
For Christmas I'm working on a lip synch of the entire
Charlie Brown Christmas Special. I'm Lucy.
BP: I should hope so.
PM: Well I wanted to be Peppermint
Patty, but she's not in it. I'm also the featured actor
on a weekly radio variety show called Spiritually speaking.
BP: About?
PM: The spirituality of sex, drag,
drugs; being gay, straight or single.
BP: Those are the options?
PM: It depends on the week. We're very
controversial. I do up to ten different comedic characters
voices per half hour show.
BP: Whats next for you?
PM: Precious Moments presents, "Enya
Dreams." It's all Enya.
BP: The New Age of Drag?
PM: Exactly. It will also be very cathartic
for me.
BP: Really. How so?
PM: After seven years as a massage
therapist, I have to exorcise the Enya out of my system.
Its the first of a group show performance series I'm
producing in P'town.
BP: My mom would love it.
PM: mine too. It's the worst drag I
could think of.
BP: What do you miss most about New
Orleans?
PM: The people the people the people.
And the incredible tragic glamour. I've never felt so
at home in a place so foreign to me.
BP: That's so sappy.
PM: Well my name is Precious Moments.
BP: So why aren't you living here now?
PM: My liver?
BP: And is your liver faring any better
in P'town?
PM: Shut up.
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