Lipstick Wins HOT PINK SHORTS

It's official: My pitch, 'Til Death Do Us Toby, has been selected by OUTtv for their Hot Pink Shorts contest. Thank you to all who voted! I couldn’t have done it without you.

If you're in the dark about this, here is some more info: OUTtv, Canada’s only LGBT national television network, recently held a contest in conjunction with Hot Pink Shorts, in which contestants submitted video pitches that were voted on by viewers. Yours truly was selected as one of the winning pitches. As a winner, OUTtv will fund my first short film, ‘Til Death Do Us Toby and make a documentary of the process (“The Making Of…”). Also part of Hot Pink Shorts: mentoring. During the process, I will receive advice/help from industry professionals from pre-production all the way through post-production—and it will all be captured on film for the world to see!

My short film, ‘Til Death Do Us Toby, is about Sam, an artist tomboy teenager and her mutt, Toby, who go on a wild adventure together, which includes Sam discovering that she’s gay. Sam is being raised by her religious cougar mom, Mimi, who refuses to acknowledge that Sam is growing up to be a big ole lezzy. Meanwhile, Toby, Sam’s neurotic sidekick, thinks that everyone is out to kill him. Will Sam and Toby make it out alive?

I've been producing the Lipstick & Dipstick Show on Curve’s website and am excited to take it to another level by writing/directing my first short film.

Round 2 of the Hot Pink Shorts contest has already began and they’ll make more lucky filmmakers’ dreams a reality. If you have a short film idea, check out Hot Pink Shorts today! Even if you’re simply a film enthusiast, Hot Pink Shorts is an amazing community. Join today!

http://www.hotpinkshorts.com/

http://www.outtv.ca/

http://www.hotpinkshorts.com/contest

* the other short film selected for this round of Hot Pink Shorts is "Short Sight" about a gay man who has the abilty to see people's true, repressed selves in an eye that was damaged in a fight when he was young. Cool, huh?

What is a Lipstick Lesbian?

According to Cracked.com (Self-Proclaimed America's Only Humor + Video Site), "Lipstick lesbians are the hardest to detect. They are usually just straight girls who fake being a lesbian because they think it helps the environment or something. Most women are lipstick lesbians."

See for yourself: http://www.cracked.com/funny-874-lesbians/

Oh yeah, and notice who's in the third photograph and the bit about lipsticks. The Executive Editor at Curve, our friend Diane Anderson-Minshall, sent this to me this morning. It made her smile, she said.

It was taken a couple years ago at San Francisco Pride at the Curve booth because I remember wearing that dress and hat. Who knows who took it; I don't remember meeting these girls either.

L Word Lipstick Contest

This is fabulous! The L Word is coming out with its own line of lipstick and holding a "Name that Tube" contest. I've had my own line of lipstick for some time, which we've sold at Pride festivals and events. Some of my favorite colors are Mommy Queerest, Closet Case, Frazzled Femme and Sexy Seductress.

Try your hand at naming one of the L Word Lipstick taglines by going HERE.

Flashback: Bike Disaster Zone

I was going through old photos and I came across these old ones that made me smile. Lipstick & I were in Chicago for the Gay Games in 2006. We rented bikes and were making on our way down the Chicago streets to see some women's basketball. Suddenly I heard a loud crash behind me.

My first thought was Lipstick was going to be face down in pavement, her brains on the asphalt because she refused to wear a helmet. "I don't want to mess up my hair!" she insisted. "How about messing up your life, forever?" I argued back. But she would not listen.

Luckily, when I turned around I didn't see mash of blood and brains, only the girly basket on Lipstick's bike had somehow come flying off when she hit a bump.

Look at her poor banana on the ground. And notice what shoes she's riding in. For the record, I did not approve of those either.

Happy Birthday Lipstick!

Today is Lipstick's birthday. I can't say how old she is, but it's younger than me. She is in an undisclosed location celebrating, but I want to make sure she knows she's loved and appreciated.

Enjoy your day, Lip!

Lipstick's New Car

DIPSTICK: Lipstick, did you get a new car? (See license plate.) Funny, you don't seem like the mini-van type.

LIPSTICK: While I may not strike you as the mini-van type, in high school, I won a senior superlative that would put me in this soccer-mom mobile. It was "Most Likely to Head Their Child's PTA." No joke.

Someone Named Their Bunnies After Us!

Google is pretty cool. I signed up for this thing called Google Alerts and I get an email every time the words "Lipstick & Dipstick" are posted in a blog or on a website. It's a great way for us to read reviews of our book, find a mention of us on someone's website or see who is linking to us.

But sometimes the alert has nothing to do with Lipstick & Dipstick, advice columnists. Sometimes it's a guy being nasty about, well, you can imagine how the words "lipstick" and "dipstick" can be used  in a pornographic posting.

One thing I never expected was a post about bunnies, though. Someone named their bunnies Lipstick and Dipstick and they did what bunnies do, they made more bunnies. Then the owners posted pictures of them on the web.

See our bunnies here!

Lead in Lipstick

Yikes! Fellow Lipsticks: BEWARE! If you haven't heard, check out the below article about unsafe lead levels in certain lipsticks!

Lipstick wears only MAC lipsticks and so should you. They scored the lowest in lead amounts, but still, ewe. Why do they put lead in there anyway?

Read it.