Tag Archives: Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of Universal/Motown, this week’s Swag Tuesday trinket is rising pop star Mika’s new performance DVD, Mika: Live In Cartoon Motion, now available online and at retailers everywhere. Live In Cartoon Motion, captures the star at his show stopping best, thrilling a sold-out audience of 4,000 fans at France’s famed L’Olympia venue. Mika’s Live In Cartoon Motion marks the first …

Courtesy of Universal Motown, today’s Swag Tuesday giftie is an autographed poster for the Scissor Sisters’ new performance DVD, Hurrah! A Year Of Ta-Dah, due out December 4th. This 2 disc DVD set is essential for all Scissor Sister fans!! Included is a DVD of a full live concert filmed at O2 Fest in London including “Take Your Mama”, “She’s …

Courtesy of LOGO, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is the DVD of the first full season of The Big Gay Sketch Show, which includes all six episodes, Big Gay bonus sketches, Celesbian Interviews, Team Pimp’s sexy new music video and more. Inside: a bonus disc – Outlaugh on Wisecrack. The DVD becomes available on November 6th via BestBuy.com and the …

Courtesy of Grand Central Publishing, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is Grace After Midnight, the memoir of controversial actress, rapper and out lesbian Felicia “Snoop” Pearson, star of HBO’s The Wire. Written by Pearson and David Ritz, the book is due out November 1st. While Felicia is a brilliant actor in a truly chilling role, what’s most remarkable about “Snoop” …

Catching up on the last few weeks of Swag Tuesday winners…. Blogger is having one of its no-photo mornings, so I apologize that winners’ photos aren’t in this post. I’ll see about adding them later when Ms. Blogger gets her act together. If you don’t see your name on this list and you think it should be, contact me. Also, …

Courtesy of Hachette Book Group, this week’s swag is Rosie O’Donnell’s new memoir, Celebrity Detox: The Fame Game, now available at booksellers everywhere. As I’ve mentioned here several times, I’m a big Rosie O’Donnell fan. The View is simply unwatchable without her. We need somebody on national television angrily losing their shit about Dubya every day. It was a beautiful …

This week’s Swag Tuesday giveaway is the soundtrack to RuPaul’s new movie, Starrbooty, due out on DVD on October 30th. I caught a screening of Starrbooty back in June, just before the movie opened at NYC’s Newfest and the music was killer. There don’t appear to be plans to release the physical soundtrack separately at this point (although it is …

Courtesy of FlyLife and Burgundy Records, this week I have five copies of Chaka Khan’s Funk This, her first all-new studio album in 10 years. Featuring duets with Mary J. Blige, Michael McDonald and Tony Maiden, Funk This is now in stores and available on download services. Click over for a special shout-out from Chaka to JMG readers, followed by …

Once again, Universal Music Enterprises gallops into Swag Tuesday with four double-disc CD collections from their ever-growing Universal Gold series. This week’s haul: Supremes Gold, Connie Francis Gold, ’60s Gold, and Moody Blues Gold – comprising over 160 tracks in all. These four releases all are available now, with more collections added to the series all the time. To win …

Courtesy of here! Networks, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is an advance DVD copy of Nine Lives, the sexy new here! movie starring out actor Steve Callahan. Nine Lives will be released October 2nd. View the trailer here. Based on Michael Kearn’s play “Complications”, this sexually provocative and tenderly executed film focuses on nine individuals whose lives intersect emotionally, sexually, …

Lady R’s glittery wheel landed on Michael of Akron, Ohio, who won last week’s Swag Tuesday prize, the 4-disc first season box set of Showtime’s Dexter, which starts its second season on Sept.30th. Michael sez: “Thanks for the DVD, and also thanks for all the effort you put into your blog, it is very appreciated.” Publicists: if you’d like to …

Today’s Swag Tuesday prize is the brand new novel from gay stand-up comedian and writer Bob Smith, Selfish & Perverse, courtesy of the author and Carroll & Graf Books. Standup comedian and television writer Smith, who published the Lambda Award–winning memoir Openly Bob in 1997, throws his hat into the gay fiction ring with this absorbing, funny and smoldering romantic …

Sighing from the extra work, Lady Randomocity had to spin her wheel twice in one week, after last week’s Swag Tuesday winner was unresponsive to his email. However, spin #2 landed on the lovely Amy of Brooklyn, who immediately and succinctly reacted with a single, “YAY!” Amy gets the giant hardbook Playbill Broadway 2006-2007 Yearbook, now available on Amazon. New …

Courtesy of Showtime, this week’s Swag Tuesday haul is the 4-disc box set of the first season of Dexter, their critically raved and deeply strange series about a police detective who moonlights as a serial killer.Dexter is based on the compelling novel “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay. Orphaned at the age of four and harboring a traumatic secret, Dexter …

Courtesy of the vital showbiz info site, Playbill.com, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is a hardback copy of the Playbill Broadway Yearbook 2006-2007, a fantastic compendium of everything Broadway from the last 12 months. Playbill.com sent me a copy last week and it’s like an encyclopedia, over 500 pages. Many people who work on Broadway keep scrapbooks of their experiences, …

Kansas City’s David, pictured here with his Alex, was randomly chosen to win last week’s Swag Tuesday prize, the DVD of Schwarzwald: The Movie You Can Dance To. David sez: “What a great surprise. I don’t know which I’m more excited about, the copy of Schwarzwald, or simply being able to say I’m a JMG Swag Tuesday winner. Thanks so …

Courtesy of the Saint At Large, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is Schwarzwald: The Movie You Can Dance To, starring the world’s most famous transman, Buck Angel. Presented in “DanceSurround”, Schwarzwald is part fantasy, part documentary and delves into NYC’s infamous Black Party, the annual rites-of-spring leather bacchanal. I caught a screening of Schwarzwald earlier this year and found it …

Still groggy from her shift at Scores, Lady Randomocity finally hipped me to last week’s Swag Tuesday winner, Gothamite and fellow blogger, Eric, who wins two tickets to this season’s Broadway smash, Xanadu. Eric authors Confessions Of A Southern Boy In Yankee Land and says of his win, “I’m a little bit speechless! Thanks to you, Joe, for having such …

This week’s Swag Tuesday booty is two tickets to this season’s Broadway smash, Xanadu, which has won rave reviews from all corners: the New York Times, Variety, and the New Yorker, which gushes, “The Most Fun You’ll Have On Broadway! Ridiculously Brilliant, Lavish and Sublime!” (Also gushing: me.) Written by Tony-nominated Douglas Carter Beane (The Little Dog Laughed) and featuring …

Lady Randomocity sent out a couple of forlorn emails last week, but never hearing back from the first winner, she petulantly chose another to receive a copy of Jesse Archer’s new novel, You Can Run. The email-attentive David, from the heart of Utah, says, “Thanks Joe! I guess I’ve never really been one of those people that could say they …