A delighted Johnny at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Thursday morning, where he was greeted by beloved Russian fans bearing gifts and flowers. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. UPDATE: Now 50+ pics below, with NEW exclusives! Plus new video! Just Announced!! Johnny will be appearing on HuffPost LIVE Wednesday, October 22, to talk about To Russia With Love, and you can start posting questions for him NOW at this link! You also can tweet the segment producer, Gabe Piscione, to see if you can ask a question live on camera during Johnny’s appearance. Get those questions in, and be sure to watch Johnny on October 22! Premiering October 29!! Johnny stars in To Russia With Love, a new documentary about LGBT athletes, portions of which were filmed in secret during his time in Sochi as an NBC figure skating commentator. He also is an executive producer for the film, a project of Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions. More info here and on the EPIX website. The official trailer! Video link. Get ready: Johnny’s episode of DREAM SCHOOL: NYC airs Wednesday, October 22, 10 pm EDT / 9 pm CDT! Johnny stars with other celebrity teachers in partnership with NYC’s Beekman School to help turn around the lives of 15 teens who dropped out of conventional high school. New sneak peek at Johnny’s episode! Video link. Read more about his episode here! NEW Snow King Teaser! The first tour dates have been announced, ticket sales have commenced, and now we have another glimpse of Evgeni Plushenko’s amazing “enchanting fairy tale on ice for the whole family.” The show is based on an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story, The Snow Queen, with Johnny playing the role of Kai. Video link. Behind-the-scenes sneak peek here. Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. So I have propped myself up on my fainting couch, where I’ve been convalescing for days, stricken by some kind of viral scourge that has left me coughing like an escapee from an Edwardian TB sanatorium, just long enough to wanly fling some picspam out here before collapsing again under another paroxysm of hacking, because these are just too wonderful to wait until I am more fully recovered. Plus I am really terrible at being sick—pretty much as bad as I am at sleeping—and I get bored with the whole thing after about the first 24 hours, so thank Weirsus here are these amazing photos that will probably do more to cure me than any amount of rest anyway. BRB shoving the fainting couch back in the attic... But first: ICYMI, which IDK how that could even be possible since I keep embedding it everywhere and have probably personally emailed it to everyone I’ve ever met as well, but yay here you are, and even if you didn’t miss it, it’s worth rewatching a time or two or twelve: the official trailer for To Russia With Love was released on Tuesday! And it is beautifully done: Please share everywhere. This film is so important and not to be missed. Video link. And yes, of course we have a transcript and a few screencaps: Announcer: Russia’s new law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors has created an international backlash. Title overlay: To ignorance...with compassion Mark Tewksbury: It’s taken a long time, but I do feel like Sochi is a bit of a tipping point. Title overlay: To brutality...with strength Johnny: It matters to you that your Olympics is going to be in a country that thinks of you not as a real part of society. Belle Breckhoff: You can take it quite personally. We should have kissed. I think that would have been a very big, history-making sort of thing. Title overlay: To fear...with courage Vladislav Slaviskiy: They attack me every evening... Title overlay: Some athletes stand for more than gold. (Female voice): This could have been the raised fist in protest. Johnny: An Olympic flame isn’t going to change the world. You have to change the world yourself. To Russia With Love. Johnny and Vlad. Speaking with Belle Breckhoff. “An Olympic flame isn’t going to change the world... ...You have to change the world... ...yourself.” While I love everything about the trailer, to me the moment with the most visual impact is the single second right before the screencap above. It happens here, from 00:42 to 00:43... ...as Johnny, seen only in shadow, performs on the ice under the impassive gaze of a Russian officer. And just to be clear: pretty much the entire time that Johnny was being criticized mercilessly for his decision to go to Sochi, he was secretly working on this project. So that months after the Games were over, the vodka-poured-in-the-streets protests long abandoned, and his critics off on other tangents, his efforts could help ensure that the spotlight would once again be focused on this human-rights issue enveloping a country he loves with all his heart. Because the world might forget. But he would not. Johnny Returns to Russia! 10-09-2014. At Sheremetyevo, where fans who have not seen him for two years await his arrival... OK, first you have to watch the video, even if you already watched it earlier today, because this: @misfitmimes @JohnnyGWeir That was very, very sweet. How to say this...so much love & mutual respect in one place. Just so lovely to see! ♡ — Berry Glitterfairy (@kiichigo82) October 9, 2014 So here you go: Video link. And now, the picspam! The photos in this first series are all exclusives from my dear friend Elena Vasileva, who not only took a zillion pics for Johnny’s fans around the world to enjoy, but also brought him a basket of her own beautiful homemade pirozhki. She explains: “In Russia, we have an old tradition—we meet the most dear guest with bread-and-salt. But there is something even better: pirozhki!” Accompanied, of course, with flowers. And Starbucks. ♥ A beautiful bouquet ready and waiting for Johnny... ...and he loves it! Chatting with fans... (Elena says here he is describing what a hard worker Evgeni Plushenko is on the ice.) ...and also being a good listener, as always. (Yay Starbucks!) With gorgeous sunflowers from Tatiana Edrenkina! Getting things packed up to go, as his driver has been waiting patiently... With all his gifts, including the basket of pirozhki... ....and a really big smile. On his way! This series is from Anastasiya Bochkareva’s fabulous gallery and her Facebook album, which she titled, “Sweet memories.” Beautiful, smiling, and presumably coherent (in Russian) after spending all night on an airplane. I love this. And this. Apparently a moment of serious business. Group pics! Via Anastasiya’s Facebook. Left to right: Liza Simakina, Elena Vasileva, Vera Chayko, Irina Volkova, Johnny, Tatiana Edrenkina, and Nadia Vasilyeva. And this time Elena takes the pic so Anastasiya can be in it (far left)! Via Facebook. And now he’s really on his way. UPDATE!! New exclusive photos series from Tatiana Edrenkina! Gifts of love await Johnny, among them beautiful sunflowers from Tatiana... ...and delicious pirozhki from Elena! He’s here!! Please do click for larger view so you can see the look on his face. ♥ A special gift from Liza Simakina. Tatiana explains: “She gave him her collection of figure skating stamps from all over the world, including the countries of which existence we didn’t even know. That was a wow! moment.” Johnny takes his time to savor this amazing gift. And then one more photo before he’s off to his waiting car. Bonus pics!! Via a very appreciative Johnny: “Moscow Baby! Thank you to my beautiful ladies who greeted me at Sheremetyevo!” Via Johnny: “Flowers and coffee, the way to my heart!” Bonus video!! An Evening With Champions has released the entire Saturday night show on YouTube, which is wonderful. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 here, featuring Johnny’s “Human” performance beginning at about 58:47. Or even better: you can just watch Johnny’s “Human” here, thanks once again to video ninja Elena Vasileva! Video link. To Russia With Love Bonus photo art. (Please click for full-size images.) And one more: absolutely stunning fan art by @MethaPhiZika on Twitter. Please click for full-size image! Very special thanks to Elena Vasileva for the exclusive photos! ICYMI: “Dragon.” The first series of exclusive photos from An Evening With Champions, featuring Johnny’s debut of the spectacular dragon costume given to him by his Chinese fans. “Bold Beauty: Bollywood Revisited.” A stunning new look at Johnny’s Nagada Sang Dhol program in a series of 35+ exclusive photos, plus exclusive video. “To Stand in a Ray of Sunlight.” Gorgeous sun-drenched photos of Johnny at rehearsal in Sun Valley, plus exclusive video of his practice. “Human.” The US debut of Johnny’s stunning and hauntingly beautiful new program. Selected exclusive photos, plus exclusive HD video. “Be Gorgeous Without Your Pants.” 50+ Artistry on Ice pics plus all-new videos, including Beijing and Guangzhou press conferences! “Magic Becomes Art...” 60+ spectacular pics from Shanghai, including the most beautiful “Concubine” series yet. Stunning fan art by @glace_icywaterdri on Weibo. “Concubine.” Beautiful mega-picspam from the Guangzhou livestream. Photo art detail from an exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published on Thursdays in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Watch bonus clips online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2014 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please do click twice for full-size view. Gorgeous. When we allow ourselves to exist truly and fully, we sting the world with our vision and challenge it with our own ways of being. — Thomas Moore So Johnny’s on his way to Taipei to perform in the incredible Artistry on Ice tour, on a flight that began just after midnight Monday night and will end about 13 hours later early Wednesday morning in Taiwan, which sounds like it should be more like 28 hours later, since Wednesday is typically a whole day or so after Monday, except that it isn’t when you’re flying to Asia, although I’m guessing it may sort of feel like a 13-hour week, which makes travel math sound like skating math, which brings us to the news from more than 13 hours prior to his takeoff, which is that the ISU released the Grand Prix list (full announcement here) for the upcoming season and Johnny wasn’t on it. Which caused a great disturbance in the Cabal best summed up in the complicated way of the Internet as: :( However, all is not lost! :) Though it’s fairly complicated since this is, of course, skating. :/ So here’s the thing, based on sources available to me at this moment / no warranties implied or expressed / your mileage may vary: (1) Johnny’s absence from the list is not an overt diss from the ISU nor US Figure Skating as far as I know, and as much as it would please me to blame them. Instead, I’m left with blaming them for the fact that it’s June but here in Chicago it’s March, because the temperature is 42 degrees as I write this and that’s a number I don’t like so therefore it must somehow be their fault because I don’t like a lot of their numbers. And it’s numbers that led to his non-appearance on the list, from what I understand via people far more learned than I in the obscure patois of Sanskrit, hieroglyphs, and advanced theoretical math (theoretical as in it bears little resemblance to the actual reality that it supposedly quantifies Denis Ten) that is figure skating these days, the pertinent number in question being this: Because his last season was cut short and he did not complete a full GP event—meaning skate both a short and long program (since he had to withdraw from Rostelecom after the short, and Finlandia is not a GP event)—he did not accumulate the international competition points necessary to be placed on this year’s GP list. (2) Despite that, he remains in USFSA’s ISP (International Selection Pool, not Internet Service Provider, though I’d love to imagine the content Johnny might offer in that capacity...), meaning that he is still among the “athletes being considered for an international competition.” (3) So he could, as I understand it, fill a TBA slot on the GP list. Many seem to think that the open spot at Skate America MIGHT be a possibility. (4) And there is still a path to Sochi for him even without the GP. This is apparently a two-pronged effort, involving (a) accumulating enough international competition points through non-GP senior B events such as Finlandia, Nebelhorn Trophy, Golden Spin of Zagreb (I am not making this up but I feel like I am), etc., to be eligible, and (b) working his way to US Nationals through sectional and regional competitions and placing well at Nats in order to be chosen for one of the two US Oly team men’s spots. For more on the topic, please see this discussion on Johnny’s Facebook fan page and try to follow along without getting a migraine. So! For all who still long to see Johnny compete for one more glorious season, ending with his appearance in Sochi, it is likely too early for black armbands and drunken choruses of “Dirty Love.” At the same time, there also are many other factors involved in this intense and complicated journey, and many decisions that lie ahead. Ultimately only Johnny can make the choices that are best for him, while his fans around the world offer their love and support all along the way. In the meantime, he’s got a summer full of exhibition skating for all of us to enjoy, which thus far includes four performances with Artistry on Ice in China, three with Fantasy on Ice in Japan (yay for Victor accompanying him and celebrating their birthdays with Japanese fans in July!), and Sun Valley on July 13 and August 31. If you have a chance to attend any of these, DO IT. Seeing Johnny perform live is a breathtaking and unforgettable experience that is truly not to be missed. And here to remind us of that are videos from his performances over the weekend in Oakland: His “Black Swan.” So beautiful. Video link. Born This Way. Absolutely love it. Video link. Can’t get enough of this... ...so thank goodness for @ayukovon! Artwork tweeted yesterday: “@JohnnyGWeir Have a safe trip! And break a leg in ASIA!” Bonus video: More Vine vids from Johnny!! First he tweeted this one yesterday: “Oakland. And the beat goes on...” Video link. And then this one: “San Francisco to Taipei. ✈” Video link. Bonus pic!! Happy Pride Month! Johnny as the LA Pride Parade Grand Marshal, June 2011. Relive the glory (and the hair) here! And one more. Always dazzling, always inspiring, always reflecting light and love wherever the journey takes him. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. First sign of summer: Sun Valley tickets are on sale! Johnny is scheduled to perform again this year in Sun Valley’s gorgeous outdoor summer ice shows. More info and tickets here! Photo of Johnny in Sun Valley, summer 2012, courtesy of Mackenzie Keller. Johnny’s in China the next two weeks!! For show and ticket info, please visit the official Artistry on Ice website, Facebook page, or Weibo page. And get ready for the Weibocalypse... Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Special offer for Johnny’s fans from TWELV Magazine: Get his fabulous limited-edition cover issue of TWELV— no longer available on newsstands—for 50% off! If you’d like to grab one, please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. Do it now—there are only a few left! The Team Weir-Voronov fan store now has updated calendars, in case you missed out on buying yours in January! The new 12-month version runs from July 2013 to June 2014, while the 18-month version takes you from July 2013 all the way to December 2014. “The Future of Everything“: Johnny is an amazing choice for both a Nike sponsorship and nomination to the newly founded National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. Here’s why, and what fans can do to help. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny at his photo shoot for Refinery29 on Wednesday. Photo posted by @geordypearson (please go there now and read all the comments): “Shot legendary figure skater @johnnygweir for @refinery29 today. Dude is epic.” Lovelovelove this whole look. So lately I’ve been judiciously not blogging on Thursdays because it’s pretty much become Johnnyday, in which we eagerly devour his latest Falls Church News-Press column (UPDATE: today's column is fascinating!) and also squee over his recent fondness for posting multiple Throwback Thursday pics, but yesterday dude was epic at his Refinery29 shoot, and so clearly these pics had to be posted immediately whilst we await dude’s actualfax photos on Refinery29’s site. But first, there was additional awesomeness yesterday as Johnny announced that he’s now among the celebrity clients of Premiere Speakers Bureau, whose remarkable and wide-ranging roster includes Anderson Cooper (love him); Tony Mendez, the author of Argo, who was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the Oscar-winning film; outstanding documentarian Ken Burns; executive chef Marcus Samuelsson, whom we recently saw on Johnny’s episode of Chopped All-Stars; Virgin CEO/maverick Richard Branson; and quite a few Olympians, including Rowdy Gaines, Nastia Liukin, and Jackie Joyner-Kersee (and, yes, Scott Hamilton, but he’s not my fav so he gets no link. Also a surprising number of ultra-conservative speakers—Mike Huckabee, Michelle Duggar, a bunch of Fox News people I don’t like—who really ought to be in a group photo with Johnny exactly as seen above because that would be the most fabulousness they’ll ever have the privilege of encountering in their lives. Although actually that would be true even if he was wearing sweats and a baseball cap). Johnny’s bio page includes video of his wonderful HRC Visibility Award acceptance speech, and also notes that his speaking topics include motivation and empowerment, self-empowerment, facing fears, sports and pressure, and my personal favorite: “Family Values.” YES. PERFECT. LOVE IT. Eat that, Smuckers. So I’m thrilled to see him add this to his résumé (note that his Twitter bio was recently updated to include “Public Speaker”), and I can’t wait to buy tickets to see him speak anywhere, anytime, on any subject. But especially on family values. This will inspire so many! RT @johnnygweir: Very excited to be working with @premierespeaker and the ability to bring my voice to the world! — princessomega (@princessomega) May 8, 2013 @johnnygweir @premierespeaker The world needs to hear your voice & learn from your inspiring journey & wisdom. I could listen to u all day!💗 — Koula_jwaussiekitten (@jweaussiekitten) May 8, 2013 @johnnygweir You speak like you skate, from the heart, with rich vision, seemingly effortless. Glad more can listen to you @premierespeaker — Novia(@noviarium) May 8, 2013 Me too. OK! On to some brief picspam! First glimpse, tweeted by lovely kind Victor, who always seems to understand our utter desperation for sneak peeks. Photo tweeted by @BBRILL. Photo posted by @lauramillerphoto: “my @johnnygweir dreams have come true. @refinery29” Photo tweeted by Johnny—a closer view of Victor’s shot: “A look from today’s shoot with @refinery29. I love any short/dress combo.” Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Representing @kerinsworld at my @refinery29 shoot! #swag @ shootdigital” Photo posted by @Refinery29: “Well if it isn’t @johnnygweir! On set with R29 today being fab in his @kerinsworld sunnies” Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Getting a little candy corn at @kerinsworld A.Morir Studio!! Yay! @ Glamsterdam Palace” And one more. Photo posted by @pieraluisa: “Johnny Weir is fun incarnate. #selfie @johnnygweir” Yes!! A tiny scrap of video from the shoot! First posted by @lindsaysue via Vine, then uploaded to YouTube by @elle_velle (thank you!). Video link. Fun in the Fan Store! The Team Weir-Voronov fan store now has updated calendars, in case you missed out on buying yours in January! The new 12-month version runs from July 2013 to June 2014, while the 18-month version takes you from July 2013 all the way to December 2014. And keychains are a hit: Photo tweeted by @princessomega: “My new keychain arrived from @TeamWeirVoronov I love it so much.” Photo tweeted by @dauphinedw: “outta the loop lately but still outta control of spending where @johnnygweir is concerned! #teamweirvoronov @zazzle” Pro tip: If you order from the fan store through Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, Zazzle tacks on a bonus percentage that means a larger donation to the fund with each purchase. Please visit often—new products coming soon! Bonus pics!! For Throwback Thursday: Johnny at Asher Levine’s presentation, NYFW Fall 2011. Photo by Alexander Thompson, from his gorgeous gallery. For more of those eyebrows, check out this adorable video of Asher and Johnny. Photo tweeted last weekend by @Lance161996: “Just met @JohnnyGWeir. I started crying. OMG I love him!” I believe they’re at Stephanie Handler’s studio of wonder. Photo tweeted Tuesday by Victor: “We come home from work and this is the disparity in style. Too tired to further comment.” I love this so much. Yes!! GO DELAWARE! Photo via the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. I am so proud of Delaware and for having been a Delaware resident for so long. Congratulations to all my brothers and sisters in DE! — Johnny Weir-Voronov (@JohnnyGWeir) May 7, 2013 Delaware got it right...can’t stop progress. Not in this country. One State at a time. — Victor Weir-Voronov (@Vweirvoronov) May 8, 2013 Way to go Delaware!!! — Patti Weir (@pattimooreweir) May 7, 2013 Special offer for Johnny’s fans from TWELV Magazine: Get his fabulous limited-edition cover issue of TWELV— no longer available on newsstands—for 50% off! If you’d like to grab one, please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. Do it now—there are only a few left! Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press, in which he discusses a fascinating theory he's developed! His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Congratulations to Johnny, winner of the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s HERO Award!! Johnny will be honored at the DVLF’s annual Heroes event on Sunday, May 19, in Philadelphia. Reminder: During the event, they’ll be raffling off dinner with Johnny and Victor (!) plus an overnight stay for two in NYC. Tickets on sale now! For more info, please visit the DVLF website. “The Future of Everything“: Johnny is an amazing choice for both a Nike sponsorship and nomination to the newly founded National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. Here’s why, and what fans can do to help. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Ice Dreams returns! (Though apparently not to Chicago, sadly.) More info here! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny, sparkling light reflected on his face. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. This was clearly a milestone week in LGBT sports. On Monday, the NBA’s Jason Collins became the first active male athlete in a major US team sport to come out. On the heels of his courageous announcement came the news that he had already been signed to an endorsement deal by Nike, who had recently made it known that they were actively seeking such an athlete, and who had signed newly out WNBA star Brittney Griner just days earlier. Also this week, the National Gay and Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame, founded this spring here in Chicago, announced the launch of its website and Facebook page, and the opening of nominations for the first round of inductees. The nominating form is available here; completed forms can be emailed to [email protected]. According to the press release, chosen honorees will be inducted at a ceremony on August 2 in Chicago as part of the annual “Out at Wrigley Field” festivities. (You know what to do: please download that sucker now and email it ASAP! Here are a bunch of details to help you fill it out.) I hope, of course, that both Nike—which might be interested in making room on its roster for an out gay male figure skater, alongside its partnership with the lovely Ashley Wagner—and the Hall of Fame will truly consider Johnny. As we all know, he is an outstanding career athlete: a three-time US national champion, a two-time Olympian now aiming for his third trip to the Winter Games, a World medalist, and the only skater other than Michelle Kwan to win his sport’s Readers’ Choice Award more than once. Along the way to multiple gold medals, he has been knocked down more than once and had to fight his way back, often battling his own sport for the right to compete and live on his own terms. He officially came out in his autobiography, Welcome to My World, more than two years ago, and remains the only actively competing elite skater to have done so since 1996. Though, as he notes in his powerful must-read column this week for FCNP, “Out,” he was never really in the closet, since those in his closest circle have always simply accepted him for who he is. Johnny has garnered numerous LGBT awards in the past several years, both for his activism and for simply living his life out and proud, offering hope and inspiration to people of all ages. In addition—and in contrast to his reputation for being loudly “flamboyant”—he has quietly been reaching out to those who struggle with self-acceptance since before he was officially out. One of the most poignant articles I’ve ever read is this 2010 piece in Slate, by the parent of a child attending a private camp for other young boys like himself—“a trip to a planet where we’re normal,” as the parent gratefully observes: The face of a young man in a baseball cap fills the screen at the center of a circle of 30 or so children. “It’s Johnny!” they yell, meaning Johnny Weir, the “flamboyant,” figure-skating Olympian. The kids are part of an annual gathering of gender-variant and transgender kids—kids born boys who look and act like girls. Outside of this camp weekend, it’s rare for them to hear “how great I think you all are … being true to yourselves,” as Weir tells them. He says he loves the electric-blue spandex suit with the lime-green lightning bolt designed by one boy. He tells a 6-year-old that, no, he doesn’t have a girlfriend, but one day he would like to have a family of his own. And, yes, “Bad Romance” was his favorite song to skate to. “I’ve fallen,” he tells them, referring to the ice, not sin. “I’ve screwed up. The thing is, just sparkle so much that nobody notices. Yeah, that’s it. Sparkle! We’ve got to sparkle!” Welcome to the guarded world of families with gender-variant kids, where a word like sparkle can move you to tears. Earlier that year, of course, there was his unforgettable press conference at the Vancouver Olympics, in which he addressed the homophobic remarks of Canadian broadcasters who had sniggered during the men’s competition that Johnny should undergo gender testing to confirm that he was a man. His response, full of honesty, courage, and humor, is a testament to grace under pressure on one of the sporting world’s biggest stages. Though he was admittedly “pissed” at the comments, his main concern in confronting the broadcasters was this: I don’t want, 50 years from now, more young boys and girls to have to go through this sort of thing and to have their whole life basically questioned for no reason other than to make a joke. ... I hope more kids can grow up the same way that I did, and more kids can feel the freedom that I feel to be themselves and to express themselves. That’s the most important thing, and that’s the message that I wanted to come out of this, because out of ugly, I think the most important thing in life is to make something beautiful. Nearly a year later, and a few weeks after his book was published, Johnny received his 2010 Readers’ Choice Award, standing in front of the skating world at the 2011 US Nationals for the first time as a publicly out skater. In his acceptance speech, he again offered encouragement to those whom others seek to disenfranchise, both inside and outside his sport: Always believe in yourself, and never be afraid to fall down. … I’m so proud of everything that I’ve accomplished; I’m so proud of everything that I’ve won, and that I’ve lost. And I can stand here and be happy and be excited about it, because I did everything on my own terms. I want the skaters of the future never to feel pressured or marginalized, or told what to do, or who to be, or what to skate to, or what NOT to wear. I want everyone to believe in themselves, love themselves, and stand here in ten years and be proud of where they’ve gotten. Johnny is still the only sports role model out there for “pink boys,” the only one proudly embodying the message that you can grow up to be a real man who loves pretty things, competes in the Olympics, and marries the dude of your dreams. As the only American male athlete in any sport to marry his boyfriend while actively competing, Johnny and Victor—whose own story is equally compelling and really, really needs to be told in a book that I would buy instantaneously—are essentially the (handsome and endearing) poster couple for marriage equality in the US sports world, and beloved by fans even in places where homosexuality is met with disapproval and prejudice, like China and Russia. In the wake of Collins’ announcement on Monday came a tsunami of Internet reaction, including dozens of photo galleries acknowledging LGBT athletes who had gone before—all of which included Johnny, of course. One of my favorites, “10 Awesome LGBT Athletes,” gave dry facts and figures about nine athletes before swooning into fangurl mode over Johnny. In the midst of the (totally appreciated) gushing was this beautiful sentence: I like to think that people like Johnny Weir are the future of everything. I do too. Pointing the way to the future, as beautifully as possible, always... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for gorgeous full-size image. A Special Offer for Johnny Fans from TWELV Magazine, Exclusive to the Blog! Kayso remember this incredible photo shoot for TWELV Magazine, a high fashion and lifestyle magazine that donates 12% of its proceeds to charity? Yesterday I received an email from the awesome Ashley, who works for TWELV and wanted to let me know that they are currently offering the issue with the special Johnny Weir collector’s edition cover—originally priced at $50—to Johnny’s fans for just $25 for a limited time only. Ashley explained that the cover is only available through the magazine directly, as it’s no longer on newsstands and there are just a few copies left. So if you’d like to grab one, you need to do it fast! Please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. May I just say that I own one of these, and it is worth every penny. And not just for the photos, although you could definitely make a case for that. Here’s the intro to his article and photo spread: Like the asteroid named after him, Johnny Weir shoots into Sochi and the pages of TWELV. While figure skaters in America don’t usually carry the kind of name recognition of, say, Eli Manning or Venus Williams, one skater has captured millions of fans, vaulting him into the ranks of the elite. Yes, of course, go right ahead and email them now. I’ll just be here re-reading my copy.... Beyond Brunch: Dinner With Johnny and Victor. No, Really. Reminder: Get your tickets now for the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s HEROES event, at which Johnny is being honored with the National Hero Award! Also: during the event, they’ll be raffling off dinner with Johnny and Victor plus an overnight stay for two in NYC, according to the poster above. Wait what...? OMG YES HERE BUY THE TICKETS HERE. Bonus pics!! Photo tweeted by Kelly Green: “What’s a designer without a @johnnygweir #moodboard #lovehim @ Food Network” Dear Kelly: Yes, we love him too WHAT ARE THESE PHOTOS AND HOW DO WE GET THEM. Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Brotherly stare down with @BozJWeir circa 2006 in Delaware. #throwbackthursday” Love this. Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Thanks for dinner @RitasItalianIce! Shades of spring... @ Rita’s Italian Ice” UPDATE: Plus one more today from Johnny: “New costume crotch shot. If you ain’t got a sparkly crotch, you ain’t got nothin’. @ Stephanie Handler Design Studio.” Perfect ending to the week. :D Bonus video!! Last night Johnny tweeted the link to his performance at 2004 NHK Trophy, and asked everyone to enjoy. Please do. Absolutely gorgeous. Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press: Powerful and moving. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Congratulations to Johnny, winner of the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund’s HERO Award!! Johnny will be honored at the DVLF’s annual Heroes event on Sunday, May 19, in Philadelphia. Tickets on sale now! For more info, please visit the DVLF website. ICYMI: Johnny Weir random rehearsal clips. Video link. Alternate link. “Fire & Ice.” 15+ exclusive new photos © David Ingogly. “Army of Johnny.” 25+ exclusive new photos © David Ingogly. NEW in the fan store: Gorgeous hi-res fan art donated by the artist exclusively to Team Weir-Voronov! Johnny as the “Swan Prince,” © @MDCXVIII on Twitter. Available as a poster or as a premium wrapped-canvas print. Japanese fans: Please use this link. And Johnny as the “Phoenix,” © @MDCXVIII on Twitter. Available as a poster or as a premium wrapped-canvas print. Japanese fans: Please use this link. Order yours today! All proceeds donated to Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund, administered by the lovely Patti Weir. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Ice Dreams returns! (Though apparently not to Chicago, sadly.) More info here! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! (Note: With his “58.132” rating, he is currently in 1st place in both Figure Skating AND across all sports!) Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Weir, who isn't afraid of being an underdog, has his eye on Sochi despite projects, layoff.

Johnny during his appearance on Hollywood Game Night, for which he garnered lots of praise on social media for his performance, his outfit— particularly his shorts—and his legs. Photo via NBC. Hollywood Game Night full episode video below! Plus a zillion screencaps! WEEKEND UPDATE! Via Johnny: “Another inspired MANicure by @Momma_Kakes of @teampolished! #jade” Yes!! Summer touring continues! Johnny just finished his Fantasy on Ice tour performances, so get ready: the Weibocalypse of Artistry on Ice begins next week! Please see Johnny’s official website for all his performance dates this summer! UPDATE: Johnny’s ONLY US performance this summer will be in Sun Valley, ID, August 16. Tickets on sale now. Don’t miss this chance to see him skate live!! Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Kayso Hollywood Game Night was the kind of awesome that reminds me all over again why I loved Be Good Johnny Weir so much, and why the world needs a lot more Johnny on TV. (Or in the movies. Or on a 24-hour webcam that follows him everywhere. Whatever. I’m not picky.) But you don’t have to take my word for it. Here’s just a brief sample of what everybody else said. I love all these comments. Johnny Weir on #HollywoodGameNight I have joy! — Nolebucgrl (@Nolebucgrl) July 18, 2014 Watching Hollywood Game Night and man, Johnny Weir has some nice legs. — Jennifer Hill (@jandshill) July 18, 2014 Oh Johnny Weir, I love you and your shorts. — Sabs (@ThatGirlSabs) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir slayyyss — Sierra Setley (@SiSetley) July 18, 2014 Hollywood Game Night literally just started and @JohnnyGWeir looks flawless! — alesandra (@alesandrak) July 18, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir has the greatest shoes ever on @NBCGameNight right now! — Haley Hamilton (@haley_hamilton) July 18, 2014 Obsessed w/ @JohnnyGWeir‘s shoes on #HollywoodGameNight! Damn that man is fabulous — Elisa Suarez (@Luscious_Lis) July 18, 2014 This might be my favorite @NBCGameNight episode EVER thanks to @LeahRemini @NickSwardson and @JohnnyGWeir — FSUlanie (@LanieK) July 18, 2014 I can’t get over how great @JohnnyGWeir‘s legs look on #HollywoodGameNight! 👯 — Adrian Capri (@AdrianCapril) July 18, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir on Hollywood Game Night is EVERYTHING 🙌 #sopretty #canihaveyourlegs — Jennifer Blake (@jennifernblake) July 18, 2014 Love Johnny Weir’s outfit. Plus he has fabulous legs. #HollywoodGameNight — Twans Rucker (@misstwans) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir on Hollywood Game Night is my everything. — Dubsy (@theycallmedubs) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir is adorable. — Sara Cox (@Sectumsara) July 18, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir on #HollywoodGameNight ! FANTASTIC! — Kristin Johnson (@kristinj77) July 18, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir those shoes are fabulous!! Who are they? I neeeed!!! — Christine herf (@Herfette) July 18, 2014 Just realized Johnny Weir is basically Glitter Loki. — Jenna Giles (@jennagiles) July 18, 2014 I’m loving Johnny Weir’s hot pants on Hollywood Game Night! #fierce #sofunny — Michael Zablocki (@ziplock1128) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir on Hollywood Game Night 👌 😍 flawless. Love him — Daisyy Caterina (@DaisyyCaterina) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir seems like a cool dude — ¿Nile? (@NILEstyle_) July 18, 2014 Watching #HollywoodGameNight @JohnnyGWeir has amazing legs!! Looooove him!! — Lisa Brewer Kuty (@Lkutz6977) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir has been so composed and classy this entire show. #HollywoodGameNight — Malcolm C (@muziqnerd) July 18, 2014 @NBCGameNight what a great show! We need more @JohnnyGWeir! — Stacey Tarpley (@StaceyTarpley1) July 18, 2014 After watching @NBCGameNight I have 3 things to say 1. I love your shorts @JohnnyGWeir 2. Where can I get some? 3. Please say they’re cheap! — Abby Jones ‘15 (@ohheyabbyjay) July 18, 2014 Johnny Weir in hot pants > anyone else in hot pants ever. #HollywoodGameNight — doshtate (@doshtate) July 18, 2014 I love Johnny Weir — Ceellennaaa (@xxcelena) July 18, 2014 Best Dressed goes to @JohnnyGWeir on Hollywood Game Night! — Laura Ray (@1sassyflygirl) July 18, 2014 This is my most favorite. IDK if this person was even watching the show or not. Nor does it matter. live every day like you’re johnny weir — glennieglennie (@glennieglennie) July 18, 2014 NBC Photo Gallery More pics here! Team Evan! (Seriously? Yep.) Johnny, Wynonna Judd, Krysten Ritter, and contestant Evan. On the show, Evan is playing to win $25,000, and each celeb is playing to win $25,000 for the charity of their choice. Watching Team Amy struggle to spell out a movie title with their blocks. Team Evan not having much luck either... Playing Clue-Boom! Selfie with Evan. A Ridiculous Amount of Screencaps! Because how often do we get a whole hour of Johnny on TV! Let’s make the most of it, shall we? Dancing during the opening credits. Nope, he never spilled his drink. Applause for host Jane Lynch. Jane introduces Johnny first among the celebrities: “US national champion figure skater and Olympic broadcaster... ...the graceful Master of the Ice... ...Johnny Weir!” Team Evan getting ready to spell out their first title. Social media loved how Johnny struck a pose with his block each time. Hurrying to get in the right order! Preparing for Clue-Boom! Johnny is helpless with laughter that teammate Krysten Ritter shouted that the annual baseball championship is called the Super Bowl. Johnny’s turn to face the Clue-Boom bowl, which explodes randomly during each round. And no one looks better facing it down than he does. Giving clues to his team. Shoving the bowl toward opponent Nick Swardson and hoping it explodes on him! But the bowl explodes on Johnny! Who has the least over-the-top reaction of anyone. “You’ve been Clue-Boomed!” Jane says... ...to a distraught Johnny. (No, no, he’s acting!) See? He’s fine! Let’s just take a moment to totally forget what they’re doing and appreciate how lovely he looks... ...while Johnny has a shoe moment with Wynonna. Playing “Back to Back,” in which celebs are handcuffed while acting out clues for their teammates. During this round, every answer begins with “h.” Johnny uses his body to illustrate “hunchback”.... ...and “hopscotch.” Evan guesses both first before Amy, so Team Evan gets the points! He looks amazing... ...and he’s having so much fun! He’s yelling the song title “Since U Been Gone” to Team Amy, who ran out of time to guess correctly. Sadly, Team Amy beats Team Evan to compete in the bonus round. Amy chooses Scott Foley to be her partner for the bonus round, and Johnny joins the rest of Team Amy on the floor by their sofa. Watching the final round with his spirit animal Leah Remini. Video!! The full episode! Video link. Thank you @JohnnyGWeir for supporting us on @nbcgamenight last night. You’re the best. #kids #health #obesity # — ‘nPLAY (@nPLAYFOUNDATION) July 18, 2014 Johnny’s charity choice for the show. More info about ’nPLAY on Johnny’s website. Best part of last night’s @NBCGameNight was when @JohnnyGWeir posed during Block Buster P.S. I need those shoes! 💖 💖 — Daria Bilowus (@DariaBilowus) July 18, 2014 Bonus pics!! Via Johnny: “Friday Night Follies with @littlebakes. @ Wilmington Peregrine Falcon Watch” Via Johnny: “Child of the corn! @ Quarryville Elementary School” Via Johnny: “Country chic. @ Herr’s.” Via @e__joseph: “Met the extremely talented Johnny Weir” Fantasy on Ice Flashbacks! Via Maria Sergejeva: “Fun travel day, with the beauty :)” The Fantasy on Ice cast! Via Johnny’s official Facebook page. Please click for glorious full-size image! Cast closeup. Via Maria Sergejeva. Very special thanks to Jenn Kittler for the video and her invaluable help with screencaps!! ICYMI: Johnny with the birthday gift from fans that we managed to keep a surprise for weeks: a vintage Trifari brooch! Via his Instagram: “Thank you to my beautiful, incredible and wonderful fans for your birthday gifts! This Trifari dragon is magnificent!” Thank YOU for this fabulous pic! Happy birthday all month long, Johnny! Read all about our birthday fan project and see exclusive pics in this post: “Here Be Dragons”! Johnny stars in To Russia With Love, a new documentary about LGBT athletes, portions of which were filmed in secret during his time in Sochi as an NBC figure skating commentator. He also is an executive producer for the film, a project of Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions, which will premiere October 22. More info here and on the EPIX website. Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Favorite Fairytale” Beautiful Johnny being happy on the ice. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Cure for the Uncommon Cold” Gorgeous sun-drenched Johnny picspam, for those of us who prefer our winter a little less... wintry. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Random Tuesday Roundup, Or: Is It Summer Yet?” More Sun Valley since because Chiberia. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Because It’s Glorious.” A look back at Johnny’s first national title and his thoughts on Nationals, accompanied by 20+ exquisite black-and-white portraits. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. Please click twice for larger image. “Frost Giant.” 25+ exclusive pics of Johnny performing Army of Me. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “All of Him Is My Treasure.” Fans react to Johnny’s graceful exit from competitive skating. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Practice Is Perfect” 25+ exclusive photos of Johnny’s Sun Valley rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Dear Johnny...” Selected black-and-white photos of Johnny’s hauntingly beautiful Schindler’s List debut. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue a nytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2014 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny at rehearsal in Beijing. Photo posted to Weibo by Joveta Leo with a lovely and moving note. Please scroll to the end of today’s post to read her thoughts. UPDATE: New video!! News report on the Guangzhou show, featuring Johnny footage and interview from about 01:26 to 02:01. Video link here or here. As Weibogeddon rolls on, there’s such an enormous amount and range of coverage, from lolworthy press conference freezeframes to quietly exquisite rehearsal moments, that it’s difficult to shape it all together without ending up with just a mishmash of stuff. So today we have three distinct sections: Some gritty rehearsal images from Shanghai that offer a glimpse of the hard work behind the sparkle and glamor; more rehearsal and performance photos from Beijing, including gorgeous new exclusives from Chinese Angel/Johnny’s Panda Maria Ma; and a brief bonus section of the latest random overnight stuff that is, well, yes: a mishmash. But a really wonderful one. As always, please click any photo twice for full-size view. Especially the first and the last one. Programming note. Coming up next, by popular demand: a transcript of the already legendary Johnny and Stéphane portion of the Shanghai press conference. Watch it here while you wait! Shanghai. Rehearsal. Johnny and Stéphane. Beijing. Press conference. Johnny’s winged leather vest is a design by Jeremy Scott for Adidas. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Another gift of flowers from fans. ♥ With his flowers, listening to the amazing Edvin Marton perform. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Beijing. Rehearsal. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Exclusive photo © Maria Ma. Random Stuff. Flower gifs! Johnny in Beijing, retrieving flowers on the ice, then carrying them later as he greets fans in the hotel after the show. From Haohewuyin on Weibo. If a gif stops working, please refresh the page, or click the gif to open it in another tab. Johnny with flowers after the show in Shanghai. Fans carry out Victor’s wishes and give Johnny a giant group hug in Shanghai. Posted by Haohewuyin on Weibo: “@Victor-Weirvoronov A big hug, we did it!” ♥ Gorgeous new fan art from @ayukovon. And one more: the companion photo to the one at the top of today’s blog. The two were posted by Joveta to Weibo with this note: “It is graceful grief and sweet sadness to think of you, @JohnnyGWeir, but in my heart, there is a kind of soft warmth that cannot be expressed with any choice of words. A beautiful day, a beautiful swan on ice.” Very special thanks to Maria Ma for the exclusive photos!! Must-see video if you haven't seen it yet! Or even if you have, worth watching again: Official Artistry on Ice promo piece about Johnny. Love. Video links: YouTube, or HD version on Youku. ICYMI: More Artistry on Ice coverage plus exclusive photos on Monday's blog: "Rose-Colored Memories of You..." Sun Valley tickets are on sale! Johnny is scheduled to perform again this year in Sun Valley’s gorgeous outdoor summer ice shows. More info and tickets here! Johnny and Victor were named to Us Weekly’s list of Gay Power Couples! Check out the photo gallery here. Screencap tweeted by Victor. The Refinery29 photo shoot featured on the blog last month is here! Please go read it now! Johnny is part of Refinery29’s “Month of Style Stars” for June, and the second photo from the interview (above) IS. A. GIF. (Refresh the page to restart the gif. So fabulous!) ICYMI: “Vision,” featuring two gorgeous new exclusive pics plus thoughts on the Grand Prix announcement from the ISU... Happy Pride Month! Johnny as the LA Pride Parade Grand Marshal, June 2011. Relive the glory (and the hair) here! Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Special offer for Johnny’s fans from TWELV Magazine: Get his fabulous limited-edition cover issue of TWELV— no longer available on newsstands—for 50% off! If you’d like to grab one, please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. Do it now—there are only a few left! The Team Weir-Voronov fan store now has updated calendars, in case you missed out on buying yours in January! The new 12-month version runs from July 2013 to June 2014, while the 18-month version takes you from July 2013 all the way to December 2014. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. 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Johnny in Sun Valley, Idaho, preparing for his debut performance of Schindler’s List while battling a monster cold, high altitude, and smoky air. I can’t even imagine how he gave such a beautiful performance that night—except that that’s just the kind of world-renowned champion he is. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for amazing full-size image. It’s like you’re standing right there. ♥ Re: recent reports in the press: I was told to ignore everything, but save the bashing and hate for someone who gives a damn, and wait for MY story, coming soon. — Johnny Weir-Voronov (@JohnnyGWeir) September 18, 2013 Here is Johnny in his own words today, in his latest column for the Falls-Church News-Press. While we still await a direct statement from him regarding his future, he addresses the issue here obliquely, through the prism of NYFW and with brutally self-aware honesty—as always. Please read. Some brief excerpts: Growing up skinny, socially awkward and with a weird craft, I always wanted to be cool. I always wanted to be popular ... I wasn’t prepared however, for the flip-side of popularity. I wasn’t prepared that everything you say will have a 50/50 response, that complete strangers hate you for no reason aside from the fact that you didn’t believe the same things they did. I wasn’t prepared. ... Every shooting star has a fleeting moment when everyone can see it, before its luminescence is burned up. I now know what it’s like to be loved and hated on an international scale. My own personal hope is that I continue to grow in a way that helps me understand the mistakes of my life and learn from them, more so than wallow in what might have been or what was. — Johnny Weir Please also see Nicholas Benton’s powerful and thought-provoking national affairs column out this week: “Gay Movement’s Major New Voice.” Nick offers some context/insight into why the self-proclaimed leaders of the US LGBT community have attacked Johnny so viciously for his anti-boycott stance on the Sochi Olympics. A fascinating and eye-opening must-read. To all who have asked me about the news reports regarding Johnny being out of consideration for the Sochi Winter Games: In order to potentially qualify for the Olympic team, Johnny had to register by September 1 to compete in events that would lead to qualifying for the national championships, from which the Oly team is named. He also would need to compete in, I believe, at least one international event to get the technical element scores required to be considered for the Oly team (arcane rules about points/scoring in competitive figure skating are not my forte, as many of you know!). Earlier this week, US Figure Skating confirmed to the Associated Press that he did NOT register for any competitive events by the September 1 deadline. This has exploded into a zillion media stories spun a zillion different ways, while Johnny himself has not responded to requests for comment. His tweet above says he’ll be making a statement soon. While I can readily accept that he might choose to bring his competitive career to a close to move on to brighter horizons, I await his statement in his own words to tell his fans what his plans are. ♥ Johnny in Sun Valley. Exquisite, even in—and sometimes especially in—rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for another gorgeous full-size image. Bonus pic! Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Los Angeles circa 2010. Care of @traverrains #throwbackthursday” Love every photo from that fabulous shoot. See more on Traver’s website here. Johnny’s previous column for the Falls Church News-Press: a thought-provoking take on the term “LGBT.” His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Also on the blog: “Sun Valley Sneak Peek: ‘A Rare Human So Breathtaking....’ ” Johnny debuts his Schindler’s List program in this stunning simple white costume. Exclusive pics and HD video. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Propaganda.” Photo essay of 40+ starkly beautiful black-and-white pics featuring Johnny at rehearsal as young skaters watch, spellbound. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Let the World Shine in Peace.” Quiet photo essay of exclusive black-and-white pics paired with Johnny’s quotes from his powerful column against boycotting Sochi. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Patti has posted a message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny at Cup of Russia practice. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. UPDATE: Johnny Announces His Withdrawal from the 2013 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. Read his full statement on his official website and on Ice Network. Dearest Johnny, we love you always and support you no matter what. Just a reminder, people, that this is happening THIS SUNDAY!!: To be followed next week by a series of giddy blogs. Current working titles via helpful Twitter friends: Binky Goes to a Gay Bar Binky Learns Where to Put Those Dollar Bills See Binky Drink. Drink, Drink, Drink. This Is Fun! Fun, Fun, Fun. Join Us for Drag Queen Bingo Every Sunday! Co-Hosted by Miss Bunny & Miss Binky! Although none of those may happen if I can't get past the prequel: Binky Ponders What to Wear to Go See Johnny at a Gay Bar, the first entry in our exciting new series: Sentences I Never Thought I'd Write in My Lifetime. Suggestions from Twitter included: (1) Jeans, heels and leather jacket (fabulous! Except for the part where I don't own any heels or leather jackets. And if I ask to borrow Alice's leather jacket, she'll just study me carefully for a moment for other telltale signs of dementia, then pretend she didn't hear me); (2) That timeless standard of elegance: sparkly overalls; (3) Seriously. Invoke the honeybadger fashion rule, throw on some glitter and go (#sparklebadgerdontgiveashit); and (4) It's a Johnny event. Wear whatever you damn well please. I'm going with #4, since "whatever I damn well please" is turning out to be the foundational treatise of my old age. This will likely translate into something similar to another helpful suggestion: jeans and a sweater. Although now I'm standing in my closet staring at stuff and suddenly I don't like a single sweater I own. Wait, doesn't Alice have some cool sweaters? BRB... While You Were Sleeping: HDOI Tickets Went on Sale! Well, OK, technically that's only true if you've been sleeping nonstop since Sunday, but anyway YES! Tickets are available via the Holiday Dreams on Ice website. And if there's any way at all you can come to the show: GO GO GO. Opportunities to see Johnny skate in the US are more rare than we'd like them to be, so please don't miss out! And to help you make that vital decision to grab those tickets, today we present the last in the series of exclusive picspam from the lovely Elena Vasileva of Johnny's first practice session at Cup of Russia (don't panic: Elena just sent me another whole exclusive series of his short program practice the following day...). In this final set, we see Johnny run through his Phoenix free skate program. And it is absolutely exquisite. And these are just photos. Imagine seeing him live. On the ice. Right in front of you. Yes, of course. Go! It's OK. These will still be here to savor for the rest of the day after you complete your ticket purchase... As always, please click any photo twice for larger view. ...one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits. —Jack Kroll Video of the practice during which Elena took these photos. Bonus pics!! Johnny is surrounded by media— as usual—after the conclusion of his practice. (We do not like to be sweaty. Especially on camera.) Very special thanks to Elena Vasileva for the exclusive photos!! Holiday Dreams On Ice 2012!! NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION! Visit the HDOI website for info and tickets! Yes!! More Johnny on our TVs! Check out the Rachael vs. Guy website for more info! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on Johnny's Grand Prix events and what lies ahead. Please go read it now! Johnny's blogging regularly about his comeback journey for ESPN!! His first entry, "A Fresh Start"—personal, honest, very Johnny—was posted last Friday and is the source of the quote on the Spirit Day photo above. Looking forward to reading more from him as the season progresses! Please alert absolutely everyone you've ever met to "like" and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Yep, I'm still promoting this silly poll, in which you can vote at least once a day. Please vote for Johnny!! Need to see Season 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you're watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement on his website! Yes, YOU can be a part of Johnny's comeback! Please visit Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund today and chip in as little as $1 via PayPal. Our small gifts can help make his dream of competing in his third Olympic Games come true! And now you can leave a message of support for Johnny, too! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as "Best Sportsman"! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! (Note: With his "58.132" rating, he is currently in 1st place in both Figure Skating AND across all sports!) Q and A! Go read it now! Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available for purchase only on eDressMe.com! At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: "Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!" IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny's website, or just click the "Buy" button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website! copyright 2012 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

Johnny at the end of his final Artistry on Ice performance of Born This Way in Beijing last night. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Please click twice for glorious full-size view to see the exquisite detailing on this costume. IMPORTANT NOTE: The livestream of last night’s entire Beijing show is available for viewing here!! Don’t miss this. It’s absolutely amazing. Do be forewarned: It may take forever to load. But it’s sooo worth the wait. Johnny’s appearances are as follows (time codes approximate): Opening group number 00:20:16 Army of Me 01:06:01 Born This Way 02:19:58 Closing group number 02:58:22 UPDATE: Please check out Johnny's new blog post for the US Olympic Team! In "The Beat Goes On...," he discusses what matters to him in choosing music for his programs: I choose music based on feeling. I choose music based on imagination. Most importantly, I choose music that fits my life and the story I want to tell. ... The moment you create is what you’re remembered for, and the music is the soundtrack of that moment. So Johnny is winging his way back home as I write this, to be joyously reunited today with his beloved puppy, and leaving behind him a monumentally successful Artistry on Ice tour that played to an audience of nearly 50,000 people in its four stops. Photos and videos are still pouring out of China and likely will be for weeks to come, thanks to the boundless generosity of Asian fans. So today we present just a sampling of the latest Weibopalooza from the tour, plus a special tribute to Johnny’s dear Asian fans at the end of the blog. But first, before we hit the picspam, please roll around in these must-see videos: Gorgeous HD video of Johnny’s Army of Me performance in Taipei, from the Amway Taiwan YouTube channel... Video link. ...and from the same uploader, equally gorgeous HD video of Born This Way in Taipei... Video link. ...and the closing group number from Taipei, to the hypnotically pleasing earworm, “You Are My Flower,” by Taiwanese rockstar Wu Bai. Video link. Another version of Army of Me from Taipei, with bonus footage of Johnny before he takes the ice. Video link. And from the same uploader, another version of Born This Way, also with bonus pre-ice footage. Video link. Rehearsal in Guangzhou, or as described by the uploader: “Artistry on Ice 2013 Guangzhou opening practice video, focus on Stéphane Lambiel and Johnny Weir.” Yes please. A complete playlist of Guangzhou-related videos is available on Tudou here. Video link. Shanghai rehearsal footage and press conference, including Johnny and Stéphane moments! Video link. More Shanghai rehearsal plus priceless new Shanghai press conference footage, starting at about 00:48, in which Johnny describes his costume and does other stuff. Video link. Yes, someone’s already gif’d one of the best moments: Please click to refresh if it won’t play for you. Vine vids from Johnny! “Guangzhou Show Day.” Video link. “Ahhhhh Shanghai-Beijing.” At the Shangai railway station, preparing to travel via high-speed train to Beijing, with bonus Stéphane. Video link. And posted late last night/early this morning, at his layover in Tokyo before heading home: “NRT.” Video link. And now, Weibo-sized picspam, in which we pick up our story where we left off, sort of, beginning with more from Guangzhou... As always, please click any photo twice for full-size image. Guangzhou. From the opening number, during his introduction by the announcer. Army of Me. Born This Way. Yes, the outfit he was sporting in rehearsal, as seen here, is indeed what he wore for the Guangzhou show’s closing number. Love it. Shanghai. Opening number. Army of Me. Born This Way. Closing number, in a different costume yet again. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Photo posted by Johnny to his Weibo: “Thank you Shanghai!” Beijing. The final press conference of the tour. Love his winged vest so much. At rehearsal. At rehearsal with giant Johnny projected behind him. Final performances of the tour: Army of Me. Born This Way. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. And that ending pose once again. This entire program and costume are one damn bold statement to make, especially in places where LGBT equality lags behind... which includes parts of the US. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Bonus Round: Pics From Everywhere. Doing media in Guangzhou. Shoes. Also shorts. (For some reason there’s no Weibo stamp on these, but I’m pretty sure that’s where I found them. As soon as I track down the source, I’ll update!) More from that never-ending source of amusement, the Shanghai press conference... ...including this fantasy moment, photoshopped from this pic. At the Beijing press conference... ...through which Stéphane apparently slept. From the tour’s closing celebration on the ice after the conclusion of the Beijing show. And one more: wide-eyed (and possibly exhausted) Johnny at the on-ice celebration. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Epilogue: “We Love Johnny Weir.” Johnny fans arriving at the show in Shanghai. The fabulous Joveta Leo, who contributed so many exclusive photos to the blog, is at the far right. Many fans traveled on to see Johnny perform in Beijing as well. Reading the goodbyes to Johnny on Weibo today is breaking my heart. Very early in the morning, after the final show in Beijing the night before, fans came to his hotel lobby, exhausted beyond words from weeks of planning for and anticipating his visit; the thrill of actually seeing him again as he arrived at various airports and train stations; the build-up to the shows with press conference after press conference—each more hilarious than the last, thanks mostly to Johnny and Stéphane; the many encounters in hotel lobbies to greet him and bring him yet more flowers and gifts; and finally, the overpoweringly dazzling excitement of watching him perform and of being part of the huge crowds roaring their appreciation as he skated over for hugs, kisses, and even more flowers—all underlined with the inescapable growing sadness that all too soon, it would be time for him to leave. Johnny holding one of the enormous banners in Taipei, which reads: “We Love Johnny Weir.” From Weibo: “Flowers for Johnny at the press conference in Shanghai. Rose, jasmine, and the one in the center is called ‘Diva.’ Fabulous!!” Fans hung banners in the stadiums for him... ...at every tour stop. Beijing (I think): A red bouquet for Johnny, a pink one for Stéphane. Among the final group of flowers for Johnny in Beijing was this stunning bouquet. Posted by Johnny to his Instagram: “Xie Xie Beijing! I love you!” So they came to the Sheraton at the crack of dawn on Monday to send him off with farewell hugs and fragile smiles. “Seeing Johnny off at Sheraton,” my friend Maria commented on her Instagram. “Sorry about the low quality of pic, so sleepy that I could die.” “Everybody is DYING,” wrote another fan dejectedly as they waited for him to finish checking out. He took time to hug each one, and spoke freely with them, they said, promising with his characteristic wry humor that nothing could prevent him from coming back next year “unless I died!” (or possibly, “...over my dead body!” #NotClearOn) Maria’s photo of Johnny as fans wait to tell him goodbye. “Do not want to sleep, do not want to wake up, because. . . wake up again, it is really over,” wrote one fan. And then he was on his way. “Last year, when he left, I cried all the way to the Beijing railway station, and then I was crying on the train,” another lovely fan posted. “When he left this year... once I saw him again [in the lobby], I calm down a lot, but I’m still so sad he’s gone!!” “It’s so hard to say goodbye,” I agreed with much sympathy. “That was exactly what I said to him last year ╯ ﹏ ╰,” she replied sadly. Some hours later, I found that she had posted this photo of Johnny from the 2010 Olys on her Weibo: ...with this beautiful caption (translated): “Rose-colored memories of you are the most magnificent of my life.” Very special thanks to Joveta Leo for the exclusive photos!! Sun Valley tickets are on sale! Johnny is scheduled to perform again this year in Sun Valley’s gorgeous outdoor summer ice shows. More info and tickets here! Fantasy on Ice is just weeks away!! please visit the AI Official website. The Refinery29 photo shoot featured on the blog last month is here! Please go read it now! Johnny is part of Refinery29’s “Month of Style Stars” for June, and the second photo from the interview (above) IS. A. GIF. (Refresh the page to restart the gif. So fabulous!) ICYMI: “Vision,” featuring two gorgeous new exclusive pics plus thoughts on the Grand Prix announcement from the ISU... Happy Pride Month! Johnny as the LA Pride Parade Grand Marshal, June 2011. Relive the glory (and the hair) here! Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Special offer for Johnny’s fans from TWELV Magazine: Get his fabulous limited-edition cover issue of TWELV— no longer available on newsstands—for 50% off! If you’d like to grab one, please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. Do it now—there are only a few left! The Team Weir-Voronov fan store now has updated calendars, in case you missed out on buying yours in January! The new 12-month version runs from July 2013 to June 2014, while the 18-month version takes you from July 2013 all the way to December 2014. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny acknowledges the sold-out crowd in Makuhari, Chiba, Japan, after his stunning Bollywood-inspired performance to “Nagada Sang Dhol Song.” Screencap from the video below. 20+ more pics below, including exclusives from Japan! And stay tuned for UPDATES! UPDATE!! Dream Team pic via Johnny: “Me and the boys are ready! Two hours until showtime! Let’s rock Sendai! @plushenkoofficial #Tomáš #Yuzu-kun” More than 6,000 “likes” on Instagram, retweeted more than 1,200 times. The world loves these skaters. ♥ More new pics below! Yes!! Summer touring is upon us! Johnny’s in Japan for the first Fantasy on Ice tour performances plus “Together on Ice” this weekend with Yuzu! Then, get ready: the Weibocalypse of Artistry on Ice happens in July and August. Please see Johnny’s official website for all his performance dates this summer! Johnny’s column is back! After a five-month hiatus, he returns to the Falls Church News-Press today to tackle an uncomfortable subject: what to do when you find that nude photos of yourself have just been released to America’s tabloids. He handles the moment with grace, humor, and dignity in this frank and inspiring must-read. Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. So obviously the whole point of today’s post is to watch Johnny’s Bollywood performance over and over and over, and then take a break to enjoy the pics, and then watch him in the opening and closing group numbers, then go back to the pics, then Bollywood again.... Yes, I see your eyes straying down past this text portion already.... And really, I don’t want to delay you even for a moment. But there’s just one quick thing before I lose you completely to the gloriousness that was everything about Fantasy on Ice in general and Johnny in particular: Johnny’s 30th birthday is just three weeks away!!! So yay, it’s fan project time! This year a very very special fan gift has been chosen for Johnny that we hope he will love, and that we hope expresses in some small way how much his fans love him and how much we will always have his back. In addition to this special item, this year fans also have the opportunity to send Johnny personal birthday messages! Here’s how to join in: (1) To contribute to the special gift, please send PayPal to [email protected]. No amount is too small! Deadline for contributions is tentatively Monday, June 30, but that may be extended if needed. (2) Because this is a special gift that we’d like to remain a surprise for Johnny, the details can’t be posted here on the blog. But please know that it has been chosen with care, and it is beautiful and very Johnny. (3) If contributions exceed the cost of the special gift—which, given the generosity of Johnny’s fans, is very likely—the remainder will go toward a gift card for Johnny. (4) Please include your personal birthday message to Johnny with your contribution. You may include the message on the PayPal form, or, if you need to write something longer than the form allows, you may email your message separately to [email protected]. All the messages will be given to Johnny in a lovely book designed and printed for his birthday. (5) If you’re not able to contribute to the gift but would like to send a birthday message to be included in the book, please feel free to do so! As the big day draws near, we’ll let you know when the gift is on its way to Johnny. If you have any questions about the birthday gift project, please feel free to email me. And now: on to the multimedia magnificence! This year Fantasy on Ice was broadcast live on Japanese television, so we are wonderfully and gratefully awash in video and screencaps. Enjoy! UPDATES!! Sendai. First show day! 06-13-2014. Via Johnny: “Thank you to my amazing fans with @jpjweangels for these incredible peonies!!” Via @Mutsumi57 post-show: “ジョニー素敵でした\(//∇//)\” [“Johnny was nice.”] Also via @Mutsumi57: A beautiful blur of happiness and flowers. ♥ Via @ESJW: “Thank you Johnny!” And also via @ESJW: “Thank you Johnny, again.” Fan art!! Via Johnny: “Show day in Sendai! Thank you for your artistry @ayukovon!” Via @dozesheep. I love these! The first time I’ve cried while skating. Thank you Sendai and Japan for your strength, courage and determination. I love you. ❤️🇯🇵❤️ — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) June 13, 2014 Sendai is Yuzu’s hometown and one of the cities hardest hit by the devastating 2011 tsunami. To host this show of male figure-skating legends is both a dream come true for Yuzu and a triumph for his beloved city, and the emotion was palpable for performers and audience alike. What a truly amazing evening—with two more performances ahead on Saturday! Sendai. 06-12-2014. Via Johnny: “Bullet train Tokyo-Sendai.” UPDATE!! Via @mutsumi57. Johnny is welcomed by fans upon his arrival Thursday in Sendai, where he’ll be performing in Yuzuru Hanyu’s show, “Together on Ice,” this weekend! Via @mutsumi57. A big smile for fans in Sendai! Gorgeous roses from Mutsumi! Via Johnny: “Thank you Mutsumi-san! I am so happy to be in Sendai! Sendai Strong!” UPDATE!! Via @supercupmatcha: “@JohnnyGWeir how kind!!! Cho happy to see you kawaii Johnny!” This fab pic was just tweeted today, but is actually from Johnny’s time in Tokyo, when he visited @Candy_FakeTokyo. More pics from Fake Tokyo below! Tokyo. 06-11-2014. Via @casablancaj22 on Wednesday: “Johnny and Javier‼︎ Thank you for coming to our skating rink*\(^o^)/*” Via Johnny: “Happy to work with my girls Nagisa-chan and Momona-chan today!” Via @casablancaj22: “@JohnnyGWeir @javierfernandez I really had a good lunchtime‼︎” Showtime! Fantasy on Ice in Makuhari. 06-07-2014. The first glimpse of Johnny’s gorgeous costume and performance, posted to Instagram by @325noane: “Beautiful☆shining Johnny☆☆☆☆☆” Johnny later posted this photo to his own Instagram with this message for fans: “Image from tonight’s show in Makuhari. Thank you for all your love and support!” 140607 FaOI Johnny Weir by yusu01207 Really excellent quality! 2014F-4　Johnny Weir by hana02014 Also excellent, this is the version that Johnny tweeted. 140607 FaOIオープニング by yusu01207 Show opening. Johnny appears beginning at about 2:47. 140607　ＦａＯＩ　フィナーレ by yusu01207 Show closing. Johnny appears beginning at about 2:20. Also: See the entire show here! For more backstage pics from the show, please see the updates on this post! Via @ultrachichan: Johnny’s page in the Fantasy on Ice show booklet. Via Maria Sergejeva: “#Stephanelambiel #nataliepechalat #johnnyweir #fabianbourzat #fantasyonice” Via Nathalie Péchalat: “Real gentlemen help ladies. Getting ready for the 2dd show pf the day !! #foi14” Also there was pre-performance singing, captured for posterity via Maxim Trankov. Video link. Removing his Bollywood makeup between numbers (I think). Via Gev Manoukian: “With Johnny Weir!!!! #foi2014” Via Johnny: “So shocked we are finished for the day! Excited to sleep in my rose crown! @d1sk_t #Fabik” Via Sergey Yakimenko. Via Sergey Slavnov. Via Maria Sergejeva: “#fantasyonice #johnnyweir #чебурашка [Cheburashka] ❤️” Via Akiko Suzuki’s blog. And, after both performances on Saturday were over.... Via Johnny: “This happened. I love Cheburashka and I love this hoodie!” Meanwhile... ...these things also happened at various points since he’s been in Japan. Very special thanks to Junko Mi for the exclusive pics in this series! Johnny with an enormous amount of peonies, his favorite flower—a gift from Junko. He Instagrammed them here. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. More Johnny with peonies. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. And more. Yes, of course we want three pics of him with his flowers and a huge smile. What a silly question. Via Junko’s Instagram. And we also want pics of him without his flowers... Via Junko’s Instagram. ...showing off his tattoo... Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. ...and his Japan-themed manicure. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. Greeting fans again at some other point. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. Wearing a custom piece created exclusively for him by Japanese designer Eri Ave. See a closeup on Johnny’s Instagram! Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. With Funassyi! Seen also here. Via Junko’s Instagram. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. And yes, we want three pics of him with Funassyi. Or with anything, really. Exclusive photo © Junko Mi. And Now It’s Monday. Johnny is performing in Sendai, Japan, this coming weekend. Here’s a peek at a rare day off for him! Via Johnny: “Enjoying the view amidst my gorgeous bouquets before I run off to Tokyo.” Love this. Via Johnny: “I ❤️ @Candy_FakeTokyo so much!” Via @Candy_FakeTokyo: “Nice to see you again Prince on the ice❄️❄️❄️ @johnnygweir Thank you for shopping #faketokyo #candytokyo” Via Fake Tokyo’s blog. ♥ Bonus fan art!! Via @zunDmochi, and later Instagrammed by Johnny: “Thank you @zunDmochi for such a nice painting! So happy you enjoyed my Bollywood!” Via @mira_in_japan: A beautiful version of the beginning of Johnny’s performance. She writes: “yesterday i went to #fantasyonice :) all the skaters were wonderful, especially #johnnyweir! I was deeply struck with his amazing performance” And one more screencap. Gorgeous. BRB watching his whole amazing program again.... @JohnnyGWeir Thank you for your wonderful and amazing performance. 💓💓💓 So happy to see you on stage. You are the best👑So beautiful💖 — mucchant (@mucchant) June 7, 2014 Thank you for your exotic performance in Makuhari! You are the most elegant and stylish skater. I will keep supporting you. @JohnnyGWeir — すぎしょう (@dd71ss) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir Awesome performance, awesome costume, awesome choreography! I love love LOVE this so much! ♥ — Luisa Lotka (@LuisaLotka) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir thank you so much for sharing, I just love watching you skate. So beautiful — Suzun (@desertsongnm) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir I can’t stop watching it...best program in the show! You are amazing! — L M (@la_guillotine) June 7, 2014 I can’t stop watching this Bollywood program from @JohnnyGWeir http://t.co/lwYdAZU44r It has musicality, beauty, athleticism, grace & flair — Mara (@MaraBuzick) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir U were amazing !! My first time to see you perform in person and it’s FABULOUS! — PJ (@kansai_pj) June 8, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir Ohayo! I enjoyed your fabulous performance last night! Johnny, you are always my superstar. Love<3 — yumico (@yu_mico) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir Thank you for showing us a great show. This show was the first time for me. I was impressed to tears. So will be a great tour. — riruncha (@riruncha) June 8, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir Thank you Johnny!!!!!♡♡♡ — ソチマタ 幕張楽シカッタヨネ (@sochimata) June 8, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir Thank you for your beautiful performance ♡ I felt that you are a great artist! I adore you! — chako (@chako117) June 8, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir I have no regret if tomorrow may not be. Because you performed the Bollywood song that I suggested. It was very stunning. — Kanacci / इनेको (@c4u_baby) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir Good morning Johnny! GANBATTE last show. You surprise us every time and take us to the dreamworld. ♥♥♥ — ❤ (@ESJW) June 7, 2014 @JohnnyGWeir You shine honey! And you are wonderfully unique! — Patti Weir (@pattimooreweir) June 7, 2014 My favorite tweet of all. ♥ ICYMI! Johnny in Pennsylvania over Memorial Day weekend. See the album by Shibu Daniel Photography on Facebook here! Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Favorite Fairytale” Beautiful Johnny being happy on the ice. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Cure for the Uncommon Cold” Gorgeous sun-drenched Johnny picspam, for those of us who prefer our winter a little less... wintry. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Random Tuesday Roundup, Or: Is It Summer Yet?” More Sun Valley since because Chiberia. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Because It’s Glorious.” A look back at Johnny’s first national title and his thoughts on Nationals, accompanied by 20+ exquisite black-and-white portraits. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. Please click twice for larger image. “Frost Giant.” 25+ exclusive pics of Johnny performing Army of Me. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “All of Him Is My Treasure.” Fans react to Johnny’s graceful exit from competitive skating. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Practice Is Perfect” 25+ exclusive photos of Johnny’s Sun Valley rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Dear Johnny...” Selected black-and-white photos of Johnny’s hauntingly beautiful Schindler’s List debut. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue a nytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2014 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

A delighted Johnny at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Thursday morning, where he was greeted by beloved Russian fans bearing gifts and flowers. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. UPDATE: Now 50+ pics below, with NEW exclusives! Plus new video! Just Announced!! Johnny will be appearing on HuffPost LIVE Wednesday, October 22, to talk about To Russia With Love, and you can start posting questions for him NOW at this link! You also can tweet the segment producer, Gabe Piscione, to see if you can ask a question live on camera during Johnny’s appearance. Get those questions in, and be sure to watch Johnny on October 22! Premiering October 29!! Johnny stars in To Russia With Love, a new documentary about LGBT athletes, portions of which were filmed in secret during his time in Sochi as an NBC figure skating commentator. He also is an executive producer for the film, a project of Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions. More info here and on the EPIX website. The official trailer! Video link. Get ready: Johnny’s episode of DREAM SCHOOL: NYC airs Wednesday, October 22, 10 pm EDT / 9 pm CDT! Johnny stars with other celebrity teachers in partnership with NYC’s Beekman School to help turn around the lives of 15 teens who dropped out of conventional high school. New sneak peek at Johnny’s episode! Video link. Read more about his episode here! NEW Snow King Teaser! The first tour dates have been announced, ticket sales have commenced, and now we have another glimpse of Evgeni Plushenko’s amazing “enchanting fairy tale on ice for the whole family.” The show is based on an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story, The Snow Queen, with Johnny playing the role of Kai. Video link. Behind-the-scenes sneak peek here. Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. So I have propped myself up on my fainting couch, where I’ve been convalescing for days, stricken by some kind of viral scourge that has left me coughing like an escapee from an Edwardian TB sanatorium, just long enough to wanly fling some picspam out here before collapsing again under another paroxysm of hacking, because these are just too wonderful to wait until I am more fully recovered. Plus I am really terrible at being sick—pretty much as bad as I am at sleeping—and I get bored with the whole thing after about the first 24 hours, so thank Weirsus here are these amazing photos that will probably do more to cure me than any amount of rest anyway. BRB shoving the fainting couch back in the attic... But first: ICYMI, which IDK how that could even be possible since I keep embedding it everywhere and have probably personally emailed it to everyone I’ve ever met as well, but yay here you are, and even if you didn’t miss it, it’s worth rewatching a time or two or twelve: the official trailer for To Russia With Love was released on Tuesday! And it is beautifully done: Please share everywhere. This film is so important and not to be missed. Video link. And yes, of course we have a transcript and a few screencaps: Announcer: Russia’s new law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors has created an international backlash. Title overlay: To ignorance...with compassion Mark Tewksbury: It’s taken a long time, but I do feel like Sochi is a bit of a tipping point. Title overlay: To brutality...with strength Johnny: It matters to you that your Olympics is going to be in a country that thinks of you not as a real part of society. Belle Breckhoff: You can take it quite personally. We should have kissed. I think that would have been a very big, history-making sort of thing. Title overlay: To fear...with courage Vladislav Slaviskiy: They attack me every evening... Title overlay: Some athletes stand for more than gold. (Female voice): This could have been the raised fist in protest. Johnny: An Olympic flame isn’t going to change the world. You have to change the world yourself. To Russia With Love. Johnny and Vlad. Speaking with Belle Breckhoff. “An Olympic flame isn’t going to change the world... ...You have to change the world... ...yourself.” While I love everything about the trailer, to me the moment with the most visual impact is the single second right before the screencap above. It happens here, from 00:42 to 00:43... ...as Johnny, seen only in shadow, performs on the ice under the impassive gaze of a Russian officer. And just to be clear: pretty much the entire time that Johnny was being criticized mercilessly for his decision to go to Sochi, he was secretly working on this project. So that months after the Games were over, the vodka-poured-in-the-streets protests long abandoned, and his critics off on other tangents, his efforts could help ensure that the spotlight would once again be focused on this human-rights issue enveloping a country he loves with all his heart. Because the world might forget. But he would not. Johnny Returns to Russia! 10-09-2014. At Sheremetyevo, where fans who have not seen him for two years await his arrival... OK, first you have to watch the video, even if you already watched it earlier today, because this: @misfitmimes @JohnnyGWeir That was very, very sweet. How to say this...so much love & mutual respect in one place. Just so lovely to see! ♡ — Berry Glitterfairy (@kiichigo82) October 9, 2014 So here you go: Video link. And now, the picspam! The photos in this first series are all exclusives from my dear friend Elena Vasileva, who not only took a zillion pics for Johnny’s fans around the world to enjoy, but also brought him a basket of her own beautiful homemade pirozhki. She explains: “In Russia, we have an old tradition—we meet the most dear guest with bread-and-salt. But there is something even better: pirozhki!” Accompanied, of course, with flowers. And Starbucks. ♥ A beautiful bouquet ready and waiting for Johnny... ...and he loves it! Chatting with fans... (Elena says here he is describing what a hard worker Evgeni Plushenko is on the ice.) ...and also being a good listener, as always. (Yay Starbucks!) With gorgeous sunflowers from Tatiana Edrenkina! Getting things packed up to go, as his driver has been waiting patiently... With all his gifts, including the basket of pirozhki... ....and a really big smile. On his way! This series is from Anastasiya Bochkareva’s fabulous gallery and her Facebook album, which she titled, “Sweet memories.” Beautiful, smiling, and presumably coherent (in Russian) after spending all night on an airplane. I love this. And this. Apparently a moment of serious business. Group pics! Via Anastasiya’s Facebook. Left to right: Liza Simakina, Elena Vasileva, Vera Chayko, Irina Volkova, Johnny, Tatiana Edrenkina, and Nadia Vasilyeva. And this time Elena takes the pic so Anastasiya can be in it (far left)! Via Facebook. And now he’s really on his way. UPDATE!! New exclusive photos series from Tatiana Edrenkina! Gifts of love await Johnny, among them beautiful sunflowers from Tatiana... ...and delicious pirozhki from Elena! He’s here!! Please do click for larger view so you can see the look on his face. ♥ A special gift from Liza Simakina. Tatiana explains: “She gave him her collection of figure skating stamps from all over the world, including the countries of which existence we didn’t even know. That was a wow! moment.” Johnny takes his time to savor this amazing gift. And then one more photo before he’s off to his waiting car. Bonus pics!! Via a very appreciative Johnny: “Moscow Baby! Thank you to my beautiful ladies who greeted me at Sheremetyevo!” Via Johnny: “Flowers and coffee, the way to my heart!” Bonus video!! An Evening With Champions has released the entire Saturday night show on YouTube, which is wonderful. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 here, featuring Johnny’s “Human” performance beginning at about 58:47. Or even better: you can just watch Johnny’s “Human” here, thanks once again to video ninja Elena Vasileva! Video link. To Russia With Love Bonus photo art. (Please click for full-size images.) And one more: absolutely stunning fan art by @MethaPhiZika on Twitter. Please click for full-size image! Very special thanks to Elena Vasileva for the exclusive photos! ICYMI: “Dragon.” The first series of exclusive photos from An Evening With Champions, featuring Johnny’s debut of the spectacular dragon costume given to him by his Chinese fans. “Bold Beauty: Bollywood Revisited.” A stunning new look at Johnny’s Nagada Sang Dhol program in a series of 35+ exclusive photos, plus exclusive video. “To Stand in a Ray of Sunlight.” Gorgeous sun-drenched photos of Johnny at rehearsal in Sun Valley, plus exclusive video of his practice. “Human.” The US debut of Johnny’s stunning and hauntingly beautiful new program. Selected exclusive photos, plus exclusive HD video. “Be Gorgeous Without Your Pants.” 50+ Artistry on Ice pics plus all-new videos, including Beijing and Guangzhou press conferences! “Magic Becomes Art...” 60+ spectacular pics from Shanghai, including the most beautiful “Concubine” series yet. Stunning fan art by @glace_icywaterdri on Weibo. “Concubine.” Beautiful mega-picspam from the Guangzhou livestream. Photo art detail from an exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published on Thursdays in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Watch bonus clips online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! 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Johnny at the Guangzhou press conference. UPDATE: New Johnny + Stéphane pics from the Shanghai presser plus more Guangzhou pics below! Photo courtesy of the amazing Fannie Wang. BREAKING: New video!! Wonderful Artistry on Ice promo piece about Johnny, just posted! Video link: YouTube, or HD version on Youku. OK! We continue to be awash in a sea of Weibo-y goodness and trying to sort it all out is nearly impossible, especially with the 13-hour time difference between Chicago and China, so here’s a bunch of stuff from this week that happened or is happening or will happen or happened while you were sleeping or while Johnny was sleeping but anyway all of it is jampacked with awesome so here you go. As always, please, please click any photo twice for full-size image. All days/dates approximate based on Weibo postings plus Google Translate times level of caffeine divided by ability to handle time-based math calculations while falling asleep. Your mileage may vary. Guangzhou Monday, June 10. These gorgeous photos are courtesy of Fannie Wang. Please see her entire beautiful gallery on Facebook here. Opening number. Born This Way. Army of Me. Love love love this one. Giant gorgeous Johnny projected onto the backdrop, while Johnny himself is live on the ice. Video!! Johnny’s Army of Me from Guangzhou! Part of the comment from the Weibo posting reads: “So great, so wonderful, so amazing, fantastic!!!” Video link. Post-show photo uploaded by Johnny to his Weibo: “谢谢广州，我很开心!!谢谢这些美丽的花! @李子君Angel and @花样滑冰闫涵 are wonderful!” [”Thank you Guangzhou, I am very happy!! Thank you for these beautiful flowers! @LiziJunAngel and @Yan Han are wonderful!”] Shanghai. Wednesday, June 12. My lovely friend Haohewuyin of Johnny’s Pandas (aka the Chinese Angels), waiting to greet Johnny at the Shanghai airport with a gigantic bouquet from his fans.... ...more waiting, joined by a friend... ...and here he is, with flowers now in hand! Photo tweeted later by Johnny: “I love my flowers! Thank you Shanghai!” Johnny wearing his beautiful Tang suit, a gift to him last year from his Chinese fans! Read more about the gift and the fan meeting at which he received it here. Video and transcript of that fan meeting here. Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Chinese silk jacket realness.” At the AOI Shanghai press conference, with bonus Stéphane in the background. More from the press conference below. Not to be missed. Meanwhile, Back In Guangzhou.... At some point, this happened. Refresher from Monday’s blog: photo posted by Nathalie to her Instagram without comment. Because clearly there are no words. And so yes, he wore this at rehearsal. ...BTW someone was filming him... ...and here’s a tiny glimpse (though not from the official videographer, I don’t think, so we still await that footage breathlessly...). If the video won’t load for you, please try this link. And Now Fast-Forward To Shanghai, Where We Present: How To Have A Press Conference. Brought to You Predictably by Johnny and Stéphane, With Surprising Cameos By Kurt Browning And ... Patrick Chan. Press conference tidbits: From what I could glean from Weibo, the staff had seated Johnny and Kurt together, but either Johnny or Stéphane moved Johnny’s place card so that he could sit next to Stéphane. Kurt pretended to be hurt, with great dramatic flair, and Stéphane just smiled and said, “Bye bye, Kurt!” Apparently at some point either Johnny said “I love you,” to Stéphane, or Stéphane said, “I love you,” to Johnny, or they said it to each other, or someone said something charming and wonderful, and whichever way it was, everyone totally melted. UPDATE: Stéphane said, “I love you, Johnny.” Watch here. #dying Transcription coming soon! After Kurt exited, again with mock drama, Johnny leapt into the arms of Patrick and Stéphane, as you’ll see below. Every photo from this press conference kills me. UPDATE! New photo! Please click twice for huge full-size image. UPDATE! New photo! Please click twice for huge full-size image. Bonus from Haohewuyin’s camera. Please tell me there’s video... ...please? Addendum: Johnny and Stéphane— How To Take A Picture At A Press Conference UPDATE: New photo! Please click twice for huge full-size image. The result, posted by Stéphane to his Instagram: “Press conference with my swan @johnnygweir“ Tons more Johnny and Stéphane press conference pics on Weibo here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here! Shanghai. Thursday, June 13. (HEY THAT’S TODAY) Posted by Nathalie Péchalat to her Instagram: “Bonjour. Guess who just woke up and who had preparation time!?” Two bouquets from fans, one for Johnny, one for Stéphane. IDK what he’s doing but he seems to be on camera and this shot is gorgeous. From Nathalie’s Instagram: Stéphane, Nathalie, and Johnny wish Denis Ten a happy birthday today! And finally: new Vine video from Johnny! Posted this morning, or at about 8:30 pm tonight Shanghai time: “Goodnight from Shanghai!” Bonus pics!! Johnny and Aljona Savchenko in their opening number costumes. Flamenco Johnny at the hotel in Taipei. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. One more: Johnny at rehearsal, posted with this caption: “’Lady Gaga on Ice’ Johnny Weir is super popular ah!” Bonus video for Throwback Thursday!! Just uploaded yesterday by The Standard Hotel in NYC: footage of the skating event Johnny and Sasha Cohen hosted there back in January 2012. Love. Video link. Johnny and Victor were named to Us Weekly’s list of Gay Power Couples! Check out the photo gallery here. Screencap tweeted by Victor. The Refinery29 photo shoot featured on the blog last month is here! Please go read it now! Johnny is part of Refinery29’s “Month of Style Stars” for June, and the second photo from the interview (above) IS. A. GIF. (Refresh the page to restart the gif. So fabulous!) ICYMI: “Vision,” featuring two gorgeous new exclusive pics plus thoughts on the Grand Prix announcement from the ISU... Happy Pride Month! Johnny as the LA Pride Parade Grand Marshal, June 2011. Relive the glory (and the hair) here! First sign of summer: Sun Valley tickets are on sale! Johnny is scheduled to perform again this year in Sun Valley’s gorgeous outdoor summer ice shows. More info and tickets here! Photo of Johnny in Sun Valley, summer 2012, courtesy of Mackenzie Keller. Johnny’s in China the next two weeks!! For show and ticket info, please visit the official Artistry on Ice website, Facebook page, or Weibo page. Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Special offer for Johnny’s fans from TWELV Magazine: Get his fabulous limited-edition cover issue of TWELV— no longer available on newsstands—for 50% off! If you’d like to grab one, please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. Do it now—there are only a few left! The Team Weir-Voronov fan store now has updated calendars, in case you missed out on buying yours in January! The new 12-month version runs from July 2013 to June 2014, while the 18-month version takes you from July 2013 all the way to December 2014. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

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Johnny performs in the US debut of his program to Christina Perri’s “Human” in Sun Valley, Idaho. Please, please click here for the stunning full-size image. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Selected all-exclusive photos from Sun Valley below!! Plus: Exclusive video! And much more to come! Get your tickets ASAP!! Johnny will be perfoming in An Evening With Champions, hosted at Harvard University’s Bright Hockey Center in Boston, MA, September 19 and 20! This annual charity show is a fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Yes, VIP tickets are available, which include admission to a meet-n-greet with the skaters. East Coast fans: don’t miss this one! Show and ticket info here. West Coast fans: this one’s for you!! Tickets are available for this August 27 charity event in northern California, which benefits the educational programs of the San Francisco 49ers Academy. Though he’s not skating at this event, Johnny will be the emcee for the evening— and that alone is worth the price of admission. Event and ticket info here. Premiering in just 60 days!! Johnny stars in To Russia With Love, a new documentary about LGBT athletes, portions of which were filmed in secret during his time in Sochi as an NBC figure skating commentator. He also is an executive producer for the film, a project of Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions. More info here and on the EPIX website. Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Yes, he was amazing! As always. And the 3,300-mile round trip was challenging and entertaining and exhausting, as always, 50+ hours of driving there and back, and whereas last year we took our time returning and made a little vacation out of that part, this time, with circumstances being different, we just went, saw, photographed, and turned around and drove home, though I’m really super-glad I listened to myself and booked an extra day at our hotel in Sun Valley before embarking on the return trip since because not enough caffeine in the world to cover doing it the day after the show, because the meet-n-greet—at which I happily shepherded several first-timers and during which Davey took literally 600+ photos—went on until nearly midnight because EVERYONE stayed to meet Johnny and get a photo because he was AMAZING, and he also was unfailingly patient and gracious to every. last. person., as always, because, as I may have mentioned, he’s amazing. And also a really kind and lovely man. So there’s lots to talk about and tons of photos to get through, and thus multiple posts will be forthcoming to cover every Sun Valley moment in delicious detail, but today we’re doing something a little less massive than we’ve been doing lately here on the blog. Because as wonderful as watching his rehearsal always is, and as brilliant as both his performances were, and as sweet and fun as the meet-n-greet was, it was immediately clear, when he glided out to perform “Human,” that this was something extraordinary. It was absolutely the defining moment of the whole weekend. He skated Bollywood first, a program full of intricate detail and high energy, with him in his exotic costume and makeup, and the audience totally loved it and gave him the biggest applause and cheers of the night thus far. And then he returned late in the show for the US debut of “Human.” He had first performed it in Japan, but no photos or videos were allowed, as is the custom there. All we had were the stunned and heartfelt reactions from Japanese fans, many of whom tweeted that they were moved to tears by his performance. So after a second Sun Valley introduction, he skated to center ice and stopped. And as the music drifted across the cool mountain air, he began to paint, in deep strokes and sharp slices and quick razor cuts, on his glittering and beloved and unforgiving canvas, everything he’s been through in recent months. All the times he’s soldiered on, working hard, keeping his thoughts to himself, silently enduring tremendous private pain and public difficulties not of his making, aware that most people who meet him nowadays know truths and lies about his private life that one would never want broadcast, and yet there it all is, the elephant constantly in every room at every event, which he can never acknowledge or discuss. So instead he put it all on the ice. Raw. Piercing. Unforgettable. And the audience applauded his beautiful jumps and spins, but grew increasingly hushed and still as he skated on. They were utterly mesmerized. And many, like the Japanese, were in tears at the end. And so today we focus on just that moment, in selected photographs of his performance, and—at last—in video. Johnny is a brilliantly gifted artist, an elite athlete who trains far more intensely than many realize, an incredibly hard-working man, a quick wit, well-spoken, hugely entertaining, and very much a larger-than-life figure. It’s easy to forget one of his most defining characteristics, one that we all share with one another, and that all might do well to remember, with kindness and grace, when we are tempted to comment about or judge or criticize or believe highly questionable stories about another person. He is only human. As are we all. “Human” Christina Perri [Lyrics as used in Johnny’s performance cut of the music] I can hold my breath I can bite my tongue I can stay awake for days If that’s what you want Be your number one I can fake a smile I can force a laugh I can dance and play the part If that’s what you ask Give you all I am I can do it I can do it I can do it I can turn it on Be a good machine I can hold the weight of worlds If that’s what you need Be your everything I can do it I can do it I can do it But I’m only human And I bleed when I fall down I’m only human And I crash and I break down Your words in my head, knives in my heart You build me up and then I fall apart ’Cause I’m only human I’m only human I’m only human Just a little human I can take so much ’Til I’ve had enough ’Cause I’m only human And I bleed when I fall down I’m only human And I crash and I break down Your words in my head, knives in my heart You build me up and then I fall apart ’Cause I’m only human Please click any photo twice for the full-size image. Many are huge and exquisitely detailed. They may take a moment to load, but are well worth the wait. Video is embedded below the photos. Ending pose. Video!! Johnny’s “Human” performance, Sun Valley. Video link. And one more. Post-performance, during the show finale. Exclusive photos © David Ingogly. And now for something completely different... Bonus vid!! Yes, we’ve all seen this already, but I’m sure no one minds suffering through it once or twice or 83,295,619,472 more times, amirite....? Via Johnny: “5 Minute dance break between meetings. #chandelier” Fav response, from Anastasia Pryanikova via Johnny’s official Facebook page: “Whoever organizes those no-pants, no-shirt meetings with dance breaks in between should schedule more of those...” Yes. Whom do we contact to make this happen...? ICYMI: “Be Gorgeous Without Your Pants.” 50+ Artistry on Ice pics plus all-new videos, including Beijing and Guangzhou press conferences! “Magic Becomes Art...” 60+ spectacular pics from Shanghai, including the most beautiful “Concubine” series yet. Stunning fan art by @glace_icywaterdri on Weibo. “Concubine.” Beautiful mega-picspam from the Guangzhou livestream. Photo art detail from an exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. “Bollywood in Beijing and Other Stories.” All the picspam one could possibly want of Johnny’s performance to Nagada Sang Dhol at the Beijing premiere of Artistry on Ice. Photo © Maria Ma. “Love Is In Your Eyes.” Gorgeous photos of Johnny as the King’s Consort and partner Zhang Hao as the King in their stunning performance inspired by “Farewell My Concubine,” from the opening show of the Artistry on Ice tour. “Forbidden Love: The King’s Consort.” First look at Johnny and partner Zhang Hao in their premiere performance inspired by “Farewell My Concubine.” Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Please, please click here for stunning full-size image. “The Weibocalypse Is Nigh.” Thursday rehearsal pics plus coverage of the Beijing press conference! Please click here for beautiful full-size image, and roll around in the picspam here. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. “Surrounded By So Much Love.” Wednesday rehearsal pics plus fan meeting pics! Not all of the rehearsal was quite this serious, though.... Please click for beautiful full-size image, and enjoy all the endless picspam here! Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Watch bonus clips online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

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Johnny. Photo © David Ingogly. It is with great sadness that I announce that my husband and I are no longer together. My heart hurts, and I wish him well. — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) March 19, 2014 From Access Hollywood today: Johnny Weir Files For Divorce From Husband (Exclusive) Johnny Weir has filed for divorce from husband Victor Weir-Voronov, Access Hollywood has exclusively learned. “It is with great sadness that I announce that my husband and I are no longer together,” the ice skater and TV personality said in a statement to Access. The 29-year-old said their future together does not look promising. “I have been sad for a long time,” he continued in the statement to Access. “And unfortunately don’t foresee a way to resolve our current marital issues.” Please read more here, and watch for Johnny’s exclusive interview Thursday, March 20, on Access Hollywood. UPDATE: Johnny’s exclusive three-part interview with Access Hollywood: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce Dearest Johnny, I am so very sorry. Wishing you peace and strength, and so much love always. — Binky copyright 2014 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny hits the ice for his rehearsal in Sun Valley. This is about the happiest he looked the entire time, until he came to greet his waiting fans. The rest of his rehearsal was a quiet and intense tug-o-war between him and illness, fatigue, altitude, and smoky air. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click for beautiful full-size image. UPDATE: Excerpt from Johnny’s latest column, “Johnny’s World: Make-Up,” for the Falls Church News-Press: As I became more followed and well known, I learned that when you have bad or sad news to break you have to do it thoughtfully, and with process. You have to omit or lie to conceal the truth to the people who don’t know you personally, yet know you quite intimately, just until you’re ready, and while that may seem understandable, it’s still a lie that you must live with on a daily basis until the news can splash forth from your swollen eyes and puffy, reddened face. ... I am someone who speaks from the heart 95% of the time, however, there are moments when I have to omit, fluff, conceal or propaganda the hell out of things. ... These little lies are life’s make-up and while necessary at times, they are exhausting. Starting with myself, I vow to speak from the heart, not the mind, and I’m washing off the make-up. Who’s with me? — Johnny Weir Well, yes, we’re still waiting for a statement from Johnny, although personally I can wait forever or just be OK with him never making a formal statement at all (though I think that’s unlikely). I’m a firm believer in the freedom we all have to make our own choices and live our own lives, respectful of those around us, certainly, but with an equal amount of freedom to so live without defending or explaining anything, ever, to anyone. Just speaking for myself (your mileage may vary), I’m thrilled to have supported his journey up to this point—freely, happily, no strings attached, because everything I’ve done I chose to do as a gift, a small way to say thank you for all the beauty he brings to my world. So I’m just fine to plow ahead, looking forward with excitement to whatever he’s doing next whilst continuing to proffer up extensive picspam along the way, and yay we even have some of that to linger over right now at this very moment, which is good, because judging by my mail, there’s a definite mix of restlessness, confusion, and a tinge of sadness rippling across fandom these days, and there’s nothing like a bunch of Johnny pics to distract us from ourselves. In the meantime, as I mentioned previously, I remain ever so totally appalled at the shrieking hysteria, ugly bashing, and even hate speech that’s gone on the last few months over Johnny’s adamant stance against boycotts of any kind related to the Sochi Olympics—though he’s far from alone in holding that opinion—and supremely disappointed in the US LGBT voices leading the bashing. I’m truly stunned at the lack of tolerance for diversity of opinion from within a community that seeks acceptance by asking the larger community to ... tolerate diversity. As my lovely friend Tatiana Edrenkina succinctly summed up, “So far, it seems, the only person who was able to hear other people’s opinions, was Johnny.” This. For some eye-opening background/context, please see Nicholas Benton’s powerful and thought-provoking national affairs column: “Gay Movement’s Major New Voice,” if you haven’t had a chance to read it yet. And please be sure to check out Nick’s new book, Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming Gay Sensibility’s Central Role in the Progress of Civilization, a “compilation of one hundred essays previously published under the noted column ‘Nick Benton’s Gay Science’ from October 2010 through September 2012 on the website of the Falls Church News-Press.” Loved that column, and am excited to catch up on the ones I missed via Nick’s book. For more info, please visit the book's Facebook page. Also, just FYI: Sir Ian McKellen has now added his voice to the anti-boycott chorus (thank you to dear Beatrice Zenk for the link. See also: “Out Actor Ian McKellen Echoes Johnny Weir: Olympic Boycott Would Be ‘Cruel’ To Athletes”). Seriously, if you’ve got Gandalf on your team.... And now, onto the picspam. Because—just speaking for myself again—I need something beautiful today. Johnny in Sun Valley: Rehearsal, Part 1. The following series of photos covers just the first three minutes of Johnny’s rehearsal in Sun Valley. We knew he wasn’t feeling well from his tweets, and he looked pretty miserable throughout, as you’ll see. And his skating was absolutely gorgeous and thrilling, as you’ll also see, though it’s hard to do it justice even with stunning pics and video. Seeing him skate right in front of you, hearing his blades slice through the ice... there’s just nothing like it. As always, please click any photo to open the full-size image in a new tab. These are mostly wondrously huge. Only a few captions, because he was very quiet and very focused, like these photos, and we mostly sat in hushed awe as we watched. Exclusive photos © David Ingogly. Stopping to chat briefly with Brian Boitano and Ryan Bradley. Going into a jump... ...and landing it. With Ryan Bradley and Jozef Sabovcik. And in just three minutes, he’s warmed up enough to shed the jacket and reveal an amazing tank... ...and then he heads back out into the unrelenting Idaho sun... Exclusive video!! Highlights from Johnny’s practice captured by Anastasia Pryanikova. Simply gorgeous... Exclusive Sun Valley photos © David Ingogly. From Johnny’s latest column in the Falls Church News-Press: Growing up skinny, socially awkward and with a weird craft, I always wanted to be cool. I always wanted to be popular ... I wasn’t prepared however, for the flip-side of popularity. I wasn’t prepared that everything you say will have a 50/50 response, that complete strangers hate you for no reason aside from the fact that you didn’t believe the same things they did. I wasn’t prepared. ... Every shooting star has a fleeting moment when everyone can see it, before its luminescence is burned up. I now know what it’s like to be loved and hated on an international scale. My own personal hope is that I continue to grow in a way that helps me understand the mistakes of my life and learn from them, more so than wallow in what might have been or what was. — Johnny Weir Read more here. Johnny’s columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section— don’t miss a single one! Also on the blog: “Sun Valley Sneak Peek: ‘A Rare Human So Breathtaking....’ ” Johnny debuts his Schindler’s List program in this stunning simple white costume. Exclusive pics and HD video. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Propaganda.” Photo essay of 40+ starkly beautiful black-and-white pics featuring Johnny at rehearsal as young skaters watch, spellbound. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Let the World Shine in Peace.” Quiet photo essay of exclusive black-and-white pics paired with Johnny’s quotes from his powerful column against boycotting Sochi. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Patti has posted a message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny at the airport in Taipei with beautiful flowers from his fans! Photo via Johnny's Pandas / JovetaELeo on Weibo. Kayso Johnny arrived safely in Taipei about 6 pm-ish New York time on Tuesday which for him was about 6 am-ish Wednesday morning in Taipei (confused about the time difference? Check the handy clock in the blog sidebar to see when Johnny is! It may not help, but the little ticking numbers are oddly mesmerizing...), where he was greeted by fans bearing flowers and gifts, as always, despite the bleary-eyed early hour, which is partly to blame for the fact that we only have a few photos of his arrival since because zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.... But here they are: Photo via the Artistry on Ice Facebook page: "早安！超級nice又可愛的冏尼已經到台灣囉！ 一如往常fashion登場！" ("Good Morning! Super nice and cute Johnny Weir has come to Taiwan! Fashionable as always!") Photo tweeted by Johnny: "Thank you for my gorgeous welcome flowers! @ Sheraton Taipei Hotel" We also have a new Vine video from Johnny! Tweeted by Johnny: "Greetings from Taipei! #Tapei101" Video link. Happy Birthday to my amazing Mama! I love you and I wish I was home to celebrate! — Johnny Weir-Voronov (@JohnnyGWeir) June 5, 2013 @johnnygweirSuch a gutsy, kickass lady!I learned how to be a mom from seeing her handle skating competitions!Happy birthday to her! — Lorrie Kim (@LKdresses) June 5, 2013 Happiest of birthdays today to the inspiring and kickass Patti Weir, and best wishes for many, many more!! Bonus video!! Uploaded by the fabulous Indashio yesterday, from the BGJW Season 2 episode in which Johnny walks in Indashio's fashion presentation. Also featured on a new blog entry by the lovely Anna Castillo of INK Cosmetics, who did the makeup for the presentation. Ah, how I miss BGJW.... Bonus fan art!! Tweeted by @ayukovon: "@JohnnyGWeir Good morning! Otsukaresama from the long flight. ✈" ICYMI: Tuesday's blog, "Vision," featuring two gorgeous new exclusive pics, HD videos of Johnny's latest performances, plus thoughts on the Grand Prix announcement from the ISU earlier this week... Happy Pride Month! Johnny as the LA Pride Parade Grand Marshal, June 2011. Relive the glory (and the hair) here! First sign of summer: Sun Valley tickets are on sale! Johnny is scheduled to perform again this year in Sun Valley’s gorgeous outdoor summer ice shows. More info and tickets here! Photo of Johnny in Sun Valley, summer 2012, courtesy of Mackenzie Keller. Johnny’s in China the next two weeks!! For show and ticket info, please visit the official Artistry on Ice website, Facebook page, or Weibo page. Please continue to tweet @Nike in a non-irritating way and tell them you’d love for them to sponsor Johnny! If you’re not on Twitter, you may write to them at Nike World Headquarters, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton, OR 97005. More info here! #JustDoIt To see up-close how battered and worn his skates are from thousands of training hours—particularly the left skate, because Johnny is a rare clockwise jumper and spinner— please click here. Photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! Special offer for Johnny’s fans from TWELV Magazine: Get his fabulous limited-edition cover issue of TWELV— no longer available on newsstands—for 50% off! If you’d like to grab one, please email Kevin at [email protected], and he’ll explain how to order and pay for your copy. Do it now—there are only a few left! The Team Weir-Voronov fan store now has updated calendars, in case you missed out on buying yours in January! The new 12-month version runs from July 2013 to June 2014, while the 18-month version takes you from July 2013 all the way to December 2014. “The Future of Everything“: Johnny is an amazing choice for both a Nike sponsorship and nomination to the newly founded National Gay & Lesbian Sports Hall of Fame. Here’s why, and what fans can do to help. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny’s Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Beautiful Johnny and his ever-present necklace of charms. For super-size photo and a closer look at the charms, please click here. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. UPDATE! Yes, we have video of Johnny’s commentary on Trophée Eric Bompard! Men’s event here. UPDATE: Women’s event here. (We also have another update: a fab video from Johnny’s Instagram below.) Reminder: Johnny is commentating on all the Grand Prix events!! Tune in to NBC’s coverage of Grand Prix Russia this Sunday, November 24, at 2 pm EST / 1 pm CST. UPDATE! Photo tweeted by Johnny late Saturday night: “Night shift with @taralipinski. Céline Bags akimbo for GP France on NBC, Sunday at 4:30 EST.” So in a fascinating new column for the Falls Church News-Press this week, Johnny revealed some of his spiritual beliefs in “Johnny’s World: I Talk to Spoons, Part 1”: I am not necessarily a God-fearing man; however, I reserve the right to attend a church, believe in a greater existence, pray when I feel like I need someone to listen, and wear religious icons around my neck for protection. I am more of a mystical person. I am a believer in witchcraft, supernatural energy, evil, ghosts, and things that in general can’t and/or aren’t to be explained. I have worked with healers and people with the special ability to see things most can’t for many years. I have worn a red string of protection since before Madonna made Kabbalah a trendy thing. There is so much in this world that can’t be explained by the good book or by science that I have always felt it appropriate to keep an open mind. So his column spurred me to go off on a quest for a recent-ish picture of the charms on Johnny’s necklace because so many fans have asked about them (read more about his necklace on Johnny’s Q and A), and in digging around in the Enormous and Hallowed Archive of Photos I Just Haven’t Gotten Around to Posting Yet Please Don’t Hate, I discovered some fab pics from late last year that are now proudly displayed in this blog post even though they actually have nothing at all to do with the stuff we need to discuss today, which is the unexpected explosion of Johnny-ness that’s headed our direction since apparently he’s not taking that whole “retirement” thing very seriously. So scattered among today’s Important Johnnouncements are a few random photos in a gold-tinged theme because I’ve been feeling nostalgic about all the gold medals he’s won and all the ones he should have won which is always the subtext of any discussion of figure skating in which I might engage and also he looks really pretty. Here’s one now: So first up, we have your weekly Friday reminder, as noted above, that he’ll be on NBC again this Sunday doing commentary on Trophée Eric Bompard. This week’s broadcast is scheduled for 4:30 to 6 pm EST (check local listings), which is shorter than usual and thus guaranteed to further piss off the fans who have already been lamenting (and rightfully so) NBC’s complete lack of pairs and ice dance coverage in their standard weekly segment. Plus we got spoiled last week with two full hours of Johnny (ICYMI: here and here). But still, it’s Johnny on our TVs, which brings me to... ...something so shocking, so unbelievable, and so completely American Horror Story: Coven that I fully expect Jessica Lange to come sauntering through my door next week to join me in witnessing this spectacle to be broadcast from the hell dimension (check local listings) known only as: (eeeeek clutching charms.....) Apparently Johnny is one of the guests on next Thursday’s episode of Bethenny, the eponymous (of course) talk show of one Bethenny Frankel, the mere mention of whom gives me the kind of nightmarish flashbacks that necessitate placing mirrors under the bed (Johnny explains). According to the announcement on her website (yes, I visited it. BRB enjoying another Silkwood-style scrubdown just in case there’s any lingering trace....): “For the first time since they rubbed each other the wrong way on Skating with the Stars, Olympic figure skater Johnny Weir and Bethenny are face to face!” Oh, isn’t that a cute way to put it. For a refresher on the whole Bethenny Outrage Which Lives On Forever In Fandom Infamy, please see the blog archives for November and December 2010. [tl;dr: She refused all advice; announced that she and her partner were skating for “America,” not for the judges; verbally attacked Johnny backstage after one episode in a headline-making incident; told the media she was the woman Johnny wanted to be; and did nothing to discourage her fans from slinging homophobic tweets at Johnny, who took command of the situation as head judge by bitchslapping telling her crisply on live national television: “To me, it’s very clear: You don’t care what we think, and I don’t really care to watch you actually perform anymore because you aren’t listening to our critiques.”] So this should be... interesting. Of course I have no doubt that Johnny can more than hold his own with her, in the most charmingly devastating way possible. Bethenny’s show is syndicated and generally carried on local Fox stations. Per her website, Johnny’s episode is set to air on Thursday, November 21, on Fox 5 in the NYC area at 11 am (in Chicagoland, on Fox 32 at 4 pm). (Desperately hoping for an air date soon for his Dora episode—it’s this? maybe?—as a sort of Bethenny antidote...) OK, clearly we need another photo stat. Apply directly to your entire person. Just to be safe. Johnny, please do feel free to lower your index finger in this pose as needed during photo ops on Bethenny’s show. BEST BIG NEWS: Evgeni Plushenko’s wife, Yana Rudkovskaya, tweeted a poster yesterday for Plushenko’s upcoming post-Sochi tour, scheduled for March and April 2014: And YES, that is Johnny’s name on the list there next to the US flag! The full cast list in English, kindly linked to by @PlushenkoNews on Twitter, includes: Evgeni Plushenko Irina Slutskaya Ilia Kulik Stephane Lambiel Brian Joubert Johnny Weir Tomas Verner Fiona Zaulda & Dmitri Sukhanov Sergei Yakimenko Ekaterina & Alexander Chesna Edvin Marton Nikolai Baskov Dima Bilan Yana Rudkovskaya But the best part is contained in a small snippet of video from a Eurosport interview that Plushenko did last month. Listen closely beginning at about 1:06: “The plan right now: competition. And after the competition, I have tour in Russia, around 40 shows, maybe more, in Japan, China, Korea, maybe United States, Europe. I will be busy.” OMG “MAYBE UNITED STATES” YES PLEASE BRB DAYDREAMING FOREVER.... (although let’s take a short break for this:) And finally, a brief housekeeping note: Please oh please oh please could we get a mediator in to fix the sadly broken relationship between Johnny’s Twitter and his Facebook? His tweets stopped showing up on his Facebook Monday evening, and since then Facebook fans who don’t have Twitter have been languishing in that dark netherworld next door to The Bethenny Hellscape and tragically moaning, “What is he doing and why is he not saying anything...?” FB fans, whilst you continue your desperate vigil of hope, please enjoy this: Random Bonus Round of Random Stuff Two of the best things to come out of SWTS: This gif of Johnny and Uncle Dick... ...and Johnny’s incredible performance in the show’s finale. Photo tweeted by Johnny: “With one of my talented students from Tokyo, Nagisa-chan! She’s so cute! 渚ちゃんのスーパースター” [Superstar Nagisa-chan!] Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Thank you Yuka Kagayama for bringing your wonderful students, Nagisa-chan and Momona-chan to me for choreography!” @JohnnyGWeir Thank you for doing my choreography this time. It is a very wonderful program. — Momona Yamaguchi (@momona_sk) November 15, 2013 @JohnnyGWeir If it returns to Japan, it will strive to be able to utilize what was learned from you. I am sorry to have cried ( ;o; ) — Momona Yamaguchi (@momona_sk) November 15, 2013 (Momona explained in Japanese on her Twitter that she cried when it was time to say goodbye to Johnny. ♥ Follow her here!) Johnny and co-commentator Tara Lipinski hard at work watching TEB live and taping their commentary for NBC’s broadcast! Photo posted to Instagram by Tara L: “@johnnygweir what do you thinking we are watching at this moment?” #ThrowbackThursday photo tweeted by Johnny: “Cleveland circa 2000 when I thought I could be blonde-ish.” Love. UPDATE! New Instagram video tweeted by Johnny: “Memory lane with the incomparable Rudy Galindo. Sochi? #2006 #ManPair” And one more: Poker Face video tweeted last Thursday by Johnny: “Just cuz. #ThrowbackThursday.” My fav, and the one that started it all when a friend innocently tweeted this performance to me back in December 2009... Exclusive photos © David Ingogly. On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! All four segments of Shigesato Itoi’s wonderful interview with Johnny are up: Part One – Marriage Part Two – Balance Part Three – Olympics Part Four – Life Plus a special message from Johnny about his retirement from competitive skating is included at the end of Part Four. Please go read it all now! Also on the blog: “...That Boy With Wings on His Heart.” Johnny, Fallen Angel, Vancouver 2010. “The most beautiful performance I have ever seen. Inspired a young theater group in Brazil...” A poignantly uplifting story, now updated with a special postscript. “All of Him Is My Treasure.” Fans react to Johnny’s graceful exit from competitive skating. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Practice Is Perfect” 25+ exclusive photos of Johnny’s Sun Valley rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Dear Johnny...” Selected black-and-white photos of Johnny’s hauntingly beautiful Schindler’s List debut. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Something Beautiful Today.” Johnny at rehearsal in Sun Valley — Part 1 (much more to come!) Exclusive pics plus practice video featuring his gorgeous triple axel. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Sun Valley Sneak Peek: ‘A Rare Human So Breathtaking....’ ” Johnny debuts his Schindler’s List program in this stunning simple white costume. Exclusive pics and HD video. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Propaganda.” Photo essay of 40+ starkly beautiful black-and-white pics featuring Johnny at rehearsal as young skaters watch, spellbound. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Let the World Shine in Peace.” Quiet photo essay of exclusive black-and-white pics paired with Johnny’s quotes from his powerful column against boycotting Sochi. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! I discovered recently that there are brief rehearsal clips of Johnny on my cell phone that I had totally forgotten I had. The footage is blurry and jumpy, but as I re-watched this one for the first time in months, I suddenly realized that that doesn’t really matter at all.... Video link. International fans video link. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue a nytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

A delighted Johnny at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow Thursday morning, where he was greeted by beloved Russian fans bearing gifts and flowers. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. UPDATE: Now 50+ pics below, with NEW exclusives! Plus new video! Just Announced!! Johnny will be appearing on HuffPost LIVE Wednesday, October 22, to talk about To Russia With Love, and you can start posting questions for him NOW at this link! You also can tweet the segment producer, Gabe Piscione, to see if you can ask a question live on camera during Johnny’s appearance. Get those questions in, and be sure to watch Johnny on October 22! Premiering October 29!! Johnny stars in To Russia With Love, a new documentary about LGBT athletes, portions of which were filmed in secret during his time in Sochi as an NBC figure skating commentator. He also is an executive producer for the film, a project of Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions. More info here and on the EPIX website. The official trailer! Video link. Get ready: Johnny’s episode of DREAM SCHOOL: NYC airs Wednesday, October 22, 10 pm EDT / 9 pm CDT! Johnny stars with other celebrity teachers in partnership with NYC’s Beekman School to help turn around the lives of 15 teens who dropped out of conventional high school. New sneak peek at Johnny’s episode! Video link. Read more about his episode here! NEW Snow King Teaser! The first tour dates have been announced, ticket sales have commenced, and now we have another glimpse of Evgeni Plushenko’s amazing “enchanting fairy tale on ice for the whole family.” The show is based on an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s story, The Snow Queen, with Johnny playing the role of Kai. Video link. Behind-the-scenes sneak peek here. Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. So I have propped myself up on my fainting couch, where I’ve been convalescing for days, stricken by some kind of viral scourge that has left me coughing like an escapee from an Edwardian TB sanatorium, just long enough to wanly fling some picspam out here before collapsing again under another paroxysm of hacking, because these are just too wonderful to wait until I am more fully recovered. Plus I am really terrible at being sick—pretty much as bad as I am at sleeping—and I get bored with the whole thing after about the first 24 hours, so thank Weirsus here are these amazing photos that will probably do more to cure me than any amount of rest anyway. BRB shoving the fainting couch back in the attic... But first: ICYMI, which IDK how that could even be possible since I keep embedding it everywhere and have probably personally emailed it to everyone I’ve ever met as well, but yay here you are, and even if you didn’t miss it, it’s worth rewatching a time or two or twelve: the official trailer for To Russia With Love was released on Tuesday! And it is beautifully done: Please share everywhere. This film is so important and not to be missed. Video link. And yes, of course we have a transcript and a few screencaps: Announcer: Russia’s new law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations to minors has created an international backlash. Title overlay: To ignorance...with compassion Mark Tewksbury: It’s taken a long time, but I do feel like Sochi is a bit of a tipping point. Title overlay: To brutality...with strength Johnny: It matters to you that your Olympics is going to be in a country that thinks of you not as a real part of society. Belle Breckhoff: You can take it quite personally. We should have kissed. I think that would have been a very big, history-making sort of thing. Title overlay: To fear...with courage Vladislav Slaviskiy: They attack me every evening... Title overlay: Some athletes stand for more than gold. (Female voice): This could have been the raised fist in protest. Johnny: An Olympic flame isn’t going to change the world. You have to change the world yourself. To Russia With Love. Johnny and Vlad. Speaking with Belle Breckhoff. “An Olympic flame isn’t going to change the world... ...You have to change the world... ...yourself.” While I love everything about the trailer, to me the moment with the most visual impact is the single second right before the screencap above. It happens here, from 00:42 to 00:43... ...as Johnny, seen only in shadow, performs on the ice under the impassive gaze of a Russian officer. And just to be clear: pretty much the entire time that Johnny was being criticized mercilessly for his decision to go to Sochi, he was secretly working on this project. So that months after the Games were over, the vodka-poured-in-the-streets protests long abandoned, and his critics off on other tangents, his efforts could help ensure that the spotlight would once again be focused on this human-rights issue enveloping a country he loves with all his heart. Because the world might forget. But he would not. Johnny Returns to Russia! 10-09-2014. At Sheremetyevo, where fans who have not seen him for two years await his arrival... OK, first you have to watch the video, even if you already watched it earlier today, because this: @misfitmimes @JohnnyGWeir That was very, very sweet. How to say this...so much love & mutual respect in one place. Just so lovely to see! ♡ — Berry Glitterfairy (@kiichigo82) October 9, 2014 So here you go: Video link. And now, the picspam! The photos in this first series are all exclusives from my dear friend Elena Vasileva, who not only took a zillion pics for Johnny’s fans around the world to enjoy, but also brought him a basket of her own beautiful homemade pirozhki. She explains: “In Russia, we have an old tradition—we meet the most dear guest with bread-and-salt. But there is something even better: pirozhki!” Accompanied, of course, with flowers. And Starbucks. ♥ A beautiful bouquet ready and waiting for Johnny... ...and he loves it! Chatting with fans... (Elena says here he is describing what a hard worker Evgeni Plushenko is on the ice.) ...and also being a good listener, as always. (Yay Starbucks!) With gorgeous sunflowers from Tatiana Edrenkina! Getting things packed up to go, as his driver has been waiting patiently... With all his gifts, including the basket of pirozhki... ....and a really big smile. On his way! This series is from Anastasiya Bochkareva’s fabulous gallery and her Facebook album, which she titled, “Sweet memories.” Beautiful, smiling, and presumably coherent (in Russian) after spending all night on an airplane. I love this. And this. Apparently a moment of serious business. Group pics! Via Anastasiya’s Facebook. Left to right: Liza Simakina, Elena Vasileva, Vera Chayko, Irina Volkova, Johnny, Tatiana Edrenkina, and Nadia Vasilyeva. And this time Elena takes the pic so Anastasiya can be in it (far left)! Via Facebook. And now he’s really on his way. UPDATE!! New exclusive photos series from Tatiana Edrenkina! Gifts of love await Johnny, among them beautiful sunflowers from Tatiana... ...and delicious pirozhki from Elena! He’s here!! Please do click for larger view so you can see the look on his face. ♥ A special gift from Liza Simakina. Tatiana explains: “She gave him her collection of figure skating stamps from all over the world, including the countries of which existence we didn’t even know. That was a wow! moment.” Johnny takes his time to savor this amazing gift. And then one more photo before he’s off to his waiting car. Bonus pics!! Via a very appreciative Johnny: “Moscow Baby! Thank you to my beautiful ladies who greeted me at Sheremetyevo!” Via Johnny: “Flowers and coffee, the way to my heart!” Bonus video!! An Evening With Champions has released the entire Saturday night show on YouTube, which is wonderful. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 here, featuring Johnny’s “Human” performance beginning at about 58:47. Or even better: you can just watch Johnny’s “Human” here, thanks once again to video ninja Elena Vasileva! Video link. To Russia With Love Bonus photo art. (Please click for full-size images.) And one more: absolutely stunning fan art by @MethaPhiZika on Twitter. Please click for full-size image! Very special thanks to Elena Vasileva for the exclusive photos! ICYMI: “Dragon.” The first series of exclusive photos from An Evening With Champions, featuring Johnny’s debut of the spectacular dragon costume given to him by his Chinese fans. “Bold Beauty: Bollywood Revisited.” A stunning new look at Johnny’s Nagada Sang Dhol program in a series of 35+ exclusive photos, plus exclusive video. “To Stand in a Ray of Sunlight.” Gorgeous sun-drenched photos of Johnny at rehearsal in Sun Valley, plus exclusive video of his practice. “Human.” The US debut of Johnny’s stunning and hauntingly beautiful new program. Selected exclusive photos, plus exclusive HD video. “Be Gorgeous Without Your Pants.” 50+ Artistry on Ice pics plus all-new videos, including Beijing and Guangzhou press conferences! “Magic Becomes Art...” 60+ spectacular pics from Shanghai, including the most beautiful “Concubine” series yet. Stunning fan art by @glace_icywaterdri on Weibo. “Concubine.” Beautiful mega-picspam from the Guangzhou livestream. Photo art detail from an exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published on Thursdays in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Watch bonus clips online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2014 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

In what could be the most bitter end of a same-sex celebrity marriage we've seen to date, Johnny Weir went on the record about his split from husband Victor

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Johnny at rehearsal in near-darkness. More from this series below! Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Yes! At last! Johnny's episode of Chopped All-Stars airs THIS SUNDAY at 9 pm EDT! Here's the episode description from Food Network: Four celebrities with different backgrounds, and a shared love of cooking, charge into the Chopped Kitchen. Plain vanilla is something that none of the competitors can relate to, but can they skillfully use vanilla cupcakes to create appetizers as one-of-a-kind as they are? Then something crispy and something jiggly make the main course a study in contrasts. And when two entertaining cooks proceed to the final round, they put on a performance with circus peanuts and curry powder. And here are a few screencaps from the 30-second spot that's been airing on Food Network this week: Johnny with (left to right): judge Ted Allen and fellow celeb competitors Joey Fatone, Laila Ali, and Judy Gold. And yay we have video! Video link. Here's a longer sneak peek with more Johnny! Video link. UPDATE: Yes! We rock! Johnny remains in 1st place as of Friday, 04/26! Please continue voting up to 10x/day from every available device / browser here. Go Johnny!! And please be sure to tune in THIS SUNDAY, April 28, at 9 pm EDT to see Johnny in Chopped All-Stars on Food Network! Please continue to tweet Nike randomly to voice support for a Johnny / Nike partnership, and thank you to all who have felt inspired to do so! While we realize that Nike proactively seeks athletes to sponsor, as their website notes, that's pretty much our point: they're actively looking for an out gay athlete, according to reports, and we know the perfect candidate! Really, we're just being helpful, like a sort of Christian Mingle for Corporations Who Want A Half-Jewish Gay Partner. #winning #JustDoIt News from the competitive figure-skating world (oh yeah. That. Excuse me a moment while I grab my pocket protector and my calculator since skating is incomprehensible and deeply unsatistfying math these days Dennis Ten...): So US Figure Skating posted the updated ISP list recently, which prompted many of us to rack our brains again on Twitter trying to remember what ISP stands for ("Ice Skating People?" "International Skating Problems?" [*side eyes at International Skating Union dark overlord president Ottavio Cinquanta*] "Icky Stupid Protocols?"...) as we also noted with a sigh of relief that Johnny's name is on the list ("Johnny's an Internet Service Provider? Sign me up!"). As the USFS notes as drily as possible without actually shriveling up and blowing away, "The 2013-14 International Selection Pool (ISP) includes most Team A, B and C age-eligible athletes and any other athletes being considered for an international competition." So yay! It's the first step in gearing up for next season for which I am in no way emotionally prepared... ! And finally: This poster popped up on Twitter and Facebook Wednesday in all its dual awesomeness: (1) This is the advertisement for the after party for the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund's "Heroes" event, at which Johnny is receiving the DVLF National Hero Award, and (2) they used a Davey photo! There's still time to buy tickets; more info on the DVLF website! Which brings us to today's random picspam: The Fire & Ice logo reminded me to dig out this brief series of photos we have from a December rehearsal in which the rink was basically pitch-black for a while. Always a challenge photographically, sometimes those conditions cause the camera to interpret what little light it can register as reds and golds. The result: Johnny skating and dancing on ice the color of fire... Johnny first appears on the ice. Exclusive photos © David Ingogly. Bonus pupdate pics!! Togo and Tyoma, tweeted by Victor: "They love each other." ♥ Tweeted by ayukovon in response to Johnny's bout with food poisoning this week. Tweeted by ayukovon. Even Togo and Ping are excited for Johnny's Chopped All-Stars episode! And one more: I finally ordered a little something for myself from the fan store: a Johnny keychain. Love. It. Very special thanks to Jenn Kittler for her invaluable help with screencaps and video!! ICYMI: Johnny Weir random rehearsal clips. Video link. Alternate link. Congratulations to Johnny, winner of the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund's HERO Award!! Johnny will be honored at the DVLF's annual Heroes event on Sunday, May 19, in Philadelphia. Tickets on sale now! For more info, please visit the DVLF website. "Army of Johnny." 25+ exclusive new photos © David Ingogly. Johnny's latest column for the Falls Church News-Press: Part 3 of the Baba Lyuba saga! His columns are published every Thursday in the "National Commentary" section—don't miss a single one! NEW in the fan store: Gorgeous hi-res fan art donated by the artist exclusively to Team Weir-Voronov! Johnny as the "Swan Prince," © @MDCXVIII on Twitter. Available as a poster or as a premium wrapped-canvas print. Japanese fans: Please use this link. And Johnny as the "Phoenix," © @MDCXVIII on Twitter. Available as a poster or as a premium wrapped-canvas print. Japanese fans: Please use this link. Order yours today! All proceeds donated to Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund, administered by the lovely Patti Weir. A number of Johnny's auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you're in luck: It's not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Ice Dreams returns! (Though apparently not to Chicago, sadly.) More info here! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! Please alert absolutely everyone you've ever met to "like" and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as "Best Sportsman"! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! (Note: With his "58.132" rating, he is currently in 1st place in both Figure Skating AND across all sports!) Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you're watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: "Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!" IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny's website, or just click the "Buy" button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny signs autographs and takes a few last photos with fans at the airport in Taiwan before boarding his flight home at the conclusion of the Artistry on Ice tour. Photo © Karen Wolffy. 50+ Artistry on Ice pics below!! Plus all-new videos, including Beijing and Guangzhou press conferences! Also below: Amazing special bonus video from Japan! UPDATE: Two more Japan videos just added, plus: HD video from the AOI Taiwan TV broadcast! Just announced!! Johnny will be perfoming in An Evening With Champions, hosted at Harvard University’s Bright Hockey Center in Boston, MA, September 19 and 20! This annual charity show is a fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Yes, VIP tickets are available, which include admission to a meet-n-greet with the skaters. East Coast fans: don’t miss this one! Show and ticket info here. West Coast fans: this one’s for you!! Tickets are available for this August 27 charity event in northern California, which benefits the educational programs of the San Francisco 49ers Academy. Though he’s not skating at this event, Johnny will be the emcee for the evening— and that alone is worth the price of admission. Event and ticket info here. Johnny has revealed the results! Did your favorite win? Johnny’s performing in Sun Valley, ID, this Saturday, August 16. A few tickets are still available. Don’t miss this chance to see him skate live!! Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Kayso yesterday was a day in which I drove across the entire width of this state and back to retrieve some things from the attic of a place where I stored a bunch of stuff and which is now completely infested with bats. Because my life is really horrifyingly nightmarish interesting like that, and this is the sort of thing you do when you’re me. Other people might spend the day at, say, a normal job, or perhaps enjoying a random late-summer day off, or helping their children get geared up for back-to-school, or buying tickets to attend every upcoming Johnny event (see above!), or simply posing in a window and looking amazing against a cityscape backdrop: Via Johnny: “I ❤️ NY because a nightgown can pass as dinner attire.” I did this. As longtime readers of this blog may recall, bats are not my favorite. Fortunately there’s still tons of stuff left over from Artistry on Ice that is. So please enjoy this new incredible collection of favorites, mostly off-ice Johnnnyness from China, including a ton of videos that will leave you smiling for the rest of the day—a day in which hopefully you, at least, are not doing anything that requires using the word “guano” in a sentence. But first: we begin with current events—or current to me, since I’m still catching up on yesterday.... Anatomy of a Photo Shoot On Tuesday Johnny did what appears, from every angle, to be an epic photo shoot for his Sundance / EPIX documentary, To Russia With Love, which premieres October 22. These tantalizing scenes from the shoot were shared on various Instagrams. Cannot wait to see more. Via stylist @jewliebrooke: “Obviously it’s a @johnnygweir prep day” Via EPIX: “We’re shooting with @johnnygweir today! Here’s a sneak peek at some of his wardrobe options. #ootd #fashion #clothes #epix #behindthescenes” Via @jewliebrooke: “@johnnygweir #duh” Via @dabeebs: “Hanging with the very lovely #JohnnyGWeir #toRussiaWithLove #olympics #film #werk” Via @nathanrosenkrantz: “Gettin weird with Weir! @johnnygweir #secretfingerwave #bts #onset #alternastylist @alternahaircare @brydgesmackinney” Via Johnny: “Long day! Thank you @EPIX and everyone involved in today’s shoot! #torussiawithlove” Via Johnny: “On set with the incredible @colbymakeup. Promo shoot day for @EPIX. #ToRussiaWithLove” Via EPIX: “Aerial view of today’s shoot with @johnnygweir. #ToRussiaWithLove #ootd #fashion #photoshoot #EPIX #TV” Via @colbymakeup: “A day with @johnnygweir is the best day ever. #johnnyweir #lipstick” Via @jewliebrooke: “Reunited and it feels so good @johnnygweir” Via Johnny: “My amazing stylist and wardrobe maven, @jewliebrooke. Incredible.” Via Johnny: “It takes a village! Thank you to my amazing style team for a great shoot! @nathanrosenkranz @jewliebrooke @colbymakeup” Via Johnny: “Kiss! So excited for #torussiawithlove this fall on @EPIX!” Photos below credited per Weibo stamp on each image unless otherwise noted. Please click any photo twice for the full-size image. Some may take a moment to load, but as always, are worth the wait. Today’s AOI Favorites. Part 1: More Video Heaven. Johnny’s arrival in Beijing! Video link. At the Beijing airport. Haohewuyin explains: “On the card is written: ‘Welcome to Artistry on Ice in China for 5th time! Please keep calm in the hot weather and be gorgeous without your pants!’” Since Johnny’s been following a #nopants theme most of the summer... Video link. Beijing fan meeting! Watching this is one of the best ways to spend 30 minutes ever. And please enjoy Johnny’s one-word description of Stéphane... Video link. Johnny Weir - Artistry on Ice 2014, Beijing... by ellevelle UPDATE: If the above YouTube has audio issues for you, please try this version! Video link. Beijing press conference! Johnny and Stéphane appear to grow a bit... restless as the conference goes on. The fun begins at about 10:12, and again at about 12:10, and.... Video link. A brief and beautiful official “Concubine” clip from Artistry on Ice. Video link. A portion of the clip above, with some intriguing enhancements! Video link. And super-special bonus: Guangzhou press conference!! Video link. Guangzhou version 2! With more footage! Video link. UPDATE!! Johnny's performances in Taiwan, from the HD television broadcast! Video link. Part 2: Scenes from an Airport. No. 5,632,597 in a Series. These pics were taken at the Taiwan airport as Johnny was preparing to board his flight home. Yes, this stuff is in no order at all, unless me chirping, “Ooooo! I like these! And these! And these!” can be considered an organizing principle. Photo © Karen Wolffy. Photo © Karen Wolffy. Photo © Karen Wolffy. IDK what’s happening here... ...so let’s make stuff up. “Well, according to my careful calculations... “...when properly folded, Stéphane is only about this big. So I think he should fit perfectly in this one.” Yay! Problem solved. Now on to last-minute autgraphs and photos with fans. And then this happened on the way through security... Haohewuyin explains: “The security guy wants Johnny’s autograph.” “He recognized Johnny as Yuji from ‘When Love Is Gone.’” “But Johnny wants to sign the autograph with the security guy’s name on it.” “So they look at his name tag.” “So Johnny can be sure to get it right. ^_^” Done! And fans are still photographing.... ....every last glimpse.... ...because it’s so hard to say goodbye to Johnny for another whole year. Part 3: Shanghai Surprise. The lovely Machiko Oka shares her Instagram pics for everyone to enjoy! All these were taken during Johnny’s time in Shanghai. Post-performance, with beautiful flower garlands. With Johnny Pandas in Shanghai! Wonderful Haohewuyin is on the far left. Shopping! And a brief lesson in Chinese with fans in Shanghai. Video link. Part 4: Gorgeous Flowers in Guangzhou. With Bonus Edvin Marton. I love these flower pics so much. These are awesome and big. Please click for full-size images. Part 5: Random Bonus Pics. Johnny at rehearsal. A very distinctive figure. Via the Artistry on Ice Facebook page. After the show in Taiwan. Via the Taiwan fans’ public Facebook group. Via Johnny’s Weibo: “Thank you Taipei!! I ️♥ Ю!” Johnny in Guangzhou with the amazing Joveta Leo, who provided so many incredible photos throughout his AOI tour appearances. Via the Artistry on Ice Facebook page. Please click for full-size image. Wow. More Johnny at rehearsal. And one more. From the finale of the very last show. Bonus videos!! Johnny-centric Shanghai finale. Video link. The full version of Fantasy on Ice 2014 in Toyama!! Johnny’s Bollywood begins at about 36:17. And at last: his hauntingly beautiful Schindler’s List, beginning at about 40:19. Video link. UPDATE!! Johnny’s Bollywood from Toyama. In case you just want to watch this part on repeat... Video link. Or this part: Johnny’s Schindler’s List. Simply breathtaking. Video link. Very special thanks to Haohewuyin and Johnny Pandas for the wonderful and endless supply of videos and photos, and to Elena Vasileva for all her hard work as our video ninja!! ICYMI: “Magic Becomes Art...” 60+ spectacular pics from Shanghai, including the most beautiful “Concubine” series yet. Stunning fan art by @glace_icywaterdri on Weibo. “Concubine.” Beautiful mega-picspam from the Guangzhou livestream. Photo art detail from an exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. “Bollywood in Beijing and Other Stories.” All the picspam one could possibly want of Johnny’s performance to Nagada Sang Dhol at the Beijing premiere of Artistry on Ice. Photo © Maria Ma. “Love Is In Your Eyes.” Gorgeous photos of Johnny as the King’s Consort and partner Zhang Hao as the King in their stunning performance inspired by “Farewell My Concubine,” from the opening show of the Artistry on Ice tour. “Forbidden Love: The King’s Consort.” First look at Johnny and partner Zhang Hao in their premiere performance inspired by “Farewell My Concubine.” Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. Please, please click here for stunning full-size image. “The Weibocalypse Is Nigh.” Thursday rehearsal pics plus coverage of the Beijing press conference! Please click here for beautiful full-size image, and roll around in the picspam here. Exclusive photo © Joveta Leo. “Surrounded By So Much Love.” Wednesday rehearsal pics plus fan meeting pics! Not all of the rehearsal was quite this serious, though.... Please click for beautiful full-size image, and enjoy all the endless picspam here! Johnny stars in To Russia With Love, a new documentary about LGBT athletes, portions of which were filmed in secret during his time in Sochi as an NBC figure skating commentator. He also is an executive producer for the film, a project of Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions, which will premiere October 22. More info here and on the EPIX website. Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Watch bonus clips online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2014 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

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Throwback Thursday: Johnny bathed in purple spotlight, December 2011. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. BREAKING: Johnny will be on the Today Show Wednesday, October 23, with important news. Set those DVRs now! Watch me tomorrow morning on @TODAYshow! I've got some big announcements to speak on! — Johnny Weir-Voronov (@JohnnyGWeir) October 22, 2013 I'll be on @TODAYshow tomorrow morning live around 8:30 EST. Tune in. I've got some big stuff to talk about! 💎 — Johnny Weir-Voronov (@JohnnyGWeir) October 23, 2013 NOTE: Post now UPDATED below with downloadable podcast and transcript of Johnny's BBC interview! We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you “no.” — Johnny Weir Spirit Day 2010 It’s Spirit Day. Wear purple. Say something nice to someone you wouldn’t usually talk to. Stop attacking people for being different. #love — Johnny Weir Spirit Day 2011 If you believe in yourself and surround yourself with love, you can do anything. — Johnny Weir Spirit Day 2012 Happy Spirit Day! Paint the world purple. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir Spirit Day 2013 Photo tweeted by Johnny today. ♥ Johnny Is on BBC Radio 5 Today! Johnny with BBC Radio 5 Live’s Eleanor Oldroyd, who interviewed him last week at home in New Jersey. Photo tweeted by Eleanor. A portion of Johnny's BBC interview will air TODAY, Thursday, Oct. 17, on BBC Radio 5 Live at 7:30 pm UK time (2:30 pm EDT / 1:30 pm CDT) in a segment titled, “Sochi — the Protest Games.” You should be able to listen live here (just click “Listen” at the top of the page), and a podcast also should be available at that link after the show. Live feed also available on BBC 5 Live’s main page. Don’t miss it! UPDATE: Downloadable podcast now available! Listen below, on the BBC Radio 5 Live website, on the podcast website, or here. UPDATE: Yes, we have a transcript of Johnny’s portion of the broadcast! Plus some remarks from the other panelists in the studio with Eleanor: British journalist Matthew Syed of the Times, and Jacquelin Magnay of the Telegraph and the Australian. [Beginning at about 14:30] Eleanor Oldroyd: Let’s move on and hear from one of the key figures in the show tonight: His name is Johnny Weir, and I think it’s best I let him introduce himself. Johnny: Hi, I’m Johnny Weir. I am an author, I’m a television personality, I’m an American, I’m a gay, an athlete ... I’m a father to a beautiful puppy, I’m very sparkly, but I’m best-known as a two-time Olympic figure skater for the United States of Amerifunk. EO: He is a larger-than-life character, Johnny, one of the most flamboyant figure skaters on the circuit, a former US national champion, and a competitor in both Vancouver and in Turin, where his short program where he dressed as a swan and performed to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns inspired rapture—or outrage, depending on your point of view. Now, he came out after Vancouver ... and Johnny told me he is firmly against a boycott. JW: I find that the boycott, and a lot of these crazy things that people are saying that should be done about Russia, and should be done about the Olympics in particular, are asinine. I watched my mother work at jobs that were far beneath her just to fund my costumes for a year, or my music editing for a year. I watched my father work a shift from 10 pm until 6 am just so that we could make ends meet at times. If I were to give up all of those things that they sacrificed—in addition to my own: I didn’t have a normal childhood, I don’t have a normal life now, for the most part—for all of those sacrifices, to just throw it away, is ridiculous. To make a point, you have to be present. You can’t sit in America in your penthouse in New York and boycott vodka because you think it’s going to hurt Russia. It hurts the people who work in Russian factories if you boycott vodka. And that could include gay people. So my opinion of the boycott is just that it’s the most ridiculous way to fix the situation. EO: And as far as the IOC are concerned, do you think that they support gay athletes in the way that they should do? JW: The IOC has never banned me from competing in any event—not that I was out gay. You know, as far as the IOC’s concerned, I was never denied access to a country or competition. The IOC should be trying to request from Russia our safety, and the safety of fans coming to support us, the safety of family—the IOC should be trying, but the IOC is not a government. The IOC has no real right to tell a sovereign nation what to do. The IOC is a foundation. It’s a committee. They can’t really do that much. The Olympics are a moment where the world does come together, but it’s also a place where people use the world’s attention to make a point. And I worry that in Sochi, in Russia, that if it isn’t one thing, it’ll be another, and it will completely destroy the Olympic movement and the pure good that the Olympics is. Of course I’m not Russian, I don’t know what it’s like to be living in Russia at the moment and be gay, but we [Americans] tend to run with things and dramatize things very much. I’ve been in Russia many times, even before I was famous there, and I was always gay. I always had a handbag with my stuff in it. I always looked like a gay person. And being gay in Russia—I mean, my coach actually said [imitates Galina]: “Johnny, you know, we don’t have any gays in Russia.” And I said, “Yes, you do. You have lots of them. And they’re everywhere. They’re on your television, they’re taking over your supermarket. We’re everywhere.” And she said, “Well, then, we don’t talk about it. We don’t think about it.” So, while this law was passed, and it’s a terrible law, it isn’t so different from what life was before the law—aside from now that hooligans have the opportunity to be legally backed up to beat up and terrorize gay people. And that’s my opinion. To boycott and to stay away from the problem—and I’ve heard things as crazy as, “Move the Olympics to Vancouver!” or “Have a dual Olympic: anyone, any country that is for the Russian Olympics, they can go there, and we’ll have another Olympics for all the countries that support gay people!”—and America stands on this soapbox as though they completely support the gays—which soon enough they all will, but—we don’t. EO: That was Johnny Weir, and we’ll hear more from him after eight o’clock. Matthew Syed and Jacquelin Magnay: listening to that, Matthew, what do you make of what Johnny says? I mean he speaks very eloquently, doesn’t he, and the way he refutes the idea of a boycott—you cannot fail to sympathize with his views of the sacrifices that he and his family made to get him to this position. Those surely shouldn’t be compromised. MS: It was a brilliant interview, and that part of it, I thought, was the most compelling of all. It is so lazy and fatuous, particularly for people outside sport, to say that athletes uniquely should make the sacrifice, throw up all of the ambitions that they’ve had for many years, the sacrifices that he so eloquently described that his mother and father have made to get him into a position to compete. I wouldn’t mind if these people outside sport were prepared to make a sacrifice themselves, if Stephen Fry was to say, “I’m going to return every single penny I’ve ever made from the sale of DVDs or videos or whatever else in Russia,” but it’s not industry that’s ever made to make the sacrifice. It’s not economics. It’s always—or often—the sports people. And I just think that that’s grossly unfair, unless it is part of a wider, more sophisticated political strategy. But it rarely is. [At about 39:42] EO: Let’s talk a bit more about Johnny Weir. As you mentioned, Matthew, he’s the American figure skater, former American champion, he’s been to two Winter Olympics already. As he says himself, he’s as out and as proud as it’s possible to be, and the big question for him is: will he go to Sochi? JW: I will be in Sochi. In what capacity, I’m unsure of, but I WILL be there. And my goal is to be at every Olympics for the rest of my life. There’s nothing like an Olympic Games to unite the world, even in a bigger way than the World Cup does. It’s every four years, it’s special, it’s unique, it is so many sports, so many countries, and the Olympic movement is something that I’ve lived and breathed and believed in since I was a young person, the idea of celebrating the youth of the world, and their technical expertise, and their differences. And watching Israel, the Israeli team, walk in the opening ceremonies of a German Olympics, or watching North Koreans and South Koreans walk in the same opening—there’s something so beautiful about that. EO: But the fact that you are there, as you say, as an openly gay man, with the laws that are now in place in Russia: how do you think it’s going to be for you, being there? JW: Russia is a place that I’ve been obsessed with since I was very young. To say I’m a Russophile is kind of an understatement. I speak the language ... [and] I’ve worked almost exclusively with Russians in creating my career and helping me get to where I need to be, whether it was my on-ice coach, my choreographer, my dietitian, my masseuse, my dentist. I am assimilated into the Russian community in America, and in Russia itself. And when I go, I go to Russia as a celebrated person. I go as a great athlete. I am treated very well when I go to Russia. I’ve never had an instance where I had a homophobic comment thrown at me, I’ve never been ostracized, I’ve never been treated badly in Russia. But I don’t go to Russia as a normal person. I go to Russia as a great athlete. Me being gay, there is a slight difference to me going to Russia versus Brad Pitt—who’s also celebrated in Russia—going there for a movie premiere. There is some... awkwardness when it comes to the gay question. But if I was going to Russia as a normal person, this is a time when I would have to rethink that. This is a time when I would be afraid. This is a time when I wouldn’t want to have my sexuality publicized ... or to do anything inappropriate, because when you do travel to other countries, you obey their laws. And the laws against gay people at the moment in Russia are terrible. It’s absolutely a terrible time for gay people in Russia. But, as a normal person or as me, I would still go. Not just because of my love for the country, the culture, the language, everything—I would go to Russia to lend my voice. EO: Do you think that by the Olympics being there, by you being there, it will help to change attitudes in Russia? JW: My hope is that my presence in Russia—as a competitor or not—and showing that a law can’t keep me from doing something that I want to do and living a life of integrity and a life that I’m proud of—I hope that that is helpful in some way. But I refuse to do it at the Olympics where I am an athlete. I would be at the Olympics as an athlete, representing my country. Sometimes being an athlete and dedicating your life to something means a lot more than just the things you were born with. EO: That’s Johnny Weir, and we’ll hear a bit more from him before the end of the program. [At about 1:14] EO: Well, before we go, it seems fitting to give the final word to Johnny Weir. He told me that he would love to meet President Putin. JW: What I would say to him is that I have a very happy life. I live a normal life—I mean, aside from wearing sequined jackets, I live a normal-ish life. I’m strong. I’ve beaten your sportsmen. I’ve done everything that you can do. So why am I not equal to you? What is so terrifying about me and my people that you want to deny us rights and liberty and the ability to live freely? Bonus pics!! Posted to Instagram this morning by the ever-fabulous Eric Altomare: “On location for big big shoot with @johnnygweir and secret guest. #johnnyweir #hair #photoshoot” (Ooooo “big big shoot”!! “Secret guest” hint #1 and hint #2.) UPDATE! Posted to Instagram this morning by Eric: “@johnnygweir we look CRAY CRAY!!” UPDATE! Photo tweeted by Johnny: “Had an amazing time filming with Dora and @NickelodeonTV! Look for my spot teaching Dora to skate mid-November!” Photo tweeted yesterday by Johnny: “Business Lunch. @ Artisanal Fromagerie & Bistro.” Love everything about this pic. #TBT photo tweeted today by @CoachTomZ: “Johnny Weir and I backstage at Nationals in 2012. You can see why he is easily the best dressed and I need help! Thank you for all that you do for our sport and your support with Max. #tbt #icon” And one more for #TBT: Johnny in the T-shirt he and Traver Rains designed to raise money for the Trevor Project on Spirit Day 2010. #ArmyofOne Also on the blog: “Practice Is Perfect” 25+ exclusive new photos of Johnny’s Sun Valley rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Also on the blog: “Dear Johnny...” Selected black-and-white photos of Johnny’s hauntingly beautiful Schindler’s List debut. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Something Beautiful Today.” Johnny at rehearsal in Sun Valley — Part 1 (much more to come!) Exclusive pics plus practice video featuring his gorgeous triple axel. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Sun Valley Sneak Peek: ‘A Rare Human So Breathtaking....’ ” Johnny debuts his Schindler’s List program in this stunning simple white costume. Exclusive pics and HD video. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Propaganda.” Photo essay of 40+ starkly beautiful black-and-white pics featuring Johnny at rehearsal as young skaters watch, spellbound. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Let the World Shine in Peace.” Quiet photo essay of exclusive black-and-white pics paired with Johnny’s quotes from his powerful column against boycotting Sochi. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue a nytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny shows off his Russian-flag-inspired manicure at the Russian fan meeting, December 2011. Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. So today we continue—for no reason at all other than that I love these pics and this interview and I want everybody to read it—our translation of Johnny's interview with Sport Express with parts 3 and 4, translated by the lovely Tatiana Edrenkina and graced with some random new picspam from the Russian fan meeting last December, also by Tati, because she's awesome, and also because yay Russia. But first, the news briefs of the day: (1) Go see Johnny skate in his home rink! Tickets are on sale now for Show of Champions, presented by the Ice House in Hackensack, NJ, on Saturday, August 18! Tickets are $25 for general admission, or $50 for on-ice seating plus the post-show meet-n-greet with the skaters. To purchase, please call the Ice House at 201-487-8444, ext 232. Fireworks also is offering just fifteen Platinum VIP tickets at $175 each that include a coaching seminar, lunch, admission to the pre-show practice, on-ice seating, and the post-show meet-n-greet. Please note that Johnny will not be at the seminar, but is expected at the practice, according to the Ice House. IDK if these are sold out yet, but for more info, please send an email to [email protected]. (2) Post a message of support for Johnny! "Leave a Message for Johnny" is a new feature now available on Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund website. From the site: Many fans who have already sent a gift mentioned that they’d love to have included a message of support with their gift. You’re welcome to do so in the “Message” area of the PayPal screen. But now you also can leave a message here on the site! Our hope is to build a wall of support for Johnny that he can visit anytime, if he’d like, to read and enjoy. Though he can’t offer messages in return (he’s a bit busy…), fans can share their encouraging thoughts and best wishes for him here. Please check it out, and post your message today! (3) Get ready for Husbands the Series Season 2! Love this web series created and produced by Brad Bell ("Cheeks") and Jane Espenson, and I was thrilled to see that Husbands fans fully funded the Kickstarter project to create a second season. I was even more thrilled at the news that came out of San Diego Comic Con this weekend: Among other amazing guest stars, Joss Whedon himself--yes, he of mega Buffy fame, who is now enjoying his most recent huge success as the director of the blockbuster film The Avengers--will be making an appearance in Season 2! This announcement was the number-one story in The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday, which gives you a tiny glimpse of the incredible drawing power Whedon wields. Catch up on Season 1 now, and don't miss the Season 2 premiere on Wednesday, August 15! Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. Johnny Weir: “At Heart, I’m an Old Russian Woman" Interview in Sport Express posted 06-06-2012 by Slava Malamud translated by Tatiana Edrenkina (Parts 1 and 2 available here.) Part 3: Babushka Tarasova So what will you be like on the ice? Will we see the same Johnny Weir, or a new one? I hope that you will see a wiser Johnny Weir. When you’re young, you make a lot of different mistakes — no one can escape it. I was terribly bitchy, didn’t listen to anyone but myself. When you’re like this, you draw into yourself, and, on bad days, when nothing works out well, nobody is there to help you. I don’t need to be like that anymore. All that I could do for US Figure Skating, I’ve already done. If I don’t succeed now, I will gracefully leave the sport and I will be happy. So the new Johnny Weir is more peaceful and relaxed. I hope that will help me be a stronger skater than I used to be. Will it really help? What if your will to win disappears? I have never been so energized to fight. I’m not as much of a fighter as Plushenko, who fights like a dog to win every competition. Maybe because he’s Russian and I’m American, and we Americans don’t have to suffer and fight for everything like you do. Or maybe it’s just me. I’m not one who’s ready to cut my rival’s throat to win. You love hockey in Russia, so maybe you get your mentality from that. To score a goal, to help your team… I can’t ignore the fact that figure skating is a sport where your destiny is decided by fourteen absolute strangers who are much older than you. George Foreman once told me that Russian boxers are more hungry and angry than Americans. The Russian system of figure skating, as well, is much more serious. In particular, it’s related to the coaches of the old Soviet school. You either succeed, or you’re nothing. Were you shocked when you first encountered this school? I’m sure Tatiana Tarasova did not coddle you. That was exactly what I needed. You see, my first coach, Priscilla Hill, taught me everything I know. But she was a very loving and gentle person, sometimes too much so. And Tarasova kicked my ass. But outside of the rink she was just a babushka [grandmother]: she tried to feed me, comb my hair. Galina Zmievskaya is the same: on the ice, she’s the toughest and most difficult person on earth; but in our regular life, we have a wonderfully warm relationship. What is the characteristic feature of the Russian school of figure skating, from your point of view? What does it mean — “to skate like the Russians”? I can explain that because, more than all the others, I have always thoroughly studied the Russian school. Even when I was a child, [I studied it] on TV. The characteristic feature is that for Russians, everything is very dramatic. Americans are more conservative in their movements. Russians have drama everywhere — costumes, music, technique. Like in hockey, Russians love speed. Movements of the arms and legs are very wide, with a big range. Americans are more restrained. You used to give names to the elements of your costumes… Don’t worry about that! I’m still as strange as before. If I feel the need to give a name to a program or a costume, I will. Why not have fun? The worst thing you can do is treat something too seriously. What is the sense in doing something that doesn’t please you? Actually, it seems that all your weirdnesses are worked out in advance… Worked out in advance? No. I’m really a very strange person, and I’m OK with that. Others are not OK with it. Figure skating is an old kind of sport. Well, not old; let me say, elderly. Traditions rule, and rather elderly people run everything. And by the way, they are not really interested in gay athletes. Although in America, figure skating has the reputation of being a rather gay sport. But it’s kept secret so no one will be upset. But l decided long ago that there’s nothing more important in life than the right to be who you are. So it happened that on the one hand, I didn’t feel the need to comply with the norm. But on the other hand, I know without a doubt that all my competitive results suffered greatly because of that. Part 4: Shower for Me, Platinum for Plushenko If you had been judged without bias, what do you think your place would have been at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver? Ugh… You know how much time passed until I found the strength to watch the performances of all the others? After Vancouver, my heart was broken. I was depressed and lost all interest in figure skating. Vancouver was a peak. Yes, exactly, it was the peak moment of my life. The most emotional, the most dramatic, the most beautiful. I went off the ice feeling incredibly high. But when the scores appeared, I immediately understood that I was being put in sixth place. I thought, “Oh wow, how did the others perform?” And when I went backstage, reporters started coming up to me and announcing: this one fell down, that one stopped in the middle of the program and shit on the ice, and the third one looked like he was on fire, with sparks coming out of his nose. Why didn’t I finish higher then?... So I watched all the performances only after seven or eight months, after I had calmed down a bit. I think I should have been third in Vancouver. Looks like you passed through the disappointment more easily than Plushenko did. You bet. How did you take his reaction, that he deserved a platinum medal and so forth? Figure skating takes all of your life, heart and soul. Plushenko sat out for three years after Torino, and if he returned to this hell, it wasn't for second place, right? If it's the only thing that you think about every day, if you wake up every morning only for this, and it slides out of your grasp... Anyone would be sick at heart. To be honest, I have a much better relationship with Zhenya than I do with Evan Lysacek, and I support him much more. Of course, from the PR point of view, [Zhenya] hurt himself a lot in America. But everyone handles disappointments in their own way. Galina, for example, when I ended up in sixth place, went to eat French fries at McDonald's. To let herself do this, she had to have been very upset. I went to cry in the shower. And Zhenya started talking about a platinum medal. Everyone calms themselves down as best they can... Can you say that your relationship with Evan Lysacek, who became a champion then, is poisonous? I haven’t seen him for a long time. And the poison that we used to have was mostly created by American TV and magazines. And by the skating federation, of course. Of course we didn’t like each other. But when I got married, he was one of the first to congratulate me, which shocked me. I suppose we both grew up. We don’t have to like each other, but now I have more respect for what he achieved. And now you’ve decided to return to figure skating. What do you think: will you have more chances? Have the judges become more liberal? I think they have. I hope so. But if they haven’t, I will not go crazy over the heartbreak. By the way, our national federation is now treating me better than ever before. Perhaps they understand that I can boost the popularity of figure skating in America because of who I am. Evan won the Olympics, but no one remembers who he is. Yes, I can bring popularity back to our sport. I hope the federation will assign me to the events where I need to compete [Note: Johnny has been assigned to two Grand Prix events for the 2012-2013 season: Rostelecom Cup (Cup of Russia) and Trophée Eric Bompard], and will tell me how to skate in order to please the judges and not just the audience. In the last two years, I got used to performing for people who applaud me for shaking my ass for them. So, will you be able to please the judges? It will be difficult with them. It was difficult with them for Zhenya, too, when he came back. And I’m not as popular as Zhenya is in Russia… But there’s nothing to complain about. In general, I’m loved and valued in America. The federation knows it, and sees that they need me. Still to come: Parts 5, 6, and 7! Picspam!! Johnny signing autographs at the fan meeting... Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. ...chatting with the meeting's organizer, Irina Volkova... Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. ...listening to fans... Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. ...enjoying the conversation... Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. ...refueling.... Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. ...and thoroughly enjoying himself. ♥ Photo © Tatiana Edrenkina. Bonus pic!! Photo tweeted yesterday by Johnny: "Sunday steam bubble at @mrericalt @ericaltsalons." Fortunately for all the rest of us who are unfamiliar with such exotica, Tatiana once again came to our rescue with this link. Also: Yay that his Twitter has finally reconnected with his Facebook fan page! Very special thanks to Tatiana Edrenkina for the translation and all the gorgeous photos! New on Johnny's website!! He's skating in Hackensack on August 18!! Tickets are just $25 for general admission, or $50 for on-ice seating plus post-show meet-n-greet with the skaters! To purchase tickets, call the Figure Skating Office at the Ice House, 201-487-8444, ext. 232. Yes, YOU can be a part of Johnny's comeback! Please visit Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund today and chip in as little as $1 via PayPal. Our small gifts can help make his dream of competing in his third Olympic Games come true! And now you can leave a message of support for Johnny, too! More from Johnny's website!! He's heading back to Japan in early September for Fantasy on Ice! Info here! HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass at a Grand Prix event near you! Read his comeback statement on his website! Johnny returns to Sun Valley this summer! He'll be the headliner at the Saturday, August 4, ice show, and tickets are on sale now!! Don't miss it! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as "Best Sportsman"! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! (Note: With his "58.132" rating, he is currently in 1st place in both Figure Skating AND across all sports!) It's not too late! Subscribe now and get the entire Johnny Weir perspective, including his never-before-heard free skate commentary available exclusively on icenetwork.com! Q and A! Go read it now! Johnny's Glitter and Ice collection with MAC is pretty much sold out, but I'm leaving this video on here for a little while longer because I love it so much. Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available for purchase only on eDressMe.com! At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: "Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!" IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny's website, or just click the "Buy" button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website! copyright 2012 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

Johnny chats with one of his beloved Japanese Angels upon his arrival in Tokyo. ♥ Exclusive photo © Nanako Ugajin. 20+ more pics below, including fabulous exclusives plus UPDATES! Via Johnny: “Mama-chan! Always and forever. @miki_m_ando” Via Akiko Suzuki: “NEW DUO :)” More UPDATES below!! Yes!! Summer touring is upon us! Johnny’s in Japan for the first Fantasy on Ice tour performances plus “Together on Ice” this weekend with Yuzu! Then, get ready: the Weibocalypse of Artistry on Ice happens in July and August. Please see Johnny’s official website for all his performance dates this summer! Johnny’s column is back! After a five-month hiatus, he returns to the Falls Church News-Press today to tackle an uncomfortable subject: what to do when you find that nude photos of yourself have just been released to America’s tabloids. He handles the moment with grace, humor, and dignity in this frank and inspiring must-read. Dear Johnny, we believe in you, we support you, and we love you always. ♥ http://bit.ly/WeLoveYouJW Note: Candles last only 48 hours, so please visit often to keep the love and light shining... Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Yes! Johnny and his ever-faithful traveling companion, jetlag, arrived safely late Wednesday night in Tokyo, which is a thing that hasn’t happened yet here in Chicago, where I have spent my Wednesday oooo-ing and ahhh-ing over beautiful picspam from the future that I received this morning. (Yep, here we go, into that 14-hour international dateline time-warp thing that always makes my head turn into a Mobius strip of beautifully photographed confusion...) But no matter when you are, it’s always the perfect time to completely lose track of time by wandering through gorgeous pics of Johnny being showered with love by some of the most incredible fans on the planet. Johnny’s flight was delayed in leaving New York, and while he was waiting to board, he happened to notice: In all the hustle of traveling to Tokyo, here I sit, in the lounge, I look down only to realize I’ve got a dress on...again. ✈️JFK-NRT👗 — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) June 3, 2014 He’s still wearing it in the pics below. And he looks amazing, as you’ll see. Despite the late hour of his arrival at Narita, he is all happy smiles for his fans. And how heartbreakingly wonderful it is to see him like that. As for how his Angels felt to welcome him again after nearly a year? I think this tweet pretty much says it all: I’m so happy!! Thank you♥ @JohnnyGWeir — takae (@__takae__) June 4, 2014 UPDATES! The happy continues Japan, Day 3. 06-06-2014. Via Miki Ando: “With Johnny @johnnygweir :))) he is really great person and skater!!! Love love ♥♥♥ ジョニーとの1枚^_^ #スケーター #スケート #アイスショー #ファンタジーオンアイス #フィギュアスケート #foi #figureskate #figureskating #show #skate #skater #iceshow #iceskate #iceskating #friend” Via Johnny: “Crèpes Party with some silly Euro Stars. @nathaliepechalat @javiersk8r” Via Johnny: “Really happy way to end the day!” Love this so much. Japan, Day 2. 06-05-2014. Via Johnny: “ChebuPooh. I ❤️ Yuzuru!” With 2014 Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu, who skated to his gold medal in a costume designed by Johnny. Via Johnny: “Rehearsals! @d1sk_t @akkotine” With Akiko Suzuki and Daisuke Takahashi. Via Nobunari Oda: “taking a picture with @JohnnyGWeir！ He is such a great skater and person!! ジョニーはいつも本当に優しいです.“ A very happy Johnny with peonies from Junko Mi! He Instagrammed the bouquet with his thanks, and Junko replied with this wonderful photo. ♥ Via Sergey Yakimenko. Via Maria Sergejeva: “#johnnyweir #newpartner #lifeisawesome #fantasyonice #gaga” Very special thanks to Nanako Ugajin for the exclusive pics below! Nanako’s photos are marked “@ugachan,” which is her Twitter name, and most of them are gloriously huuuuuge. Please click twice to roll around in the full-size images. Photos from other sources below are as noted. Via Johnny: “Landed safely in Tokyo. Thank you to my wonderful fans who welcomed me again to Japan!” He’s here! And yay so is his luggage! Via @ayukovon. Via @__takae__. Via @shiki_hmhm. Via @donotbeordinary. Yes, we want close-ups of his shoes... Via @__takae__. ...and also of his luggage. Via @ayukovon. Flowers and gifts for Johnny! Via @donotbeordinary. Looove his new short hair, courtesy of Master Beauty Bear Eric Alt. Luggage, gifts, and flowers are ready to be schlepped to the waiting car. And one more. ♥ Via Johnny after arriving at his hotel: “As varied and lovely as the ladies who gave them to me! ありがとう!” Bonus video!! With special thanks to @coddycoddy88! Video link. Bonus pics!! Via @haley_skate on Tuesday, before Johnny left for Japan: “Gotta train with the best to be the best with @johnnygweir #morning #sessions #tooearly #selfie #skater” UPDATE!! Johnny in Pennsylvania over Memorial Day weekend. See the album by Shibu Daniel Photography on Facebook here! Johnny and Tara’s brilliant commentary segment from Late Night With Seth Meyers! Video link. Watch their interview with Seth here. Johnny and Dora!! Watch his spot over and over again here, here, or here! On Johnny’s website, linked to his retirement statement. Thank YOU, Johnny! ICYMI: Johnny plans to discuss his personal difficulties just once, in an exclusive interview with Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush. The three-part interview is available at these links: Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 1 Transcript here. Johnny Weir Opens Up On Dramatic Divorce, Part 2 Transcript here. Johnny Weir: Why He Went Public With His Divorce UPDATE: Transcript here. Johnny Weir & Victor Voronov: No Reconciliation! UPDATE: In response to a rash of erroneous reports in the media, Johnny spoke briefly with Access Hollywood again to set the record straight. Before you point your finger at me, try to do some fact checking. Speaking for myself, I keep my private struggles private. #ArmyofOne — Johnny Weir (@JohnnyGWeir) May 20, 2014 Also on the blog: “Rise Like a Phoenix” An exquisite black-and-white series of Johnny at rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Favorite Fairytale” Beautiful Johnny being happy on the ice. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Cure for the Uncommon Cold” Gorgeous sun-drenched Johnny picspam, for those of us who prefer our winter a little less... wintry. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Random Tuesday Roundup, Or: Is It Summer Yet?” More Sun Valley since because Chiberia. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Because It’s Glorious.” A look back at Johnny’s first national title and his thoughts on Nationals, accompanied by 20+ exquisite black-and-white portraits. Exclusive photo © Elena Vasileva. Please click twice for larger image. “Frost Giant.” 25+ exclusive pics of Johnny performing Army of Me. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “All of Him Is My Treasure.” Fans react to Johnny’s graceful exit from competitive skating. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Please click twice for larger image. “Practice Is Perfect” 25+ exclusive photos of Johnny’s Sun Valley rehearsal. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Dear Johnny...” Selected black-and-white photos of Johnny’s hauntingly beautiful Schindler’s List debut. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. Johnny’s latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary“ section—don’t miss a single one! A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue a nytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. This series of photos was shot at the Holiday Dreams on Ice 2012 post-show VIP party, held in a small hotel bar near the Long Island rink. Johnny was tired, having had a very long rehearsal the night before that ended sometime after midnight, a full day of dress rehearsals the day of the show, multiple performances in the actual show itself, and after-show photographs at the rink. Then he had to hurry and scrub off all his makeup, change clothes, redo his hair, gather all his things, and arrive to spend hours more at the meet-n-greet. Yet, as always, his beautiful energy when he entered the room was magnetic. Immediately surrounded on all sides, he took time to greet every person, chat with every fan, autograph everything handed to him, offer hugs to all, and to thank every skater who had performed in the show with him. He is a larger-than-life man, a two-time Olympian and LGBT icon with a reputation for outrageousness, whom we most often see on television or in red carpet photos or via the pages of a glossy magazine—but who, in person, is kind, gentle, and dedicated to making sure that even his littlest fans receive his full attention. The room was extremely crowded, resulting in very tight camera angles, and the lighting, as always, was a challenge. Davey hates to use a flash, especially in those conditions, because it's so startling to people to have these bursts of light going off when he's practically on top of them. He prefers to be as unobtrusive as possible, capturing candid moments rather than posed shots from his quiet vantage point. When we started sifting through what we had, the uneven lighting and cacophony of color in the bar felt very distracting, calling attention to itself and muffling the people and their interactions. As black-and-whites, the photos crystallized into their essence: timelessly elegant memories of an evening spent with the extraordinary Johnny Weir. As always, please click any photo twice for larger view. As soon as he enters, a ripple runs through the noisy, overcrowded room, and everyone knows: Johnny's here! Wearing boots with a slight hidden heel, and one of his wonderfully luxurious furs, he cuts a rather imposing figure, as he also does when he's towering over you in his skates. But his graciousness and ready sense of humor immediately puts everyone at ease. With show co-star Emily Hughes. "Last year I brought you things to sign for my friends who couldn't come to the VIP party," I tell him. "This year I just brought you some of my friends. You don't have to sign them. Or you can if you want." Here he is delighted to greet Jenn Kittler. And he's also delighted with her gift of flowers. Chatting with fans. Fan Elizabeth Lara takes their picture with her cell phone. Hugs for his partner in rehearsal crimes, Zach Donohue. Zach, Madison Hubbell, and Johnny. With fan Debora Walsh. An autograph for a young fan. Listening closely. With fan Anastasia Pryanikova. Sitting down to tackle yet more autographs. Johnny. Zach, Johnny, Jason Brown, and Max Aaron Getting ready to leave, with an armload of flowers and gifts. With Johnny. His turn to crack me up. A rare photo of the photographer: Davey with Johnny, taken with my cell phone because I have no clue how Davey's camera works. And one more. Exclusive photos © David Ingogly. Best of luck to all the competitors at Worlds today, especially Max and Ross! Johnny's latest column for the Falls Church News-Press. His columns are published every Thursday in the "National Commentary" section—don't miss a single one! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2013 Nationals and what lies ahead for next season. Please go read it now! ICYMI: "Something Beautiful." Exclusive new photos © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny's auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you're in luck: It's not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! NEW in the Team Weir-Voronov fan store: Johnny buttons!! Click this link to buy yours now! Japanese fans: Please use this link. Johnny keychains!! Click this link to add some sparkle to your keys! Japanese fans: Please use this link. "A Mighty Dream" calendars for 2013, in both 12-month and 18-month designs! Order yours today! All proceeds from the fan store are donated to Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund, administered by the lovely Patti Weir. Please alert absolutely everyone you've ever met to "like" and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Yep, I'm still promoting this silly poll, in which you can vote at least once a day. Please vote for Johnny!! Need to see Season 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you're watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement and the update on his website! Yes, YOU can be a part of Johnny's comeback! Please visit Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund today and chip in as little as $1 via PayPal. Our small gifts can help make his dream of competing in his third Olympic Games come true! And now you can leave a message of support for Johnny, too! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as "Best Sportsman"! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! (Note: With his "58.132" rating, he is currently in 1st place in both Figure Skating AND across all sports!) Q and A! Go read it now! Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available for purchase only on eDressMe.com! At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: "Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!" IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny's website, or just click the "Buy" button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet

Johnny acknowledges the crowd at the end of his Swan Lake performance in this screencap from Stars on Ice: Japan Tour 2013. IMPORTANT REMINDERS: Johnny's fabulous auction is coming to a close! OWN A PIECE OF JOHNNY HISTORY!! Johnny's seven-day auction of skating and fashion memorabilia IS ENDING SOON on Linda's Stuff! A portion of the proceeds will go to the Trevor Project. For a look at Johnny wearing some of the items, please see this blog post. Please keep voting for Johnny on Food Network! UPDATE: Monday's voting was.... super weird. But today the poll seems to be working more like it has been, although Hines Ward's numbers remain curiously high. So please do vote vote vote 10x per day from every available device—PC, phone, laptop, iPad—and let's get Johnny back in first place where he belongs!! Vote totals as of Tuesday, January 15, 11:30 am CST. Johnny has come back from an incomprehensible low of 6% to 9%, while Hines has fallen a few points from yesterday's equally incomprehensible 80%. VOTE!! Yes, at last, we have video from Japan!! The January 6 show in Osaka was broadcast yesterday on TV-Tokyo and miraculously made its way to YouTube in practically no time at all, much to the astonished excitement of fans everywhere. So if you haven't seen his Swan Lake/Black Swan performance yet—or even if you have—please stop everything you're doing and watch it right now. Because it's all the classic Johnny—elegance and passion, grace and athleticism, beautiful lines and flow, as only Johnny can bring to the ice—that so many love best about his skating: If the video won't play for you, please try this link. And then please enjoy these screencaps, which, while not the highest quality, do their best to highlight his gorgeous costume. I love his take on stark black, and the way the white panels flutter as he glides past the camera... Beautiful ending pose. Absolutely love this program. As did everyone else on Twitter. Here are my three favorite responses out of the flood of Twitter love he received: More video!! In a pre-show broadcast, various experts— including Johnny—were asked to offer their podium predictions for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Johnny's portion begins at about 4:30. Video link. Screencaps! Tweeted by @midnight_kurage. And the entire Stars on Ice broadcast. Johnny's Swan Lake begins at about 0:14:00. He's also in the finale, at about 1:35:00. Video link. Rachael vs. Guy Recap: "Hollywood Walk of Farm" (Actualfax episode title.) Best line of the night: "We—me and my hair— are excited to be on the farm." OK! Episode 2 picks up with Team Rachael down one member, having lost Gilbert Gottfried at the end of last week's episode. This week Johnny draws on his Pennsylvania roots and everything he learned on his grandmother's farm to try to stay in the competition. UPDATE!! New video! Of just the Johnny parts, which is just the way I like my TV shows. Thank you, minihoarse! The full episode is now available on the Rachael vs. Guy website, and also at this link. (Warning: Spoilers below in the captions!) Team Guy picks its way through the fields to gather with Rachael and Guy and get their instructions for today's challenge. Guy: "Johnny, you stole the thunder last week with the outfit. Again, you come through..." Love his Daisy Dukes and his shirt. Listening to Guy and Rachael explain this week's challenge. Johnny's "Chicken Marbles" are his go-to protein— chicken breasts—wrapped in prosciutto and grilled. Yikes: Guy tells Johnny he's added the feta cheese to his Water Salad too early in the process, and it's looking unappetizing... ...so he has to start over and prepare the salad again. "My salad looks like trash. I need to fix it. If I don't get the salad re-chopped, re-dressed, and re-beautified, I'm not going to have a side dish to show with my chicken." Done! Johnny introduces his dishes to the guest tasters and mentions his pride in his Pennsylvania farm roots. Team Guy awaits their fate in their trailer. Unbeknownst to Johnny, outside at the tasting, Guy has high praise for him: "I think he's got way more talent, way more culinary awareness, than he's given himself credit for." The verdict is in.... ...and Johnny's dishes are well-received! Plus more kudos from Guy: "The fact that you were organized enough that when I came and told you that you're not supposed to mix the feta into the salad because it starts to make it look funky, and how you turned it around—outstanding!" But it's Team Rachael who wins the day. And that means the bottom two finishers on Team Guy— Dean and Cornelia—must face off in the blind-tasting challenge to determine who goes home. Johnny comforts an anxious Chilli as they cheer on their teammates. They applaud both chefs... ...and are saddened by the departure of Cornelia, who lost to Dean in the challenge. Next week: The teams take over Mel's Diner, where they must not only cook the food, but serve it in style—in vintage uniforms, and on roller skates! Brief Johnny-centric promo for next week! Video link. Please keep voting for Johnny as your Celebrity Cook-Off Fan Favorite! He stayed in the lead with 33% for most of the weekend, but after last night's episode and Hines Ward's crowd-pleasing flank steak recipe, Johnny slipped to 31% while Hines briefly gained to 24% (now back at 23%). Show Food Network that they made an excellent choice in drawing viewers by inviting Johnny to participate in the show!! You can vote 10x a day from every computer and mobile device. DO IT DO IT DO IT. UPDATE From Our WTAF Dept.: Since I posted this blog twenty minutes ago, the Fan Fav poll standings have suddenly morphed to this: Awaiting clarification from Food Network.... Although the guess is that the accumulated vote totals have been suddenly randomly zeroed out for the new week, and we're starting over. So PLEASE KEEP VOTING for Johnny!! Bonus pics!! Photo tweeted by Johnny: "With my hero Ira Slutskaya. Snow play." Photo tweeted by Johnny: "Group photo. Phillips, Ira, Mao-chan, Akiko-chan, Kanako-chan, Shizuka-chan, Dai-kun" Yay!! He's headed home soon! ♥ Very special thanks to Jenn Kittler for her invaluable help with Celeb Cook-Off screencaps! NEW at the Team Weir-Voronov fan store!! "A Mighty Dream" calendars for 2013, in both 12-month and 18-month designs! Order yours today! All proceeds donated to Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund, administered by the lovely Patti Weir. New episode THIS SUNDAY! January 13, 9 pm EST & PST / 8 pm CST, only on Food Network! Please watch and vote for Johnny as your fan fav! Patti has posted a new message on Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund website, with her thoughts on 2012 and what lies ahead. Please go read it now! Johnny is performing in Stars on Ice: Japan 2013 in Osaka and Tokyo this month! Dates and times listed on his website. So excited for Japanese fans!! Johnny's a regular columnist now for the Falls Church News-Press! His columns are published every Thursday in the "National Commentary" section—don't miss a single one! Please alert absolutely everyone you've ever met to "like" and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Yep, I'm still promoting this silly poll, in which you can vote at least once a day. Please vote for Johnny!! Need to see Season 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue anytime you're watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... HE REALLY, REALLY IS!! Landing quads and kicking ass! Read his comeback statement on his website! Yes, YOU can be a part of Johnny's comeback! Please visit Johnny's Comeback Gift Fund today and chip in as little as $1 via PayPal. Our small gifts can help make his dream of competing in his third Olympic Games come true! And now you can leave a message of support for Johnny, too! Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as "Best Sportsman"! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! (Note: With his "58.132" rating, he is currently in 1st place in both Figure Skating AND across all sports!) Q and A! Go read it now! Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available for purchase only on eDressMe.com! At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: "Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!" IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny's website, or just click the "Buy" button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

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Johnny Weir, NBC’s commentator of the Winter Olympics, is known for his statement-making style off the ice and on. See his looks through the years.

Johnny in the behind-the-scenes-at-the- Glitter-and-Ice-photo-shoot video posted yesterday by M∙A∙C Cosmetics on their YouTube channel. He described this as his "Winter Warrior" look. May I also add: "WOW." IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!! Holiday Dreams On Ice just announced yesterday that they're offering a special promotion on tickets for this Friday's show in Philadelphia--starring our one and only Winter Warrior--courtesy of Eyefly.com (part of the Bluefly family, whom we all have loved ever since they brought us Johnny's "Closet Confession" last year): Use promo code EYEFLY to get 50% off your general admission tickets here, AND get 15% off new glasses from Eyefly! Don't miss this chance to see Johnny skate live!! It is an amazing and unforgettable experience, and also now an affordable one, thanks to Holiday Dreams On Ice and Eyefly! Hurry before tickets are all sold out!! So anybody else remember this little series of tweets from nearly 11 months ago....? And we were all going, "Wonder what the heck they're doing in London for like 24 hours....? With Nicola Formichetti....?" (Lady Gaga's stylist, for those who may not recognize his name). Well. Now we know. That 13-hour photo shoot is what brought us the MAC ads and posters that we've been dying over the last two months: Of course later, in June, they went to Miami to shoot the MAC campaign video, which is its own level of unparalleled awesomeness, but now for the first time, we're finally getting a peek at what went on during that mysterious London trip. Karen Weeks first alerted me yesterday to the existence of this new video via this charmingly incoherent tweet, which I recognized immediately as the Bat Signal for OMG THERE'S SOMETHING NEW AND AMAZING BY JOHNNY OUT THERE GO FIND IT NOW!! And when I located the video, it had already gotten 306 views in the 8 minutes between the time it was first posted by MAC on their Facebook page and the moment that Karen saw it. As of this writing, it's up to 4,475 in about 15 hours. (Note: Not all of those are me and Karen....) And BTW it's every bit as fabulous as absolutely everything else those MAC people produce. Their marketing team is brilliant. (BRB checking to see if there's any Glitter and Ice left that I can order because I'm suddenly overwhelmed with the desire to sparkle...). So then as word spread yesterday afternoon, first we were all so completely mesmerized that we just... froze. In front of our monitors. Wordlessly hitting "replay." Then, of course, we had to start tweeting and Facebooking additional incoherence, mostly along the lines of "THUD" and "OMGIDIE" and " ♥♥♥ \o/ ♥♥♥." And then it hit our collective consciousness all at once: SCREENCAPS. So there's a nice set here from @dapperderp, and also another great series posted by Gary Podschun on the fan page, all of which are amazing and, like crack, just made us want more. So here you go. Please click any photo twice for full-size view. Cuz these are pleasingly large. Video link is at the end of the post. Merry Weirmas / happy holidays / happy everything! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Philly! Modeling a "crown of icicles" for Nicola Formichetti... ...who approves. Looking over at Tara with a wry smile.... ...as she displays his specially decorated skates. And the Winter Warrior is ready to do battle with the camera. "...there are going to be two gorgeous models who underweigh me by about 300 pounds, and 'over-tall' me by at least three feet." "But I am going to try to outshine them." (Models? What models...?) See the video here!! Amazing, as is everything MAC does. In the words of @JohnnysMonster: "God bless you, MAC Cosmetics." Just THREE DAYS until Holiday Dreams On Ice!! NEW!! Use promo code "EYEFLY" for 50% off your general admission ticket PLUS 15% off new glasses from Eyefly.com!! "Chanelf" art created by Lizzy Pine. It's not too late to participate in Show Johnny Weir the Love's holiday gift project! We have a sparkly surprise planned for Johnny (but no spoilers here!), and just $5 gets your name on the card that will accompany the gift. The deadline has been extended to allow more people to be a part of the project, so if you'd like to join in, please visit the SJWTL Facebook page for details! New from Ice Theatre of New York: "Order your copy of the 2011 Benefit Gala DVD, including performances by Ice Theatre of New York and honoree, Johnny Weir. Also for sale, the 2011 Benefit Gala and Benefit Journal, signed by Johnny Weir. Limited copies available. Get yours now!" Johnny's Glitter and Ice collection with MAC is selling out fast! Don't miss your chance to sparkle-- visit a MAC retailer or order online ASAP! New Q and A! Go read it now! Yes! Johnny's dresses are now available for purchase only on eDressMe.com! At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: "Buy my single,'Dirty Love' via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!" THE WORLD NEEDS THIS VIDEO IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny's website, or just click the "Buy" button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny's website! Bonus video via The Advocate, from their post titled: "Possibly the Most Beautiful Ad for Marriage Equality We've Seen." The video was produced by an equality group in Australia, where nearly two-thirds of voters favor legalizing gay marriage, according to The Advocate, but prime minister Julia Gillard remains firmly opposed. I agree with The Advocate: This is one of the most eloquent illustrations I've seen of this simple concept: Love is love. copyright 2011 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved

미국의 Johnny WEIR 선수가 2008/2009 SBS ISU 고양 피겨스케이팅 그랑프리 파이널 대회 마지막을 장식하는 갈라쇼 연기를 선보이고 있다. Johnny WEIR 선수는 그랑프리 파이널에서 숏 프로그램 4위, 프리스케이팅 2위, 점수 합계 215.50점을 획득해 시니어 남자 부문 3위에 올랐다.

...we miss you! Thank you for your amazing gift of skating, your courage, your brilliant sense of humor, and for all the extraordinary beauty you bring to this world. Thank you for being in our lives. Thank you for letting us be in yours. So very proud to be your fans. We love you always. — from Binky, and every fan who has written me this week to say exactly that. How are you doing? Johnny, I miss you so much. — yumico (@yu_mico) October 4, 2013 Me too. If you’d like to, please join me in letting Johnny know how much we love and support him by tweeting to him, posting on his Facebook fan page, commenting on his Instagram pics, sending him some love on Weibo, or commenting here on the blog... whatever way works for you. Even if it’s just tweeting a simple “♥” or “<3” to him, please tell him that we’re with him and we’re excited to see whatever comes next in his journey! Johnny Weir Schindler’s List Selected photos from one of the most searingly exquisite performances I have ever seen. What is to give light must endure burning. — Viktor Frankl, renowned scientist and Holocaust survivor Fly and be free, Johnny, wherever your passions take you... Exclusive photos of Johnny’s Schindler’s List performance in Sun Valley, ID, all © David Ingogly. Bonus video!! Tweeted by Johnny (yay he tweeted twice so far today!): “Trapped in a scratch spin. @ Ice House Skate Rink.” Love this. Johnny’s latest columns for the Falls Church News-Press are here and here. His columns are published every Thursday in the “National Commentary” section—don’t miss a single one! Also on the blog: “Something Beautiful Today.” Johnny at rehearsal in Sun Valley — Part 1 (much more to come!) Exclusive pics plus practice video featuring his gorgeous triple axel. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Sun Valley Sneak Peek: ‘A Rare Human So Breathtaking....’ ” Johnny debuts his Schindler’s List program in this stunning simple white costume. Exclusive pics and HD video. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Propaganda.” Photo essay of 40+ starkly beautiful black-and-white pics featuring Johnny at rehearsal as young skaters watch, spellbound. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. “Let the World Shine in Peace.” Quiet photo essay of exclusive black-and-white pics paired with Johnny’s quotes from his powerful column against boycotting Sochi. Exclusive photo © David Ingogly. A number of Johnny’s auction items have been relisted, which means if you missed out the first time around, you’re in luck: It’s not too late to own a piece of Weir Gear! Go check it out and see what treasures you could take home! Please alert absolutely everyone you’ve ever met to “like” and follow the new Johnny Weir To Host SNL! (Yes Please) campaign on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Because he should be on all the things. With or without ice. But definitely with Viacheslav. Please click to vote for Johnny once a day as “Best Sportsman”! Because he retweeted Luisa Lotka to tell us he wants us to! Need to see Seasons 1 and 2 all over again? Watch episodes online anytime on Logo! Please be sure to check in with GetGlue a nytime you’re watching the show... or thinking about watching the show.... or wishing you were watching the show.... At last: Pop Star On Ice is now available on DVD! Order yours today from the Pop Star On Ice website! Johnny tweeted: “Buy my single,’Dirty Love’ via iTunes. Tell all your friends to as well. The more copies sold takes me one step closer to making a video! №1!” IN THE SAME WAY THAT IT NEEDS AIR. You know what to do. Please buy the song from Johnny’s website, or just click the “Buy” button on the player at the top of the blog! Hey, Welcome to My World also is available as an eBook! More info on Johnny’s website! copyright 2013 / Binky and the Misfit Mimes / Lynn V. Ingogly / all rights reserved Tweet