Well This past Friday seemed like an Underwear blow-out. Ummm maybe not a good way to describe it.

The Underwear season kicked off with none other than a Marching Band! yup that’s rite an actual parade marching band, including trumpets, drums and costumes.
The Marching band idea came from the minds of The Ice Palace in Cherry grove, led by the proclaimed “PANTY CHRIST” Daniel Nardicio.

Daniel Nardicio is the original creator of the Fire Island Underwear party in cherry Grove. Many of us remember going to Tides on Fridays to dance around in out tighty whiteys.
Well Nardicio was invited last season by the Marketing/Promotions director Tony @ The Ice Palace, to bring all the fun and shenanigans to the palace. I am sure everyone remember last years huge
night when Lady Gaga took the stage for her very first live appearance. Yup The Ice Palace can say “She started here” and it was at Nardicio’s underwear party. Marketing/Promotions director Tony says ” I love working with Daniel, we both have the same demented sense of humor and its nice working with someone you can genuinely call a friend”

We all decided to water taxi it over to the grove and to our happiness it was a great decision, the place was packed! We Love the Ice Palace and especially when its busy.
I think the main reason we enjoy it, is due to its lack of pretentiousness. Its the type of place where you can be happy knowing your not perfect or pretending to be.
we were delighted to see Dj Aaron Elvis spinning and he was totally on point with his music. There were so many hot guys in fab underwear some provided by freshpair.com. one of the highlights was show host Bianca Delrio (sadly she was “let go” by pines management) We LOVE HER ! We make it a point to visit her when ever we are in New Orleans. So Bianca gave everyone her famed F*ck you attitude and was slightly tight lipped about her departure from the Pines operation. “He can kiss my ass” referring to former pines boss is all she felt like saying. So Bianca got a ton of HOT bois on stage for what was probably her most insane hot underwear contest we have ever seen her host. On a side note, we were thrilled that drink prices were very reasonable $8 Absolut Mango and seven up. We didn’t realize how expensive pines partying becomes @ $10+ bucks a drink at low & high tea. So we got to meet some hot porn stars and we even got an upclose demonstration of this new electric fleshjack thing..YUMMY. We really enjoyed ourselves, and from the looks of the place everyone else did too.
We decided to check out the Pavilion Underwear party on the way back, When we go to the door there was a $20 cover charge which kind of soured some of my tag-alongs, being the FireFlyBoi that I am I handed over the bucks and walked in. Ok now I feel really bad about being a bitch but REALLY? do we all need to get strep throat and pneumonia? I am wearing a tiny pair of Versace briefs and its still over 150 degrees in the place. Luckily I was able to do an exit stage left and chill by the back door. The party was packed and yes the bois were hot, actually sweaty was more like it. This underwear party is Very different than the one in the grove. This is more like being at roxy in your underwear, whereas the grove is about the hint of sexuality and provocative fun that many of us city bois love. I think each event can survive without doling out a competitive edge, because they are 2 completely different blueprints of a party. So @ 4am I sauntered home and passed the heck out, I still have 2 more days of fun ahead of me.

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The weather was a fabulous welcome to what seems like a long overdue weekend vacation.

I enjoyed my usual drive to the ferry, with my top down and did the usually stop @ Costco.  I was very excited to see the huge lines at the ferry.  Once on the island I did my usual lap around to see who was home and who had guests.  We all agreed to go to Low Tea@ 7pm.  Low Tea was Very packed and featured KRASH dj Super Dave.  We really enjoyed his set, but it seemed more like a welcoming party than tea.  Next we ventured off to a special version of Middle tea (normally Saturdays) with Dj Vito Fun.  We had so much fun that we hardly were able to catch a glimpse of High Tea.  Vito played all our favorites and even threw in a few of his own. The Pavilion was packed wall to wall which is usual only for their middle teas.  So we all danced like school girls for hours it seemed to fly rite by.   We managed to catch a little bit of High Tea, which has as of lately become not so much fun, its to packed and cant boi cruise from the front to the back.   Regardless the vibe was good and even the ashtray smell walking in didnt bother my hypochondriac friend john as much. We enjoyed  Dj Kevin Graves High tea upbeat flavor. I was stuck in a corner but still managed to dance my butt around some sizzling chelsea boi.  I met many of my city friends who also decided to take advantage of mother natures gift.  After Tea we were invited to Mr. so and so’s house (name held cause she’s a big drama queen about her name) Regardless dinner was a mess because everyone of us were to drunk and exausted from dancing like an episode of high school musical. Mr. so and so usually is well put together about his dinner parties, but gurl let me tell you he just was not having  a steak that was harder than his Prada sport shoes.  I thought it was much better that we moved on to doing shots of Southern comfort and skipped past the shoe leather steaks.  I decided to take a quick dip in the pool, with my new found chelsea boi dance partner from high tea and then go take a little disco nap before heading out to visit all the underwear party’s on the island.  Sadly I never got my lil disco nap, and my new found chelsea boi dance partner was not so lil either …..

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Shequida performed her much talked about song parody of Rihanna amongst many others.   The evening started with a fabulous birthday celebration for Jared Bortz from Wicked celebrating his 30th birthday with many of his Broadway show pals. (At one point I went to the restroom to find myself in the middle of a RENT, WICKED, HAIRSPRAY Sing along) Although the evening started with a birthday, then went in to a performance, somehow it ended with everyone in the pool having a very late night pool party.  Shequida kept everyone laughing, and Yes! Drinking. 

I think if this evening was any indication of what Mondays @ the Ice Palace have in store for us… we are in for a real fun summer.

Be sure to arrive early as the evening kicks off with Broadway at the beach featuring super big celebrities of Broadway, doing what they do best (no not drinking and singing in the bathrooms).

They perform some of their biggest Broadway hits.

Following Broadway @ The Beach is the one and only SHEQUIDA -  Every Monday

Post show with Shequida, she told me that her kickoff party was nothing compared to what she has in store for us this summer.  I know everyone is looking forward to it. 

Seen: Lina Bradford, Daniel Nardicio, Petey Pig, Big Kim, Shonda Lear, Anthony Michael (Tony), John Doyle, Adam Weaver, Jae Garcia

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