PETA to Kilmer-Purcell: Fish-bowl boobies do not a habitat make

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SS+K creative director turned author Josh Kilmer-Purcell is in hot water with PETA, thanks in part to his memoir I Am Not Myself These Days, which recounts his double life as a fledging art director/drag queen during the 1990s. According to the New York Post (see second item down), PETA was none too pleased to learn that Kilmer-Purcell’s chief gimmick as 7-foot siren Aquadisiac was to fashion fish-bowl bazooms from water-filled snow globes and stock them with live goldfish.

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