HOLIDAY MADNESS BEGINS!

I was THRILLED to be doing holiday numbers this year. Friday we were at Slipper Room and Saturday we performed a new Elf-Trapeze act at Murray Hill's HUGE holiday show at The Zipper! An online review of the show said this about us: "But perhaps the most memorable performance was the dirty, gravity-defying trapeze dance between Trixie Little & The Evil Hate Monkey, which was so weird as to defy description." Perfect.

BURLESQUE IN BRATTLEBORO

I taught a really fun Burlesque Bootcamp class at Luminz Studio up here in Vermont this fall. We had two packed nights for our recital show- it was CRAZY fun because everyone in town kinda went nuts over all of the acts! In addition to helping them all create new solo acts, we performed a very "Vermonty" group number and stripped off our sweaters and mittens! The act that practically stole the show, though, was by our stage manager and sound tech- named "Twink & Berries." They are in the circus program we did last year and they rocked it.

THANKSGIVING AT THE CHALET

SAN FRANCISCO

I GOT A NEW CAMERA! The blog is back in action. This past weekend, we left Vermont on Wednesday night, flew to San Francisco Thursday, had a gig Friday, flew back to NYC for a gig Saturday and made it back to Vermont by Sunday...welcome to show business. The SF gig was amazing- the gorgeous Catherine D'Lish was there with the adorable Kitten on the Keys! Monkey helped Catherine by scaling the wall to bring her her sponge...that was after he sexily applied glitter to his nipples.

SEPTEMBER GIGS IN NYC

We're back to training like dogs at circus school in Vermont during the week and drinking like fish and stripping like steaks in New York City on the weekends. There's not much to show of our circus training yet since we're still just getting back in the groove and trying to pick up where we left off last May.

Here some lovely moments from our NYC gigs this month: Yeo backstage at The Box. Nasty Canasta & Darlinda Just Darlinda show support at Tigger's Man-A-Tease Show. Dirty Martini & Violet Eva at the New York Burlesque Festival. Dr. Lucky with Melody Sweets and her "assistant". Tiggo The Clown at Pinchbottom's "Pretencion" show. Me and Murasaki Babydoll. A 9/11 light memorial. Our little friend, Nick, inside of a box at The Box.

SUMMER 2008- PART THREE

At the end of August, I squeezed in two photo shoots while we were home in Baltimore with my favorite photographers and my dear friend and stylist, Nikki Verdecchia: First was a shoot with Mike Lee: http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/ We shot these in his backyard while drinking wine and laughing at his adorable daughter who was being a ham in the background.
About a week later, Nikki teased my hair into oblivion for a BRIDE OF MONKEYSTEIN shoot with Steve Parke: http://flickr.com/photos/imagecarnival/ Steve is a whiz with Photo Shop, so included the "before" shot as well.

SUMMER 2008- PART TWO

More from the Rothbury Music Festival...Here is me, Monkey, Lucky, Scotty, Una, Stephanie Monseau, Sxip Shirey and Gravity Plays Favorites!

We performed in the same tent as the BEST marching band ever- Pazzo Luna- from Chicago.

Monkey and I spent the entire month of July gigging in NYC at The Box, Corio and more. We would ride our matching pink pom-pom bikes over the Brooklyn Bridge at the wee wee hours...this is the last Saturday of the month...after 4 weeks of 10 shows per week...with the sun coming up.

We did the 3rd Virgin Mobile Music Festival in Baltimore at the beginning of August. Una Mimnaugh of Circus Una invited us to perform in her MOTOR CYCLE THRILL SHOW! Totally amazing, Evil Knievel antics with a motorcycle on a 40' tight wire with two gorgeous trapeze gals beneath- all set against the backdrop of a blue sky at Pimlico Race Track!


The Mermaid and Neptune were there too.

We had 3 amazing weeks at home in Baltimore after such a busy summer. Bill Stevenson finished out our trip at the Baltimore Tattoo Museum with a design we've been talking about for over a year- it's a tribute to our dearly departed house rabbit, Mahatma Bun Bun.

SUMMER 2008- PART ONE

Man, we've been too busy to even update the blog! But here it is in a nutshell...from the Miss Exotic World Competition in Las Vegas (I won 2nd Runner Up & Most Innovative), to our appearance on Comedy Central's "Gong Show with Dave Attel", to the Rothbury Music Festival in Michigan...




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JOLLY OLD ENGLAND- WEEK 4

This week...a lovely visit to the Blackberry Wood campground in the glorious English countryside ( www.blackberrywood.com ), High Tea (really champagne) with burlesque legend Immodesty Blaize, and shots from gigs we had with DJ Margaret the Gimp and at the rowdiest gypsy party we've ever seen!

JOLLY OLD ENGLAND- WEEK 3

Here is the beer tent at the Udderbelly, shots of a pavillion and the decaying West Pier at the beach and a shot of us playing chase near the Arundel Castle.

JOLLY OLD ENGLAND- WEEK 2

The first week was mostly spent promoting the show- it finally got up and running only to receive a bad review from the local paper. They called Monkey "hideous" which he took as a compliment and delivered bananas in his thong to the reporter! We had bruised feelings for a few days but then realized that everyone hates the paper that wrote it and took the review favorably! By the of the run every show was sold out! The Wau Wau sisters were here for 2 days doing the festival and we got to catch up with them too.

In England a Pasty is actually a type of pot pie thing. So, "pasties" are actually called "nipple tassels."