SpeakEasily: Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday

Tuesday, November 2nd -- SpeakEasily for President!
Friends, Oaklanders, Lanzmen…lend me your beers. It’s election time and your vote counts…for a discount at SpeakEasily this Tuesday! YES! Show up with an “I VOTED” sticker and you’re in like Flynn for $4. The rest of you schomoes get in for $6.

The Candidates are:

THE TIN CUP SERENADE
These bad boys croon, thump, and blow old time jazz, blues, and western swing! We’ll ringing in the new depression in style!

BOMBSHELL BETTY'S "BURLESQUERCISE!" BONANZA punches your ballot again and again! And how!

MR. MYSTIC
Astounds and amazes with his magical comedy!

AND OF COURSE…our sleazy incumbents THE MILE HIGH METER DANCERS.
Yes, they are FOR RENT! Their dance-floor affections are all yours for a few dollars a dance. They’ll have YOU running for office! (Whatever that means!) For crying out loud, let’s get hot!

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html

The Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland CA
Doors and Meter Dancing at 8-ish, Show starts 9-ish
$6, or $4 with an “I VOTED” sticker!
Info: speakeasily@gmail.com

Making a difference, one bombshell at a time,
Odessa Lil

AND WHAT'S DOES THE FUTURE HOLD???http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/cal/2004/09/index.html

I just got a spam from an entity named Backstreet D. Hangover. That's almost as good as one Jim got a few days ago from Catnip I. Fatherland. Next I'll get a phone call from Phoney McRingRing.
Last night's Fierce Couture fashion show was pretty kool and my hair was pretty big. I'll post the photos as they happen...they lubed up my arms so I could wear red latex gloves! Always an interesting sesnsation.
In the mean time, here's a photo of me and Bethanne at Dark Sparkle!

10/26: SpeakEasily Goes to Hell and Takes you With!

~We interrupt this announcement with another announcement!~
Beginning in November, SpeakEasily will now occur on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month! Less is more! The same great taste, with half the calories! 2+2=5! SO, make sure that you’re there this Tuesday (October 29th) AND then on November 2nd and 16th! Ok, ‘nuff of that!
Back to the original announcement:

Tuesday, October 26th: SpookEasily!!!
Sheol, gehenna, the Inferno, The Place of Everlasting Torment, Fresno…whatever you want to call it, you’re going there! You might as well have fun on the way down…so come on down for a spooky SpeakEasily with our brain-eating entertainers:

The ferocious sounds of…OLD PUPPY
An Old-Timey Uke-Centric Quartet!
The bone-crushing he-monster of song…CRACKER JACK SALTEEN
Did The Ramones and Rudy Vallee have a lovechild?
Gothic Burlesque Princess… LILY LeROUGE
Bloody bats from beyond…BOMBSHELL BETTY'S "BURLESQUERCISE!" BONANZA

PLUS
THE UNDEAD MILE HIGH METER DANCERS are FOR RENT! Their dance-floor affectionsare all yours for a few dollars a dance. BUT be warned: these BABY VAMPS may suck you dry! And how!

AND GET A LOAD OF THIS SPECIAL DEAL: $6, or $4 if have horns on your head! (The ones in your cars just don’t count.)

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html

The Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way,
Oakland CA
Doors and Meter Dancing at 8, Show starts 9-ish
Info: speakeasily@gmail.com

“Hell is other people.” -- Sartre

~Odessa Lil~AND WHAT'S DOES THE FUTURE HOLD???http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/cal/2004/09/index.html

Yeay! I'm going to be in a fashion show for Fierce Couture!
And it's free! So come on down:

Thurs, Oct 21, 2004
7-10pm, show at 8:30
http://www.vidog.com/uo
Location: Glas Kat (520 4th St @ Bryant)

This is not your typical fashion event! Along with the expected stylish clothing, fabulous hair, and fantastic music, there will be plenty of performance, giveaways, and a few surprises...
Hair by Johnny Moore and Cheung Ng of Red Chair Salon
Fashion by Fierce Couture
Music by DJ Nicholas Baker, featuring new tracks from Fatboy Slim
Giveaways from Astralwerks Records
Performance by Continuum Theatre Ensemble

This Tuesday, October 19th:

SpeakEasily, the glistening olive in the dry Martini you call life, would like to serve you up another vaudeville cocktail overflowing with the effervescence of…

Project: PimentoThere's only one theremin lounge band, and that's Project: Pimento! They’ve got swankatude in spades!
AND
Some of this gin mills’ favorite beauties:
Josie Nutter, that singing and dancing sensation from up north!
AND Desire D'Amour, the Creole Queen of Burlesque! All hail the Queen!
PLUS
THE MILE HIGH METER DANCERS are FOR RENT! Their dance-floor affections are all yours for a few dollars a dance. BUT be warned: these gold-diggers may waltz away with your hearts (check for your wallets too).

AND GET A LOAD OF THIS SPECIAL DEAL:
$6, or $4 if you show us your garters on the way in! Now that’s hot stuff! And How!

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html

“An ox remains an ox, even if driven to Vienna.”Hungarian Proverb
~Odessa Lil~

SpeakEasily goes to the movies!
Tuesday, October 12, 2004

THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, 1928. Dir. Paul Leni
With Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, and Olga Baclanova (of FREAKS fame).



This gloomy piece of Germans-gone-California expressionism stars
Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine – an orphan who has been disfigured with an
eternal smile by a maiming band of gypsies and the corrupt court of
England. He finds refuge and love in a traveling sideshow, but then
his true royal lineage is revealed, taking him from his people. Learn
about life, love, and the art of hiding behind scarves, with Veidt in
this creepy forgotten classic.

Just $3. Movie starts at 9pm!
Save room for tater tots! We've got a new chef!

AND DON'T FORGET: all the SpeakEasily craziness is back October 19th!
Don't miss Project: Pimento (the swingingest theremin band around),
vaudeville beauty Josie Nutter, and the Creole Queen of Burlesque
Desire D'Amour!
And of course, the Mile High Meter Dancers

The Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland CA
Info: speakeasily@gmail.com

Shtetl Goddess,
~Odessa Lil~

I truly am a lucky bastage to have so many talented people help me pull off a Tuesday night when I’ve come down with the flu, or a cold, or the plague, or whatever the heck this is. Cracker Jack Salteen and Sailor Billy stepped in at the last minute to steer the SpeakEasily ship last night while I sat incognito in a darkened corner, alternately blowing my nose and rasping out orders that no one listened to. And the show was great! Thanks again everybody. I thanked everyone so much at the end of the evening that I’ve pretty much lost my voice…at least it gives me an excuse to not talk to anyone at work. But seriously folks, Sheah and Hot and Bothered played two great sets and got people out on the dance floor…even Sheah, who joined Rose Pistola for an impromptu chair dance during an instrumental. Cherry Lix amazed us with her glittery and virtuosic dance number…wotta dancer! Amber Lox performed FOR HER FIRST TIME EVER but she was so good that we just don’t believe that. AND Bombshell Betty and Sweet Cheeks premiered a horserace number that was…well, RACY! Oh, and I can’t forget Riff Ditties and Cracker Jack Salteen’s punkrawk uke duo. We hear that they’re getting married next June.

There’s too much great stuff coming up in October and so razor blades to stick in candy apples that there’s just no time to get sick. I won’t overwhelm you with the long list now, but this weekend is Doug’s Cabaret Verdalet at Ruby Sky! Sailor Billy, Rose Pistola, and I will be helping The Indra with her famous High Body Count Apache Dance 2004. I have to get better so The Indra can stab me to death! Where’s the Vitamin C?!

BTW, does anyone know anyone who wants to help me fix my home computer? It’s totally rotten to the core and moves so slowly that I can’t even bear to send an email.(Apologies to those who haven’t heard from me…I have to use the connection at work.) Let me know.

Good ol’ Pat McCarthy caught the best of last Tuesday, September 28th, staring Tippy Canoe and the Paddleman, The Flying Fox, and Bombshell Betty’s Burlesque Bonanza!

The Flying Fox is a royal tease.


Tippy Canoe and the Paddleman are flying fox hunt’n.


Riff Ditties and Bombshell Betty get tropical.


And Sweet Cheeks goes wild.


We love our regulars.

SpeakEasily, this Tuesday, October 5th:

HEAR: The sultry swing of HOT AND BOTHERED!
You might remember this jazz combo from SpeakEasily’s grand opening as the band you can’t take your eyes off of! Yes, at SpeakEasily, even the jazz combo is beautiful! They’ll also make you fight for place on the dance floor! Let's get HOT! And BOTHERED! And How!

SEE: Burlesque showstopper CHERRY LIX! This show will stop your heart!

EXPERIENCE: The madness that is BOMBSHELL BETTY's "BURLESQUERCISE!" BONANZA!

RENT: THE MILE HIGH METER DANCERS. Yes, they are FOR RENT! Their
dance-floor affections are all yours for a few dollars a dance. Getta load of these gold-digging baby grands and baby vamps…these Bearcats will eat you alive!

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html
For pictures, see http://www.wolfmann.blogspot.com/

The Mile High Club
3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland CA
Doors and Meter Dancing at 8, Show starts 9-ish
$5
Info: speakeasily@gmail.com

Klassy with a K,
~Odessa Lil~