Come one, come all to the SpeakEasily HOLIDAY AND SO-LONG OAKLAND SHOW AND FEZ NIGHT! It’s a regular Borscht Capades folks. Yes a day that will live in infamy! How long does infamy last, anyway? Never mind that.
We’ve got a lot to commemorate. For starters, it’s our last official show at The Mile High Club. Yes, we’ve reached the end of a short but golden era for ol’ Oaktown. After a lively run, the owners of The Mile High Club have decided to pass on the torch and go on to other vistas.
Also, there are birthdays to celebrate (Lisa Nola and Ali “Tabs” Tabatabai, among countless others I’m sure)!
AND let’s not forget that it’s an occasion to break out the fez, Mister!
SO make sure you’re there to send us off in style! I’m sure we’ll reemerge somewhere sometime soon at a dive near you, but until then:

SPEAKEASILY, Tuesday December 7th!
$6 ($5 with a Fez!)

COMFY CHAIR
The worlds last, and first, time traveling SLAMSWING band, COMFY CHAIR is a high voltage tribute to the Jazz Age.

Special guest appearance of TIPPY CANOE and her magical uke!

Solos from burlesque showstoppers and founders of The Diamons Daggers CHERRY LIX and VIDALIA PARADISE.

Nouveau-Vaudeville's own beauty queen, THE INDRA.

Creator of "Burlesquersize" -- BOMBSHELL BETTY.

SpeakEasily burlesque sweetheart ROSE PISTOLA.

PLUS
THE MILE HIGH METER DANCERS are FOR RENT! GET THEM WHILE THEY’RE STILL HOT! 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).

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html
OUR WEBSITE IS SORTA UP…for pictures and other wacky info, see http://www.audrawolfmann.net/SpeakEasily.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

Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World,
~Odessa Lil~



In other news...here's a photo from a shoot I did with Feirce Couture and Scott Pagano!

...AND because the interweb is working, I can watch The Flake's video that Guerilla Monster Films made! See them almost get their hair cut!

Ah, the luxury of using the home computer at home.
After months of hoping my Dell would be reborn into an iMac G5 while I ignored it in it’s virus-ridden mess, I finally took a step in a direction. Last night I called my sister. I put it off because I have vivid memories of receiving piano lessons from her as a kid that literally hurt. But she knows her computer stuff and she stayed up late with me to show me how to look for Spyware in my startup menu. (Yeay! Thanks!) She said, “Call back tomorrow and we’ll start step 2.” Easy enough, but the Spywares kept reinstalling themselves…I’d cut down one and two would grow in its place! That was around 10:30pm.
Come 4:00am I pretty much had the situation under control…I reinstalled Windows, screwed around in the registry, and downloaded a Spyware killer (Ad-ware SE). I’ve won the battle and now I can check my email again…oh, only 326 messages in my audrawolfmann.net email account. Why did I want to fix my computer?

There will be a celebration in honor of Sunny (AKA Mia Moore) at El Rio on Tuesday. Please see the Big Burlesque page for more information.

Lately there’s been a lot of bad news dealt out.
I recently found out that I am going to have some pretty annoying medical stuff to deal with. Things need to be removed, fingers need to be crossed. It won’t be anything serious in the long run, but it’s definitely the kind of thing that makes you think twice about your invincibility. Everyone I've talked to about this has been so helpfull in getting me to put my head back on straight again. Thanks so much!

When the going gets tragic, I generally burry myself in movies. This Sunday, the Balboa Theater and Harold Lloyd's granddaughter Suzanne Lloyd present a screening of his 1932 film MOVIE CRAZY. What a direct route to escapism!

Terrible.
I've just heard that Sunny did not make it. This woman was a power house, so full of life and charm. It was truely an honor to have worked with her.

Attention Ladies and Gentlekin!
It appears as though we’ve reached the end of a short but golden era for ol’ Oaktown. After a lively run, the owners of The Mile High Club have decided to pass on the torch and go on to other vistas. What does this mean for SpeakEasily, Odessa Lil, and The Mile High Dancers? Two more shows at our home base! November 16th and December 7th (our big HOLIDAY AND SO-LONG OAKLAND SHOW AND FEZ NIGHT)! Make sure you’re there to send us off in style! I’m sure we’ll reemerge somewhere sometime soon at a dive near you, but until then:

SPEAKEASILY, Tuesday November 16th!

THE DOPPLER TRIO
It's like Thelonious Monk goes to Macedonia on a Klezmer-driven spaceship! Outta sight!
THE INDRA - Nouveau-Vaudeville's own beauty queen!
THE CHAINSAW CHUBETTES - A bruised and brassy burlesque duet from San Fransiceee, will transport you to the gritty streets of Weimar Berlin!
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). Show them how much you care (with $$$)!

http://www.oaklandmilehigh.com/index.html
For pictures and other wacky info, 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 (like the good ol’ days)
Info: speakeasily@gmail.com

Next year in Jerusalem! (But not really), ~Odessa Lil~

Is there ever a back to normal?
It seems that things may be calming down from the whirlwind activity of the Halloween season. Forget Xmas and Chanukah and all that garbage; this October was officially the season of no return. There were lots of big shows and lots of big news and even a 10-year high school reunion to go to! After all of that, holiday shopping is going to be like a walk in an overpriced and frenzied park.
Besides the weekly SpeakEasilys, there was also:
A fashion show for an awesome fetish designer. That show turned my hair dark, but I’m starting to like that slowly but surely.
A crazy Mexican wrestling bonanza called Lucha VaVoom in which I got to be a ring girl and escort the pink-pride wrestler Rosa Salvaje to his victorious match. (Does anyone have any picture of this?! The Indra lent me one of her beautiful showgirl gowns and I’ll probably never get to wear anything like that again! AND when am I going to see Bethanne escort two midgets again?!)
Lee Press on and the Nails final show at Rancho Nicasio! Thanks again to The Indra for rallying up the 2004 Olympic Apache Team. We KILLED in Marin. (How much milage can I get out of that joke? Billy, shut up.) AND we got to drive up there in Miss Lynda's hearse! Oh yes!
AND…on Halloween was Spectacular Spectacular at the DNA Lounge. The place was packed with a crowd who take Halloween VERY seriously, as only San Franciscan’s do. The show, which included a hot dog bun stage fire, The Adorable Doctor Phibes, The Cabinet of Doctor Calamari, and me as a RABID POODLE foaming Emergen-C at the mouth, was a success and I’m looking forward to our cast party this weekend. I might not use any Emergen-C for a while, though. Here’s some photographic evidence of the freak fest:

We the glamorous, pre-show.


Miss Eva Von Slut as Lady Arfington and me in poodle pants.


Gorilla X and Gorilla XX.


After all that, going to my 10-year high school reunion seemed rather tame. It’s really a fortunate thing that I had no time to think (keep moving! Like a shark! Look over there!) because otherwise I might have gotten all squirrely about the reunion. Bullard Knights can do that to a gal. But honestly, besides the racial-slur-hurling LCDs (Lowest Common Denominators) and the usual dramas, high school wasn’t all that bad for me. I really had nothing to prove to anyone. In fact, I found myself just giving partial answers to anyone who actually bothered to ask what I was up to. The friends I had planned to go with couldn’t make it, but I dragged Brett along and he kept me laughing and drinking and sane the whole night. I reconnected with a few people I was very happy to see. The rest had either become bloated or bald. By 11pm, I was ready to go.

Oh, there is other BIG news as well…but I’ll get to that later. For now, I think I’ll leave work and ponder my future at the gym.