Upcoming Performances in New York (not by me)

My cousin (son of my Dad's cousin) is going to be in New York this weekend performing with his jazz band at Fat Cat (opening for the Ari Hoenig Trio) if y'all want to check it out. Mom and I will go to one of the performances but aren't sure which yet. I'll leave something in the comments when we decide, in case you want to join us. But feel free to go either night on your own.
Update: It looks like we're going on Friday.

Rock Star Fran always has shows coming up. Schwervon is performing on March 18th at Galapagos and then she'll be solo at Cakeshop on March 27th. I think I'll try to make that one. Schwervon's CD release party should be June 2nd at Cakeshop. I definitely plan to be at that. And while I was looking at the store to see if I was missing any Fran CDs I noticed they have Schwervon t-shirts for sale. I'm soooo getting one.

And speaking of Galapagos... I'm planning on going to see Point Break Live on April 2 (along with Muppet, Lovey & others) and am totally psyched about it. You should join us.

Lovey is performing in a benefit on April 10 and singing a song in a performance in June as well as doing her own recital on June 6. I will be at the benefit, the recital and one of the 8 performances of "Celebrate Good Times (Macbeth)" though I don't know which one yet. But you should feel free to come and support her at any or all of these performances.

Muppet's dance group has been added to the roster of resident artists at Galapagos in Williamsburg and will be having their own benefit in June. Hopefully not on the 6th.


Since I have so many friends involved in performances and activities in New York I'm thinking of making this semi-regular so if you have anything coming up that you want me to mention, let me know.

Oh yeah

So, Saturday night I saw a Jason Voorhees stripper. Yeah, y'all want my rock star life.

And then after the stripper I got into about four or five different conversations with different people about strippers. Male strippers vs. female strippers. How it's hot when female strippers work the pole but gross when male strippers work the pole. Male revues vs. the lone male stripper coming to your house for a bachelor/bachelorette party. How female strippers have the foxy plastic (lucite!) footwear but male strippers wear sneakers or boots. How Heidi Fleiss is opening up a male bordello for girls in Nevada. How you can touch all you want with male strippers but will lose a hand if you touch female strippers. How a girl almost never has to pay for her own lap dance in a female strip club. Male strippers for guys vs. male strippers for girls. At one point I turned to a guy I was in one of these conversations with and said, "not that I'm a stripper expert or anything." And while this is true (Daddy, I am NOT a stripper expert) I realized I'd been talking about them for about 15-20 minutes with just this one person. I am such trash. My mama must be so embarrassed.