- Thought about making my own pole dancing video tonight but so far not feeling up to it #
- Not going to the Exotic Dancer World Championships tonight. There’s always next year. #
- Ok so far two of my twitter contacts are twittering about getting a mani/pedi. I should really do that too. Too bad it’s 10pm. #
- Minor proofreading on a long-ass rambling blog post I’m about to put up #
- Checking weather forecast for Columbus, Ga. and getting ready for our road trip. #
- Time for a shower #
- Audio from “Don’t Be That Guy” is now up
http://www.gapodcastnetwork.com/node/3170 Listen at your own risk #balticon42 #
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- Heading home. Got one thing i must blog; not sure if i’ll have time for the stuff i *want* to blog. #
- No time to make a video either. #
- @jenbrock – Love the voicemail #
- Weird commenters, wtf #
- Debating over whether or not to go to the Exotic Dance World Championships tonight at the Pink Pony South. #
- @reginalynn & @Nobilis – Audio from one of our #balticon42 sessions is up: http://urltea.com/39bv The others will be up soon! #
- NY Times quote from 71yo woman: “I think they’re giving the wrong idea that it’s O.K. to have free sex.” That’s right, get paid, ladies! #
- Guy holding little girl’s hand (she’s probably ont even 2) is walking WAY too fast for her. Poor little thing. #
- Feeling weird. There’s a certain feeling I get from ppl who I know don’t respect me as a person… I can’t be around them, at all. #
- Some questions and ponderings about strip club etiquette and my anti-social panicky-ness: http://urltea.com/39db #
- About to shut down the computer and head home #
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I don’t know what the deal is with me lately. Why does it feel like I have less free time for blogging, even though I know I have more since Sex 2.0 is over? Yes, it’s true work has been busy – but work is usually busy. And I don’t really like blogging from work anyway; I like working at work, and I hate having no actual work to do. So what is my deal?
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“They were just playing a little rough? Believe me, what I saw was more than that. I saw boys who know violence very intimately. I saw boys who would shove a little girl down repeatedly, and then choke her when they think no one is watching.”
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“Apparently it requires just too much flexibility in one’s thinking to conclude that a woman’s psychological reasons for sex work don’t revolve completely around what’s going on in her relationships with men.”
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“Grey is the latest in a long line of women in porn, even that rough gonzo stuff so often under fire, who are there not only by choice, but with a whole lot of determination, brains, and vision. Women who have already and continue to change the industry.”
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“Four historic buildings in Midtown are endangered, with their owners seeking demolition permits. Worse yet, the owners plan to replace the buildings with nothing but vacant lots for the foreseeable future.”
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I’m thinking of going to day two of the Exotic Dancer World Championships tonight at the Pink Pony South, and it got me thinking about etiquette in strip clubs and some of the hang-ups I still have about them (which really are just manifestations of my general hang-ups with tipping, being in crowded places, and interacting with strangers).
I know from talking with and/or reading the blogs of many current or former strippers that generally when they see a woman in the club, they figure they won’t be making much money from her. Knowing this (and knowing some of the other bad behaviors women often exhibit in strip clubs), I always make an effort to tip well when I go to a strip club – but sometimes my own “issues” win out. I hate feeling stared at, and when I go up to the stage to tip the dancer I can feel eyeballs of drunken men burning a hole in the back of my head. (I have plenty of issues with drunkenness, too; as my personal baggage goes, those are the ones that are too large to fit in the overhead compartment.) Then, I never know what to say to the dancer when I put the money in her garter; small talk is hard enough without loud music and the fact that we’re only dealing with the space of about ten seconds. I feel like I should say something, because it seems like saying nothing would be weirder. I usually try to say something nice about their pole work. But often the dancer just winds up shouting back, “What?”
I also make a point to give more than just a measly dollar to the dancers who do advanced pole work (or any pole work, really) or other moves beyond the bare minimum. I wonder how much is too much during a stage set, though… or if there’s no such thing as too much!
So if any of y’all feel like chiming in with your thoughts/preferences/experiences, I’d be interested to hear them.
I might not end up going tonight anyway, because we’re leaving for a weekend road trip tomorrow morning and I want to get enough sleep, but it’s not like I’ll never go to a strip club again at some point.
Random unrelated thought (not self-deprecating, really, because I’m trying not to do that as much anymore; and yet…) : “issues” should be an item on Stuff White People Like.
- Thinking about making a pole dancing video when Rusty gets back from the store. I’m proud of myself for climbing to an invert! #
- @kimberleecline – That sounds like a fun month! #
- After Rusty and I buy a house/condo/whatever, I want new furniture. So there. #
- Irritated w/ ppl complaining *at* me but not offering any solutions or doing anything. Also, I still don’t like unsolicited advice. #
- Tired. Annoyed. Hungry. Argh. #
- @kimberleecline – Sounds like a plan! In the meantime, enjoy the pole class in Chicago, and I’ll see you in July. #
- Best white whine so far: http://urltea.com/393i #
- @ellie_lumpesse – Well,you were mentioned at Balticon in a sex podcasters session! (Audio to be posted soon) #
- 586 followers… what percentage of those are spam accounts, I wonder. #
- Testing CSS. It appeals to me in a kind of rote way. #
- ok, the bus stop ad said “Sex AND the City” but I thought the show was “Sex IN the City.” Am I hallucinating? #
- I’ve had weird syhcronicity w/ the word “steampunk” lately #
- @StudioErotica – Oh I am a CSS goddess :) Love it! #
- Thanks, @tiffanybbrown @nikkistrick & @absurdities for confirming my hallucination! #
- Er, I meant @jenbrock, not @nikkistrick. Unless she said it too. #
- That “This Recording” blog is STILL going on about how Sasha Grey is “so fascinating.” WTF people?? Get. A. CLUE. #
- …I mean they’re STILL going, “OMG! She’s not a drug addict! She wasn’t abused as a child!” As if she’s the ONLY ONE. Ugh!! #
- And, wtf, there is also a steampunk reference on the annoying This Recording post. #
- Oh wonderful. They LINKED ME in that post. I guess that’s why the link showed up in my WP dashboard. #
- @rustytanton – And the phone company would actually advise women to put an initial in the phonebook, not their full name #
- @tiffanybbrown – It’s not just you. Every 2 yrs or so, someone regurgitates a version of that article. @kimberleecline – EXACTLY. #
- @rustytanton – Have I mentioned lately that I love Gaping Void? #
- Booking flight to Chicago for Desiree Alliance conference #
- At atlantic station #
- Manuels #
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This event is being put on by one of the instructors at PoleLaTeaz, who also happens to be president of Helping Home Foundation. I’d say it looks to be on par with Sex, Wine and Chocolate – that is, not your typical boring, solemn charity event (buffet, silent auction, guilt-inducing presentation) by a longshot.
You can download a PDF flier here.
Who doesn’t want to come to a charity event that has pole dancing??
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“NPR failed to credit the organization I was representing, Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK). … I guess sex workers currently working in the business are too busy in the alleyways shooting up, so how could they be organized, right?”
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As I said here (complete w/ typos and everything), we need to have blogging parties at Manuel’s.
Don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I would like that.
That reminds me of the Friday of WAM, when I was already at the hotel and Dacia (ha, I linked her!) was en route, and we were frantically texting each other about god knows what, and she texted, “Dude, we so need to have a blogging party in the hotel room tonight!”
It’s good to be with people who understand you.
Oh, and listen to the latest Mostly ITP if you haven’t yet. And leave us a voicemail… let’s get participatory, indeed!
