It's too early to blog this

But I'll forget if I don't make a note of it, so:

Bawdy Beautiful
New Burlesque shakes up San
Francisco

When the busty, heavily tattooed blonde Eva Von Slut raises her enormous platform heel and crushes the tiny cardboard city at her feet, the crowd of sexy zombies, black-caped vampires and tightly corseted can-can girls at the DNA Lounge goes wild.

The audience members crane their necks to catch a glimpse of her skimpy green outfit glittering in the spotlight as she slowly, tauntingly reduces the buildings to a pulp.

With a final grind of her ample hips, Von Slut (who is dressed as Grrlzilla for this Halloween event) finishes her dance of destruction and struts offstage, trailing her long dinosaur tail behind.

[. . .] Despite its current popularity with Generation X, burlesque is a recycled diversion from many generations ago. Launched in New York in the late 19th century with the import of Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes, it bumped and grinded its way into dance halls and theaters around the country and remained popular into the 1930s before finally fading in the late '50s.

True to its etymological origins (the word burlesque means "caricature" or "parody"), early burlesque acts were part of larger variety shows featuring comical skits and unusual sideshow characters. Burlesque queens were curvaceous women who coyly peeled away costumes down to their pasties while wielding bawdy jokes and saucy one-liners. The legendary Sophie Tucker, nicknamed the Red Hot Mama, explained the phenomenon best when she said, "Burlesque is just vaudeville with tits."

Cut from the bit I just quoted, for space issues, is a mention that the audiences for the current crops of shows are women rather than men, and there's a few size-positive comments and genderfuck stuff in the article too. Worth a look, but you maybe wanna avoid the linked photo gallery if you're at work.

This has been your sex content of the day, which I'm guessing is why Daze Reader links here. . .