Archive for October, 2007

ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 82 “Orange Visitors!”

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

October 21, 2007

Work was good today, a little beat from last night, but all in all good. I didn’t see a ton of orange today, but I did hear at least TWO “Godbless you’s” and I had my ipod in for most of the day! I guess I do look good in orange!

Mari and Erica stopped by right when I was taking my lunch break, they are so wonderful!

I met with Candy Caramelo for dinner, she’s in town for the next three months! The couple we sat next to was a from Stockholm and they were so friendly! I’m just so excited to be getting out of town!
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And the last minute, “woah it’s too late in the day to look good shot”
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ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 81 “Orange Bouquet”

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

October 20, 2007

Allison and Noah got married today, they are so fantastic! Such a creative couple! The details that went into the wedding, their invites were brown, blue and orange. Noah’s suit was blue. The mothers of both the bride and groom were in blue, the bridesmaids had brown dresses with orange bouquets!

Here’s Layna one of the Bridesmaids with Allison’s Dad behind her!They were taking wedding party shots. I took some pictures this one came out the best! I think if I’m having fun my picture taking lacks focus! I really like this one!

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Bearlinda got to be the Ring Bear, she was really excited to be in a wedding and she was wearing a orange dress and she’s brown!
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The wedding was beautiful, it was accompanied by Armen Ra on the theremin. All my friends from the burlesque community were there, a couple were missing because of gigs, but for the most part they were there!

Since the wedding was at the Brooklyn Aquarium one of the mammals at the wedding was this lovely Walrus, who was very friendly! Here’s Gabe with the Walrus, photo by Scarlet(i think?)
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Here’s me on the Walrus, photo by Scarlet
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Here are World Famous *BOB*, Dr Lukki, me, Tigger!, Ruby Valentine, Scarlet Sinclair, and Lola Pearl. It’s a rainbow! Photo by Micheal
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Harvest Moon and Delirium Tremens in matching blue and brunette outfits!
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Me and Tigger! in matching orange!
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Lindsey, Clams Casino, Tigger!, and Neil O’Fortune!
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Allison and me.
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Allison and Noah
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Leroi the Girl Boy and Rose Wood
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And another shot of Allison and Noah dancing!
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ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 80 “Follow the Orange Brick Road”

Friday, October 19th, 2007

October 19, 2007

Wonderful day, worked, interviewed. Came home and was exhausted, but found enough energy to walk three blocks to a wonderful party called Fortune a Go-Go. I was a walk-about Oracle giving fortune and magic in the form of orange glitter and brilliant fortune cookies.

Mine fortune said, “You are punished for thinking too small. Stuffed inside you is a boundless creature. Freaky, huh? Let it become you.”

These were the masterpiece of Gabrielle, this was her party!
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There were wonderful people at the party!Amber Ray the gypsy fortune teller!
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Kevin Muth the fabulous man in a spiral hair cut, here he is reading his fortune!
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Machine Dazzle my costume muz, love this man such a fantastic artist, and sweet person!
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He took this picture of me!
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Sara Sparkles and Veronica Varlow walked me home, and we created a orange sparkle path as we walked down the streets of Bushwick, visiting rats and hoards of drunk boys on our way home! Sara Sparkles or Veronica Varlow said “Follow the Orange Brick road!”
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Sara Sparkled a passer by!
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And then they tucked me in!
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ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 79 “Orange Dilema”

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

October 18, 2007

I can’t decide what to wear to my friend Allison’s wedding, I’m affraid my outfit choices aren’t fun, formal or fabulous!

What do you think I should wear?
#1
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#2
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or even
#3??
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I took this picture when I was having dinner!
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I performed at Starshine Burlesque and it was great! More on it tomorrow!

ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 78 “Orange Bluethday”

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

October 17, 2007

It was Maceo’s Birthday today, and he wanted a Blue Birthday aka Bluethday, so fortunately he had the birthday party at home because I got to wear blue(yes I can wear whatever I want at home!) Though I did wear orange when I went out today to get my bike, I wore these orange pants, and I actually took this picture today!
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Anyway the party was fun,fun,fun! Who knew that two 3 year olds could be so loud! In a very cute way!
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Sharon did some awesome decorating!
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We wore funny hats!
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We took pictures!
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We ate blue birthday cake!
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Yum! I love Birthdays!

ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 77 “Orange you glad you came?”

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

October 16, 2007
I woke up today at 8am, made these pants from an old pattern of my moms, I just love the 70’s patterns!
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I’m super in love with them!I made them for Europe, because it will be cold and I have no orange pants, I think I would freeze in my orange skirts!

I went to work, and was just so jazzed by my pants, something about fluorescents that are energizing! Maybe it’s spandex velvet? I don’t know, but I was jazzed!

I came home, curled my hair, jumped on my bike rode to Manhattan, got a flat, hopped in a cab on Delancey and went to Lotus. I always have such a good time there; I ate with Glenn Marla, Formika, James Coppola, Trina Rose and a smattering of other fabulous folks!
Little Brooklyn, Creamy Stevens, Dirty Martini, Princess Farhana, Captain and Mike all performed it was great! I danced, danced, danced and had a great time! Then this hip-hop drag group called Ma’Lady performed, so much fun!

Here’s Glenn at Dinner, in Orange!
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And me!
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I changed into my pants and Birkenstock’s and I looked at the bottom of my heels and what did I find? A rhinestone!! Glamor all over the place!
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ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 76 “Orange Holloween NOT YET!”

Monday, October 15th, 2007

October 15,2007
Lazy day today, blogged, of course because that’s what I’ll do every day for a year! Well for 289 more days! I did laundry, orange laundry it’s delightful to have a load that is ALL ORANGE! They had the movie Transformers on at the laundry mat and I watched as I did my laundry, I actually felt some love for those robot aliens

Yesterday when I was riding home, this kid yells, “It’s not Halloween yet!” He was so upset that I was wearing orange; you know he’s been the first person upset for the color orange. Orange seems to make people very happy for the most part, because it’s bright and colorful. I’ve mainly been getting this comment, “you look good in orange.” I’d like to think it just makes people happy. Orange also is suppose to induce hunger, that’s been true for me so far, jeez maybe it’s because it’s getting cold, and I’m stocking up for winter? I’d like to think it’s because of my attire!

Anyway, after doing beautiful orange laundry I went to work. It was Victor’s last day as a Sex Educator at the Mercer store; he’s now an Assistant Manager at the Rivington store. He blew a blood vessel in his eye, pretty crazy, anyway here is the picture.

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Here’s me at work, I’m working a ton now so that I can make up my hours at work before I leave for Europe.
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I came home and made a new dress from left over fabric from the Orangeacle Oracle Vapor Dancer costumes, very flow-y, very orange! This dress has started a sewing frenzy!

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ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 75 “Orangeacle Oracle revisited!”

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

October 14, 2007
I worked today, and here is a picture of me at work!
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I wanted to talk more about the Orangeacle Oracle, I didn’t give a very good re-cap of yesterday.
Well first of all it was wonderful to be in a beautiful garden with people that I love and that inspire me. Second off, everyone really “got it”, and appreciated the camp-ness of my spirituality. Third, as DJ Baby K said,”Orange is the color of divinity.” The event was truly divine! DJ Baby K brought lovely music to the garden and the performances started with Malcolm Hula Hooping, which brought people in to the garden.

Then Amber Ray did a lovely act where she came out as a green caterpillar and turned into a lovely orange monarch butterfly! The butterfly by nature is a spiritual animal, so beautiful and so delicate, always attracted to flowers and color. When we were in fire Island there were ALL these beautiful monarch butterflies that came to the beach to die, I tell you it’s not a bad place to die. Here is a picture which you’ve already seen before, but it’s a good one, and it’s all i have of these butterflies! Me and Glenn Marla in Coney Island October 16, 2006 by Darren Meyham

Glenn Marla and Darlinda Just Darlinda at Coney Island by Darren Mayhem

Then Dr Lukki did a glamor sermon, she is the Patron Saint of Glamor and she’s healed many a soul, she has this amazing orange dress, that is sparkly and beautiful! She just brought the glamor to this tiny garden in the Lower east side! Here she is bringing Glamor to The Miss Exotic World Pageant and Reunion in June 2007.
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Tigger! brought on the curious orange, which was a delightful exploration of orange and the garden, and it just flowed well right into my Oracle act. It started as a procession on to the circular stage, Kiki, Nasty, Pinkie and Vic represented the Vapors of the Oracle. Pinkie had the magical healing orange glitter and the fans of the future in her hands which she placed on the center of the stage. I stayed down and inhaled the future/ the vapors. As the Vapors danced I slowly rose to greet the directions and the people who wanted to know their future.The vapors collected the people and I took them under my fans while they asked me a question.

The questions were hard, and I just answered with my gut. The first question was “Who will win the 2008 elections Barack or Hillary, I repeated the question and then stated my answer “Hillary.” I sprinkled the person with orange oracle dust(glitter) and sent them on their way.The second question was “what will I do next week” my answer was “You will sleep, eat, make love, and dance”(I’ll have to verify that I said this when I get the video!) The next question was “After 11 years will George and I get married.” my answer was, “yes.” The third was “will the war be over this year” and I regretfully replied “no”, I heard someone in the garden say,”this oracle is a downer!” Well unfortunately there is war happening always, humans fight, not that I approve, but I do have to wonder if there has ever been a time in human existence when one human didn’t kill another? The third question came from Ruby, my friend Rebbie’s 3 year old daughter, who I have known since she was a tiny fetus. She came up to the stage and looked so freaked out, she didn’t ask a question but I asked for her, “where’s mommy?” and I of course new the answer and pointed to Rebbie. The next was another little girl and she looked like she was going to burst into tears of confusion. So I also put the question in her mouth, “why are you dressed so funny” to which I replied, “Because I am the Orangeacle Oracle, and then I collapsed! The Vapors dragged me off and that was the end of the Oracle . . . .

Well, I can’t wait to see the video! I was a truly magical day! Still beaming from that!

ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 74 “The Orangeacle Oracle”

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

October 13, 2007

Whats a lovely day! It was truly an Orange-tastic experience! I woke up and cut orange fabric, filled my bag with orange coats, fabric and glitter and hopped on my bike to Le Petite Versailles.

I was late, but greeted in orange splendor by Nasty Canasta, Howling Vic, Pinkie Special and Kiki Clutch! We rehearsed for the Oracle act, they were the “vapors” of the oracle, it was delightful!

The day went lovely, it was like a happening, and that’s what I wanted! To experiment in the beautiful garden was magical, and to share that experience with such lovely people was fantastic!

Ed Barnas took my favorite shot ever!
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For now here is Nasty Canasta and Pinkie Special waiting for the Orangeacle to start.
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And Reynard, in her video spot(best view of the stage).
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Malcolm covering his hoop with all orange with DJ Baby K’s back in the background!
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Afterwards, I went to eat at Mama’s Food shop(yum!) with my cousin Yaacov, Jenny, Vic, and Pinkie. As we were leaving, Paige, Gilberto and David showed up, they had just come from the garden, it’s nice to know that they enjoyed themselves!

Then Pinkie, Vic, Jenny and I went to Pinkie’s house to hang out! Pinkie and I went to eat at 7A, it’s funny to eat at Midnight because everyone is “out” like it’s the most important party of the week . . were were just hungry!

Then I found some uses for pasties.
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Pinkie said,”You look like John Lennon in this picture!”
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And then she got really upset and pulled out her knife!
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All in all it was a fantastic day!

ORANGE OCTOBER: DAY 73 “Orange Gifts!”

Friday, October 12th, 2007

October 12, 2007

Nice day at work, though I was a little tired, because yesterday I was up late prepping for the Orangeacle Oracle. And it was so windy riding my bike to work with a Bearlinda in a bag, and well it was just windy!

Lola Pearl is wonderful, she dropped off an orange scarf the other day and came baring sweet orange gifts today! She’s lovely!!
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I did this Ricky’s party with the wonderful Queens Marie, La John Joseph, and Sharyn Jackson! Such lovely people! I got hot curlers! It’s going to make my life so much easier, and my hair so curly!!

I was beat, so I came home ate dinner and went to bed!
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Oh, and I actually took this shot on Wednesday, looks like a fun show! I wish I was here, but actually I’ll be in Stockholm dining with Virginia Valentine and Scotty the Blue Bunny!
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