i'm going to use lotsa sn.im shortcut URL's! aren't you lucky!
updated calendar ahead ahoy woo!




free show tomorrow august 15!
be on TEEVEE with the toys!


5-7pm
The Outpost, Inman Square
186 1/2 Hampshire St
Cambridge, MA


http://sn.im/toysonTV

filming for a bigtime South American MTV-like TV show
the Army of Toys break international tv-air-waves or somesuch?
help us throw a kamikaze fake/real secret/public BADASS concert!
be our audience! there will be love + nibbles + boobs + a free wee show in thanks!
yes! and OMG TV cameras




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august 27, 7:30pm til the witching hour
Army of Toys @ Dreamchild's CD Release Victorian (Vampirictorian?) gala
at the fo' realzie's vaudevillian lovely, Regent Theatre!
$12 in advance $15 elsewise
The Regent Theatre
7 Medford St, Arlington, MA


http://sn.im/theeeatre (Regent site)
http://sn.im/theatreFB (on facebook)


there will be absinthe! door prizes! did i mention Victorian garb as far as the
hooked eye can see? this will be an amazing/surreal lovely evening.
$12 tix in advance - and i have a limited # you can get through me, leave a
comment or drop an email: burlesque.poetess@gmail.com
all who buy advance tix through me- it includes a complimentary (usually $1)
stripping sonnet- on a topic of your choice, hand inked/illustrated before thein very
eyes the evening of! you can still put singles in my skivvies, of course!

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saturday, sept. 5, 8pm : Super Time Pilot CD Release
Army of Toys / Jaggery / The comedy of Mehran! (oh so saucy)
in support of Robby Roadsteamer's new project/new band/new cd: Did We Happen to Begin?

9/5/09, 8pm
TT the Bear's
10 Brookline St
Central Square, Cambridge, MA
http://www.myspace.com/supertimepilot

you've seen him on cigtar/clarinet with the toys, you loved him in Rev. Glasseye,
and yes you've seen him tour on sax with World/Inferno-- now see Kevin Corzett
rock...ELECTRIC BASS in Super Time Pilot!



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fri, october 9, 2009 @ The YMCA theatre in Cambridge, MA
THE ODDITORIUM (deux)
"An Evening of Side Show Delights & Vaudeville Theatre"


There will be seance between 6:30-7 pm W/ Rory Raven
for a select audience.  After that the doors (and concession stand) open at 7:15
and the show starts at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale Sept. 21st.


http://www.odditoriumboston.com

produced by Zehara Nachash: http://www.zehara.com

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sun, oct 25, 2009 : pussy charity benefit
@ The Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA
who? The Boston Chapter of the North East Belly Dance Society
twat? benefit for the Mass Humane Society
whence?   1-5 pm

including many circus/variety acts! for pussy! i mean, charity!

where can you find/get your fix of the burlesque poetess?



sat, july 11, 2009 9:30pm, 21+
4 year anniversary of The Steamy Bohemians' JERKUS CIRCUS!
tag-along to >> Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys
also feat. *MEHRAN! babes in boinkland bubbies! yay!
@Ralph's (rockabilly fab) Diner, Worcester, MA
$8 / $5 if you come in (twisted) weddingwear!

http://www.myspace.com/thesteamybohemians
http://www.ralphsrockdiner.com

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thurs, july 16, 2009, all ages, $10 @door
@The Lily Pad, 1355 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA
variety show/concert spectacular hosted by yours truly, your burlesque poetess(s)
!!!Walter Sickert & The Army of Toys + The Hellblinki Sextet!!!

premiering my ukicorn/Ziggy Stardust LP project and one-woman, multiple tart "talents"-- vaudeville show, folks!

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sat, aug 1, 2009, 8pm, 18+
@TT the Bear's Place, Cambridge, MA
extra broken band(aged)-member of
Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys (on at 10pm)
w/ The Builders and The Butchers (you've seen them tour w. Amanda Palmer, yo), and Illinois

(Toys also feat. the sax/clari/tritar cigbox stylings of Mr. Corzett!)

http://www.ttthebears.com

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and a fall preview, lucky you:

fri, october 9, 2009 @ The YMCA theatre in Cambridge, MA
THE ODDITORIUM (deux)
"An Evening of Side Show Delights & Vaudeville Theatre"

There will be seance between 6:30-7 pm W/ Rory Raven
for a select audience.  After that the doors (and concession stand) open at 7:15
and the show starts at 8 pm. Tickets go on sale Sept. 21st.

http://www.odditoriumboston.com
produced by Zehara Nachash : http://www.zehara.com

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sun, oct 25, 2009 : pussy charity benefit
@ The Middle East Upstairs, Cambridge, MA
who? The Boston Chapter of the North East Belly Dance Society
twat? benefit for the Mass Humane Society
whence?   1-5 pm

including many circus/variety acts! for pussy! i mean, charity!

request for writing exercises? answer-ed! i wrote a blog about a fun form (practically game)-- Jim Simmerman's "20 Little Poetry Projects" and included some of my examples from *gasp* college. poems that leapt like a goat wearing bells through a few hoops. it's all hot date poetry. about not hot dates.

>> http://poetesss.tumblr.com/post/127757353/20lil




request for videos of me performing... embedded video ahead! (clearly the message here is, ask and you shall receive. at least when i'm excited to do such burlesquery amidst my grad residency, just to be contrary?) anyhoo, video! my new twitterarrivals-- shall i call you the enablers? disablers? writerlets?



from feb. 12, 2009. "COME GET YOUR DADA ON!" i enter around 4:20 *snicker* and 8:10 or so? heck, just watch it! Molly Zenobia, moi, Army of Toys' premiere/record-ing "Off with her Head" -- it's all fabulous! high energy! surreal! s'how we roll. i did schtick about the current dada/economic crisis (this was feb, still particularly Obama-crazy tee) and enlisted the audience in writing a poem with me. i'm in a towel/edrie hat later because i was playing her in a short performance based on a piece of edrie creative nonfiction? edrie awesome? yes.



the toys pulling the ol' switcheroo, crashing -my- set at the Odditorium. 3.20.09 vomitious family xmas card caliber screen capture scenes ensued.


there's one of my bare bum at the Mr. Fox cd release in Gloucester ...somewhere kicking around fb, let me see if that's going to come to vimeo/youtube at a location near you, and i'll put it ici aussi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRZMyAEI7E4

i get my very first verbal parental warning/rating! and i'll let you guys be the judge if my vocab/neologisms/burlesque-wordsalad is "poetic." and almost a year to the date (ok, month) of my first carnival-crashing -their- set-- i get my comeuppance-- the TOYS are my personal hecklers/stage crashers/flask-bearers bringing song & dresden doll covers!

twatter's kind of broken right now, but

follow @poetesss

the extra 's' is for strangelings (or in the case of mr. sickert-- stranglings)

tomorrow/marrow/horror night! wed. 9pm
on 91.5 FM (boston)
the TOYS + moi interviewed on WMFO's "on the town"
no one will be able to see what i'm doing (climbing under) the table

methinks streaming somewhere on ---> wmfo.org
http://www.myspace.com/onthetown

as always
http://www.myspace.com/armyoftoys

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i drew the TOYS (including catbun taxidermy) and WS honour(s)('d) me by making a flyer for it. my 2nd show flyer of late. honour'd.



THIS SUNDAY! May Fair in Hogwarts Harvard Square. myself & methinks a certain mysterious saxman will be crashing the stage. yes, my pasty tawdry burlesque flesh outdoors in the sun-- daytime gig. be there to see me turn to vampiric ash. now i will steal the text from the TOYS' fb e-vent page now! jolly good:

Yes you read right!
We are playing May Fair in Harvard Square THIS Sunday on the MAIN STAGE right in the middle of the square. Come one come all to this family friendly afternoon of music. Sarah Rabdau plays before us and Chester French headlines.

We will have What Time is it Mr. Fox + a host of special guests backing us up on stage
Expect a heard of bunnies as well!!!
(not to mention we are playing next to THE BEER GARDEN!!!!)

mainstage music starts at NOON
TOYS + BUNNY ARMY @ 1pm

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=76580897519&ref=mf

full shedjool
http://www.harvardsquare.com/Home/Articles/MayFair-2009.aspx

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http://www.myspace.com/KETMAN

i made a flyer for that band you've seen opening for world/inferno in our fair Massachusetts time, and once again. this promises to be a pretty sweet show. i eagerly await gettin' schooled in all that is Mr. Watt. did you know he was the bassist in the reunited STOOGES?!

how do you fancy my polish cirkus pastiche?

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if you enjoyed any of my doodles, let me direct you to the ever-updated flickr set of ---> m'arrt
or now w/ a shortcut ---> http://sn.im/paintbox

well that's all the news that's fit to blog. and tear myself off my new crackberry. i'm umbilically attached to the interweb now, and it actually cuts my computer screen stare ow time in half. feel free to email! i now respond!!! and promptly (probably, yes.)

burlesque.poetess@gmail.com

1st blogverse x-post fo' me too.

REPORTS FROM THE CARNIE TRENCHES! wee roadtrip avec the army of toys!

to-night i won the twatter award for 17 updates >> @un_gout before/pseudo-during/after our show at Gloucester's adorable awesome full-up theater in the round with silhouette movie screen and beautiful on-the-harbour bench and view for visits to the Gloucester monster and such to keep things interesting throughout the eve. "can every venue we play have this right outside?" (-WS) the ghost boat/monster tweets are about conversations held at said lookout. port. dock. nothing like tromping through the underbrush in fancy shoes by cell phone light. ditto the secret underpassageway through the theater to the giant aeroplane hangar sized unfinished barn ceiling'd green room and backstage area of awesome. i ate the stranger brownies i found. i'm ok with that decision.


1. Salter managed to get a shot of just my legs and just edrie's bubs. fine work, lad.
2. we three doing the foxtwat-- foxtrot. i premiered the new oxymoronical adorkable little dead girl gothic lolita springwear line. and made octogenarians gasp and alternately smack their SO's in the front row. i like bringing a little burlesque bum flashback into folks' lives. i should start doing this at VFW's rec centers. anyway, we were all part of the faux-pera house 'what time is it mr. fox?' cd release show. you knew that.





3. but minutes before they took the stage Walter somehow succumbed to being literally corpse-dolled up. very operahouse. but no one can beat Brian King's Ziggy Pierrot look. those when i upload from the -real- (dig) camera. anyway, this is a post-set sweaty evidence-set!
4. ridiculously lovely victorian mirrors by the -ahem- royal throne! wot! weirdest/epic backstage ever. good quote too, re: WS and i discussing some folks' naked/warm-ups behaviour he's seen backstage before. my comment on fe-male nudity: well, i guess no one's threatened by a nest. they're just threatened by a branch!
5. & 6. i was secretly documented while i documented...analog poet-style. my new giant sketchbooks only render giant pages of tiny writing. woops. what do i do once offstage? (and after a successful non-falling ponyride from walter?)-- well get back to writing in a comfy corner armchair of course. nerrrd. it was so decadent. getting to be backstage and hear everything from the theat-er. (pronounced like they do in Oklahoma!)


bonus sexiness of lyra artist during Brian King's cover of Mein Herr!!! it's always a good idea to do this, i've decided. just say yes to cabaret covers + trapezery/burlesquery.

well. thus ends my first post-show blog-splosion. goo nigh. time to rub a fella's back. (and more when i empty the digital camera!)


more to behold at this plethora of links lynxs
edrie's fb mobile uploads -or- @armyoftoys

i will be crashing the TOYS' set-- debuting new knickers/wiggles and in general being an opera house stray. this multimedia spectacular will be unlike any other show, for sure. and boy do i love me some Victorian Flavour-Flav! i daresay old chap-- do you know what time it is?

from facebrain page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=68229468739&ref=mf

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Date:	Sunday, April 19, 2009
Time:	7:30pm - 11:00pm
Location:	Gloucester Stage Company
Street:	267 East Main St
City/Town:	Gloucester, MA

Finally, the official release party for What Time Is It, Mr. Fox's "And
Other Stories." This one night only event will include a madrigal
choir, unforgettable animated shorts, performance artists, stunning
string players, and some beautiful broken toys. And Mr. Fox performing
a theatrical journey through song and time. All at the historic
Gloucester Stage Company. All ages, $10 Snack bar, beverages and beer
and wine.

Read about these MORE THAN AMAZING guests


Walter Sickert & the Army of Broken Toys (fresh off tour with Amanda
Palmer of the Dresden Dolls.) "Holy Damn this is so good...if Jim
Morrison is walking the afterworld, he surely must audition for this
band. And I shall be the one to tell him to!" (Mike Loce) The Noise.

Sculptor, painter, dancer and performer, Laura Fortune (Brian's favorite
performance artist in New England, a rare treat)

Physical comedian and movement artist, Naomi Bennett. Bennett, mixes
circus arts, drag, and staging to explore both beauty and the absurd. She has
studied Commedia dell'Arte in Italy with Veneziainscena, and recently
completed training at the New England Center for Circus Arts in
Brattleboro VT.

Members of the acclaimed chamber string orchestra, A Far Cry. "thrilling
energy and vitality." Boston Globe

Also backing the band will be local saxophonists Alek and Rik Razdan and
the Rockport High School Madrigal Choir, under the direction of Patti Pike.

The night will feature two unforgettable animated shorts from award-
winning film maker and Harvard animation professor, Ruth Lingford and
Becky James.

----> http://www.myspace.com/whattimeisitmrfox

@Molly Zenobia's DADA show 2.12.09
shot by the lovely Alexia...
i wear a towel & an edrie hat (and not a whole lot else)
but not til i've commissioned an exquisite corpse
CORPORATE POET creation from the audience! hoozah for many costume changes!

i come in at 4 min 30 sec & 8 min 30 sec, funnily enough. wot? no 4:20?!]
you should also watch all barely 10 min for Molly's DADA siren
songstylings & audience plink-ing! and the Army of Broken Toys' RPM
challenge live tune, "off with her head!" for wonderland wanderers...

on vimeo
http://www.vimeo.com/3883120

or on facefuck (don't know how public pubic that link is)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=64207271923&ref=mf

i'm on twatter, btw
follow @un_gout


back to rubbing my sick tum
xo your burlesque poetess

a very nice piece from a very nice lady and good listener. if this had to be an artist's first character/show piece, well, gawsh did i luck out. (just replace every use of 'fanny' with 'bum bum' is all i ask)

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/08/28/a_poetess_well_versed_in_vamp_and_camp/?page=full

see you kids tomorrow? 7:30 doors. midnight? me in your lap...
xojojo

p.s. mr. dunton has informed me that the term 'man about town' actual means a seeker of pleasure? a downright cavorter...er. well. well, i never!