Jewish Burlesque is Back
Kesher talk had a piece a while back on Kinky Jews: Innovations in Jewish Continuity. In a later piece on the subject Kesher Talk's Van discusses the revival of Jewish burlesque. He quotes from a program on the Oyhoo festival:The Big Apple's juiciest Jewesses strut their ample tuchuses in a bawdy burlesque revue for folks who like to keep their fantasies kosher. Featuring Little Brooklyn, Dottie Lux, Old Ma Femme, Rose Wood, Minnie Tonka, Allison Tilsen and Raven Snook. These most definitely aren't the girls you'd bring home to mother…although you'd definitely bring them home.
I guess it is not just Kinky Friedman any more.
Of course there was, once upon a time, Vaudville where many Jewish commedians and strippers got their start. Gypsy Rose Lee among them. A Wiki bio of Gypsy's life is interesting. She was an intellectual's stripper. A bit that started out because she was so nerveous during her first stage experience and talked a lot to cover it up.
Needless to say Kinky Jews have their own www site and it seems that there are at least a few Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad doing burlesque these days. Their promo says they are big in the Catskills.
BTW thte video clip at Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad is very good. Especially the commediane who rants about her families' travails. It is not quite work safe. There are only a few dimly lit long shots of a woman twirling a number of hula hoops bare breasted.
All the links here are work safe. Some of those you find when doing further research on the subject may not be.
Program note: The Oyhoo Festival is sponsored by the UJA Federation of New York, The Jewish Life Network, The Jewish Community Relations Council, and the Jewish Week. Kink, it appears, is going mainstream. Who knew?
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Jeez,
Not everthing is politics. In fact I posted this one as a relief from politics.
I like Kinky's music. "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More" is a favorite of mine.
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But since you brought the subject up:
If the murder rate has gone up maybe they were crackheads and thugs. I'd solve that by letting the crack heads get their crack legally and thus eliminate the need for thugs to run the crack distribution business. But that is just me. I actually studied alcohol prohibition in school.
So let me ask. Are the crack heads and thugs who came from New Orleans black or not?
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So Kinky is mostly a libertarian who is disdainful of politics. That would describe a lot of folks.
Well I wasnt asking any one to vote for him.
However now that you have brought it up his position is closer to mine than that of most politicians.
Uh, they ARE crackheads and thugs. The crime rate in Houston SKYROCKETED after we took the Katrina refugees. I say we ought to ship 'em BACK to NOLA.
Seems like the thugs are going home on their own though, the crime rate in NOLA is back to almost where it was pre-Katrina.
As for Kinky Friedman, as much as I'd love to vote for him, I won't, because Texas is already a cartoon state, so we don't really need a cartoon Governor, ala Jesse Ventura. I don't think Kinky would have the political clout on the inside to do much more than smoke his cigars in the Governor's mansion. It's really too bad, too, because he's got some great ideas, but he's way to controversial.
I'm going to vote for Strayhorn. She's got the insider clout to get things done, and she's got some good ideas about not pushing our present fiscal problems down the road to our grandchildren.
Duchess,
You might want to read this bit on Demographics before you come to any firm conclusions about the "sperm donors".
You remove enough men from a culture and what you get every time is girls gone wild. Just look at our colleges for example.
BTW Duchess if you check out the link on Demographics you will find that our prohibition policies are making a difficult situation worse.
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