If you're a Mad Men fan and missed last session with Lauren Marleaux of Gilded Lily Burlesque, your life pretty much sucks at this point. Take a gander.
I wanted so badly to either use the Mad Men theme song or "Zou Bisou Bisou" for that video, but we probably would've been sued out of existence if I had. [sigh]
In any case---wow. Eat your heart out, Joan Holloway.
We had a bunch of contests: the ye' old opposite hand contest, a "Put a bird on it!" challenge, and best incorporations of John Waters and Betty Page (who both had birthdays on or around that date), and gave away a giant bottle of Disobedience Abbey Dubbel from Flying Dog Brewery, Sparrow Vol. 0: Ashley Wood Sketches and Ideas from Atomic Books, and Symptomatica from Baby
Eyrie Twilight of Black Tassel Boolesque brought her A game, not to mention a pretty snazzy car trunk full of props. If you get the chance, check out her and the rest of Black Tassel Boolesque at the Red Palace for Fairy Tail: An evening of Storybook Burlesque. Anyways, here's the video from this session; take a gander.
There was tasty Flying Dog beer and some lucky folks won a pair of vintage-style seamed stockings from What Katie Did and a copy of Bunny in the Moon: The Art of Tara McPherson, vol. 3 courtesy of Atomic Books, not to mention some shots from Liz behind the bar.
Thanks to Eyrie Twilight for posing for everyone's pencils and brushes; thanks to this session's sponsors, Atomic Books and What Katie Did; TONS of thanks to Styger, who has many times helped
Lauren Marleaux of Gilded Lily Burlesque will be posing for the next session of Dr. Sketchy's Baltimore!
Known to strike many a host mute with kittening skills, she causes out-and-out riots when she's not restricted to picking up errant pasties and sweeping away piles of wander-prone glitter. If I were you, I'd keep one hand drawing and the other ready to flip a table and bang heads together in case she's too much for the crowd and a melee pops off.
Do you want to be "that guy" who has to say, "Yeah, I missed it" the night Dr. Sketchy's Baltimore rioted over Lauren Marleaux and the Morton Street crowd slid Russell face-first down the bar
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We've been wanting to do this particular session with Mab Just Mab---"DC's Own Sideshow Girl---FOREVER. I mean, honestly, when will you get a chance again to draw someone hammering a nail up their nose? Sitting in the emergency room with your first born child after a particularly ill-advised game of kindergarden Truth or Dare? I don't know.
There was tasty beer from Flying Dog Brewery; some lucky souls won Molly Crabapple's Week in Hell in our "best incorporation of Houdini" contest, and
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GiGi Holliday is easily one of our new favorite people. We've been hoping she'd model for Dr. Sketchy's Baltimore for years, but as a general rule we rarely ever approach someone. We wait for them to approach us, because we've learned this lesson the hard way: unless the person comes to us, they seem much more likely to be unreliable, cancel at the last minute, what have you.
So, we just patiently waited for someone to introduce us. There was a flaw in our plan, though---everyone just assumed we'd already met. For two years we twiddled our thumbs to no avail.
Luckily, one night after an Ottobar show and about four shots of Jager, I said "Fuck it,"
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Last session was probably Little Luna's last session ever at Dr. Sketchy's Baltimore. In a few short weeks she'll be on her way to New Orleans to become some sort of vigilante crimefighter-slash-shrimp boat captain. Why is she leaving us? Do we not have enough criminal shrimping operations for her to go all Batman on?
I don't know.
She *will* make one last appearance at the Gilded Lily Presents: Bye Bye Luna show at the Windup Space on March 21st. Make a note. By the way, the Baltimore Sun covered this session too---their piece should be in Monday's edition. When it comes out,
