Last weekend I headed up to my parents weekend house in MA after a work retreat in upstate NY and there were the cutest little robin chicks in a nest built against their house. I missed the fox that I've heard so much about though. And though I succeeded to make it through a weekend in the country, in June, without any bug bites, I forgot to put on sunscreen on my arms before a bike ride with my parents. Needless to say, I'm wearing shirts with longish sleeves to cover up the ugly farmer's tanburn, though I think its almost faded.

Completely unrelated, but last night I went to dinner with Jenn to show her the glory that is Habana Outpost. The last thing we were expecting to see a 6'6" man in a see through blue bunny outfit, on clear plastic stiletto heels. Or a full on burlesque show. I don't have any particular feelings about burlesque either way, but it always strikes me as very odd how burlesque is so popular among the hipster crowd and is socially acceptable, but stripping is not. Because seriously, its almost the same thing. Just with a lot less silicon involved. Just what anyone would expect on a typical Monday evening on Fulton St.

And one last link about MIMS from New York magazine. I was under the impression that I was going to be part of this, but guess I didn't make the cut.

Posted by dahl at June 26, 2007 1:39 PM

I've been thinking about the stripping/burlesque distinction. Here's my guess. Stripping is all about fulfilling a fantasy for some target audience. A group of guys wants to go out and get drunk and watch skinny girls in skimpy outfits take their clothes off, so the girls oblige and get paid.

Burlesque (or at least this once instance of it that I've seen) seems to be a lot more about the fantasies of the girls who are, for lack of a better term, "performing." I would guess that most of those women picked out their own costumes and made up their own routines. And none of them had the stereotypical mainstream hot body. They do what they think is hot.

So yes, it's still stripping, but it's stripping to fulfill some fantasy of the performers, not in a way that is targeted toward the preferences of some demographic of high tippers. But again, that's just a guess.