tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90767292011-10-06T14:02:44.494-07:00Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-56269659276695470642008-02-11T16:11:00.000-08:002008-02-11T16:12:55.180-08:00

Hello burlesque fans! Starting with this issue, I will be including a profile of one of the Bombshell Betty Partner Businesses which offer special discounts to Bombshell Betty Members in each newsletter, and soon I will also be including burlesque and pinup related articles to help any aspiring performer or model get started. As always, I will be listing upcoming classes, workshops and

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As a fund raiser for the Burlesquerteers to go to Exotic World next summer we decided (among many other things) to do a pin-up calendar. It is ready to order just in time for the new year!This calendar is a student project for the Burlesqueteers, Bombshell Betty's student performance group for the Burlesquercise dance classes. All funds raised through the sale of this calendar go towards our fund

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I will be performing in two burlesque shows in SOMA tomorrow night! Come check them out, they'll be a lot of fun!Betty* * *SHOW #1:The Cock-Ts, San Francisco's #1 burlesque cheerleading squad, is proud to bring you School's Out for Summer!!!Hey Kids, Wow, we are SOOOOOOO close to graduating, we can hardly believe it! This has been the best senior year ever, so we hope you'll come to our

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Ever watched a burlesque show and thought “Wow! That looks like fun, I’d love to do that!” Well, now you can learn to strut your stuff in a sexy and lighthearted class atmosphere. Learn the basics of burlesque performance and get in shape while shimmying and shaking your way through fun dance routines!Summertime is coming, so it's time for Burlesque Summer Camp!This session of "Burlesquercise",

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IN THIS POST:* Intro to Burlesque Mini-Session* Jungle Exotica Burlesquercise SessionINTRO TO BURLESQUE MINI-SESSIONBeen looking for a sexy workout or just want more excitement in your life? Been wondering what all the fuss is about? Come join in on the fun with this special introductory series. In addition to the unique bump-and-grind warmup and workout that Burlesquercise is famous for, we will

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I am pleased to announce the March 2007 opening of "Bombshell Betty's," a dance studio / gallery / community space / boutique in San Francisco's SOMA district witha focus on the wonderful world of Variety and Burlesque. Stay tuned for updates on the revamped and expanded classs chedule, more guest instructors and a wider variety of classes, community support programs, and fun events! I am also

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Alcoholocaust and Bombshell Betty Dance present..."THE HAUTE HOUSE BURLESQUE REVUE: PAJAMA PARTY!"Baby, it may be cold outside, but we're heatingthings up this January by throwing a Pajama Party.Whether you show up in your long-johns or lingerie,it's guaranteed to be a hot toddy of an eveningthat will keep you up past your bedtime!*BOTTOMS UP! BURLESQUE: Bombshell Betty, Lily LeRouge,Sweet Cheeks

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With all the stuff I have going on all the time, it can take me a loooong time to get around to posting photos. However, I am planning to post a lot more photos from shows and shoots over the last few years. I've just got them sitting on disks, collecting dust, and what good is that doing for anyone? None!So now... for your viewing pleasure... here are some great photos from the debut performance

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Well, well, well. How did it get to be halfway through December already?!? Time sure flies when you're having fun, non? The holiday season is upon us, and even I'm getting a little sucked in. I'm usually the biggest Bah Humbug around, but this is shaping up to be a really good season for me. I'm going to So. Cal. to see my mom and my brother for Christmas, which will be the first time I've seen

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I just got an email from an Australian woman who took private lessons with me while she was visiting San Francisco: "Just wanted to let you know I finally made my burlesque debut during a blues dancing night here in Adelaide. My performance went really well so well in fact that I received a standing ovation! It was so much fun even though I was terrified before I went on. So thanks again for

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This month has been so crazy! I had a costume making session with the girls on Monday, two rehearsals on Tuesday, two rehearsals on Wednesday, two classes today, a class Saturday plus a birthday party and a show to go to, a rehearsal and a class on Sunday, more costume making on Monday, two more rehearsals on Tuesday, a class and a show on Wednesday... and there's no sign that things are going to

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Well, I guess it's time for my monthly update. Haha! Wow, I used to blog for real, and I miss it. Things have just been so hecic lately, I feel like I hardly have time to do everything that needs doing, let alone write about it. Last month was crazy, and this one is going to be even crazier (how often do I say that?). What's going on, you say? Well, I've got 5 performances booked already for the

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1154887540158754102006-08-06T11:01:00.000-07:002006-08-06T11:05:40.170-07:00

Wow, I haven't posted in forever. I've had so many major life changes shaking down this year, it's hard for me to keep up, let alone write about it. I have the feeling things are really going to be opening up in the next few months, so there should be lots of good news very soon!

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I look forward to the day when my insides and my outsides stop getting in each other's way or at least agree on who's supposed to be driving this thing. In other news, I just got back from a crazy 5 day adventure in Vegas with Sweet Cheeks and her Mike Guy, Lily le Rouge and her lovely lady Leeza, Isis Starr and Rose Pistola. It was Exotic World Pageant weekend, and Vegas has never been so

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The sun has been shining, and I am starting to move out of the mental fog of apathy and exhaustion I've been living in for the last few weeks. It has been a rough time, the kind that I only write about in my private journal, the kind with pages and two covers and no anonymous internet audience traipsing through my private thoughts. Now is one of those Green Man moments, when the tree that has

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Something is stirring under the surface. I sat in the park yesterday as the wind gusted over the hilltop, chilling me despite the sunshine, wondering what this feeling of anticipation means. Something is tap, tap, tapping at the back of my mind, and it's not just the spring time bursting, because the last time I felt like this was in the fall a few years back. But then, it didn't feel quite like

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I waited for you all night longThen I waited in the rosy glow of dawnPicking at the seamsOf dreams that will never beAs I waited for you all night longWhen you come home, I will be long goneWind's gonna pick me up and carry me alongYou had meBut you wanted to be freeNow I'm gone. Yes, I'm long, long gone

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Wow, New Years is sneaking up quick, and I still don't know what I'm doing. No matter though, I'm not even sure I want to do anything. This has been the year of the Taking It Easy Holiday. This year has really been a doozie, so I really just feel like I want to celebrate by resting up for next year.For your viewing pleasure, here are some pics from the holiday shows at Bender's and the Verdi Club:

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Wow, this year has sure been a doozie! I think I am going to take January and February off from performing to really get organized and figure out my priorities for projects for this year. There are so many projects that I want/need to get going, but I seem to get sidetracked so easily. This year, I want to put my time and energy into the projects that will really get me going. Some of them are so

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1130969265097300342005-11-02T13:59:00.000-08:002005-11-02T14:07:45.116-08:00

Wow, this week has been ridiculously busy. Between three performances, on workshop, a photo shoot, many meetings and house/dogsitting in Berkeley, I haven't had time to eat or sleep properly. It's sure been fun, though. Actually had to cancel some important meetings and a lot of fun parties, just because I can't be in two places at one time - don't I wish!Lots of good opportunities coming my way,

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1129359145198119312005-10-14T23:47:00.000-07:002005-10-14T23:52:25.206-07:00

So I'm a city girl now - gawd, I love San Francisco! Half of my belongings are still in boxes, but the rest are put away and organized. Oh so organized! I took the opportunity of moving to go through all of my random notes and papers and separate them. I even wrote down all the phone numbers on random scraps of paper and put them into my file box. I am really excited about decorating my room.

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I'm really not the sophisticated creature I like to pretend to be. Underneath the sparkles and straps and red lipstick, I'm really just a simple little girl who wants the same things all the other little girls want. I tried on those shoes you gave me. The slick fancy ones that were so beautiful and shocking. I wore them even though I knew they didn't fit. I ignored them when they pinched, put on

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1126549585936639062005-09-12T11:04:00.000-07:002005-09-12T11:26:26.003-07:00

I've been checking out rooms for rent in San Francisco, and it's like I'm Golidlocks or something. "Those girls are too square, that guy was creepy... Ah, this one's just right!" I had three appointments yesterday from 1:30pm to 7pm. The first two were not very encouraging, so by the time 7pm rolled around, I was tired and not feeling too optomistic. Then I walked in and met everyone. The people

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1125704569936686152005-09-02T16:22:00.001-07:002005-09-05T19:47:44.770-07:00

My horoscope for this week is eerily apt, as it so often is with this guy...LIBRA: "If the Angel decides to come it will be because you have convinced her, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning; to be a beginner." So said the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, as if speaking to your exact needs right now. Let me offer this addendum: The Angel wants to come very badly. She is

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Saturday night I went out to the burlesque show at the Plush Room, Dirty Little Secret, with a bunch of the Burlesquercise girls: Sweetcheeks and That Mike Guy, MonikaBOOM and her Mike guy, and Lily le Rouge was my charming date. Being the kind of girls that we are, we decided that we couldn't go to the show without a Dirty Little Secret of our own, so we all dressed up in our frilly underthings

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1121810884250539452005-07-19T14:49:00.000-07:002005-07-19T15:08:04.256-07:00

Thursday night's Little Minsky's in the city was a blast. The Debut-Taunts were adorable! Everyone was doing French themed numbers for Bastille Day, and it was too cute. Two girls did reverse-striptease numbers, but with totally different styles. After the show, my friend Michel and I started dancing up a storm. I don't know exactly what we were dancing - some crazy cross between jitterbug, salsa

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1121330807016443952005-07-14T01:34:00.000-07:002005-07-14T01:53:41.126-07:00

I decided to splurge a little and bought a couple of used books on Sunday, some nice, girly fiction. "The Collected Stories of Colette" and "The Shoplifter's Apprentice," stories by Ellen Lesser. They called to me from the shelves, so I took them home. Oh, how I've missed my long baths with good fiction! Why do I treat fiction like an indulgence? Why do I feel that each moment should be spend

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1120686381757091822005-07-06T14:29:00.000-07:002005-07-06T14:46:21.760-07:00

A life well lived is a life indulged in like succulent candy, savored like fine wine, and relished as it goes rushing past like the dizzying view from a rollercoaster. Take a big bite. And another. And don't stop eating until you pop.Yes, it's been an interesting few months. I started on a new developmental path, only to realize that I've been well and firmly on the path for almost 10 years!

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1119470324007218342005-06-22T12:55:00.000-07:002005-06-22T12:59:39.060-07:00

Tongue Traffic Presents: Angie Krass - Sex, Biscuits, Jesus, and Me Real Life Stand Up Comedy by Someone Who Lived It (screwed it - praised it - believed it- snorted, etc.) Angie Krass slams on stage with her high-voltage, rambunctious, southern-styled comedy. NO MYTH, NO APOLOGIES! If you like your comedy full of politiical bite and real life, than candy-flip your butt down to the Darkroom

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1119335739095828382005-06-20T23:24:00.000-07:002005-06-20T23:35:39.100-07:00

So tonight was the last Oakland class in this session, and it was so much fun! While giving the students directions for an activity which involved putting on our chosen character while running through some tricky choreography, one of the girls challenged me to practice what I was preaching and show them how it's done. So, I decided to use my Red Riding Hood character in conjunction with the Cyd

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1118998358512776322005-06-17T01:51:00.000-07:002005-06-17T15:09:17.323-07:00

I performed last night with Angie Krass at the Darkroom Theater. Damn, I love that place! It was a great night and a fun crowd. Angie took a session of Burlesquercise a while ago, and she started her standup routine by demonstrating a very acrobatic back roll in a folding chair that she said she learned in class. I have to point out that I did *not* teach her that, and I claim no responsibility

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1100840932183646992004-11-18T21:08:00.000-08:002004-11-18T21:08:52.183-08:00

I found out today that Sunny Perkins, aka Mia More, who was one of my Burlesquercise! students, passed away this afternoon after a car crash. She wasn't a close friend, but it's hard to believe that she's gone. A mover and a shaker (literally) in the local burlesque scene, and such a vivacious and forceful fireball, it was easy to imagine her to be invincible. But no, life is so fragile.

Bombshell Bettyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14387571739555707515noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076729.post-1100070872910796232004-11-09T22:50:00.000-08:002004-11-09T23:14:32.910-08:00

I am so excited! A friend of mine just sent me a mock-up for the website he is making for me. I will finally have my own site! Gawddamn, it's about time!!! This has been a loooong time coming - it's been getting to the point where I've felt that not having a website has been seriously hindering my progress in my career. I mean, who are you if no one can find you on the internet?!? Maybe since he

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Sometimes it's like getting a pie in the face. Laughing, you lick it off, feeding it to your friends, splattering the walls beside you. Then you chase down the guilty pie thrower. Leaping cars and small children effortlessly in your quest for revenge, nothing can stand in your way. You will rub their face in it. No matter that the cream got on your favorite dress and will soon turn sour and start

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