Step Right Up, Folks!

If you are looking for Burlesque moves, I have had to delay that posting til a later date. But I promise something extra special.

This weeks blog was inspired by a show a fellow Dame has been trying to put together for several months. Finally, the stage is set for Kiki's Sordid Sideshow, Boheme Sat. Sept. 10th, check out our facebook for more information.

Your basic sideshow was exactly that, a show off to the side of the main event (usually a circus) to attract the townsfolk to the area. A sideshow could consist of many different acts. From the weird and unusual to the exotic and daredevil.

I was overwhelmed by all the wealth of information. I found Sideshow World a good source for interesting articles and pictures. I read one about the old girlie shows. Basically, girlie shows have been around since the days of the harem. In the 1800s, the girlie show of the carnival would have huge production numbers with many girls, fancy costumes, and huge bands. By the 1930s, girlie shows became small and pushed the exotic to the limits of what was legal.

Here is an example of a contemporary grinder and his spiel:

"They're going to do the hootchie kootchie for you inside, and you will see things you never dreamed were possible. They will wiggle and waggle and shake and shimmy, and they're going to show you everything you want to see. They are going to let you see how they can move every muscle in their beautiful little bodies. "This is the show you've heard about. This is the one that they're all talking about. You will never forget what you see inside that tent tonight. Here they come now, gentlemen. Let's give 'em a big hand and bring them out here. Here they come, and aren't they beautiful! There's Tammy and Lola, and the firey little redhead Fanny, and here comes Angel and little Debbie. They're excited and they're ready, and they can't wait to show you just what you want to see. Right inside the tent in just a few minutes..."
 www.whithaydn.com  (interesting fellow check him out sometime)

Pop Hayden -

I couldn't resist learning a little carny speak while I was at it.

From http://www.goodmagic.com/,

 　

"Carny," also known as "Ciazarn" or "Carny Latin" — it's a special "cant" (secret mode of encoded speech) used when carnies don't want anyone outside the business to know what they're saying.
A little like pig-latin, and so closely related to "Double Dutch" as to be almost identical, you insert an invariant nonsense syllable after each consonant. In Carny, the syllable is always "eaz", pronounced "ee-uz." For example, to say, "Can we take this hick?" It would come out (hard C) "Ceaz-an weaz-e teaz-ake theaz-is heaz-ick?"
You can hear quite a stretch of it in the old disco record "Double-Dutch Bus", and it seems to be one (among many) components of ghetto "gangsta slang."

Join me next week for my surprise blog.

Geaz-ood Beaz-ye  Midnight Joy xoxo