Stripper Music Monday: Christmas Songs

Working the company Christmas party is inevitable when you work a lot during the holiday season. You may have to suffer Frederick’s Christmas lingerie and jokes about Santa’s lap, but don’t put up with your DJ’s Christmas song collection. If it consists solely of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You” (or, God… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Christmas Songs

Shannan Gilbert’s Remains Found on Long Island

It’s been a year since police in New York discovered the remains of four women on Long Island. All were believed to be the victims of a serial killer, and all worked as prostitutes. The search that unearthed them began when Shannan Gilbert’s family reported her as missing. Their persistence in pressuring area police led to the… Continue reading Shannan Gilbert’s Remains Found on Long Island

Stripper Music Monday: Live Band Edition

Alt-weeklies are always willing to run a strip club feature, using this reliably entertaining subject matter as clickbait. They’ll do stories about labor issues, the food they serve, current legal challenges, and the music they play (yes, that’s me). This year, a couple of alt-weekly strip club stories stuck with me for covering a phenomenon I… Continue reading Stripper Music Monday: Live Band Edition

Stripper Music Monday: Halloween Sets

Happy Halloween! Most of you probably celebrated in costume over the weekend, but some of us still have to work tonight. For those strippers gearing up for a Halloween shift, Kat, Catherine and I have put together some music to go along with your sexy stripper costumes tonight.

Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One

“A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star. It invites forgivable prurience: What is that relationship like? Granted the intellectual’s hit hanky-panky pay dirt, but what’s in it for the porn star? Conversation? Ideas? Deconstruction?” That’s Glen Duncan, over at the New York Times on Colson Whitehead’s “zombie novel,”… Continue reading Ho-(Book)Bag: The Tits and Sass Book Club Begins with Zone One