Burgeoning means that something is growing, no? In 1986 (and I was here in NYC, albeit 13 years old) there were no burlesque schools or standing sideshow nights; there is now because there's interest enough to support it. So, I suppose one could argue the scene is "burgeoning", or growing.

This is the last I'll engage on this, but frankly you're cherry picking out items that are balanced out with other statements about how much crowd work I do include and how much I do love my audiences and my job. And nowhere in there do I say, don't be rowdy and have a good time, what I'm explicitly saying is you're…

But I'm not the POTUS. My job is not appease the greatest number of voters. I'm a performing artist, motivational speaker (yup, Fortune 500s pay for me to teach people about creativity) and a writer, my job is to speak my truth — even if it is in the form of sarcasm.

So...yes, you're right to complain, but don't complain? I'm not sure I follow your line of reasoning.

My job is to entertain EVERYONE in the room and leave alive. That's always my strategy, too. "Hey, kids, let's all have fun together!", and most of the time I can achieve that with an audience, but sometimes subgroups anger my inner monologue.

Hated Rage Against the Machine, I was more a Dead Kennedys gal.

Author's note: Jezebel chose the title, not me.

Yeah, I guess that's why I started with the fact that I love my audiences and own that a lot of this frustration is mine throughout the text, but, y'know, that's what makes horse races...

"that's not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage." Says the slattern whose dowry is not worth a three-legged goat and half a drachma!

In short: they KNOW it's not bacon.

You hand that child some leather chaps and a fake mustache and make him feel like a big, strong man!

Just want to say the food blogger pictured is Kat Kinsman and she is the awesome and a fierce lady.

Sharon Needles is a fierce bitch and I love her. (Not that Chad is any slouch, but Sharon is my GURL!) Phuck Phi Phi, tho'

Didn't she said she was all about fried chicken and beer and skipping and beep bop boop squirrel and CARTWHEELS!

I've always wanted to snorgle a polar bear myself, but beside this guy's fate as bear chow; is it healthy for this endangered creature to live in the suburbs?

I was thinking that, whipped cream is improperly translated.

Everything is terrible RULES!

(Prefacing with the fact that I'm a burlesque MC/producer — there's a reason strip tease is for grown ups — display of the female body in this society inherently sexual. Period. Full stop. Adults can mitigate their own control of this, kids CAN NOT.)

Still better than American Idol.

Imagine if Arkansas had been able to vote on Brown v. Board of Ed...now go in the corner and weep for progress.