Yuletide greetings!
You are cordially invited to the Viscount Morgenstern Zappula’s 3rd annual Yuletide Ball. By Harry we are happy to make your acquaintance and have you attend!
For those who are new to the idea of Steampunk, below are a couple of links to check out for costume ideas. You may combine styles with clothing you already have like skirts, corsets, western wear, scientist, military and Victorian outfits or any combination of those elements.
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http://www.steampunk.com/
You will witness the return of our infamous Hysteria relief station run by the Viscountess Zappula and her Fucksaw Orgone generator machine.
As always, there will be fun, prizes, vendors and, of course, extreme electric play with Neon wands and Violet Wands.
The Devilishly Devious Zombie John and his very best H. H. Holmes meets Jules Verne inspired latex designs will be performing feats of body painting extraordinaire.
Minions #1 and #2 will be serving as human furniture, door people and DMs (dungeon monitors). We will be decorating them up with some liquid latex Xmas cheer and making one of them a Yule tree.
We will also play Victorian games like anal ring toss, ass cherry relay and we have a new game for you chirurgeons and medical doctors, Frankenstein’s monster electro-operation.
Bad News/Good News: Bad News 1st, White City Rippers cannot make it this year. Good News 2nd, we have officially booked Spears and Gears, a Britney Spears Steampunk cover band.
The event will occur on Saturday, December 22nd from 8pm to 3am, the cost is $20 per person in advance or $30 at the door. Payments will be either cash or PayPal sent to [email protected]. Prepay by 12/20/12 or the world will end.
YOU MUST RSVP TO ATTEND!!! Send me an RSVP email to [email protected] and put the words “Yuletide Ball” as the subject or you will not be sent the address of the Studio! No refunds will be given for advance payment.
This event will sell out so pre-register in advance if possible.
The Studio is clean, sober and non-smoking. Anyone 18+ years of age can attend our events.
Warmest Regards,
The Viscount & Viscountess Morgenstern Zappula (that’s me & Ken!)
The evening includes:
– Showtime Networks’ Superstar Sunny Megatron
– Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour
– Music by the insanely talented Rachel Lark
– Bang-O accompaniment by Jefferson Bergey
– Pitch YOUR true story to [email protected]
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“The Moth for Pervs” – LA Weekly
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The Nation’s Original Sex + Storytelling series featuring Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits, Live Onstage
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About Bawdy Storytelling:
Bawdy Storytelling – the Original Sex + Storytelling series – features Real People & Rockstars sharing their Bona Fide Sexual Exploits Live Onstage; think of us as a One Night Stand with the Moth & Savage Love. Storytellers are an eclectic mix of Authors, Porn Stars, Sex Educators, Comics & More, along with Regular Joes just like you who submitted their stories online and were chosen for their panache and sense of (Mis)Adventure.
Bawdy Storytelling features tales of Carnal Wins & Epic Fails with No Scripts, No Nets, and No Holds Barred. These folks aren’t reading from cue cards: this is honest-to-badness story time with true sexcapades and poignant, transformational tales at each and every show. Join Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour & hand-picked Rockstars as they share their own stories of Love, Lust, and making you feel funny in your bathing suit area. Hey, you may even go home with a few new tricks for your boudoir arsenal!
Performer Bios:
– While Sexual Folklorist Dixie De La Tour has been telling true, dirty stories for ages, it was in early 2007 that she founded Bawdy Storytelling, the Nation’s original sex and storytelling series. She was looking to encourage real connections in the San Francisco sexual underground, and, as the song goes, “Up from the ground came a bubbling crude…” Internationally known as the ‘Grande Dame of Dirty Storytelling,” Dixie has taken Bawdy from an industrial loft in the Bay Area to a multi-city live storytelling event that welcomes true stories from any and all communities (LGBTQIA, kink, polyamory, swingers, vanilla, and many more). Dixie and Bawdy Storytelling have been praised by press both big and small; She has been lauded by Master Storyteller Mike Daisey as a “masterful emcee, and her show is everything that works for storytelling—she creates a warm, safe space in which stories can bloom with dark hilarity, salacious textures, and moments of deep connection.” Dixie has hosted and curated Bawdy Storytelling events at Yale Sex Week, the Bondage Awards, CatalystCon Sexuality Conference, Dark Odyssey, FetFest, and more, as well as her home turf of the Bawdy Mainstage and BawdySlam shows. She works with each storyteller, crafting and curating, to make sure that the evening is a cohesive whole. She also leads storytelling workshops where would be storytellers can hone their craft (while arousing their audience). In her spare time, Dixie can be found causing trouble in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Portland, and any other major city where literate perverts gather to tell dirty stories.
– Sunny Megatron is a sex and BDSM educator, pleasure advocate, and award winning sex blogging superhero. She’s also the host & executive producer of Showtime’s Sex with Sunny Megatron. She has been featured in Huffington Post, AVN Magazine, Cosmo, as well as a variety sexuality blogs. In addition to running her own Youtube channel, Sunny is showcased on CalExotics channel as one of their Expert Sexperts. She also hosts the sexual health and wellness web series “Outside the Box” on the X3Sixty Network. Sunny teaches sexuality, relationship, and kink workshops with husband, Ken Melvoin-Berg.
As a lifestyle BDSM player, Sunny is passionate about freedom of sexual expression, sex positivity, self exploration, and pleasure based sex ed. Her goal is to normalize alternate sexuality practices and end sexual stigma. Sexuality isn’t shameful and it’s time we stop making it out to be.
– Rachel Lark is a singer/songwriter who sings about Sex, Drugs, heartbreak, and Messy Apartments. An up-and-coming San Francisco artist with a die-hard cult following, Rachel Lark has quickly become the musical muse of the sex-positive revolution. Her music has been featured on The Savage Lovecast, and she performs frequently San Francisco counterculture haunts like Bawdy Storytelling and Tourette’s Without Regrets.
Her music is always lyrically based with a strong foundation of passionate songwriting, while the timbres vary depending on the performance. Sometimes she’s bantering with the crowd over some ukulele plucking, and at other times she’ll be behind her laptop and synthesizers creating dance beats to accompany her layered vocal harmonies. In 2014 she released her debut EP, “I Wouldn’t Worry” followed by her first full-length album, “Lark After Dark,” and her Christmas album “Hung For The Holidays.” In 2015 she successfully funded a music video and new album through a Kickstarter campaign and is set to release both her new album, “Vagenius” and her new music video for Warm, Bloody, and Tender in August 2015.
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Winner of the SF Weekly’s Best of San Francisco & the LA Weekly’s Best Of Los Angeles (for Best Storytelling) & 2 Time Winner of the SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay Award (Best Literary Event)
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“Dixie De La Tour’s scandalous, over-the-top Bawdy Storytelling series” – SF Weekly
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