Democracy Burlesque: The Blog
A companion ... okay, more like bastard stepchild ... to the Chicago-based Monthly Political Cabaret/Happening/Revue/Variety Show for liberal and progressive activists, artists, and sympathizers. (If the NSA is reading this, we swap recipes here. That's all. Really. Swear!) Democracy Burlesque: Only the Politics Are Naked.Tuesday, June 27, 2006
And AwwwAAAyyyyy weeeEEE GOoooO!
Ah, great. Another blog let loosed on the world. Who the Hell are we and why the Hell are we here?
"We" are DEMOCRACY BURLESQUE -- a show, a happening, a place full of Good People and Talent. A monthly revue for liberals and progressives located on the Far North Side of Chicago, in the always thrilling Rogers Park neighborhood. To be specific, a monthly revue on every second Tuesday evening of the month, at the No Exit Cafe.
(Get used to that plug, you'll see it plenty of times in the weeks and months to follow.)
So that's the "we" part. As for the "why?", we put ourselves in Greater Blogostan for several reasons ...
1. It allows us to save the other Internet group for scripts and show stuff.
2. It allows for fun anonymous argument for general amusement of ourselves and others.
3. It allows us to talk about issues that are clogging our arteries, be they political, artistic, or cultural (since that is what we deal with at Democracy Burlesque).
4. Yes, it allows us to promote our shows and ourselves in Greater Blogostan -- a place we're sure are full of potential audience members who we have no doubt will enjoy what we do.
5. It allows us to write an item 5 whether we actually have an item 5 or not.
That's kind of it. It's up to those of us who post here regularly to start to entertain and provoke you to keep visiting this (and eventually our show -- did I mention we are a show, too?), and if we don't do that, we at least hope we find us to be a mildly interesting waste of time between waiting to see if Ned Lamont got your I-think-Joe-Lieberman-is-a-weenie donation on the other browser window.
After that, it's just a crap shoot.
"We" are DEMOCRACY BURLESQUE -- a show, a happening, a place full of Good People and Talent. A monthly revue for liberals and progressives located on the Far North Side of Chicago, in the always thrilling Rogers Park neighborhood. To be specific, a monthly revue on every second Tuesday evening of the month, at the No Exit Cafe.
(Get used to that plug, you'll see it plenty of times in the weeks and months to follow.)
So that's the "we" part. As for the "why?", we put ourselves in Greater Blogostan for several reasons ...
1. It allows us to save the other Internet group for scripts and show stuff.
2. It allows for fun anonymous argument for general amusement of ourselves and others.
3. It allows us to talk about issues that are clogging our arteries, be they political, artistic, or cultural (since that is what we deal with at Democracy Burlesque).
4. Yes, it allows us to promote our shows and ourselves in Greater Blogostan -- a place we're sure are full of potential audience members who we have no doubt will enjoy what we do.
5. It allows us to write an item 5 whether we actually have an item 5 or not.
That's kind of it. It's up to those of us who post here regularly to start to entertain and provoke you to keep visiting this (and eventually our show -- did I mention we are a show, too?), and if we don't do that, we at least hope we find us to be a mildly interesting waste of time between waiting to see if Ned Lamont got your I-think-Joe-Lieberman-is-a-weenie donation on the other browser window.
After that, it's just a crap shoot.
posted by Artie Libs # 9:03 PM 
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