Monday, October 05, 2009

and RATS is launched!

wow, it's been a week since the RATS OF LAS VEGAS launch party, hosted by This Is Not A Reading Series at the fabulous Gladstone Hotel, and i've mostly gotten the feathers out of my hair...

that's me, in the dress, and Craig Davidson, on stage, hoping i answer his question coherently...

Bremner Duthie sang the crazy Dyin' Crap-shooter's Blues (my special request) and then burned up a set of lounge lizard standards with his jazz trio...

a blurry photo of the divine Alejandra Ribera singing a knock-out Stormy Weather

the burlesque grrls waiting to do their tribute to Vegas...

Skin Tight Outta Sight had a little somethin' for everyone in their Vegas-inspired end-of-the-evening show...

getting into the spirit of things before the poker game (no cash, just points) organized by Joe LaFortune...yes that's really his name...the problem with fiction is, if i used a name like that for a poker player in the novel, no one would believe in him!

lounge singers, poker chips, burlesque dancers, and an audience that actually laughed at my jokes...it was one helluva launch & i owe BIG thanks to everyone involved.

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