Hey all! I just overhauled the design of my website and added some new features. Would you mind checking it out and letting me know what you think??

http://pamelaneko.com/

Warning: May be NSFW! Contains bra & panty pics in header

I am no web designer, so I know it's not that pretty. But feel free to totally rip into it.

Thanks!

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My most popular act is also one of my oldest - Yolanda Banana, The Banana Act. I think it is pretty special, but it is by no means a flashy, stage-filling act. It falls short for two reasons: The choreo is sloppy and the costume is amatuer.

During the last year I think I've improved the choreo quite a lot. I've been emulating simple, characteristic ( Read more... )

Getting a 1099 from Vaudezilla was probably the best thing to happen to my tax return in years. Since I have to pay taxes on some of my income from 2010, I can now deduct all of the "business expenses" that went into this little hobby of mine! So, I pulled up my calendar and started trying to quantify my self-employed side job. And what I found was ( Read more... )

Hawaii was really great. Probably our best family vacation ever. I only wish I could have stayed longer. 4 days in Maui was certainly not enough! Also, almost everyone was sick and we all went to bed at like 9pm every night. I didn’t get sick until the last day, and I’m just now getting over it. I basically wasted all of this past weekend at home ( Read more... )

Decided not to flake on the Dr Sketchys show. I just would have felt awful about it. Thanks for all the moral compass comments <3

I also was contacted by a local theater company to provide some intermission burlesque entertainment for a WWII-era musical! The musical sounds really cute - it's zany, lots of wordplay, set in Ireland and featuring real ( Read more... )

Lately I have been thinking a little about prioritizing things in my life. Prioritizing burlesque (what else-it is my only hobby) is a big and visible and comparatively easy-to-tackle issue. The balance of hassle to payoff has shifted a lot since I moved to DC.

The hassles are many: Scheduling away all my free time is now a hassle b/c I want to ( Read more... )

This is a very interesting article by Dan Savage, and it's making the rounds in the burlesque community.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-burlesque-shoah/Content?oid=4399613

"...Because without some negative feedback, without criticism, the local burlesque bubble is destined to burst."

When I started burlesque, I tried very hard to spend time w ( Read more... )

I need to get rid of shit before I move! You guys on Livejournal are getting a preview of the sale.

Shoes and wigs will be sold separately. Prices are listed.

All costumes are one-of-a-kind, custom-designed and -made, specifically to my measurements. Generally they will fit a size 4 or 6. Measurements below. All costumes have been worn 2-6 times, ( Read more... )