one random night in chicago...

... i, along with a few of my girlfriends and my cousin, were in an unconventional "beauty" pageant, of sorts. The pageant was entitled Miss Wicker Park, the neighborhood in Chicago where I once resided and currently work in, and was more or less a free for all consisting of boobs, beer, whiskey, a ton of glitter, sequins, big hair, big shoes, a headress and the most tambourines i've seen in one concentrated area in quite some time. Needless to say, the nine other girls and i had a freakin' blast.

A friend of mine who writes for the Chicago-Pipeline, was kind enough to snag a few photos and a short video clip of my burlesque act (Lindsey and I chose to perform our Little Egypt act, because it featured my performance a bit more in this case) for the "talent" portion, which you can view right here


applying our "game faces", while Lindsey acted as my stage mom for the night..the cute girl to my right ended up winning second runner up (woot woot!)



oh, hayyyyyyyyyyy!

and here was the 50s inspired gown I wore for the evening gown portion, with a little teaser.

this is my cousin, Penny, pastry chef extraordinaire..

and this is Jill, she's uh-mazinggg. And she took the crown with grace, style and PBR in hand! A-freakin'-men, Jill!


here's all ten of us at the end of the evening, after first runner up, Buffy in the teal gown, and second runner up, Brienna in the right hand corner, were announced, and Jill was given the official title...


oh ladies, what a fabulously bizarre evening!

xoxo