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Dr. Lucky

'Good women are rarely clever and clever women are rarely good.' -- Adah Isaacs Menken

About Me

Born in Oakland, California, I've been living in NYC since the mid 90s where I fully realized my dream of becoming a female drag queen. Here I have stumbled upon a consortium of freaks, geeks, and gorgeous people who covet glamour and excess as much as I do. In the meantime, I also got my PhD. My area of specialty is nineteenth century American popular culture and entertainment which allows me to study the thing that I do. There's no point in memorizing things you can look up so instead I spend my time filling my head with random associations and silly ways to capture theory and put it on the stage where it does not belong.Do visit my website at www.lukki.com.
A THRILL RIDE OF A EVENT TO SAVE NYC'S ICONIC AMUSEMENT PARK On Saturday, March 8, 2008 the Save Coney Island organization will join forces with Miss Cyclone, Angie Pontani, Dianna Carlin of Lola Staar and Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions to stage a tilta-whirling event to promote awareness about New York City's exciting new plan for the revitalization of Coney Island!

?STARRING: MISS ASTRID, SCOTTY THE BLUE BUNNY, MURRAY HILL, THE WORLD FAMOUS PONTANI SISTERS, MISS CYCLONE: ANGIE PONTANI, BAMBI: THE MERMAID QUEEN OF CONEY ISLAND, MISS CONEY ISLAND 2007 EKATERINA, HELEN PONTANI, PEEKABOO POINTE, LITTLE BROOKLYN, LUKKI, JO BOOBS, THE ANIMAL CRACKERS

?Featuring: MISS SATURN, DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA & PINKY SPECIAl,? plus, THE?? WORLD FAMOUS *BOB*, TRIXIE LITTLE & THE EVIL HATE MONKEY, KILSY, THE FISHERMAN XYLOPHONIC ORCHESTRA, DJ MOMOTARO, DJ BILL COLEMAN & MANY MORE TBA GUEST STARS!

?Proceeds from this event will go to The Coney Island History Project,? Save Coney Island, The Polar Bear Club & Coney Island USA ?SOUTHPAW
125 5th Ave b/t Sterling & St. John
Brooklyn
8pm, $15ADV/$20DOS
www.spsounds.com
www.myspace.com/saveconeyisland..

My Interests

sharing knowledge popular culture all things that glitter nineteenth century high modern era (mmm!!! industrial revolution, urbanization, new technologies...YUMMY!) vaudeville burlesque world's fairs Coney Island necessary impossibilities kitsch vintage glamour living legends glue guns and fabric glue fringe and rhinestones. making something out of nothing is my favorite thing to do. visit me at www.lukki.com

I'd like to meet:

glamour pusses nightlife creatures postmodernists sideshow freaks living legends public intellectuals anti-establishment fearless individualists who believe that beauty and art like air and food are imperative to life www.lukki.com

Television:

I don't have a TV but love "Reality" television for conceptual reasons such as watching everyday people become "stars" so that I can read about their coffee-drinking habits the next week in "celebrity" magazines. Unfortunately for mainstream TV, the era of true glamour stars is over but fortunately for us, we can still find them on tiny stages and dumpy dives throughout the country!

Books:

My favorite book is "Fighting the Flames: The Spectacular Performance of Fire at Coney Island" published by Routledge Press and written by my nerdy alter ego.

Heroes:

Miss Piggy was my first role model. Since her others have joined her ranks including Lucille Ball, Michel Foucault, Auntie Mame, Judith Butler, Idah Isaac Menkins, Roland Barthes, Kiki & Herb, Texas Guinan, Jacques Derrida, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rem Koolhaas, Lydia Thompson, Phyllis Diller...those thinkers and doers revered because they bring about major epistemic shifts in the intellectual and cultural landscape of our modern world... there are gazillions more and the list grows every day the more i learn... www.lukki.com

My Blog

Performing the Monster/Beauty Continuum in Neo-Burlesque

DRAFT -- Not for Citation Title:  "It is the Ugly that is so Beautiful":  Performing the Monster Beauty Continuum in Neo-Burlesque. The Horrible Prettiness of Nineteenth-Century Burlesque Ma...
Posted by Dr. Lucky on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:48:00 PST

Dr. Lucky's Answers to Reporter's 10 Questions About Burlesque

1. What attracted you to the Neo-Burlesque movement?   I didn't know much about the "neo-burlesque" movement as a movement when I got involved.  I was simply creating dance numbers (with Hel...
Posted by Dr. Lucky on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:09:00 PST

I am a Stripper

I am a stripper.  There, I said it.  But typing that into a document is radically different from saying it to people.  And I suppose it should be.  We don't really need to be forth...
Posted by Dr. Lucky on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:31:00 PST

Dr. Lucky's Top 10 Tips for Budding Burlesque Babes!

Dr. Lucky's Top 10 Tips for Budding Burlesque Babes[1]..: So you wanna be a burlesque babe?  Take the following with a grain of salt; I offer these tips to make your future performances seamless...
Posted by Dr. Lucky on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 10:29:00 PST

Dr. Lucky on You Tube

Dr. Lucky stars in Los Straight Jacket's and the World Famous Pontani Sister's "Mad Scientwist".  Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT7geisLnxU...
Posted by Dr. Lucky on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 07:57:00 PST

News Worthy Performance August 20th, 2006

"Coney Island and Spectacle as Total-Body Experience - A 12-Hour Academic Spectacular in Which We Find Our Heroine Chained to a Podium for an Interminable Period, With All the Agony and Sublime Joy Th...
Posted by Dr. Lucky on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:05:00 PST