29 May 2006

We are SO excited!

The Odd Ballers are pretty darned excited to announce our fabulous performers for this year's out of this world Pride party, It Came From Planet Odd Ball! We are so very, very, very pleased to present some of Vancouver's most exciting and titillating entertainers...Read all about 'em:

Lindsey Long Legs
has been seen in feature films, television movies, and commercials. A regular fixture at numerous annual parades and art events throughout the city, he shows his community pride whenever he can. Odd Ball welcomes him and his tantalizing tall friend, Naomi, back for their third - and Oddest – appearance. http://www.stiltwalking.net/

Lindsey

Edward Malaprop is a big Geek, sweet yet crass, this little boy delights in critique of the patriarchy and in playing with performance conventions. As a drag king, he does his best to bring alternate performance styles to drag, blurring the boundaries of genre. Edward also tries his hardest to forge alternate masculinities that do not rely on power structures. He likes to dance, play with words, make lanterns, and cuddle. In his past life he was a lap cat. Find him at http://www.stilettosandstrap-ons.com/ and http://www.dkunited.com/

Ed

Producer/performer Crystal Precious is well-known for her trademark curves and incomparable stage presence. Mixing up her favourite combo of 80's flavoured satire and true vintage glam, the self-declared Queen of Sass slips effortlessly from classic golden-age tributes to old-school jams by incorporating smooth vocals or hip-hop stylings to her burlesque numbers. Also a full-figured model for Sweet Soul Designs, Bodacious and Bon Bon Style, she has danced in nearly every venue in the city, toured the US and has booked shows for underground cabarets, corporate events and television spots. Her production company, Precious Productions, is co-presenter of the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival and has produced the Sweet Soul Burlesque shows since the troupe's formation in 2003. Check out Crystal's website here.

Crystal Precious

27 May 2006

Coming Soon!

Mark your calendars for August 6th!

Our lovely Tralala has created an amazing preview flyer for our Pride event...Look for the flyer around town!

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21 April 2006

Won't you please be our Friendster?

The Odd Ball has a Friendster page...Check us out...Be our friend!

01 March 2006

Mark your calendars and start polishing your dancing shoes!

We are pleased to announce that this year's Odd Ball will be held on Sunday August 6th (Monday's a holiday y'all).
Celebrate Pride at Vancouver's best and most affordable Pride Weekend Dance Party!!!


And if that's not enough good news for one day...


We are also pleased to announce that
Night of the Living Odd Ball, our Hallowe'en incarnation, will be happening on Friday October 27th.
Both events will be taking place at our usual spot, the WISE Hall at 1882 Adanac Street in East Vancouver. Emerging details and excitement will appear on this web site within the next little while.

01 November 2005

Survey says

Please take a sec to check out the Survey of the Living Odd Ball below the photos...And if you have time, take another mo' to cut & paste it into an e-mail and send it to us. Thanks!

31 October 2005

Mwah, Vancouver, mwah! (those are kissing noises)

What can I say, Night of the Living Odd Ball was a big ball of zombie-laundrybasket-pirate-skeleton-witch-mummy-cowboy-dom-sheep etc. fun! I don't know about the rest of you, but I had a great time. Thank-you to everyone who showed up in costume (and out of costume as the night went on) and danced like a bunch of blood-thirsty ghouls!

Here are some photos of the party and of all the fun we had:

The winner of the Oddest Costume award
I just couldn't find anything to wear

The winners of the Scariest Costume award
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The costume competition heats up
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We are the robots
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Rattle Me Bones
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The zombie ate my baby!!! Trala La and Cookie show us how to have a good time
The zombie ate my baby!!!

Fortunately, Little Bo Peep found her sheep
Little Bo Peep and her security sheep

Our lovely DJs Party Bangs as Garth and Titz McGee as Marion Crane from Psycho
Party Bangs welcomes Titz McGee to the stage

Aerial silks - holy poop that girl is hanging from the ceiling and doing acrobats!
Jenn's amazing aerial silks!

The always amazing (and extraordinarily tall) stilt walkers
Dia del Muerte - on Stilts!

Photos by the occasionally blustery, but always beautiful, Dilettante
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Please...If you see a picture of yourself on this website and you do not want it up here for all the internet to see e-mail titzmcgee@yahoo.ca and I will remove it.

Help us out, please!

If you attended the Night of the Living Odd Ball, but didn't have a chance to fill out a survey here's you second chance! Cut and paste the following survey into an e-mail and send it to oddball@michaelvsmith.com Thank-you for your help---we appreciate the feedback!

Survey of the Living Odd Ball!

On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being the lowest and 10 being the woo hoo-est) how much did you enjoy the Night of the Living Odd Ball overall? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much did you enjoy the DJs tonight? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much did you enjoy the performances tonight? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much did you enjoy the bar service tonight? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much did you enjoy the contests tonight? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

On a scale of 1 to 10 how much do you like the WISE Hall as the Odd Ball venue? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Did you attend the Pride Odd Ball? Yes No

How did you hear about the Night of the Living Odd Ball? Word of mouth Ad in Xtra West SuperDyke
Odd Ball Blog Poster/Handbill Other (please specify)____________________________________________

What area of town do you live in?____________________________________________________________

Would you like to sign up for our e-mail list to be notified about future Odd Balls? (We promise not to give your address to anyone or use it for anything other than Odd Ball purposes.) Your e-mail: (please print LEGIBLY or have someone sober fill this part in for you)____________________________________________________

We are always looking to make the Odd Ball even more fun for everyone. Please use the back of this form to offer any suggestions you might have for us. You can also use it to tell us how much fun you had!
www.theoddballcouver.blogspot.com or oddball@michaelvsmith.com

27 October 2005

Tonight's the night we're gonna make it happen!!!

As if you would forget!
Tonight is Night of the Living Odd Ball!!!
Get your ghoul on from 8 until midnight at the WISE Hall!
{insert witchy cackle, zombie groan, werewolf howl, bone rattle here}
Pumpkin

25 October 2005

Two more sleeps!


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Originally uploaded by JuJu Coop.

Night of the Living Odd Ball is a mere two nights away!!! I don't know about you, but my spine is already beginning to tingle in anticipation of what is sure to be one of the BEST Hallowe'en events in this crazy town called Vancouver. Just to remind you...

The Ghastly Events will take place this Thursday October 27th at the WISE Hall, 1882 Adanac Street (just off Victoria Drive). The party will begin at 8pm and will end at midnight. It's $10 at the door---did I mention there will be candy? No! Well, there will be CANDY!!! As well as devilishly danceable music and ghoulish performances.

Be There!!!

24 October 2005

Coat Check!


skeleton coat
Originally uploaded by JuJu Coop.
It's chilly out there! We'd like to let you all know that Night of the Living Odd Ball will feature a self-serve coat check. This means that the coat check will not be very secure, so please don't leave your favorite coat in the coat check. It will be located close to the table where you pay, so there will be people around but no one will be specifically guarding the coats. Please keep this in mind if you choose to leave your coat in our coat check.

xotitz.

23 October 2005

So when you're near me, darling can't you hear me S.O.S.

Less than one week until the Night of the Living Odd Ball! Is your costume prepared? Mine nearly is. And as if you needed encouragement to create the BEST costume ever, the Odd Ball planning committee would like to give you a lil' incentive...

The Night of the Living Odd Ball S.O.S. Costume Competition!!!

S...for Skankiest costume
O.......for Oddest costume
S......for Scariest costume

There will be three prizes in all...Will you be the skankiest, the oddest or the scariest?

I want Candy!

Do you love candy? We do! And that's just one of the reason's we're so excited about this Thursday's "Night of the Living Odd Ball". Zena and I have ensured that approximately 40 pounds of candy will make an appearance at the party. Will you be there? If you are we'll give some candy! Don't believe us, check 'er out:

Odd Ball Candy

That's a lot of candy!!!

12 October 2005

Devilishly Delicious Duo!

We are terribly excited to announce that Night of the Living Odd Ball will feature a bone-chilling performance by the always entertaining
Trala La and Miss Cookie LaWhore!
Few details are available at this time, all I can reveal is that this performance will leave you wanting more, more, more with a side of zombiefied brains. Yum!

Here's a sneak peek of what we have in store for you:

Tralala & Cookie

Aerial Silks!

We are pleased to announce that Night of the Living Odd Ball will feature an aerial silks performance by the fabulous Jen Cressey!!! This performance will likely cause hearts to pound and spines to tingle - perfect for our event!

Jen Cressey has been producing, directing and performing cabaret and underground theatre for more than a decade. She directed the Wet Spots in their 2004 Fringe fest hit, Sing Your Way to Better Sex. Jen is a founding member, writer and director of satirical burlesque group The Hot Toddy Girls, of whom the Vancouver Sun said “The Hot Toddy Girls flip burlesque on its frilly-lingeried butt…The sexy quintet’s elaborate sketches are intensely sarcastic, political, and, if you can fathom it, feminist…It’s a potent cocktail and highly amusing.”

Performing Aerial Silks is relatively recent passion for Jen, and she is honoured to be hatching one of her fledgling routines just for you.

For more info contact: jencressey@hotmail.com

09 October 2005

This just in...


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Originally uploaded by JuJu Coop.
Here's a sneak peak at the amazing stilt performance that will be showcased at Night of the Living Odd Ball. Scary!

07 October 2005

Look up, up, WAAAYYYYYY up...

We are thrilled to announce that Lindsey Long Legs will be doing a stilt walking performance at the upcoming Night of the Living Odd Ball!

You may have noticed two very, very tall people wearing fabulous outfits at our Pride Odd Ball in the summer---well, I'm pleased to say they will be back again for our next event! If you weren't able to make it to the July 31st Odd Ball, then this is just one of the performances that you missed:


Stilts!




Stilts!

Check out Lindsey's website for more information on his stilt-walking adventures. And, of course, plan to attend the Odd Ball on Thursday October 27th at 8pm at the WISE Hall!

Night of the Living Odd Ball! Ooooooh!

Ch-ch-check out our ad! Look for it an upcoming issue of Xtra West (who graciously gave us sponsorship yet again). Also, big ups to Pink Vixen who are also sponsoring us.

Keep checking back for updates on performers and other exciting Odd Ball happenings.

02 October 2005

You wanna poster, I'll giveya a poster...

Here it is...The Night of the Living Odd Ball poster! Look for our orange and purple posters around town in the coming weeks and don't forget to come to the best and most fun Hallowe'en party in Vancouver!

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12 September 2005

Calling all Jack and Jill O'Lanterns!

You asked and we are delivering!
Plans for the next Odd Ball are rolling along at full steam ahead...
Night of the Living Odd Ball will take place on Thursday October 27th
at the WISE Hall 1882 Adanac Street, East Vancouver
$10 at the door
8pm until midnight
Costumes are encouraged
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Please continue to check this blog for emerging details. What I can tell you right now is that just like our fabulous Pride party on July 31st, the Night of the Living Odd Ball will feature fun music that you can dance to and sing along to, amazing performances, contests and good times.
E-mail titzmcgee@yahoo.ca if you have any questions

25 August 2005

Hold the phone!

Check back soon for more information about our upcoming event...

+ Night of the Living Odd Ball +

Bringing the fun to Vancouver just in time for Hallowe'en.