Marching forth with PMD and friends!

So it's 13 degrees outside? What better time to dust off the parade
gear and make preparations for the 14th annual Ides of March March?
Let the dog heads hang high as you press and steam your cumbersome
bumbleshoot in wild and frenzied preparations for music and mayhem in
the streets.... but between now and then, come to a show, I have been
getting complaints that I only ever play in California, and that's
just not true, I just make more $$ in California and we burn alot more
stuff out there than we do here..... though I think these things are
changing.... I digress, come to a show, I would love to see your
shining face! Singing the classics and new, with fresh mixes by Omar
Abdul and live musicians when I can afford them and drrrty punk rawk
pain proof klowns when I can't.

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This Thursday! March 5, 2009 @ Pegasus Lounge
818 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15224
Cost: $3
When Phat Man Dee sings, young drunks listen, and you should too! This
Thursday March 5 at Pegasus Lounge! PMD has special guest Andrew the
Impaled, Pittsburgh's premiere pain proof clown as he wows us all with
his brave feats of fortune and pain! Beautiful music curated by Brian
Staley at the DJ booth and original tunes by Phat Man Dee herself.
Ages 18 and over with ID welcome!

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This Saturday! March 7 @ The Rex Theater,
Bellydance Show for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
1602 E Carson St, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
Door at 7 pm, show time 8 pm done by 10 pm so be on time!!!!
21+ show; under 21 is allowed as long as they are accompanied by a
real parent or guardian!

Join us for this great cause!! Help bring awareness of Cystic
Fibrosis. Check out http://cff.org for more info about the disease.
Performing this evening are: Zafira, Sadiqa, Lizzie and Hailey of
BelliBeautiez, Phat Man Dee, and more! Tickets are $10. And who would
miss the Bellydancer Bake Sale??
*All proceeds go to Cystic Fibrosis Foundation!*

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Next Saturday on March 14 @ Dreams of Hope Charity @ Edgewood Club
One Pennwood Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
$35 cash only, live entertainment, wine , beer, deserts, appetizers,
auction and raffle
Tickets available at Square Cafe in Regent Square and A Pleasant
Present in Squirrel Hill.

Dreams of Hope develops lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied
youth leaders who promote social change by educating audiences. With
Patrick Arena, Mark Lucas, Etta Cox and Lisa Ferraro! One Pennwood
Ave, Pgh, PA!

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And last but certainly not least, on March 15, on South Side, @
Birmingham Square
12th and Carson, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203
The cost is free but for the price of your soul.....ladies and
gentlemen, the time has come, it is now upon us,
The 14th Annual Ides of March March!!!!
Meet us at 12th and Carson, we meet at 6:30 pm, but we leave at 7:30
sharp, so don't come crying to me if you get left behind..... be sure
to wear your dogs heads high and let your bannerjees fly! Fling your
wherewithal to the tattersall and join us in our annual pilgrimage up
and down South Side’s E Carson for no apparent treason but to warn the
good neighbors and passerby to BEWARE! BEWARE THE IDES OF MARCH
MARCH!! All ages, legal for the most part and there will be cake.
Always with the cake, like these hips need more cake......BEWARE!

As a last note, I put a new video up online:


It's about a girl I adored, she passed on this past year, she was a
circus sideshow entertainer who travelled the country with her Wild
West show.... The video work is done by Isaac•Rullo Studio's , they
helped me make it in trade for my being in their "Zircus des Zelbst"
production, which I believe is to be screened in full on March 21, at
Chatham University.

Be well, stay safe and I hope you see you out and about anytime this
month.
Love and kisses and warm wet raspberries to you all,
I remain affectionately yours,
Phat Man Dee

So can I sing to you in Oakland, California on Saturday?

For my Bay Area peeps, this is an old school off the hook, lets party
like it's still 1999 big scary fire art and punk rawk extravaganza,
and if you don't live in Oakland or SF, I suggest you visit.....like
this Saturday.....this is the largest do-it-yourself industrial art
space in the Bay Area, known as NIMBY, and she will be opening her
gloriously large industrial doors to celebrate it's new location.

8410 Amelia Street, East Oakland

Art and Entertainment will include The Cyclecide Bike Rodeo Band "Los
Banos", Cyclecide Klowns, Cookie Mongoloid, Big Daddy, Phat Man Dee,
Goat Man Dan, X Ten, Binky, Boy Chaous, DJ Caine, the Derailleurs, the
Disgusting Spectical, the Turks, Therm robots, One Man Banjo, Tilt a
hurl, Orion Fredricks, Fluffy grrl, It’s so $$$$ and even the Golden
Mean, my favorite giant golden snail ever!

Saturday Feb. 21st

Doors open at dark.

$10 or more as you can afford. Worth every penny and then some.

Phat in February!

I know we are all shivering in our timbers, but at least our veins are still pumping black and gold..... (it's a little weird really, we should all get to the doctor if the President is successful in his endeavour to help us all get health care someday) but in any event, I
hope I may sing to you sometime this month!

TONIGHT Thursday Feb 5, 2009!
Phat Man Dee and Olivia Kissel (of Zafira and Vaudeville Carnival) will perform at Pittsburgh's very own Pegasus Lounge. Showtime 10:30, 18+ with i.d. , $3 and yes, you can smoke in the bar. I am having my
hair done by Brittney of Lunsea hair salon this evening, so I do hope you may come and admire her handiwork... I tried to style my own hair once, I ended up bald with pigtails for 10 years, now the professionals handle it.... If you are lucky I might wear my new Dark Gardens corset from San Francisco, I had it laced with gold ribbon to show my Pittsburgh pride. Either way I am debuting fresh new mixes of my songs by Omar Abdul, so do come out if you aren't already booked.

This Sunday Feb 8, 2009 in Petaluma, CA
I will be appearing with the Boiler Bar and the Golden Mean (think giant golden snail a la Dr Doolitte or Jules Verne) at the Lagunanitas
Beer Circus, unfortunately it is SOLD OUT sorry.... if you are already going there, look for me, I'll be with the beautiful dancers (as always, I am such a sucker for a shimmy)

Next weekend Fri Feb 13 and Sat Feb 14th I am heading for NORTH CACALACKY baby!
(That's Carolina for the rest of us, think land of Doc Watson, moonshine and now Foxy Moxy!)

On Friday at 8:00 PM , Eros 5, an Erotic Arts Show, $5
Lyndon St Artworks, 205 S Lyndon St
Greensboro, North Carolina 27401-2926

Featuring new erotic art by area artists in a wide variety of media plus sexy burlesque and playful cabaret by Foxy Moxy and jazz diva PhatManDee from Pittsburgh, PA. Also featuring a live bodypainting by Scott Fray of LivingBrush, a love song karaoke contest, awesome henna
and glitter body art by Opal Moon Henna and more!!! Door prizes provided by Adam & Eve and The Intimate Lens Photography.

And on Saturday, on Valentine's Day, 8:00 PM - The Erotic Arts Ball, Studio B , $15
Downtown, (Behind the Broach Theater)
Greensboro, North Carolina

Brought to you by the folks at Lyndon St. Artworks and Foxy Moxy, in
sizzling artistic collaboration! Come one and all to "The Erotic Arts
Ball", the hottest Valentine’s dance party in the Triad! Featured
performances include: burlesque & boylesque by Foxy Moxy, Smokin’
McQueen and friends - cabaret jazz stylings of Grande Diva PhatManDee
- and performance mural painting by LivingBrush certain to enhance the
air of romance. Erotic art from "Eros 5" will also be showcased and
Opal Moon Henna will be on hand to decorate all the bare skin you care
to share with henna or glitter body art. Door prizes include a budoir
photograpy session by the Intimate Lens Photography and assorted
goodies from Adam & Eve!

So, if I don't see you tonight, my next local Pittsburgh gigs will be
March 7, I am emceeing a benefit for Cystic Fibrosis at the Rex
Theater and on March 14 I am singing with Patrick Arena at a benefit
for Dreams of Hope, a group to help Lesbian, Gay and Transgender youth
at the Edgewood Club.

This is the year of Astronomy folks, watch the skies for signs of Phat
Man Dee, I may be appearing in the spiral arm of the galaxy near you!

Mandee

PS I hear recently that someone thought I was hard to book, for
clarification, please spread the word....I am easy to book. You just
have to pay me something. I am open to just about anything, I have
sung everywhere from the river and sewers of Los Angeles, to the salt
flats of Nevada, to Pittsburgh Opera events at the Benedum. I love
private parties and I love weddings. Brisses I am not so fond of, but
if you got $250 with my name on it, I am so there. If you got $500
I'll even bring a piano player, make it $1000 and I'll bring the band
and we'll go all night long. Easy peasy. I am trying to fund a
movement here, let me help you bend reality so together we can reform
the world to place we want to be.

Can I sing to you in San Francisco on Jan 23?

Can I sing to you in San Francisco on Jan 23? Of course it would be easier if you were in San Francisco too, but
some of you are, you know who you are...... and if you
aren't you might know someone who is, so pass the word along......

Phat Man Dee in San Francisco with Red Hots Burlesque!
Friday, January 23, 2009
7:30pm - 9:00pm
El Rio in the Mission
3158 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA, 94110
Phone # 415-282-3325

http://www.RedHotsBurlesque.com/
http://www.elriosf.com/

So let your friends know!! I have been a busy beaver editing video
like there is no tomorrow, keep checking my youtube.com/phatmandee for
more stuff, though because of the 10 min limit, the longer segments
are going up in higher def on my myspace and facebook accounts.

Stay warm and see you in sunny San Francisco!!

Mandee

PS Save the date, next Pittsburgh gig on Feb 5 at Pegasus with dancer
Olivia Kissel!!!

PPS Yes, we had a Burn last weekend in the subzero temperatures of Western Pennsylvania. As the Nation prepared for change, we burned....

We were not the first, but in the last 17 years, we were the coldest.... In record breaking sub zero temperatures I joined with 150 or so of my dumbest friends and some of their children at Cooper's Lake Campground to camp out and enjoy the community which believes "Those who burn together stay together". Unless one of us gets frostbite and then, well, you might lose some external bits..... Please to enjoy the burning of our effigy, created by Rob, If you know the names of the fire spinners, let me know and I will add them here in the info section. For info about the event visit
http://www.frostburnpgh.com/

Baby It's Cold Outside!!!

So let's go camping!!!! Ok I don't actually expect anyone of you on
this email list to join me @ Frostburn this weekend (if I see you
there it will be a delightful surprise!) but I do expect you (assuming
you are in Pittsburgh) to attend my dear husband's show at Howler's
Coyote Cafe in Bloomfield, he has put together with his good friends,
"Who-Phoria" a tribute show wherein local bands will all play songs by
the Who.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09015/941790-42.stm

If you are crazy enough to join us at Frostburn, for God's sake read
the FAQ and Survival Guide on the website:
http://frostburnpgh.com/
I will be leading the Annual Mr Roger's Singalong on Sunday morning.

And on Monday night, in celebration of Dr King's birthday, please join
me at Howler's (hip spot these days!) as we perform to benefit
survivors of Katrina and the Common Grounds Relief fund.

Martin Luther King Birthday Benefit on Monday January 19 at Howlers
4509 Liberty ave. Bloomfield at 9PM
Suggested donation is $10 for the Rich and $5 for the not so Rich.
Show starts at 9PM and ends at Midnight.

The line up:
Moonlight Motel
PhatManDee
UkuLizzy
Duane "Irate" Jones and Evan Knauer
Bobby Porter
Lucid Music
Deleted Scenes (from New York City)

Proceeds benefit the Victims of Hurricane Katrina / Common Ground
Relief

Next week if you are in San Francisco, join me at Dottie Lux's evening
of Burlesque with the Red Hot Mama's at El Rio!
Doors at 730 and the show is over by 9, so be on time!!
El Rio is located at 3158 mission st , San Francisco, CA
http://www.dottielux.com/

I have been going crazy putting up footage of shows so keep checking
out my channel (today youtube, tomorrow my own satellite!) :
http://www.youtube.com/phatmandee

Me with Erin Carey (aerialist)

Video of the end of the seesion led by Howie Alexander's trio with Paul Thompson and James Johnson III at Ava Lounge in E Liberty last monday:

Stay warm , stay well and I hope to see or hear of you attending
something awesome this weekend.

On a sadder note, last week we all lost someone very special to me, Lucy the Dog.

I ordered the cake!!!

And it's black with hot pink roses! A full sheet, so you better come
to Pegasus and have a piece! It is Meoww Kitty's aka Suz Pisano's
birthday and she is turning lovelier than ever. For those of you who
know her, you know how lucky you are, for those of you who don't ,
well what are you waiting for?!?? She creates the neatest bags and
hats and scarves and costumery. The fun fur scarves I bought from her
for my nieces literally made those little girls squeal at the top of
their lungs! (They had googly eyes with lashes and little leather red
tongues....really adorable.)

See a tasty example of her handiwork:
So anyhoo, as if just me singing at Peg's wasn't enough, now we have
cake and a Suzy P to further entice you, so I do hope you can make it
tomorrow Jan 8 at 10 pm at 818 Liberty Ave, in the basement,
underground Pittsburgh, PA. 18 and over , with ID. $3. Come on down
and get your gay on, and if you can't get your gay on, then you can
just sit down and watch while we do it for you...... there will be
plenty of cake......

And while we are looking at pictures, here's one taken last November at Zafira's Vaudeville Carnevale III, by Darter:
I better see you out, if you can' t make it, please to enjoy some video I shot at Howler's last week of Kagero, America's latest Japanese Gypsy Funk Sensation!

and a happy new year!!!

So wowza, it has been some crazy last couple of weeks....
For the record, NYC was awesome, I met a cousin I didn't even know I had , saw one of my best friends from college (I practically lived on their couch) .... here is some video from that night:


The next night was pretty awesome, I went to a place called Proteus Gowanus for the release of a new book "The Space Between" by John Law and was treated to some amazing presentations of pictures and stories of John's experiences with climbing bridges. I made a little video of that but it is too long to put on you tube and honestly I have been too swamped with gigs and holiday bruhaha that I haven't had a chance to post it in 3 parts yet, but here is a great photo of me with John Law and the publisher Julia Solis:
Aren't they just adorable? You have no idea just how much mischief lies behind those beautiful eyes...... but if you buy the book you may get some idea. After NYC and Brooklyn the Amoeba and I headed for home, thankfully the young bucks that comprise my band, namely Tony DePaolis on bass and Mike Murray on organ decided they actually wanted to drive so Amoeba and I just cuddled and tried not to fart.....
After we made it home I had a whole slew of gigs , and international holiday sing a long called "We are all children of Abraham, Merry ChristmaChannaKwanzaa!!" at the New Hazlett put on by cityLive! wherein we sang songs from all over the world.
We sang songs from Turkey and Germany and Spain and Mexico, some Latin, some Hebrew , some French... one day I have a dream of me going on a musical peace tour across the world where I will sing songs with and from every culture I meet. Until then Pittsburgh will just have to put up with my husband and I in Santa and Elf costumes singing ChristmaChannaKwanzaa songs wherever they haven't yet banned us. At my show at the Backstage Bar we were invaded by 150 drunken Santas, led by 2 distressingly large men in bunny suits, they even had their own songbooks..... you have to have respect for those what travel with their own songbooks......apparently the dancers at Blush (their stop previous to coming to hear me sing) really enjoyed wearing the bunny heads while twirling around the poles, I am sorry I missed that....
and I never did get a figgy pudding.... all these years I keep asking and asking and do you think I would ever get one? Well, that's not true, once (just once) my friend Allie brought over a figgy pudding, it's kind of like a welsh fruity version of kimchee, you chop it up, bury it and mmm mmmm good!! But then she moved to Ireland, and now she can only send me small jpeg representations of figgy pudding on facebook and it's just not the same..... of course, if that is all I have to complain about than I consider myself very blessed person indeed.....

That said, I am very excited to invite you all to check out the Phat Man Dee Experience!! What happens when you get Phat Man Dee singing in a room with Mike Murray on organ, Chris Parker on drums and hopefully some guitar, Extreme Painter Kevin "the Nerve" Wenner, and artists from the Living Brush in North Carolina, Scott Fray with your favorite model Foxy Moxy? Well, I am not sure either, but you should be there just in case.....New to the Phat Man Dee Experience this year will be special guest Buddy Nutt!! Called "Pittsburgh's Tiny Tim" by the Rolling Stone, Mr Nutt will be gracing our souls with his crystal singing cups and his singing golden saw. Like I said, I can't predict exactly what will happen, but whatever it is, it'll be in a couple languages, it'll be hot, it'll make you feel better about the world we share and if nothing else you'll have some awesome music to listen to while your eyes drink in the beauty of the paint and canvas....

Sets at 6:45 pm, 9 pm & 10 pm. Tickets are available in the form of $8 buttons which you may purchase at any Giant Eagle and will gain you entrance into all of the First Night activities. (Some venues require vouchers, not mine, but refer to their website for details.)

Non alcohol event, family friendly, all ages!!

Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Shows at 6:45, 9 and 10 pm.
First Night Pittsburgh, 905 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Contact the Box Office for info:
412-456-6666
or visit:
http://firstnightpgh.com/

I hope to see you out, if you can't make it, come on out January 8 at
Pegasus! I will be singing there with three mini sets starting at
10:30 pm. I'll be bringing a birthday cake for my friend Suz Pisano,
she's turning even more lovely than ever before, so mark the calendar
and come down and buy her a drink!

Happy New Year everybody, I really hope we can be the change we need to see in the world over the coming months, love , light and keep the faith!

Lastly for now, I have been quite enamored with facebook of late, if you are on it
and wish to find me, my music page is:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phat-Man-Dee/19202236991

Hope to see you in the ether!