Outer Limits Gentlemen's Club just west of Middleton, Wisconsin is in the Silk Exotic family of strip clubs.  There also are clubs in Juneau and Milwaukee.  I have always popped into the Middleton version at opening time at 4:00 p.m.  You won't get cut a deal on the cover charge just because the dancers are setting up for the day and no customers are there yet.  The bouncer will ask you for five Bucks.  Also, they will ask you not to wear a shirt with cut-off sleeves.  I always have extra "proper" t-shirts in my car or in the travel bag on the teal and cream Harley. 

    From the outside, it is the consummate industrial tin and steel building.  There is a row of low Arborvitae lined with a row of yellow Daylilies along the side of the building.  The little landscaping plot hangs in there despite what I suspect is...it is left to survive on its own.  The whole presentation is plopped on the edge of the built-up area heading into the west side of the Madison metro area.  To the west are corn fields; across the street is the ballast berm of the railroad tracks; back east toward town the industrial buildings begin to pop up. 

    The Wednesday night I was there, they were hoping to segue off of the restaurant and bar Quaker State and Lube just down the road. Quaker State has a motor cycle night on Wednesdays.  Outer Limits had coned off an area in the parking lot for motorcycles in the hopes some of the gathering down the road might spill up their way.

    Inside, it has the low ceiling affect; it is mostly painted black.  It is desperately trying to look high profile.  But, I believe the place has been around now for a few years and has lost a bit of its newness. I counted about 30 small tables in a quick scan of the joint.  The bar-top is marble-esque ceramic.  The bar area is not too big probably in the hopes you will gravite toward the tables by the dance floor. 

    I don't mention D.J.s too often, other than if the place has one or not.  They are an eccentric lot.  And playing music is not as easy to do as every one might think.  The guy there that night looked rather like a young Andy Warhol but dressed in the dance outfit John Travolta wore in the movie Saturday Night Fever. Yikes!  I once went to a black-tie wedding and the D.J. at the reception wore old jeans, a faded t-shirt, and a frayed ball cap.  It's hard not love those guys. 

    Back to the chicks.

    Again by my being there early, it was 10 dancers to one guy...me.   The last time I was in the place, there was a cadre of petite dancers.   A sign will tell you lap dances are 20 Bucks.  There is a V.I.P. room of course.  Call or ask your favorite dancer for details.  I can't do everything for you.  

    This is a nude dancer place.  And the girls will present their portfolios rather handily up on the dance floor.  On Monday through Friday they have a rather good happy hour and you can get two Miller Lites (or other domestic beer) for the price of one which is four and a half Bucks.  That is not too bad for a strip club.  

    The last time I was there I had an intriguing chat with a dancer that said she was making the club rounds in the upper Midwest.  She would plug herself into a club for a bit and then move on.  Dancers being contractors of sorts, I am getting the impression her story is not an unusual one.  She said she looked at it as a trek or journey of sorts; like a way to see the country.   I don't know, I bought into her line; it did not cost me anything to hear her vignette, and she told it well; her portfolio was not too bad either.

    Find Outer Limits Gentlemen's Club at 7302 Highway 14 west of Middleton, Wisconsin.  Call (608) 883  -  3456 for more information or visit their Web site at: www.silkexotic.com/sitec/FIN/index.php .  

                   Wisconsin Military Service Person Special Mention of the Week
    (each week Cooldadiomedia mentions a Wisconsin service person killed in Iraq or Afghanistan)

    Army Reserve Sergeant Nathan J. Vacho, 29, originally of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, died in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, May 5, 2006. An improvised explosive device detonated by his Humvee vehicle during combat operations near Al Hillah, Iraq. Sergeant Vacho was assigned to the Army Reserve’s 489th Civil Affairs Battalion, out of Knoxville, Tennessee. During Operation Iraqi Freedom, he was attached to Company B, 490th Cavalry Squadron, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. Nathan was one of three soldiers killed in the incident when the roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle. Ladysmith, is known as a small Wisconsin North Woods community. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noted Nathan recently lived in Janesville, Wisconsin. And, that he was of a military family. Vacho was the son of Army Reserve Command Sergeant Major John Vacho of the 88th Regional Readiness Command, out of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, which encompasses six states and commands 24,000 soldiers. Nathan's father had also spent a year in Iraq and served in the Reserve and National Guard for 32 years. Nathan Vacho's term of service ended March 23, 2006, but the Army kept him on in the "Stop Loss" program. He had told his family he was planning to re-enlist despite the extension. Nathan was a 1995 graduate of Ladysmith High School; he was a running back on the football team and an avid wrestler. He was also on the school newspaper staff. The Journal Sentinel went on to say Nathan was an avid deer hunter. Vacho was a licensed practical nurse and had worked in nursing homes and emergency rooms in civilian life. He first joined the Army Reserves in March of 1998 as a military firefighter. He later became a trained Army health care specialist. He had experience in the civil air patrol during high school. He loved gliding, and built a glider. He had a penchant for technology. His first Army Reserve unit assignment was with the 336th Engineer Platoon out of Duluth, Minnesota. Vacho transitioned into the Army medical career field in 2002. He attended the Practical Nurse Course at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and graduated in spring of 2003. In 2005, Vacho completed the Army Emergency Technician Refresher Course and was assigned to the 330th Medical Brigade out of Madison, Wisconsin. At the time of his death, he was assigned as a health-care specialist for the 489th Civil Affairs Battalion. Vacho told family he was being sent to the infamous "Triangle of Death" area south of Baghdad. He had been in Iraq for less than two weeks when he was killed, and was on his second patrol. The 2005 Wisconsin Assembly Joint Resolution 108 noted Sergeant Nathan Vacho’s military awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Reserve Components Achievement Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with Mobilization Device, the Army Service Ribbon, and the Overseas Service Ribbon. The Resolution also noted he had attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. At the time of his death Nathan was survived by his wife Amanda; daughters, Emma Grace and Bayli Ellen, of Janesville and Colfax, Wisconsin; a sister, Ashley; and, his parents, Carol and John of Ladysmith, Wisconsin. Sergeant Nathon Vacho was the 54th Wisconsin military service member to be killed in Iraq since the spring of 2003.

              As of this blog entry's posting date:

    96,739 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.
    
    9,509 Iraqi Security Forces have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.

    4,405 Americans have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003. 

    1114 Americans have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.

    318 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.

    712 Coalition soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001. 

    31,839 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Iraq since Spring, 2003. 

    6,141 U.S. troops have been wounded in action in Afghanistan since October, 2001. 

    102 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.

    19 Wisconsin soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.

    142 journalists (several nationalities) have been killed in Iraq since Spring, 2003.

    21 journalists (various nationalities) have been killed in Afghanistan since October, 2001.

Wisconsin military service person special mention of the week, military casualty, and journalist casualty information sources: Committee to Protect Journalists; cnn.com; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; washingtonpost.com; thehighground.org; Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs; iraqbodycount.org; and, icasualties.org.

 

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