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jillanneThere's a lot of kooks in New York City. It feels like it was just yesterday when I introduced you to the bearded lady circus performer/college professor and Anna Dove, a real-life cat lady, but for pigeons. We can now add JillAnne, a female "entrepreneur" who turned a studio on the Lower East Side into a kind-of store?

With stark walls, a sad curtain, and a pole dead center in the middle of the floor, surrounded by homemade greeting cards, JillAnne knows there must be a better way to draw customers into her little Allen Street Mom 'n Pop shop. In fact, she's discovered the very best way a small business owner can do just that: LIVE POLE DANCING.

See? That's why that pole is there! While you browse her original greeting cards, say for the perfect way to say Merry Christmas to Nana or Happy Pole Dancing (there's a card for that), JillAnne (one word, no last name, like any pole-dancing, greeting-card designing diva), dressed ready for a cardio workout -- albeit in chunky heels -- will be right behind you, straddling that pole with thighs that could easily crack your chestnuts. She also plays bass guitar, too, so that explains the bass guitar hanging on the wall.

JillAnne claims that when women spot her pole-dancing from outside the window, they smile and applaud. What these women likely don't realize is that, if they just came in an dropped a cool $50, they'd get a "personal pole dance," which is the same thing as if you were just walking around inside, looking for a greeting card, but significantly more awkward.