{"id":346,"date":"2006-05-12T00:11:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T00:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=346"},"modified":"2006-05-12T00:11:42","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T00:11:42","slug":"parties-i-have-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=346","title":{"rendered":"Parties I Have Had"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just back home from a Rumpus prep session. This party on Saturday night is gonna be special. Over on LJ people are discussing what to wear.<\/a>
\nI’m excited about it, enough to take a moment and think back over some of the other parties I’ve hosted.
\nOlden Days<\/i>
\nI lived at home until I finished University. It was cheap. I never had a student loan. Instead, I have an unfeasibly large collection of roleplaying books. Hurrah for staying at home!
\nMy First House Party<\/b>
\nParents went away. Invited lots of people around. There was drinking. Not understanding beer, I bought some Bighorn for people to drink. No-one drank the Bighorn. Until the end, when people became desperate. Infamous for late-night drunken Kieran panicking about Champ the Raccoon falling off a wheel. And then he just got back on! And then he just fell off again! Poor Champ the Raccoon.
\nMy 21st<\/b>
\nTook over a bar. Loads and loads of people. I still occasionally hear gossip about things that happened at my 21st. I drove several people home at the end of the night, on account of being stone sober and completely single. Huh. Such is life. Infamous for being the one where I had to kick out all the underagers. (I had thought it sorted. Turned out, not.) That felt… not so wonderful.
\nThe Brooklyn Years<\/i>
\nThen I moved to Todman St, Brooklyn. Ah, the Todman St flat. Such a wonderful place. Five large bedrooms, a gigantic kitchen for kitchen parties, and cool flatmates. We did good parties there, hell yeah.
\nHalloween 1999 and 2000<\/b>
\nFor two years running we had the best damn Halloween parties in the city. Everyone came in freaky costume. In ’99 we had bubble wrap everywhere. Pearce<\/a> leant his spooky mojo to these gigs, and when he moved elsewhere, the Halloween vibe went with him, as it should. Nota bene<\/i>, that Pearce cat delivers on the Halloween front. Infamous for: Adrian standing in the middle of the road wearing a cow mask. That was freaky. (Also: me topless.)
\nThe Jon Ball<\/b>
\nFancy invitations to this one, a ball in honour of new flatmate Jon Ball. He turned up late and steaming to his own gig. Heh. Infamous for: Jon not being there, and then Jon being there very very drunk, and just generally infamous for Jon. Hi JB!
\nPigphone Party<\/b>
\nCommunication is divine,
\nbut not for swine.
\nExcept the phonepig!<\/i>
\nIn the kitchen was a whiteboard. Chuck drew a picture on the whiteboard. The picture was a phone. The phone looked like a pig. So we had a party! Infamous for: being the one no-one can explain. Two people came in costume as phonepigs, and I will love them for it forever.
\nThe Stay Human Party<\/b>
\nIn the wake of 9\/11 everyone was feeling pretty stressed. This, our mellowest party, was called in order to give everyone a chance to re-ground themselves in the wonderful community of our friends. Infamous for: setting a positive tone and just being a nice night.
\nThe Survivor Party<\/b>
\nThis one was ambitious. Downstairs, everyone mingled and mixed and drank and watched TV, because the TV showed what was unfolding upstairs – a live transmission of a Survivor contest! Over the course of the evening, we whittled down ten contestants to five, then three, then finally two, who faced the votes of the other contestants to determine the winner. The prize: a night for two in one of Welly’s swank hotels! JB and I co-hosted, and Dan Rabarts spent four hours with a camera on his shoulder – hero! Infamous for: come on, do I really need to say? No-one else in the world ever had a party like this. (Also, I’ve got the whole thing on video. Not kidding. Two tapes worth.)
\nTreadraze and the Funkatechtonic Grindwarriors<\/b>
\nPreviously, I’d convinced everyone to make one party’s theme be the nonsensical ‘phonepig’, and that worked out okay. This time I didn’t even consult the flatties about party name and theme and stuff, I just sent out a frankly ludicrous invitation email. And yet people came anyway. Infamous for: a friend who responded to my invite with “morgs, I love you like a brother, but sometimes I have absolutely no fucking idea what you’re on about.”
\nThe Shove Off Party<\/b>
\nAfter nearly four years of good service, the Todman St flat was coming to an end, and Leon and I were preparing to head off to see the world. And so the Shove Off party was called, to raise a glass to good times past and good times yet to come. It was sad. It was wistful. It was exciting. It was wild. It was a good way to call it a day. Infamous for: being the last one.
\nI think there were one or two other Todman St events but I’m blanking on them right now. And I can remember a bunch of really memorable things at Todman St parties, but not which parties they belong to. Most of the things are kinda scandalous anyway, so better with the not-posting I feel. (And there was one other party of particular note, just before I left the country, but it wasn’t open-invite so I’m not gonna rave about how cool it was.)
\nI love parties, I believe in parties, getting lots of good people all under one roof smiling and talking and meeting each other – it’s magic. And there’s nothing I like better than seeing friends of mine become friends with other friends of mine. That’s right, people, build a network! Become a community! I loves it!
\nSo I’m really excited about this little Rumpus we’ve got coming. I’m back on home turf and it’s time to get back in the game. Let’s get it started…
\nRumpus 06 – 7 East St, Petone – Saturday. The Rumpletron’s expecting you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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