The Party Review

I attend an unidentified pagan celebration and bond with cats.

Someone’s birthday is celebrated every day of the year, and it seems I’m determined to celebrate them all. Having been raised a Jehovah’s Witness, birthday celebrations don’t hold the same weight for me as for others. Of course you were born. How else would I know you? And obviously you survived another year. Otherwise, how […]

Over the past 12 months, I have attended more than 20 parties and written charming reviews of the very best and most memorable. Now, before we sing “Auld Lang Syne,” one question looms large: What have we learned about throwing the perfect 10-point party? Well, let us listicle… 1. The Mercury’s holiday party demonstrated the […]

After two years of writing a column about being an introvert who attends random people’s parties, I finally receive it: an invitation to a “Silent Socialite Party” where talking is highly discouraged. The invitation states light snacks and beverages will be available. Attendees may also bring their own, but it isn’t expected or required. “Got […]

It should come as little surprise that I frequent gatherings inundated with my fellow social misfits (i.e., comedians). What should come as a surprise is when I attend parties thrown and attended by comedians that are stocked with actual food. Generally speaking, when I enter a colleague’s kitchen, I expect incongruent condiments and more mixers […]

Gorging myself in the park.

Potlucks bring us together as the nation falls apart.

My other partner’s birthday picnic.

A collective birthday party.

I attend a brown and queer gathering.

I couldn’t be happier to attend a gathering of my game night friends. We’ve met at bars every week to play board games for the past few years, but recently schedules, children, and travels have made that impossible. Luckily, The Archivist has taken the initiative to invite us over for a weekend grilling… as in […]

Though Memorial Day is most commonly associated with picnics, NASCAR, and day drinking, it is traditionally a somber day of remembrance. I have no evidence to support it, but I assume more than a few soldiers have taken the opportunity to recall the loss of a gay lover since 1868, and in that most abstract […]