Proposal for comment: Birthday Party

[featherynscale]

I've been thinking about my birthday this year -- I will be thirty, so it seems quite reasonable to have a ludicrous party. (Yes, I know, it *always* seems reasonable to me to have a ludicrous party. But anyway.)

So I'm thinking it's going to be a Time Travelers' Convention. Costumes required, must be vintage, historical, scientific, or futuristic. I want to do some psychogeography while it's light out -- throw a dart at the city map (or choose an area) and we all go there, and wander around with cameras and notebooks to record impressions. When we're done playing with that, I think we should go to dinner somewhere dark and publike (doesn't have to be McCoys -- we always go there, and it's my favorite, but we could go somewhere new and exciting). [I was also thinking it might be fun to have dinner at someone's house and do a potluck of food from various historical periods, but that seems like a lot of work.] And then, we go somewhere friendly for cake (by god, there will be cake) and further scientific inquiry and/or entertainment delights of the early 21st century, especially its amazing variety of alcoholic beverages unknown in other times.

Does that sound like fun to anybody else? Anybody have thematically appropriate ideas for other fun we could have? Does anyone know where one can get absinthe, a tesla coil, or victorian dancing girls? Was that my outside voice?

Comments

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nah, Monday is no good for this. I'm thinking the 25th. That will allow us to still go to Tara on the 18th if we're so inclined.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

Hmm. 25th is right before your ritual on the 26th, though.

The 18th looks double-booked during the day with art lessons (and the 17th with Games Night), but we can talk about that when we get home. And I'm not sure I can take a third weekend gone, out of four... not and get anything done for D*Con.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I figured I'd have to negotiate for the day, which is why the post didn't have a date in it. I know better than to think that I can just schedule something by fiat.

I am willing to entertain other proposals, certainly.

re: I know better than to think that I can just schedule something by fiat.

[triadruid.livejournal.com]

I don't know why not, everybody else does. :P

Re: I know better than to think that I can just schedule something by fiat.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I know.

You know how I know?

I know because what we will be doing on my actual birthday is going to a Social Justice Committee meeting. Not festive!