10 Hours, Two Theme Parties
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Lizzie: Some summer Saturdays are lazy, languid, and planless, with no clearly defined structure other than the requirement that you eat at some point and go to bed at some other point. Others, through some combination of coincidence, clement weather, and calendar availability, are stacked with consecutive errands, events, and experiences such that each moment of the day must be accounted for, and any detours from said accounting could cause a dropped ball and risk potentially irreversible reputational damage, especially if you don’t have much of a reputation to begin with. This newsletter is about the latter kind.
What I mean is, after almost, quite possibly, definitely begging to be invited to any summer events worthy of chronicling in a newsletter, Kaitlyn and I were invited to two different theme parties in a single Saturday: first, a Queen’s Jubilee garden party in Park Slope hosted by Claire (known from previous Famous People hits such as “Celebrating 4/20 When You Hate Being High”) and second, a murder-mystery birthday party at the “Deadwood Saloon” in Crown Heights, hosted by our friend Sara. Of course we accepted both invites, Googled Can you wear a cowboy hat in front of the Queen, and vowed to stay on theme, no matter what.
It is theme-party season in New York, apparently. I guess it starts now and runs through Halloween? We have a? As, including the dogs? At one time there was talk of “prom.”
