For Halloween 2001, my friends Mike, Steph and I organized a HUGE 80s-themed party in Steph’s loft. We told everyone to bring all their friends, and to tell them to bring all their friends, and so on. We set up a neat web site with a pumpkin carved as a Pac-man, prepared 8 hours of 80s hits, and bought as many pumpkins as could fit in a Toyota Echo. We started getting nervous because in the weeks before the party, we were starting to hear about it from people we didn’t know.

Anyway, the party was a monster hit, and over 100 people attended. It lasted until 6 am, even though we had moved the time back one hour at midnight. We had Ghostbusters, Robert Palmer girls, Hans and Franz, Bill and Ted, the Clockwork Orange guys, Jessica Rabbit (me), Run DMC, several Blade Runner replicants, etc. As we had several friends who were out of town, Steph set up a webcam on the mezzanine to broadcast the party. And Mike ended up naked on the Internet.

We were wondering what to do for an encore this year, and we were trying to think up themes as fertile as the 80s, but not as overdone as, say, the 70s. I mentioned that the veterinary med school at U de M had once had a sex-themed party, and that it was hilarious. It wasn’t a disgusting ass-grabbing fest, but rather something funny where people had dressed up as drag queens, dominatrices, hookers, Anna Nicole Smith, pimps, flashers, Monica Lewinsky, and so on.

At the suggestion, T immediately said “oh you HAVE to let me design the invitation”. My DJ friend whipped up an amazing playlist. And think about the decoration possibilities! (no, we wouldn’t just lay down one big tarp, like some have suggested).

Problem is, this could sooooo be misconstrued. On the one hand, we have to make it open again, because just a small group of cerebral friends sitting around in PVC is not my idea of a good time. But the more people show up, the more over the top and out of control this could get. And we are talking about my friend’s place. What do you think? Good idea, bad idea?

UPDATE: it seems it’s on. It seems it’ll be called the Blue Ball.