Retrospective: Why Can't we be Friends?

MAY 19th, 2006
The first of the post-Nelson events in the Borden House leisure series, "Why Can't we be Friends?" was a night of magic and political intrigue. While this event did not feature the "Dance Cove" it was highlighted by some brief moments of dancing in the kitchen as party-attendee Ryan Field slid with questionable grace through host Nate Robertson's legs.

" 'Why Can't we be Friends' was an important step for Borden House," claims Nate when asked, "It shows that despite having lost an integral member of the Borden team, we can still rock a party!"

When asked to comment, Reever said simply: "Hey! I can remember the whole night and I didn't wake up beside a bucket that says Puke & Brains...I'd say that's a success!"

As a side note, our kitchen light has now become a public forum. Let us know how we're doing here at Borden House by leaving suggestions on our light!

[NB: Quotes are pending confirmation from our fact checker]

Photos Courtesy of Reever

May 19th: Where Were You Party People?

REEVER: That's Right - At Borden House.

(Well, most of you were. Some were M.I.A. As in the military term, not as in the Sri Lankan singer of the same name...)

I've just now gotten around to putting the pictures from our May 2-4 Party - coincidently, not held on May 24th - up on the 'net.

Here's one of them: doesn't seem very party-esq, but I thought it was pretty cool. It's Courtney twirling a string-light I think. I'll be finding a way to post the rest of them soon, or putting a link up on the site some time soon.

For now, Courage...

Not a Balloon

Contrary to popular belief, this is in fact not a balloon (as illustrated by our friend Niel's courteous message). The picture you are seeing is in fact our kitchen light. Interestingly enough we had planned to break our kitchen light in some spectacular way involving dry-ice and a volcano, but that idea sorta fell through. However people seemed intent on popping this light along with the other balloons, and when jabbing it with sparklers yielded no results, someone (I name no names) thought his lighter would make short work of it. He was, however, wrong...

Retrospective: NYE 2K6+1

This was the scene at 125 Borden on New Years day-morning-afternoon. A reporter reports: "I used to be a God-fearing man...Let's just say that now I take communion only for the wine and crackers."



Ouch! If cleanliness is next to godliness, let's just say that it was not very clean.
(Note attached: "Hey, you wanna do something about that last analogy before you publish it? Thanks!")

Retrospective: NYE 2K6

What started off as a simple question: "Are we cool enough to throw a New Years party?" turned, ironically, into an answer: "Possibly..."

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"We just started e-mailing, calling, texting people we knew, and next thing you know, SHITFUCK! We've got like a hundred people in our house!!" raves a very excited Nathan Robertson.

One-hundred people indeed! Some say well over 100, but whatever the number, one thing's for sure: the roof was on fire.

With so many people in one place I'm sure everybody has completely different recollections of the party, and with so much sauce around I'm sure there are some with no recollections of the party whatsoever who would say "Borden House? Who's that? Sounds like an asshole..." But wherever you were at New Years when the balloons dropped or the kitchen light was set on fire, at least you were spending it with your friends at Borden House (who are the only people who will ever love you you worthless whore...you'll never find anyone better! Now back in the kitchen!)

Wow Man...Its Like...It's Like It's Really Happening...

To Dave who said that our having our own house blog would effectively make us more lame...BEHOLD! The ultimate Blog...

Stay tuned...