Retrospective: The Party's coming from Inside the House!

Saturday 28th, Halloween
Since the dawn of time, or thereabouts, the residents of Borden House have been notorious party-throwers. The original parties would have been more primitive, with skin-drums instead of sub-woofers, turpentine instead of G&T's, bee's wax candles instead of fertility candles, but the spirit is very much the same as the days of old -- and those spirits sure made an appearance this Hallowe'en'en'en'en (being 4 e'ens before the hallowed eve).

"This Halloween had an almost New Years-esque intensity," states John Hand-cock (played by Nathan Robertson), "I give it three-thumbs up!!"

"I give it three-thumbs up!" repeat the Copy-Cats........?

The night saw a wide range of costumes, from a small squad of guerrilla's, to skunks, to a man in a kissing-booth, paper-bag royalty, a wookie, and...um...monster-hands...Almost everyone was dressed up somehow, even if it was just as themselves (which, as proven by one Mr. Field, can actually require a lot more effort than you'd think -- I predict a lot more Ryan Field costumes in 2007). The party estimate stood at about 60-70 boils and ghouls; yup, I said boils and ghouls alright...I'm bringing it back.

Reports from the party-front confirm that the night was definitely on fire. Perhaps it was the spirits, perhaps the wine, or maybe it was the fertility candles, but people seemed to be hooking up left and right. To those of you who left with someone, consider it a token of our appreciation here at Borden House -- a loot bag of sorts. To those of you [us] who did not...there's still New Years...

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Andrew 'Sexy-Back' Reeves 'Baby-Back' Reever reports on clean-up the next day: "This is like a movie-theatre times 50!"

Reever, René and Nate spent a couple hours cleaning the mess that was several hours in the making. The smell of 'party' was still heavy in the air (and smelled a lot like LYCHEE) and was virtually impossible to escape considering the phenomenal adhesive power of alcohol spilled on the floor. But in no time the place was back to par, and our hosts went on with their lives, a little tired from (in some cases) being up until 5:45am, but ultimately with an extra hour in their pockets -- thank you daylight savings time!

So to those of you who made it: thank you for making it a night to remember, or in some cases, to forget and then be reminded of later while asking "I ate WHAT?!" And those of you that didn't make it, I've got cartons of eggs...I'll see you on Halloween...