CAYA Abroad; Extraordinary Times Call for Extraordinary Measures*

Dear Lost Souls,

CAYA (Come As You Are) Cascais ("kuh-sh-kaysh") is on the books!  On March 22^nd, 2025, you are cordially invited to join us for a special international edition of Cocktail Hour on the breathtaking Atlantic Coast of Portugal.

Dormant, but not depleted, the beating heart of The Haberdashery endures in SE Louisiana’s Cajun Country. With our ongoing dedication to minimizing suffering, CAYA strives to fulfill its mission of minimizing suffering; create a casual social setting facilitating the open exchange of ideas and interests, complemented by light snacks, cocktails, wine . . . and always a bit of Lagnappe. 

Please you join us as longtime Haberdashery loyalists, Emily and Liam, graciously host our Cabana Boy roadshow with our special guest, Greg Delaune, on loan from the CAYA 3.0 home base in New Orleans.** Greg and Liam will also be showcasing some exciting Deep Blue Institute work and news coming out of SE Louisiana.

Yes, my Cosmopolitan Compatriots, Cocktail Hour in on for Saturday, March 22nd. Cocktails will be served at 7:00pm. Please do not hesitate to wander by for a quickie en route to your primary celestial destiny … or to linger indefinitely.  

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

* cocktails will be measured in cl, 'cause we be gettin' cosmopolitan on the Continent!

** no Cabana Boys were injured in the planning or execution of this extracurricular event.

!! Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation !! . . . your well-being is our first priority!
 
P.S. This Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to August 17th, 2004; CAYA – Five Years You’ll Never Get Back!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com/

Time:

19h00 - 00h00 (7pm to midnight)

Address:
Rua dos Navegantes 368D1
2750-444 Cascais, Portugal

 

Location: Liam and Emily’s apartment is about a 7 minute walk from the Cascais train station, near the Yellow Street restaurant area of Cascais. Confusingly, there are four doorways to the street labeled 368 - ours is 368D, shared with the dry cleaners (lavandaria) with the orange canopy. Ring the doorbell for Andar 1.

Contact Liam and Emily: +351 915 408 996 (Text or WhatsApp)

The Haberdashery 3.0; ⚜️Mardi Gras 2021 Sunday Porch Concert

CANCELED!!!! . . . 

Dear Lost Souls, 

My apologies for the Haberdite Head Fake . . . but the conditions here in New Orleans are not conducive for a porch concert, and the sound/video guy is not feeling well. That's show business!!! Apparently this Bacchus and Cupid match up is NOT off to a good start! 💘

Have a great Valentine's Day ❤️and a great Mardi Gras! . . . and we will keep you posted on upcoming events.

~

Dear Lost Souls,

In an extraordinary cosmic alignment, not hither to experienced since the New Kingdom of the Egyptian Empire, and in direct contradiction of their respective associated alignments of celebratory tendencies invoking physical proximity aggregation, 2021 Mardi Gras Sunday this year falls directly on the same day as Valentines Day. . . . wait for it . . .  in the year of COVID. It is as if, in some bawdry and sadistic intersectional theater piece of denied joyful masochism, Bacchus and Cupid meet for the first time in the modern era at the initial convening of their treatment program  . . . well, you get the idea.

'Which all sounds like a 'damn good reason to let yourself cut lose for another epic afternoon of swingin' on the porch with James Williams and the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys. 'Cher, please come and join us for some 2021 Mardi Gras cheer at the The Haberdashery . . . fondly remembering the revelry of years past, and toasting a future when we will all, once again, gather to laugh and love and dance and sing in a sweaty may-lay of shared euphoria that always was, and always will be, the way that it should be.

Yes, my Carnival Carnivores, CAYA is on for this week! The Haberdashery 3.0 is pleased to host the James' Gang for another round of homespun music mayhem.The band will turn on the porch, and light up the street from 3-5pm Central Time, Sunday, ❤️ February 14th, ❤️ (tomorrow). Please grab your valentine, or valentino, or valentina . . . or whatever the hell you are in to! Just find your way there via the eithers all the way to James Williams' FB page . . . or in the physical realm, all the way to 2705 Magazine Street, to join us for an afternoon of music and good cheer.

Please share news about the gig on your networks, and don't forget to show your appreciation, via the tip jar, for these hard working and celebrated New Orleans musician who are missing the back-to-back nonstop gigs of a normal Mardi Gras season that typically helps them pay the bills for the rest of the year. Thank you for tipping the band via their Venmo or PayPal accounts.

⚜️ Laissez les bon temps rouler! ⚜️

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to February 6th, 2002; Mardi Gras 2002 - Come As You Are
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2705 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130

The Haberdashery 3.0; NOLA Style ⚜️ Porch Concert 1.24.21

  . . . and, we're back . . .

Dear Lost Souls,

It's Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, and though COVID has precipitated the cancelation of most of the festivities, James Williams and the New Orleans Swamp Donkeys are helping The Haberdashery bring some music and light into the world with our very first porch concert this Sunday, January 24th, from 3-5pm Central Time (tomorrow). Please join us virtually through the interwebs on James Williams' FB page for an afternoon of music and good cheer. Mardi Gras cancelations have resulted in VERY hard times for New Orleans' musical culture bearers, so please be generous when you tip the band through the their Venmo or PayPal accounts.

Yes, my Wandering Wondering Wilburys, CAYA is on for this week! Welcome to The Haberdashery 3.0! . . . coming to you from 2705 Magazine Street, in New Orleans' historic Garden District where, in the waining hours of 2020, we settled in for the next chapter of our celestial odyssey of sound, light, and craft cocktails. 'And so dawns a new day . . .  a new era of possibility for our international community of cherished Haberdites . . . vagabonds, ne're-do-wells, and minstrels . . . fellow cosmonauts on our little blue marble, hurtling through the universe towards nowhere . . . but always able to find a bit of precious repose under the dappled shade and shadow of our low expectations and eclectic wishing stars.

⚜️ Laissez les bon temps rouler! ⚜️

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to January 3rd, 2002; CAYA - 2002 Year of the Palindrome
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

The Haberdashery is located at:
2705 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130

😷 CAYA in Place; The Last Stand

Dear Lost Souls,

Greetings from the Haberdashery Multiverse! 🖖🏼 Come As You Are . . . and stay where ya'll at!
This evening, June 19th, 2020, will be The Haberdashery's last Come As You Are, Friday Night Cocktail Hour (and broadcast) hosted from 2124 5th street, Berkeley, California. Some of you were there at the beginning of CAYA 2.0 on September 13, 2011, in this location. Some of you were there in the halcyon days of CAYA 1.0, in a time that now seems so, so long ago. We will miss these hallowed halls. But we also know that this is only the beginning, and we look forward to exploring the yet unimaginable adventures that await us in The Haberdasher 3.0 Multiverse! 🚀🚀🚀

Yes, my Humble Haberdites , CAYA is on for this evening. Please join us at 7:30pm, as we kick off the evening with a special cocktail selection, and a solemn toast to Liberation Day (or Juneteenth). With the current pain, division, uncertainty, and injustice that threatens to shred the very fabric of our nation, we pray that this Juneteenth will be cause for celebration for centuries to come: As the day that we set a new course for the nation: A day that helped us realize that every one of us are bound as stewards to the founding ideals and precarious liberties that this nation's Constitution purports to guarantee. And, unless we are all free and protected from injustice, no-one is free or safe from tyranny. Not just as a nation, but as a species whose completely interdependent survival on this fragile planet is a never ending dance on the precarious road to human enlightenment.

Please join us by tuning into your Last Resort from your sequestration sanctuary on our dedicated Haberdashery Zoom channel (Meeting ID#: 510 646 5316) at 7:30pm PST. Feel free to casually join the conversation or melt back to your corner of the Multiverse whenever you like. We will maintain the wormhole opening all evening (round'about midnight), or until after the last Haberdite signs off.

We are all making this up as we go. But, with a long pour of compassion, a shot of empathy, and more-than-a-dash of patience . . . though we may emerge shaken or stirred . . . our community of Haberdites will navigate this gauntlet of isolation with poise and dignity . . . and an adult beverage in hand. 

Now be safe out there . . . and above all else . . . be kind to one another, my fellow Haberdites!

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to September 13th, 2011: Come As You Are - The Haberdashery 2.0ooooooh!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

😷 CAYA in Place; Love in the Time of Gemini

Dear Lost Souls,

Greetings from the Haberdashery Multiverse! 🖖🏼 Come As You Are . . . and stay where ya'll at!

It's Gemini season again ... that glorious time of the year when all of the other lesser zodiac signs appropriately acknowledge the glorious and benevolent supremacy and humble genius of Geminis . . . so impressive. This evening, to mark the sublime joy of the season, we will be inclusively hoisting a toast to Geminis everywhere. Non-Geminis should feel welcome to join us and are encouraged to participate while demonstrating the proper level of deference.

Yes, my Zealots of the Zodiac , CAYA is on for this evening. Please join us at 7:30pm sharp, as we kick off the evening with a cosmically appropriate alchemical tutorial. You can tune into your Last Resort from your sequestration sanctuary on our dedicated Haberdashery Zoom channel (Meeting ID#: 510 646 5316) at 7:30pm PST. Feel free to casually join the conversation or melt back to your corner of the Multiverse whenever you like. We will maintain the wormhole opening all evening (round'about midnight), or until after the last Haberdite signs off.

We are all making this up as we go. But, with a long pour of compassion, a shot of empathy, and more-than-a-dash of patience . . . though we may emerge shaken or stirred . . . our community of Haberdites will navigate this gauntlet of isolation with poise and dignity . . . and an adult beverage in hand. 

Now be safe out there . . . and above all else . . . be kind to one another, my fellow Haberdites!

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to June 11th, 2003: CAYA - Come or Be Scorned
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

😷 CAYA in Place; The Times They are a Changing

Dear Lost Souls,

Greetings from the Haberdashery Multiverse! 🖖🏼 Come As You Are . . . and stay where ya'll at!

The last seven days of violence, turmoil, and abuse of power have been some of the most difficult that many Americans have ever seen in their lives. The concern expressed by some of our more enlightened top military, spiritual, and community leaders underscores the impermanence of any republic. Without vigilance, commitment, and sacrifice, this imperfect union could very well be entering the twilight of this ongoing and fragile experiment in democracy, just 244 years in the making. May we take heart that despite all of the political incompetence and incendiary rhetoric, there are voices of reason in the upper levels of the military, law enforcement, municipal leadership, and community activism. There is great cause for hope . . . tempered by a profound danger to our constitution.

Let us gather this evening and raise a toast of hope ... not for a return to a distorted system characterized by unequal access to our shared rights and resources, which many had accepted as an unavoidable compromise on the road towards reform ... but for a new way forward, and a 'reset' of our American journey, beginning with a zero tolerance stance on the application of basic human rights, as well as redoubling of our commitment to the constitutional protections and liberties that should extend to all who call this country home.

Yes, my Humble Haberdites, CAYA is on for this evening. Please join us at 7:30pm sharp, as we kick off the evening with a alchemical tutorial and a toast to our great nation. You can tune into your Last Resort from your sequestration sanctuary on our dedicated Haberdashery Zoom channel (Meeting ID#: 510 646 5316) at 7:30pm PST. Feel free to casually join the conversation or melt back to your corner of the Multiverse whenever you like. We will maintain the wormhole opening all evening (round'about midnight), or until after the last Haberdite signs off.

We are all making this up as we go. But, with a long pour of compassion, a shot of empathy, and more-than-a-dash of patience . . . though we may emerge shaken or stirred . . . our community of Haberdites will navigate this gauntlet of isolation with poise and dignity . . . and an adult beverage in hand. 

Now be safe out there . . . and above all else . . . be kind to one another, my fellow Haberdites!

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to June 3rd, 2004: CAYA - Jackets Required; In the Name of Ray
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

CAYA; Better Nate than Lever!

Dear Lost Souls,

Greetings from the Haberdashery Multiverse! 🖖🏼 Come As You Are . . . and stay where ya'll at!
Sorry for the late notice Haberdites!!!

. . . lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta whathaveyou! But better Nate than Lever!

Yes, my Patient Compadres, CAYA is on for this evening. Please join us at 7:30pm slide briskly into the weekend . . . after a pretty horrific week. Tune into your The Last Resort from your sequestration sanctuary on our dedicated Haberdashery Zoom channel (Meeting ID#: 510 646 5316) at 7:30pm PST. Feel free to casually join the conversation or melt back to your corner of the Multiverse whenever you like. We will maintain the wormhole opening all evening (round'about midnight), or until after the last Haberdite signs off.

We are all making this up as we go. But, with a long pour of compassion, a shot of empathy, and more-than-a-dash of patience . . . though we may emerge shaken or stirred . . . our community of Haberdites will navigate this gauntlet of isolation with poise and dignity . . . and an adult beverage in hand. 

Now be safe out there . . . and above all else . . . be kind to one another, my fellow Haberdites!

Yours,

Los Cabañeros

P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to October 26th, 2012: CAYA; Better Nate than Lever
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com