CAYA; Holidaze Show and Tell

Dear Lost Souls,

The whirlwind of nonstop holiday merriment and gluttony looms on the Holly-clogged horizon like a smarmy coked up St. Nick! So get ready to strap on your red nose, free base a couple of Pepcid, and pucker up for some mistletoe-fueled ass kissing of family, friends and business connections we are forced to tolerate but once a year!  . . . but not just yet! . . . for with an early Thanksgiving we are granted one extra week of reprieve before Decemblurr rockets us into . . . wait for it . . . 2013! . . . JazusMaryNjozef!!

Yes, my Mercurial Merrymakers! . . . Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. This week the Saline Valley Vagabonds will be putting on a light and sound extravaganza, singing the timeless tales of their epic Thanksgiving adventures under the western desert skies of sacred Californiae. But, fear not the scorched earth of Gaia's drier humours! CAYA's highly trained cadre of alchemical high priests will be on hand to quench your baser desires; offering a wide selection refreshing adult beverages . . . supplemental desires may be provided upon request.

Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to stop by with your caravan for a quickie en route to your primary Friday evening oasis . . . or to linger indefinitely . . . infidelly . . . under the Haberdashery's sheltering canopy of low expectation.

Yours,
Los Cabañero
 
!! Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation !! . . . your well-being is our first priority!
 
P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to November 15th, 2001; The Prodigal Parents
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com/
 
The Haberdashery is located at:
2124 5th Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

T: 510.229.2970

CAYA; Zygmunt Bauman and the Curative Properties of Dolomite Schnapps

Dear Lost Souls,

Special thanks to the Karma Dogs (as well as the rock solid Haberdashery House Band) for last week's outstanding night of improv music, jamming, and old standards! It was some of the best music the Haberdashery 2.0 has enjoyed so far . . . SO FAR!!!! . . . more to come!

And so the Holidays are upon us! Next week is the lost week of our collective Thanksgiving. And so, in the spirit of lostness; The Haberdashery will be moving our solemn communion out to Death Valley National Park to loose ourselves in the infinite cosmic landscape, and give thanks to the spirits of the desert! We invite you to hoist a glass in solidarity from wherever you may find yourself! . . . But, why dwell on the future or past when the temptations of the here and now offer us stimuli beyond compare or comprehension.
 
Yes, my Potemkin Pilgrims, Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening! . . . with special guest Professor Alex Marini, the famous Zygmunt Bauman-onian Sociologist and radical thinker from Trento Italy.  Professor Marini will be critiquing the Bay Area's dearth of development-oriented sociologists and discussing the corporal benefits of Dolomite Schnapps (the congruences are astounding!). His seminar will be followed by Q&A, R&R, B&B, S&M . . . and M&Ms. As always, cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to stop by for a quickie en route to your primary reductive panel session . . . or to linger indefinitely, indubitably, and impulsively.

Yours,
Los Cabañero
 
!! Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation !! . . . your well-being is our first priority!
 
P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to November 14th, 2002; CAYA; A Toast to Gardeners!
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com/

The Haberdashery is located at:

2124 5th Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

T: 510.229.2970

CAYA; Saving Daylight and the Peaceful Exercise of Democracy

Dear Lost Souls,
 
Rejoice! . . . for we have survived another campaign season!! Let us lift a glass and be grateful that the Great American Experiment in Democracy has once again successfully navigated the obstacles that threaten the sanctity of free and peaceful open elections . . . even if it seems as if this process, in its closing salvo of partisan bully-pulpitting, has sucked an hour of sunlight out of our day!
But we digress. On a brighter note . . . perhaps we dare to hope that reconciliation lies on the horizon, moving us forward with a progressive national agenda, buoyed by a spirit of bipartisan cooperation. Oh, let us all hope so. It sure would be nice to see some positive news coming from inside the beltway!

Yes, my Pernicious Pundits! . . . Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. Whether your candidate or proposition won or lost, we invite you to come as you are! . . . to stop by and toast the end of campaign adds, fuzzy math, opinion polls, polls of polls, super pacs, and pointless pronouncements from mouthy mobheaded billionaires. We've all earned ourselves a good stiff drink! Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to stop by for a quickie en route to your primary Friday evening venue . . . or to linger indefinitely.
 
Yours,
Los Cabañero
 
!! Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation !! . . . your well-being is our first priority!
 
P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to November 20th, 2003; Come As You Are; Pyramids 101
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com/
The Haberdashery is located at:

2124 5th Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

T: 510.229.2970

CAYA; Tempests, Tigers, Giants, Witches and Goblins . . . Oh My!

Dear Lost Souls,
 
The turbulent seas are arising without mercy, while hurricanes reek havoc upon Gotham, and our sovereign eastern shores! . . . witches and goblins are roaming the streets, demanding tribute from the innocent, while threatening to unleash unspeakable deeds! . . . Giants with clubs are mercilessly crushing and devouring Tigers in the verdant parks of San Francisco and Detroit, then claiming our streets to boldly celebrate their victories over their outmatched foes! . . . and Elephants and Donkeys are smothering the poor citizens of our nation with mindless waves of partisan drivel! . . . Oh the humanity of it all!! When will it end!? Deliver us Sagittarius from the plagues of October's rage and grant us asylum from Scorpio's wrath.

Yes, my Halloweened Hell Raisers! . . . Cocktail Hour is on for this Friday evening. And what a week it has been!  . . . but fear not . . . for just on the other side of tomorrow's likely dawn awaits another gathering of our weekly covenant. So cling yet to thy hope, and come find shelter from this week's tempests beneath the Haberdashery's canopy of low expectations. As always, our dedicated team of alchemists and minstrels will be on hand to ease you out of your weekly woes . . . and into the comforting haze of another weekend by the Bay. Cocktails will be served at 7:30pm. Please feel free to stop by for a quickie en route to your primary Friday evening venue . . . or to linger indefinitely.
 
Yours,
Los Cabañero
 
!! Please drink responsibly and arrange for safe transportation !! . . . your well-being is our first priority!
 
P.S. This week's Haberdashery Flashback takes us back to November 1st, 2001; Hallowed Eve
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com/
 
The Haberdashery is located at:

2124 5th Street

Berkeley, CA 94710

T: 510.229.2970