CAYA in Place; Quarantini ... cha cha cha

Dear Lost Souls,

Come As You Are . . . and stay where ya'll at!Greatings from the Haberdashery Multiverse! 🖖🏼 After last weeks well-attended (and much appreciated) on-line 'CAYA from your cave', we are back at it again this week. Join us as we begin the evening (at 7:30pm sharp) with a video tutorial on how to make your very own Quarantini . . . a new take on the Classic Haberdashery Martini . . . but made in the comfort of your very own shelter-in-place location. Bonus!! cha

Just as last week, we invite you to join us at 7:30pm PST on our dedicated Haberdashery Zoom channel (Meeting ID#: 510 646 5316) as we gather for a temporally dynamic, apportioned concoction of cocktails, music, and mayhem. Enjoy your new found fame up on the big screen at the Haberdashery Main Stage, as our motley mix of musicians offer up some live tunes from their respective CAYA Caves. Feel free to fluidly join the conversation or melt back to your corner of the Multiverse whenever you like. We will maintain the wormhole opening all evening (until about midnight), or until after the last Haberdite signs off. If you have experienced any revelations on how we may harness the endless variety the cosmos for the benefit of future Cocktail Hours, please share those with us.

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 March 20th, 2003: CAYA - A Nation at War
P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

Do you have a unique or charming chess set that is gathering dust in a corner? The Haberdashery is looking for a 'house' set to grace our hallowed halls. Sure, it would be easy to buy one on line, but it would be much more interesting to have one gifted (or on long-term loan) from a member of our community. Please let us know if you have a candidate set that needs exercise . . . or is maybe looking for a new home.

With gratitude,

The Cabaña Boyz

CAYA in Place; Learning to Abide

Dear Lost Souls,

Come As You Are . . . and stay where ya'll at!

Tonight we launch a new era of shelter in place Cocktail Hours broadcast from the bosom of The Last Resort, aka 'CAYA in Place'. To inaugurate the festivities, we invite you to join us at 7:30pm PST on our dedicated Haberdashery Zoom channel (Meeting ID#: 510 646 5316) as we gather ritually for our usual weekly communion of cocktails, music, and mayhem. We will have all of you up on the big screen at the Haberdashery's hallowed hall, and invite our regular musicians to offer up some live tunes from their respective quarantine location. This is a great opportunity for Haberdites from all over the world to finally join us! Feel free to respond to this email, or coordinate separately with our resident Cabaña Boyz to schedule a performance time or coordinate logistics. Tonight we will test a 60-90 minute on-line gathering format. If you have any ideas on how we can organize future remote Cocktail Hours, please share those with us.

Life in quarantine can be monotonous and frustrating. Tonight is about learning to ABIDE. In homage to St. Dude . . . or ‘the Duddah’ in the parlance of our time . . . we will open the evening at 7:30pm Pacific Time (sharp!) with a step-by-step ceremonial sacrifice of Caucasians (White Russians) on the alter of virgin territory.

No one knows what the coming weeks will bring. 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 March 21st, 2002: CAYA - The Eternal Struggle

P.S.S. Be sure to visit the CAYA Blog, and register for email updates: http://caya20.blogspot.com

No CAYA This Week; It's Quarantini Time! 🍸

Dear Lost Souls,

There will be no Cocktail Hour this evening, as we have other engagements for the weekend. But, be assured that The Haberdashery's crack team of alchemists and pseudoscientists is now formulating our official Covid19 response strategy . . . preparing to deploy a remote mixology protocol (RMP) to be rolled out starting next week. In the mean time, to calm any hysteria, our crisis response team is recommending two very dry Quarantinis . . . administered at regular intervals as needed.

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

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!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 March 14th, 2002: Come As You Are; The Laurel Harvest
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 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710

Thank You for making Mardi Gras 2020 a Big Success

Dear Lost Souls,

Thank you for making the Haberdashery's annual Mardi Gras Fête a big success! Your hosts had a fantastic time, and the consensus is that it was one of the best ever ... if not the top! Our deepest thanks go out to all of our fantastic musicians who put on an amazing show ... as well as some epic jam session.

If you have any favorite pictures or videos to share with us, please send them to: haberdashery2.0@gmail.com. Thank you for sharing!

Also, we have a few found items (see below) that some of you may be missing. Please let us know if you are missing something . . . and otherwise, we'll hope to see you next year.

Yours!

Los Cabañeros

Found items:

CAYA; Outbreak / Break Out

Dear Lost Souls,

Thank you to all that attended the Mardi Gras fête last Saturday. It was a hoot! We will be sending out an official 'thank you' follow up in the next day or two; but in the mean time ...

The Corona virus threat is now officially sweeping the globe, and so complicating everything from your daily commute, to basic commerce, to the election cycle, to your summer vacation escape . . . and maybe even your Friday evening plans! What a world!!! What is a Haberdite to do? Well, for the time being, the Haberdashery soldiers on in the deliverance of our weekly communion ... stocked with hand sanitizer and armed with purifying spirits to chase away the demons that spread evil throughout the land.

But fear not!! . . . with our stalwart VPOTUS and Great White Knight from Indiana at the helm of our national response, our surefire plan is to pray away this evil scourge, with an everlasting hope for brighter times when we can all return to the grand old days of great American complacency and entitlement ... so we can once again hate our fellow citizens for important things like our ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religious preference!  . . . Ma che nostalgia! 

Yes, my Anarchists of the Apocalypse, Cocktail Hour is on for this evening. Cocktails will be served starting at 7:30pm. Please feel free to wander on by in your delirium for a quickie en route to your individual destiny, or to linger until the end of days.

Yours,
Los Cabañeros

!!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 February 14th, 2002: Come As You Are - 362 Days to Go; Beat the Rush!
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 Fifth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710