My Birthday Party 1978

selections from my diary -- March 11, 1978

Saturday Iver, Billy, Reggie, and I hung around the house & talked & planned my birthday party -- it was to be a Mad Tea Party or Faster Pussycat Kill Kill punk rock sort of thing. We decided to tell everybody to come in drag & bring obscene pastries.

We cleaned house & Billy & Reggie put red & black streamers in all the downstairs rooms, & old dirty movie posters. All the rooms had tons of stuff hanging from the ceiling & everything was red & black & white.

On my birthday March 11, Jon Jon came over early & helped frost cookies. We made jagged, ripped-dough, instead of rolled and cut out, sugar cookies with pink & red buttercream frosting. We told him they were punk rock, so he wrote "rot" on a cookie. Billy wrote "rim" on one, & Jon Jon asked what that meant & when Reggie told him, he just couldn't believe it. Billy wrote stuff on paper to put around the table to hide boxes underneath -- things like, "Scat Queen" & "Nazi Punk Doper."

People brought cakes. Some were nasty. Ori made a tit cake & Wally made a cunt cake. That's what they called them. Wally's was very realistic, pink frosting with chocolate curls. Teddy brought a bakery cake that said, "Good Luck Mukluk Wisc." & had a frosting mukluk on it. It tasted like Ben-Gay, I think it was supposed to be rum.

A lot of people came dressed up. Half the people we invited didn't show up & a few uninvited dust zombies showed up, but all in all it was a nice crazed raging party. Reggie wore the red wig, snakeskin boots & corset & little lace panties & whiteface. I wore pink tights, pink feather hat, spike heels, silver wrap & tie top & shorts I made for New Year's Eve & pink bows on my ankles. Billy wore the pig mask & a sweater with huge tits. Jon Jon wore a tuxedo coat, top hat, clown pants & red rubber clown nose. Iver wore, later on, this punk rock cutout shirt Ori gave me as a present.

Dennis & Tim came, with Galena. Dennis & Buzzy lived with various roommates, Tim was one and I think at that time Galena was an ex-, visiting. Buzzy was sick that day and stayed home. Dennis & Tim were wearing just regular pants & shirts & were saying maybe they didn't feel like getting dressed up, & I was saying aw, come on, & then Dennis & Tim both ripped open their shirts (they had snaps), & Tim had on a ladies 40s green bathing suit & nylons underneath, & Dennis had on a leopard print slip & nylons, so I gave Dennis a wig & the kitty skirt & leopard ankle strap high heels to put on & he looked great.

Gregory came with his Sparkle wig on & looked great, & Wally & John Apple had on formals & gloves & boas. I was wondering where Justin was & finally he arrived & came upstairs with me & he put on a pink satin formal & wore one of the pink feather hats (I have two) & some spike heels. He looked so cute. Lendon looked real cute in my green dotted Swiss & a red hat. Daisy came late & was talking to me & being very sweet & nice.

Some people smoked dust in the basement & I wasn't too pleased about that but everyone was acting ok -- no freakouts. Billy mixed killer punch -- first he poured in alcohol & there wasn't room for the fruit juice or soda. He got real drunk & threw up, & Peter Buck was standing in the bathroom the whole time pondering abstract thoughts about the universe & saying all these kozmik things & asking Billy what he thought, & Billy would say, "Yeah, sure." & throw up.

Later on upstairs, things got out of hand. I decided to take nude pictures of Justin & so he took off the formal but still had on the makeup & necklace, & I took some pictures, and about 6 other people were up there, too, carrying on.

There was lots of running around the house, changing drag, eating cake & cookies & drinking & dancing to punk rock, every room had 3 - 10 people in. It was a good party. Everyone was raging. Around midnight most people had left (it started around 7pm) & we kicked out the rest (a bunch of zombies) & 10 -12 of us left went to the Stud.

We all got dressed to go to the Stud. I wanted to match Justin, who was in ripped jeans, rubber boots & reindeer sweater, so I put on ripped jeans, rubber boots & my buffalo sweater.

At the Stud all of us, Reggie, Greg, Victoria, Iver, Justin, Galena, I can't remember who else, there were others, we were all dancing together, doing punk dances in a mass. [ pogo -- jumping up and down; and search & destroy -- bumping into each other and knocking each other down; plus no-name pantomime roughnecking.] It was great. Justin & I were grabbing each other & shaking each other in a good punk dance (all done to disco, though, no punk music at the Stud).

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