PARTY CHAT
Well, it's Groundhog day, again! And that must mean it's the season for a party - traditionally held on the first Saturday of February. You may not be aware, though, that this year is the 24th annual such celebration, which Ancient Dirt-Rat Law clearly prescribes to be the Festival of a Thousand Burrows.
What is the Festival of a Thousand Burrows, you may ask? Proceeding under the assumption that you've asked, the Festival is the year that a Groundhog Day Party is held not in one cramped, crowded burrow, but in every cramped, crowded burrow! We invite you to keep the seasonal candle burning at home in your own way, and to that end we're sending out a heaping pile of holiday delights.
Let Us Make One Thing Clear: This is Not Another God Damned Zoom Party.
Zoom parties are purgatory. Zoom parties are the worst. We wouldn't do that to you. We care about you, personally, too much to subject you to that at the beginning of February of all times. Sweet mercy, no thank you.
No, instead we thought we could help people honor the Prognosticator of Prognosticators by giving out bits and pieces of our own traditions: recipes for Groundhog Day staples, recommended activities, a playlist made up of the bands who've played the party in years past, and a kind of communal bulletin-board where folks can post photos, videos, and whatever arts-and-crafts strike them as a good idea at the time, then those folks can mock each other through the extremely nineties-esque chat widget. Remember, it's a Burrow: it's a social space.
Even though the 2nd of February is "technically" and "legally" and "ethically" the "actual" Groundhog Day, the party always has and always will be held on the First Saturday in February, which makes the crescendo for this Asynchronous Extravaganza Saturday, February 6th, when we hope to see pictures of each and every one of you making fools of yourselves in in Groundhog Costumes fashioned out of whatever's been waiting to go to Goodwill while the playlist on the right blares from a speaker in the next room.
In the meantime, make a vaguely marmot-esque pinata out of recycling and shoe polish, put in pickup orders for the recipe ingredients, and don't slap any asses that aren't attached to someone in your bubble.
Godspeed, Groundhogs of all shapes and sizes,
Officially Yours,
Meara "Stump Warden" McLaughlin, Philip "Burrow Master" Graham, Malachi "Root Czar" Graham, Gordon "The Hole" Graham, and Emmett "Gland Inspector" Graham
