Debbie looked amazing!
(Jackie 60 legend Johnny "Rocks" Reinhold had the exact same outfit -made by Designer Todd Thomas. He also did Rob Roth's "Screen Test" costumes).
As the Empress said, we were coming from a masked Venetian Ball.

Here is a pic from the ball.

The Empress, Miss Understood, Daddy (and I don't know who the girl in lavender is)

And here the Royal Couple arrives at Rapture!

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I have literally hundreds of pics shot by Dick Mitchell that I'm pouring through...more to come!

Greetings all! Since we have a couple more weeks of holiday cheer to brew over, you should be privy to what we're cooking up over here at 200 Avenue A.

Ongoing:
Do you have a last-minute quandary as to what to pick up for the friend, family or co-worker that you forgot to check off your list? Stop by and peruse our hand-picked selection of books, magazines or some sweet treats from the Protein Bakery! Mr. Joe recommends: Chocolate Chocolate Cherry Cookie, Fireside Chai tea by Zhena's Gypsy Tea, and an hour or so curled up with a copy of Scar Tissue, the autobiography by Red Hot Chili Peppers' red hot Anthony Keidis.

Gift Certificates are now available! Stuff a stocking with a Rapture Café & Books gift in the denomination of your choosing!

Sunday 31 December 2006
10 PM - 2 AM
$10. Donation

Rapture Café & Books invites you to celebrate New Year's Eve without mass-produced party hats or noisemakers. Door at 10PM. Readings by Dean Johnson, Garret Domina, and the legendary Jackie Bigelow, followed by Houston Bernard *Unplugged* at 11PM. A Magical Moment with Surprise Guests counting down at Midnight. Champers and Hors d'Oeuvres catered by On Occasion, LTD.

Enjoy the Solstice.

Mr. Joe and Hattie
Rapture Café & Books
200 Avenue A (between 12th & 13th Streets)
212-228-1177

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The place is looking great. What a fab spot in my hood! Rah rah rah! Wishing you all that is wonderful for the new year! Bravo!

Thank you Anna! And remember that L. has a reserved computer station with his name on it, literally!

And for everyone else...

The Cliff Notes version of what Mr. Joe posted above is:

We are open!

What are your hours Dec. 24 = tomorrow?

I will be stopping by for my last-minute gifts.

Hi Empress! We are here tomorrow from 8 - midnight for chitchat and tea.

And speaking of gifts...

We are offering, for a limited time only, a series of original papier maché banks, hand-crafted by Hapi Phace. They aren't exactly inexpensive, but they are magnificent. My fave: the Idaho potato bank, which has an outer skin made of lunchbags and brown paper that Hapi actually made by hand!

The Empress and I just got back from doing our last minute shopping at RAPTURE.
It was very fun and festive.
Lots of VERY interesting people coming in and out.
It was sort of like "Borders" meets "One Flew Over The Coo Coo's Nest".

Really good Coffee BTW.
I can't wait til you get food!

This has already become quite the nutty neighborhood hang out.
I expect to see "The Purples" any moment.
(Do they still live in New York? How could they?)

Also, I have an idea for a gallery show that I would like to do. (Spring?)
I would love to show some of my fave Jackie 60 invites.
I think they would be fun to see now.

(Especially in an era where parties are called things like "Nothing Tuesdays at Nowhere" or "Nobody Cares Wednesdays at Who Care's" or "Stupid Thursdays at Hideous". I mean can't people think of something more interesting than the day of the week at the venue?)

Who do I have to sleep with?
Who is the museum director?

BTW
I just re-read my rant.

quote:

(Especially in an era where parties are called things like "Nothing Tuesdays at Nowhere" or "Nobody Cares Wednesdays at Who Care's" or "Stupid Thursdays at Hideous". I mean can't people think of something more interesting than the day of the week at the venue?)

When I said "Nowhere" I didn't mean The Fab bar on 14th Street that happens to be called "Nowhere". (That bar is part of our extended family).
I also wasn't dishing Drama Queen's "Motown Mondays at Nowhere" (also part of the family).

Though I hate the name, I think the idea for the party AND the party itself is a lot of fun!
There are so many great Motown titles.
It could have been one of them.
like "LOVE HANGOVER" or something like that.

But getting back to RAPTURE...
Great name.

Oh Daddy, I am so sorry I missed you and The Empress! (I was downstairs tweaking my iMac.)

Mr. Joe and I would love to have the invite show-- or any other.

Though I agree with you about party names, there might be something to be said in favor of "hitting them over the head." I will never say it though, obscurantist that I am.

BTW the Purples have been in several times already!

I KNEW IT!!!
It is so them.
I never see them anymore.
I'm so glad that they still exist.

Oh, I wish we knew you were downstairs tweaking.
I can't believe Walter or Mark didn't say anything!

I also forgot to say how gorgeous Hapi's sculptures are. The red skulls are killer!

So I can do an invite exibit in the Spring?

Oh, Daddy! I went home for a nap and heard you and Chi Chi had dropped in. Have a fabulous holiday! I love love the idea for an Jackie 60 invite show.

We are getting quite the number of freaks, ex-junkies, prostitutes, the last East Village holdouts who still have a rent-controlled apartment for 30 years in the neighborhood and artists of all ilk coming in for java and such. It's gonna be a great year. I can smell it...

then we could do a Click + Drag invite show right after.....lol

Seriously, I would LOVE to see a CLICK & DRAG invite show.
They were beautiful.
But you should also show the video loops that went with them.
If you even saved any!!!!!

I think I have *almost* every Click invite from 1997 on, in case any of your originals have gone missing.. oh how exciting!

Yes! A Click and a Jackie invite show. Get out the measuring tapes and hangers, who wants to be first?

ME!!!!!!!

Let's have a Goodie Xtravaganza! The second I get back to town I'm going to zoom right over. The idea of freaks and prostitutes with my coffee makes my purr motor roar. And I hope everyone is looking at what great books there are in that place.