"...I'll have a Double"

Parties are among the first things we invented. All that after the hunt stuff. Later the post-harvest rituals. Festivals are really friendly riots. Same yelling, and running around. Just no pillage or beheadings. Hippie Be-ins of the 1960's were my first experiences of actual folk festivals. That is a gathering not manufactured to take your money.

Anyway there should be a history series about parties. What, and where were the first ones. Who was invited. Did we always get drunk, and punch each other out. Like we do at Thanksgiving?

How did dinner parties start? My bet is hunting had something to do with it.

Where did birthday parties come from? That, and whose uncle was first to get drunk, and make a scene? Probably a Viking.

Parties,...well okay ya don't need a reason. Ya just wants to see your pals yack then eat'n drink everything in sight.

Rather than them shows about the wealthy scary generals, and gangsters. Do one on common folks having a bleeping good time for a change. Regular people have ancestors too. And they all enjoyed a swell night out. Maybe Ken Burns could film it. Somebody call Hulu.

Com'on my family solid working class folks had them a time out. You remember the photo I posted of them, and my future aunts'n uncles at Smalls Paradise in Harlem. This in the late 40's. They looked pretty gleeful to me.

Another thing. Once parties were invented how come this didn't become the whole reason for Civilization? Instead of war, and high school. I mean them Bronze Age folks had all the parts. Beer music jokes food sex, and pals,...what the bleep more do you need?

A whole world civilization based on the "Pursuit of Happiness". That phrase got put into our Constitution for a reason. Like a sleeping seed waiting through the centuries to finally be noticed, and sprout!