Gonzo Christmas Orgy ~upd~ Here

And that, dear reader, is the gospel of the Gonzo Christmas Party. You don’t need mistletoe. You need a liver of steel, a sense of humor made from broken ornaments, and the willingness to wake up on December 24th wearing a lampshade, next to a stranger named Carol, with no memory of why you have a tattoo of a candy cane on your ankle.

Then he passed out face-first into a plate of ham.

The punch bowl was a cauldron of chaos. It started as mulled wine. Then someone added Everclear. Then someone else threw in a candy cane, a melatonin gummy, and a goldfish cracker for protein. By midnight, the punch had achieved sentience. It whispered my name. It asked me if I believed in Santa. I said yes, and it replied, “Good. Because he’s currently trying to fight the thermostat.” gonzo christmas orgy

He looked at me. He looked at the chaos. He looked at the hamster cage now full of pickled eggs.

I found the host, Nick, sitting alone in the kitchen, drinking eggnog straight from the carton. His eyes were hollow. His Santa hat was on backward. And that, dear reader, is the gospel of

"Gonzo," he whispered. "It’s the only way to celebrate the birth of a revolutionary socialist in a borrowed stable."

By 3 a.m., the party had become a philosophy. The tree was upside down. The snow machine had been refilled with flour. Half the guests were building a fort out of pizza boxes, and the other half were crying into a karaoke microphone singing "Fairytale of New York" like their lives depended on it. Then he passed out face-first into a plate of ham

The lifestyle of the Gonzo Christmas Party is not for the faint of heart or the sober of liver. You don’t "attend." You surrender . You walk in wearing your ugliest sweater—the one with the reindeer that looks like it’s having a stroke—and within an hour, that sweater is tied around your head like a turban because you’ve decided you’re now the emperor of a small, drunken island made of empty Champagne bottles and shattered snow globes.