A Thank You Note

It’s been just over a week since the calendar release party and it’s taken that much time for both Diva and I to decompress from what was a beautifully crazy marathon of a weekend.  Awesome doesn’t even begin to describe what a wonderful, successful and jam packed party we put on.

It really all started a week before the party. That Friday, calendar model Lucy Vonne and Diva came to my house for the formidable task of stuffing two hundred gift bags.  Thanks to the beneficence of our sponsors and supporter, there was a lot of items to cram into those pretty black bags; bags that Diva & I had festooned with hot pink njoy stickers and pins in the wee hours of the morning.  When I suggested getting some pretty fluffy hot pink tissue paper to make the bags look even more festive, I swear felt death rays emanating out of those four pretty eyes.  Thanks so much, Lucy for all you did. We really can’t thank you enough.

Thursday, with the help of my husband, (thank you, babe) we stuffed Diva’s SUV (even though I’m firmly convinced Satan invented SUV’s, I was grateful that day that Diva had one, I would have hated to have had to rent a U-Haul to drag all that loot into the city) to brim with two hundred gift bags, one fucking machine, a Liberator scoop and a giant FYN rolling toy trunk that conveniently held most of the other awesome raffle prizes. That evening, after checking into the official calendar party hotel, Hotel Le Jolie in Williamsburg, we met with Monk and took him to Sex Worker Literati.  There are so many of you to thank for making this party outstanding.

Thank you to all the photographers who donated their time and gave us the kick ass images you see in your calendar.  (Haven’t bought yours yet, click here and do it now).

Thank you to the models who posted about and otherwise promoted the calendar and party.  You can read about our beautiful/debonair, brainy and brazen models here.

A special thanks to Time Out New York (shout out to Ashlea Halpern) for not only writing about the party in print and online but for donating two hundred issues (thanks to Mike Rucker and Jamie Mandel), sending Anna King to cover the party and posting thirty amazing shots in Own This City (linked below).

Thank you to all our amazing sponsors, gift bag donors,  and supporters who, despite trying economic times, rallied to support us with generous donations of both funds and merchandise.  We’re still hearing how amazing the gift bags and raffle prizes were.

Thank you to all the volunteers who worked so hard setting up, (allowing Diva and I two blessed hours of relaxation while we got our hair and makeup done at the awesome Tease salon.  Diva actually fell asleep mid makeup application), putting the final items in the gift bags, selling calendars and raffle tickets, minding the raffle table, making sure had the Chinese food containers stuffed with tickets all in line, and getting the loot all bagged up for the winners.

Thank you to all the people in this broad community who not only supported this project from beginning to end, but travelled far and wide to be here with us on this special day.  We can’t reiterate enough how heartwarming it is that not only New Yorker’s showed up in droves, but friends from places are far away as California, Seattle, Missouri and Canada cared enough to make the long journey and party with us.  It was awesome to see CarnalNation’s Chris Hall again and to meet CN’s Shaye aka @MR_CARNAL.

A huge thank you to N; you put on an awesome show and never faltered, not even when Con Ed decided our party was just too bright and killed the lights drowning us in darkness.  Thanks to all our performers and the stunning go-go dancers for treating our guests to their scintillating and sexy acts.

As far as we’re concerned, Fontana’s is the most awesome bar in the city.  Fontana’s is a fantastic space, staffed with the most chill people.  Holly and Brendan, you’re amazingly easy and delightful to work with and we hope to do many other events at Fontana’s.

Many thanks to photographers Nick McGlynn and Stacie Joy for documenting the night’s debauchery.

We remain eternally grateful for Monk.  In addition to functioning as the urban Sherpa I was unsuccessful in acquiring last year, he soothed our frazzled nerves with his calm and great off the wall sense of humor, used his extra strong rope makers hands to provide much needed massages and foot rubs (hot shoes are painful shoes), read the raffle numbers (both Diva and I are blind as bats without our reading glasses, and you thought we used him just for his good looks and theatrical skills, didn’t you?), and then suspended us from Fontana’s balcony on Saturday providing me with the best moments of Zen I have felt in ages.  His super power of making any song entirely filthy provided hours of laughter. Plus, for a big, bad top, that man gives wicked cuddle.

A special thanks once again to Greg DeLong and njoy. If you have your calendar, you’ll note that njoy’s days are hot pink.  We wanted a special way to show our overwhelming gratitude for rescuing us last year and providing us with the phenomenal design skills of Jason Tranchida this year and for donating our grand prize, the njoy Eleven.  Greg will always have a place in my cunt heart for being such a warm, giving person, not to  mention a wicked hot dildo designer.

And lastly, both Diva and I would like to thank our families, who never complained despite all the time we spent working on this project and culminated in our spending nearly four days away from home.

If you didn’t make the party, or just want to revisit the mayhem, following are links to some great photos.

Nick McGlynn – Random Night Out

Stacie Joy – Sex Blogger Calendar Party

Matthew  -  Matthew Has A Camera (Hit wander back to see more)

Anna King – Time Out New York – Own This City

We’re also happy to announce that we raised almost $2200 at the calendar release party that night.

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