My friend Victoria Chancellor threw this wonderful theme party.  Everyone brought a cheap, screwtop wine (something you might have enjoyed in high school) and some even wore costumes (like a mullet wig) and brought snacks.  I brought Yago Sangria and pork rinds.  Vicki herself provided a table full of the most wonderful trashy food--deviled eggs, cocktail weenies in barbecue sauce, Rotel dip and chips, celery stuffed with pimiento cheese, Ruffles and French onion dip, Spam with Chicken in a Biscuit crackers--it just went on and on.  Of course, I ate it all.  (It was all full of salt so I, the one who is supposed to be on a low-salt diet, loved it all.

The one exception was the "Cracklins," which I thought would be like regular pork rinds, but which are much, much grosser.

Here is my expert opinion on the wine:

Thunderbird: undrinkable, tastes like cough medicine

MD 20/20--tastes like fruity pancake syrup mixed with grain alcohol.  Horrible.

Manieschewitz (sp?): almost as bad as Mad Dog

Andre Cold Duck: drinkable but sweet; I can see why we downed a lot of it in high school

Boones Farm Strawberry Hill:  actually not that bad.  Sweet.

Yago Sangria: best of the bunch.  And at $5 a bottle, it should be.

These are just the ones I remember.  There were others.  We also had Trailer Trash beverages such as Milwaukee's Best Beer, Mountain Dew, Big Red, RC Cola, Diet Right, etc. etc.

I never laughed so hard in my life.  What a fun party!

Tomorrow I have my big craft show, the Show Pony Show in Deep Ellum.  It's at 3311 Elm St., the Continental Lofts, INSIDE a climate-controlled place.  It's 11-7--come on by for some very cool handmade items, dance lessons, and a pony.  Really.

Thanks for stopping by,

Kara