Bid On Your New Year's Eve Party Now!
Did your plans fall through to spend New Year's in St. Bart's with all the other rich New York assholes? Well don't fret, just take that $50,000 you keep for "walking around" money and bid on a party at 49 Grove, "New York's Newest Most Most Exclusive Lounge." They used "most" twice so they must be serious.
Sure, it sounds like a great idea to throw a party for your other 250 friends who haven't made plans yet to help this place pull a publicity stunt because they can't possibly charge $200 per person to the public for a guaranteed awful time.
Your Own Private Club for New Year's Eve [eBay]
UPDATE: A reader writes in to give some background on 49 Grove when it was just a "little gay piano bar called The Five Oaks" in the '80s. Wet and teary nostalgia after the jump.
I used to hang at this place back when it was a seedly little gay piano bar called The Five Oaks. It was truly one of my favorite places all through the mid-to-late 80s.
Only there could you see the infamous (now, sadly, deceased) Marie Blake, the piano player/singer who looked like she had a burnt croissant on top of her head, and sang like the love child of Scatman Crothers, Nina Simone and Marianne Faithful...if they sang songs like Blondie's "Rapture" with an oom-pah beat (no, I'm not kidding).
Only there could you see Cowboy Dennis, wearing nothing but a leather vest, cowboy hat and chaps singing rendition of "Macho Man" and "YMCA" and who would inspire the crowd to use their napkins as lassos during his take on "Tie a Yellow Ribbon."
The place was a true original...$50K? MY ASS!!
Sorry - you just got me a bit nostalgiac there...despite the ridiculous price tag. People might want to know just how much jiz there was on the walls way back when...BEFORE sending in their check ;).