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...possible we've reached a moment of creative commiseration. A friend in Iowa was invited to a poverty party--"because why should a worldwide recession spoil all our fun!" the invitation said. Guests were told to bring "a dish to share, a (cheap) bottle of wine, a hard-luck story and a devil-may-care attitude." We share casserole experiments: food itself becomes communal, everything in the fridge pitching in. You learn a lot about your neighbors when you carpool, and save...
...People come from near and far to drop off food and wish us good luck," says the retired Navy electronics specialist, 72. "Makes me feel good to know that should I go to jail for this, I did the right thing...
It’s been a season of tough bounces, bad luck, and lost chances for the Harvard women’s hockey team...
...have to make your own luck,” Stone said...
...Christmas, a friend of mine, Veronica Fowler of Ames, Iowa, decided to throw a last-minute bash - not a holiday party but a "poverty" party. About 30 people showed up, dutifully following the invitation?s instructions to bring a "dish to share, a [cheap] bottle of wine, a hard-luck story and a devil-may-care attitude." Fowler, 46, a freelance writer and editor whose guests were mainly fellow media types and academics in their 40s and 50s, says, "It was fun to spit in the eye of impending doom. All of this tension is a lot more tolerable...