My birthday is on the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. I only have a vague idea regarding what I want to do. I need your help to plan it! "What's in it for me", you ask? Well...

• Attention
• Control
• I'll most likely be inviting people from Tv Tropes, but you'll have to
  • agree to be a good, polite guest and generally behave yourself
  • RSVP
  • like me. If you don't like me and are just coming for food, don't bother coming. I'll pick up on your motives and just be staring at you hatefully all day. Understood?

Okay, ready? Let's entertain!

• I know I want a medical theme.
• I could have my party in San Fransisco or in the open space behind my house, which is like a wonderland of shrubbery, fennel and abandoned appliances. Or we could shoot for both. If you have a better idea, suggest it!
• Dad is going to give me a budget for food if we decide to have a picnic. Recommend me some good places in the SF Bay Area to buy fun, cheap and/or exotic food, or some recipes an amateur cook can handle!

• I need gift ideas. For myself. This is my wishlist. The more things I have on my wishlist, the more likely I am to get something I want because my parents like lots of options.
• I am really freaking scared of getting older. Help?
  • I don't want to be a 15 year old. I just... don't. I'd be destroying a piece of myself, it feels like.
• We missed my birthday last year. We had a big party planned, too, to make up for the minimalism of recent past years.

• I like the book I Like You by Amy Sedaris.
• My Sweet Sixteenth will be death/funeral themed. Just wanted to tell you.

So, discuss the things above and any questions/ideas about my party. You're my only hope!

edited 4th Nov '09 5:08:59 AM by Made of Meat

On getting older: Whenever I pass a birthday, I don't even really feel different. It's a gradual thing, not like just a one day. It probably won't be so bad, and you know you can't stay 14 forever. I'm not sure what else to say, really. -hugs-

I'd like to, though.

I'd ask where you were located, but having me show up at your party would probably just be creepy.

I only have advice on the "scared of getting older" thing 'cause I've felt that way too.

You're only fifteen? You've barely even begun yet, remember that. Look at other fifteen-year-olds. It's really no different than being fourteen. You're still Meaty. You're just Meaty who's another year older and with a whole new year ahead of you to live up. You can make up for any bad things that happened when you were fourteen.

Hey, I'm 32 and I still feel like I'm 18  ^*

^{and even look it to a lot of people}

, so don't let it get you down. You still have a lot of your life ahead of you.

PEOPLE

I NEED PARTY HELP

THIS EMOTIONAL SUPPORT IS NICE AND ALL BUT MY BIRTHDAY IS IN 18 DAYS

Wait, Meat I thought you often talked about not having a lot of friends outside of the Wired? Who are you planning on inviting to your party anyways?

Medical themed? Like hand the guests those little plague control masks and latex gloves? A cake with white frosting and a red frosting cross on top?

How long do you plan the party to do on?

Edit: You have 18 days. Plenty of time, so relax.

edited 4th Nov '09 7:48:44 AM by Alkthash

Kennedy assassination/medical theme: make up a game based on the doctors trying to put his skull back together.

Humpty F. Dumpty?

Except it's JFK who's the Humpty Dumpty.

Oh, I see what you did there.

edited 4th Nov '09 8:17:11 AM by Kinkajou

The cake could be a layer cake with strawberry/red-colored frosting on the inside so it looks like you're doing surgery on your cake. And maybe whitish hard candy in the center to resemble bone, but that might be too hard to bake.

Also, when you cut the cake, do a pentagram-like incision and pretend time has slowed down.

Add a weird thing on the cake.

In other words, integrate your imagination.

edited 4th Nov '09 8:28:42 AM by Kinkajou

"Add a weird thing on the cake?" Imagination?

Stick with Florence Nightingale impersonators, thank you very much.

edited 4th Nov '09 10:37:59 AM by mrsaturn

Huh?

Birthday "cake": http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/317/

Idea: Tropers are notoriously introverted; if I had my party in the forest there would be little alcoves available for them to crawl into.

Well, like I said before, for a medical theme:

• Instead of party hats, hand out surgical masks. Rubber gloves optional.
• Cadaver-shaped cake. Cut with scalpel, or if possible, bonesaw.
• Pin-the-oxygen-mask-on-the-inpatient.
• Take pictures, I wanna see this.
• Serve cherry-flavored fruit punch or something similar in faux-IV drips.

Too gimmicky? *shrug* I like it.

Nothing is too gimmicky. Keep in mind that eating at Hospitalis is on my bucket list.

Seconding the surgical masks, latex gloves, and the cutting the cake with a scalpel.

Have someone make a cake that looks like a giant foot. Or whichever body part you prefer to cut up and cannibalize munch on.

Body part cakes? You mean a cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting?

Also, has anyone else smelled the inside of a convalescent home? It smells like potpourri, antiseptic, and a creeping feel of dread. That would be the perfect scent for the party!

Do you have a grill? Grills make for some excellent party food. And not just meat. It can be rapidly prepared in a very short while. This is one example. The recipe asks for an oven; throw it on a grill instead. Charcoal is best, always.

Also: There are a number of interesting food-related things you can do with syringes, although obviously without the tip. Sauces, dips, and even two-part drinks. The Moto restaurant in Chicago serves a sort of champagne which comes as two reagents, one in a champagne flute the other in a syringe; mixing the two produces sparkling whine on the spot. I have no idea as to how they do it or whether it tastes like bubbly vinegar.

edited 6th Nov '09 10:07:03 AM by BonSequitur

Oh my god, bacon.

Bacon.

Here's a photo of the moto future-cocktail thing.

Bacon is also one of the foods most liable to being shaped - By weaving or piecing together with skewers - so you can go somewhat nuts with the theme and make medical objects that are actually made of meat.

Bon: I wouldn't be surprised if it involves lime juice and a bit of baking soda (the only two common food ingredients that would make this sort of reaction and still taste good in wine).