I Just Got Invited to My First Depression Party

Ronald Bailey | December 8, 2008

Times are bad, so let's party on. Last month, Business Week reported:

In New York City, twentysomethings are throwing Depression parties, where the clothes are ’30s vintage and the playlists favor Big Band numbers and Dust Bowl ballads. Evite, the online party-invitation service, says such bashes are on the rise nationwide.

Now some friends of my wife have just invited us to a party featuring an FDR imitation and songs like "The Sunny Side of the Street." In addition:

Depression-style refreshments will be served - stone soup, radiator cocktails, and spam (vegetarian and non-vegetarian).  

A true sign of hard times - vegetarian spam.