Kudos to SistaE-Katniss Everdeen Diamantis, SistaSophieLambrOuzo and SistaChristmas/KwanzaaChristos for putting together a truly impressive event with great food and drink.
Also, a heartfelt thanks and loud shout out to the law firm of Foley & Mansfield (click HERE for more information on the firm), the sole sponsor of the event.
Here are some photos (the G-Rated ones, anyway) from the event for your viewing pleasure:
BroTedBundyStefas yuks it up with one of his childhood idols, SistaMookieWilsonMoukides. She looked a bit different when she played for the New York Mets in the 1980s (although that's the same turtleneck she wore during Game 6 of the 1986 World Series).
SistaChristmas/Kwaanza striking a pose for the paparazzi and trying to decide whether to hurl those plates like a discus champ or merely smash them on the ground.
Looks like SistaChristmas/Kwanzaa decided to smash the plates on the heads of SistaE-Katniss and SistaLambrOuzo (luckily she didn't, although a number of lawyers in the room rushed forward hoping to represent the potential victims and the Claims professionals were already denying the claims.)
Sponsa It Ain't Ova Vedova (D'Vedova back in the Old Country), BroKambo, Sponsa Lisa The Lamm Lies Down on Broadway Bachmann Turner Overdrive and Party Crasher Extraordinaire Geo (where was Security?) ham it up for the camera. As you might be able to guess, Geo produced that outfit earlier in the day using his 3D printer (except for the purple sweater, which was borrowed from Barney.)
We invited George Stephanopoulos to appear at the party (honest) through connections of BroZach's, but we never got a response (BroZach was used to this from his dating days) so SistaEveAnn Casablanca stepped up for FETA by bringing ABC's Wolf Blitzer to the party. Yasou Sista Casablanca!
Renown insurance broker John Kerns of Beecher Carlson's New York office also showed up at the party as a distinguished non-FETAn guest. For some reason he kept trying to interview everyone.
The crowd watches in amazement as SistaChristmas/Kwanzaa breakdances on the bar (off camera)
Another crowd shot, this one with BroWhitewaterRafting featured prominently. As you can see, he cuts his own hair. Bravo!
BroKambo may not be smart, but he can lift heavy things. Here he shows off the big muscles gained from doing many repetitions of 12-ounce curls.
BroJimmy and BroKambo enjoy the special protections of federal law as certified FETArds. Here pictured without their standard helmets (hey, it was a party, we let them go free-skull.)
Apparently, SistaEveAnn Casablanca has a lot of celebrity connections. In addition to Wolf Blitzer, she also showed up with George Clooney. What a handsome man!
This is the vasilopita (sort of like an American King Cake) that SistaE-Katniss lugged for our pleasure from Astoria, Queens. Notice the "2014" baked into it. If you're unfamiliar with a vasilopita, you can click HERE for more details. In Greece, it's traditional to hide a coin in the cake. Whoever gets the slice with the coin must pay income taxes during that year. Usually they just pay the value of the coin.
SistaChristmas/Kwanzaa about to break two glasses. Kellari Taverna asked her to never return.
PowerBroKarDashian Kardaras and BroJimmy pose in the finals of the "Biggest FETA Forehead Contest." Two drive-in movies were projected on their foreheads later in the evening (after the helicopters landed.)
BroKambo reprises Artistole's famous 323 BC speech wherein Aristotle called for free wifi for everyone in Greece. Like Aristotle, BroKambo prefers to wear his pajama shirt to evening events so that he can get to bed more quickly upon returning home.
BroTrafficCone Diaconis wows Sponsas Lisa and Virginia with tales of fidelity claims gone bad. Zzzzzzz...I'm getting bored just looking at the photo.....
Next victim of a fidelity claim story: SistaLambrOuzo. Invisible thought bubble above her head: "Someone save me before I nod off!"
George Clooney hams it up with SistaEllaFitzgerald. Trivia: That's the tie he wore in "Oceans Eleven."
BroZach had just flown in from a meeting with his newest client, a legal pot dispensary in Colorado.
The Sistas Ella Fitzgerald and Casablanca reprise their Vogue cover shot of March 2010.
Sista Estelle Getty is thrilled to have escaped Pittsburgh for the evening and its dour non-NFL playoff citizenry. Meanwhile, the paparazzi hound the Supreme Executive Commander as he takes this photo.
SistaE-Katniss Everdeen and BroZach share a laugh with Wolf Blitzer over the situation in the Middle East.
Sista LambrOuzo is thinking exactly what you're thinking at the moment: When it this going to be over? Well it is now. Thanks again to the good Sistas for organizing and to Foley & Mansfield for sponsoring. We hope to see you all at the next FETA event. Yasou!
