On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 14:23:08 GMT, "Jack Schidt®"
> wrote:

>In this bunch, food is key at a party. It doesn't have to be a gourmet
>extravaganza, as you say. I've enjoyed some great parties where the menu
>was pizza and beer, and not 'gor-may' pie either.

On my first afternoon in California, at a 6-unit apt. "house," a
spontaneous party formed in the patio area, first with beer and music
among the residents, then more people and brought-in pizza, and more
people and... It was like a movie script of Calif. life -- whoo,
whoo! What an introduction.