Astronomically, summer began last month but technically, it began tonight at the Clinton Hill backyard BBQ bash of Jill, Laura and Liz.
These girls totally need their own Sunday morning cartoon, in which they fly around the five boroughs, enacting drudgery-busting Super Party-Powers and Dance Magic on an unsuspecting public. Their relentlessly promoted merchandise would include T-shirts, puffy stickers, Lite-Brite templates, breakfast cereals, Colorforms and a very special After School Special, The Girl Who Drank Just Enough.
The party featured 60+ guests, grilled meats (fake and real) with a bevy of sides, fresh summer tracks on the jambox, a jumbo tub of iced beers, and Citronella candles and Tiki torches in the chair- and blanket-strewn backyard, which was accessible by a fire escape ladder I was convinced someone would fall from and crack their head but no one did.
Fashion note: although white leather plimsolls soil quickly with New York grime, they retain Dance Magic.