This Ain't No Party, This Ain't No Disco

Last night, I had to keep reminding myself that I was attending to the serious business of campaign fundraising, because my former law partner Larry Tarabicos and his wife Joni threw me not just one of the best political fundraisers ever, but the best party of any kind that I have been to in a long time.

Larry and Joni invited a bunch of Larry's law partners, clients, and friends from the Greek community to their beautiful house, and decided to step it up further by having Wilmington's famous Moro restaurant come in and make some amazing food and drinks. Once Michele heard that Moro was involved, she decided that she wasn't going to miss it either--in fact she, the boys, and my mom were all in attendance, making it the first Denn fundraiser to have three generations of Denns present.

At a lot of fundraisers, people stop in, say hi, and go on their way. Not at the Tarabicos'. Nobody left until the Moro people muscled them away from the table and started packing things up. The party started at 5:30, and I didn't get home until the "coming next week" epilogue to Grey's Anatomy. (In case you are wondering, it involves several doctors running around and screaming to do things "stat," and some other doctors looking soulfully at each other and discussing the future of their relationships.)

(Some of you have asked--well ok, one of you asked--what television shows I do watch since I incessantly mock Grey's Anatomy. As of today, not much: 30 Rock, The Contender (ESPN's reality boxing show), and Friday Night Lights (season premiere tonight, don't miss it)).

Here are a few pictures of the event. The guy with me and Michele is Tony Matula, a friend of Larry's who owns Five Points pizza and who I refer to as the Mayor of the Greek Festival because he took me around this year and was treated as such.

Great, great food, and wonderful people--many of whom I hadn't met before, and who came only because Larry asked them to. Oh, and they also brought a lot of dough--we raised almost $17,000 and some checks are still coming in. Larry and Joni: thank you!!!