Robert C. Pritikin and Chenery House Present: Bob Pritikin's First Annual Last Labor Day Party.

Comment: Bob Pritikin tells me this is his last Labor Day party ever, but nobody seems to believe it. Whatever the deal is, I gotta say this party is the best one yet-- and I'm proud to testify I've been to all fifteen of 'em and experienced every single Guest Entertainer from Rubber Boy, Manimal, and The Torture King to Tammy Faye Baker, Mickey Rooney, and Carol Channing.

Meanwhile back in the present, nearly 800 revellers turn out for this year's outrageous episode including politicians (Assemblyman Mark Leno, Supervisor Bevan Duffy, Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, etc.), government officials (Public Defender Jeff Adachi, former Treasure Island top dog Tony Hall, etc.), socialites, business leaders, artists, authors, entertainers, fashion plates, fungos, oddballs, hippies, beatniks, punks, eccentrics, spongers, sots, leeches, and doinks. The continuous entertainment features Pritikin on the classical saw (of course) incomparably accompanied on piano by George Michalski, emcee and comedian Ronnie Schell (who manages to insult pretty much everybody with a torrent of outdated racial, ethnic, and religiously tainted "jokes"), an audience-participation drum circle, and headliner-- the Ratdog band with Bob Weir (formerly of the Grateful Dead), playing two exceptional extended kick-ass sets.

OK. Enough blather. Behold the bacchanal...