OPEN POST: Sunday Dance Party At The Manor's World Famous Spoolge Lounge!

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Move to this! Today, from 12:30pm till the cock crows on Monday, Peckerwood's Splooge Lounge will be holding its annual "Booty Do Your Duty!" dance party with our very own DJ Pink Button. Don't worry if you're rhythmically dyslexic. There's plenty of complimentary hooch, booger sugar and molly to be had, along with a large, dark-as-night backroom for shenanigans 'n such. Also, a warning: please do not step through the Splooge Lounge Looking Glass unless you expressly want to enter another dimension. Kindly see your Manor major domo, Mr. Tristan Spratt, for tickets.

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