The ’00s are 0utta here: Skylark to throw an End-Of-Decade Party

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Skylark Cafe and Club (WSB sponsor) is throwing an End-Of-Decade Party next Saturday (day after Christmas). But have we even figured out what to call this decade yet? Was it the ot-ots? The oh-ohs? The two-thousands? Whatever you call it, Skylark proprietor Jessie SK invites you to:

Dress as your favorite person, event, meme, or thing from the years 2000 to 2009. Best costume wins $100 Gift Card, and there will be runner-up prizes and recession-friendly drink specials aplenty. 8 pm.

Jessie’s got her full holiday lineup in this online update – including Skylark’s New Year’s Eve plan with locals Stevedore and Guns & Rossetti (we’ve added that no-cover bash to the list in the New Year’s section of the West Seattle Holidays page).

miws December 20, 2009 (5:56 am)

“But have we even figured out what to call this decade yet?”

How about the “O! OMG! where the heck did it go?!?” :P

Mike

Bonnie December 20, 2009 (10:01 am)

Mike, I’m with you. Where the heck did it go? Seems like just yesterday we were worried about the world coming to and end because of crazy computers.

How about the Millennium decade?

Target December 20, 2009 (10:10 am)

I suppose we’ll do this again next year, when the decade that runs from 2001 to 2010 finishes? Technically, any 10 year period is a decade. Also, since the millennium ran from 1001 to 2000, the first decade of this millennium is actually 2001 to 2010.

WSB December 20, 2009 (11:32 am)

Target, I remember a decade or so ago when there was quite the squabble over the sort of point you are making here. All I can say is at least we can make the something 9 to something 0 transition this time without the added festivity of the Y2K suspense, if anyone remembers all that – I worked for ABCNEWS.com at that time, based at the Smith Tower downtown, and virtually the entire staff had to be at work that night to stand by “just in case” the feared chaos/whatever really did happen and needed to be written about. The rest, of course, is history … TR

miws December 20, 2009 (1:45 pm)

Bonnie, oh yeah! The whole Y2K “scare”! :D

Although I didn’t think there’d be any major disasters because of it, I figured there’d be relatively minor problems here and there. I figured a bigger issue would be from the “panic”. You know, all the stores running out of bread and milk! ;)

During the about the last 2.5 months of 1999, my life was in a bit of an upheaval. So, besides sitting here wondering where the “decade” has gone, I’m also focusing in on specific incidents, and going “that’s been ten years ago already?!?” :D

Target, I remember that argument, and agree with it in a technical sense. But, I decided to just start thinking of it as a changeover from the 1900’s, or even the 1,000-somethings, to the 2,000’s, rather than the new millenium. Because, our society measures groups of years as the ’20’s, or ’50’s, or ’90’s, or whatever.

So basically, I decided to go with an alternate “thought process”. :)

Mike

Target December 20, 2009 (1:47 pm)

WSB, everybody loves rolling the odometer. :-) As far as I’m concerned, it’s another excuse to party. And yes, I remember 1999/2000, partying in the Network Operations Center, taking a break every hour to say “nothing happening”. Maybe we can have a decade party every year, the best of 2005 to 2015, etc.

Mike F December 20, 2009 (5:16 pm)

The oughts? The oughties? The Where’s Osama Decade?

I have a more mundane question — where the heck do you PARK if you go to Skylark? It’s why I haven’t been since it was the Madison (or maybe the incarnation before that — Jet City something?)

jessiesk December 20, 2009 (10:13 pm)

If the parking lot fills up, there’s free parking galore on Andover a block south, near All-Star Fitness.

And just to reiterate…the Decade party is this weekend on Sat 12/26. New Year’s Eve with bands is a separate event.

Bikefor1 December 21, 2009 (1:04 pm)

(Slaps forehead) This kills me. I see it over and over.

2010 is NOT the start of the twenty teens, it is the last year of the 2000s.

1-9 is only 9. You need 10 to make a decade.

Sigh.

shed22 December 21, 2009 (1:32 pm)

Bikefor1 . . . now you got me slapping my forehead. Wouldn’t year 1 start in 2000. Read my comment on your forum post and see if that makes any more sense to you.

WSB December 21, 2009 (2:31 pm)

I love language/semantics debates. This one will probably never be settled. But always fun to observe. Maybe you guys can show up at the Skylark party and debate onstage as part of the entertainment :) Or perhaps we should run a poll …

GenHillOne December 21, 2009 (3:41 pm)

I think that from the first minute of 2010 back to the first minute of 2000, ten years will have passed for me, so I consider it a decade…but to the really important question: how do I make it stop taking me to this thread every time I open the WSB home page??? I’m somehow drawn straight to the Google Map. Not that scrolling up is such a big inconvenience, just thought I’d point out the glitch :)

WSB December 21, 2009 (3:46 pm)

Sorry, that’s a problem with the Google Street View and a certain browser – I haven’t had time to fully research if Google recommends a fix. Will just have to take it out.

jessiesk December 22, 2009 (1:45 pm)

I agree you need ten years to make a decade. But in terms of pop culture and history (what the party is celebrating via costume contest) we tend to end the decade in the nine year. If we were having a 80s party, for example, you wouldn’t usually think of 1990 people/events/things. However, if you want to wear a futuristic costume based on something you believe will occur in 2010, no one’s stopping you. :)

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