Love and meows to all the happy chompers who made it to Tamara’s basement birthday party (and those who couldn’t make it, too).

Good things: bouncing balls, cat lights, chocolate hedgehogs, turtles, macaroons, squirt cameras, piles of books, mangos, sopa de elote, cucumber smells, kung-fu undies, liquor, wine, cigarettes, company.

Perhaps ill-advised: giant kitchen knives.