Every year on Valentine's Day the Stranger hosts a very special event for the heartbroken, the recently dumped, the bitterly divorced. Single people bring mementos of failed relationships to our Valentine's Day Bash and we invite them up on to the stage, we listen to their sad stories, we boo their awful exes, and then we destroy their mementos live onstage in front of a cheering crowd. Over the last 12 years we've burned wedding photos, weve smashed engagement rings to smithereens, shattered sex toys after dipping them in liquid nitrogen, had gay boys beat off on the favorite t-shirts of homophobic ex-boyfriends, and taped pictures inside urinals and broadcast live, streaming video of live, streaming urine running down the faces of lying, cheating, scheming, heartless ex-girlfriends.

The Bash is coming up fast—did you know that Valentine's Day is on February 14 this year?—and you could consider this your save-the-date notice if you weren't, you know, GOING TO BE ALONE ON VALENTINE'S DAY, seeing as you don't have a date to save the date for BECAUSE YOU JUST GOT DUMPED. So instead consider this your personal invitation to start looking around for a memento to bring to the Bash. We don't want to get all woo-woo about this, but we've heard from past Bash participants that they were truly moved by the experience and it did, on some level, help 'em heal. And, hey, if you're single on Valentine's Day, what better place to be than a room full of drunk, single people on the serious rebound?

And if anyone out there has any great new ideas for how we can destroy stuff at this year's bash, share 'em in comments!