Basically I had a new idea for a shindig thing. Kind of different than anything we've done before. But not in a strange "oh no, people won't understand this" kind of way.

• Zim, after inventing 'Zim's Instant Hardcore Full-Realism Shindig Experience, made with Zim's Hand-Squeezed Manshoot Extract and Zim's Juicy Farm-Raised Clear Backblast, mixed just like Grandma Zim used to, and filmed in Spectacular Zimovision with Narration by 8 Time Zimmy Award Winner Zim'

Anniversary Shindig 2018, The Fifthtiest Shindig, The Wooden Silverware Novelty AT-4 Anniversary will commence on January 13, 2018! Click that link to find out when it happens in your local time, you won't want to miss any of it.

We have an exciting schedule of events planned for the whole da- afternoon, and we can't wait to start the celebration! Sign-ups for this special event will go up on or around January 1 so you can all fight over who gets which slots in for two weeks. (We will of course be accepting bribes for the one sniper slot, submit your competing bids via the usual criminal networks.)

If you haven't done a Shindig with us before, here's what you need to know:

Shindig is our big celebration, commemorating all the wonderful things this community stands for and all of you wonderful people who call it home. As such, it is our Big Thing and we absolutely want it to be special for all of you, and something particularly and uniquely CBB, for whatever that means. The sessions run considerably longer than a usual Saturday, expect 5 hours, more is entirely possible.

We do hope you'll make plans to stay for the whole thing too: most Shindig content is only ever run once and then never seen again. So, yeah, you don't want to miss it!

More details will be available as we get closer to the date, but thanks to the attendance survey we know that January 13 is far and away the best date for the most people, and now you know it too!

January 13, the usual time plus some hours, mark your schedules, fill your assault packs, and clear your backblasts, because Shindig is just around the corner!