A cheerful ditty to inspire vigorous, healthful activity among those of us who didn’t go out last night…
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… because mocking other peoples’ hangovers is another fine New Year’s Day tradition.
(h/t commentor Kdaug)
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Triassic Sands
2011.
OMG.
hamletta
I still haven’t gone to bed. Too many detours on the interwebs, and this is a rare night when I don’t have to get up in the morning.
Love this video. I think I must love Miss Pink. She was just another gal these kids today were listening to until “Dear Mr. President.”
Still, didn’t pay much attention. But this video is pretty awesome. I like the pixelated homage to Michael Jackson’s “Black Or White,” and her schtupping clergy of any and all denominations.
Got to get into bed with my Steig Larsson. Mom tucked them in my suitcase as I was leaving after Thanksgiving. They’re like crack—or potato chips.
I wonder if their popularity helped any with populist sentiment against the banksters.
MTiffany
What a delightfully evil way to start the day at the start of a new year…..
ABL
I wasn’t going to go out but then I did. I played Mariokart which is the best game ever. I don’t care what you say. you’re wrong.
now I’m eating mac and cheese.
that’s just how I do.
steigg Larsson? you’ll never sleep. which book are you on?
Mac and cheese for president.
PeakVT
@MTiffany: Evil would be setting off leftover fireworks at the crack of dawn. Mocking hangovers is SOP.
demkat620
@ABL: I have to get that for the kids. We got Dj Hero cause we found it on sale and the kids love it.
We went out for a little bit but I didn’t have more than a half a glass of wine so, I am feeling ok.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@ABL:
The daughter and I played Crash Course Bandicoot (map for Left4Dead) a few hours ago and we even dragged the wife in for her first game of killing zombies while sipping champagne and toasting in the new year. We set her to god mode so she could get mobbed, learn the weapons and figure out how to deal with it all. I told her to pretend they are just customers from her job. She beat our son, daughter and myself in percentage of head shots on her first game.
I take it she don’t like some of her customers…lol!
jeffreyw
Gah! … [blink blink] … Gah! wake me later kthnxbai
Calouste
The woman who was the model for the original poster for that pose died yesterday.
Phyllis
Sipping mimosas and watching TCM. Pinning hopes on Gamecock b’ball this afternoon. Not gonna discuss the bowl game. Happy New Year y’all.
stuckinred
See here how everything lead up to this day
And it’s just like any other day that’s ever been
Sun going up and then the sun going down
Shine through my window and my friends they come around
Come around, come around
alwhite
Ah, this thread will be like a roll call of the non-hungover! We made truffled kettle corn, had a little wine & switched between the Marx Brothers marathon and the Twilight Zone one.
My mom was a devoted TZ so I saw a lot of them when I was a kid & thought I had seen the all eventually but the one I watched last night I had never seen before. “Third Planet from the sun”
Happy New Year to all you juicers
Southern Beale
Good song but man, the female milking parlor thing was just ewww.
assholes
fuck you all
Culture of Truth
Happy New Year
Keith
I haven’t had a hangover in 2 years. Can’t say I miss them at all…one of the worst feelings in the world (a even worse feeling is drinking a Bloody Mary for a hangover and then throwing it up out your nose – Tabasco, black pepper, lemon juice, and HORSERADISH!)
Emma
And off we go into another year. Me, I went to bed last night at 10 pm. Don’t ask. The month from hell is over and I survived. All is good.
debit
I stayed in last night and continued my Babylon 5 marathon. Man, a television series that actually has continuity and references mid season three things that happened in season one. I’d forgotten what that was like.
Today I will celebrate the new year by making chocolate toffee bars. Start as you mean to go on, that’s what I always say.
colleeniem
@alwhite: that is such an awesome episode. I love the TZ marathon, it may be my favorite thing about new years eve/day :)
Linda Featheringill
BTW, NYT has an excellent article on treating folks with Alzheimers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/01/health/01care.html?hp
It might even cheer you up!
RedKitten
Definitely no hangover here, but I did get to enjoy a couple of beers last night after the wee one was in bed, so that was good.
I flipped over to MuchMoreMusic (like Canadian MTV, except that it actually plays music), and they were showing a bunch of dance videos from the 90’s. It was kind of crazy to hear C+C Music Factory, Snap, and all of those other tunes that accompanied my 1994-era descent into a vodka-and-lime infused haze of bad fashion and worse romantic choices.
Ross Hershberger
It’s 52 degrees outdoors here in Detroit at 9:40 am. The temp is supposed to drop 2 degrees/hour until midnight, so maybe this is a good time for a walk up to the hardware store for ice melter.
No hangover. Stayed in & watched old movies. Oddly, we were watching Holiday, recommended here on a comment thread last night. Most of the plot takes place on New Year’s Eve 1939.
The picture quality may be so-so but I still think it’s damn near miraculous to have a stranger recommend some 70 year old movie, then immediately sit down and watch the thing without leaving the house.
Valdivia
Happy new year ballon-juice people. I am in West Virginia wondering if I’m going to bump into Cole out here. Some semblance of a hangover but coffee is doing it’s work….
Ross Hershberger
Wanna get frightened? This personal info search website does an excellent job of scouring the ‘tubes for data about you. I typed in my email address and among other things a recent photo of my house appeared along with my address.
Yipes.
JPL
@Ross Hershberger: It’s 57 and rainy just north of Atlanta. I saved Holiday on my netflix queue and watched Les Miserables instead. Liam Neesom was excellent in the role. It was the last day of streaming for Les Mis so I thought I’d watch that last night and watch the Cary Grant films today.
alwhite
@Ross Hershberger:
Minneapolis got this yesterday – high near 50, today it is 2 so enjoy the warmth while you can!
tesslibrarian
Happy New Year to All!
Quiet night in for us, watching the SEC lose yet more bowl games. I quite like quiet NYEs, though we usually listen to the BBC on the radio at 7pm and toast then since my husband rarely makes it to midnight EST. (He did last night, though–bonus!)
This morning I was up early to entertain the cat so my husband could sleep in a bit. Jack has decided playtime is somewhere between 5-9am. It’s also 1-2am, and 3-5pm and 8-10pm. And we must play with him, with different toys, doing different things, constantly surprising him, as he becomes bored. Needless to say, we are not keeping up, what with things like getting ready for work, sleeping, making dinner, working, etc. A few years ago, when he was a mostly-outdoor cat, he spent a summer playing with a younger cat in our back yard–teaching the cat to hunt, generally hanging out. So we think he may enjoy company, if presented properly.
I’m only feeling somewhat ready for new cats, but we think a couple of kittens will provide non-threatening play opportunities, since if they play him out (likely at 10), they can play with one another, and he can have the mental stimulation of watching them bounce about, too. So, 2011 started quietly, but I don’t think it’s going to stay that way. That is probably a good thing.
master c
love Pink, didnt get the milking parlor.
WereBear
@Linda Featheringill: Thank you, that’s such an interesting article; though it triggered a huge “Duh!” from me; this is yet another so-obvious-it-hurts conclusion that it made me sad that so many people were so resistant to its fundamental message.
I got into a rather heated discussion when I told off my husband’s relatives over their visits to his grandfather; he kept asking where his mother was, and they kept telling her she was dead. This was news to him; as it was on each visit.
When I discovered what was going on, I forcefully informed them that it was cruel and they should just say she was on her way… that’s how I handled it and it was obvious it caused him much less distress.
But they couldn’t add 2 and 2 in this instance.
SiubhanDuinne
@alwhite #12: Funny you’ve never seen that episode. For me, it’s just the opposite. I bet I’ve seen it a good 20-25 times. In fact, when I think about a kind of generic TZ, that is *always* the episode I flash on (I’m guessing for most people it would be “To Serve Man”).
Happy New Year, all! I had a couple of glasses of wine last night and slept in a bit this morning, but no hangover. Haven’t really done one of those in a *loo-o-o-oong* time.
WereBear
@tesslibrarian: What a great idea! Two kittens for Jack sounds like the right thing; we would not have gotten through hand-raising our Tiny Guy without our then 18 month old Nanny Cat, Olwyn.
Click here to see Olwyn still mothering 4 month old Tristan.
We could sleep without confining him to his kennel because we knew Olwyn would be supervising him, and would come running to us if there was any trouble.
One of the many benefits of multiple cats.
As for us, we watched the Marx Brother’s marathon and I explored Irish whiskey, which I like very very much. But that’s okay, because we weren’t going anywhere else.
Then we soothed the kitties from the “booms,” we are quite close to where they set off the fireworks.
Cheryl from Maryland
Best wishes for 2011 to all of BJ.
adolphus
@MTiffany:
New Year’s Eve is the open mic night of drinking and debauchery. Nothing but amateurs.
Since they kept me up until 4:00 with their fire works, vomiting in the bushes, and loud singing outside on the balcony (and I swear I felt liquid raining down on my dog and me during out midnight walk) I feel perfectly justified in not only mocking their hangover but waking them loudly and often.
If they don’t give a fuck about us, why should we give a fuck about them? I don’t hang out on the balcony and keep up my neighbors when I drink the other 364 nights a year.
PS: A friend of mine once described New Year’s Eve as Prom for Adults. All expectation and no fulfillment. I thought that apt.
Ross Hershberger
@adolphus:
Rick Astley CD on repeat. High volume. Leave early for a long brunch.
Svensker
@WereBear:
Cutest picture ever.
We had a very quiet night. Now up and “enjoying” an old Lionel Barrymore movie (I HATE that guy) with a young character/lead by the name of “Pud.” The New Year better be better than this frigging movie.
Shadow's Mom
Not much to say except:
Happy New Year’s morning.
and
Woot! I get to start using my B-J calendars!!!!
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne: For Twilight Zone I don’t get any more boiled down than “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street”. The slightest disturbance and mankind runs amok doing it to ourselves.
PS Nobody else saw the Rosie the Riveter image in Pink’s video? Song was a bit generico otherwise to my taste.
Beth in VA
That video was fun! Happy New Year all you Balloon Juicers!
WereBear
@Svensker: Gawd! I know that movie, I hate that movie, and it only gets worse.
hildebrand
Happy New Year – to start off the new year on the right foot, I will be brewing my first batch of homebrewed beer – a fairly straightforward amber ale.
If anyone has advice for homebrewers let me know. Wish me luck!
Werner Klopek
@master c:
The Milking parlor is supposed to be a … how does one say it? A harsh look at women who don’t breast feed their newborns and instead use bottled milk that comes from cows. So in this instance the women are in a reversal feeding a calf. Never mind though that some women cannot breast feed for whatever reason and have to use alternative methods.
And yeah the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter poster died. It was in the paper yesterday but she had passed a week or so before. She only worked there for a week, ironic.
Alison
Happy new year, all! Time for me to brave the cold and head out for coffee (long story as to why there’s none here). Days like this I really wish I wasn’t a city-dweller but a suburbanite…with a car…with a heater in it.
~~puts on eight layers of clothing~~
Yeah, it’s 45 here and for some of you that makes me a giant wuss. But 45 for me is like 15 for normal people.
adolphus
@Ross Hershberger:
Actually I have an old mixed tape a room mate left behind in the 80’s. Lots of Wham!, Men Without Hats, Kajagoogoo and Culture Club. Maybe some Rick Astley, I haven’t played it in a while. That should do it.
tesslibrarian
@WereBear: I was hoping you’d respond, since I’ve never really introduced a new cat into a household that is already occupied. But we think Jack is finally relaxed and comfortable enough inside to be okay with it–living mostly outdoors really put him on edge as he got too old to defend the yard from new cats. He still dislikes certain things, but isn’t nearly as skittish.
We have a large dog kennel, bought as a recuperation area when my first cat, a long MC mix, took a hard fall on her tailbone and damaged her spine a year or so before she died. We think if Jack comes into the living room to find the kennel set up with kittens in it, the introduction might work: he won’t be directly threatened, and they won’t be too lonely in there while we make sure they’re safe, both from Jack (just in case) and from their own wiley minds.
But wow, this was so much easier 20 years ago in my cheap college apt w/little furniture, few cords or cables of any kind, nothing that even could be ruined. Sometimes I look at the nooks and crannies of our 78-year-old, randomly updated house and shudder to think of all the places a kitten could fit.
kdaug
Thanks for the h/t, Anne Laurie.
@Calouste:
Yeah, I actually found that video via a story about her death in the NYT.
WereBear
@tesslibrarian: Your plan sounds excellent with the dog kennel. And if they can get in trouble; kittens will.
I also suggest my scent test and my mental game to prepare Jack and gauge his reactions before the little interlopers appear.
In case it helps, I’ve written extensively on cat introductions.
It can really be key to how it works going forward.
WereBear
Lots about cat introductions; it’s key.
There’s another one popping up when the moderation clears (3 links!)
And I think your dog kennel idea is a good one!
Ruckus
Raise your glass.
To individuality.
Screw conformity.
MTiffany
@PeakVT: I kneel at the feet of the master…
@adolphus: Oh I know. I’ve tended a bar or two in my day… Amateur night indeed!
tesslibrarian
@WereBear: I love the scent test idea, though suspect Jack’s reaction will be, “um, that’s not fish. that’s not even cream.”
Thanks for the advice!
Royston Vasey
Blocked.
Can’t play the damn video due to copyright!
Nolan Richemond
I love Michael Jackson voice [*] :(