Wondered if I should’ve left the Sydney display for Sarah Proud & Tall to front-page, but by this time I assume she’s passed out in the penthouse, probably atop a bed of mixed pharmaceuticals and under several attractive young people of genders even Facebook can’t tally.
I read that Netflix has an on-demand streaming countdown video available for parents of young children who can’t bear the wait until midnight, but when I tried to test it Netflix wanted me to install Silverlight for the 4,327th godsdamned time and I just don’t care that much, sorry small undiscerning children.
Assuming you’re still conscious at midnight in your locale, will you celebrate by throwing furniture out the window, setting fires, putting on brightly-colored underwear?
NotMax
Time for a leisurely shower now that all the cooking except the pork loin is done.
Gonna sear it and then roast it halfway through here (it has to be removed then to be glazed anyway) then transport everything over to the gathering spot – which is only about 3 blocks away – and finish it in the untrustworthy oven there.
Best wishes for ’15, y’all.
Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!
Omnes Omnibus
Define brightly colored.
lamh36
I don’t know why, but I completely love CNN’s NYE broadcast with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin.
I’d gotten away from watching the whole Dick Clark rockin’ eve stuff, but I find myself drawn to Griffin/Cooper.
I just LMAO at Kathry Griffin ragging on Anderson Cooper…I literally giggle almost the whole time.
Roger Moore
I will celebrate the new year by looking at Rose Parade floats as they line up on South Orange Grove.
JCJ
Watching the first “Hobbit” movie. Tomorrow packing for a trip to Bangkok to visit my wife’s family. Just plain white underwear which may or may not have an embarrassing number of holes.
srv
Apparently, people watch netflix test videos now.
I volunteer for a roadie job for the Sarah P & T reality show.
And I wear black underwear, before it became hip.
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: Bring a lot of rubber gloves and Clorox wipes.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: 35 years ago, a group of us from my college dorm slept out for the parade.
ETA: We had an abundance of “Antifreeze”.
Viva BrisVegas
I believe the latest Google Chrome will play Netflix fine without worrying about Silverlight.
At least it does on my Linux Mint 17.1 PC. Which by the way is by far the best Linux desktop I’ve yet seen. If you are sick of making Bill Gates a richer man, try it out.
New Years Eve is so yesterday.
srv
@Omnes Omnibus: in a Fight Club sense or a Breaking Bad sense?
Or maybe Sarah kills all her conquests…
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: If the WaPo can be believed, wear red to attract love or yellow to attract money.
No word on leopard-print, which is the best I can do with the lingerie on hand…
lamh36
Don’t know if it’s a Southern tradition or not, but we cook. Black eyed peas for luck, and cabbage for money!
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: Either way, you are protected.
@Anne Laurie: Dear me. What does green signify?
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: My family tradition is to avoid chicken, lobster, shrimp, etc., because they scratch or move backward. Fish are recommended because they swim forward.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Vigor, perhaps. Or insufficient/incomplete training. Your pick.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I’ll go with vigor. TYVM.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
It almost need not be said that it attracts leopards.
Or Hugh Laurie. I forget which.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
“Throw another dolphin on the barbie” doesn’t carry quite the same zing.
:)
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: LOL. stop playing…really…lol.
That could never work in NOLA. I mean we learn to behead crawfish by the time we are 5! We live for our seafood
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus:
In the northern European folk tradition, either health or a good harvest.
There’s a condom joke in there somewhere.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: I had to eat a piece of pickled herring to placate my mother. Don’t mock.
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus:
Balloons!
Tone In DC
This falls under I can’t believe it:
The Rambling Wreck is winning the Orange Bowl at the moment (against #7 Mississippi State). I also can’t believe that Tech is ranked #12 in the BCS.
As you were.
Steeplejack (phone)
“She’s a drag—a well-known drag.”
Never gets old.
Ruckus
Probably stay awake, like it or not, several of the neighbors think that explosive devices are wonderful to listen to, generally on nights you expect it but sometimes just randomly. Cops were driving about around 5 looking for someone who seems to have cornered the market on rather loud ones. Must not have found them, just had another go off and it’s not even 8.
debbie
@Ruckus: I’ll be timing the celebratory gunfire. It lasted 13 minutes last year.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack (phone): “He’s clean.”
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman: Hush. You’ll shock the children.
ETA: Yes, that is a Lion in Winter reference.
Peale
@JCJ: I’ve not been been to Bangkok, but in the movies and lakorn I’ve watched, men wear pants and shirts. I think you might be underdressed in tighty-whiteys, holes are no holes.
Gosh I do want to get there someday.
Liquid
Just casually asking friends/acquaintance and chinese food/booze/mmo does seem to be the theme.
Culture of Truth
Flipping between the Twilight Zone and CNN with Griffin and Cooper
Karen in GA
Watching a live stream of a Daryl Hall concert. Decided at the last minute that sure, I’ll drink, why not. It’s been a while, so I won’t be drinking much — even if I wanted to.
But all my husband has in the house is Miller Lite. My GOD, I had no idea he has such crappy taste in beer. I may have to divorce him.
+1, I guess is how the kids these days say it?
kdaug
Screw all the crap – this is overtime for every LEO in Austin, and amateur’s night for the “only drinks once a year” DWI crowd. I’m hunkered down, (ETA – watching Walking Dead marathon) and trying to keep the dog calm through the fireworks.
Around 4:00AM, I’ll get wet nostrils on the eyelids and we’ll go see what remains of the park.
raven
Yay, the girl agreed to leave the campfire party at 11!
Peale
Went to see Mr. Turner today, then needed to find 12 different round fruits for some filipino ritual new years ritual. Now I am opening all cupboards to scare away demons or something. I’m not sure if I want to scare them away. Aren’t I safer with them in the cupboards than loose in the kitchen?
raven
@Karen in GA: on what are you watching?
Gravenstone
New Years Eve has been bittersweet for me the last few years. 2005 I was sitting in my mother’s hospital room in the U of M oncology unit. A well meaning volunteer was circulating through the unit, handing out plastic flutes of sparkling grape juice. She accidentally knocked one over, and that smell will always remind me of the evening. My mother passed 4 1/2 weeks later. So yeah, a bittersweet holiday.
Enjoy the new year, Juicers.
SarahT
@Steeplejack (phone): “Arthur”
Mike in NC
Never cared about New Year’s Eve but grew to hate it via wife’s best friend, who was a fanatic. Insisted on everyone dressing up, serving an elaborate dinner, drinking all night, watching the stupid ball drop in Times Square, hugs and kisses and champagne, etc. After which we had to drive an hour or more to get home in insane traffic in NoVA with cops out in force. Miss none of that crap. Enjoy staying at home now.
raven
Fall Out Boy on the Pitbull show looks pretty good.
Les Nessman
I recommend Snake River “Zonker” Stout to anyone who likes Stout.
A Guinness drawn respectably in your neighborhood pub is the best, if your neighborhood is any county Eire.
+4
raven
@Mike in NC: And you don’t know where the fuck them hugs and kisses been.
opiejeanne
@BillinGlendaleCA: It’s been a lot longer for us, trying to sleep in the car overnight, after walking up and down Colorado Boulevard and deciding it was too cold to camp on the curb just for a place to watch the parade. We went to Cal Poly Pomona, but we never could get near the spot where the floats turn so we never got squirted by our schoolmates.
Peale
Anderson Cooper shall have words with Kathy Griffin. Very harsh words
Les Nessman
@SarahT: “A Hard Days Night”
Karen in GA
@raven: Livestream on Stageit.com.
ETA: small charge for it, but it’s sounding damned good. Hooked the iPad up to the TV — beats the usual NYE TV.
+1 1/2. I’m a friggin’ wuss.
SarahT
For fans of truly godawful 1970s movies involving hippies, TCM On Demand has (on RCN cable, anyway) “An American Hippie in Israel”. Trailer : http://youtu.be/Qry7XccmQKo
Enjoy ! And a happy & healthy 2015 to all BJers
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: I live in a semi-rural neighborhood just east of Seattle, but 4 miles from the big Microsoft campus in Redmond. There’s a guy with a cannon, I’ll swear, and the first salvo was about 6pm tonight. We have the usual loud fireworks, cherry bombs, etc, and guns. It’s not even 9 and already there have been stretches that sound like WWIII. I told a worried friend we are hunkering down, keeping our heads down, and was reminded of a comedy monologue about growing up and lying on the floor to avoid the flying bullets, possibly Chris Rock. It’s not quite that bad, yet.
Oh, and there goes the cannon again.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Les Nessman:
She knows.
BillinGlendaleCA
Just waiting for the landlord to finish fixing the sewer. He’s been at it for about 6 hours now.
PurpleGirl
Happy New Year BJers. May the year bring everyone good things, victory over the demons that haunt us, and good health.
I love fireworks shows and there is a small one in Brooklyn I can see. Nice. Thanks, AL, for those videos of Japan and Sydney’ displays.
Thor Heyerdahl
@lamh36: I have black-eyed peas soaking for tomorrow. Doing it with my Toronto Chinatown twist – Chinese BBQ pork instead of bacon/ham hock & Choy as the greens.
Les Nessman
@Les Nessman:All night looong, all night long…
http://youtu.be/xOCuquvNBcc
Les Nessman
@Steeplejack (phone): Right! Magical stuff.
SarahT
@Les Nessman: “Turn left at Greenland”
SarahT
@Les Nessman: oh, you thought I meant the movie “Arthur” ! No, was quoting “Hard Day’s Night” (reporter asks George what he calls his hairstyle & he answers, “Arthur”).
Mnemosyne (iPad Mini)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Interesting fact I recently found out: the “he’s clean” references are an in-joke because that actor also played the lead as a junk man on the TV show “Steptoe and Son,” where he was frequently referred to as a dirty old man.
And if the name of that TV show sounds familiar, yes, it’s the one same they remade as “Sanford and Son” on this side of the pond.