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A NEW New Year’s Tale (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  January 1, 201912:33 pm| 256 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, General Stupidity

I almost re-ran an old post about a New Year’s Day fiasco since it looks like we could use an open thread, and I’m not really up to producing fresh content at the moment. But real life (in Wisconsin) provided a better alternative. From Channel 58 in Milwaukee (via @sammitchh101):

WAUKESHA (CBS 58) — One Waukesha homeowner was in for a surprise when she woke up and found a stranger sleeping on her dog’s bed next to her 150-pound Mastiff.

According to the Waukesha Police reports, an unknown man entered an unlocked home on Cardinal Drive around 5:20 a.m. Tuesday.

The owner of the home called 911 to report that the stranger was sleeping on the dog’s bed in the living room and may have entered through an unlocked side door.

Police made contact with the man who was heavily intoxicated after celebrating New Year’s Eve. According to police reports, he accidentally entered the wrong residence and fell asleep next to the dog.

The man was returned to his home where he lives with his mom.

No complaint was filed.

Glad no complaint was filed, but I hope the cops provided a full report to the mom. Open thread!

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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  January 1, 20195:00 am| 17 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture, Serengeti

Good Morning All,

On The Road and In Your Backyard is a weekday feature spotlighting reader submissions. From the exotic to the familiar, please share your part of the world, whether you’re traveling or just in your locality. Share some photos and a narrative, let us see through your pictures and words. We’re so lucky each and every day to see and appreciate the world around us!

Submissions from commenters are welcome at tools.balloon-juice.com

Happy New Year to all!

We’re starting things out right, with more from Le Comte’s travels in Africa. Today, just a peek, but we’ll pick up steam on Thursday with a big dump.

 

Have a great day, everyone!

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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: To Begin Again

by Anne Laurie|  January 1, 20194:31 am| 330 Comments

This post is in: Music, Open Threads, Daydream Believers


 

A trilogy for the new year:

At a former colleague's suggestion I have an e-mail folder just called "Happy" where I file e-mails in which someone says something kind or says thank you or says something else that makes me happy to read. If you don't have one, give yourself the gift of a Happy folder in 2019.

— Jennika Baines (@Jennika_Baines) December 14, 2018

A complementary goal: make an effort this year to send emails that will end up in someone else's Happy Folder https://t.co/ICvKhLakWr

— Jeannie Crowley (@jeannieccrowley) December 14, 2018

It is a very strange feeling to devote your life's work to publishing thoroughly researched and carefully crafted books only to have a two-sentence Tweet on e-mail filing be what is probably the most widely read piece you've ever produced.

— Jennika Baines (@Jennika_Baines) December 18, 2018


 

I’ve played this lots since 11/16. Scot/Armenian/Jew, son of a diplomat, raised in Egypt/Mexico, rooted in Woody Guthrie & rockabilly, singing about people from everywhere on Earth living together in humble neighborhoods. No greater repudiation of Trumpism https://t.co/vcRLQi47s4

— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 1, 2019

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Happy New Year

by John Cole|  January 1, 201912:13 am| 88 Comments

This post is in: Get off my grass you damned kids

Defying all odds, Lily and I both made it to 2019, for which I am very grateful. I actually went to bed at 9pm, because I am super cool, and Devon woke me up for the stroke of midnight. I kissed my dog, hugged my sister, posted on the blog, and feel like all my duties have been fulfilled and I can go back to bed.

Happy 2019.

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