Happy New Year's Eve! I'm getting my sparkle on. pic.twitter.com/151BbSDrJQ
— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) December 31, 2021
I’m gonna go watch the First Night fireworks (on tv) with the Spousal Unit. Still petitioning Murphy the Trickster God for a less fraught 2022!
Spanky
Gunfire just starting here. Must have been the rain that caused the delay.
West of the Cascades
Here in Silver City (NM), they drop a javalina at midnight (a papier-mache one, of course). Two hours away!
Spanky
@West of the Cascades: Also the protagonists of Ed Abbey’s Merry Christmas, Pigs
lowtechcyclist
Happy New Year here in the Eastern time zone!
mrmoshpotato
Watching the The Twilight Zone marathon. Gonna switch over to fireworks on TV closer to midnight.
mrmoshpotato
@lowtechcyclist: Cheaters.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Happy New Year! Here’s to a hopefully better 2022!
Emma from Miami
I am 65 years old and this is the first New Year’s Eve I’ve spent by myself, in the sense of nobody to toast the Old Year out with. My sister had to take the booster shot and is down for the count; her hubby is providing broth and tea as needed at home (she says the fireworks are bloody nuts in her area). My dad fell asleep at around 10 and the dog joined him promptly.
AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Spanky
Hoping I’m hearing firecrackers, otherwise someone out there has a rapid fire machine gun.
sab
@Emma from Miami: Happy New Year from the north coast (Ohio).
eclare
I don’t know what venue near me is having outdoor music, but one is.
Spanky
And with that, time to turn the light out on 2021 and rest myself for 2022.
Happy New Year, all!
Suzanne
Just watched Mayor Adams get sworn in. 2022 is here, ready or not.
JoyceH
@Suzanne: He was holding up a framed picture as he was sworn in. Does anyone know what that was about?
Benw
–Benw
Citizen Alan
Ten minutes late, but Happy New Year from an expatriate Mississippian in Queens New York.
mdblanche
Happy new year, here’s to a better one than last year.
VOR
2021 took Betty White from us at the last minute. We have to protect national treasure Dolly Parton all the way through 2022.
Steve in the ATL
@eclare: Mud Island amphitheater? Overton Park shell?
NotMax
Hau’oli Makahiki Hou, y’all.
Someone swung by this afternoon to present me a big bag of freshly picked apple bananas from their yard. Hm. No rum in the larder for bananas Foster.
;)
HumboldtBlue
We’ve got a ways to go for the countdowns, and so far it’s been quiet other than the random “Eureka BOOM” and just to drop a random fact on youse, Babe Ruth hit 552 home runs AFTER Betty White’s birthday.
So there’s that.
sab
@NotMax: So how many hours until your New Year?
Kalakal
@Emma from Miami: Happy New Year!
eclare
@Steve in the ATL: I think Crosstown Concourse, the redone Sears building, must have something going on in its courtyard.
UncleEbeneezer
@West of the Cascades: You’re in Silver City? Very cool. We stayed there back in 2019 and loved it. Cheers from LA.
West of the Rockies
Boy, Andy Cohen was snockered…
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
You missing an “and” there, or did you just reveal a fruit we mainlanders don’t know about?
sab
@sab: Four hours and some minutes?
Suzanne
@JoyceH: I had the same question. Couldn’t make it out.
My neighbors are setting off fireworks and I just…. eh.
mrmoshpotato
@West of the Rockies: Sloshed.
Layer8Problem
I’m with my partner visiting the vaccinated and boosted stepkids and the vaccinated grandtots in DC. We all watched the kid-friendly 7 PM ball drop by someone’s house in Sherman Circle. As for the 12 AM EST ball drop at a Very Important Location, Ryan Seacrest looks like a prat. But I’m with people I love and feeling damned lucky. Happy New Year everyone.
Suzanne
I am cuddled up here on the couch with Spawn the Youngest, who is still awake. The cuddles are epic, tho.
NotMax
Please feel free to liberally add to the brief top o’ the noggin list below.
New Year in Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Hebraic calendar, et cetera all eligible.
Any scene, however brief, involving or showing any New Year’s celebration.
Any mention of or reference to any New Year .
Any rendition of Auld Lang Syne.
The Gold Rush
Holiday
After the Thin Man
Sunset Boulevard
Ocean’s 11
Flower Drum Song
P.S. Your Cat is Dead
Rabbit Every Monday
;)
And trivia:
All thoroughbred race horses in the Northern hemisphere officially become one year older on January 1st. Born at 11:59 p.m. on December 31st? One year old at 12:01 a.m. Same thing is marked on August 1st in the southern half of the globe.
eclare
Happy New Year from CST! Wow a lot of fireworks and I assume gunshots.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Fruit for thought.
mrmoshpotato
Downtown Chicago is blowing up.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: I see!
eclare
@NotMax: When Harry Met Sally
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne:
Hehe
Soprano2
Happy New Year from Missouri! This wasn’t the worst year I’ve had, but it wasn’t the best either. Here’s hoping 2022 is better.
James E Powell
@NotMax:
The Godfather Part II
The Poseidon Adventure
Suzanne
Now I’m trying to explain to Youngest that we don’t eat pizza in the bed.
Spoiler alert: she’s eating pizza in my bed.
Kalakal
Here’s a wonderful, inspiring thing that humans can do when we act like adults and wish to know more.
https://youtu.be/dRqHlta6lr8
eclare
@Suzanne: Hahaha…
Anyway
@NotMax:
Out of Africa
NotMax
@Kalakal
Presumably (and dolefully) the tradition in Scotland of First Footing is again taking a hit this year.
Suzanne
Me to Mr. Suzanne: “Why did you let her bring pizza into the bed?!?!”
Mr. Suzanne: “I didn’t. I mean, I did. But that wasn’t my intention.”
Kalakal
The last few years have been tough, we’re still going and we should celebrate that.
Here’s my favourite example of how people can get together and create delight
https://youtu.be/kbJcQYVtZMo
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne:
Yum. We need details.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: LOL!
Suzanne
@mrmoshpotato: There’s no details to provide! My life is (barely) controlled chaos.
Redshift
We discovered that in our new house we could see several nearby First Night fireworks displays from our front lawn, so the year started out well.
HumboldtBlue
I was all in for the various and sundry accounts of bacchanalia and exuberant celebration for the new year…
But seriously… how did the baby get the pizza in the bed?
Suzanne
@HumboldtBlue: Grabbed the rest of her piece of pizza from the table, ran upstairs, climbed into the bed, and threw a fit when my husband halfheartedly tried to take it. She’s fast.
Kattails
Mixed in with numerous Betty White clips, Rex Chapman dropped a bit with Charlie Chaplin in “The Great Dictator”–someone else linked to a more complete clip on youtube. Why had I never seen this? It’s 81 year old and still perfect.
Happy New Year everyone!
Kalakal
@NotMax: Sadly that’s what my cousins tell me. I can’t say first hand as I’m one of those evil immigrants and live in Florida nowadays*. I’m from a small village/town near Inverness, New Years were GREAT! Everybody ended up in everybody else’s house at some point, and a really good time was had by all and all would “tak a richt gude-willie-waucht,fir ald lang syn.”
*The things you do for love :)
LiminalOwl
@NotMax: Bananas Foster, yum.
And this came across my tablet a few minutes ago, reminding me of John Cole’s rant from a couple of days ago… https://www.reddit.com/r/hmmmgifs/comments/qp9zf4/hmmm/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
(Apologies if it’s already been posted here; asusual, I’m reading intermittently.)
Happy New Year, all.
sab
@Suzanne: I did convince my pitbull that she should not eat milkbones in bed. She chews them up and leaves huge crunchy crumbs everywhere. If she just swallowed them it would be okay. It’s the crumbs I have objections to.
sab
@Suzanne: Time flies. I think of her as a baby but she is a toddler now.
HumboldtBlue
@Suzanne:
Li’l demons are greasy.
I still think Pop was slipping.
eclare
@LiminalOwl: That’s….weird
Kalakal
@NotMax: Trading places
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: So it was imaginary pizza that can’t be described? :)
brendancalling
This fall should see me back in Philly or Nashville. Bound to be a better year.
NotMax
Chowing down on beautifully broiled 1¾ inch thick NY strip steaks from Costco. Special treat; budget squeezing enough to gaze at longingly but pass by except on rare occasions. Along with Kirkland Prosecco to wash ’em down.
(Yes, steaks, plural. One is the runt of the litter so made the snap decision to include it on the plate in lieu of any veggies.)
Much better quality meat than in any of the regular supermarkets (to begin with, all fat not trimmed to a fare thee well). Possibly not including Whole Hand Over Your Firstborn, home to meat counter sticker shock.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: ??
NotMax
Thanks for the additional film titles!
CaseyL
T minus 25 minutes to NY here on the West Coast.
I’m about to watch something called “Augmented Reality Fireworks” from the Space Needle. They say this is the first time ever, but the Space Needle did the same thing last year. Just a bunch of computer graphics overlaying the fireworks. I wasn’t impressed.
We’ll see if tonight’s show is any better.
NotMax
Sheesh. Nearby neighbors must be having a gathering outdoors (under a canopy, I guess, as it is wet out there) and has an audio system set up blasting both Hawaiian and Jawaiian music. It’s just on the cusp of being too loud inside my domicile, several lots away.
Meanwhile snap, crackle and bang unrelenting. County ordinance allows legal fireworks (no aerials which reach above twelve feet and only then with a permit) during the hours of 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. The smoke and staccato sinfonia has been going on since sundown (~5:55 p.m.).
Starboard Tack
Absolutely dead in West Washington Park. 16 degrees F and 3 inches of fresh snow is discouraging.
NotMax
Decided something amusing and gentle is in order for viewing. Just about to dive into Tea With the Dames (which have not seen previously).
opiejeanne
@LiminalOwl: That was a thing I never expected.
sab
Lit my christmas pudding mountain time, Ate it. Those things are kind of unpleasant. Glad it is gone.
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: 14 minutes to go. I’m in bed listening to the muffled booms and bangs. Not a lot of celebrants, but they’ve been going since 11.
It’s 16 F. I can’t imagine wanting to be outside right now but some idiots here are setting off firecrackers. Brrrr!
opiejeanne
@sab: LOL!
opiejeanne
I was hoping to be asleep by now but it’s just slightly too noisy. The cats were troubled when it started, but they’ve adapted.
sab
@opiejeanne: Your climate is supposed to be mild and mine cold, but we are in the fities here in midwinter, and you are freezing. Everybodies’ trees are sufferung because none if this is normal and trees cannot migrate.
CaseyL
Happy 2022 from the Left Coast!
And the Space Needle show is much better than last year’s.
@opiejeanne:
Some booms going on here, too. One good thing about the cold is both cats are inside with no desire to go out!
opiejeanne
@sab: The trees on my property are mostly fir and birch, so they are suited to the cold. Seattle has had some really nasty cold winters. We got at least 6 inches of snow here over 3 days, starting on Christmas. Last year we got a foot of snow in one storm and we were essentially snowed in for a week, and that has happened a few times.
And now it sounds like a war, with huge explosions
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: That’s good. I saw a little of it last year and they must have felt embarrassed.
Now it sounds like someone has a smallish cannon.
CaseyL
@opiejeanne:
M80s sound like large-ish cannon; I’m waiting to see if anyone sets one off, and hoping not.
@opiejeanne: In 2019, I was just starting a new job at Edmonds Community College (now just plain old Edmonds College). It was, IIRC, my second or third day when the Snowpocalypse of 2019 hit and we were all sent home. And stayed there, for two or three days. Happened again the following week with another huge deposit of snow… and the week after that! The Dean told me, at one point – very bemusedly – that things weren’t always like this. I said I wasn’t sure I could get used to working a whole 5 days (jokingly; she took it well). My first month at a new job, and I was there in the actual office maybe a total of 9 days ?
‘Course, we had no idea what was coming in 2020, when we’d all be WFH seemingly permanently.
Anotherlurker
HNY from the East Bay!
AlaskaReader
Chef Andre announced he was packed and headed to the fire before the newscasts had ended.
I’m gonna support Chef Andre in the new year.
He should have been ‘man of the year’.
HAPPY NEW AND BETTER YEAR to ALL
(still not midnight here)
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: were snowed in that year, too.
We had a late snow, very heavy and wet, about 5 years ago. It took out a lot of trees, which took out some power lines, and we didn’t have power for 24 hours. The generator kept our refrigerator going, but we couldn’t figure out how to hook up the heater. We spent the daylight hours on the sofa pulled up close to the fireplace with e-readers, bundled up in blankets, and the cats joined us. We were warm enough. I don’t remember what we ate, probably crackers and cheese, stuff we didn’t have to cook.
We got off easy, because other areas didn’t get their power back for a week.
opiejeanne
@AlaskaReader: You’ve got 20 minutes to go.
rikyrah
Happy New Year?!?
Mai Naem mobile
Happy New Year All!
First thing I saw treading on my Twitter feed in 2022 is the Bee Gees and Staying Alive – whatever the hell that means for 2022. The neighbor two doors down was lighting fireworks but its pouring here in Phoenix which is always a good thing.
ColoradoGuy
This was the quietest New Year in the Erie neighborhood that I can remember. No fireworks at all, nobody running outside and shouting, no hoots and hollers from party-goers driving by. I think it’s the shock from last night’s fire, which was only a few miles away and visible at night, combined with the first snowfall this winter. Everyone is just hunkering down and glad they still have a house to live in.
Mary G
Totally silent here in the OC at zero hour. W weird but nice.
lowtechcyclist
Well, it’s been 2022 for five hours here on the East Coast, and the world is still pretty much the same. Clearly that’s all Biden’s fault. ;^)
evodevo
@NotMax: Which means a foal born the last few days of Dec. is decidedly BAD LUCK in the racing world…when his compadres who were born in the spring of 2021 are racing as 3-yr-olds, he/she will be too immature …the basis of a Dick Francis novel, I think…
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: Yes, and I have heard tales of TB breeders who fudged the books a little on their December babies to give them a January birthday. Only heard tales, tho. ; )
Kayla Rudbek
@JoyceH: I thought that might have been a late relative of his (mom or grandma most likely).