Hope everyone enjoyed their New Year Eve celebration in what ever way they chose to celebrate it....and we hope you were safe also...
I remember the "golden days" of the Johnny Carson Show when Ed McMahon would do his heavy drinker schtick...he referred to New Year's Eve as "amateur night". That of course referred to the fact that people who do not normally imbibe or over-imbibe in alcohol find it somehow necessary to go out on New Year's Eve, get drunk, make total idiots of themselves, and possibly spoil the evening (early..oftentimes well before Midnight) for themselves, their dates and anybody who happens to be unfortunate enough to be close to them. People who can't handle alcohol......shouldn't even try.
For that reason, I much prefer to stay home on New Year's Eve....watch a movie, enjoy a good, special home-cooked meal, put the old year in some kind of perspective and prepare myself mentally for the challenges that I will face in the year to come.
This year will be a bit different....it's another Presidential Election year and we have another chance to rid ourselves of the Neocon regime in Washington....unless we "blow-it" again....
I'm none too happy about the field of potential Democratic nominees....neither am I thrilled that the national media and the pundocracy that other bloggers have nick-named "the villagers", (that is , those pundits who are inside-the-beltway, establishment who believe they and they alone know what's "best for middle-America) are once again trying to tell us who our nominee should be.
It's our decision, dammit...
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Happy New Year, everyone! Speaking of how one spends New Years Eve, I confess to spending a quiet evening at home. The highlight was watching a rerun of Bill Maher and giggling uncontrollably as Bill did an imitation of a woodland creature affected by that great boogaboo of modern society---STRESS. His depiction of a squirrel constantly under stress even while devouring acorns was spot on!
Today, New Years Day, I celebrated by going to see a movie called "Charlie Wilson's War." This was a remarkably good movie about a real former congressman from TX who was responsible for providing big dollars to the mujaheedin in Afghanistan so that they could shoot down Soviet planes and defeat the Russians. I couldn't help wondering if Wilson (who is still living) has had second thoughts concerning where a lot of those weapons and dollars probably ended up. That's right--in the hands of the Taliban.
That's a movie I've got to see.
I'm still pondering over the last good movie I watched, Lives of Others and, on New Year's Day, my wife and I finally got to see SICKO!...which was pretty good in it's own way....
New Year's eve was quiet here as well...no mad reveling or even running naked around a bonfire....sigh....it's hell getting older....
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