A Long December

...and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last...

Happy New Year to all! And when I say that, I mean the actual year, coming up, not just this arbitrary pseudo-holiday that everyone makes a big deal over even though no one really wants to go out on a night when every place is more expensive than usual, and more over-crowded than usual, and everyone is drunker than usual, and therefore more idiotic than usual, so very few people actually have a good time, because most people are ruminating on the big symbolic gesture of the calendar change, or trying not to ruminate upon it so they're...uh...getting drunker and more idiotic than usual. Forget that. I mean, here's to 2006!

Go out if you want to, stay in if you want to, shut the tv off it you want to. Don't think everyone else out there is having more fun than you are. They're not. Really. I've been to Times Square on New Year's and got nothing but vomited upon by some Canadian kids. The most exciting part of it is going through the subway turnstile without having to pay. Can you imagine trying to sell Metrocards to the drunken masses after the ball drops? Good plan with the free subways, boys.

So I say, do whatever you damn well please on New Year's Eve. Just be safe about it.

And now we interrupt this regularly scheduled post for a personal message.

Happy Birthday to an old friend, Tim (aka the YTK) . And by old, I don't mean, "ha ha ha, tell me how 31 turns out for ya", I mean, "known him a long time".

In fact, here's a picture of the two of us from the year we met. Obviously this was taken on Halloween (one would hope), but I'll let you guess the year. (It's not "guessing" if you know us IRL and actually know the answer.)

Hey Tim, remember how we went to Times Square on, like, the coldest New Year's Eve in New York in, like, recorded history, and those Canadians were vomiting all over the place? Wasn't it, like, so not fun?

By the way, Timmy, this comic strip is for you. I ripped it out of a newspaper ages ago, and it's been on my magnetic wall of insanity ever since, just waiting to be sent to you...

And now back to my rant...

Forget this December 31 into January 1 poop. As said earlier: arbitrary. Every day is a chance to make your life better and go out and get what you want.

Except today. Because there are all those amateur drunks on the road. So stay safe. See you in 2006.