Happy New Year!!
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:08 last edited by
No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:27 last edited by CHAS 1 Jan 2025, 03:31
Saw Queer starring Daniel Craig this afternoon. Expected several sex explicit
scenes after reading the reviews.
Nope. I was surprising seeing a popular movie star doing those non-explicit scenes.
Drugs, including alcohol were constant, not sex. Burroughs wrote Junkie, not a sex book.
The movie was well done, not surprised the reviews were positive. Daniel Craig is due the recognition he is getting for his acting. tv
We stopped at a Flower Child for a light dinner and we are home watching the celebrations on TV. May stay until 10; there are clothes in the drier. -
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Chas, I really want to see Queer. I admire Burroughs’ work and I respect Craig for seeking out the part. Great review on NPR.
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@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 03:44 last edited byIt’s my whole family + Kim’s in-laws and family + Greg’s MIL and one of the kid’s friends from school.
We played “Punchbowl”, now watching NY Rocking Eve upstairs and football downstairs.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 19:11 last edited by
And to you!
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:08 last edited by
Happy New Year
My younger daughter just said with a tinge of sadness
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No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:20 last edited by@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80’s. We lived in Queens at the time.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:29 last edited by
Happy New Year from Las Vegas.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:33 last edited by
Another firework this morning in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas this morning.
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wrote on 1 Jan 2025, 21:41 last edited by
Happy new year!
We went to bed before 11pm and I was up around 5:30 as usual
My mother is staying with us. Yesterday we had “new year’s eve noodles.” Then this morning, we watched the Japanese new year’s song contest (which is a 4 hour show!) while alternating between putting away the Christmas tree ornaments and doing Japanese games. It’s been a lovely day so far. Dinner will be ravioli with meatballs.
And just a little bit ago, the sun came out.
It’s been a lovely day.
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@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80’s. We lived in Queens at the time.
wrote on 2 Jan 2025, 05:13 last edited by@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!
I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!
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@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!
I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!
wrote on 2 Jan 2025, 12:32 last edited by@Bernard yikes, that sounds awful! I never understood the appeal of attending a public event like that, where people are packed in like sardines, and had I ever attempted to attend, I would have done what you did — go home!
BTW Mr SK always says he can never understand the appeal of a ball drop. For one thing, according to him, it seems like a “bad luck” way to start the new year, with a large object falling down, rather than something that goes up.
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@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!
I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!
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I’m sipping my afternoon prosecco while I’m puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchen’s olive oil brownies, haven’t tasted them yet.
Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldn’t wait to sample!
Also making some crispy baked tofu to go with tonight’s roasted vegetables (cauliflower/brussels sprouts/sweet potato) with a vinaigrette dressing. How virtuous! A far cry from Mik’s steaks. (Mr. AM is a weekday vegetarian; we had our prime rib cheater last week for Christmas.)
May pop some actual champagne tonight, or Mumm Napa. We shall see. Mr. AM doesn’t love bubbly the way I do.
wrote on 9 Jan 2025, 23:10 last edited by wtg 1 Sept 2025, 23:10@AdagioM said in Happy New Year!!:
I’m sipping my afternoon prosecco while I’m puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchen’s olive oil brownies, haven’t tasted them yet.
Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldn’t wait to sample!
OMG the brownies are fabulous. I only had extra virgin olive oil, so not quite the mild flavor olive oil the recipe calls for, but they are still sooooo delicious.
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@AdagioM said in Happy New Year!!:
I’m sipping my afternoon prosecco while I’m puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchen’s olive oil brownies, haven’t tasted them yet.
Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldn’t wait to sample!
OMG the brownies are fabulous. I only had extra virgin olive oil, so not quite the mild flavor olive oil the recipe calls for, but they are still sooooo delicious.
