Comments on: What are you doing New Year’s Eve? https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:52:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472986 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:52:24 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472986 We set a lovely table still adorned with Christmas cheer and enjoy the fireplace and a movie (The Thin Man this year).

Sharon W: Good for you! Was there ever a screen couple with better chemistry than William Powell and Myrna Loy as Nick and Nora?

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472984 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:37:28 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472984 om: Thanks for the good wishes. Yes, it’s not well-known but Jack Kerouac was a deep, if unorthodox and often lost, Christian and he wrote from that place. “Beat” in Kerouac’s usage was short for beatific.

Likewise — hold on to your hats — Andy Warhol. He attended mass regularly and much of his last work was overtly Christian with subjects like the Last Supper. Art critics and Warhol fans who wish to hang on to his glory days as the enigmatic NYC pop artist neglect to mention these facts.

Ken Kesey, author of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and leader of the psychedelic Merry Pranksters, never stopped recommending the Bible for its wisdom and as literature.

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472981 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:12:01 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472981 The top PC moments of the last decade..

• A college diversity-training course taught that it was culturally insensitive to expect people to be on time.

• University researchers demanded that we accept people who “identify as real vampires.”

• A Seattle-area councilman was concerned about the city hosing poop off of its sidewalks because he thought that it might seem too racially insensitive.

• A professor claimed that the small chairs in preschools are sexist, “disempowering,” and “problematic.”

• A school in Seattle reportedly insisted that Easter eggs be called “spring spheres.”

• A group of Berkeley students insisted that they could not take their in-class exam due to their lack of privilege.

• A campus Christian club was found guilty of discrimination for requiring its leaders to be Christians.

• Oxford University law students were told that they didn’t have to learn about rape or violence law if they found it too triggering.

]]> By: Artfldgr https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472980 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 19:10:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472980 I used to LOVE tads steaks in Manhattan… cheap steak with a beer…
couldn’t beat it… however the stores were always kind of run down
especially the two, one near the port authority and the other on 34th street

there were lots of cool places and tads was one of the last leftovers from the 1970s

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472979 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 18:49:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472979 Karl Lembke:

I hope it goes well for you.

]]> By: Meemsie (formerly Susanamantha) https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472971 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:33:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472971 Watched the first two episodes of Vanity Fair on Netflix. Mr. Meemsie had a martini or two, and I had 2 glasses of red wine. Cleaned a section of the basement yesterday with many trips up and down the stairs, so in bed by 10:30. No fireworks in our area of Ohio (too cold and windy for revelers to be outside for long) so the 3 dogs didn’t have to hear the bangs. Happy New Year to all Neoneoconistas and thanks to our hostess for another enlightening, thought provoking blog.

]]> By: John Dough https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472970 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 16:14:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472970 A few of the benefits of living in the Pacific time zone are 1) Monday night football starts at 5:30 PM and 2) you can watch the ball drop in Times Square at 9:00 PM followed by a restful nights sleep…and for those that want to go to bed earlier, the local Hofbrauhaus restaurant celebrates “New Years in Munich” at 3 PM. Happy New Year everybody

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472967 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 15:15:33 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472967 huxley:

Here is a short article that might be of interest in between looking for a new rig and recovering from the carnival on ice.

Hope you are hale and hearty soon.

https://spectator.org/remembering-jack-kerouac-novelist-beat-conservative-catholic/

]]> By: LeClerc https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472962 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 12:10:22 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472962 Had some risotto luganega, asparagus, and white burgundy.

Watched Eleanor Powell’s and Fred Astaire’s incredible tap-dancing in “Broadway Melody 1940”.

Fell asleep in living room chair.

]]> By: Ira https://thenewneo.com/2019/12/31/what-are-you-doing-new-years-eve/#comment-2472960 Wed, 01 Jan 2020 10:47:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=92139#comment-2472960 Just woke up here in L.A., as I sometimes do, and hope to fall back asleep soon.

Yesterday evening (i.e., New Year’s Eve) I spent with 4 friends. All of us had either grown up, or lived for a long period of time, in NYC. So, we decided to celebrate with the dropping of the Times Square Ball, and ended the evening early. So, just another “rowdy” party.

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