What are you doing New Year’s Eve?
And me? Glad you asked.
This year I’m visiting relatives and there’s actually a party tonight. So I’ll be attending.
Staying up till midnight is no problem for me, since I’m a night owl and always have been. Actually, even when young, I had somewhat of an aversion to New Year’s Eve. To the idea of a night when you were supposed to have fun or else. A reminder of the speedy passage of time. With alcohol drinking. And the obligatory midnight kiss, which wasn’t a fun moment if you didn’t like your date.
Once or twice I went to Times Square to see the ball go down in person and not just on TV. Curiously, those were some of my better New Year’s Eves. Maybe it was the people I was with those nights. We ate at Tad’s Steaks, just for laughs, but Tad’s wasn’t bad at all.
And five years ago the very last Tad’s in New York City closed down. I had no idea any of them had lasted that long.
So let’s drink to Tad’s:
The cafeteria-style chophouse is known for hawking inexpensive meat-and-potato dinners on red trays — meals that cost little more than $1 each when the first one opened in 1957. A steak lunch today can be had for as little as $9.
At its height, Tad’s had eight New York locations out of 28 nationwide. But come Jan. 5, 2020, the red neon sign in the window advertising “broiled” steaks at 761 Seventh Ave. will go dark — as will the vast grill that played host to smoky “steak shows,” where dozens of cuts could be grilled at once during the thick of lunch hour.
Happy New Year, everyone! I’m very grateful for all of you. Here’s to a wonderful 2025, full of love, joy, and good health!
[NOTE: Some of this appeared in previous posts.]
Just munchies, bottle of wine. Been getting up before 4am as will have to do again Jan2.
Hope Neo and all her readers have a great New Years.
I’ll be in bed by 10:00, but only because I’m headed to Hawaii early tomorrow morning. First time there.
Watching Porn sites using the Tor browser — just kidding. 😉
I’m still learning how to use my Smart TV that I’ve had since 2018. Just got a reliable Fiber ISP this year, so TV had never been hooked up to internet for anything but my TV PC.
Samsung TV Plus seems to control most of the Free stuff that I only watch – thru it I’m now using Tubi, Roku, and Plex. So much free TV Shows & Movies (with short commercials) that I’ll die before watching them all.
Ditto on Skip’s ‘Hope Neo and all her readers have a great New Years‘ – with a personal note to om for a Special Happy 2025 New Year!
We are actually going out for dinner but relatively early at 630. Then back home to protect the dogs from all the fireworks.
Mike Plaiss: hope you have a great time. Our trip 2 years ago was my best trip ever. 3 days on Oahu and 6 days on the Big Island. Honolulu is way too crowded but worth a trip to the north shore which is nice. And Pearl Harbor is a must. The BI is amazing, and a trip to the volcanoes is also a must. Kilauea is erupting now with a large fountain in the caldera. Be great to see. I’d like to go back and visit Maui and Kauai.
I’ll start 2025 by giving thanks for surviving the past year. For awhile it was, as Wellington said of Waterloo, “a damn close-run thing.”
(Actually, he probably said “It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life”.)
But whatever. I’m blessed, and I know it.
Wishing all here a very happy, healthy, and prosperous 2025!
As per usual, we are going to an early dinner at Morton’s The Steak House. Only this year it’s in San Antonio instead of Portland, OR. I believe this will be our 8th year in a row, save 2020 when it wasn’t open (and who would’ve wanted to be in downtown Portland then, anyway?).
Reservations at 5:45 — we’ll be home before the crazies even get started.
Happy New Year to you all, and especially to you, Neo! ?
I really like the song, “What are you doing, New Year’s.” Seems like a lot of female singers like singing it.
A Happy New Year’s to all of you! Have a fun night and best of luck and health in the new year!
Some friends invited me to the Abq Art Museum today — parking and admission free. I must say I found it depressing. The exhibitions were mostly edgy, diverse, grievance crap:
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Focusing on interviews over the past four years, the exhibition features large-scale installations by renowned artists and includes floating metal “jingle clouds,” a vibrant parade float honoring matriarchs, a colossal wolf forged from community care, brilliant mirrored tapestries honoring lives lost, a monument to Trans rights, and much more. Each of the featured artists engages their own cultural experience and elevates activism within diverse communities.
https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/albuquerque-museum/exhibitions-1/broken-boxes-a-decade-of-art-action-and-dialogue
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One of the silliest was a huge lump of clay, which had been sculpted (as documented by action photos surrounding the piece) by a naked, jacked, female body builder, using her hands, elbows, feet and knees on the clay.
Umm … OK.
In the long-term exhibition I saw older oil paintings which, while still modern, nonetheless conveyed the miracles of well-wrought paint on canvas.
I’m not sure how art manages to back up, hit the gas and burst out of this sand trap.
Kids left, and we are staying home tonight. Let the crazies have it.
I appreciate Neo and her information and commentary. I enjoy this community of commenters. Cheers, y’all! Here’s to a good 2025!
Blessed New Year y’all!
Fireworks last night were lovely and we survived the traffic around the local lake to see them in full beauty.
Praying for all of you a peaceful joyous 2025….& some other things as well.
Today’s Tuesday, tomorrow’s Wednesday. Party-hardied enough back when to last a lifetime. 60’s the new 40, 9PM’s the new midnight … and I rarely stay up til midnight anymore – but I am usually up by 3AM 🙂
What, it’s New Year\s eve? Oh no, it seems like we just packed up the patio for the winter. Time flies, and it flies much too fast these days.
Well, my bride tells me we have crab in the fridge and we’re eating it tonight. It’s a tradition we began a few years back. Good way to end the year.
We’ll watch the Telly -probably the Fiesta Bowl. Maybe catch a couple of midnight celebrations back east. No way will we make it to the midnight fireworks show at the Space Needle. Mr. and Mrs. excitement we’re not. 🙂
Best wishes to Neo and all the commenters who make this blog a must read. May we all enjoy a happy, prosperous 2025.
Talk about celebrating…
“Geomagnetic Storm Could Bring New Year’s Eve Aurora To Parts Of US”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/geomagnetic-storm-could-bring-new-years-eve-aurora-parts-us
Wishing one and all an excellent new year…
Happy New Year to Neo and all the commenters!
Gonna stay up till midnight and switch my calendars before I go to bed.
“I’m not sure how art manages to back up, hit the gas and burst out of this sand trap.” Huxley
I laughed out loud at this!
Hubby and I enjoyed an appetizer dinner, ala Trader Joe’s. Best we could do after a day’s work. Going to watch W C Fields, It’s a Gift, recommended by my cousin for laughs. The year flew by, lots of challenges and lots of reasons to give thanks and rejoice.
Cheers and well-wishes in 2025 to this fine group Neo hosts.
Happy New Year, everyone!
I just returned from our big church service that we have each New Year’s Eve for the Lord’s Circumcision combined with our patronal feast day (St. Basil). I had been feeling the blahs a bit on the way there, but once I got settled in with chanting the service, felt better.
huxley, speaking of the art museums… I was at the Albany Institute the other day, where they’re just winding down an exhibition on seventeenth-century Dutch art and one of contemporary Mohican-influenced or contemporary art by tribal artists. The basketry was good and a few of the other pieces were kind of nice. There was a video of a curious song sung by four women, the lyrics to which consisted of long elaborations of the composer’s full Native name in her tribal language. It was a little bit odd having those two exhibitions in neighboring parts of the museum, as the voices from the recording bled over into the halls with the Dutch objects to some degree. Fortunately, the emphasis was not too much on the kind of ideological stuff that you seem to have seen there.
Another thing to note about the Albany Institute is the great little collection of 19th-century American sculpture that it has. That’s the part that makes me sigh every time I’m there.
Happy New Year to our hostess and commentators. May it be a good year for all.
We long ago gave up “celebrating” New Year’s Eve, so AesopSpouse went to bed at 10, as he usually does, and I am up commenting here, as I usually am!
Someone in the neighborhood set off fireworks as the clock turned to midnight, as they usually do, so…
Happy New Year, and God bless us every one!
Lying in bed with stomach flu.
I didn’t know what to wear down to the family room for New Years Eve, so I just decided not to go. Happy New Year to neo and all of her interesting commenters.
Our next-door neighbors host a terrific NYE party every year with potluck food and lots of guitar singalong. I wouldn’t miss it for the world, though before this tradition start I didn’t bother with NYE parties for decades. A champagne gala, for instance, would leave me completely cold.
I went to a late night NYE dance party bash in Carmel. Super fun with our dancing group’s favorite band Scarlet. 25 of my close friends & I. Ha.
Scarlet is led by an outstanding lady alto vocalist Liz Goldberg and backed by 4 great guys. The rhythms played by the guys are dancing jet fuel. And 3 of the 4 guys are great singers too, so they can put together some excellent multipart vocals.
https://scarletmonterey.com/
We were dancing till 1AM, and demanded an encore when they stopped. So they played one of their new additions, Lizzo’s “Boys.” They step the tempo up and hit the instrumentals and rhythm harder. The song lyrics are a little crude, but the official video is quite crude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQliEKPg1Qk