Gambling with the folks? Weird. But, I love gambling.
Blowing shit up in an empty field in Denham with redneck in-laws? Typical but dangerous.
Drinking downtown with lawyers and waking up with a formerly chaste Catholic , again? So pure... yet so needy.
brandon [email] said at 11:18 PM 01-01-2008: Right, you grokked the title as a reference to the moties. My subsequent response attempted to tie together your previously documented joy in clearing brush by burning with my hasty and poor recollection of rituals of the Chinese New Year, in which fire and fireworks are used to scare away evil spirits, not dragons, as I wrote.
I merely suggested that you do something to ensure that the spirits were driven away and the New Year ushered in whole and unmolested. That was all!
art [email] said at 9:59 AM 01-02-2008: I had a feeling, but I didn't want to presume the wrong analogy. There is nothing worse than a mal-analogy.
We went out for Chinese food and I drank two Suffering Bastards. Does that count?
I have a shitload of brush to burn, but alas it is too wet. When there is a lot of snow here, it is too damp. Later in the season when the air is drier, there is no snow. The Gods are against me.
myriam [email] said at 4:46 PM 12-31-2007: Going to Linus' NYE party, while John goes to work! We are going to a french restaurant in old town for dinner first.
john [email] said at 10:03 PM 01-01-2008: Linus is handy at several things. I'm flying into BR tomorrow afternoon. I'll be there until the 8th. Up for a beer?
amanda [email] said at 5:27 PM 12-31-2007: I'm cooking fettucine alfredo with green peas and mushrooms, some pecan or walnut and herb stuffed chicken breasts (which have been brining for 2 days), brussel sprouts in brown butter, and probably some sort of bruschetta with salad caprese. I might do a soup if I feel especially ambitious, and I haven't decided on dessert. Bananas Foster?
After our dinner, digestion, and further viewing of the Law & Order marathon, the boy and I are planning to walk down to the beach and watch the SF and Oakland fireworks/gunfire.
There will also be about 10 loads of laundry done, as Ben and I have been ill with the plague for the last week.
My friend Lisa is in SF and will be going to the Melvins show tonight. We'd love to join her but...$40 per head? For the Melvins? Nope.
anthony [email] said at 5:40 PM 12-31-2007: I originally planned to start the new year off with a good night's rest, but that would have ruined the trend of weird and ridiculous nights I've had for the past month or two. I have no real plan other than to let the cards fall where they do, which usually works out.
I suggest you go downtown and convince the lawyers to come blow stuff up, and then let your parents bet on who will be the first to either get hurt or pass out. Who knows, some of those lawyers might be relation in the morning.
brandon [email] said at 6:08 PM 12-31-2007: Plan coalesced into going to a lawyer's house about halfway to Denham and blowing shit up. There may be some Catholics present, but I don't think I'm going to be rolled any trim. There may be card playing.
jake [email] said at 5:44 PM 12-31-2007: I'm cruising around the mission with the SF Cruiser's bike ride assuming I get across the water in time, then serving up italian soda's at a new friend's party, and perhaps wandering around to other parties in the neighborhood with a clipboard and >
Heckling people with my loudspeaker will also occur.
brandon [email] said at 6:10 PM 12-31-2007: You have my approval. Everyone have a great New Years. Don't die. Or knock up someone ugly. Or get an STD, those are the worst. 2008 should be an even year.
zack [email] said at 3:51 PM 01-01-2008: I worked two jobs, 5pm till 230. coffee then door security at the bar I work at. Totally sober all night till like 330, when i smoked some weed and went to bed. It was pretty cool actually.
brandonA [email] said at 1:36 PM 01-02-2008: ended up at k-doe's mother-in-law lounge, where I had been a few NYE's ago.
It was a totally different place this year. The door was locked and you had to buzz to get in. There were only maybe 20 people total there and we had the back room all to ourselves. There seemed to be a lot of religious folk, and a preacher got up and gave a speech basically saying that technology (he explicitly named the wii, PS, and ipod) was causing the violence in NO. Then he led a prayer, then about half the people left 'before the streets got too dangerous'.
