Thursday, December 29, 2005

Happy New Year!

Just in case I don't get a chance to post anything before the big Dick Clark-Ryan Seacrest-Haylie Duff (WTF?!!) extravaganza Saturday night, here are some new year's thoughts:

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. ~Winston Churchill

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Right on, E. Anything involving Haylie Duff deserves a "WTF?" Almost as inexplicable as Ashlee Simpson.

Happy New Year, E. You deserve it.