This is the first year in a long time I haven't known what I'm doing on NYE. Normally it's me, DH, 2 bottles of sparkling Riesling, a big deli tray from FreshDirect, three or four movies, and caviar and blini at midnight.

This year, almost everything except the blini and the movies are off limits to me (though it's not too difficult to find pasteurized caviar), so plans are a little up in the air. We'll have some friends in from out of town, who may have plans we can latch on to. We'll see. (I really don't digest restaurant food very well these days, so even just going out to dinner can be kind of an ordeal.)

SO FUN. Nothing I like more than karaoke, unless it's karaoke with many good friends around.

You should totally do the karaoke with Juliana. I bet Daisy Jane is a karaoke queen too.

From Wonkette: The Mod Squad: Rummy, Jerry & Dick's '70s Style

We’ve long argued that the only non-Chevy Chase-related legacy of Ford’s temp-worker presidency was the evil he unleashed upon the world in the form of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, a pair of nobody White House factotums who were suddenly elevated to ridiculous levels of power, which they would manage to cling to and abuse for an entire awful generation.

The LA Times has come around to our view: “Ford’s most enduring legacy, some have argued, is the people he brought into power, including Donald H. Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Brent Scowcroft and James A. Baker III.” Scowcroft and Baker, of course, were Poppy’s men. So Ford can also be blamed for setting up the takeover of the Reagan White House by Baker and GHWB.

Anyway, dig the crazy clothes! This was a year or two before “Star Wars” was released, so they didn’t know what kind of uniforms and masks and capes they were supposed to be wearing.

The last sentence cracked me up....

When was the last time you had fun on New Year's Eve?

Every year since high school. But I love dressing up, I love champagne (Kir Royales!), and I spent it at one party, with my good friends and good food, good tunes, and the knowledge that there's always a pillow, blanket, and bit of space for me to crash, if it becomes necessary.

And coffee and mimosas the morning after, if there's any leftover cham.

When was the last time you had fun on New Year's Eve?

Probably New Year's 1999 ---> 2000. A group of us went to Nantucket for the weekend and we all threw in for a couple of really good bottles of champagne (plus several bottles of servicable champagne like Veuve Cliquot yellow label). I believe we had a Dom Rose and a Krug Reserve as our top of the pops. I've had OK low key New Years since, but that was the last lotsa fun one.

Dear The People Who Stand Directly In Front Of A Revolving Door, Thus Preventing Anyone Currently In The Revolving Door From Exiting,

Elbows are a wonderful thing. I have also developed a particularly musical "Comin' through! Comin' through!" bellow that I employ when people on the T are not making way for people getting off the T. But there's more satisfaction in elbows.

I should make t-shirts that say:

New Yorkers aren't rude, Tourists are slow.

I'd make a fortune.

So Ford can also be blamed for setting up the takeover of the Reagan White House by Baker and GHWB.

Blamed? Despite voting against Bush senior, I didn't really regard their coming to power as a bad thing for the country.

servicable champagne like Veuve Cliquot yellow label

Oh, man -- Veuve Cliquot is my favorite champagne! WAY more than serviceable. It's just so creamy. Mmmmm.

Last year's NYE was lots of fun, though it was fraught with what we thought was a visit from the police, and that's all I'm going to say in a public forum.

You should totally do the karaoke with Juliana. I bet Daisy Jane is a karaoke queen too.

Oh, lord. This would be SO MUCH FUN. I love the karaoke.

servicable champagne like Veuve Cliquot yellow label

Dude, what Steph said. It is most tasty. It's not my favorite champagne/sparkling wine, but it's definitely in my Top 5.

Announcement: I have been eating muffaletta for breakfast and lunch for the past few days.

Analysis: I will be approximately 5 million pounds by the time this sammich is gone. Also, the olive tapenade is the Way and the Light.