You suffer from a lack of retail experience. There are decorations. And, if you want costumes, join the Mummers in Philadelphia.
bumpkis
· 11 months ago
Israel is engaging in genocide against the Palestinians in GAZA this morning. Cut off all AID, immediately stop all weapons sales and support, this has to stop. Those phoney rockets (large fireworks) in all likelihood were not being fired by GAZANS...
Killing innocent people for national political posturing...where have we seen that before?
Older_Wiser
· 11 months ago
Of course, the meme is, "Israel does not engage in genocide." Liars. The US will never stop aid to them--it's too entrenched.
New Year's Eve is party time, at least when I was younger. Nowadays, I simply indulge in cooking black eyed peas and collard greens on New Year's Day, a southern good luck tradition (peas for coins, collards for bills), along with some kind of pork and cornbread, of course. Peas or beans and greens has kept many a generation in the south from starving to death...and they're nutritious as well. Collards have more vitamin C than orange juice and black eyed peas are a colon cleanser. : ) Of course, I don't believe in superstitious claptrap, just love the food (not the pork for this veghead though).
mikeyDe
· 11 months ago
New Year's Eve is no big deal but I love New Year's Day. I love it *because* it doesn't involve costumes and decorations or great expectations. I also love the idea of a clean slate, Janus, the end of one year and the beginning of the next.
And I love my family's simple good luck tradition: blackeyed peas and cornbread. This year we're combining that with our Slovak neighbors' good luck tradition: roast pork and sauerkraut. As odd as that combination sounds, I can use all the good luck I can get.
Indigo
· 11 months ago
My feeling about New Year's Eve celebrations is that it's a good evening to stay home and watch Dick Clark get old. Besdies, it's dangerous out there with all those amateur party-clowns driving around drunk.
Older_Wiser
· 11 months ago
Ha, these days I can't even stay up that late. : )
Besides, it's an artificial time set...I just go by the seasons, trying to keep in tune with Ma Nature.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 11 months ago
I tried very hard, many years ago, to interest my neighbors in the Scottish tradition of going from house to house, drunk, and lugging wassail in big gallons, while playing the bagpipes in full Highland regalia. They thought it was just too odd ball and called the cops. However, many wanted to know what I wore under the kilt. <eg>
nicho
· 11 months ago
A kilt is the only garment that apparently allows people -- even strangers -- to ask you point blank about your genitals.
When people ask me what is under my kilt, I tell them that there is only one way to find out. If they make a move, I stop them and say "But, if you touch it, you eat it." That stops them.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 11 months ago
Love it! I always tell them that its all bonny and big!
Indigo
· 11 months ago
I've worn one on occasion. Nobody asked. Darn it!
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 11 months ago
I particularly like very windy days...I have a fine set of glutes.
Indigo
· 11 months ago
I'm sure you do. :)
AngelaChanning
· 11 months ago
John, I was also never a New Year's fan either. To me, it would just mean another year getting old and then I would obsess whether I wrote the date correctly, especially on checks. (Well, now I bank electronically, so that worry is over. LOL). Anyway, I do enjoy watching Kathy Griffin with Anderson Cooper. Every year, the viewer expects her to out him or for him to out himself. It is the best tightrope on TV! LOL. When I was little, I loved watching Guy Lombardo and I would look for that pleasantly plump blonde woman with the (real) tiara. I wanted to be her (just for that night, of course). It was nice to see a chubby girl looking glam.
BTW, I know people biatch about the ads, but I did like the Atlantis Cruise ad. It is nice to look at tanned, toned twinks, while I eat my Hostess Twinkies, Tastykakes, and Oreo Cookies. Thank you for listening.
AngelaChanning
· 11 months ago
PS: When we were also little kids, we would go out at midnight and bang pots and pans. The whole neighborhood did it. When I talk to other people outside Baltimore, no one ever did that except one friend from West Virginia. (I am not saying that with sarcasm, either. LOL) One year, when my mother got a nice set of Farberware, she would not let us use it for New Years. We had to use the old turquoise Club aluminum pots and I really wanted to impress the neighbors with our new cookware. LOL. Thank you for listening.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 11 months ago
That reminded me of the time mom got a brand new set of Revere ware...ca 1959, and we used it to "make percussion" music in the cellar while playing Connie Francis 45s and rollerskating around the oil burner and center stair case. I think I vaguely remember not being able to sit down for a few days. We were like 8 years old and just assumed the new pans were for US. Of course my dad's violin bows became like riding crops and when he found out, well I think I remember it involving some sort of barber's razor strop...oh god were we bad.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 11 months ago
Unfortunately most of the men who actually GO on those cruises do NOT look like the models in the ads...ROFL
Indigo
· 11 months ago
I've been on a few of those cruises. The range of body types is considerably more diverse than what the ads show but what the ads show is part of the reality of a gay cruise. Loads of fun!
scottinsf
· 11 months ago
Years ago my husband and I went on an Atlantis cruise. We are definitely NOT into "tours" or pre-planned group travel type shit. We were prepared to expect the worst but thought what the hell let's try it. We had a blast! It really was very fun and we were VERY impressed with the way the Atlantis people ran the whole thing. I don't know if it's still that way but it was about eight years ago.
If anybody is wondering, as far as the other people on the cruise, I'd say it's about what Atlantis says with roughly half coupled, half single. I'd say 50% between the age 35-45, about 25% younger than that and 25% older. People of all types from all-night partiers to mellow quiet types. People were mostly out-going and we were surprised by the lack of attitude. All shapes and sizes ;) There are plenty of pretty boys but still lots of normal folks. We haven't taken a cruise with them since the one years ago, but we would highly recommend Atlantis to anyone thinking about it.
Forty2
· 11 months ago
I wanted to buy Geldscheisser but couldn't get them in time for NYE. Next year.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 11 months ago
Okay I'll bite...what the fuck are Geldscheisser...my rough literal translation is "money shitter"
I've sat in the Cambria Pines Lodge & seen a rapid fog roll in over the place. It was like an ocean wave, overwhelming and magnificent, wending its way thru the pine trees right up to the steps. Not cat's feet at all, ht Sandberg, more like a cheetah, as my love & I watched thru an upstairs window. Went to see Hearst's Estate in the hills north of Cambria proper the next day. A magnificent romp WRHearst built despite all his rep- a bit like a haunted mansion with its grounds & pools & the fog still lingering into midday. Happy Holidays to all here.
plato_451
· 11 months ago
I would maybe suggest a visit to New Orleans for a New Years Eve celebration. This time of year sees a lot of fog, we wear costumes for NYE, fireworks at midnight, it goes on and on.
renegademom
· 11 months ago
my kids, some friends, and I paint on New Years Eve. Lots of acrylics, huge sketch pad, sparkling cider for the kids, pomegranate martinis for the grownups, and we PAINT. It rocks, and we get lots of interesting pieces!!!!
Bush Bites
· 11 months ago
New Year's Eve is for amateurs.
MaudGonne
· 11 months ago
NORTH COLLEGE HILL - In another sign of a straining national economy, the North College Hill School district has opened some of its school cafeterias during the winter break to provide hot lunches for needy students. Although the district of about 1,600 students had closed its classrooms from Dec. 22 through Jan. 2, its food service provider opened the lunchroom at Josie E. Becker Elementary and North College Hill Junior-Senior High to any children for a free lunch Dec. 22-24 and Dec. 30 and 31. Many suburban districts provide free lunches over the summer to children living in poor areas. This is the first time North College Hill kept lunch lines going through a long holiday break. http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...
PatD
· 11 months ago
What's up with Bristol Palin's condition. A week late and counting.
Say it Lamar
· 11 months ago
I'll be skiing in Utah. Can't wait.
MaudGonne
· 11 months ago
the man who is not going to change the Middle East, Barack Obama, who last week, with infinite predictability, became Time's "person of the year". But buried in a long and immensely tedious interview inside the magazine, Obama devotes just one sentence to the Arab-Israeli conflict: "And seeing if we can build on some of the progress, at least in conversation, that's been made around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be a priority."
What is this man talking about? "Building on progress?" What progress? On the verge of another civil war between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, with Benjamin Netanyahu a contender for Israeli prime minister, with Israel's monstrous wall and its Jewish colonies still taking more Arab land, and Palestinians still firing rockets at Sderot, and Obama thinks there's "progress" to build on? http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...
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Killing innocent people for national political posturing...where have we seen that before?
New Year's Eve is party time, at least when I was younger. Nowadays, I simply indulge in cooking black eyed peas and collard greens on New Year's Day, a southern good luck tradition (peas for coins, collards for bills), along with some kind of pork and cornbread, of course. Peas or beans and greens has kept many a generation in the south from starving to death...and they're nutritious as well. Collards have more vitamin C than orange juice and black eyed peas are a colon cleanser. : ) Of course, I don't believe in superstitious claptrap, just love the food (not the pork for this veghead though).
And I love my family's simple good luck tradition: blackeyed peas and cornbread. This year we're combining that with our Slovak neighbors' good luck tradition: roast pork and sauerkraut. As odd as that combination sounds, I can use all the good luck I can get.
Besides, it's an artificial time set...I just go by the seasons, trying to keep in tune with Ma Nature.
When people ask me what is under my kilt, I tell them that there is only one way to find out. If they make a move, I stop them and say "But, if you touch it, you eat it." That stops them.
BTW, I know people biatch about the ads, but I did like the Atlantis Cruise ad. It is nice to look at tanned, toned twinks, while I eat my Hostess Twinkies, Tastykakes, and Oreo Cookies. Thank you for listening.
If anybody is wondering, as far as the other people on the cruise, I'd say it's about what Atlantis says with roughly half coupled, half single. I'd say 50% between the age 35-45, about 25% younger than that and 25% older. People of all types from all-night partiers to mellow quiet types. People were mostly out-going and we were surprised by the lack of attitude. All shapes and sizes ;) There are plenty of pretty boys but still lots of normal folks. We haven't taken a cruise with them since the one years ago, but we would highly recommend Atlantis to anyone thinking about it.
http://www.onezumiverse.com/?p=464
Not cat's feet at all, ht Sandberg, more like a cheetah, as my love & I watched thru an upstairs window.
Went to see Hearst's Estate in the hills north of Cambria proper the next day. A magnificent romp WRHearst built despite all his rep- a bit like a haunted mansion with its grounds & pools & the fog still lingering into midday. Happy Holidays to all here.
Although the district of about 1,600 students had closed its classrooms from Dec. 22 through Jan. 2, its food service provider opened the lunchroom at Josie E. Becker Elementary and North College Hill Junior-Senior High to any children for a free lunch Dec. 22-24 and Dec. 30 and 31.
Many suburban districts provide free lunches over the summer to children living in poor areas. This is the first time North College Hill kept lunch lines going through a long holiday break.
http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articl...
What is this man talking about? "Building on progress?" What progress? On the verge of another civil war between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, with Benjamin Netanyahu a contender for Israeli prime minister, with Israel's monstrous wall and its Jewish colonies still taking more Arab land, and Palestinians still firing rockets at Sderot, and Obama thinks there's "progress" to build on?
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentato...
"you're likable enough, gay people."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28ric...