New Year's Eve In A Pandemic: Plans & Solace

happy new year to all itt <3

Alistair Cooke's America

Ah, yes! I remember this series, by that well-known expert on America. Why, he actually knew several real Americans and had bearded several others in their lairs, which was qualification enough back then. It was shown here in the US, too, because Americans always are eager to hear what foreigners think of their exceptional nation, so long as the ratio of compliments to mild criticisms is roughly 5:1.

Happy New Year’s everybody although it still 3 hours away here. Will report back later.

xp

I'm not saying it is good but I do have an inexplicable affection for it from the years of listening to his R4 bulletins in the 90's despite his politics being just as bad as yours and tbf I think he probably lived there just as long as you in the end!

happy new year ilx, and thank you for helping me get through the last one

xx etc

despite his politics being just as bad as yours

hmmm. remind me which bad policies I've advocated for and which bad politicians I backed. I can't improve until I know what needs improvement.

found a goth club DJ in Toronto taking video requests on Mixcloud while testing the Optimo stream-to-TV for later, 🖤🖤🖤🦇🦇🦇⚰️⚰️⚰️

happy new year aps! hope all is well with you! :) xps

xxp

just search posts by display name Aimless on I love Everything board from the last decade, no probs.

iow, you have no idea. it's just a vague impression based on nothing you can describe. thought so.

here comes the discourse zzz zzzz, but unfortunately I'm going to bed now. I'll try and have a lucid dream about how to make a post to viscerally describe my hatred of tedious bullshit supercilious American libs, it probably won't rival the next perry anderson essay but I'm sure you'll be waiting with baited breath.

Watched the phantom menace with the kids, now having a beer by the window

here comes the discourse zzz zzzz

you're the one who decided it would be fun to jab me in the ribs with your elbow. don't be surprised if I feel an urge to jab back. happy new year, calz.

soz i'm a bit pissed

(dw, I think most ppl itt would read Aimless as getting your back up first by snarking at the very idea of your NYE listening.)

well yeah, let's not that first strike go completely unnoticed! ffs there are better ways of expressing *strong* opinions - even though I've been just as bad myself in the past! But you are an old bastard, you should know better!

Spending the night at home with my wife as I have every night for the last 9+ months. Ordered fancy pizza, watched an episode of The Great British Bake-Off, and played a game of chess (yes, we are one of the legions who bought a chess set after watching The Queen's Gambit). Now eating ice cream and listening to some tunes with the cat in my lap.

Happy New Year, all.

Happy New Years, folks! My prediction appears to be accurate: definitely not making it to midnight.

Happy new year to all, but esp my B-brook brethren

Happy New Year, everyone! Got triggered by fireworks just outside my trailer, had a long and moving chat with someone on FB, and I'm now slurping down ciders, plotting out my New Year's post on FB, and waiting for the ball to get ready to drop.

lol the world already spent most of 2020 dropping the ball. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Hope it won't be a case of out of the frying pan and into the dumpster fire....

So I rewatched After the Thin Man, and my Jimmy Fucking Stewart allergy is worse if anything. I'm particularly bewildered by modern-day film fans who think he was hot.

An hour to midnight where I am, and the idea of drinking out the rest of this year is strangely grim. Hope everyone else is having a better NYE.

Gummy worm binge

happy new year, ILXors! I'm listening to Yagya and staring at the fire.

lol I made a joke about the bangs outside being gunshots, and my wife responded casually from the other room where she's busy doing a puzzle, "very funny, they're just Fourth of July fireworks."

most ppl itt would read Aimless as getting your back up first by snarking at the very idea of your NYE listening

Sorry, I forgot my ilx etiquette, sic.

if there's one thing we never do around here, it's snark at movies, music, or any other form of entertainment for which another ilxor has expressed their approval. By snarking about Alastair Cooke, by extension I attacked calzino's integrity. I don't know how I messed up so badly. mea maxima culpa.

STFU and happy new year

HNY, sleeve

lol

moving on from the obligatory bottle of champagne to Scotch, entertaining the cats, listening to Sinatra, Basie, Ellington, Holiday

2020 is hindsight, happy new year y'all

It's cold. It's raining. And the sirens haven't stopped since eight o' clock.

Good times.

Happy New Year everybody! ILX helps keep me sane (and/or distracted, which is almost as good). I hope everyone has a safe and happy 2021.

Happy New Year all, especially to those west of EST. Good night.

HNY! Some loud fireworks out there right now, seem to be scaring the cats.

Happy New Year everybody! ILX helps keep me sane (and/or distracted, which is almost as good). I hope everyone has a safe and happy 2021.

I love the lot of you. Thanks for indulging me.

indeed

Happy new year, ilx <3

HNY my beloved ilxors

Kicking 2020 out by watching Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1st time) and Face the Music while people move into the flat above ours - it's been empty since March. Here's to better days ahead, for all of us.

Bogus Journey is important for continuity btw!

Happy New Year to all -- usually out like a light at this point but I'm pushing through things as much as I can watching the New Years Queens thing at this point, basically waiting on Trixie and Katya to hit in about forty minutes. Glad to get this year finally out of the way, seventy minutes to go!

Happy New Year to you fools, each and every one of you. Even though I still kinda feel like I haven’t cracked into being a “real” ilxor yet, many of you have helped keep me slightly more sane during a really trying year - even when we were butting heads in the politics threads. Best wishes for all of you.

Here we are. Bless you all, eat the billionaires.

2021?!! Holy shit I guess we did it. When you were a kid your friend would say “well in the year 2021...” and you’d cut him off and say he was insane but probably feel bad about that now. Wishing you all the best and stay safe.

Xp - thanks sic! I figured it would be, but also that I couldn't stay awake through all 3 based on when we started the first one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSyB-OIRtR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4UbWhtVCBE

Literally moments after midnight my wife noticed the diamond was missing from her engagement ring setting. Bad way to start the new year! Looked all over the house and then more or less gave up, figuring it could be anywhere but that we'd scour the (snow covered) back yard of our friends, fingers crossed. I woke up this morning and recalled she'd spent some time shuttling the kids around, so thought, hmm, maybe it's in the car? Grabbed a coat and flashlight, went out in my jammies and looked in all the car's nooks and crannies, and ... found it! (Also found about five masks). Good way to start the new year! It's a 2021 miracle!

That is awesome Josh. Hopefully a good sign for the year.