We had a quiet night at home last night, getting medium drunk while watching Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper get sloppy drunk. At one point they cut to Al Green duetting with Morgan Freeman on “Let’s Stay Together”; when I wrote to my friends how weird it seemed, my buddy Bob wrote back that he was in the club where it was happening. Which made it that much weirder.
Bob is living his best life right now. I guess I am too. We just spent a few eventful (if frosty) days in NYC, then a few restful days at my mom’s retirement community in Silver Spring, MD. Looking back, 2024 was a really good year, aside from the political calamity that I have been calling The Clusterfuck.
Do you realize that the 21st century is now 1/4 over? That happened fast. It seems like just yesterday I was in Seattle, watching fireworks and listening to AC/DC, waiting for the disaster that never came.
2000 was a bad political year too. I sometimes wonder if the timeline where the chads don’t hang and Al Gore becomes president is any different. Probably not but who knows? Maybe in that universe it’s raining donuts.1
On the whole, though, I’m good with this timeline. I hope you can say the same.
One last note, for those who might be interested in such things, I’ll be on humboldthotair.org today from noon to 2, subbing for a DJ who apparently had something better to do. Tune in if you wish. But however you choose to do it, make this first day of 2025 a great one. Over and out.