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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year’s Eve to all of our blog family. We will be spending New Year’s Eve at home this year — preparing for our annual New Year’s party on January 1st. I will be toasting to everyone on our extended blog family.

Tonight Leslie and I will share our traditional bottle of Schramsberg Sparkling wine. This is my wedding anniversary. Thirteen years ago, Leslie and I eloped on New Year’s Eve after eight years years of dating. (There is an ongoing dispute over calculating the event, I insist that this is our 22nd anniversary but Leslie insists on not counting the eight years of dating). We always celebrate with a bottle of Schramsberg. This was the bottle I bought after we got hitched at Alexandria City Hall. I used my house school ring to seal the deal.

The kids made it to midnight and watched the painful display of Anderson Cooper trying to restrain Kathy Griffin. It turns out the Mayan Apocalypse merely predicted Griffin’s appearance on New Year’s Eve. This included her attempt to throw cash into the crowd – a moronic idea that had to be physically stopped by Anderson to avert a disaster. If this was Griffin’s idea of a joke, it came across as an unhinged, unfunny person trying to fill time. The kids insisted that we turn to NBC instead.

We are expecting 200 friends to share in Wasabi Bloody Marys) and our traditional soup: The Bowl of the Wife of Kit Carson Soup. I have smoked two turkeys to put into the soup. I also have enough Wasabi to light up Tokyo.

Everyone drive carefully and have fun. I will be giving a toast to our entire blog family tonight (and, of course, my marriage).

308 thoughts on “Happy New Year!”

  3. I looked out in the ocean and there is a boat out there sinking. It is called The Boehner. No one is coming to its aid.

  4. I woke up and went for a stroll on the beach and there are Rubio 2016 campaign signs all over the place. There is a smaller Rubio sign that says “No Means Yes To AmeriKa”, whatever that means. Footprints everywhere.

  5. I said a prayer at the breakfast dogpac congregation an hour ago, passed the plate and it came back empty. We’re broke.

  6. There is a cave or tunnel with train tracks leading out of the base of the cliff but no light at the end of the tunnel.

  8. I did not know what the humanoids were talking about lately with this Fiscal Cliff thing. Before we were on a level playi8ng field. Now we are at the bottom of a heap. With no jeep.

  9. I just wanted to let you guys know that when I awoke and wandered up to the beach from the marina dogpac house there was a cliff there above the beach that had not been there before. I looked up the cliff and there was an upside down dollar sign painted like graffiti next to a Mitt campaign sign. None of this geography had been here before. There was a crashed truck at the base of the cliff and a thousand footprints which wandered off onto the road whence they were no longer visible but they looked like the walkers had been unsteady on their feet.

    The best that I can ordain from the terrain is that we fell off a Fiscal Cliff.

    I just thought that inquiring minds would want to know. Last nigth when the dogpac went to bed the tv was blaring with Anderson Cooper at Times Square with a bunch of fliashing billboard size tv screens (bad backdrop by the way) touting in the New Year. When I wake up I find this.

    Fleas Navidog.

  10. Happy New Year to the owner of my favorite blog, and to all the people who contribute here………..

  11. To the nicest and smartest people on the internet.
    (and that means you)

    Happy New Year.

  12. Happy new year Professor and we of the blogosphere.

    And happy 13th Anniversary. Our 13th is coming up in a week.

    Good spirits will come to your both.

  15. Happy Anniversary to you, Jonathan and Leslie. I often watch you on MSNBC with your insightful comments. It started with Keith and then, I happened to find this great blog.

    Talking about anniversaries, we all become butterflies from larvae, and this metamorphosis rests on the magic of our better halves.

    Happy New Year to your family.

  17. Happy Anniversary to you, Jonathan and Leslie, and Happy New Year to all of Clan Turley (including Molly)!

    May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light.
    May good luck pursue you each morning and night.

  19. Happy Anniversary and Happy New Year Jonathan, Leslie and the children. Many, many more new years. Sounds like a great party, enjoy!

    To all of you whom come here too…….Thank you for making this blog such an interesting place to be and giving me a place to hang out in my dotage.

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