Mike O'Connell

Singapore, Bhutan, Brunei, Malaysia… Loudoun County, Virginia. These are places celebrating Lunar New Year today. Actually it’s only Lunar New Year’s Eve here, as Lunar New Year proper falls on our calendar’s 10th of February. But those other countries are also like 14 hours ahead of us in time zones so I guess it balances out.

Point is, we’ve got the day off today, and one never looks a day off in the mouth.

And for a greater recitation of these details, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings.

I’d been looking forward to Season 12 of Curb Your Enthusiasm since the moment Season 11 ended fourteen months ago.

I knew it’d be good, and it was.

Here’s an example, from last night’s premiere, of why Curb is both topical and timeless: in the same episode I can get a modern-day crack about “DTM” (doing too much), then minutes later get a centuries-old Yiddish insult, “farbissiner.”

My goal today is to squeeze both of those into conversation.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos premiere I’m making it my mission to rewatch every single episode.

First off, why not?

And you gotta do something when it’s cold out, right?

And if someday I’m trying to remember when this occurred and all my journals have burned and that section of my autobiography has not yet been completed, I wanted it noted for the record.

For some ungodly reason today in Northern Virginia the high temperature will be about 70 degrees.

That’s quite a difference from last week.

If you want to hear what winter actually sounds like, check out today’s episode of Math and Musings.

Days off from school really haven’t changed much for me in 35 years… wake up, drink hot chocolate, play Nintendo.
Yeah, the actual 8-bit NES. I’ve had mine since 1989.
I was a different character in the story back then but it’s basically the same show.