I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again now: New Year’s Eve is my favorite holiday.
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Remember when TV shows followed the school-year schedule? New season starts in the fall and ends in spring?
Yeah, neither do most people.
They probably don’t remember when Curb Your Enthusiasm started either, because it was about a billion years ago.
But more than two decades after premiering on HBO, Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm is still bringing it. And is it me or has it somehow gotten better after all this time? (Maybe I’m just becoming more Larry David-like.) Always benefitting from the fact it was on HBO and not regular cable, Curb is now pushing envelopes not even dreamed of in its early days, let alone those years starting with 19. It’s taken Seinfeld to a new level, has kept up with 21st-century themes, and, mostly importantly, has continued to make fun of things that need to be made fun of.
There are only two shows I watch religiously these days, and they’re both on HBO: Curb Your Enthusiasm and How To with John Wilson. They also have something else in common. With a guest appearance Sunday in Curb‘s Season 11 finale by whistleblower/author Alex Vindman (playing himself), both shows are featuring “actors” from Binghamton University. Yeah, Vindman went to Binghamton, graduating in 1999, just a year and a half before I started. Wilson, as mentioned previously (in an embarrassing admission), didn’t begin his studies until after I’d graduated, but represents Bearcat pride probably better than Vindman or I.
Season Two finale of How To airs Friday.
When I set out to do something I never don’t do it, so saying I had a perfect score on my Christmas list this year is like noting that the earth managed another spin yesterday.
I’ll admit I had one slight change. When going to buy a Christmas tree several weeks ago I noted that my preferred location, Krop’s Crops, did not open until 10 a.m., while nearby Meadows Farms opened at nine. The Farms got my business, because in classic Michael O’Connell Sr. fashion… I was ready. (Also in MJOC fashion was my scoffing at the tree’s price, but who wasn’t doing that this year?)
Hope you had a nice Christmas, dear reader, and I hope you got to everything on your Christmas list.
‘Twas the day before Christmas and all through D.C.,
Two-dollar Big Macs for you and for me!
Let the Wizards keep winning as the Caps rest a while,
And Santa, give the Football Team a reason to smile.
We all could use a bit of good news,
God Bless our teams in their 2022s.
Among the differences between my hometown of Binghamton, New York, and my adopted home of Loudoun County, Virginia, is that the saps in Binghamton had to go to school three days this week while we had to go none!
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I’ve heard it said you can’t go home again.
No, you definitely can, though perhaps a part of you wishes you hadn’t.
“Home,” currently, in the place I so often deride, I’m reminded why I do.
But for a handful of people I still talk to, there really ain’t much to it.
Hashtag sad comes to mind.
It’s here. The last day of school and the final day of announcing my “Christmas list” on Math and Musings.
Now it’s time to go home.
Three days until winter break.
Oh, if the kids only knew the teachers looked forward to the end of the week waaay more than they do.
I just finished reading Mark Seal’s Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather.
Eh.
Not exactly a page-turner, the book did at least have the advantage of my all-time favorite movie as its subject.
Most of the stories I’d heard before, but it was cool to have them all in one place.
And it definitely made me want to watch the movie for the 300th time.
Fifty-one down, 27 to go.
It’s a labor of love, completing my Christmas list, and the only thing I like more than doing it is talking about it.
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