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Open thread: What the heck are you doing for New Year’s?

The late Christopher Hitchens once said champagne was one of the four most overrated things in life (and if you play your cards right, you might get the other three tomorrow night too). Yet every year we feel obligated to drink the stuff while easing way past an entirely symbolic measurement of time, holding on to that last fading glow of joy the holiday season has been getting us hooked on since November. Double down that pressure this year because it’s on a Saturday. So what are actually going to do for New Year’s Eve? Asshat-filled warehouse party? Intimate couch canoodling? Free bar party? Neighborhood-wide streaking? Pop your mouth cork and let those comments rip, brokesters. And let’s be safe out there.

Tim Donnelly :

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  • I'm going to imbibe lightly so as to assume childcare on Sunday while deriding my inevitably compromised husband.

  • also, celebrating a new year in the depths of winter always seems like the most morose thing ever. New year's eve should be moved to June 1, when things are actually coming to life again. Who will join me in this movement? #OCCUPYCALENDARS

  • I'm blowin' this popsicle stand and getting out of town to avoid the "omg which party are we going to omg will it be the most fun eeeeeeeeeever??" of a NYC NYE.

  • I might make a pit stop at a party, but as far as I know I'm planning on spending NYE with Netflix and Chinese food.

  • cooking dinner for 9 and then small, low key house party. nowhere near 18 year old vomiters in Manhattan. hurrah!

  • As I alluded to in the previous New Year's post, I'm going to a party and showing up with Glug. Glug is the most digusting, intoxicating, hilarious and hands-down best beverage in the Western (and possibly Eastern) Hemisphere.

  • Apartment party(ies). It's the only thing I don't think will be terrible on New Year's.