New Year's

The Rolling Stones were my favorite band for my whole life-- until 1979 when I first heard U2. Then they became my favorite band-- at least until I got into The Clash a month later. The Clash are still my favorite band. When the first U2 album was mailed to the press it included the first American story about the band. I wrote it. Boy was an amazing album. I Will Follow made me ditch the Rolling Stones… even after all those acid trips I had taken on the first day their albums were released all through my time in college!

The White House announced that Señor Trumpanzee isn't going to his Mar-A-Lago $1,000/guest New Years Eve party tonight. The Palm Beach Post's gossip columnist wrote that "It’s unclear whether Mar-a-Lago will let people wiggle out of their tickets at this late date.

by NoahWell, here we are, New Years Eve. Happy New Year everybody! Another year of Republican Party infestation is about to go bye-bye, but the consequences will linger on and on.Tonight's meme is a very accurate depiction of the current Republican Party platform. Since it's Sunday, I'll just add one more thing that fits Republicans to a T: Praise the Lord, Ignore his teachings!

New year's manure, good Lorde taketh and mock trials + this day in history w/IBM and the Holocaust and our song of the day by The Vaccines on your Morning Monarchy for January 8, 2018.

-by NoahSeñor Trumpanzee held a gala New Year’s Eve party at Mar-a-lago on Sunday night. Some of the worst people were there. As yet, we haven’t had a look at what the bash cost the taxpayers and how much profit was made. However, at least we got a look at what the guests were wearing.

Sing for peace, spin the black circle and open the BitChute + this day in history w/the telegraph system and our song of the day by Elbow on your Morning Monarchy for January 6, 2017.

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by KenFor this new year, I thought I'd bring back a Sunday Classics triple toast (with trimmings) I whipped up for last New Year's, with assists from assorted participants in that greatest of operettas, Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus, beginning with this immortal (if hard to translate-in-song) pearl of wisdom:Richard Leech (t),

Tim Hornyak took this photo in Tokyo on June 30 of last year, as this clock presumably ticked down to the addition of the last leap second.by KenYou know how we're always complaining that our lives are so tightly scheduled that we don't have a second to spare?

You may know that I'm an inveterate traveler-- and have been since I first left my parents home in Brooklyn at age 16 and hitchhiked-- with $48 in my pocket; there were no credit cards back then (at least that I am aware of)-- to Los Angeles in order to stow away on a ship-- a series of ships-- to go make a new life on Tonga. I never got to Tonga, having been caught on the first ship, bound for Hawaii. But eventually I managed to travel to 100 countries-- theoretically a member of the Century Club-- normally just ones I want to visit.