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It’s hard to find a New Years’ themed song that isn’t Auld Lang Syne. Here’s a song by Abba from 1979 which is not exactly one of their great classics. With lyrics like …
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and I
… I think it’s easy to see why this hasn’t entered the canon of holiday songs.
2012 was an eventful year for me, but overall I look back at as a good year where I grew as a person, got to interact with wonderful people, and have once in a lifetime experiences like September 17 in New York City. I will spend tonight with friends and hope you are with people you love, too.
What’s on your mind this Eve? This is our latest open thread.
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Happy New Year my!
Happy New Year to all! I’ll be working all night. To celebrate, I brought my concertina with me. I just snuck in a quick rendition of Auld Lang Syne, while no patients here in the ER.
Here’s to a Happy New World!
Onnellista uutta vuotta !
First, here’s wishing a happy and healthy 2013 to Jane H. and everyone who makes FDL what it is: writers, journos, tech staff, posters, poets, scoopers, ranters, moderators, commenters…even Dem Party locksteppers. Sure, a small number of people here piss me off regular, but I ain’t special and hate don’t hack it. That shit’ll eat ya up like a cancer. Tonight I raise a glass of slivovitz. ¡Salud! to one and all.
Having said that, I gotta admit I’m feeling awful bleak about what the near future may bring. I once read a book by a pretty smart woman who concluded that the Devil is the most essential component of patriarchal religions because a God without an enemy is unimaginable to the authoritarian mind. And it seems that this idea, this inability to live without an enemy (or many enemies) has now broken free from it’s theological cage and burns bright as it fuels an epidemic of pathological social behavior at home that not surprisingly, with every passing month, is beginning to mirror official US foreign policy. It’s not only the insatiable material greed of the amoral plutocracy that we have to contend with; it also means having to coexist with millions of other human beings from all walks of life who have consciously or unconsciously internalized the belief that their fear, shame, pain and suffering can only be transcended via acts of deliberate cruelty, destructive violence, and increasingly murder and/or suicide.
It don’t look good, folks. A nation founded in genocide continues to legitImize political leaders who have spent decade after decade slaughtering innumerable faceless foreigners in far-off lands for no coherent reason while demonizing, incarcerating, impoverishing and often killing those deemed unworthy and unproductive within their own borders. Americans are in the horrific process of becoming the people they elect.