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HAPPY 2010: Damn The Naughts

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I’m spending the day with PatriotPartner, PatriotMom and the PatriotPooches.  So I don’t expect to blog more today — but you never know.

In any case, HAPPY NEW YEAR y’all.  And for your reading pleasure today, I highly recommend this amazing piece by Jules Crittenden about the turn of the Century and the last decade that we were tortured with.

Up on the ancient mound of Armageddon, we could see Nazareth to the east, Mount Tabor, and the pass down to the Mediterranean. We were surrounded by, in fact atop the scene of many ancient and terrible battles. It wasn’t for nothing John of Patmos in his cave settled on Armageddon as the place where the world would end. It had been doing that on a regular basis there for centuries.

The sky was afire, blood red and terrible overhead. It looked great, very apocalyptic. But Garo needed someone to shoot amid the ancient wreckage of 16 cities, and I needed someone to quote. I caught a flash of black in the corner of my eye, a caped figure bounding across the old fallen stones at some distance.

“Look, it’s the Angel of Death,” I said. “Let’s go get him.”

By the time we ran him down in among some rocks, he had taken the form of a long-haired, heavily tattooed, Bible-quoting car park attendant from Albuquerque. I asked if he was here waiting for the End Times, for the Great Final Battle between Good and Evil. He gave me a look like I didn’t get it, and said, “That’s been going on for some time. It’s going on all around us. You just can’t see it.”

That is a great excerpt of Jules’ reflection.  But there is so much more.  Please read the whole thing.

Exit question for today:  What is your traditional New Year’s meal?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Comments

  1. And a Happy New Year to you and yours too! Looking forward to more great posts from y’all this year.

    Let’s see…Black-eyed peas. Check.

    Turnip greens. Check.

    Cornbread. Check.

    Hog jowl…hmm…think it will be pork chops this year.
    At least it will be some part of the pig.

  4. I believe we’re goin’ with fried taters PatriotMom.

    One of our family’s favorite meals any day of the year is sauerkraut with smoked sausage, purple hull peas, fried taters, cornbread, sliced maters, and of course, a slice of onion.

    Either way we certainly know what’s good for the soul don’t we?

  6. I usually have my mom’s tourtiere (meat pie) for New Year’s. It’s a French-Canadian specialty.
    On a related note: there’s a debate in my family on the proper pronunciation of this new year. Is it “two thousand ten” or is it supposed to be “twenty ten”?

  10. I dunno what we’re going to have. There’s some canned collard greens (I know, but they’re really good and easy) with field peas n snaps. Got some chipotle Tobasco that goes nicely with ’em too.

  11. Happy New Year and Thanks for your great work in 2009. Can’t wait for the coming year.

    By the way, our fine Democrat U.S. Senator Ben Nelson has had to start running ads to explain his vote on Obamacare. I wrote about it on my blog. It was a hoot. Only a politician could come up with this ad.

    Thanks again for 2009 . . .

  12. People have traditional New Year’s meals? Weirrrrd. Maybe it’s a southern thing.

    Well, back in the days when I used to go out and get sauced on New Years, nothing hit the hangover spot like a good grease-burger, preferably from Dick’s drive-in. But that’s about the closest Ive ever come to tradition related to New Year’s.

  13. I don’t have a traditional New Year’s meal. It’s different every year. Tonight it’s creamy turnip soup, chicken piccata, sauteed spinach, and a green salad with some herb and garlic goat cheese on the side.

    Collard greens, black-eyed peas, cornbread — that all sounds like Southern food. I’m sure I’ve eaten more Dick’s Drive-in burgers in my life than I have black-eyed peas.

  18. My boyfriend and I watched Julie and Julia a few weeks ago and he got me Julia Childs’ cookbook for Christmas. We spent New Years Day cooking fantastic dishes from her recipes. I think we have started a new tradition!