So This Is The New Year

Happy New Year everyone! How was the big night? Mine was decidedly low key, which is just the way I like it. The rest of the weekend was spent doing what Jarvis is doing in this picture. There was alot of lying around and I watched my Xmas gift to myself, The Office DVD Box Set. I lose it every time I see Brent do that dance on the Comedy Relief episode.

Actually, I did do a little work. I deleted the 400+ spam comments that bombarded my site from Thursday afternoon until Saturday morning (did anyone else get hit like this?) and I started putting my set together for bluestate this Saturday.

One of the few presents I got for Xmas was the the brand new Harvey Danger Xmas EP, sent to me by the band themselves. There's some great stuff on there, including Plague of Locusts, a tune I've been begging the band to release for some time now, and the demo version of Pike St, Park Slope. Go buy it now.

Catchdubs gets a new logo and lets everyone know that that was not him at the Black Cat last Thursday, which is good, because there was a guy with messy indie rock hair and indie rock glasses DJing upstairs but after looking at him I thought to myself "That is not Nick Catchdubs." Nice to see I'm not going insane.

Muchos props go out to Whatevs own resident SNL tag team of Nummer and H-Bomb for getting some respect in the NY Times. Cheers.

Johnny Damon wedding pics. Oh shut up, it's the off season!

Speaking of, NESN veiwers get a late Xmas present when the network shows 25 different Red Sox post season games over 25 nights in January. Included will be the '75 World Series, the '86 World Series and the 2004 ALCS and World Series. Hotttttt.

My Panthers fell just short of the NFL postseason, but I'm proud of them for not giving up on the season with 4 of their top 6 players lost for the season. John Fox is one helluva coach. Here are some of the NFL and team records that were achieved this season.

Pistons > Celtics. grumblegrumblegrumble

Welcome to the club LeBron. Dikembe Mutumbo's path of destruction in the NBA. There's probably a tsunami reference in there somewhere but I won't go there.

Carmelala

NPR's Top 10 records of the year. [via ProductShop NYC]

I forget where I found this, but it's funny as hell. Not exactly work safe, but turn your speakers down and you might be alright.

Will next week's MacWorld give us the headless iMac everyone's been clamoring for?

Yahoo Movies takes an extended sneak peak at the upcoming Fantastic Four movie. Jessica Alba, how you doin?

I know I'm going a bit overboard on the Jarvis pics lately but please keep in mind 1)He's much cuter than me, 2) I'm a doting parent and 3) I'm not this bad. Yet. But at least if you want to buy Jarvis a Red Sox jersey or perhaps a Duke hoodie, you know where to look now. I'm still waiting for one of you guys to buy me that Bukowski Calendar.
*taps foot impatiently*

Lastly but certainly not least, I want to send a big shout out to my former co-worker and current fellow DC resident Emiie Leake Reddoch as she and her hubby Jimmy welcomed their son Charles Hudson Reddoch (weighing in at 9 lbs!!) into the world last Tuesday. Yay for them! Emilie got back from the hospital Saturday and for some reason felt the need to email me yesterday. Get back in bed girl and save up your strength while I go shopping so I can start off young Charlie on the right foot!