Happy New Year, SND!

And happy birthday Jackie! See you all in 2009. Speaking of which, are there any plans afoot for this Sunday?

SATURDAY Night Dinner

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to all SND-ers. For this special Saturday edition of SND with my parents we will be dining at The Barn, also known as the bar area of Flatbush Farm where we enjoyed many a meal outside in the summer. My parents and I went there the night they arrived and they loved it - PLUS we were able to get a table for 7 reserved for us on a Saturday night - not an easy thing in NY, and one of the reasons we usually do this on a Sunday. Claude and Brekke you will be missed! Everyone else we will see you at 7:30.

KARAOKE!!!!!! (imagine a Japanese accent)

So. Let's deal. I'm assuming Winnie's again. I'm assuming the same delicious Thai place on the corner, too, unless someone wants to mix it up. Shall we do 7pm start time or move it a little earlier because of the evening activity? I'm open and excited for my REO Speedwagon number ;)

Daily Show and Karaoke

Oh My God John Stewart was so brilliant tonight in taking on Mike Hukabee on gay marriage and also his idiotic-sounding new book, "Do The Right Thing" in which he simply says people should treat each other nicer and we'd need less government. Stewart's defense of gay marriage would have brought me to tears if I still had the capacity to cry.

Speaking of which, Sara and I had a summit dinner tonight and she said that, because of my break-up, I could have Karaoke. I'm not sure I should need to break up with someone to get Karaoke and am instead claiming it because I missed last year (and threatened never to drive anyone home from SND again if you did it without me), but I thank Sara for her generosity and am looking very forward to belting out Candle in the Wind on Dec. 21.

Well, actually...

This ad was clearly designed by someone who's never been stuck in post-Thanksgiving Sunday traffic on a Greyhound bus.

Anyway, it totally sucked that my FOUR HOUR delay made me miss dinner last night, and I'm hoping the stars will align for a proper SND next weekend. Will the farmhouse people be back in time? Are Jackie and Kyle in? Do we want to re-try for Kif? Weigh in, people...