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In the spirit of New Year's, these are the resolutions (damn you, Babylonians) on Gothamist's list for 2004:
• More meat
• Less "blog"
• More playing–hating
• Less regard for factual accuracy
• More attention to spelling and grammar
• Less big words or coherent sentences
• More Happy Hours
• Less embarrassing incidents caused by drinking
• More restraining orders
• More naked pictures of other bloggers
• Less friends
More specific resolutions come in the form of Jake resolving to get over feminine drinks like cosmopolitans and get into more masculine ones (martinis or manhattans) and Jen resolving to be less meddlesome, sanctimonious, and self–righteous. Both of which will require personality transplants or the jumbo pack series of electroshock therapy treatments, but, hey, it's a new year. Which makes us curious about what your resolutions, our dear readers, are.
And these are more objectives for 2004, rather than resolutions: (1) More pandas, cats, and other animals; (2) Sponsoring a Little League team; and (3) Meeting Jerry Orbach.
Happy 2004, everyone. Be merry, be safe.
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i'm also resolving to bring back the phrase "swing on my nutsack"- we loved saying that in 2001, but it's sort of faded since then.
your quest for attention to grammar should have led you to replace "less" with "fewer" in many of your resolutions.
and jake, i recommend jameson and ginger ale as a good transitional drink between the "feminine" cosmo and the "masculine" manhattan.
Less Gothamist.
More flushing of the prostate gland.
why is it that new year's resolutions start off so ambitiously and are then kicked to the curb in about a week? do we not do this every year? i can so relate to the need for a full-blown personality transplant with the formidable list i have going. bwahh.
you know, i always vow to get revenge, but i never do- years go by and my enemies are still unpunished. maybe this year i will finally get even!
-Less bad TV
-More time with dogs
-Be less crotchety
-Relieve stress by going to gym already; or just beat something (non-living) with a stick on a regular basis
-Come to accept nerd persona
-Go to the next Gothamist Happy Hour
Eat more toasted sesame bagels w/ shmear, red onion and tomatoe as well as chicken cutlet sandwiches from lassen & hennings (huzzah!); drink more mint tea at baraka in san francisco; run around jet propulsion lab in pasadena for at least 60 mins. whenever possible; buy dog reflective safety jacket with red blinking light; bypass paris hilton items w/ increased regularity; generate more positive word of mouth for Chiwetel Ejiofor's performance in "Dirty Pretty Things" - the best movie about being a foreigner in a foreign land this year despite what gothamist thinks about "Lost in Translation"; bash big media more frequently and more loudly in influential circles; buy more produce from independent farmers; eat less meat and poultry from corporate farm factories; free all the cattle from Cowschwitz /Birkencow along the I-5 (or at least stop and feed them some fresh alfalfa now and then); suck up to boss in less obvious way; read fewer dumb instructional manuals; hug cat only when he is sleeping; watch every last ep. of SATC; do more strength training (mind and body); drink less seltzer water bottled in dirty old Stockdale.
--be as photogenic as jen