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Happy (or Distracted) New Year! from First Things’ PoMo Con Blog

Here’s an article that decries the modern celebration of New Years; Ivan has a peculiar style in his writing: he has excellent diction.  If you try to read it as a smug group of observations rather than coming from the gingivitis’d mouth of a vindictive street corner preacher, then you might enjoy it better (thus having distanced yourself properly from the accusations it tenders).

Here’s the link to the article itself.

Here’s a juicy except that might pique your interest.

Simon Winchester complains the typical New Year’s celebration has reduced to little more than an excuse for unrestrained drunkenness and revelry. He lays blame for this woeful development partly on the example of the Scottish who have long treated the occasion as an opportunity for drinking themselves into a state of “catatonic incapacity”. Also, some culpability lies with the creation and popularization of modern public clocks that have allowed us to meticulously track and therefore exaggerate and fetishize the grand drama of the exact moment. The combination of chronological exactitude and Scottish bacchanalia gives us the now generally expected annual ritual of “midnight debauchery”.















post script: To Dave Chuck: Thank God the Ball dropped on New Years.

Club Schmitz Review Website

I felt that we have been mysteriously silent on the subject of an oldie but a goodie, Club Schmitz.

If you are or were a student at University of Dallas and you haven’t been to the “(pre-)historic” Club Schmitz, then you are missing out on a big UD tradition and committing a double bad naughty.  This place has been around since before the school and the only thing that is different is that they put in a TV and kickass Golf Arcade Game.  Here’s a good website that puts it all in perspective for you.

Make sure that you go with friends, lots of friends; or maybe you just want a beer by yourself; either way, Club Schmitz is a great place to:

have a birthday party
film a movie about love, intrigue, drinking, and a vampire pimp and Socrates (John Sercer)
eat delicious fried bar food and drink pitchers of beer
meet babes
go to for a unintended but badly needed study break
take a girl on a first date
go to with Fr. McGuire

All of these are things that I have either done myself or Misko has done.

Get thee to Schmitz!

Sweetly,

Peter

p.s. – Click on the photo to enlarge it

Greece – Fall Romers 2009

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