New Year’s Eve, 45 floors above Times Square.
Look at all those stupid fuckers.
It was FOURTEEN degrees out there. People were standing in ass-chapping weather for ten hours, just to get a good look at The Jonas Brothers. It all seems so terribly, terribly wrong.
Of course, we were upstairs, gorging on cupcakes and champagne, so whatever.
Anyway, I had a fantastic time on my trip, and I have lots of great photos to share with you. But it will have to wait a few days, because I’m very busy aging right now.
Yes, tomorrow is another birthday, a double edged sword if ever there was one. Happy to be alive, sorry to be turning into Tyne Daly.
Now if you’ll excuse me, it’s time for some Nyquil and a CSI Miami marathon.
37 responses so far ↓
1 pal Jacky // Jan 3, 2009 at 7:45 pm
One of my dog’s birthday’s is January 4th. He turns 8. He’s the one eyed half lame cancer survivor who doesn’t seem to die no matter what life throws at him. He’s also a pure bred show peke who was the runt of the litter so has all the fucked up inbred problems that come from that and none of the good qualities.
2 Egregious // Jan 3, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Tell your birthday just to go f**k itself. Alternatively, you could have an insanely happy day. Your call.
3 Speedy Cerviche // Jan 3, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Holy shit.
Two questions, April: How much did that room cost and how far in advance did you have to place the reservation?!
4 beetlebug // Jan 4, 2009 at 12:06 am
Condolences. My birthday is on the 16th. Ack! Well, at least I won’t be in the hospital like last year on it.
5 nix // Jan 4, 2009 at 7:30 am
Happy Birthday, April, and Happy New Year’s!
6 bnaivar // Jan 4, 2009 at 8:01 am
Don’t think of it as a birthday. Think of it as “Change” you have to live with.
7 socalfrank // Jan 4, 2009 at 11:19 am
April, DON’T JUMP! Don’t even look down. We can talk you through this.
8 Dave M. // Jan 4, 2009 at 11:46 am
I have never tried Corona with HERSHEY’S, although it could be something with the lemon as a chaser…
Hey, let the candles burn a least halfway down this year before wishing for more kabooshkaas!!!
9 socalfrank // Jan 4, 2009 at 1:23 pm
When is Kwanzaa and how do you celebrate it?
10 clevelandphil // Jan 4, 2009 at 2:53 pm
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!
You should’ve peed on them.
11 thefifthbeatle // Jan 4, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Happy Birthday April!
12 pal Jacky // Jan 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_f6mLocu_o&feature=related
“the bitter tears of Petra von kant’ is required birthday viewing inj my neck of the woods. Someone has thoughtfully uploaded a section of the birthday party scene, so if you’ve never scene a fassbinder film, here’s a real good start.
13 David // Jan 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Happy Birthday. I hope CSI Miami lived up to your expectations.
14 Mavis // Jan 4, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Happy New Year and Happy Birthday April.
15 EllenRonnie // Jan 4, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Nothing like Carusos’s SOJ stylings, to put your mind on hold.
Enjoy this little montage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948
Happy Birthday!
16 eBayEnigma // Jan 4, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Hapy Birthday April!
17 clevelandphil // Jan 4, 2009 at 8:35 pm
April is listed on imdb.com’s born today pics.
18 JohnnyQuest666 // Jan 4, 2009 at 11:15 pm
@Jacky: Wait, don’t tell me – your dog’s name is “Lucky”…
April – Great picture! You can almost smell the frozen puke down there.
Hope you had a very happy birfday, and have a swell (or is that “swollen”?) new year!
19 AKScott // Jan 5, 2009 at 2:06 am
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20 godzthor1 // Jan 5, 2009 at 3:42 am
April, I really miss hearing you on the radio. I would pay good money to hear you interview David Caruso for an hour. You could spend the first segment analyzing the ways he says, “Because it’s my job to care.” You could have David give demonstrations of sunglasses removal. On the radio. You could discuss sunscreen applicators.
P.S.: Fox sucks, but at least they run your commercials.
21 joshpincusiscrying // Jan 5, 2009 at 7:00 am
I drove through Times Square three days earlier.
Looked the same.
Happy birthday.
JPiC
22 PeekaBooRevue // Jan 5, 2009 at 11:59 am
Wow! Whatta view! You happen to catch Dick Clark? oh man…
Happy Birthday and hope you feel better!
xoxo,
PeekaBoo
23 JohnnyBoy // Jan 5, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I saw Dick Clark at the stroke of midnight
24 Speedy Cerviche // Jan 5, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I’m half-paralyzed by your wit, JB.
25 DavidinBerkeley // Jan 5, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I tried to get people to put in money to buy you one of these for your birthday:
http://www.garmentguard.com/
But the economy being what it is….
26 DavidinBerkeley // Jan 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Happy birthday anyway.
27 clevelandphil // Jan 5, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I saw Dick Clark at the stroke of midnight
Hopppppyyy neuuuuuuu eaaarrrrrrrrrr
28 Gunner13 // Jan 5, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Dear April (pardon the lateness of this):
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
You make us all laugh,
and I’m 15 months older than you!
If I can deal with it, so can you Girl.
29 yelkcub // Jan 7, 2009 at 10:13 am
Ah, the horror of holiday-time birthdays. I was born on Jan. 2, about 1am. This is only important because, as the fifth child, my mother was rather cavalier in her attitude and insisted on finishing a bridge game – after her contractions had started – before leaving for the hospital. Save for that delay, I would have been a New Year’s Day baby, a far better birthday.
Anyhoo, as a child Jan. 2 was the day we went back to school, so my ice-cream cake fueled party had to held on a different day. On one particular birthday our dalmatian had just gone into heat and my mother had made sure to put her outside onto the back deck and keep our golden retriever inside. However, my father, bothered by the retriever’s constant sex-based whining let him out, leading to the inevtiable coupling on the deck, in full view, through the giant kitchen window, of myself and a dozen or so other eight-year-olds. When asked by mother “what the hell was he thinking?!” my father replied (seriously absolutely true) that he “didn’t think they would do anything in front of the kids.” Suffice to say that while my classmates looked forward to my annual party, their parents were less than excited about the prospect in the future. But I digress.
Also, cheap relatives take advantage of the date and gave (and still give) birthday/x-mas “combination presents.”.
As a more grown-up person, everyone, including me, is far too hungover and/or embarassed by New Year’s Eve to go out and play. (A New Year’s Day birth would have obviated this issue.) It’s also, usually, the day people go back to work.
Oh to be a July birthday person – pool parties, decent gifts, and no dogs in heat.
I feel your pain, April.
30 ListenerJustin // Jan 7, 2009 at 10:21 am
Heard the “How Long Will it Take To Drive A Couple Hours?” radio spot in San Diego this morning. *giggle*
31 pal Jacky // Jan 7, 2009 at 3:13 pm
oh please, as a July baby I got to say that, it ain’t all that much glory. First of all my astrological sign is ‘cancer’. Isn’t that swell. I missed leo by one goddman day, and believe me I have always been ‘cancer-on the cusp of leo’. Numero two-oh, no great parties of course, you haven’t seen most of your friends since june and it was my family , my friend andy and David fukuto. and we all know how he turned out.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E6D91F38F935A25751C0A962958260
32 Speedy Cerviche // Jan 7, 2009 at 6:07 pm
All the cool kids have March birthdays.
33 JohnnyBoy // Jan 7, 2009 at 6:31 pm
I once knew sisters named April, Mae,
and June
They weren’t born in those months though
34 pal Jacky // Jan 8, 2009 at 12:10 pm
do you have to have a big nose to register with e.harmony.com?
35 Speedy Cerviche // Jan 8, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Foley, did you happen to see the Spidey/Obama team-up? Sweet Jesus.
36 Stretch99 // Jan 9, 2009 at 11:41 am
Dick Clark still looks fabulous – but it did take him a few to just say “HappyNew Year’s folks”
Kathy Griffin still won the New Year’s battle of “Dick vs dick”
37 N.Y. COUSIN // Jan 10, 2009 at 9:52 am
April, wish I knew you were going to be in NY, I would have loved to have met “wit Jew”…oh well, maybe next time…??? probbly knot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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