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Well, they finally got their website working. Below is a link to the Hot FM New Years Eve Party 2010.
Hot New Years Eve Party 2010
http://www.hotnewyearseve.com/
Under their "What To Do" link, they state that the ceremonial ball lighting is at 5:30PM. Wasn't that just done on a certain Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit? :-))) The Oak Ridge Boys sang about it...you remember!
al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda
My groin is on fire
For al-Qaeda
Anyway, it's gonna be the best ball drop in Grand Rapids since my underwear waistband broke last week. :-))))))
And I'm sorry but "beer tent" and 20-degree weather just don't mix real well. Because of this, Rosa Parks Circle will be temporarily renamed Via Dolorosa Parks Circle. :-)))
Maybe I'll see you down there. :-)))
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And now...the classic repost...
January 1, 2009
OK, I'm probably the only person in North America awake right now. I
think I'm even up before my good friend and neighbor John! Elliot, my dear son, woke at
about 3:00AM crying. I made him a bottle, put him back in his crib, and, well, he's
sleeping! Laid in bed until 4:30 and decided to get up and write a little something. Like to hear it? Here
it goes!
I was looking out the windows at 50 Monroe (fitty) yesterday afternoon
watching the construction crews assemble the crane and tower from which they dropped a lighted
ball, very similar to the one in New York, only the one in Times Square has a lot of lights and
cost some real money. :-) I think ours was an old 50-gallon drum with chrome paint and some used
Christmas tree lights.
"Oh, you should see what it looks like from out here!"
I called Marci as I was watching them assemble this, this, New
Year's Eve on the Grand (c) and I told her that it's kinda pathetic to watch a hick town like GR try to
be NY. :-) Nothing against hick towns - I live in Hudsonville - but we just started serving booze in
The Hud so we've got work to do to catch up with Gotham. :-))
The headliner for the big shindig was a guy named Darryl Worley. He's a
country, umm, star, and Sean Hannity uses him at his Freedom Concerts. He wrote a song after
911 called, "Have You Forgotten?" Hell yes I've forgotten - that was New York, not
Grand Rapids! :-)))) If he ever pens a song about a downed Medivac chopper, I might not forget that.
DOH!!! Maybe Alan Jackson could write a little something about that event. Sing along
with me...
"Where were you when the blades stopped turnin', on that May day..."
I guess this is the first year in what will soon become a GR tradition
- the mentally unstable gathering in 15-degree weather to say their oohs and ahhs in unison. The only
thing lacking is a host, and may I suggest Dick Clark? He puts the "tic" in articulate. (Lord I
apologize, and be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea.)
Two stories below...seems we want to be like New York and the
Motor City. :-))
I drive right down Market Street every morning past the location where
cops fatally busted caps into a clubber. It was at Lady Godiva's Showgirls. Yes, just
like 7th Avenue in NY, GR has its very own, uhhh, gentlemen's club. :-)) I guess the poor chap was
on the receiving end of the chambers of commerce. Not sure yet how many chambers the
cop had to use.
Well, gotta go...my coffee's done.
R.J.
Thousands Jam Downtown GR for New Year's Eve
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2008/12/thousands_jam_downtown_grand_r.html
Grand Rapids: Police Kill Gunman After Club Incident
http://www.woodtv.com/dpp/news/police_kill_gunman_after_club_incident
