The LuLac Edition #682, Dec. 31st, 2008

PHOTO INDEX: LONG TIME NEIGHBORS DINAH AND JOSEPH “CHUBBY” MILKANNIN TAKING A DANCE (ON THE LEFT)) AND MY MOM AND ME (ON THE RIGHT). SHE WAS TRYING TO TEACH ME THE NUANCES OF SLOW DANCING WHICH AT THE TIME WAS KIND OF WEIRD BUT WOULD SERVE ME ALL TOO WELL LATER IN LIFE. (PHOTO CIRCA 1961).


NEW YEAR’S EVE

Today on New Year’s Eve, we have Ryan Seacrist, that annoying troll Kathy Griffin on CNN with Anderson Cooper and a variety of cable wannabes that bring in the New Year. When I was young, there was the neighborhood house party where friends and co workers got together, hoisted a few, walked home and returned the next day to eat pork and watch bowl games. (It was a Slovak tradition not to eat fowl on New Year’s Day because legend had it, all your money would fly out the window.) The youngsters would get a small glass of wine, Catawba Pink as I recall, attempt to learn how to dance and then ring in the New Year with Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians. From YOU TUBE: Guy Lombardo's band doing “Boo Hoo”, and the opening of the grand show from the famed Waldorf Astoria Hotel.