And surely you’ll buy your pint cup/And surely I’ll buy mine/And we’ll take a cup’o kindness/

for Auld Lang Syne

First, let’s get this out of the way
Happy 2008! Let’s see…I just got up (8:30 a.m.) and I am about to get my to-go cup of coffee ready and head out for shopping, movie (P.S. I Love You) and brunch/lunch with friends. I have to admit this is the first time, in a long time that I haven’t been hangover on January 1. Me thinks me will like mocking the hangover people that are out in public today.

Testing, Testing, Conor Oberst
I know of not one, not two but three people that went to the not-the-best-kept-secret Conor Oberst (of Bright Eyes) concert. I am can’t really be too jealous. (Thy shall not covet thy friend’s tickets to Conor Oberst when thy was too lazy/out of touch to by thy own)

Local paper’s top local albums of 2007 – Star Tribune Top Local Albums of 2007
1. Brother Ali – The Undisputed Truth
2. Dan Wilson – Free Life
3. Vicious Vicious – Parade
4. Fog – Ditherer
5. M.Anifest – Manifestations
6. Cloud Cult – Meaning of 8
7. The Owls – Daughters & Suns (tie for 6th)
8. Charlie Parr – Jubilee
9. Little Man – Soulful Automatic
10. Romanitica – America (see, what have I been saying?)
11. The Alarmists – The Ghost and the Hired Gun
12. Ed Ackerson – Ed Ackerson
13. Stook! – When the Needle Hit the Wax (tie for 12th)
14. Happy Apple – Happy Apple Back on Top
15. Big Quarters – Cost of Living
16. The Glad Version – Make Islands (tie for 15th)
17. Low – Drums and Guns
18. Mouthful of Bees – The End (tie for 17th)
19. Digitata – II Daggers
20. Fort Wilson Riot – Idigaragua (tie for 19th)
21. The Pines – Sparrows in the Bell


Overheard in Minneapolis (the website)
This one had me rolling

Now You Know You Drink Too Much
4 year-old girl: Are you and Mommy going to Whiskey Junction tonight? (Whiskey Junction is a bar in Minneapolis)
Dad: Unless Grandma's renamed her house - no.
Overheard at Christmas Eve mass at St. Peter's