The End of an Era…

I saw something in today’s Washington Post which made me realize that we’re ushering out something quite particular to New Years — but only for the past 10 years.

It was a picture — they’ve had the same (or a similar) picture of a reveler enjoying the hoopla that is ushering in the new year.  Every year it’s someone who looks like the bar has been kind to him or her. And s/he’s always wearing similar glasses.

This year — it’s this fine fellow:

I know what you’re all thinking: How did this guy win the genetic lottery to be able to grow John Candy’s moustache from “Planes, Trains and Automobiles?” That’s probably fodder for another post althogether.  What I’m talking about are the lovely, obnoxious 2009 glasses.

They came about in the year 2000. It’s when the party favor industry realized that there was a niche market in capitalizing on zeroes for a decade. Remember when the 2000 glasses came out and everyone thought they were so cool?

The design was a bit more rudamentary, but it was still a novelty.

And the thing is — you can’t really wear these more than once. I don’t see so many folks heading to the beach in their old 2003 glasses.  It just doesn’t seem to serve the practical need. And some of them, like the 2009 ones above, are tinted glass. As if you’re actually going to wear them when it’s light out. Strange…

Anyhow — I tried to think about how the 2010 glasses could look. I mean, somebody has to make them. The problem? They look a tad goofy. Well, that’s no more a problem than the past decades of glasses. But these are a smidge off-center:

I’m guessing that it wouldn’t be kind to one’s nose, either.  Hopefully people will be too inebriated to notice.

if anyone has any good ideas for 2011, let me know…

Hey! While you’re here: I’m making a concerted effort to post more regularly in 2009. Furthermore, I’ve made a resolution to be an average of 7% funnier than I was in 2008.  Let’s see if I can keep up with that.

But hey — even with me not at peak funniness, I got picked for 2008 as the “Blogger of the Millennium” by our own NYC Watchdog!

Thanks, Dawg!  When the community bestows this type of recogniition on me for the impact I’ve made on millions in the world community, all I can say is that I’m touched.