Friday Fish Wrap: Happy 2010 !

I’m happy to have ended the decade with laughter. We just went to see ‘It’s Complicated’ this afternoon. I highly recommend it, especially for those of us who have been on DivorceLand ride. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin all demonstrate why they are three of the decades favorite celebrities - and give us a tour de force smack down on the complexities and laughs to be derived from splitting up.

Once you stop crying.

The Pew Research Center for People and the Press has offered some interesting poll results about how we view this first decade of the millenium. As a whole, we think it sucked.

No! Do you think?

Young, old, Democrat, Republican - ‘sucked’ pretty much defined our take on most of the last ten years. And why not, after all. It started out badly with a stolen election and eight years of a simple bastard in the White House, being led by an evil prick.

Whoops. Was that too forceful?

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Resolutions: Invariably made too soon

Resolutions have never really been a part of my repetoire in the last 20 years or so, having come to believe that, indeed, they are made too soon and forgotten too quickly - especially so in these days of multi-tasking life lived too often at DSL speed. However, I do still believe in a moment of reflection, hence my New Years’ Resolution.

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