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The great thing with alcohol is that there are a lot of people out there that drink it…including Jesus, who is the most popular man-God ever. So every year or so we get our “alcohol is good for you” article or research published that makes the drinkers happy. So this last week, we were treated with such an article…how red wine is the fountain of youth. It’s an interesting video on 60 minutes that gives us the same old story about red wine being good for you.

The great thing about red wine, though, is that after a few glasses you can experience the following(my second favourite alcohol scene in film). This is pretty much the same scene Workmonkey experiences when he drinks.

Barack Obama has just been inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States. Noone can hold back the excitement of having someone under the age of 98 in the White House and I am one of them. I was very intrigued as I watched Bush Sr in an eskimo hat, Dick Cheney in a wheel chair, and some senators start getting carried out on stretchers due to old age.

Inauguration Highlights:

1. There is a Ben & Jerry flavour called Yes, Pecan. Brilliant! I can just see the business meeting where a copywriter like Workmonkey says, “Something like Orange Obama, Banana Barack, oh….how about Yes, PeCan?”

2. Some old black dude said for the Yellow to “Stay Mellow”. Um, the Yellow have been mellow building railroads for way to long, its time for the Yellow to kick your arse, fellow, then drink some lemoncello.

3. This guy. I love this guy in the back, while the president of the United States is speaking, using a film camera from the 1980’s. Don’t you need to be a VIP to be back there within spitting distance of the President?

God bless the United States of America and that guy. Yes! PeCan!

I did not fulfill all of my 2008 resolutions but I figure this year I will make more practical ones than finding the cure to cancer. I will not state the usual lose a stone, blog more, drink less, disgust less, kind of resolutions. I reckon I will always be disgusting…so be it. I’m a human being, I am not an animal.

2009 New Year’s Resolutions:

1. Read 2 fiction books. Admittedly I don’t read much fiction because my logical mind tells me it is a waste of time. Sort of like watching the telly, except you can’t eat fish, chips, and mushy peas while reading. I have Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged staring straight at me but I’m not sure Ayn Rand is the way to achieve my resolution. Do audio books count?

2. If I do not achieve #1, at least read the Cliff’s Notes.

3. Enter 2 photography contests. You can’t score unless you step up to the plate…was that something out of Swingers?

4. Get rid of clutter. Get rid of old t-shirts from San Francisco startups, get rid of old books, sell anything that can be sold on eBay. Don’t really need all of those 24 spindles of CD-Rs, especially since people don’t even burn CD-Rs anymore. People don’t wear Cross Colours anymore either, apparently. Guess I gotta get rid of those overalls finally. Bloody hell. Unless they’re back like Ray Bans.

5. Don’t accumulate any more crap. There’s always a sale and there’s always a fabulous new toy to buy. I generally don’t have a problem here but if I go shopping and find a good deal, it’s mine like a 3am kebab. This year will hopefully be different.

Let’s see how this year’s resolutions go down…hopefully more gracefully than a lead balloon.