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Friday, December 21, 2007

Dreading Christmas? Start Looking Forward to New Year’s Eve

posted by on December 21 at 12:33 PM

I totally hate Christmas. It’s really boring, especially because I’m not Christian and everyone else is, so I just have to sit around, maybe clean the apartment a little. Yawn. (Although last year was fun because me and a few friends snuck a bottle of champagne and a bottle of OJ into a showing of Dreamgirls. That movie is great if you are drunk and accompanied by smart, sassy gays fresh off a Paris Is Burning kick.)

Anyhow, whether you love or hate Christmas, now’s the time to start planning for New Year’s. A lot of the funnest parties are going to sell out, so you should buy your tickets now. We have 63 (!) events in our extremely comprehensive listings, plus a list of taxi and towncar services, and the Metro transit spiel for that night so you can get home safe. (Coming at the end of today—a more printable, pocketable, prettier form of that list.)

Here’s a couple of events that look neat:
MoeBar’s Enchantment Under the Sea Dance w/ DJs Paul Devro, Pretty Titty and Fourcolorzack
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Science Friction, a gigantic event put on by the Decibel Festival, Shameless, Flight to Mars, SunTzu Sound, Fourthcity and EMC at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in West Seattle
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(You can’t really read the flyer, but that’s pretty much every good DJ in Seattle. Honestly.)

More details and more events here. Get your plan on!

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1

I really, really like that Moe Bar poster. The Back to the Future, Part I reference is cute.

Posted by brappy | December 21, 2007 1:04 PM
2

I'm with you, Ari. I'm not Xtian either, and usually deal with Xmas by sitting around getting schnockered. A really big-assed boring fucking day.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | December 21, 2007 1:13 PM
3

I'm not Christian either, but the holiday is still a blast. Who doesn't like getting presents for no good reason?

Posted by Smade | December 21, 2007 2:46 PM
4

MMMMM, I hates me some Christmas.

Posted by elenchos | December 21, 2007 4:52 PM
5

Listen Grinches.

I am an atheist and my wife is some sort of pagan or atheist depending on when you ask her. We still celebrate Christmas.

Christmas rules. Having a freaking tree in your house rules. Presents rule. Most importantly, family traditions rule.

Get over yourselves and get out there and help take the Christ out of Christmas. It's what Bill O'Reiley wants you to do.

Posted by Jim | December 22, 2007 12:54 AM
6

Whatever. Christmas is great. I get to spend two days with my extended family, with whom I get along very well. I get a bunch of presents and food and cookies, we watch some movies, we play some board games, we eat some more food, we go downtown for the midnight church service, and I can sing all my favorite Christmas songs without worrying how much I suck at it (which is a lot). Oh, and I also get half the week off of work, which means more time for Zelda. In conclusion, Christmas is fucking awesome.

Posted by Greg | December 22, 2007 7:36 AM
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i dunno. this all sounds like the opposite of fun.

Posted by diggum | December 22, 2007 11:22 AM
8

Science Friction! Robot sex--need I say more?

Posted by Hymie | December 22, 2007 1:45 PM
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