Digital 7-2
It sucked from the comfort of my own home.
Thanks for explaining why.

This one made Paul Schell's 'ring in the new millenium' celebration look downright jolly.

If you just disregard the hosts of the K5 biz, you would have heard the gem of the evening: John Curley's LIVE host of the marriage proposals on the air. It was during the wait for the 2nd or 3rd fiance's answer that someone in the crowd yelled, "FUCK YEAH" right there on live television. Priceless.
Now there's a great start to the new year: an FCC complaint! Yippee!

Get over your hatred of all other media, it makes you miss the story.

Thanks for explaining - I and the handful of folks huddled at 13th/Olive were doing a big collective WTF at the lamest fireworks I can recall seeing at NYE. I now wish I'd stayed home to watch it on tv. Seeing newscasters struggling with dead air would have been a lot more fun.

Yeah, the King5 coverage was priceless. Watching them spend a half-hour trying to discuss Space Needle food, finally get to the huge relief of some fireworks shooting off so that they can stop shooting off their tired mouths. . . only to have the fireworks just stop. And then stop again. Oh, it was delightful.

It also made me want to spend the next year in bed, but whatever.

So, whaddaya wanna bet that the fireworks were running on Vista?

Just sayin'.

HA! I heard the FUCK YEAH shout- awesome. Not feeling so bad about being home with Pink Eye! All the fun was on TV- Especially when they didn't realize it was time- then all of the sudden- FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO... Nada. What happened to counting down from TEN?

Stuff like this is what happens when you decide to kill off the Fun Forest. The old rides are retaliating.

I was hoping the whole thing would explode suddenly and the monstrocity is gone for good. Darn.

The makeout session between the hosts up in the space needle during the lull more than made up for the technical glitches. They looked geniunely mortified to be caught on camera. The main hosts on the ground never cut back to them after that either. Having a bellyful of shiraz, I couldn't help but guffaw at the sight. Tell me someone out there tivo'd that shit!

We were at Lo-fi and were kind of WTF why are the fireworks kind of random. Now we know why...

Here's a little bit of it before the second stop:
http://www.kirkdorffer.com/ontheroadto2008/2008/01/new-year-starts-with-whimper.shtml

Here is a thought, lets shove fire works up the asses of all the TV anchors and set them off next year??!!

sad. real sad.

and to think we had just gotten over dealing with the stigma over the "Battle in Seattle" ...

like we need anymore global ridicule. even 2000's fireworks (even from behind a fence) were better

Blue-screened fireworks display. lame.

@10 i saw that right as I turned my TV off and laughed my ass off. that's something one would usually see in a movie not in real life. at least they weren't fucking or feeling each other up.

i'm sure the camera men knew beforehand and can't stand the news anchors. so they decided to fuck with them and get them in trouble.

@6 my roommate and i were just talking about that before I read the comments. I could either see being an application related error - maybe they're using either C++ or Java to send machine-level commands, or maybe it's OS related.. probably didn't test the damn application in Vista. it'd be interesting to find out what program they're using. Maybe some idiot pulled the plug accidently.

I thought the "surprised" kissing hosts looked obviously staged. Heard the "FUCK YEAH". I laughed out loud when Curley told a kissing couple, "This is a family show! Leave room for the Holy Spirit!" They should let Curley do the whole show himself.

"New Years 2008: Seattle" was the best ever. Who wants to sit through another boring fireworks show? I much preferred the fucked up version. It was far more entertaining than the same old tired run of songs arguably synced with the same old tired run of explosions (oh look, a smiley face firework! yawn).

This is the fireworks show everyone will remember. Be glad you were around to witness it go down live and quit your bitching.

"New Years 2008: Seattle" was the best ever. Who wants to sit through another boring fireworks show? I much preferred the fucked up version. It was far more entertaining than the same old tired run of songs arguably synced with the same old tired run of explosions (oh look, a smiley face firework! yawn).

This is the fireworks show everyone will remember. Be glad you were around to witness it go down live and quit your bitching.

It actually looked pretty cool standing underneath when they had the manual finale... with Battle's "Rainbow" on the headphones. It didn't feel as cold as last year... I had low expectations to begin with.

I caught it on repeat at 3am, and fucking LOVED it, the awkwardness, the pissed off crowd, candy throwing at news anchors, the staged convo's. Also, I ate a lot of mushroom chocolates a few hours previous, so...

Have the Geeks abandoned Seattle?
First the bus tunnel, then the fireworks.
What's next?

How much you want to bet the forced Office SP1 which killed my Vista and sent XP into never never land for a while this time yesterday came into play????

Funny part was watching TV and needle sputter while armatures across Lake Washington were giving Baghdad's Shock and Awe a run for its money

They were seriously talking about how great the food was in the Space Needle up until the final 10 second countdown. I loved how Joyce also seemed super pumped about the line-up of the themes from Hollywood's greatest films during the fireworks and wouldn't stop talking about that either.

Also, that makeout session in the Needle was totally staged.

Missed the TV coverage since I was among those standing out in the cold saying WTF?

I've always wondered about public marriage proposals. What if the answer is no?

Here you go, RainMan:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vg3vYwFSvI4

I thought the firewhacks were really pretty. But then, I'm still incredibly drunk.

The entire thing was painful to watch...painful and funny! A giant, malfunctioning, brightly-lit lawn sprinkler, surrounded by endless, bizarre and staged chatter. I think the most heartfelt thought of the evening was the "FUCK YEAH!" :)

Here's why the fireworks didn't go off on time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wz2uVxVm0Y

@25: Thanks, JTC. OWWWW! That hurt just watching it. And unlike the No Michael publicly received from his real estate agent on a rerun of The Office, that wasn't even staged...

Be nice to Space Needle. It's not their fault, it was a new computer. They got a good deal on it from King County Metro.

Why the hell were you all paying attention to the stupid space needle anyway? Most of you must not be from here.

It all stopped right on cue when the mighty Star Wars theme played. And then again with the ET theme. Maybe the fire works didn't like those themes. The whole show was just surreal. Still what a night though. At the clubs and bars I mean. I just woke up. Happy new year all.

We can indeed blame Bill Gates, according to this guy:

http://blogs.king5.com/archives/2008/01/computer_glitch.html#comment-2106911

The only things to be thankful for about the fireworks display, it wasn't raining and it wasn't that cold. Also, thanks to the dickheads at the Seattle Center gates who closed off the park 25 minutes before midnight. What the hell? The lame reason "the fireworks are going to be very big and we have to keep everyone a safe distance away." Great, better to have everyone drunk and in traffic than at the music fountain. I'll wait and see what happens for 2009 new years, maybe they'll be running LINUX.