If 2011 does not bring you happiness, I hope that it does not bring you the wrong sort of misery. Here are some wishes from people around here:







Of course with your weather being so cold and bringing the wrong type of snow, we will join you - at least in spirit - in a Guinness:



Eventually there will be sun:



Best wishes to all here at TNT.

Is that Mick Jagger??!

Happy New Year to you too, RK! May China not blow up in your face in 2011!

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I'm waiting for Chinese New Year (Feb 3rd, I think) - 2010 was a tiger year (reputedly bad luck for people born in one of the previous tiger years), so roll on rabbit.

If you happen to be a rabbit my advice is wear red. I didn't bother and it was a disaster from start to finish.

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Google is ticking over the clock in this part of the world. It is 49 minutes to midnight:



Time I went out for a walk to see what's happening. Sky clear, temp 23 degrees, fireworks at midnight.

Fireworks in the harbour, seen from over the Erskineville rail yard.

That's actually a pretty scary picture for a Doomer like me

Happy 2011!



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"Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it."-- Mark Twain

"Inter arma silent Musae"--when the weapons speak, the muses fall silent.

An't nanum hearm deth, doth hwaet ye willath.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.36

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That's actually a pretty scary picture for a Doomer like me

Is that right? Then let me help your heart to leap into your mouth, whence you can extract it, barbecue it, apply some sweet chili sauce, and eat it between slices of sourdough bread - quickly before your blood circulation stops.

They're coming to get you on the MIDNIGHT TRAIN:



... and thrust you into the Fiery Furnace:



... While terrified people wonder if their turn to plunge into Hell is next





Meanwhile, for Evil Ones, the Imperial Hotel once again welcomes Spawn of Satan:



... which it was manifestly unable to do exactly one year before:

Awesome.

Looks like stills from a Zombie movie

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"Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it."-- Mark Twain

"Inter arma silent Musae"--when the weapons speak, the muses fall silent.

An't nanum hearm deth, doth hwaet ye willath.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.36

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Looks like stills from a Zombie movie

No, they were stills from my shortly after midnight New Year Day, strolling around the neighbourhood. Of course if you are that way inclined, outside our home is still the evidence of an 85-year-old women who was struck by a tree the other day. When I found her she was lying bleeding in the gutter:



It's an interesting neighbourhood here. There is always something happening.

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It's an interesting neighbourhood here. There is always something happening.

Sounds like it.

It does look like a very interesting part of the World.

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"Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it."-- Mark Twain

"Inter arma silent Musae"--when the weapons speak, the muses fall silent.

An't nanum hearm deth, doth hwaet ye willath.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.36