Hello everyone, or should I say, all five of you. I apologize for being M.I.A. for so long. With the insurance job and the digital media collective (www.galaxysmith.com) that I'm starting up with a friend, and hanging out, and going out, and sleeping, and eating, I just didn't have time to post.
Ok, that's obviously a bunch of bull. I just didn't get around to posting for a while. But now I'm back, and like a deadbeat, abusive husband, I'm apologizing and promising it never will happen again, when we both know it very well may. But I'm really going to try to post at least once a week. I enjoy it, you (hopefully) enjoy it, so why not?
The topic I'd like to talk about is the New Years Eve kiss. Everyone wants one, many go without it. I was fortunate enough this New Years Eve to get one, and it was very nice indeed. However, it did get me thinking about the absurdity of it.
If you're in a relationship, screw you. I'm only going to discuss the New Years kiss as it pertains to the rest of us miserable single people. You get to the party around 10:30, and you immediately scope the scene for the perfect someone to lock lips with at midnight. Maybe you start hitting it off early on with a potential candidate, or maybe it takes a little while to click with someone. Usually, however, you start talking with someone, anyone, at around 11:40, leaving the two of you just enough talking time to not feel dirty when at the stroke of midnight you both instinctively start making out. After approximately ten seconds of spit-swapping, you release lips, smile at each other, and go get another drink. At this point your commitment to each other has expired, and can only be renewed if both parties show further interest. If one or both parties wants out, the relationship is rightfully terminated, allowing both parties to continue drinking.
When did this New Years Eve kiss become such a big thing? Is there any other night in the year when it's acceptable, nay, expected, for you to make out with someone you just met, simply because of what time the clock says? "Hey you over there, yeah you with the short skirt. It's Columbus Day and it just turned midnight. We better make out." For some reason that doesn't sound right. Why can't we have a Midnight Makeout every Friday night? Fox Channel could have a PSA "It's 11:40 on a Friday night. Do you know who you're going to make out with?"
Don't get me wrong, it was very nice to have someone to kiss on New Years Eve. And I did talk with her for more than 20 minutes before midnight. We must've talked maybe 30 minutes or so.
About Me
- Josh Schwartz
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- I'm Josh, an awkwardly tall, freshly-arrived Brooklynite by way of Boston, Syracuse, and New Jersey. I'm working on a digital record label (Galaxy Smith), playing sax in a 10-piece funk band (Turkuaz) and trying to make a living off drinking, seeing live music, and exploring (blogging and bartending). Enjoy.
1 comment:
Well Josh, I guess a 'New Years kiss' is a big deal in the sense that it is not only celebrating a commencement of the unknown which hopefully bring good tidings, but also to reflect on a year of trials and tribulations, happy moments, events, etc. I guess kissing someone you love represents an assurance that hopefully, your mutual fondness for each other will last for the next year. Kissing a stranger that you met minutes earlier--as an optimist I'd like to apply my same logic (and say the people kissing are thinking about their own independent love interests) but you are on point with the real rationale...it's ridiculous. It's like survival of the fittest in an intoxicated, social environment!
Anyways, I think we should all come up with our own traditions...what are you doing Columbus Day? Haha
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