Now what?

Wound down. The year has been wound down…

Who’da thunk it. Grew up in the era when there were ads in the newspaper “Help Wanted Men”, “Help Wanted Women.”… I’d remarked, the High School football coach owned the local swimming pool… he’d ask his black running back to “please get a first down”… but.. “no, sorry Charlie, you can’t swim in my pool in the summer.”

Rejoice. Female Vice Presidental Candidate… Newly elected African American President. We still gotta ways to go, but I’m very thankful for the strides my eyeballs have been able to witness…

2008 will be remembered as the year of economic pain. People vacationed less. Bought less. Drove less. Worked less. Lost jobs. Saw 401’s dwindle daily. Companies outta business. Layoffs. Cutbacks. No more perks. Streamline. Many of us (Victor, remember, this usedta piss her off talking like this) went from “paycheck to paycheck” to.. “Paycheck to Hotcheck to Paycheck.”

Money for your title. Borrow $500 today, we’ll rape you for $100+ on your next payday.

Victor STOP! That shit’s depressing! I know, but it’s what it is.. And that is… it is……..

Pursestrings. We all worked on tightening them. Mebbe the good is, we’ll never be slovenly, take for granted again. Almost like they did in the 30’s, hide what funds were there between the mattresses..

2008 - we said goodbye to Eartha Kitt, Slingin’ Sammy Baugh, Robert Mulligan (To Kill a Mockingbird Director), Van Johnson, Paul Newman, Richard Knerr (of Hula Hoop and Frisbee fame), Bobby Fisher, Suzanne, Pleshette, Heath Ledger, Margaret Truman Daniel, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (Remember the Beatles and TM?), Roy Scheider, Charlton Heston, Yves Saint Laurent, Bo Diddley, Jim McKay, George Carlin, Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture), Isaac Hayes, Bernie Mac…

Born… hopefully a US President, a Super Bowl quarterback, the 2030 American Idol winner (wonder what Paula will look like then), and maybe, just maybe, the genius with the cure for cancer..)

Big… Leggings, Facebook, cell phones with ABCDE etc pads, The DASH diet, The stashe is back, Hanna Montana anything, High School Musical, Britney pitfalls,

Top Ten Yahoo Searches: Britney, WWE, Barack Obama, Miley Cyrus, Rune Scape, Jessica Alba, Naruto, Lindsay Lohan, Angelina Jolie, American Idol…
The Pregnant “Man”.. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, Hurricanes,

We gathered to watch Prison Break, Heroes, House, NCIS, Family Guy, Gossip Girl, Lost, Smallville, Naruto, One Tree Hill, How I Met Your Mother, Grey’s, Bones, Desperate Housewives, South Park..

We pop corned out with The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Hancock, WALL-E, Kung Fu Panda, Sex and the City…

The Yankees spent $440 million on three players.. Plaxico shot himself, Chad Johnson became “ocho cinco”, Tony and Jessica, Reggie Bush and Kim Kardashian.. Phelps’s 6 Gold…

Same sex marriage, Earthquake in China, Cyclone Ravages Myanmar, Ted Kennedy brain tumor, Gustav, Ike, Illinois Governor Arrested, OJ finally going to jail…

$4 a gallon gas, Stimulus checks, Banking bailout, The Big Three…

Neil Patrick Harris, Kathy Perry, Kid Rock, James Franco, Meryl Streep, The Jonas Brothers, Rock Band, Lil Wayne, Stephenie Meyer, The Gossip Girls, Tina Fey, Robert Downey, Jr.

Ok, I’m 2008’ed out. Somea that chit up there I don’t even know, which… is par for the course. (I get lost in Best Buy)…

It’s my hope that 2009 is a good one. Let’s hope gas stays at $1.39 a gallon. Barack spreads the wealth. That women continue to pretend “that’s revolting” only to behave as just as bigga pigs as we males.. That if Microsoft makes more changes, we can unnerstand them bastards, and they take less clicks..

My 57th year on the planet. Color it, a C+. (That’s fancy for a “D” but, I’ve held too many pity parties of late, so didn’t want all ur basta’s runnin’ off for’eer and ‘eer.

May 2009 see your gas tank full, your 401K soar, your job become rock solid… and… here’s hopin’ you get laid with regularity… Love, Victurd.