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Don't forget, you can re-start the music up above on the comments page.
And try the artichoke dip!
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 2:31 PM
...cold coffee from my travel mug left over from the morning... only 1.5 hours till my holiday officially starts.
Posted by dan | December 21, 2007 2:35 PM
Here's something to cheer you up:
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 2:38 PM
well, I was drinking an irish coffee. But after firing up that video I'm switching to Drano.
Posted by Sebastian | December 21, 2007 2:51 PM
I got here too early and posted my appetizers elsewhere.....help yourselves no matter what Abe says....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/katheworsley/2127776552/
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 2:55 PM
Try the new video.
And I've got two drink choices for you: a "brown butterfly" or a brandy manhattan.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 2:55 PM
Had a beer for lunch to loosen up for the big party!
Posted by Erik | December 21, 2007 2:56 PM
After seeing the tram in the video, all I could think of was "Wham, bam... thank you Sam..."
I've got bourbon, but no mixers. I do however have pretty much every other standard bar booze. Any suggestions?
Posted by some guy with a lamp shade | December 21, 2007 2:57 PM
Who's going to be the first person to get drunk and do something inappropriate in the storeroom with the hot new receptionist?
Posted by Mike | December 21, 2007 2:57 PM
Mmmmm... chocolate mice.
You know, you could do that with beets...
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 2:57 PM
Nice video of you and the missus. Love what you've done with your hair. It's brandy and soynog for me. James Taylor in the background. Warm fuzzy poodle on the couch. Life is good.
Posted by Molly | December 21, 2007 2:58 PM
POP! I'm having a Broken Halo IPA.......sitting by the fire...tough job here..
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 2:59 PM
Hot tea with lemon, splenda.
Diabetes.
I miss scotch.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | December 21, 2007 3:02 PM
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:02 PM
http://www.virtualkiss.com/
Posted by Molly | December 21, 2007 3:04 PM
Assam/Ceylon tea. It's 3:00 in the afternoon- kids will be home from school soon!
Nice shot of the fruitcake-is that the one that just keeps getting sent from one household to another?
Posted by Doris | December 21, 2007 3:07 PM
I'm in the broadcast booth so I'm just sipping water... but that fruitcake looks delicious (I'm weird.... I love fruitcake)
Posted by Dave Lister | December 21, 2007 3:07 PM
I'm still on the job, so it is diet Coke for me. The Bourbon will have to wait a couple hours...
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 3:11 PM
That fruitcake looks just like the one's my granny used to make. I hated them but enjoyed every bite. (RIP granny)
Posted by Mike | December 21, 2007 3:12 PM
Alas, I have over 20 years clean 'n' sober so I'm opting for a diet cola and a couple Fritos.
The office closed today at noon and we won't re-open until Tues., 2 Jan. 08!
In honor of Jack's party-mania, I'm going to get really wild, plug-in the lawn mower, and go suck-up the leaves that have fallen off the corkscrew willow in the front yard.
Wow! A helluva way to start vacation...what can I say?
Enjoy your libations (be assured, I hit my personal quota LONG before I got sober in 1987!). I drank enough for about FIVE people...and that was on ONE night!
Party-on, Dudes and Dudettes!
___ora et labora___
-oregbear
PS: Although I'm Catholic, a friend taught me:
"Roses are red,
violets are bluish.
Christmas is cheaper,
when you are Jewish!"
-Hasta Menorrah at Temple Bette Midler!
Posted by oregbear | December 21, 2007 3:12 PM
Anybody making goose this year? The Mrs. cooked one for me on Christmas when we were first a couple. A lot of work -- it's very greasy and you have to keep sucking off the grease. But it was gooooooood.
Tough sell nowadays.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:13 PM
Cabernet Sauvignon. WE made it in 2005 at
my niece's Glen Ellen winery. A tad young but good. Thanks for the invitation!
Posted by RickN | December 21, 2007 3:14 PM
Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and
Northern California Sensemilia. Sorry dont drink.
Posted by meg | December 21, 2007 3:14 PM
-Hasta Menorrah at Temple Bette Midler!
Where's Ricky? He'll sing you a chorus of "Oy vay Maria"...
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:14 PM
A coiupl;e of eggno gs andI have trouuvle typinh.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:16 PM
I usually cook a goose for my son. If you keep it up on a grate and out of the drippings it's not too greasy. I like the skin to get crunchy....
MMMMM goose skin
Posted by Dave Lister | December 21, 2007 3:21 PM
Nonny.. I'll drink enough scotch for both of us..
Posted by Dave Lister | December 21, 2007 3:21 PM
I'm going with Tequila shots to start the party right! I'll be the one on the floor in an hour! LOL
Posted by Not so Expdx | December 21, 2007 3:22 PM
I just saw I guy hurling on the fire escape. I think it might be torridjoe...
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:24 PM
Lagavulin, neat
Posted by mrfearless47 | December 21, 2007 3:27 PM
Remember when they used to hold the pro football world championship game on Christmas Day? Y.A. Tittle didn't mind -- I think he's Jewish.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:28 PM
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:34 PM
Loved The Boss! Off to Mama Mia's for our
daughter's birthday celebration. Hoo boy,
how I hate to go into that city!
Posted by Rick N | December 21, 2007 3:35 PM
no Jack- no beets....maraschino cherries...those beets don't have any tails.... now we're drinking hot butterd spicy rums....
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 3:39 PM
Maraschino cherries... invented at Oregon State, you know. They live in your stomach for seven years.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:40 PM
Luxardo cherries are the best. (As are a lot of the Luxardo libations.)
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 3:42 PM
I just had some "Grottines," I think they're called. Get you loopy.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:47 PM
I love maraschino cherries. I like to eat them until I break out in hives.
Posted by Dave Lister | December 21, 2007 3:47 PM
Yeah! Gin and luxardo liquor and sweetened lime juice. Shaken with ice. Fab!
Posted by Sebastian | December 21, 2007 3:48 PM
I think they have fromaldehyde (sp?) in them....better livin' thru chemicals ya know..but I have fond fond memories of secretly eating them ...them?..actually the whole stinking jar and then dodging my mother who would want to use one (1) for the hard sauce to go with the carrot pudding....doea anyone remember carrot pudding?
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 3:55 PM
Not to be the party's spell-checker, but it's "sinsemilla", which is Hispanolish for "without seeds". Hence the "sin" (without) "semilla" (seeds). Still at work in Juneau - though arraignments are done. Nice trifecta though, Meg. Luckily, in Alaska private in home use of sinsemilla - or even the seedy crap - is protected by Article I Section 22 of the state's constitution. (Ravin v. State - 537 P.2d 494).
Here's what has been chilling for 3 months and ready for me when I get home, thanks to Kate, my wonderful girlfriend:
* 12 large egg yolks
* 2 cups granulated sugar
* 1 cup heavy cream
* 1 quart (4 cups) whole milk
* 1 liter (about 4 cups) Maker's Mark
* 1/2 cup Myers’s dark rum
* 1/2 to 1 cup good Hennessey
* Pinch kosher salt
* 1 whole nut nutmeg
It makes my eyes burn every time I check it. She also made rum-soaked fruitcake. Best L&C Law alum a guy could possibly know!
Happy Holidays!
Posted by Kevin | December 21, 2007 3:56 PM
A couple of Christmas Eves ago, I got so bad that I was drinking the hard sauce out of the Spode tureen. But it was bread pudding, not carrot.
I'm after chrischiki (sp.?).
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:57 PM
Speaking of hard sauce, a new dish of bread pudding (with hard sauce) from Lagniappe sounds really good right now.
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 3:57 PM
I was so bad I couldn't drive home, of course. I passed out when I got home, and awoke with a start a couple of hours later to recall that I had some presents in the trunk of my car that I had to wrap and get under the tree! Fortunately, it was only about a mile walk...
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 3:59 PM
Hey, check this out.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:02 PM
Jack do you mean Chruschiki cookies?
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 4:03 PM
Haaaaaapppppppyyyyyy New Yr.........oh crap, premature celebration.
Posted by Mike | December 21, 2007 4:04 PM
Man, I'm loopy and I'm not even drinking yet. Tried to say "private public partnership" on the air and tangled it all up.
Posted by Dave Lister | December 21, 2007 4:05 PM
Hey Kev, where do you live? That sinsemilla concoction sounds good. Mind if about 40 of us help you drink it?
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 4:06 PM
The sinsemilla is no concoction. The concoction is homemade egg nog. I'm in Juneau, AK. You'll have to take the four day ferry though because we are socked in with snow and fog. Trust me, some nog will remain.
Posted by Kevin | December 21, 2007 4:08 PM
Chruschiki cookies?
Yeah, them was good.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:08 PM
Did everybody pass out at their keyboards? Or are they too busy in the broom closet?
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 4:17 PM
Here's a Google search that just came in. Ouch!
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:18 PM
Oh yeah, now I see - the recipe is for egg nog. I've been drinking lots of water this afternoon, and it appears to be rather potent.
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 4:19 PM
I got Santa's number: 713-331-9135.
Posted by Kevin | December 21, 2007 4:19 PM
I think they're all just a little dazzled by Bernadette Peters.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:20 PM
that google search? I vaguely remember something from your blog months ago? ouch is what I remember you writing....how did we get from a Christmas party to that?
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 4:23 PM
I'm sorry. It's the nog talking.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:29 PM
that telephone numer for Santa.....think he's getting just a wee bit cranky....poor guy...over worked and no raise in sight.
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 4:29 PM
After the gentle application of $195, the Volvo's windshield wipers work!
I'll drink to that...
...and anything else.
Myer's and Mirror Pond.
I's a brown thing.
Posted by cc | December 21, 2007 4:33 PM
Myer's: Myers's
Posted by cc | December 21, 2007 4:34 PM
Has anybody been on Hawthorne today? Is that gal out in front of the Oasis selling fresh-cut mistletoe again this year?
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:34 PM
Do you plan to ambush someone? ;)
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 4:35 PM
no no...check THIS out
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1591512726
Posted by kathe w. | December 21, 2007 4:35 PM
Wow. Intense.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 4:42 PM
Make it stop!
Posted by cc | December 21, 2007 4:43 PM
http://work.mullen.com/holidays/
Posted by telecom | December 21, 2007 4:47 PM
Best party I've ever been to probably because I haven't gotten into any trouble...at least not yet. A nice red wine (Merlot) from WA state.
Posted by paul | December 21, 2007 4:55 PM
Well, it's time for me to go to my bar for real drinks..
Posted by Michael | December 21, 2007 4:57 PM
Merry Christmas everyone! And to all a good night!
Great party, Jack. How about doing it during the normal cocktail hour next year!
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 4:58 PM
Nice party -- I got here late, but people can't really leave, so I didn't miss much. I used to cook a goose every Christmas: stuffing with prunes soaked in Marsala; nothing better, but it made the kitchen a hazmat site. Better yet, my grandmother made hardsauce for the plum pudding that was a traditional part of my parents' Christmas dinner. I can taste it now. Merry Christmas, folks.
Posted by allan L. | December 21, 2007 5:06 PM
during the normal cocktail hour next year!
2:30 in the afternoon is my normal cocktail hour.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 5:08 PM
I got here late as well.... I had to work off-line. But I nominate this as the best one liner of the whole partay:
"I just saw a guy hurling on the fire escape. I think it might be torridjoe..."
Posted by Harry | December 21, 2007 5:14 PM
Torrid was hurling because he works for the city and not the state. Missed out on the five percent pay increase.
Posted by anon | December 21, 2007 5:20 PM
Jack, I wish my wife would let me drink by mid-afternoon.
"My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met."
-Rodney Dangerfield
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 5:22 PM
Rim shot! "Take my wife -- please."
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 5:27 PM
I don't want this time to become a dialog on marriage, but here's another:
"Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy."
-Anonymous
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 5:34 PM
Oh geez, there's the caterer. He wants to get paid. Hide me.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 5:42 PM
Any good holiday jokes out there? There must be a ton of them, but I can't think of one right now to post. It must be the g & t I switched to.
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 5:43 PM
I'm a rather evil jazz snob, especially in these days of incompetant overdubbed and underaged twits, but it's easy to remember that Darin had some serious chops, a tinge of jazz and a whole lot of respect for the music. Gone way too soon, and to live knowing you had an early death sentence....hard stuff.
I'm sipping a good Corbieres, 1984.
Posted by Paul Miller | December 21, 2007 5:51 PM
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 5:52 PM
Too much to do to party. Completed the gingerbread house. Check. Wrapped mom's Ringside gift card. Check. Cuddled with a fuzzy poodle. Check. More nog. Check.
Posted by Molly | December 21, 2007 5:54 PM
Ooh, Jack. Grandma used to serve that peppermint stuff over ice cream.
Posted by Molly | December 21, 2007 5:56 PM
Sorry I'm late: went santa shopping for our three year old. The traffic is AWFUL.
Metrowatcher: are you newlyweds? You're still sleeping in the same bed.
Whose that hottie in the red velvet corset? I wonder if she's been naughty or nice.
Posted by Mister Tee | December 21, 2007 6:00 PM
I think I'm going to sit down in that recliner and rest my eyes... just for a minute...
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 6:01 PM
Jack, got a spare room? I am scared to ride MAX home.
Posted by meg | December 21, 2007 6:05 PM
It was Christmas and the judge was in a merry mood as he asked the prisoner, "What are you charged with?"
"Doing my Christmas shopping early", replied the defendant.
"That's no offense", said the judge. "How early were you doing this shopping
"Before the store opened, your honor."
Posted by Metro Watcher | December 21, 2007 6:05 PM
Dismounting from his camel, one of the three wise men steps in a fresh pile of camel dung. "Jesus Christ!" he swears. "Oh, that's a good name," Mary replies. "We were going to call him Irving."
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 6:07 PM
Better have some of the crudité soon -- it's starting to look a little tired.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 6:09 PM
cc:
You and the Volvo got off easily. I spent $442 just to get the cluster and running lights on my Durango to work (bad circuit board aka "central timing module"). Plus the cost of a rental.
Now that Bob Nardelli has announced that Chrysler is "operationally bankrupt" I will get a Saturn or Ford next time.
Posted by Mister Tee | December 21, 2007 6:11 PM
We are out of bourbon!
I'll be right back...
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 6:15 PM
Jack,
Thanks for not banning me (yet)! {long pause, followed by an awkward non sequitur}
Have you ever heard of the "SAILING STONES" of Death Valley?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_rocks
I am constantly amazed at how much I don't know.
Merry Christmas to all and enjoy the weekend!
Posted by Mister Tee | December 21, 2007 6:16 PM
Jack where is Bean, I got Mistletoe for Snethen.
Posted by meg | December 21, 2007 6:21 PM
I haven't seen him. You may have to try over on the Vig.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 6:37 PM
Ah, we see the party is well under way! Normally by this point in a holiday soiree, there whould be some inappropriate behavior.
Posted by Worldwide Pablo | December 21, 2007 7:02 PM
If the cops don't get here first ...
Satyr Sagittarius turns into horse sass and Sun enters Capricorns at ten pm
Check the overhead compartments and make sure you've collected all your be longings as you unboard.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | December 21, 2007 7:04 PM
Pablo: We did that during the Eartha Kitt video.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 7:05 PM
The knight is young, anybody feel like Caroling ?
Posted by Tenskwatawa | December 21, 2007 7:10 PM
Carol who??
Posted by David Barberis | December 21, 2007 7:55 PM
where is Bean
Loooong day at the office. Just got home. No it's time to go hit this guy's party.
Posted by Chris Snethen | December 21, 2007 8:07 PM
Jack? Do you have any Alka-Seltzer? I have wicked heartburn... at least I HOPE it's just heartburn.
Posted by JD | December 21, 2007 8:17 PM
I have been in the corner all afternoon watching the party. I tried to talk but my security level made me shy. Now that i know the problem, that lamp shade over there looks like it would make a cool hat!
Posted by dman | December 21, 2007 8:26 PM
Dang! Where is the john around here Jack? I gotta pee!
Posted by dman | December 21, 2007 8:31 PM
I must have passed out. I just woke up. What day is it?
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 8:54 PM
looking out the cyber office window: http://64.35.128.194/en/JViewer.html
Posted by dman | December 21, 2007 9:31 PM
Gawd, whatta parttttteee. Crawling home, now. Hope to avoid those PDX blue-uniform guys, if you know what we mean.
Thanks, Jack. It's been virtual...
[Errrp.]
Posted by Worldwide Pablo | December 21, 2007 10:55 PM
The cops are here. Somebody complained about the noise.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 11:40 PM
Dang, now were all going to be taken to Hooper Detox for a few hours...
Posted by Not so Expdx | December 21, 2007 11:47 PM
I'll just tell the wife that I'm doing research on the Burnside-Couch couplet.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 21, 2007 11:51 PM
Cabbie's here. Time to go home.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 22, 2007 12:03 AM
Dam I'm late to the party yet again.
O-well Cheers.
Posted by Lc Scott | December 22, 2007 1:43 AM
Thanks for the fine office party, Jack...'twas a fine one so it seems...just arrived home from that fine cab ride you so dast speak...
cheers to you!
Posted by another rube | December 22, 2007 1:56 AM
Darn it, somebody forgot their scarf.
Posted by Jack Bog | December 22, 2007 3:20 AM
Not I!
Posted by Lc Scott | December 22, 2007 3:27 AM
Oh, this headache is killing me!
Posted by Abe | December 22, 2007 7:24 AM
Man,this place is a mess. Were going out for breakfast...but we'll be RIGHT back to help you clean up the place.
Oh geez...who put a cigarette out in my coffee cup? Yecchhhh!
I'll take one of trash bags out on my way.
Posted by JD | December 22, 2007 7:36 AM
Hey, did anybody see a ring in one of the plastic drink cups, with like a shiny diamond spot on it, little sparkles around that ... engraved on the inside "John, love ever, Jane" ... ??
Jack, did you notice it laying anywhere ?
Posted by Tenskwatawa | December 22, 2007 10:08 AM
Jack -
Gteat party...ahh, I'm a little embarassed to ask this, but did you happen to notice where I parked my trolley....can't seem to find it this morning...
And Dave Lister --
Thanks for taking care of that Scotch that I'm not allowed to drink any more. I knew I liked you.
Your kindness in taking care of the Scotch surplus is one of many reasons why I am writing you in for Mayor.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | December 22, 2007 11:33 AM
Many thanks for the party Jack- it was fun and I was able to cook for our large dinner party while at your party! Cheers and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Posted by kathe w. | December 22, 2007 12:01 PM
oh man... late to the party as usual. The upside is that, up until watching that video, I never believed that Jose Feliciano was blind because I first heard that fact in a David Sedaris book - which are, of course, full of lies.
I'm going to hang out and drink the leftover maraschino cherry juice with dave and the hummingbirds...
happy solstice
Posted by Luke | December 22, 2007 3:11 PM
Did everyone make it home okay? No virtual DUIs, I hope.
Posted by none | December 22, 2007 5:30 PM
Your party must have been a complete success considering how many times we had to go down to the cellar and bring up more "refreshments".....
As a mater of fact....
I'm still down in your cellar!!!
Posted by jsam | December 23, 2007 12:31 AM
So, hi, I'm here for the Party!
Oh...it was WHEN?
Posted by Frank Dufay | December 24, 2007 4:48 AM