New Year's Eve Open Thread: December 31st, 2009
Well, folks, here it is, the last hurrah of 2009, and the decade itself. That means hot guys singing Auld Lang Syne. No need to thank us — just be excellent to one another in the new year. As you most definitely should be.
We don’t know how much we’ll be able to be in front of the computer today, but have a few things we’ll get up here and there. Today, we’re going to do some volunteer work in our friend Lionel’s name to close the year out on a high note, and spread a little New Year’s cheer to people who are too sick to party hardy here in Boystown. We’ll be passing out some Hillary and Sarah Christmas tree ornaments, too, because we’ve been making them like crazy now that all the bulbs are on sale post-Christmas. Some of these people won’t like getting the Sarah Palin ornaments in Boystown, but oh well. Those will just have to be snuck onto various trees here and there, so they can wonder where they came from when they take their trees down on after Epiphany Day.
Please use this thread to talk about what you’d like in terms of 2009. Though this might disappoint many of you, we do not want to look back and do a rehash of everything that happened this year. It was just too, too rough for us to handle. This was a year of great loss, with many friends lost to illness — a year when all of us here were tested to the very core by challenges we never expected. Thankfully, we’re still here, battered and worn, with a few more wrinkles and gray hair, but with a solid determination to make 2010 much, much better than its predecessor.
Tonight, we’ll be at Sidetrack’s New Year’s party, rocking out, having a few much deserved (we think) Pilsners, appreciating our wonderful little world here in Boystown, wishing you a great New Year’s wherever you live, and wondering how we hit the ground running tomorrow, January 1st, 2010, to begin the long, hard push to put Sarah Palin in the White House and Dr. Utopia (and his fashion icon wife) in much-deserved exile in Hawaii starting January 21st, 2013.
It’s our great hope you and your families can also put a brutal year behind you, and make a great new start in 2010.
Please think about commenting here more or emailing us to let us know what you think and give us any tips you think we need — we really love hearing from you, and hope in 2010 we can engage more and see about laying the foundations to become a louder voice in the resistance to Dr. Utopia’s particular brand of Kool-Aid socialism…as well as become a driving force for the nascent Palin presidential campaign as soon as the Governor announces her entry into the race…which some are speculating won’t be until February 6th, 2011, perhaps in Tampico, Illinois.
That would be worth a drive down from Boystown to be there, for sure…and something wonderful to look forward to as we start a new year, and the countdown to retaking our country from the Liberal-Socialists who are currently driving it into the ground.
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Here’s another Chicago Male update for those of you wondering how the salon’s doing after their episode aired on Tabatha’s Salon Takeover. Yesterday, we visited the salon and thought it was hiliarous Richard, working reception, was wearing the very same red and green PeeWee Herman outfit (little vest, red bowtie, green and red jacket) he wore on the show. ”I did it so people recognize me, ’cause I wore it on the show. I want them to recognize me,” he said, quickly waiving to people walking passed. “I’m famous now”. It was really very sweet, actually. He is one drag queen loving every last second of his fifteen minutes — and he’s got a good, good heart so we had to laugh and be so happy for him.
The salon, however, still is not busy. They’re getting a lot of phone calls, and a lot of crazy people have been stopping by because they are fascinated with the place being on TV (“Ooooh, it’s real! I didn’t think it was real!”, is what some of them say, mouths agape, like they thought it was all just a cartoon or something, not grasping the point of “reality TV”).
The most ridiculous thing revolves around, of course, junior stylist Drew, whom Tabatha called a “crybaby cries a lot” on the show. Immediately after the episode aired, Drew stormed out of the Watch Party and headed down Halsted to SPIN nightclub, which was deserted on a Tuesday. There, he moped at the bar, while various people came up to him and tried to comfort him, saying “it wasn’t that bad” and “you didn’t look like THAT much of a baby, honest”. Once again, this was really sweet because while everyone in Boystown can indeed be catty, and it’s one hell of a competitive place, let us assure you, when anything bad happens the ratio of hugs to moping is astronomically high. Boystown is a remarkably caring place. People will totally laugh at you for wearing last year’s haircut or the previous week’s “it” accesory, but is anything really bad happens to you, or you’re embarrassed on television, the whole neighborhood will rally around you like nobody’s business. ESPECIALLY the drag queens, who, let us once again assure you, are the people you always want on your side in a fight.
Well, Drew was apparently being a super-pouty baby at SPIN, but people who saw him say he was pretty much just milking the free drinks. And then he’d refuse to sign autographs, saying he was “too tired”, being all dramatic and Margot Channing about it, the diva. ”Everyone wants a piece of me, but there won’t be any Drew left,” he said, little crocodile tear erupting right on cue.
Of all the guys in Boystown who’ve ended up on reality shows, like Dale from Top Chef and Ronnie from Make Me A Supermodel, Drew is probably the most unintentionally hilarious. Those other ones were on actual multi-episode shows, whereas Drew just had this one-off, but Drew’s the one who acts like he’s the biggest thing on TV at the moment.
What’s hilarious is that Chicago is a major city, but so little in the reality world is filmed here that people get excited about being on TV the same as they would if this was Mineral City, Ohio or Tampico, Illinois. Boystown itself is like a little village removed from the city itself, it’s own little world, but with a great big heart.
It’s shocking, in a way, that more shows AREN’T set here, because it’s so colorful and lively and we have so many endearing crybabies-cry-alots.
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How they spend New Year’s Eve in Key West. Kind of wish we had something like this in Boystown. With that kind of weather, too. We’ve already got the little bowties and Chippendales cuffs number. But that’s a story for another day, folks.
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I commend your volunteerism and encourage others to do the same. I was fortunate and blessed enough to have a pretty decent year despite the down economy, so today I’ll be making a number of year-end donation, including one to this site.
I’m sure I speak for most of the folks here – especially the regulars – when I extend a big THANK YOU for the time (and wit) you pour into this blog. It’s been a daily (usually 10x a day, at least) escape for me since I happened across a great post on Tony Rezko wayyyy back in mid-2008. Hard to believe I’ve been frequenting this site for a year and a half. I hope to be frequenting it for years to come.
Happy New Year!
Good Morning i read your website frequently and wanted to say all the best for the New Year!
Could it be the worm is turning?
http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/12/conservative-republican-americas-sexiest-man-contest-winner-gains-momentum-in-mass-senate-race/
Hillbuzz,
Thanks for covering the Scott Brown Senate race. For the life of me, I cannot figure out why talk radio hasn’t seemed to pick up the story. They could light up the national grassroots more and make the Indies, Repubs, and disgruntled Dems in Massachusetts fired up to go vote. However, the blogosphere seems to be doing a fine job by itself.
If the Repubs can get another vote on health care, the Dems will be forced to use the nuclear option. I heard DeMint and the guy from Ok (Colburn?) talk about it, and if Reid has to use the nuclear option, the health insurance mandates have to leave the bill and the bill is time limited to 5 years, at which time it needs to be voted on again. Last I heard, the tax hikes take effect right away, but the actual “benefits” do not start until 2013 or 2014, at which time it can be shot down by the new Congress. Without the health insurance mandates that will surely put the companies out of business AND the government option, this POS bill will be hated by one and all, Left and Right. Waterloo.
Oh, and also thanks for introducing me to Straight No Chaser. They’re fantastic. Sound great and being eye candy doesn’t hurt either. I used to go to acapella shows when I lived near the U of M, but was disappointed to find out I do not have access to it when I moved away. I’m surprised more groups have not gone national.
Ok I’ll bite….
What the heck is the deal with Tampico, Illinois??????
“Inquiring minds” and all….
Google maps shows us this
[googlemaps http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Tampico,+IL&sll=30.440812,-84.267776&sspn=0.003163,0.008819&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Tampico,+Whiteside,+Illinois&ll=41.63031,-89.786218&spn=1.437004,2.334595&z=8&iwloc=A&output=embed&w=425&h=350
(crosses fingers and hopes that works and doesn’t blowup the blog)
Oh and one more thing….Have fun at Sidetracks.
Please don’t drink and drive. Take a cab home and we’ll have a Buzz-a-thon to pay for it, if necessary.
You’re work isn’t done either, fellas. Sarah is gonna need you.
Happy New Year HB!
Peace … forgiveness … graciousness … honor … truth … integrity … understanding!
And a personal resolution: to try to be more thoughtful.
Happy New Year, Hillbuzz guys!
I will be trying to comment more here, and have recommended this site to several people. Will also be sending a small donation, and encourage others to do so as well.
I was talking to a friend this morning and one of the things we like most about this place is how it brings people of very different backgrounds together. Keep up the good work!
The new year is not going to be a good one for Europe:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/12/in-europes-looming-demise-in.html
Thank you for making me laugh and for your honest commentary!
God Bless you boys!
Thanks for all the time you devote to this wonderful site that has helped keep me sane–a delightful mix of thoughtful political, social and local commentary with a frosting of Michelle fashion snark (though that part is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel).
Cheers and here’s to a better year next year!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAmguPWesq0
Scott Brown’s New Year’s commercial. I want Scott Brown for Senate in 2010, please!
Hi Boyz -
I want to say thanks for the laughter, enlightenment & encouragement I get ever time I visit you here.
A safe & Happy New Year to everyone – May God bless you all & may He bless our beloved America in 2010.
Susan
HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL
Boys, you are AMERICANS. Thank you so much for helping me, and I suspect many others, keep our sanity the last two years in this We the People fight for our beloved country.
Well? Haven’t you all seen it yet? Gallup says that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman of 2009, edging out Sarah Palin, Michelle Does-This-Make-My-Butt-Look-Bigger-Than-My-Entire-Torso-Plus-A-Flatscreen-TV Obama, and Oprah Let-Me-Wash-Down-That-Red-Velvet-Cake-With-Dr.-Oz’s-Green-Drink Winfrey!
Just wanted to alert you guys to Dr. U’s latest electoral shenanigans…..
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/obama_moves_to_eliminate_super.html
Hope this works..
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA&hl=en_US&fs=1&]
In case it doesn’t (I wish there was a preview option here!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acxnmaVTlZA
Auld Lang Syne, full song, with lyrics, by someone who knows how to sing it.
Happy New Year to all.
I’m so happy I found “Boystown.” I like to
share your ideas with the disheartened voters in my world. Thanks so much for your
energy and insight. For those of us rotting away in the great State of California, let’s all get involved
and take back the United States of America, one black-hearted politician at a time if necessary. Happy New Year Hillbuzz! God bless all of the tax-paying, flag-bearing Americans.
Happy New Year to all my HillBuzz friends! May you all be blessed more than ever before every day of 2010!
Pics of the Utopia family in Hawaii, with more unflattering fashion choices by Michelle. That white number in pic 8 is just wrong for any 40-something woman.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/galleries/obamas_travels_a_behindthescenes_look/obamas_travels_a_behindthescenes_look.html
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