What Are You Doing On New Year's Eve?

Monday, Premium T. and I celebrated our first anniversary by returning to the corner table at Cafe Juanita. Tonight, we plan to celebrate New Year's Eve by staying at home, lighting a fire, listening to music, and reading together...

I'm going to reorganize the Citizen K. sidebars, consolidating some, renewing others, and starting a new feature or two...

Neither of us like to go out on NYE, especially here with the night rain making the drunks' drives home even more challenging...

This morning, I'm going to an Obama transition-sponsored community meeting on health care reform. The position overview sent out in advance needs a great deal of work: The writers appear to believe that the essential challenge is the need to modernize a dilapidated system without altering its fundamentals. There is no mention of health care as a right and it dances around the corrosive role played by private insurance...

The Soul of New Orleans: "The city has been through hell, but somehow the heart of this town is still beating." Don't miss the tantalizing review of New Orleans hot spots -- places to eat, drink, sleep, shop, and visit that may or may not be in standard guide books...

At this moment, Citizen K. is listening to Raphael Saadiq's homage to 1960's Motown, The Way I See It. While the sound is a throwback, the lyrics aren't: "Big Easy" is a harrowing account of lovers separated during the terror of Hurricane Katrina: