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Where, says we, be those (wily) wondrous ones? See The End, Jim. Still, this was the New Year’s Eve That Was. (An Old editor milked that very phrase until it got Old, like a passing Year when the promise comes of The New.) But this was just a bit different. So we’re a Victim of Changes, as since post-pandemic it’s been the newbies, with their own knack, out and not so much the old guard, but for a few. I’ll take the (bit naked?) nuances of the new in chronological order. —- And now just added at the end from The Day, I will throw it on back to you.

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Here we go, blow by blow. How do the new meet the older old? As I left the Buena Vista […]

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From big ribeye to risotto, and that’s just for starters on this New Year’s Eve that also includes music, you can do it all on Sunday night into Monday morning. Grill and fill, or chill, because you still will not have to worry about the bill you put in the till. (As you can get dinner for two and a bottle of wine plus dessert for $70 — see below — if you go to the right place, and here’s a primer of picks.) Now tacked on the end, is a preview, a lowkey Saturday the night before.

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This New Year’s Eve is a meeting of the minds and music and munching, and other mirth, that is in

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This is a tale that must be told, and I hold dear, and I can still tell it! (As there are, officially, 12 Days of Christmas.) What was put up for people to see, and be seen? As such, here is what I saw in decorations on both ends of the state of Wisconsin. From Santas to sleighs and bells, snowmen to strings of lights, sleds to Christmas stockings. No snow, but there are other visual ways to go, to do the holidays!

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From the seat I sit on and compose, on Tuesday morning, I can still see four foot-wide white figures of

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Why, pray-tell, did it take those Three Wise Men so long to get to Bethlehem? (I swear if it was me, it would be more like 3,000 years on the road, and with smelly camels — see below — it’s no fun!) I’d maybe pull in by this spring. And that’s if I didn’t part the Red Sea and buy some time, bridges out, camel-lane closures. All but for that classic World Music Tour title, Death On The Road! Perhaps those days, you’d have used up one-tenth of your lifespan when coming close to Persia. Persistence of those countries to cross.

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And you thought traveling for Christmas across counties, countries or even continents, could be disconcerting. What if it’s all or

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Santa has Them Bones too, or so in grunge, says Alice, and thus lifts her Chains like the old ghost seen by Scrooge. Lit up, to again lift up, using their very pale whiteness aside, like a Christmas tree. Merging holidays — sorry to Scrooge — occurring in past, present and future times. But for now, and to forego any more word-like Reindeer-Like Games, its Father Christmas! (And at the end is new info, seasonally sanctioned song stuff.)

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There still are and were several Santas seen, some on the more secularly sinister and not sacred side. Seriously. But

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The grocery store lines are way back — like getting offsale or into that hit music club — almost to the produce aisle end, and so you keep switching, and shifting … Swerve to self-serve? Maybe need to stay put, just like choosing not to lane-hop on a backed-up freeway, as you are approaching That Last Sitting Still Car. (Or shopping cart.) And you thought Black Friday was bad? Back In Black? —– Or in Purple, after many years, but at Ziggy’s it was zeros after the first quarter, so yikes for Vikes! See Picks Of The Week.

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A funny (not really) thing happened on the way to check-out the forum, at the market. And the lines to

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This is a story that everyone can clearly understand. Between being stuck, literally, with a new nursing home stay and countless cases of Covid, (now more added, though the pink line only gets lighter), there almost was more than being stuck in traffic, no Home For The Holidays at all. The quagmire brought on by quarantine, in addition. But at least we got the buttoned-up elevator to work, so one less snag in transport.

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It was an unusual Thanksgiving, with more running back and forth, with all hands having medical conditions or maybe even

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Big bar flannel-flawed Wednesday night led to Thanksgiving, then to Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday, then Native American Heritage Day, then Cyber Monday as the start of online Cyber Week. Got all that you seasoned holiday veteran? We hope you didn’t leave behind your wallet — or be so stuffed with turkey you couldn’t haul it out. —– And all this begat a kick-off-the-season snowmo event at the GasLite.

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First there was the night before Thanksgiving, but few were nestled all snug in their beds, but partied larger than

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