New Years Events & Info
New year, same bad brand tweets. Despite continual, exhaustive pleas from social media users for brands to stop taking part in every viral trend, popular meme, or noteworthy holiday celebration, the cringeworthy brand content persists. The latest online outrage was sparked by Burger King UK, whose social media team thought it would be a good …
Continue reading “Would you believe it? Another bad brand tweet.”
At 4:25 p.m. on New Year’s Eve 2020 I got a random, out of the blue FaceTime call from a friend. When my phone started ringing I was wearing pajamas, slippers, and an unflattering fuzzy gray robe. I didn’t have any makeup on, I was in the process of removing little hot dogs from the …
Continue reading “Don't spontaneously FaceTime people and expect them to pick up”
The Times Square Ball Drop is an institution, and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve its faithful steward for the past 49 years. So, uh, what happened with those terrifying Planet Fitness festivities? Thursday night on ABC, hosts Ryan Seacrest and Lucy Hale joined legendary guests like Cyndi Lauper and Gloria Gaynor in celebrating the …
Continue reading “Times Square rings in 2021 with a dystopian ode to Planet Fitness”
At this point you all should know the drill: Please don’t go to New Year’s Eve parties. The pandemic is as bad as it’s ever been, and one drunken night with pals (or strangers) truly is not worth making this thing worse. OK, now that we got that out of the way, just because you …
Continue reading “Watch these stunning New Year's Eve fireworks from the safety of your home”
Does anyone remember last year? There is plenty of evidence that 2019 did, in fact, exist, but I personally have almost no recollection of anything that happened before about March 2020, when the coronavirus came crashing in and redefined what it meant to have a bad year. Since then the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped almost …
2020 is nearly over, thankfully. It was, clearly, a hellish, odd year. We spent more time online than ever, considering the pandemic forced us to isolate inside. And if nothing else, the internet is good for mindlessly passing time. That in mind, we collected 20 of our favorite viral videos from 2020. Hopefully you can …
2020 won’t stop, and I’m exhausted. Maybe I should have known this year would be cursed when the New Year’s Eve party I attended missed the countdown to midnight by three minutes — the year has been a downward spiral ever since. On the personal front, my cat died on my 24th birthday, I went …
Well, it’s eight days into the new year and I’m already dropping the ball on one of my resolutions: to start using a paper planner. It’s not for lack of initiative, either. I simply can’t find one that fits both my requirements, which are 1) not too expensive and 2) not ugly. I loved using …
Continue reading “My quest for a non-corny planner I'll actually want to use”
“Drink more water” is a nice New Year’s resolution. It’s simple, it’s free, and it’s pretty much guaranteed to make you feel better. But if reaching constantly for your reusable water bottle — and it should be a reusable water bottle — isn’t already habit, you might want to buy a bottle that’s super easy …
Continue reading “If you want to drink more water, get a water bottle with a handle”
A lot of the time New Year’s resolutions are a bit too ambitious. If you want to read 50 books or travel the world in the new year, go for it. But life is extremely chaotic, so this year I’ve decided to set far more realistic goals. Instead of setting out to do one huge …
Continue reading “20 extremely simple New Year's resolutions that you can easily achieve”
