Sparkly Metaphor Drops On Times Square Tonight
People with nothing better to do on New Year's Eve love watching Dick Clark propped up in Times Square as a giant crystal ball full of evenmorecrystal (but not meth!) is slowly lowered from ... some kind of pulley, we figure? We only watched this once, when we were about nine years old, and our assumption was, obviously, that the "fucking thing had broken, on New Year's Eve of all fucking nights," but then Grandpa said that's how it'ssupposedto work, and then everybody started weeping in the night. ANYWAY: The company who makes the annual New Year's Rockin' Eve crystal shards has gone bankrupt, in 2009, yay Waterford Crystal! [ True/Slant ]