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You've got
to have crystal
balls to throw a successful bash this New Year's Eve. Already,
the  plug's
been pulled on ballyhooed events in San
Francisco and New
York City, and a recent poll found that 72
percent of Americans aren't planning to do anything special
on the century's last night. OK, so it's an overpriced,
overhyped
amateur night--but it ain't coming back around for a thousand years.
So fuck it, let's count ourselves among the special 28 percent who
recognize a valid excuse to party when we see it.
You don't have to hang with the geezers
at Giza to be involved. I'm placing my NYE2K bet on Sin
City, for instance, and plan on steppin' out with my baby to
hear a 20th-century
classic on the first night of the new millennium. There's revelry
aplenty to be found coast
to coast,
in between,
and on both
sides of the dateline.
It's time to break through the backlash
and kick it.
If swigging Zimas under a giant fake martini doesn't stir you, why
not shake up the evening with some righteous political
activism, drum
up a peaceful
gathering, or at least pray
for the souls of all us heathen hedonists who've decided it'll
be more fun to hit
the streets than maintain our ironic
detachment into the next
century.
Frank
Sennett
 Party
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