{"id":99966,"date":"2026-01-01T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99966"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T04:43:11","slug":"new-years-memery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/01\/01\/new-years-memery\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s memery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The period between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day (aka “Hangover Day” for amateur drinkers) tend to be pretty low-traffic periods for internet sites, and my experience is that my own readers drop in far less frequently until around January 2nd. Taking advantage of this, I can drop in a few low-effort posts to keep up appearances and get on with my usual holiday sloth with no-one the wiser. So … memes:<\/p>\n

First, a tribute to yet another armpit of a year:<\/p>\n

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And on to the bright promise of the infant 2026:<\/p>\n

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Sorry, that was apparently a repeat post from every year since 2016, prompting this heartfelt apology from the powers-that-be:<\/p>\n

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Not so much a meme as an accurate recapitulation of our descent into the cultural cesspool we currently inhabit (h\/t to Ted Gioia):<\/p>\n

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New Year’s resolutions? Here’s a suggestion:<\/p>\n

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Ian<\/a> has the right idea:<\/p>\n

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It’s a fair question, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

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You can tell it’s not their first rodeo:<\/p>\n

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Not a meme, but in the general direction of memery — Dave Barry’s “Year in Review<\/a>“. An excerpt:<\/p>\n

The biggest story of 2025, to judge from the number of people who sent it to me, was this raccoon:<\/p>\n

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In case you somehow missed this story: In late November, this raccoon got into a state liquor store in Ashland, Va., by falling though the ceiling. Once inside, the raccoon ransacked the store, leaving a trail of broken bottles …<\/p>\n

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… and apparently consuming a large quantity of booze before passing out in the bathroom next to the toilet. That’s where the raccoon was found by a store employee, who called an animal-control officer, who took it to an animal shelter. When the raccoon finally sobered up, it was hired as director of security by the Louvre Museum.<\/p>\n

No, seriously, it was released into the wild. But the photo went majorly viral, and the raccoon became a huge<\/em> celebrity. We, the American people, LOVE this raccoon. And I think I know why: After the year we’ve been through, we can relate to it<\/em>. We have had way<\/em> too much of 2025; it has left us, as a nation, lying face-down on the floor of despair, between the wastebasket of stupidity and the commode of broken dreams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The period between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day (aka “Hangover Day” for amateur drinkers) tend to be pretty low-traffic periods for internet sites, and my experience is that my own readers drop in far less frequently until around January 2nd. Taking advantage of this, I can drop in a few low-effort posts to keep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57],"tags":[1474],"class_list":["post-99966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","tag-memes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-q0m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99966"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100067,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99966\/revisions\/100067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}