One week. That’s it.
If I haven’t said “Happy New Year” to you in the first seven days of the year, don’t expect to hear it from me after that. The window will be closed. There’s no point in dragging this thing out all year.
As for resolutions, I made my last one. That was years ago, and I managed to keep it. I resolved never to make any more resolutions.
“New year, new me.” Fine, if that works for you. Good luck with that. Just don’t keep saying it and tweeting it all the time. It gets annoying after a while, especially if it’s really just the same old you.
Me? I like the Times Square approach. I don’t mean the big ball drop thing, although that was nice.
I’m talking about the event last week in Times Square where people said good riddance to things that got on their nerves.
At the event sponsored by the Times Square Alliance, New Yorkers symbolically ridded themselves of such problems as the pandemic, poverty and prejudice by writing down their worries on pieces of paper and casting them into the trash.
Shred it and forget it.
In that spirit, here is a list of things we should shred and forget in 2023.
— George Santos. Three words: Pants. On. Fire.
The Republican won the Nov. 8 election to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District, which covers portions of northern Nassau County and northeast Queens. Santos, 34, admitted this week to misrepresenting areas of his biography including his education, professional experience and property ownership, after The New York Times published a bombshell report that blew parking lot sized holes in his résumé.
Rep. Ritchie Torres, a legitimate congressman from the Bronx, has introduced legislation that would make it a crime for candidates to lie about their backgrounds. Torres calls it the Stop Another Non-Truthful Office Seeker Act,
That’s SANTOS for short.
Good riddance. Congress should lock the door and pretend they’re not home when this guy comes around.
— Southwest Airlines. It was bad enough that thousands of people with canceled Southwest Airlines flights were stranded at airports across the nation, but also thousands of pieces of their checked-in luggage were stranded too — even if the owners never got on a flight.
Some passengers said they were without baby gear, medicine and other important items because they didn’t anticipate being separated from their baggage for so long.
Southwest canceled more than 2,500 flights Wednesday, after roughly 5,600 cancellations Monday and Tuesday, according to FlightAware.
Good riddance.
— T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach. Reports over the weekend had the married-but-not-to-each other “Good Morning America” co-hosts making out like teenagers near a Miami beach during a getaway that followed their suspension on Dec. 5 from ABC, which is investigating their relationship.
Remind me why we care about this, again. On the other hand, don’t bother.
See ya. Wouldn’t want to be ya. Really. I wouldn’t want to be you.
— Jacob deGrom. Last week the former Mets ace took out a full-page newspaper ad to thank New York fans for their support.
“My family and I are forever grateful to the Mets for an incredible last 12 years and, most importantly, for believing in me,” deGrom, a two-time National League Cy Young Award winner, said in his farewell.
DeGrom, 34, did the Texas two-step, spurning the Mets for the Rangers and a five-year deal worth $185 million. Several reports said the Mets were never given a chance to match the Rangers’ offer. That means deGrom didn’t want to be here anymore. And if he doesn’t want to be here, then we don’t want him here.
Good riddance. Cy-onara.
A good riddance, too, to inflation, Kanye West, Vladimir Putin, subway crime, Elon Musk. Zach Wilson, ghost guns, Donald Trump and calls to defund the police.
Maybe not so fast on Zach Wilson. Mike White could get hurt again.
