New Year's Traditions: Getting Totally Wasted

While this tradition seems pretty obvious, there are special procedures that must be observed:

1. Singing traditional songs.

2. Playing traditional games.

3. Eating traditional foods.

4. Unintentionally destroying property.

5. Having deeply meaningful conversations.

6. Offering candid assessments of the party.

7. Offering candid assessments of the partygoers.

8. Escape.

9. Final thoughts.

The Saga of Bob (con't.)

It's been a while since we've talked about Bob, one of the background characters, but I can now officially tell you more about him: he smokes and drinks.

Yes, in "Jane's Addition," Bob is seen lighting up a cigarette (tobacco, I assume) and drinking (alcohol, I assume) at a bar where Mystik Spiral is playing, even though he is in 11th grade at Lawndale High. I still think he's a punk wrestler/ weightlifter. Your mileage may vary. For more on Bob, click the tiny label "bob" below.

Do you get kind of a film noir vibe from this guy? Something kind of dark and eerie and mysterious, something unexpected. Has anyone used him in fanfic? He's a great blank slate. I have a pic of his car somewhere from "The Invitation," will post it later.

Lawndale Online is still down. Damn.

While over at DariaWiki, I started thinking that there weren't near enough Daria Universes on the Daria Multiverse page. Can you think of more to add? I know some good ones have been left out. Let's make this page the longest one ever!


FF.net

• Meet the Monster, by medea42 (COMPLETE!): Reads like the show. Loved Trent's method of making Quinn go away. Brilliant.
• The Young Switcheroo, by Smileyfax (Part 8): We continue through the first season of this wild, switched-around world, now at "Cafe Disaffecto." And we learn who the thief was! And more!
  

PPMB

• She Knows Not What She Does, by psychotol (COMPLETE!): Daria's loathsome new career as a telemarketer proves to have an unexpected side benefit.

SFMB

• In the Midnight Hour, by Gum Wars (COMPLETE!): You know, I wasn't sure whether to post this one, but I figured hey, it's there, you may as well look at it.

Andrea and Her Bud

Just a "Cafe Disaffecto" snapshot (not a very good one, but it's the best I can do) of Andrea sitting by herself and lowering what appears to be a brown beer bottle, which she hides a moment later because a spotlight has been turned on her. She was drinking from it before the light came on.

A lot of fans recall this moment, though I don't believe it made much of a splash in fanfic. Andrea is often shown smoking cigarettes, but (IIRC) not drinking alcohol. Correct me if I am wrong.

So, Lindy in Is It College Yet? wasn't the only youthful drinker in the series.

"Whenever I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself. . . ."