If you're smart, you'll stay in tonight. Drunk drivers will be out and it won't help their navigation that it's going to be raining in much of the country. Also, New Year's Eve parties usually suck. At least, the ones I've been to did…people trying way too hard to have a good time as they drastically overstate how bad the last year was and how nothing bad can possibly happen in the new one.
So if you're smart, you'll stay home. If you're really smart, you'll spend the evening watching as Stu Shostak and his lovely spouse Jeanine commandeer Ronnie Paul's late night TV show that comes out of Fresno, California…with the participation of Ronnie, of course. They're bringing in celebrity guests, games, prizes, classic TV clips, discussion about the world of entertainment and they're doing it live from Fresno for six whole hours! I've written prime-time network shows that didn't last six whole hours.
It starts at 7 PM West Coast Time and runs until 1 AM. Your hosts will be welcoming, among other folks, Jimmy Garrett from The Lucy Show and other programs, Beverly Washburn from Star Trek and other programs, Jeannie Russell from Dennis the Menace, TV historian Steve Beverly and animation authority Jerry Beck. A little after Midnight, they will dial the definition of "celebrity guest" down low enough to pass me off as one. Stu and I will be talking about late night TV…or something.
If you live in Fresno or surrounding areas, you can watch it on your very own television on Channel 43.5. If you don't, you can stream it on the web on the Stu's Show website, on the website of Cocola Broadcasting or on the UStream website. Or you can just come to this page because I'll be streaming it on this site. I don't have to give you a link to that. You know how you got here.
(Also: If you have a Roku TV, you may be able to watch it there. This page will tell you how.)
I don't know how this is going to go. I don't think Stu, Jeanine or Ronnie do, either. Tune in and we'll all find out at the same time.