ABBA, "Happy New Year"

Happy New Year! It's now 2010! But no matter what year it is, let's count our blessings that the '70s will always be around--and they continue to give us fantastic videos like this one:

Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, "Spanish Flea"

Does it get any cooler than Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass? If it does, I don't want to know about it.

Cake, "No Phone"

In Portland, when it rains, it drizzles--because it always rains here. But when it snows, it pours. And when it pours, phone calls pour into local TV newsrooms with all sorts of information and questions--many of which are filtered through a person like me.

And so I sit here with a beer, happy to temporarily escape the phones, and grateful that I'm home and warm (and not still stuck in the snow!)