Is there a gaudier party holiday than New Year's Eve? Being a child of the 70's I associate the end of year celebrations with brightly colored cardboard hats with gold tinsel sticking out the top. Obnoxious noises from paper horns that turn to wet pulp in your mouth. Bad food (I spent one New Year's Eve in the basement of a family friend's house eating those awful candy dots stuck to paper. I was eating sugared paper basically.) resting uneasily in a tired stomach. Dick Clark. Wolfman Jack. Rick James. Disco. This is what I think of.