The Top Ten Reasons Why Everyone Should Spend New Year’s Eve in Mexico City

Starting today, you will notice this blog will not be updated daily, simply because this blogger has decided to take a well-deserved break from unemployment underemployment. And where better to do so than in the land of eternal sleeping, drinking and procrastinating?

So, in the most old-fashioned Letterman-style countdown, here are the Top Ten Reasons Why Everybody Should Welcome the New Year in Mexico City.

1. You can ice-skate in the middle of the Zócalo. For free.

2. It is the only Latin American city to have legalized gay marriage (not that I plan to marry a gal there. Yet.)

3. There are virtually no illegal Mexicans there (we’re all documented…sort of)

4. We think homophobes are just like Hitler

5. You can say “Happy New Year!” a full 2 hours before they do so in California

6. Our churches still know how to protect their sanctity

7. You can swear up to 20 times a day there

8. Chilangos beat the hell out of the English in group smooch

9. You can have chilaquiles for breakfast. Everyday. Everywhere

and last, but not least:

10. Street taco makers will do anything to protect your health

Got other reasons? Share them with me and see you in 2010.

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!