Gonzo Xmas — 2022 2021 Repack

I spent Christmas Eve 2021 in a half-empty bar with a bartender named Tony who played Fairytale of New York on repeat. Not ironically. Just because, as he put it, “nothing else fits anymore.” A couple in reindeer antlers argued about supply chains. Someone’s kid opened a gift-wrapped box of rapid tests under a plastic tree.

: Write-ups from this period often focused on the return to "normalcy" after the 2020 lockdowns. Music blogs like No Clean Singing used the "Gonzo" moniker to curate raw, year-end "Listmania" rankings of hardcore and punk music. gonzo xmas 2022 2021

Remember Christmas 2021? Omicron was the ghost at the feast. People were masking up for carol services, boosters were the new advent calendar, and half of us spent December refreshing PCR test results like we were betting on a horse named “Sore Throat.” I spent Christmas Eve 2021 in a half-empty