Conan’s classy farewell

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In case you missed it Friday night, here are Conan O’Brien’s closing remarks on his final Tonight Show:

They then concluded the show with in an entirely wacky and bizarre (and therefore appropriate?) fashion, with Will Ferrell singing “Free Bird” — and repeatedly making out with his real-life pregnant wife — and Conan playing backup guitar.

Gawker has all the clips from the show, and Friday’s other relevant late-night-wars videos.

P.S. Conan’s ratings on Friday, incidentally, were through the roof.

‘Tis (no longer) the season

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I’ve spent parts of the last three weekends taking down Christmas lights — these things take a while when you’ve got two little girls 🙂 — and today I finally finished dismantling the display that we lit up with much fanfare back on December 6. Here’s a time-lapse video of the take-down process:

My favorite part of this year’s display was the back yard, as seen in this blog masthead. Can’t wait to figure out how I’ll top myself next year. 🙂