Listomania: 2010 in Review

Oh, wasn’t it just two posts ago that I was writing Listomania for 2009? How quickly the year progresses.  “Twenty-ten” sadly lost out to the clunky “two-thousand-and-ten,” but hope springs eternal for “twenty-eleven.” As always, these are favorites, not big mountain-top pronouncements of THE BEST THING EVER. I have to actually pay for all my [...]

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Listomania: 2009 in Review

Another year’s over, this one perhaps overlooked as decade-end lists took precedence over year-end lists.  Speaking of, can we agree to call this new year “twenty ten” instead of “two thousand ten”? Syllables are a precious resource worth conserving.  At the very least, please avoid saying “oh ten.” Oh yes, back to the year-end lists. [...]

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Best of the 2000s: Day 4 (Books; Odds and Ends)

Year-end (and decade-end) lists that get published at the end of November/beginning of December irk me.  I understand that most publications take off work during the last couple of weeks, but it just seems wrong.  I used to post my lists (on ye olde Livejournal) in January of the following year to make sure that [...]

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Best of the 2000s: Day 3 (TV; Album Cuts)

Year-end (and decade-end) lists that get published at the end of November/beginning of December irk me.  I understand that most publications take off work during the last couple of weeks, but it just seems wrong.  I used to post my lists (on ye olde Livejournal) in January of the following year to make sure that [...]

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Best of the 2000s: Day 2 (Movies; Rock Singles)

Year-end (and decade-end) lists that get published at the end of November/beginning of December irk me.  I understand that most publications take off work during the last couple of weeks, but it just seems wrong.  I used to post my lists (on ye olde Livejournal) in January of the following year to make sure that [...]

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Best of the 2000s: Day 1 (Albums; Chart Pop)

Year-end (and decade-end) lists that get published at the end of November/beginning of December irk me.  I understand that most publications take off work during the last couple of weeks, but it just seems wrong.  I used to post my lists (on ye olde Livejournal) in January of the following year to make sure that [...]

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