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Congratulations ABBA?
Abba joins Genesis, The Hollies, The Stooges and Jimmy Cliff as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class of 2010....
Yes, I actually read books this year
This is the easiest (read: laziest) way to do this. I made a list of favorites, too (which you can find on my profile at Goodreads), but it was slim. Some of my favorite books of '09 were actually published in '08. (Victims of the library's wait list...
Word of the year: Unfriend?
Yeah, I'm sure everyone saw that coming. The "word" of 2009: unfriend. Or maybe it's "defriend." Via CNN: "It has both currency and potential longevity," said Christine Lindberg, a language researcher for Oxford's U.S. ...
00s, Noughties, Naughties?
The month's not over, and I'm sure we're already sick of year-end, decade-end lists. (I'm not; I'm a sucker for a retrospective.) The Onion's AV Club has a boatload of decade-defining lists. (Included: Best Short Story Collections, Best Comics, and B...
TeeVee
I'm trying to see the appeal of MTV's Jersey Shore. (I mean, other than the obvious appeal of trainwreck TV.) Color me clueless (or color me a naive Midwesterner), but I'd never heard the word "guido" prior to this show, and I'm an Italian-...
Is this a terrible idea?
I've been kicking around the idea of starting a shopping/makeup blog in addition to this one whose future remains hazy. Is this a dumb plan? I struggle with being taken seriously, and nothing could be less serious than blabbing about concealer. But...
