- The top 20 internet lists of 2009. It starts off with a bang at #20: 5 cats that look like Wilford Brimley.
- A million lists of top-three books of 2009. I was not asked, but if I were asked I would have proven how literate and practical I am by listing Bolano’s 2666 even though I didn’t read it (and it was published in 2004.)
- Year-end list of lists about jazz in 2009. Coming in at #1 on the list of worst mustaches in the Bill McHenry Quintet… Bill McHenry!
- The Noughtie List. From Kottke.org. It’s got almost everything covered. One omission: I did not find the list of things not listed on that list.
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December 31, 2009 at 4:43 am
Tom Degan
I can remember exactly where I was when this awful decade came into being. Believe it or not, when I rang in the new year on January 1, 2000, not only was I stone-cold sober – I was at church! My then-girlfriend and I attended a special midnight mass at the local Catholic church to welcome in, not only a new decade, but a new century and a new millennium. I remember feeling filled with optimism. By entering this new era, I felt, we could wipe the slate clean. Maybe this would be a new age of peace, love, brother and sisterhood. EVERYBODY SING!
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius!
Age of Aquarius!
Aquariusuuuuus!
How utterly naive on my part, huh? By year’s end, all of that hope was out the window and into the toilet. In December of 2000, an ideologically perverted Supreme Court would assist in a stolen election by stopping the vote count in the state of Florida, installing a corrupt little frat boy with the I.Q. of a half-eaten box of Milk Duds as president of the United States. It was all downhill from that moment on. From the birth of “Reality Television” to the worst attack on American soil since the Civil War, it was quite a strange ten years to say the least. Thankfully this awful decade is a mere three days away from being forever consigned to history’s scrap heap. Hallelujah.
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