Wednesday, December 31, 2008

2008 in CU review

For those of you who missed any, most or all of the last almost-11 months of Continue Unprotected, here's a recap, and links to some of the essentials.

New words:

AMpty-headed
Antichrist Complex
Avoision
Blahgger
Calendarsthenics
Capastrophic
Christmess
Fopera
Halfiversary
Interestomercialitis
Marthastewartize
Nouveau Liche
Reaganitis
Sarcast
Texublican
Virgineers
X-mess


Quantifiable Living:

Measure these emotions in the following units:

Sadness > kittens
Geographic dissatisfaction > cultural miles
Frazzlement > selves
HTR Desperation > fruitcake


In Defense of Poppery:

"A Year From Now" -- Across Five Aprils
"Dog Park" -- The Saturday Knights
"Handlebars" -- The Flobots
"Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill Song)" -- Wyclef Jean, Akon, Lil' Wayne, Niia
"The Mae Shi versus Miley Cyrus' See You Again" -- The Mae Shi
Vampire genre fiction
"With You" -- Chris Brown


My family:

Party Like It's 1999
How we were held over the Styx
1500, military time


Faith:

The Art of Shame
Resurrection
My bionic Jesus heart


My girl:

My Job is Revelation
How I became a McDonald's product
Flying should probably be its own reward


Personal:

Anatomy of an Honors Student: Buckle
"Skin is burning" / "Everyone's a building burning..."
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