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I ripped this out of an in-flight magazine because it is a spectacular, insane mediocrity (just like the show himself, I assume). By the time you see that the shushing rabbit has a pierced ear, that the weird Tim Burton-y lady is Thriller-dancing, and the winged top hats are turning into doves, you have to stop looking because it's hideously ugly. But do look closer, it's hilarious. For example: that there is a written-by credit. LOLOLOLOLOL!

THE MASTER AND MARGARITA

My big plan in going out to buy some cute, feminine clothes ended in exactly one purchase, this:

I am 100% sure it was cut for a guy.

2010 NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS

1. Be more like this somehow, someway

2. Reread Lolita

3. Read (and finish) Leaves of Grass

4. Get back down to goal weight (I had such a shitty shitty year!)

5. Stop falling in love with the guys who work at Barnes and Noble (SERIOUS THIS TIME)

6. Stop thinking the "hard c-word" so much. It is going to get me into trouble.

MY VERY PERSONAL BUT QUITE AUTHORATIVE TOP TEN BEST COMEDY SHOWS OF THE 00S

1. The Colbert Report
2. Look Around You
3. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
4. The Office (UK)
5. The Venture Brothers
6. Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job
7. 30 Rock
8. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
9. Arrested Development
10. Stella

Notes:

My criteria for this were: 1) Must have started in the 00s (that's why there's no Futurama or The Daily Show) and 2) must have been transcendently* funny, i.e., a game-changer. In some way or another, it had to change the way shit's did. Honorable mention to Adult Swim for creating a place where great comedy can flourish.

I omitted The Office (American) because it's so annoying and up its own ass and I goddamn can't stand looking at any of their faces (except Steve Carell and Mindy Kaling).

*This isn't how I imagined coming out of the closet, but here we are.

MY VERY PERSONAL TOP TEN FILMS OF THE 00S: EVERYONE ELSE WAS DOING IT

1. Wet Hot American Summer
2. There Will Be Blood
3. Inglourious Basterds
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Punch Drunk Love
6. George Washington
7. Ratatouille
8. The Royal Tenenbaums
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. DiG!

Notes:

I very nearly included "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," but I feel like "Wet Hot American Summer" covered what ATLORB did, if in a different way and a little earlier. They're both game-changers, and for the better. The Royal Tenenbaums gets in largely because Rushmore can't, by technicality. If the latter had been made a little later, I might not have included TRT.

"Most underrated"*
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Pineapple Express (the best, and possibly only good movie** Seth Rogan's ever made)
Children of Men
Junebug
Bamboozled
The Saddest Music in the World
Hot Rod

*I know, I know, grammar nerds. Please bear with me.
**I haven't seen "Observe and Report" yet.

TEN THINGS I LOVE

1. Reading things in Italian

2. My mom, who is much better than I deserve

3. "Hardon" by Withered Hand



4. My brothers. Two wrassling, football-playing feminists! With brilliant senses of humor! I am blessed.

5. Being proven wrong

6. The Daily Bunny

7. Re-seeing things

8. Banh mi

9. Slick city pavement

10. Opening up