Sure, the weather outside is about to get awfully inconsiderate, but still, pre-New Year has to be considered the most wonderful time of year. Why? Even if you're anti-Christmas (which, if you are, you're an idiot from any religio-socio perspective), there is still plenty to love about this season. Whether it is the free vacation time, the fact that everyone become as lazy about work as I am, or the rapid rise in the consumption of booze, there is something for everybody! Maybe with the exception of recovering alcoholics... Sorry.
But the real reason why I love this time of year is due to the retrospective window that opens as the year crawls to an end. And this year is even better, because not only do we get to compile a Best of 2009, but we also get to make our Best of the 2000's, drawn up in the most self-serving of fashions to legitimize our own tastes and cast dispersions upon those foolish enough to have differing opinions.
