Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Special Year-End List Edition

I had a really good year-end list planned for 2008. It was going to be a "dynamic duos" edition, topped of course by Barack and Michelle Obama. Then Obama picked Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inaugural, and I was just too disgusted to put it all together. So in the interest in sharing some bloggy goodness, here are some retrospectives put together my our many blogbrothers and sisters, for you enjoyment:

If it's time for retrospectives, it's time for ModFab's year in theatre and television.

The General has The Year in Hair.

Jon Swift did his annual solicitation for bloggers on all sides of the political spectrum and those non-political to submit their self-evaluated best posts of the year. His linkitude to these posts will keep you happily busy and edified all day.

Jurassicpork, who occasionally graces this blog with his presence, has been on one hell of a prolific tear lately, from noting the amazing similarities between the utterances of serial killers (real ones, not Dexter Morgan) and the sociopath occupying the White House for another 19 days to the pitching of a book proposal in an alternate universe in which John McCain and Sarah Palin win the 2008 election. But his final Assclowns of the Week for 2008 is must reading.

Driftglass borrows from Charles Dickens to tell the story of 2008 in pictures.

For those of you who always vote in those silly "polls" at CNN.com, the Poor Man is having his awards season. You can vote for who should receive the Palme d’Haire, the Wank of the Year award, the Soggy Biscuit award, the Creamy Baileys Nobel Peace Prize for Science the Purple Teardrop with Clutched Pearl Cluster, the Fluffy, and the much-coveted Chickenhawk of the Year.

And while we're on the subject of awards, TPM announces the winners of the 2008 Golden Dukes.

And no discussion of awards is complete without noting the Most Obsessive Academy Awards Coverage in the Known Universe, by my dear friend from my movie review days, Nat Rogers. If you're an Oscars® junkie, he's your guy.

And finally, thanks to Skippy who just saved me a whole bunch of work.

Happy new year, everyone. And may we all set small, manageable resolutions that we can actually accomplish. Mine are: a) drink more water; b) continue cutting back on sugar; and c) keep in better touch with the many virtual and meat world friends I've made over the past decade, some of whom I've sorely neglected.