It’s that time of year again: time to do some looking back before taking a big leap forward. Hooray, end of the year! So herein we have my annual summation of what I think are some pretty good posts along the way. I like to think that I had a typically good year here at Byzantium’s Shores; and as always, I met a bunch of cool new people along the way. That’s what it’s all about!
I’d call attention first to a couple of ongoing posting projects. It took a while, but I finished up with Fixing the Prequels: Attack of the Clones, and I did Ask Me Anything! not once, but twice. (And we’ll do it again in February 2011, huzzah!) I also started a rewatch of The X-Files. I’m not that far in yet, but we’ll get there in 2011. And there was The Beatles Song of the Week, which I did not do weekly. But I did a Thirty Day Challenge in thirty consecutive days! Huzzah!!
But anyway, it was a pretty fun year, and I hope that showed up in the posts!
So, let’s get to the retrospective.
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Seeing the Trans-Siberian Orchestra
100 quotes every geek should know
Ringing in 2010
A Quiz of Questionable Politeness
Recipe: Straw and Hay
My tool cart: a brief tour
Recipe: Pulled pork
Ben Shapiro is an idiot
All Aboard the Chan-wagon!
Things I’d say to certain people
A Quiz on Writing
National Pie Day!
A Negative Quiz
Pepsi Throwback: I love it!
February
A Dizzney Quizz
My favorite new appliance of the year: the corn popper!
Cat plus Laser equals FUN FUN FUN!
The View from Inside My Head
Thoughts on Super Bowl XXVCIIMLFJJIII
Nutella: it’s awesome!
Ten Cinematic Kisses
Vintage hickory-striped Lee overalls: I love ’em!
Angry driver is angry.
The Orchard Park railroad station: stepping into history
March
When magazines go bad
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How I spend break
Homemade Shamrock Shakes, and other delights
The BPO takes the Spanish Main
The “Ten Things” quiz
An appreciation of those who fly the Millennium Falcon
Pie versus Cake
Remembering Vincent’s Pizza in Pittsburgh
A tale of mechanical frustration
April
Ten posts I will never write
To Pittsburgh!
Signs you’re in a good local lunch establishment
Maple Syrup and other delights
A Teevee Quiz
A Star Trek Quiz
Wherein I wax poetic about Bib Overalls
Chili, and other delights
A Music Quiz
Guilty, or innocent?
May
A Comics Quiz
Fried rice, Chiavetta’s chicken, and other delights
OMG my life has been taken over by USB cords!
My second Air Force One flyover
I love Castle and I don’t care who knows it!
Thoughts on the finale of Survivor: All-stars
Thoughts on the finale of American Idol
June
Some random observations
I still think that Selig should have given that guy a perfect game.
100 Characters
Wondering about a Wonder Woman movie
On beating Super Mario Bros!
The Library Book Sale: June edition
On the passing of Al Williamson
The BPO does the Beatles
On the passing of Dr. Warren Schmidt
I consume a Twinkie, and live to tell the tale
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How America was Born (or, Why it’s a good thing I didn’t try to major in History)
Coming up with names for an SF book: not easy.
A big book quiz
Lebron James: King of the Douches
Homemade pizza, homemade burgers, and other delights
Remembering the Bristol Hills Music Camp
MarioKart!
I really like Breakfast.
100 Science Fiction books everyone should read
A short morality play
August
The Buffalo News‘s decline in quality control
Maybe they think overalls should only be worn over hair shirts….
My friend Matt Jones gets married!
I have an “ilk”!”
Best Boss Ever!
More SF books everybody should read!
A Horrific Quiz!
Overalls and the iPad: a match made in Heaven!
Our day at the Erie County Fair
The “Things I’ve Done” quiz
On the passage of Bill Roosa, my high-school band director
Gregg Easterbrook, uncorking his bottle of stupid
September
Olympic Pie Throwing?!
Photographing Green Lake in Orchard Park
Yes, I love Arthur, and I’m not afraid to admit it!
Rachael Ray takes overalls mainstream!
On fake swearing
The Behaviors of George Costanza
October
Talking to my younger self: a quiz-thing
55 questions about books
I tried. I really did. But I don’t like Glee.
The Pirates continue to be really bad….
A Halloween quiz
Lisa Edelstein: ROWR!
Mary Poppins, the stage show
November
I won! I won! I won! I won!
100 Tweets about Overalls
A word picture
Papa John’s is here! (so what?)
How I spent International Overalls Day!
On cheating (the academic kind, not the marital kind!)
Things I’m thankful for
Little Quinn, five years gone….
Black Friday: a day of shopping, eating, and taking pies in my face.
December
A Star Wars quiz
The antidote to annoyance: seeing people getting pied.
Remembering John Lennon (a bit, anyway)
My year in Facebook statuses
Wow, there have been a lot of animated movies….
Melissa Rauch: ROWR!
On the nature of blogging comments
Christmas at Casa Jaquandor
Boom de yada!
An unexpected overalls sighting!
The year’s new Christmas ornaments
The Color Trilogy, Kim Dong Hwa
Cordelia’s Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
Gentlemen of the Road, Michael Chabon
Judas Unchained, Peter F. Hamilton
Justice League: A League of One
Kushiel’s Chosen, Jacqueline Carey
The Lions of Al-Rassan, Guy Gavriel Kay
Napoleon’s Pyramids, William Dietrich
Sports From Hell: My Search for the World’s Dumbest Competition, Rick Reilly
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
14000 Things to be Happy About
Movie Posts
The Empire Strikes Back (a 30-year retrospective)
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince