Repressed in the Midwest

 Hey anybody have any new years resolutions?  Anything super great happen this past year?  Any good stories?  Good albums? good books?  um...good ....fortune cookies?  Should we have a new years party?  Have your new years always sucked, too?
Yeah, I'm bored.  Sorry.

a Whole Lotta Lynxies:
-Really cool "pixelated" serving dishes and plates
-What were the top searches of 2005?  I thought it would be Katrina or something....y'know what?  The real answer depresses me.
-The 100 best (whoa, almost wrote breast, where's my head?) wines of 2005.
-Nobody reads your blog?  Yeah, me neither.  Wanna make it look like they do?  Well, hire these guys to write fake posts for you.  Y'know, you're only cheating yourselves.
-Life imitates art: movie "3-iron" about a man that breaks in and fixes things instead of stealing; actually happened recently in Beijing...except slightly more perverted.  (haven't seen 3 iron yet, but the trailers looked really interesting)
-Lolita at 50 - still shocking? Slate.com article about whether this classic novel still is capable of causing a stir.  I'm reading it now and like it; unfortunately it's taken a backburner to a million other things.
-Hijinks at my sorta alma-mater: during finals week, two guys dressed up like pac man characters and paraded through the library (UGLi) and computer lab (the fishbowl).  Pretty funny, kinda annoying.  I got kicked out of the fishbowl for throwing erasers at my friend.  He started it.  jerk.
-Apparently, humans don't understand mirrors.  I read the article...and I guess I don't understand mirrors, either.  It makes it sound like "Humans don't understand it" but monkeys, fish, cats, slugs, etc. all understand it and now we're the laughing stock of the animal kingdom...stupid science jerks making us feel bad about ourselves.
-Hey my roommate and I just tried this flashlight photobox...except mine was just holding a piece of printer paper in front of the light....theirs is a little more complex.  Did I mention we are morons?
-Are you tired of just balling your napkins up before a meal? Well learn how to fold 'em all fancy-like here.
-Man truly is the king of beasts...the paragon of all animals.  A ten bird roast .  Gross. I'm gonna become a vegetarian.
-Huh, seems kinda strange to me...Game where you fight a colossal woman....Does that say breast data acquisition?!?!?
-Really love fonts?  Yeah, well tell the world that Helvetica kicks Arials ass with these font hoodies.
-Sexiest Geeks of 2005 (not fully sfw).  Xeni made it, without a doubt.  Huh, imagine that, I'm not on the list.  I also like violet's list of podcasts
-Apparently, cock soup is popular....along with Barfy meet patties (which reminds of this site, that has a million hilarious "engrish" products)
-So, as stated before, I love year end lists...yeah, yeah, I know everyone hates them and the same shit is said over and over....but they make me feel superior to the poor schlub that made the list.  However, this "best of 2005" list intrigued me cuz I'm not actually sure it's a "best of" lst but may actually be ALL the albums released this year. 
-And Pitchfork's top 50!