I adore The Decemberists, and got into them BECAUSE I love storytelling songs and I find their quirky style delightful. Also, they put on a fantastic live show - The Rake's Song, live, ranks up there with my very best concert experiences.

Shut up, haters.
This is going to be awesome, and I will buy them for myself and read them to my future offspring. Learn to embrace whimsy, you fuckers.

I'll add my voice here too - I've been squicked by embarrassment humour all my life. I lasted approximately one-third of an episode of The Office UK, and didn't even attempt to watch the US version. I also loathed Seinfeld. I keep pillows on my couch for hiding behind, and if the remote isn't within diving distance,…

1982. I just turned 28. My first little sister was born in 1992, and all her Facebook status updates are about the awesome party she went to and how she's never drinking like THAT again and I remember spoon-feeding her mush and enduring Barney the Dinosaur when I babysat. I also found out that my youngest brother…

The rule is to drop words and add numbers, so I'm calling it for "Fiverious".

Before the internet people wrote them down and sent them in. On paper. Through the post. My first Hottest 100 vote was submitted this way.

I have astigmatism and TWO pairs of glasses (one for reading/computing, one for the rest of the time - bifocals just give me headaches) and both pairs are thick, dark and square. I have a round head and a short black bob, this style is practically the law.

Peer pressure: it works!
ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. I'LL WATCH THE FUCKING WIRE. Jesus.

Seconded - and I don't even work for Gawker. :)

Intermet.

Every last one of you is out of your goddamned minds. BBT is probably the best traditional sitcom on tv right now, and Jim Parsons is the core of its awesomeness. You're all fired.

I love this list even more than the one about the promo swag.
This list is also an excellent gauge of how much I was paying attention in any given year - last year I hadn't heard of a single band, this year, I actually know of a few. Danananananakroyd and We Were Promised Jetpacks are pretty great.

Thanks, Keanu, was just scrolling down to say the same thing. Due South was brilliant television, and Haggis gets a solid pass for it. What the crap are you on about, Voice of Reason?

@Venkman - Yeah, I'm down to attend the next Sydney Roller Derby fresh meat (it's been forever since I was confident on my skates, I figure it's better to sign up as a total n00b and then be potentially awesome, than try out directly and fall on my arse) and I feel like I'll be counted amongst a wave rocking up thanks…

Are you a bot?

It's not about being an empowered feminist, Smack. I can do that in my sleep. It's about skating fast and having fun. You remember fun, surely.

Goddamn it.
Drew, I love you. I have loved you lo these many years. You're gorgeous and adorable. But why OH WHY did you choose to release a roller derby movie right when my knee is finally steady enough to try out for a team? Years I've waited for this, and now everyone will be "oh, like the movie?" and then they'll…

Ha! I was just scrolling down to say the same thing.

Young adult sci-fi/fantasy novels written pre-199
…primarily post-apocalyptic novels, like Louise Lawrence's Children of the Dust, The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody, The Crysalids and Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Glimmering by Elizabeth Hand, Z for Zachariah…

Yes, watch Slings & Arrows, please - it's completely brilliant television, and made with a lot of love, I think. And no, you're definitely not alone. Due South is still my absolute favourite TV show ever.