Vintage Whisky, 2012

Yikes -- what was I drinking in '12? There's heaps of posts that seem to stand well -- and this is but a smattering that's been culled as mercilessly as possible.

Highest of the Highlights: The Prairie Cemetery, parts I, II, III; Postcard From Maine; Father(s) and Daughter Gone Haywire; The Monks' Bad Habits.

Life

• The Prairie Cemetery -- parts one, two, three.
• Politics -- whither the power of persuasion?
• Politics -- Men In Beards: The Marxist Edition.
• Postcard From Maine -- update: store's closed.
• Angry Mennonites -- Am I one? Yes. And yes again. Except when I'm not.
• Apocalypse: When? The world was supposed to end, dammit.

Books

• Floyd Gottfredson -- the corporate rodent, yet again.
• Martinis: Shaken, Not Stirred -- Galahads: bloodied, not pampered.
• Swinging The Bawdy Eclectic -- with Sleigh Bells, Updike, DFW.
• The Hitman's Guide To Housecleaning -- enter the Croatian naif.
• How Should A Person Be? -- Sheila Heti's book got a lot of love, just not from me.
• Old School, Tobias Wolff -- loved it (hm -- a timely reminder to self: check out his other stuff).

Movies/Television

• Carnivàle -- the first viewing. BTW, my speculation regarding the series' narrative direction? Completely wrong.
• TV Hits (And Misses) -- it's a family affair.
• Father(s) and Daughter Gone Haywire -- Soderbergh, Dobbs, Carano: I loved it (would, in fact, add it to my list of 15).
• Skyfall -- words cannot convey my disappointment in, and final loathing of, that movie. But I gave it a shot.

Music

• Japanese Remastered CDs -- I finally bought one.
• Country Club & Quonset Hut -- two varieties of brand new old-time country.
• "You gotta problem, America?!" -- Andre Williams will get you to roll up your windows.
• Bad Habits, The Monks -- wait: this is punk?
• Meshell Ndegeocello's tribute to Nina Simone.
• Donald Fagen, Sunken Condos.
• Oversights Of A Musical Nature -- brother, I could devote an entire blog to this.