Year/Decade in Review

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(Matt’s) top 10 albums of 2009 (Music commentary)

For the last post of the first year of my blog, I’d like to introduce you to my music geek friend Matt (not to be

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John’s top 10 movies of 2009

I reserve the right to retroactively add “Adam” and “The Invention of Lying” to this list; living in a small town, I have to wait for DVD to see

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John’s top 10 TV shows of 2009

Although two shows on this list are much missed and a third (“Dollhouse”) is on its way out, 2009 was generally a year when TV

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John’s favorite pop songs of the Aughts (Music commentary)

Putting together my top 20 songs of the decade list is more personal, more a matter of taste, than compiling the TV and movie lists.

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Garden State

John’s favorite movies of the Aughts (Commentary)

Next, here are my top 10 … OK, 20 … movies of the Aughts. 1. “Garden State” (2004) — I’m not going to lie: This is just a

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John’s favorite TV shows of the Aughts (Commentary)

Next, here are my top 10 TV shows. Some started in the ’90s, but for this list, I am just showing the years they aired

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John’s favorite entertainers of the Aughts (Commentary)

First, my top 10 entertainers. These are the people (and one fictional robot) who put a smile on my face in every project they tackled.

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The best movies of the Aughts … as it happened (Commentary)

Sticking with the theme from my previous post, here are my No. 1 movies from the years 2000 through 2008, as I saw it at

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The best TV shows of the Aughts … as it happened (Commentary)

I thought it might be fun to look back on my picks for “best of the year” this decade as those years were ending (mostly

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The really cool stuff of the Aughts wasn’t found in the mainstream (Commentary)

Time Magazine called it the “decade from hell,” but Entertainment Weekly argued, in its latest issue, what about the entertainment? However, they failed to make

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