* Way more interesting (and revealing) than US MSM telling us which stories of 2007 were significant (sorry NYT, ‘vegansexuality’ is so 2005) — the Observer Magazine’s top reviews, key events of 2007. Please don’t tell me that as a species we traded Pavarotti for Amy Winehouse.
* Books I’ve added to my Amazonian wish list and want bad:
The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms bu Jordan Tate
The Deviant’s Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious and The Hypochondriac’s Pocket Guide to Horrible Diseases You Probably Already Have and The Paranoid’s Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On by Dennis DiClaudio
FIGHT: Everything you ever wanted to know about ass-kicking but were afraid you’d get your ass kicked for asking by Eugene S. Robinson
The San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmer’s Market Cookbook by Christopher Hersheimer and Peggy Knickerbocker.
* Best new words of the year: douchenozzle and twatwaffle.
* My favorite album of the year: Erykah Badu’s Baduzium: Special Edition. It’s groovy divalicious R&B, just the way I like it. Especially tracks Appletree 2B3 Summer Vibes Mix and Certainly (Flipped It).
* I’m a regular reader and admirer of Mark Glaser’s PBS Mediashift blog. Check out his interesting 10 MediaShifting Moments of 2007.
* Scientific American has their Top 25 Science Stories of 2007 up. I forgot about the “Pillow Angel“, yikes.
* I still love my Helio Ocean (the new YouTube app *rocks*), resent my again-broken (but once great) Canon TX1, mostly like my Lumix TZ3K, and hate my non-functional, ignored-by-customer-service Eye-Fi. (my friend Ted Rhinegold hates it too, and his even works.) My TomTom might be the best gadget anyone’s ever given me (thank you Hacker Boy), and I use it all the time, even though I grew up in SF. And I still don’t want an iPhone. Yet I’m lusting *deeply* after the Nokia n810, and Scott’s new Xacti HD1000. I need that Xacti *bad*. I miss shooting video.
* Most reliable and versatile vibe of the year at my bedside (or in my purse): the JimmyJane Chroma (thank you Good Vibes).
* Best porn films of the year: Triple Ecstasy, Debbie Loves Dallas, Tristan Taormino’s Chemistry #3, Skateboard Kink Freak, and Ashley and Kisha.
* Sexiest non-lingerie item(s) I’ve made the most of all year: Betsey Johnson’s cashmere legwarmers. I want the white ones now, too!
* Things I still need: a pink and black corset and a new laptop. Someone donated an old PowerBook to me a few months back and it died immediately. Brick! Damn. Still blogging with 2005’s tools over here… And I still don’t have an iPod with a color screen. Eeesh.
* Everyone’s “top ten viral video lists” are ass. They’re all YouTube crap, and everyone seems to be forgetting about the kittens. Like Nora, etc. Never mind that they’re all PG-13, leaving out some of the most popular virals. Still, I like the Neatorama has a poll going on the top 5 viral videos of the year. “2 girls, one cup” isn’t on there (barf, Goog at your own risk) and everyone forgot about Drunken Hasselhoff, but it’s a step better than Time’s predictable choices. (Aside: Can’t wait to find slave labor to help me upgrade my site so I can have comments and polls.)
