A New Year's List Of Lists...

I'm crazy about lists, so much so that one of our kids once said that it sometimes seems like I would rather read about stuff in said lists than actually partake of that same stuff, for real.

So.

Without any further ado whatsoever, here's a list of some of my favourites culled from a big grab bag generated by a whole lot of interwebz scouring over the holiday season...


Music Stuff...

Paste's Top 10 Country/American albums includes, surprise!, the Felices' latest....

Pitchfork's has a list of 'Most Underrated' albums up...I still really dig their capsule descriptors - short, snappy and they remind me of the days of searching out ink-stained linear type.

The Guardian's Top 50 albums is more comprehensive and free of any and all 'make sure you make Jann happy' bias...Lucy Dacus makes the cut.

Seattle's KEXP gives everybody's (and we mean everybody's!) top 10 albums...It's like some kind of crazy mixed-up endless summer of listening possibilities (no capsule's though).

Cover Me, which is one of the best sites I know to regularly see and hear true miracles of homage-ian wonder, has a great list of their 50 best cover songs of 2021...

Dave Simpson, writing in The Guardian, ranked the Clash's top 40 songs awhile back...Luckily, to the best of my knowledge, they have not released anything new recently... As anyone who has spent any time hanging around here knows, I'm all in on #1, but I have no idea how 'I'm So Bored' dropped all the way to #36.

Book Stuff...

The CBC's list of best Canadian fiction and non-fiction books of 2021...

The Vancouver Public Library's most borrowed kid's, young adult, non-fiction and fiction books of 2021...

The (Alleged) Greatest Of All Time (said in an Ali voice)...Of the top 50 have only read 17...Time to stop reading lists and get to work!

Screen 'N Ear Stuff...

Indiewire's top 50 movies of 2021, many you may not have heard of yet...And great capsules with links to full reviews... The New Yorker's list is (just) a little more mainstream...

The Tyee's Dorothy Woodend has a short, but excellent, list of her favourite biopictical documentaries from 2021...

The Atlantic's top 50, mostly episodic, podcasts of 2021....It includes  'White Hot Hate'', inspired by the initial investigative work of Ryan Thorpe from Winnipeg.

The Bello Collective's top 100 podcasts of 2021 is an eclectic goulash that tastes great and is way more filling than almost all the rest...

From the 'If It's Not Scottish It's Crap!' file (and for the two e's too)....The Scotsman's top 20 true crime pods...

As for the TeeVee, most best of lists for 2021 look pretty much the same...Polygon, a videogame site,  has some interesting, slightly off-beat stuff, including my favourite of the year, Reservation Dogs...

Huff 'N Puff And Other Stuff...

A more serious one from science writer extraordinare Helen Braswell of STAT News...The 10 top (big) things she has learned during the pandemic's first two years...

Amanda Marcotte, writing in Salon, has the list of most despicable USian political villians of 2021...The list is short...Very short. 

David Climenhaga, writing at his own 'Alberta Politics', has a Lettermenesque Top 10 list of the UCP scandals of 2021...

Twenty-three quotes from Betty White...Number one is a doozy, especially for the toxically un-mas(c)ked - you know, fine fellows like, say, the good Mr. Rogan...

Tony Adame, writing at Stadium Talk, gives us 30 great baseball catches in history...It's a little modern era-centric, but not too much given that Willie Mays' 1954 Polo Grounds catch is #1...Has both video and great linear type capsular, analytic-free, summaries...

For E....A list of all the Busker Festivals, worldwide, coming in 2022...

For e.... The top movie tap dance numbers, maybe...

And, finally, for C.... Wild Birds Unlimited's...How to feed the hummingbirds in winter...



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Image at top of the post...The Whackadoodle II, New Year's morning on the beach...



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