Here's Newsweek's 7-minute guide to the decade the world has decided to describe as The Nads. You'll probably have your own thoughts about what should have been excluded or included, but for me the most jarring thing about this is how so many of the events feel so simultaneously distant and recent. Like, really, that actually happened nine years ago? I don't know if this is just a quirk of my own cranium, or if there really is something to the idea that the onslaught of information we've experienced during the last ten or so years has somehow rewired the way we think. Either way, The Nads were exhausting.
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Published at 1:10 pm, Wednesday, Nov 11, 2009
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The Awl is typically a place I go to find thoughtful and nuanced observations and insights. This was neither so I’m off to ride the gay taxi.
11/11/09 ReplyDon’t forget your Nad’s!
http://www.nads.com/
11/11/09 ReplyHOLLA! http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-awl-ironically-plays-the-twitter-race-card-goes-bust/
11/11/09 ReplyWorst. Decade. Ever.*
*does not include decades which correspond with Black Death; Spanish Inquisition; Reign of Terror; Great Depression.
11/11/09 ReplyMy unscientific survey (my next Timex must have a second hand, Santa) indicates that the deaths of “over” 485,000 people by tsumnami, earthquake, cyclone, and [zzz] another earthquake got about six seconds coverage, while Pluto, Borat, Botox and the Pregnant Man got close to eighteen. Or nineteen. The phone was ringing.
It’s also possible that Borat and Botox have killed more people.
11/11/09 Reply“Tsumnanmi.” Also get the Timex with a dictionary, Hazel.
11/11/09 ReplyIt has been a short and interminable decade.
11/11/09 ReplyWatching that video just reminded me that I’ve lived in five different places this decade but I’m pretty much wearing the same clothes.
11/11/09 ReplyFrom the baseless freaking out of Y2K to the baseless freaking out of the Mayan/2012/armageddon-whatever, this decade has spanned the emotional gamut from A to B. And now it’s [almost] dead. Good riddance, ‘Nads!
11/11/09 ReplyGerald Ford died? I seriously missed that.
11/11/09 ReplyWell hey, that was depressing. Thanks.
11/11/09 Replymy ‘nads are killing me after watching that.
11/11/09 ReplyNOW I’m beginning to understand why my parents cried during Forrest Gump.
11/11/09 ReplyHuh. It’s like a slightly-less-dense version of This Fucking Election. Also, I was surprised at how quickly the first half of the video went by. Did anything memorable at all happen in 2002?
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