2000: Read Atlas Shrugged; was insufferable.
2001: Crafted mopey journal entries; was insufferable.
2002: Derided third wave feminism in college newspaper editorial; was insufferable.
2003: Lay awake contemplating Being and Time; was insufferable.
2004: Wrote several "ask me any 5 questions and I'll answer them!" MySpace bulletins; was insufferable.
2005: Used the word "postmodern" with no regard for context; was insufferable.
2006: Discovered blogging; was (really) insufferable.
2007: Broken heart; was insufferable.
2008: Fell in love; was insufferable.
2009: Thought about and wrote this list;
Regina Nigro is a writer and editor. She probably disagrees with that thing you just said.
2005: I hope you used it as a verb.
In a world with multiple competing truths, adjectives can be verbs or nouns, or really boorish dinner companions depending on how many bottles of Presidente they've had on the three-block walk from the local bodega to your apartment.
(No, seriously, I always used "postmodern" appropriately: when I knew the other person also had no clue what it meant.)
When people say that word to me, I ramp the verbiage up and used "po-mo" instead for the remainder of the conversation.
Is it just me, or was this decade like... the inverse of 'Atlas Shrugged'?
*shrugs
Atlas?
I fail to see how this has anything to do with the actual 00's. It's almost as if you thought the entire decade was about you... oh wait, I see what you did there. That's so postmodern!
You are both incorrect. THIS DECADE WAS ALL ABOUT ME!
Did just read that as "this decadence was all about me". HOT.
This decade hence will be all about me. Hawtter.
Probably related.
Sufferable!
FRAMING THIS.
Regina and the Argo-naughts more like it!
christ, i feel old.