The End of the 00s: All of The End of the 00s
We are both in awe of and profound debt to everyone who contributed to our End of the 00s series. I know how much you love it when I get earnest, so I'll just keep it brief and say that we were overwhelmed by both the willingness of so many people to provide these pieces and the quality of the material they gave to us. Anyway, because of the vagaries of the holiday weekends and our brilliant idea to switch servers in the middle of a gigantic, ongoing project, it's a pretty fair bet that you missed at least one of the 49 essays in the series. Here's a list of every single one of them, which we encourage you to dip into at your leisure; there is almost certainly something here for everyone. Enjoy.
A Guide to the Unmonuments of New York, by Joy Garnett
A Party In Iran, by Kaila Hale-Stern
A Personal Chronology of the Last Decade Organized Around My Blackouts, by Rod Townsend
Augustine's Second Cat, by Julie Klausner
Bad for Humanity, but Great for Horror, by Melissa Lafsky
Buffy, Season Five, Episode 22, 'The Gift', by Dan Kois
Chains of Fools, by Maura K. Johnston
Decade of Suck, by Regina Schrambling
Down Under the George Washington Bridge Overpass, by Matthew Gallaway
Everybody in His or Her Own Life Needs a Hobby, by Matt Ealer
Family Business, by Cord Jefferson
Hope You Enjoyed Your Brush With Rock 'n' Roll, by Leon Neyfakh
Horrible Decade of Constant Terror Doesn't Officially End Until the World Does, In 2012, by Ken Layne
How To Lose Your Idealism In Under Ten Years, by Natasha Vargas-Cooper
Imagined Responses to Four Emails That I Sent, To Which I Have Not Yet Received a Reply, 2000-2009, by Juli Weiner
Is Three Still A Trend?, by Josh Wimmer
Listicle Without Commentary: The 348 Best Reality Television Shows of the 00s, In Order, by Jon Caramanica
Made in New York, by Joel Johnson
Me Me Me, By the Numbers, by Logan Sachon
New Year's Eve and the Rise of the Machines, by Richard Lawson
No One Would Have Blamed Her For Changing Her Mind, by Dan Shanoff
Noted, Without Noteworthiness, by Rob Walker
Personal Statements, by Luke Mazur
So Lax, by Katie Bakes
Ten Years of Best Picture Suck, by Zachary Woolfe
The Ballad of That Guy From Titus Andronicus (As Told To Matthew Perpetua)
The Best Hoaxes of the Decade, by Val Temple
The Bonds, by Troy Patterson
The Counterfactual 00s, by Rudolph Delson
The Coup, by Eric Spiegelman
The Dance-Off Decade, by Lindsay Robertson
The Debt Regret Matrix, by Jessanne Collins
The Decade In "Netflix Instant Watch," by Alex Pareene
The Decade in Super Squats, by Hamilton Nolan
The Experience of Dishonorable Debates, by Seth Colter Walls
The Guantanamo Gift Shop, by Spencer Ackerman
The Hollywood Crowd, by Ken Wheaton
The Hunt for lonelygirl15, by Richard Rushfield
The Life of the Party, by Doree Shafrir
The Most American Person of the Decade, by Kaila Hale-Stern
The Most Disturbing Sense Of Gratitude, by Dave Bry
The Naughts: A Progression, by Regina Nigro
The Night We Sneaked Into the Center of the World, by Adriane Quinlan
The Stupid Kids of 1999, by Will Leitch
Tiny Moments of Varying Significance, 2000-2009, by Amy Jean Porter
Top 10 Jobs I Lost This Decade: Failing Up, Sometimes, but Mostly Sideways, by Jackson West
What I Know Now, by Abe Sauer
When the Geeks Took Over, by John Sellers
Why Did We Not Appreciate 2007?, by Sara Vilkomerson
This was an astonishing series. It really was. I read about 4/5ths of them so far. Thanks so much to the various authors. HNY 2010!
Make a little book out of them, please. So we can BUY something from you. Just sayin'.
Don't hear that often! :)
Ditto. I like printed things!
A book really would be wonderful.
A shame this will come but once a decade.
I know! You guys realize how much you've upped the bar for yourselves, right?
This series kind of solidified for me that I'm never going to like The Awl.
And yet, here you are.
"hate-reading"?
It's just so fucking McSweeney's lately. Why not have Toph contribute an anecdote about trying to find Pez.
Jerk! The Pez guy just died. TOO SOON!
@Natan: Wait. I'm sorry, this is you expressing dismay at the evolution of a less-than-one-year-old site?
I'm… confused?
Yay! The proto-backlash!
(Kidding.)
Anyway, Natan, you are totally welcome here. Ignore the expressions of horror. I appreciate a dissenting voice.
when can we order the handsomely bound print collector's edition?
Second wanting a book of these. Even a pamphlet will do.
'Will Dance for Pages.'
Great now I'm imagining Larry Craig dancing
Mark Foley
Ah, that's right. Wrong creepy legislator (although Larry Craig was *also* accuses of sexual misconduct with male pages)
As a result of this series, I would like to spend some time sitting on Julie Klausner's and Joel Johnson's laps. In very, very different ways.
I wish Matthew Gallaway would tell me stories while showing me around the pacific northwest. There is a lot of nature here. And he could even just make things up, I wouldn't mind.
Thank you for the whole series, though. I enjoyed very many of them.
I like how the Awl manages to be better than 99% of things on the Internet *even when they're on vacation.*