The news reports from today's release of the annual American Community Survey are all leading with how the median household income fell nearly 3% between 2008 and 2009. But there's so much more!

• "Self-employed workers experienced a greater reduction in work hours between 2008 and 2009 than workers in other types of employment. Workers who were self-employed in their own unincorporated businesses worked 66 minutes less per week in 2009, while those self-employed in their own incorporated businesses worked 49 minutes less in 2009."

• "Nationwide, nearly two in five renter households (42.5 percent) experienced housing costs that consumed 35 percent or more of their incomes."

• "The [...]

Oh look, it's already time for the death lists for 2009! Don't worry, there's still plenty of time to die this year.

It's that time of year, when New York mag's Vulture publishes the results of their survey of 43 film critics, so as to decide the worst movies of the year. Because I do something crazy with my life-refuse to see most movies that are obviously going to be terrible-only two of my picks for worst movie of the year made their most-worst list.

Today, the Times officially declares the Manhattan housing sales slump. They note, quite correctly, that the just-released numbers on the first three months of 2009 are really just the beginning of some serious bad times. Yup! Residential real estate will get hammered in the second and third quarters. Then the Times gets odd: "The stress is most severe at the high end of the market," they say. "There are 350 apartments and town houses for sale in Manhattan with asking prices of more than $10 million." This is true and also really irrelevant, for a few reasons! TO THE NUMBERS!

This is more or less the last "real" Friday of 2009-and the decade!-as next week begins the annual process of half-assing your way to the holidays. E-mails will go unanswered, work will be put off until the depressing post-New Year's return, and even the most minimal of efforts will seem somehow superhuman. So a quick note to those of you who still have jobs out there: You might want to sneak out early. Like right now. Because today's pretty much the last day they can lay you off, and they probably won't do it if you're not there. Let's meet at a bar somewhere and celebrate, this urinary tract infection [...]