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what’s good? Another early winter, another year in review. Nuts to you, last few 
 weeks of December! My triumphant return to extremely short-form fiction comes in a 
 book that comes with a study guide • “One mustache. One side burn. One soul patch. About 500 photos.” That time I started the modestly successful hashtag “#magazineswiththewordsweatyinthename” I round out Doug Nufer’s focus on “uncreative writing” in the latest 
 American Book Review Look at this fucking hamster • Would-be reviewers take note: this list hits the sweetest of sweet 
 spots toward the early middle Some hypotheses on Tyler, The Creator’s last album (which, 
 according to Metacritic, I hated)
 • The totally excellent Plouk Town: now in pocket-sized edition! My close-reading of Fabo’s “I’m Raw” at BLVR and at Rap Genius
 This. 
 “In a way, Lil B is the cheapest self-actualization guru on the 
 market today”
 On “I’m coming after you like the letter V” and other high points in 
 rap letterplay
 “Let me ride” in The Point: In praise of Jay Electronica, criticism of 
 William Buckholz, and unlikely adulation of a Cam’ron lyric
 Maslow’s new hammer: when you have a blog about sad things on 
 the street, everything on the street is sad 
 Late March in San Francisco lent itself spectacularly to this 
 Clams Casino instrumentals mixtape
 On Cheap Trick’s would-be “I Want To Be Wanted By You” 
 That it takes place in a town called Krasnooktyabarsk is only the 
 beginning of why this story is amazing
 Somehow this is sublimely validating My rap label infographic in The Believer (is, um, the one piece you 
 can’t even preview online) The most favorably I have ever been compared to French cuisine Watson the Thriller cat Year-end roundup time again: list, discussion and audio companion The Notorious B.I.G. and the invention of the human at Rap Genius
 Oulipo documentary premieres on Arté (after dark) on December 20
 “Going to a Wu-Tang show to see RZA rap is like going to a 
 National League baseball game to see the pitcher bat” Parisians, go see L’Oulipo mode d’emploi: the scene where I 
 wander around a courtyard in a silly hat is a triumph! Delight your francophone infants with Le Petit Oulipo, which 
 includes a text by me even shorter than this sentence “Quand je tousse, on dirait un arbre qui tombe dans la forêt” • Some Tampa Bay Rays intern reimagines DJ Drama as a cat
 PF and HLT say some very sensible things, compliment me, and
 pronounce my last name in that sublimely French way I now wax self-important daily for the SF Weekly at All Shook Down “Hello, this is Dr. Pleasure Dinosaur”: inexplicably irresistible • I hereby accept Matt Wendus’s boot in my nads Tom La Farge enjoys my B.O.—wait, that doesn’t sound right
 Face B at La Maison Rouge (who knew it would be so hard to find
 an album whose name contains all the letters in the alphabet?) The best po-ro epic of 2010 so far now has a totally creepy video Monolith exists! Act now and get a mystery CD! 2009 in music: year-end appraisal with accompanying audio tour Schwarzenegger pulls a Kenneth Toomey and suddenly American
 governance gets awesome I am interviewed by a gentleman with very particular vowel policies Your favorite death-obsessed rapper’s favorite death-obsessed
 rapper has been considering his mortality again • Fred in re-sidence au Comptoir des mots Do these people know the goldmine they’re sitting on? • Slang City: “You will feel drunk with love looking at my buttocks”
 (warning: adult themes) Jonah Weiner: workaday thesis on fascinating rhetorical device Spinning tops in the Oulipo! Ryan North tweaks the fourth dimension of the reading experience 
 (and does a passable job with the lipogram) Mozinor: “too soon” par anticipation Oulipo on Bookworm: worth it just to hear Marcel say “to pee or 
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