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The people who run my local coffee shop must think I’m a freak. I fear I’m the only patron who ever shows up with both Who Weekly AND The Australian Financial Review. So that people won’t think less of me, I hide The Fin inside Who Weekly cover.
Even though I have a constant back stack of New Yorkers, Atlantic Monthlies, Economists and Spectators, the damned Who Weekly manages to suck me in every other week it seems. The reason is that it constantly offers lists: Sexiest People, Most Beautiful People, Skinniest Celebrities, Fattest Celebrities, Best Break-Ups, etc etc etc.
I’ve always been a sucker for a ‘Best Of’ list. This time of year is heaven because invariably newspapers and magazines rank the year’s top political scandals, celebrities, news events, films, natural disasters, photographs, books – anything you care to name. Not only do I love to read a good list, I love to write them (as the oeuvre of this blog demonstrates). And there’s no way I’m going to let the end of 2009 pass without a few ‘best of’ lists of my own.
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