10 Points to Ponder as 2020 Draws to a Close

1.  The dumbest thing I ever bought was a 2020 planner.

2.  2019: Stay away from negative people.
     2020: Stay away from positive people.

3.  The world has turned upside down. Old folks are sneaking out of the house & their kids are yelling at them to stay indoors!

4.  This morning I saw a neighbor talking to her cat. It was obvious she thought her cat understood her. I came to my house & told my dog....   We had a good laugh.

5.  Every few days try your jeans on just to make sure they fit. Pajamas will have you believe all is well in the kingdom.

6.  Does anyone know if we can take showers yet or should we just keep washing our hands?

7.  I never thought the comment, “I wouldn’t touch him/her with a 6-foot pole” would become a national policy, yet here we are!

8.  I need to practice social-distancing from the refrigerator.

9.  I hope the weather is good tomorrow for my trip to the Backyard. I’m getting tired of the Living Room.

10. Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller with a mask on and ask for money.

(Thank, WTM!)

Sandwich Slicer

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Year-end Lists 2020: Movies & TV

Sleepy Skunk's Move Trailer Mashup 2020 

Sleepy Skunk made an artistic and emotional mashup of the movies of 2020 with footage taken from their trailers. There's a list of the movies here. This video contains NSFW language.  

Movie theaters were closed most of this year, and many productions were postponed due to the pandemic. Movies that were ready to launch went to television and streaming services. Therefore, I am combining movies and television into one post for this year.

An Incomplete List Of TV And Movie Things To Be Thankful For In 2020.

The Pop Culture We're Thankful for Getting Us Through 2020.

2020 is the year of the Kind Movie — and it couldn’t have come at a better time. 

The Best (and Worst) of 2020 in Quarantine-themed Movies, TV Shows, Comedy, and More.

The Top 10 Movies Of 2020, According To Everyone.

Uproxx's Best Movies Of 2020.

John Waters’s Top 10 movies of 2020.

The 13 best British movies of 2020.

Den of Geek's Best Horror Movies of 2020.

How Horror Helped Us Survive 2020. 

The Best Shots From Movies in 2020.

Entertainment Weekly's 10 best (and 5 worst) movies of 2020.

Variety's Worst Films of 2020.

2020’s Best Movie and TV Moments


Esquire's Best TV Series of 2020. 

Uproxx's Best TV Shows Of 2020.

io9's 12 Best (and 7 Worst) Television Shows of 2020.

Polygon's best TV shows of 2020.

The Daily Dot's best TV shows we watched in 2020.

The Most Popular TV Shows on Netflix in 2020.

Buzzfeed's 12 Best Episodes Of TV In 2020.

The Best Animated Series of 2020. 

2020 was animation’s biggest, gayest year so far.

Uproxx's Favorite Television Performances Of 2020.

47 TV Character Deaths From 2020 That Were Heartbreaking And Shocking From Start To Finish.

Villains, Fake Names, And, Uh, Bull Semen: Uproxx's Very Specific TV Awards For 2020.

Den of Geek's Best TV Comedies of 2020.

23 TV Storylines That Deserve To Burn In The Dumpster Fire That Was 2020.

The Fictional Characters, TV Shows, and Movies We Lost in 2020.

See all the year-end lists here.

Winter Woes

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CinderFella

Todrick Hall produced this all-singing, all-dancing alternate take on the story of Cinderella. Watch for people you may recognize, like Lance Bass and Janice Dickenson. Well done! (via Metafilter)

Tweet of the Day

womanizer - britney spears pic.twitter.com/Lxb41Jk3sz

— soviet soldiers dancing (@communistbops) December 21, 2020

(via Nag on the Lake) 

How Safe?

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Year-end Lists 2020: Music

United State of Pop 2020 (Something to Believe In)

In a year when there were almost no concerts, no music festivals, and hardly any live music even in small venues like bars, some songs managed to catch our ears. DJ Earworm is back with his annual remix of the biggest 25 songs of the year (in the USA). He calls it Something to Believe In. You'll find a list of the songs at YouTube. 

2020 Was The Year Of Protest Music.

Here Are The Most-Streamed Artists, Songs, Albums And Podcasts On Spotify In 2020.

The 2020 Uproxx music critics poll. 

NPR's 50 Best Albums Of 2020.

Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2020.

Uproxx's 50 Best Albums Of 2020.

Pitchfork's 50 Best Albums of 2020.

Uproxx's Best R&B Albums Of 2020. 

Paste's 10 Best Country Albums of 2020.

Jazzwise's Top 20 Jazz Albums of 2020. 

Uproxx's Best Hip-Hop Albums Of 2020.

18 Great Albums You Might Have Missed in 2020.

Pitchfork's 100 Best Songs of 2020.

Uproxx's 50 Best Songs Of 2020.

Rolling Stone's 50 Best Songs of 2020.

Pitchfork's 36 Best Rap Songs of 2020.

Pitchfork's 20 Best Music Videos of 2020.

See all the year-end lists here.

Canadian Measurement

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A 50-year Timeline of Pop Music by DJ Earworm

DJ Earworm put together instrumental snippets of 52 hit songs, one for each year from 1970 to 2020 (there's two for 1985). It's like a timeline of pop music, accurately called Time of Our Lives. The part you will like best starts at whatever year you turned 12. I knew all of them until they got to the years when I was raising children, then my recognition got a little spotty. There's a list of the songs used at the YouTube page.

Vaccine Tracker

It's going to be a long few months ahead until the vaccine is available to everyone. But the last ten months have been 15 years long, so we should be used to it by now. This comic is from Randall Munroe at xkcd.

Whoops!

From Married to the Sea.

Year-end Lists 2020: Books

Smithsonian's Best Books of 2020.

NPR's Best Books of 2020.

Esquire's Best Books to Elevate Your Reading List in 2020.

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020.

Jason Kottke's Best Books of 2020.

Vox's 15 best books our book critic read this year.

The New York Times' 10 Best Books Of 2020. May be paywalled.

Here Are 20 Photo Books That Brought Us Joy In The Very Exhausting Year Of 2020.

Time's 10 Best Fiction Books of 2020.

Smithsonian's Ten Best Science Books of 2020.

The Guardian's best science books of 2020.

Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2020.

Smithsonian's Ten Best History Books of 2020.

The New Yorker's Best Cookbooks of 2020.

Smithsonian's Ten Best Books About Food of 2020.

The Guardian's best politics books of 2020.

The Guardian's best science fiction and fantasy books of 2020.

The Guardian's best sports books of 2020.

The New York Public Library's Best Books for Kids 2020.

The Guardian's best autobiography and memoirs of 2020.

27 Of The Best Romance Novels Of 2020.

Forbes' Best Graphic Novels Of 2020.

Nerdist's Best Comics of 2020.

Our Favorite Comic Moments of 2020.

The 89 Best Book Covers of 2020.



See all the year-end lists here.

Boxing Day

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100 Historical Guitar Riffs

Alex Chadwick plays all 100 guitar riffs in one take -I'm impressed! They're all labeled, but they'll be so familiar to you that you could probably name most without seeing the titles. (via The Daily What)

Tweet of the Day

Never will get used to the beauty of a Canadian child being born. pic.twitter.com/OudHSpAXOB

— Lloyd Legalist (@LloydLegalist) November 23, 2020

(via Everlasting Blort)

Not Good Boys

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Jack and the Beanstalk

Abbot and Costello's 1952 classic!

Christmas Gift

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Year-end Lists 2020: Introduction

2020: The Musical

In case you didn't see it on TV, Jimmy Fallon and Andrew Rannells repurposed Broadway show tunes to tell the story of the year 2020.

Most Decembers, we look back at the past year to see how far we've come and to remember things we might have otherwise forgotten. The year 2020 is an exception and a definite outlier. For the next week, we will be flooded with "Good riddance, 2020" on the internet. We started out the year with Australian wildfires and an impeachment process. But that was just the beginning, as the year progressed with climate disasters, scandals, injustice, protest, and the overarching plague of a novel coronavirus that swept the world and changed everything. The awfulness built to the climax of the US presidential election, and then we got a light at the end of the tunnel in the form of covid vaccines. Every year since 2012, I've ended the year here at Miss Cellania with a series of link posts looking back, ending with a look forward. I checked the New Year post from January 2020 and read links like Inevitable Headlines We'll See Next Year. It was supposed to be ominous and pessimistic, but now it's laughable because of how naive it seems. Then there's The Must-Visit Vacation Spots in 2020. Ha! Beginning tomorrow, we'll go over what really happened in 2020. The sources this year may be a bit different because so many authoritative websites are now paywalled, and even if I could afford to subscribe to them, I wouldn't want to send you to links you cannot access. But I found plenty to keep you busy!

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