Happy New Year!

I wish you all the best for the coming year. I'm off for a day of shopping and movie going ("Dreamgirls") to be topped off with a slice of just made coconut cream pie.

A year of Tinkerty Tonk

Can you stand another round up? Well, even if you can't here's a baker's dozen of posts from 2006.

A church to which I will never belong.

Snow shoveling behavior among apartment dwellers.

Lying and telling the truth when job hunting.

Imitation of Life: Lana Turner.

The NSA papers.

Thieving gummint revenooers, part IV.

The dramatic gesture.

Men, cars and convertibles.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

Hen parties.

Thanksgiving: Girls night out.

I'm disgusted.

Roundup of yearly roundups, deux

The year of anti-Semitism.

Worst commercials of 2006.

The year in browsers.

Best dresses of the year.

Nominees for knuckleheads of the year.

Cinematic turkeys of 2006.

Women of the year.

2006 fashions that will make it into next year.

Best recipes of 2006.

Best cookbooks of the year.

Liberal yearbook 2006: Video.

Marginalia.

Best and worst books.

Part 1