Year in Review, Part II

I take back the bad things I said about you, 2006.

Jon Stewart will be hosting the Oscars.

The Year in Review

Ever wonder why all the pundits wait until the END of the year to offer their punditory retrospectives? I find it much easier - and usually just as insightful - to review a year early on.

So without further ado, here's my wrap-up of 2006:

I've been mostly hungover, but not so incapacitated as to fail to notice that all the holiday guests have left. Thank God one of you did the dishes. And somebody fed the dog. But which one of you &$@%'s downloaded $57 worth of iTunes and burned the last of my CDs???

So, 2006... shaping up to be almost as insufferable as the previous annus horribilus. And there's 361 days left to go.

Schubert's Unfinished Fifth

Hypoxic Music aficionados have long speculated on the creative inspiration behind this rarely performed piece. Fortunately, the recent acquisition of this equally rare portrait by Gelegh at the Museum of Depressionist Art casts light not only on the origins of the composer's "Missa Interruptus," but the ultimate disposition of the work itself.

Turning the key

Time to fire this baby up.