Segues Podcasts

This year-end column will undoubtedly be remembered when all of next year's year-end columns come out. It will surely be called "the best, grandest, funniest, and most incisive year-end column about 2007." Or, at least, it'll be called the last year-end column about 2007. In the meantime, let's just snuggle up and enjoy it. The main reason the fashion crowd was furious about global warming and the way it's been upsetting our ecology and killing off all the polar bears: They couldn't wear their furs! Words and phrases to retire: "tanorexic," "back atcha!", "cute from afar, but far from cute," "Hillary: a Bush we can live with," "brain fart," "carbon-based life form," "beauty is just a light switch away," "works for me," "there you go." The only reason they should have taken Britney's kids away from her: her VMA appearance! Oy! read less