Trains and whips excite me

Most disappointing event of 2010:

Nobody on Rolling Country responded to my Rihanna/Flynnville Train joke. (Repeated it on poptimists, and no one responded there, either.)

December Madness 2010

I'll be out of the house early tomorrow afternoon, and though the P&J letter just says the ballot is due "by December 24," not "by the end of our work day on December 24," I am two hours behind New York, so not to take any chances I ought to get my ballot in by 2:30 in the afternoon my time; and since I'll be gone in the early afternoon that means 11 in the morning, which is less than 26 hours from now. So I really need to stop hunting down albums I haven't listened to yet.

But wouldn't it be a real coup if the Daddy Yankee album and the Cypress Hill album were among the best of 2010, and I were the one person in our critical neighborhood to find this out in time for Pazz & Jop? THAT WOULD BE AMAZING, YES!

No it wouldn't. It would be a decidedly minor coup. I mean, tremendous as for all we know those albums are, they're not likely to change anything, make you or anyone else rethink the world. Remember when you were the first critic to realize that the Ramones' Mondo Bizarro was an unexpected moment of late-period greatness? Did that alter you? Did that transform anything?

Why did you just refer to me as "you"? For that matter, why did I just refer to me as "you"? And how is Daddy Yankee's unexpectedly mounting and surmounting the bitch worlds of Autotune and the mix-n-match Eurodance r'n'b mess on his single, which, by the way, is the single of the year... how is this not significant?

Single Of The Year

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First, if it's the single of the year, how come it's not in your top twenty-five? Second, Wikipedia says "Unlike his previous albums, himself describes the album with a mixture of Reggaeton, Merengue, perico ripiao, soca and dance hall." It doesn't say anything about shitting all over Guetta and Rotem.

( Guetta defended, expense accounts extolled )