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My Best for 2011

Best Book of 2011: The Postmortal by Drew Magary. A great book from a guy who writes about sports and everything else (mostly food, adult content and going to the bathroom) over at Deadspin and Kissing Suzy Kolber. The Postmortal book has none of that stuff. What is does have is a great story about the human race finding a cure for aging. People live forever (unless they get cancer or shot, etc.) and the world becomes a pretty horrible place. Read a great interview with the “Most Read Writer on the Internet” at BeatBeat.

Best Album of 2011: Breaks in the Armor by Crooked Fingers. The Archers of Loaf hit the road in 2011 as well as re-released Icky Mettle on Merge Records, but the latest solo album form Eric Bachmann was my favorite new album of the year. The sound is nothing like the Archers, but is highly recommended. (Also Recommended: Wild Flag.)

Best Website I Discovered in 2011: The Smoking Jacket. (Warning: Might be slightly NSFW*). This blog run by a team over at Playboy offers a number of posts featuring the women of Playboy, but those posts are outnumbered by better ones featuring stories about fantasy football, humor, news and more. You can truly say that you read “Playboy for the articles.” 

*I read The Smoking Jacket via RSS on my iPhone so I do not know how NSFW the standard web-based site is. On a side note, a co-worker had no idea what NSFW meant. Can you believe that?

Best Prediction I Made that Came 66% True in 2011: I predicted that Bill Simmons, Chuck Klosterman and Will Leitch would start their own Sports/Pop Culture site this year. 2 out of 3 was pretty close.