The Year In Review, Wink Wink

Click here and you'll get my hilarious yet incisive Village Voice essay looking back on the horrors of 2008 from the economy tanking to Heath Ledger dying to The Happening opening. With my usual objective elan, I travel from politics to entertainment and back again, describing 12 full months of utter hell that's at least fun to read about, especially over two-for-one cocktails.

As part of this clicking experience, you also have the joy of seeing me photographed as such '08 notables as spunky Sarah Palin, sobby Hillary Clinton, messy Amy Winehouse, and possibly even a male. Here's to a happier '09.