current pressing concerns

•  social ettiquette for end-of-year lists--and those who insist on referring to them as "listicles"
• whatever got Europe's "Final Countdown" stuck in my head
• discomfort with the appearance of something called "Shanghai Noodles"
• Humphrey Bogart never once says "Play it again, Sam," in the film Casablanca
• a missing pair of yellow polar-fleece mittens. If you've seen them, please post below as they were my warmest pair
• the fact that Chris Lyon always ruins all our fun with his crap-ass music
• a fortune cookie that read "Your tongue is your ambassador"
• the fact that lists of any kind don't count as writing