And the final installment: October, November and December.

December - Missed Connections - A post about a girl who broke my heart while shopping for TVs. Most of you mocked this post, but I still love it. Jenna gets it. Go take a leap if you don't.

November - A Day In The Life of Lulu's Bitch - For ten days in late October and early November, I guest hosted Lulu's blog while she was away in Ireland. I had eleven posts as "Lulu's ManServant #1." This is the best of them.

October - Bookstore - A fiction post with an unusual layout.

And there you have it. The best of me, 2005.

Today's installment: August and September.

September #2 - The Adventures of A Kindergarten Dad - An autobiographical post about the first day The Chicken came home sick from school.

September #1 - Vacanigans, part 2 - An autobiographical post about housework as foreplay and the drunk girl at McDonald's on the second day of my vacation.

August - One for the time capsule - An exposition of Andy Capp funny books and how they've changed over the years. Also this blog's 200th post.

Today's installment: June and July.

July #2 - Manhattan Jasmine and The Canyon of Heroes (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4) - Not-so short fiction originally posted on Jasmine's blog. She solicited volunteers to guest post while she was spending all her free time studying for the New York bar exam. This was my contribution.

July #1 - The Cornrowed Hottie - An autobiographical, but ancient, story of a girl I met in my favorite bar.

June - Half-assed Entertainment Review: The Washingtonienne - The first full book review I've ever written. I'm still pretty proud of it.

2005, my first year of blogging, was a busy year. Through numerous identities and blogs scattered all over the web, I wrote around six hundred posts this year.

I'm reposting my twelve favorites, three per day for four days. I didn't start blogging until mid-February, and didn't write anything that didn't completely suck until mid-March, so I doubled up on July and September to round out my favorite twelve.

Here is the first installment: March, April and May.

May - And the winner is… - The results of what was to be the first annual Salad Tossing Haiku Contest. There will probably be a second annual haiku contest, but there will almost certainly be a new focus.

April - My vice, my imagination, my new favorite disease, and The Passion of The Toenail - A silly, rambling post about cigarettes, soldering irons, Sister's hideous deformity, and a disgusting TV commercial.

March - It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you - An autobiographical post about everyone on the planet conspiring together to keep me from getting to work on time.

No one asked, and probably no one cares, but here they are anyway. The best of me, 2005.