61 Things 2013 Was "the Year of"
As another year comes to a close, we must determine how it will be remembered by all of the generations who will come after us. Will 2013 be commemorated, as we predicted last year, as the Year of Meh? Far from it. We found at least 61 better options.
- the burger, pizza and ice-cream sandwiches in Silicon Valley
- the pretzel
- the pretzel bun
- the doughnut
- the bun
- quinoa
- the food bank
- the unemployed worker
- the Latino entrepreneur
- the activist investor
- the equity
- two markets
- the establishment
- crises which never were
- Candice Swanepoel
- Miley Cyrus
- Yoncé
- "Get Lucky"
- the tragic mea culpa
- tourism
- Bulgarian protest
- social protest and repression in Colombia
- iconic Mumbai property deals
- the voter in south Asia
- retail schadenfreude
- broken Obamacare promises
- the album-release stunt
- the designer track
- the sleaziest lyrics
- women at the box office
- the uninspired sequel
- Netflix
- the Horns' House
- the injury
- the backup quarterback
- the temper tantrums
- the mayor and the wannabe
- the quitter
- the hoax
- fear
- the deer
- the snake
- the weasel
- the cheetah
- the selfie
- the Hawaii farmer
- the "Movement Against Mansplaining"
- the very visible vagina
- the short story
- Luigi
- mass cloud computing extinctions
- phablets
- the pop-up
- the open letter
- the password apocalypse
- twerk
- the Bitcoin
- the zombie
- the person
- endless controversy