An End of Year YES List

A list of 33 YES things I experienced, in no particular order, in the year 2011.

*Note: some of these YES things may not be from the year 2011, but it’s my list and I YES what I want to.

1)      PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake

2)      Short Bus by Brian Allen Carr

3)      Normally Special by xTx

4)      Ambient Florida Position by Josh Spilker

5)      Apollo Grill

6)      The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals by Rae Bryant

7)      Season 4 of Breaking Bad

8)      The Bee-Loud Glade by Steve Himmer

9)      My Father’s House by Ben Tanzer

10)  Popcorn Noir

11)  If I Falter at the Gallows by Edward Mullany

12)  Stories V! by Scott McClanahan

13)  Cowboy Maloney’s Electric City by Michael Bible

14)  White Square Books

15)  Hunters & Gamblers by Ryan Ridge

16)  Grow Up by Ben Brooks

17)  Tom Waits’ Bad as Me

18)  This video by Rubblebucket

19)  Us by Michael Kimball

20)  Raw milk from Upinngil Farm

21)  The Crutchfield half of The Five Lost Senses of Carl

22)  A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick

23)  Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day by Ben Loory

24)  ROKU!

25)  This video by Lake Street Dive

26)  The release of my book

27)  This review of my book that made me feel insane for a while

28)  Flying Object

29)  Just a Little Piece of Heartburn by Tom Cheshire

30)  Hot Chocolate Run

31)  Tru Beer

32)  All kinds of delicious local food from Simple Gifts Farm

33)  Quitting smoking after 16 years (I’ve been smoke-free for 8+ months and I’m feeling good. Smokers: When you really want to quit, you will.)

10 Things I hope to YES before too long:

1)      Ayiti by Roxane Gay

2)      Lepers and Mannequins by Eric Beeny

3)      There is No Year by Blake Butler

4)      Girl with Oars & Man Dying by J.A. Tyler

5)      Before the Great Troubling by Corey Mesler

6)      A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

7)      Once Upon a River by Bonnie Jo Campbell

8)      Abbott Awaits by Chris Bachelder

9)      Family Fang by Kevin Wilson

10)  Death Wishing by Laura Ellen Scott

Thank you and goodnight.