The Blog Review of the 2000s.

In various newspapers and magazines, they’re having reviews of this past decade. From Sports Illustrated to the Star-Ledger, various editors and writers have all felt it necessary to take a look back at the past and reflect. Now, I’ve tried doing this in the past. Of course, I’ve failed miserably. However, I think that I’ve really grown a lot, and ever since I’ve started blogging, I have gotten a better feel of how to collect my thoughts on paper. Plus, there’s just so much to write about. It may be impossible to predict the future, but if you went back in time to January 1, 2000 and told someone what the world is like now, they’d be completely taken a back. Would they believe that we would elect a black man president, much less a man who would run for Congress that year and get a third of the vote in the primary? Would they believe that gay couples can marry in some states but can still be jailed for having sex in others? Would they believe that millions of Americans listen to music not on a cassette or a CD, but on a tiny plastic box that can hold thousands of songs? Would they believe that there are phones that take videos, mice that glow in the dark, and websites where your coworkers willingly post pictures of their drunken selves running around pantless at three o’clock in the morning?

Rather than make a concise and structured list like “Top 10 songs of the decade” or “Top 20 one-hit wonders of the decades” or “Top 25 Television Commercials of the 00s,” I’m going to post a series of articles about symbols of the decade. They might be people. They might be pictures. They might be videos. Whatever they are, I’ve selected them because I think we can learn a little bit about the decade from these symbols. Enjoy.