One of my New Year's resolutions is to resuscitate this thing on an occasional basis. Or at the very least, finish and post the five (!) draft posts I started and never completed. Given my previous resolutions, there's a good chance that this will never actually happen, but I at least intend to work on it. And that's something, right? Right?

'Tis the season for endless rehashing of the cultural year in list form. Even blogs that the author seldom gets around to updating get into the act. Here's my top 20 albums of ought seven:

1. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
2. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
3. Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
4. A Place to Bury Strangers - s/t
5. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
6. Pissed Jeans - Hope for Men
7. Oh No - Dr. No’s Oxperiment
8. The Shining Path - s/t
9. Arp - In Light
10. Strategy - Future Rock

Second 10: Meg Baird - Dear Companion, To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron, Om – Pilgrimage, Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam, Wooden Shjips – s/t, Madlib - The Beat Konducta Vol. 3-4: In India, Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian, Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum, Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings, Bear in Heaven - Red Bloom of the Boom

Oh yeah, this. I've been very busy: I'm changing jobs at the end of the month, and...uh, well, that's about it, really. Rest assured that I have several half-finished blog entries that I will foist upon an indifferent public in the months to come. Until then, here's 10 things that I am enjoying a great deal, Summer 2007 edition:

1. Working in downtown Bethesda. OK, Bethesda is a suburb, not a real city. But tons of lunch options within walking distance! Beats the living hell out of the exurbs I've spent working in over most of the past five years.

2. Black Moth Super Rainbow, Diamond Gum. I read reviews of this record describing it as "Animal Collective folk mixed with Boards of Canada electronic touches," which sounds like something custom designed for me to enjoy. It's the hazy, gauzy, tuneful, vaguely melancholy soundtrack every summer needs.

3. Marnie Stern live at the Rock and Roll Hotel, 7/24. Jawdroppingly precise guitar playing, plus the incredibly limber-limbed drumming of Zach Hill. I like inspired amateurism as much as the next person, but there's nothing quite like watching incredibly talented musicians lock into each other's playing.

4. Quizno's raspberry lemonade. I don't know why this is so refreshingly delicious, but it is. Sweet with more of a kick than you'd expect from a sub shop fountain drink. I can't get the exact formula right at home - it's always too tart. As for Quizno's actual subs...ennh.

5. The 7-11 Kwik-E-Mart promotion. I visited the one in Bladensburg (and of all the suburbs of DC, Bladensburg is one of the last you'd expect to go for this kind of thing) this month. Tons of gags that you'd have to be a nerd to appreciate.

6. Jodorowsky films finally coming out on DVD. I already loved the Western mythology-twisting El Topo and the hallucinatory satire of The Holy Mountain is some kind of genius.

7. The Dugout. Consistently hilarious. Every time I watch baseball now, I can't help but think of possible player IM names.

8. Flight of the Conchords. So deadpan that it's one of the few comedies that rewards repeated viewings.

9. Patton Oswalt - Werewolves and Lollipops. The KFC bowl bit, people. When I die, please transcribe this and put it on my tombstone. Thank you in advance.

10. Yoko Ono - Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and Fly. Why I slept on these for so long, I dunno, but they're genius. The first two songs on Plastic Ono Band invented no wave and post-punk, respectively. Best Beatles solo career? That's not contrarianism, it's just the facts.

OK, maybe, just maybe, it's time to start this up again. I make no guarantees about the regularity of updates and I definitely make no promises with regards to the quality of anything written here, but it might be time to go back into the breach once more. In the coming weeks, I'll fix up the template, add more links, and maybe even post an update or two. In the meantime, here's a compilation of the best of the Vitamin B Glandular Show. Don't read the other entries, they suck.

A tribute to Dan Rather.
The lost recordings of James Brown.
Rejected band names and movie titles.
A review of the 1970s Christmas special "The Life and Times of Santa Claus."
William Carlos Williams: great poet, lousy roommate.
An appeal from the New Hope Children's Fund.
John Philip Sousa's lesser known marches.
How Charlie Kaufman ripped me off.
A dispatch from the high pressure world of office equipment sales.
A retrospective of the career of 1970s Saturday morning TV PSA icon Timer.
The aftermath of the Janet Jackson Super Bowl scandal.
The concession speech from my failed 2004 presidential bid.
Hank Williams, Jr. on football preparedness.
The Paris Hilton - Saddam Hussein sex tape (the entry responsible for 90% of the hits to this blog)
Scenes from the Reagan miniseries.
An excerpt from my hardboiled crime novel about the rough and tumble world of accounting.
Labour Party rap.
Madison Avenue Babylon.
Remember that California governor's election? Man, that was crazy.
Behind the scenes at the Kansas City Star newsroom.
Classic movies summarized by the New York Post.
The Connecticut School of Singer/Songwriters.
Rejected television pilots.
Snappy answers to stupid church signs.
Hair metal haiku.
McGriddles, man. McGriddles.
The Vitamin B Glandular Show Corporate Retreat and Muffin Bakeoff.
More stuff you can expect to find in this blog. (Not really.)