SLANTblog 2008 Sampler

Sarah Palin remembered

In the publishing business, whether mainstream or blogstream, this is the season for filling space with looks back at the year about to end, through the publisher's prism. At their best, such navel-gazing exercises give us a best-of overview of the year, a time capsule that puts some recent history into an entertaining perspective.

No need to remind anybody of how much time can be wasted on reading such exercises that are just more copycat stories, fluffed up again.

Rather than call what follows the best of what appeared under the SLANTblog masthead, or a time-line for the year, let's just say it's SLANTblog's sampler of 2008 snapshots, with some random notions and images tossed in that ask for a second glance.

• Click here to read (Jan. 7): "Clinton's strut out of style."
• Click here to read (Feb. 17): "The Connecticut Watch."
• Click here to read (Feb. 29): "The Three Faces of Hillary."
• Click here to read (April 2): "Wilder won't run for mayor."
• Click here to read (May 16): "It's official: Wilder won't run."
• Click here to read (May 18): "Chasing Dignity."
• Click here to read (June 4): "Citizen Journalism: The professor's view."
• Click here to read (June 11): "Gilmore on dangers of the deep."
• Click here to read (July 1): "VCU prez under fire."
• Click here to read (July 5): "The blue jay."
• Click here to read (July 15): "Eliza's Question."
• Click here to read (July 23): "The Top Five 'Where was Doug?' locations."
• Click here to read (Sept. 10): "Apologies Upon Demand."
• Click here to read (Oct. 2): "Manipulative labels = Propaganda."
• Click here to read (Oct. 5): "McCain and Palin 75 years ago."
• Click here to read (Oct. 31): "Handy Mayoral Election Guide."
• Click here to read (Nov. 20): "Remembering Rozanne Epps."
• Click here to read (Nov. 26): "Freznell (1983)"
• Click here to read (Dec. 5): "Empires don't work anymore."
• Click here to read (Dec. 9): "Baseball in Richmond moving to the back burner."
• Click here to read (Dec 17): "The people's disinfectant: Sunlight."
• Click here to read (Dec. 19): "One for the road?"

-- Words and art by F.T. Rea