A Few of My Favorite Things in 2019

I'm mainly looking forward to 2020 for a somewhat stupid reason: the year itself looks and sounds cool. I briefly mentioned this in a previous post, but “2020” evokes futuristic stuff in my head. Time travelers. Flying cars. Hoverboards. Alien invasions and various and sundry other apocalypses (okay, maybe those aren't exactly appealing). I can't name any off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are a gazillion sci-fi works from the 20th century that picked 2020-something as “the future.”

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