While you were out...

Since a lot of you were gone for some or all of the stretch from Christmas Eve until now, I thought I'd do a quick run-down of all the posts from the last week and a half:

• I announced my list of the best shows and best episodes of 2008;
• I expressed surprise that USA was letting the unsold pilot for "To Love & Die" see the light of day (I only got to watch 20 minutes of it, but the consensus seemed to be that it deserved to fail);
• I linked to pure evil;
• I then became pure evil in vaguely discussing the first two episodes of "Lost" season five;
• I memorialized some of the notable TV people who died in 2008 (and the commenters chimed in with some names I didn't have room for);
• I plugged Travel Channel's gluttonous and good "Man v. Food";
• I warned people about the potential Viacom/Time-Warner apocalypse (as with many of these things, it didn't come to pass);
• I expressed my optimism about the state of television in 2009 versus what happened in 2008 (the commenters were split in their own take on the future);
• I discussed the latest episode of "Leverage";
• I resumed my pure evilness in briefly discussing the "Battlestar Galactica" premiere, and only then remembered that I should publish the transcript of the interview I did with Ron Moore back in July;
• I expressed my ignorance about Steven Moffat's choice of 26-year-old Matt Smith as the new lead on "Doctor Who."
• I reviewed the new ABC incarnation of "Scrubs."
  

Only two days until the January press tour. Lots to do.

UPDATE: There have been a few requests in the comments for me to start a weekly open thread for people to ask questions or discuss things that don't have a place in more specific posts. We're going to give it a try here today and see how it goes.