The End of the 00s: What I Know Now, by Abe Sauer

by The End of the 00s

The Awl asked everyone (so I’m not special) to look back on the last decade and submit something, anything, of substance. I thought long and hard about this project and decided that, despite many impactful first-hand experiences such as 9/11, I should write about how over the last decade I matured to understand how little I understood in the decade before, how that mirrored how little I knew in the decade before that, and if the next decade will turn out to be the same and what that means about how much I think I know now. But then I got off the toilet and decided what I really think about when I look back on this last decade is something a little different….

I hope Joe Lieberman has a stroke.

The end.

Happy New Year! And below is a collection of progressively more embarrassing holiday pictures from my youth, to remind us all, during this season of reflection, to stay humble, if not sober, jolly or even content.