As I did last year, instead of having the staff write blurbs about themselves like this is some sort of painful, HR-mandated self-evaluation, for a look at the best Jezebel posts of the year, I had our staff nominate their own but said I would write about them. So here you go: half what they think, half what I think.
My Cat Is Dead, What a Relief
Rich Juzwiak nominated this piece, which I’ll say is perhaps the first piece of writing about a domesticated animal that truly touched me, one that went beyond love of an animal to speak to the greater (often taboo) relief that comes with loss.
Meet Reality Steve, the Man Who Spoils the Bachelor, and the Best Journalist Who Isn’t One
The Bachelor has been on for 20 seasons, and appears to be going nowhere. In this interview with professional spoiler Steve Carbone, I tried to figure out how they do what they do and suggest why it matters.
Lemonade Is Beyoncé’s Body and Blood
“Great art emerges at points of conflict and Beyoncé has realized this at a central time in her career,” mused Clover Hope about the entertainer of our time, who pushed music and art forward in ways that took us by surprise even though we were all watching for it.
Glimmering Polycottons, Knee-Length Shorts & Lightly Flashy Workwear at Thursday’s Basketball Games
On April 1, the staffs of Jezebel and Deadspin switched for a day—we wrote for their site and they wrote for ours. Here is one of Julianne Escobedo Shepherd’s offerings, which includes this gem: “I still don’t know why the Utah Jazz are called the Utah Jazz. I have been to Utah, unfortunately, and there appears to be no jazz there. They don’t even have beer.”
Eat, Pray, Tail: I Wore a Tail for 1 Week and Learned Nothing
What started as a piece of satire ended up becoming both much more and absolutely nothing else for Joanna Rothkopf, who can truly rock a tail.