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Barry Petchesky

Year In Review

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?

Luis Paez-Pumar

Don Parrott likes to spend the afternoon in his wife's bar, the Artesia, playing his favorite game, Ms. Pac-Man.

Video Games

All The Video Games I Started But Did Not Finish In 2025

Defector Staff

Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and Prime Minister Goran Persson attend the Nobel Banquet at Stockholm City Hall, Sweden, 10 December 2003.

The Best Things We Ate In 2025

The Best Things We Read In 2025

Early gramophone in photo on Norwegian postcard of young people listening to record on a gramophone, early thirties.

The Best Things We Heard In 2025

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

Israel Daramola

Arts And Culture

The 2025 Hate List

Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) experimenting with the first motion picture machine. B/W photo,1905.

The Best Things We Saw In 2025

Giri Nathan

Presenting The 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many

Fans cheer as Shohei Ohtani #17 of the Los Angeles Dodgers bats during the third inning against the Milwaukee Brewers in game one of the National League Championship Series at American Family Field on October 13, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Our Favorite Sports Moments Of 2025

Lauren Theisen

A exterior view of the Palace Theatre at the opening night of "West Side Story" on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on March 19, 2009

The Best And The Most Of My 2025 In Theater

The States Of Pro Wrestling In 2025

Patrick Redford

An Iranian rock climber scaling a climbing wall in Tehran.

Life Lessons

How Do You Win When You Compete With Yourself?

Alex Sujong Laughlin

A man and woman sit on a beach under a striped umbrella drinking Coke out of glass bottles.

I Was Wrong About Diet Coke

Ray Ratto

A collection of straw hats and fedoras for sale at a market

Beware The Vacation Fedora

Sancho at the Feast, Starved by his Physician' by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist. Sancho Panza is a key character in the Spanish novel 'Don Quixote' by Cervantes.

The Best Things We Ate In 2024

Pro Wrestling

Some Wrestling Matches I Liked In 2024


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Sabrina Imbler

Matchbook image of men in suits having drinks at a bar.

My Fancy Little Mocktail Was Missing More Than Booze

May Company Basement Sale, 1 March 1954. Crowd at May Company Basement Sale.;Caption slip reads: 'Photographer: McCarty. Date: 154-03-01. Reporter: Scott. Assignment: May Co. Basement Sale. 1/2/46/76/35/72/71/69/70/75: Crowd at May Co. Basement Sale'..

The Worst Things We Bought In 2024

circa 1897: Portrait of actor John Martin Harvey (1867 - 1944) reading to two children on a postcard.

The Best Things We Read In 2024

The Best Things We Heard In 2024

An old timey drive-in, with an old-timey pickup truck in front of it. The front of the drive in says "DRIVE-IN THEATRE. SIT IN YOUR CAR. SEE AND HEAR TALKING PICTURES. ON THE WORLD'S LARGEST SCREEN. Californa's First." There's also a neon entrance sign. The photo is black and white. The Year in Review Defector graphic is at the bottom.

The Best Things We Saw In 2024

A fan lands himself just foul in the upper level leftfield seats as he keeps cool and takes in the Dodger/Seattle interleague game, Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium.

Defector’s Favorite Sports Moments Of 2024

Presenting The 2024 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many

Halley’s Comment

Drewbert Thompchesky

OminousCorn

Bette Davis’ Cigarette

Little King Trashmouth

1940s Woman Seated At Home Desk Using Portable Typewriter Head Turned Looking At Camera Smiling.

Things We Actually Like

Let’s Remember Some Comments From 2023

A black Coach purse alongside purse restoration tools on a table.

A Purse For Whatever Woman You Want To Be

A page from a 1939 mens clothing catalog for Fred Mueller with illustrations of men wearing colorful western-style shirts.

The One Easy Trick For Adding Color To Your Wardrobe

a grid of ultrasound images of my (now former) breasts may they RIP!

Even Good Health Insurance Is Bad; Or, How I Got Top Surgery With A Family History Of Breast Cancer

This video grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk on October 26, 2022 shows himself carrying a sink as he enters the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile to "Chief Twit" and posted video of himself walking into the social network's California headquarters carrying a sink, days before his contentious takeover of the company must be finalized.

The Worst Of 2023

Pr?paration de g?teaux, d?coupe d'une banane. (Photo by Bettina BRINKMANN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)