I also updated, for the last time, the 2025 Is The Year of... list.
One time (in college) someone told me that going to college is just proving that you can stick to something for an extended period of time. Which I guess makes you a good, moral, employable person.
For me, college was just inertia. What else was I gonna do?
But that stupid page? That's my proof. Sadly its existence is also proof of my dumbness.
Related to that: Corn Chronicles page incoming. 2026 is the year of corn and nothing but corn.
Have you heard of Cal Garrison? She's an astrologer who used to write a weekly horoscope column for the Detroit Metro Times. Her horoscopes for my sign (Capricorn) always seemed so negative to me, so I have to assume she's a hater.
Despite this, I still read my horoscope in her column weekly, which led me to discover my favorite line in any horoscope anywhere:
"The best and worst of everything could be teaching you just about anything."
In other words, everything could be teaching you anything. Based on that line alone, we can only conclude: obviously astrology is fake.
I learned long ago that arguing on the internet isn't worth it. At best, you'll feel superior for two minutes when the argument inevitably devolves into a weird and stupid grammar competition. At worst, your Neopets account will be frozen and your little 12-year-old heart will be broken.
But for some reason I don't always keep that lesson in mind. The last Reddit argument I remember having was a few years ago. It was about astrology.
Like I said above, I know astrology isn't real. I believe in science, just like the men on Reddit who pulled out their thesauruses on me when I said astrology is fun despite its mortal sin of being unscientific.
But unlike the superduper ultrasmart men on Reddit, I don't hate things just because women like them. Also, I happen to love fun. If you know a little bit about astrology, you can amuse your friends by pulling up their natal chart to tell them all about how, for example, their Mercury placement means they'll be a rich and famous writer of Cheez-It-themed poetry. (Or whatever.)
That said, the New Age to alt-right pipeline is real, which has made me kind of reluctant to talk about astrology, tarot, or any of those other woo-woo hobbies.
But I decided I'm going to anyway, because this website is in more danger of placing you on a pipeline to Cheez-It-themed poetry than to any alt-right anything. (I hope. I can't control where you go after I get you hooked on astrology.)
Anyway, all of this to say: for years, one of my pie-in-the-sky project ideas has been to write short, occasionally silly monthly horoscopes. So I did, and the first batch will be posted on January 1.
