PSP 2012 Year In Review Part 1

Overall, I'd rate 2012 as a mediocre year for Princess Sparkle Pony. I had a tendency towards sloth. Lately, for instance, I haven't been posting much at all, and that is definitely a temporary thing. It's mostly because the big news these days is the whole "fiscal waterfall" or whatever, and to be honest, this stuff really baffles and bores me, so it's hard for me to come up with anything "clever" about something I don't understand very well.

But! There were some star performers and some of my favorite pieces of writing here over the last twelve months. For the first third of the year or so, Callista Gingrich really dominated this blog, and the exciting Callistayear will be recounted in part two of this series. Other than the magnificent Moon Goddess Calley-Lou, here are some of the highlights of PSP in 2012:

• January 11: PSP: Your leader in Mitt Romney juvenalia.
• January 18: How to design a CD cover for Negativland and Chumbawamba in a million teeny steps, part one and part two.
• January 25: PSP love affair with Jennifer Rubin intensifies in proportion to Rubin's hatred for Newt Gingrich.
• February 7: John Boehner's strategic relationship with tanning salons literally confirmed.
• February 16: Rick Santorum hand turkeys!!!
• February 22: Rick Santorum funnies!
• March 5: PSP launches damning exposé of an untalented yet prolific and successful art forger.

• March 8: We bid a tearful adieu to Jean Schmidt, Wicked Witch of the Midwest.
• March 11: A rave review of Game Change for all the wrong reasons.
• March 15: What makes a tween girl roll her eyes more: Condoleezza Rice, or her mother asking her about Condoleezza Rice?
• March 19: PSP remembers core mission: making fun of badly dressed politicians.
• April 3: Rick Santorum can't, won't wear the cheese hat, ends up looking ridiculous anyway.
• April 19: Here come the Condi Veep Rumors™! Again!

• May 2: When somebody text messages you by mistake, make the most of it.
• May 7: What if Brian Kilmeade could balance a ball on his nose?
• May 23: 1980s Arizona Mormon teenapalooza!
• May 30: Jamie Foxx's incredible coat should get separate billing in Django Unchained.

• June 1: I revealed that I wasn't really bullied in junior high, but kind of was, and that it didn't really affect me, but it kind of did., and that other kids thought I was gay, which was wrong, but turned out to be right. Or something.
• June 6: Step-by-step guide to offending Ray Bradbury.
• June 12: Hollywood should make more, not fewer, movies based on toys and board games.
• June 16: There are no wrong answers. Or are there?
• June 25: I reveal the causes of my atheism: dinosaurs, 7th Day Adventists, and drinking milk straight from the carton.

Get it? Get it? MITT and RICE!!!

• July 8: Bill Kristol gets in on the hot Condi Veep Rumors™ action.
• July 12: Drudge ignites volatile (and, of course, wrong) Condi Veep Rumors™.
• July 13: Condi Veep Rumors™ sideshow tent explodes. 
• July 18: Is "surrogate" the political media cliché of the year? It turns out that it's not (see below), but it seemed like it at the time.
• July 27: Concerned that Mitt Romney wasn't offending the British quite enough, I offered some suggestions that would really send them over the edge.

 

• August 15: Almost heartwarming story of how a gay PSP caricature ended up on the chests of a bunch of straight football fans.
• August 16: Stupid Sexy Condi forces me to write about football two days in a row.
• August 23: Worst sentence to ever appear in the Washington Post identified. Go Jen!
• August 28: What, is it time to make fun of Gay Aaron Schock™ again? OK. You want more? OK. Satisfied? No? OK. Sheesh!
• August 29: Politico startles by revealing the Condibot to be a real thing, not just a satirical, rhetorical device.

• August 30: Condi elevated to godhood in the puffiest Condi puff piece ever.
• September 11: No, it turns out that variations on the phrase "double down" is the political media cliché of the year.  And it keeps going and going.
• September 16: First ever documented case of Condi turning down a photo-op.
• October 11: Paul Ryan gym pics make PSP vomit.

• October 31: Halloween suddenly became useful!
• November 7: There was some kind of election?
• November 14: Condi endorsements: kiss of death?
• December 3: Fungal Grover Norquist.
• December 5: You can give Condi a wheelbarrow full of money, but that doesn't mean she'll be nice.
• December 15: PSP callously trivializes debate over gun control with cartoon deer.

Next: Callista 2012!