For all sorts of fun things:

Let’s start with the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards HERE…

And then to goofy/touching/inspiring Reddit Recap 2021 …

Google’s always emotional, this year deeply so, “Year In Search: Healing” …

Some of THESE are amazing!

I couldn’t resist THIS ONE…

Of course there’s an annual list of the BEST PET PHOTOGRAPHS, and of course First Place went to a guy in Slovakia who loves dogs (though I might have voted for that shot of the rooster)…

But is there a special list of just the BEST DOG PHOTOGRAPHS 0f 2021, you ask? Mais bien sür.

TIME magazine’s Top 100 Photos of 2021…

My Modern Met’s Top 50 Photographs of 2021 …

100 of the world’s best photographers favorite shots on sale to save the environment…

A World Ablaze, captured by AP photographers (click on the first picture to toggle through 154 images) …

The Atlantic magazine’s 2021 in Photos and Top 25 News Photos of 2021 …

More photographs than you can imagine in The Year in Pictures from the NY Times …

The best space photos of 2021 …

NPR’s 100 Best Songs of 2021 … and Pitchfork’s Top 100 Songs of the Year …

And Rolling Stones 50 Best Albums of 2021 …

Pocket’s Top Articles of 2021 …

The Guardian’s Best Books of 2021 as chosen by some of your favorite authors …

Hyperallergic’s Top 10 Films of 2021 (you won’t see most of these on other lists) …

Up for some good news? Check out 21 Really Good Things That Happened in 2021 …

Doug’s Favorite Giant Panda video of the year … (how can you not love an animal whose sole purpose seems to be having fun?)