How can we miss you, if you won’t go away? … Next year, try to step it up a notch, won’t you?
Penthouse Says Goodbye 2021 — Hello 2022!
Whether you thought 2021 or 2020 qualifies as the … Worst. Year. Ever. … could well depend on which old man got your vote for President last November. We’re not much on controversial politics around here, although we can offer a couple quick overall impressions:
- Both years deeply and truly sucked.
- If someone honestly believes something — no matter how completely bizarre or overwhelmingly controverted by facts — you will be wasting your time trying to get them to change their — completely stupid, bordering on pure insanity — opinions.
Now wiser or more benevolent people than ourselves saying, “Goodbye 2021” would have spent hours and hours, possibly weeks, coming up with some perfectly pithy commentary that would make you feel good about yourselves, good about your future, and maybe even good about your fellow humans for at least a second. We all know these people, the kind always looking at the bright side, trying to do the right thing, doing unto others as they would have done unto them — those people. Yeah, we know them too. We admire them, y’know, without actually aspiring to be them. We still consider them quite dandy, however.
Sadly, we are not those people.
We are people that make you entertaining — albeit granted potentially a tad baffling — New Year’s Eve promotions … without offering even the slightest hint as to what our intentions might have been or what we maybe thought this symbolized.
Nope. We bring you video and allow you the unfettered freedom to make of it what you will. (Fettered freedom also sucks, for the record.)
See? We do not bother with biased media coverage. We do not batter you with controversial opinions delivered as fact. No-no. We do not.
Instead we let our ever-so-worthy viewers bring their own intellect to “bare” [sic — we know] on the problem. Around here we think this means that everyone should spend more time volunteering in their local communities, but it could mean something completely different to you. That would be beauty of it, you see. Speaking of beauty, in case you did not recognize all those (again, sadly) uncredited women on video, we put together a quick gallery for you that might help (because it has captions with their names listed). We even managed to find some Penthouse movie shots that hopefully provide a slightly different view than the traditional magazine layout presentation.
Of course to be really trendy we should have come up with our own “list” of something that would tempt all the Google Bots to “list” us as relevant, and important, and overall the modern equivalent of the bee’s knees. (Ask an old person about that one.) Narrowing it down became too much of a conflict amongst our Team here at Penthouse, though, so we settled instead on rather a List of Lists. Consequently, if you have a particular way you wish to say Goodbye 2021 in your favorite manner, you may do so.
Goodbye 2021 — The 12 Days of Free Lists
- “The Year in Pictures” – from CNN
- “The Inequality Pandemic” – from The World Bank
- “Best Movies” – from The New Yorker
- Best Social Media Campaigns (Fashion) – from Digital Agency Network
- “Best YouTube Ads” – from HubSpot
- “Most Popular Books” – from Goodreads
- “Hottest Careers” – from Forbes
- “Top Sports Stories” – from Listwire
- “21 Masks that Capture the Politics” – from Politico
- “Official Cancelations” – from The Daily Show
- “Those We Lost” – from Los Angeles Times
- “Fast Facts” – from CNN
- “The Best TikToks” – from The Cut
Before we start getting comments, we are in fact aware that we have 13 items on our list of 12 lists. This comes from the fact that at least a couple of the influential elders here seemed to be of the opinion that there is no such thing as a “Best TikTok” anything. Those elders do not write blog posts, however. So … SHHHH!
By the way, we already have our own favorite women from 2021, as one would expect of Penthouse. In fact we have them listed in a handy fashion so that you may help us VOTE for the 2022 Pet of the Year. True, you end up with 11 sad women and one really happy woman, but that tends to be the nature of lists. Somebody has to be #1, and therefore no one else can be.
Bottom line: Try to make at least one person happy with everything you do. (And, no, you cannot count yourself.) As a Goodbye 2021 moral, that might be the best one can do. Much like our views here, 2021 had a little sadness, but it also had moments of rare brightness. If we concentrate on the latter, we can always manage the former. As my dad always told me, “If it were easy, anybody could do it.”
Of course my dad also told me to always throw the first punch because that might be the only one you get in; so there’s that.
