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My 2018 Top 10 Lists From the Bottom of a Well

2018 gave us an overwhelming amount of pop-culture, all of which I missed because I was stuck at the bottom of a well for most of the year. Here are my favorite things in the bottom of this well!

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Rocks

  1. The one that looks like Mickey Rourke (pre-surgery) 
  2. The pebble the children threw at me
  3. Stephen King's The Rock I Used as A Pillow When I Slept
  4. Rocky McStoney (his parents named him that - not me!)
  5. Dwayne Johnson in HBO's Ballers
  6. The one that looks like Mickey Rourke (post-surgery)
  7. The grin-shaped rock that taunted me throughout my time at the bottom of the well, cackling as I called out for help, sneering as I attempted to climb out, and whispering discouraging things as I cried to the open skies
  8. The one that looks like Mickey Rourke (during surgery)
  9. Sorry to Bother You
  10. The Unknown Creature Skull I Thought Was a Rock At First But Definitely Wasn't

Critters

  1. The worm that I found in my hair
  2. The Unknown Creature Skull I Thought Was a Rock At First But Definitely Wasn't
  3. The animal inside me that exists in all humans, only revealing itself in times of great desperation
  4. Lassie, who knew I was down here but didn't tell anyone
  5. Ted Cruz
  6. Centipede Cusan (Pronounced "Susan")
  7. Millipede Maggie (Pronounced "Susan")
  8. The baby goat that the rescuers (who pretended to not hear me) spent 36 hours freeing from the well
  9. Viola Davis's dog in Widows
  10. If the worm I found on my leg is different from the one I found in my hair, then the one on my leg is number 10, but if it's the same as the one I found in my hair, then the beetle I found on my elbow is number 10

Wells

  1. Orson
  2. H.G.
  3. The second one I was trapped inside
  4. The first one I was trapped inside
  5. The one I am trapped inside now
  6. The way a villain might say it three times after thwarting a hero's plans
  7. Web Enhanced Language Learning
  8. America's first commercial oil well in Titusville, PA
  9. Fargo (the bank)
  10. Fargo (not really a well but it was an enjoyable television program)

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