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The Year in Culture - Neil LaBute, Lemony Snicket, Kenneth Pollack, and others on 2004's most notable cultural happenings. Slate asked them, "Which cultural happening most amazed or disappointed you this year?" It is an extraordinary experience to read what some intellectuals perceive as having been important. This article does synthesize some important trends or events, but also includes some personal interests in genuinely unimportant stuff that will be forgotten by ... hell, it's already forgotten.