Happy New Year

Happy New Year folks, hope it has been fun and fruitful for you all. 2009 has been one of those years that has been, for me at least, one of the best ever, and yet one of the most frustrating. as I stare down the barrel of finishing my 27th lap around our local star, I figured I would just give you a list of the best and worst things that I experienced this past year.

The Best

Best Video Game- Batman Arkham Asylum. Seriously, lets take the 1994 cartoon voice cast, and appkly it to a Christopher Nolan movie! WINNER

Best Movie- G.I.J.O.E. The Rise of Cobra. My childhood was not raped.

Best Television series- Throwdown with Bobby Flay, or as I like to call it, Bobby Flay can not win

Best Book- The Spectre Series by a woman named Pheadra Weldon.

Best Nostalgic Moment- watching Die Hard and Die Hard 2 Back to back the week of Christmas with my wife.

Best Moment to completely change my mind about how things are- the birth of my son, and how children are demons

Best “New Person”- Brent Evans, the Catalyst Game Labs Art Director. Thanks for the Interview!

Best Old Friend- Chris Wrenn, whom I fancied as an apprentice, but has become my equal

Best dumb thing I ever heard- “Yeah I needed the thicken the broth up so I added water.”

Best smart thing I ever heard- “live like a dog, if it can not be eaten or humped, piss on it and walk away”

Best guest on a TV Show- Jessi Combs on Mythbusters. Sexy like Karri, but with a blow torch and a touch of immature enthusiasm

Best Vulgarity “Fuck-tard” Fourth year running

Best Meal cooked by Me- Thanksgiving Prime Rib

Best Meal cooked by someone else- an “Australian Meat Pie” for my birthday.


The Worst
Worst Video game- that I played? Sacred 2, had all the promise of Baulders gate, but lacked the side by side multiplayer.

Worst Movie- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (why did we need this movie again?)

Worst book- Twilight religion and morality subtly wrapped in a romance novel unintentionally portraying a bevy of abusive relationships

Worst Television Show- Stargate Universe. It took ten episodes to even get me to WANT to watch more of it.

Worst Nostalgic moment- December 31st 2009- buying a device that could play old NES games, and fighting like a son-of-a-bitch to get mega man 3 to work… (it’s the only one with problems though)

Worst Moment that completely confirmed the way things are- Dude trying to blow up a plane of Christmas day. Air Port Security is pointless bullshit!

Worst New Person- Kate Only known you a year but you seen to always want to hang out but find lame excuses not too.

Worst old friend- Pamela. Sorry babe, but you seem to be ready to drop people you say are important to you at the slightest shift in wind.

Worst Dumb thing I ever heard- “Barac Obama is not a Citizen of the United States”

Worst Smart thing I ever heard (as in I did not like it, but I had to agree with it)- Some people want us to grow a pair between our legs and shout at the top of our lungs that global warming is fake, and this is where we have a confession. We don’t know. We know the earth is in fact getting warmer, but despite a crack research team we can not confidently say that mankind is directly responsible for it, or whether or not it is reversible. (Penn Jillete, from Bullshit Season 6)

Worst Guest on a TV Show- Joquinn Phoenix on David Letterman

Worst Vulgarity- Socialist, or Nazi (seriously that the best you got)

Worst Meal cooked by me- a seriously lame attempt at stir fry in april

Worst Meal I had cooked by someone else- Jenny’s home made French dip au jus…