2008

Two weddings this year - my youngest brother's and my wife's sister's; Obama versus the recession; the iPhone beat the Razr, and Blu-ray started at Blockbuster.

The most sentimental movies: when the writer from the Scary Movie series directs Superhero Movie (3/28), you know it must the year of the superhero - Iron Man (5/2), The Incredible Hulk (6/13), Hancock (7/2), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (7/11), and The Dark Knight (7/18); it was also the year of NC-17 sounding names, as in Sex and the City (5/30), The House Bunny (8/22), and Zack and Miri Make a Porno (10/31)

Music artists I discovered: Foxglove Hunt - Stop Heartbeat (3/11); Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (3/18); Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (4/8); Daedelus - Love to Make Music To (6/9); MURS - MURS for President (9/30)

Comic book series I followed from the first issue: Age of the Sentry, Glamourpuss, Madame Xanadu, Superman/Supergirl: Maelstrom, and the X-Men and Spider-Man mini-series; 2008 belonged to DC as the art for Batman "R.I.P." and Final Crisis was better than Marvel's Secret Invasion and Ultimatum

Restaurants I discovered: Azucar (Cuban in Ocean Beach) and Juice It Up (smoother smoothies than Jamba Juice)