Happy New Year

A few years ago I actually picked this special issue of People up while waiting in line at the grocery store. Now I keep it in "the box" (for more details, see my 9/11/08 post). Just think, around five years from now, there will probably be a "Celebrate the '00s!" Right now there are already 2008 retrospectives being written or on grocery store shelves. This post is my own little list of highlights:

My Favorite Blog Post I Wrote - "Scarier Than Scary" (10/16/08)

My Least Favorite - "My Webcomics" (9/10/08)

My Blogging Resolution - shorter, more personal posts

My Favorite Single Issue Comic Book I Read - X-Men Origins: Jean Grey (Oct. 2008)

My Least Favorite - Final Crisis #4 (Nov. 2008)

My Comic-Reading Resolution - switching to online

My Least Favorite Cheesy Trend - Guitar Hero/Rock Band video games

My Favorite Movie I Saw - The Dark Knight (7/18/08)

My Least Favorite - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (5/22/08)

My Movie-Watching Resolution - taking my time with just classics from Blockbuster Online

My Favorite Music Discovery - Daedelus or MURS

My Least Favorite (don't believe the hype) - TV on the Radio

My Music-Listening Resolution - to return to Coachella music festival

My Least Favorite News Item - Cyd Charisse's obituary; she's one of my favorite actresses and my wife and I agreed long ago that if we ever have a girl, her middle name will be Charisse

My Favorite TV Show I Actually Watched - 30 Rock

My Least Favorite - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

My TV-Viewing Resolution - avoiding ever-worsening Showtime series like Dexter and Weeds (I guess that includes next week's Confessions of a Call Girl on DVD)

In case you're interested, here are the things highlighted in "the '90s" magazine:

Books - Stop the Insanity!, Men Are from Mars, Bridges of Madison County, Bridget Jones' Diary, The Celestine Prophecy

Fashion - Hammer pants, the Wonder Bra, Snapple, Magic Eye, Tickle Me Elmo, Pokémon, scrunchies, fanny packs, and Rollerblades

Movies - Clueless, Forrest Gump, Pretty Woman, Scream, Pulp Fiction, American Pie, Jurassic Park

Music - *NSYNC, The Backstreet Boys, Salt-N-Pepa, The Fugees, Dr. Dre, Garth Brooks, Alanis Morissette, Hootie and the Blowfish, Boyz II Men

News - Princess Diana, JonBenét Patricia Ramsey, Heidi Fleiss, Oklahoma City bombing, Monicagate, Amy Fisher, the Menendez brothers

Sports - Michael Jordan, John Elway, Monica Sales, Mark McGuire, Kristi Yamaguchi, Magic Johson

TV - Northern Exposure, Beverly Hills 90210, Ally McBeal, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Aire, Twin Peaks, Roseanne

I just realized that since my son and I were both born toward the end of a decade, his experience and nostalgia for different decades might mirror my own. In other words, the same way that I disregard the '70s might be the way he will diregard the '00s, and the same kind of affection I have for the '80s, he might have for the '10s. It's crazy for me to think that his adolescence in the '20s might be like my adolescence in the '90s.