Rock me like a hurricane!
Well, I already told you my favorite news posts of the year -- but what about the other stuff? So here goes:
Best movie I saw for free for SFist Reviews: It's so exciting to go up to the box office and be like, "I have press passes!" I really liked the Wellstone! biography, and the Grace Lee Project is out of contention because I actually paid my own money to see that one -- but the one I still think about all the frickin' time is Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents. Why didn't I think of a career path that would oblige me to travel to exotic countries and eat Chinese food all the time?
Best show: Joanna Newsom! Though the Sufjan show's a strong second -- when else will I have a chance to spend an evening with three backup singers, a trumpeter, SFist Krissy, and Jason Schwartzman?
Best celebrity I met this year: You know, I met a number of interesting folks this year -- but you know, I think I gotta go with Jack Daly. Jack for Mayor!
Best Blotter: That ostrich running around on the Golden Gate Bridge, the same day the cops did that exceedingly-thorough search of Centerfolds was a pretty good Tuesday, we gotta say. That girl who sent out an APB about the stuffed mouse she tied to a runaway helium balloon was also hilar. Oh, no, wait -- I just found the entry about the tourist who accidentally rolled backwards down the crooked part of Lombard Street. We have a winner!
....and the Coolest person, 2005: My co-editor Eve, of course!
Find out my worsts, after the jump!
If you actually made it through any of my posts this year, you know you deserve this shirt!
Worst show: Oh, Annie. "Tomorrow, tomorrow" -- it was tomorrow by the time you took the stage with your oddly bleeping and blooping set!
Most humiliating Kimberly Guilfoyle moment: This is probably a controversial pick, but I'm bypassing the pathetic "can I come with you to Beach Blanket Babylon, please please please?" episodes and going with the "leaked" rumor that she was dating Michael Bolton. Come on, Kim, you couldn't make it through the tryouts for a fake romance with Tom Cruise?
Worst Blotter: What is going on with the 2005 murder rate? You think I enjoy having to use up one to two paragraphs every week in the Blotter listing shootings?
Most disappointing Political Junkie news: We're still bummed Chris Daly didn't get on the Daily Show. We had the drinking game all ready to go!
And the story I'm saddest is now over: Well, we're totally going to miss the a Julie Lee saga -- but man, the story I'm sorriest to see go has got to be the chili finger story. Our favorite part is still the part where that lady said the finger had been bitten off by a leopard (though the detail that Ayala was watching "Meet the Fockers" when she got arrested was excellent as well).
...hope you had a good 2005 too! Can't wait to start compiling for the best of 2006!
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