It was a good year, it was a bad year. Here's my list of the so-best parts of 2004, in no order at all.

So-Best photo: Nope, not Gav+Kim (you all breathe a sigh of relief). I'm not a super big fan of Norah Jones or anything, and it has no SF connection whatsoever, but I've been dying for an excuse to use this picture for months now. Look at that letter Y!

So-Best city hall trend: Rate this year in local politics triple-X! Sex, violence, and foul language: F-bombs dropping like bunker busters, groping at the Gettys, and hand-to-mouth pumping action -- and that's just for two branches of the local government! Throw in some sizzling-hott judicial/executive same-sex marrying action, fights galore, plushie love, vandalism, ranked choice voting computer hackery, and those ever-present Asian fetishists (you just love them for their money), and phew, you'd definitely have to prove you were over 18 to get into this movie!

So-Best blotter entry: The pranksters who stole the bronze Hermes outside the University Club. Runner-up: The angry Texas Ranger throwing the chair at heckling Mr. Bueno and hitting his wife in the nose.

So-Best commuter tale: This was back in April, back when SFist was just a twinkle in our publisher's eye -- but remember that dude who threatened to kill himself on the Bay Bridge and tied up traffic for thirteen hours? And then they proposed shooting a big Spiderman net under him? The highlight of your westbound commute. Runner-up: The Baby Bullet/BART hookup finally working out is saa-weeeeeet. It could only be better if it actually went at like 200 miles an hour so when you looked out the windows, things go all blurry.

So-Best makeshift top 40 radio station: I'm still torn up about the death of Z95.7. But now that I've finally gotten MTV Hits from my cable company RCN and TiVo DVR and an ipod to go, I'm completely up to date. (Damn you, Max Martin, and your catchy new Kelly Clarkson tune.) Runner-up MTV Networks so-best: Have you seen the new VH1 Classic show The Alternative?

So-Best things I've learned at sfist: How to reserve books at the Public Library. Who this band the Arcade Fire is. How many different crime movies and TV shows were set in San Francisco. And all these cool people I have the privilege of writing with (awwww).

Let's go watch the fireworks over the Ferry Building for 2005!

If not that, then we might take in some of the films that have opened a while ago that we haven't gotten around to yet. The Embarcadero is still showing Before Sunset and Maria Full of Grace, both of which come to us with high recommendations.

Or maybe we'll brave the Metreon. Whew! There's a lot stinking up the place, and we're not even talking about the rather dubious looking Chicken 'n Cheez. You can see Harry Potter or Spiderman in the IMAX, or a bunch of other old or crappy movies in the regular theater. Hey, how's Open Water? Is that good? We heard so much about it, and then...nothing.

If you have any better movie recommendations for this weekend, please, be our guest and hit us with them in the comments. Because we're fresh out, and those British spies are looking better and better.