Top One of 2008
looking backward while moving forward is a good way to trip but as a journalist it becomes necessary to at least glance over my shoulder at 2008 this first week of January ’09 and offer a bit of a synopsis and perhaps point out some tripping hazards for those coming along behind.
Journalists like to use the form known as “The Top Ten List”, but as our culture transitions from print to online media condensation becomes mandatory, so I offer a “Top One” list.
My personal Top One: box trucks
Political Top One: Obama
Top One in Entertainment: kissing
Musical Act: this is the year someone awesome gave me The Felice Brothers disc.
Biggest Top One Dissapointment: World still not built to my specs.
Top One Improvement: Watching the difference in Sean’s daughter as she went from two to three years old.
Top Two of Being One: my parents, from what I understand, are still happily married.
Top One Time: One time in New Orleans I met a bartender and we threw a pirouge in her truck and paddled around a bayou. Alligators, park wardens, the little boat almost blowing off the truck on the freeway made for an epic adventure.
It seems like a good time to end with a prediction for 2009. Obama’s gonna disappoint us Progressives a bit and you Conservatives a lot, the economy will get a makeover show on MTV, digital media will stop using digits and with push from the rising Chinese influence will start using character based algorithms.
When I get out of the airport and around a computer I will add an email from a friend I made in 2008 – Dante, the expert yard sale sign maker.
UPDATE
Here’s Dante’s Italian advice for the new year. Probably too late for this year, but make sure to do this next year.
“In Italy we have an old superstition/tradition. In the morning of the new year the first person that will cross your treshhold has to be a male. That will bring you luck and that is what, as a child, I used to do in Milan, knocking from apartment to apartment, whishing them a happy New Year and of course, at the same time, getting a few Lire in my pocket. Remember, it has to be a male.
Ciao and don’t drink too much.”
It was also a grave oversight not to mention the gal I spent practically all of 2008 kissing. My girlfriend. Who goes unnamed, but was directly referenced in the Top One Entertainment. I hope that didn’t denigrate our relationship by placing it under entertainment. That’s just what I liked to do best when I had free time.
Woah there, coincidence.
I happened to already be listening to los hermanos Felice as I was reading this.
They’re good music makers and good people.
Comment by Blythe — January 10, 2009 @ 5:57 pm
Right on!
Comment by Rolston — January 10, 2009 @ 10:35 pm