Greetings and salutations, my nerds! I hope you will please excuse my absence for the last couple of weeks, I'm just starting to recover from holiday madness, four days at home and then driving my but from Northern California to Vegas and back for the Consumer Electronics Show. I think that's a pretty good excuse for falling off the face of the planet for half of a month, right? Maybe not... Oh well! What I have realized in the last two weeks is that I never did a "Favorite Things," post for this year and darn it, I think this sort of thing is entirely necessary. So here it is! My favorite things!
Favorite Movie Seen in 2012: "Midnight in Paris"
This is a movie I haven't talked about yet on the blog but I found it to be absolutely enchanting. Anytime I can't find something at the video store (yes, I still go to one of those), I suggest this movie again. Love it!
Favorite Book Read in 2012: "How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe" by Charles Yu
This may not be the BEST book I've read but it is absolutely my favorite. This book made me squeal with delight and mourn the day when it was over and I could never again read it for the first time. Most science fiction involving time travel spends more time showing you it working and less time explaining how it works and how it gets fixed. I loved getting to see this alternative to the norm. It isn't a very long book and it is a disappointingly short read but I still fully endorse it.
Favorite Comic Book of 2012: "Fairest"
Specifically, I would like to call attention to issues 8 and 9 in which we go to Japan with Rapunzel to find bits of her past and meet up with a beautiful Firefox with whom she had once been lovers. I love this comic book. I love the way it delves into the unexplored pasts of some of the female characters who tend to not get a ton of attention in the regular "Fables," comics. I love how daring they can be. If you haven't started reading "Fairest," we're only about 11 issues in, you should get on this.
Favorite New-to-Me Podcast of 2012: "Ask Me Another" and "This American Life"
It is a tie on this. I listen to A LOT of podcasts all day, just about every day at work. "This American Life," is a podcast that I look forward to every Monday morning when I get in. It is usually the first thing I put on after I get caught up on the the news. I love feeling like I'm learning something unusual while I am being entertained.
"Ask Me Another," is a pop culture puzzle show hosted by Ophira Eisenberg with Jonathan Coulton as the house band. Oh my gawd, right? This show is so much fun that I often can't listen to it at work because out of seemingly nowhere, it makes me yell things like, "King Kong!" or "V for Vendetta!" and then everyone in the office stares at me, I get embarrassed and we go on with our day. I have actually applied to be a contestant on this show. If it weren't for the fact that they film in New York, I'd be on it in a heartbeat! I told the people who run the show that if they ever make it within a six hour drive of me, I will BE THERE!
Favorite TV Show of 2012: "Sherlock"
Yeah, I know what you're thinking, "Not Doctor Who?!" I adore Doctor Who but I discovered Sherlock this year. This is such a fantastically smart and suspenseful show. I am absolutely in love. My mother had surgery over the summer and she was bedridden for a short while during her recovery. I lent her the dvds of this show and one Sunday afternoon I got a phone call. When I answered she said, "So where's the rest? I need to know what happens. I have THEORIES." Sorry Mom, there isn't any more right now. Benedict Cumberbatch is highly in demand and they haven't even started filming season 3 yet. "But... but I have theories! I think I know how they did it! I need to know if I'm right!" Sorry Mom, you have to wait like the rest of us. If you haven't watched this show yet, give me a call. I will watch it with you. You may want to wait until the Season 3 air date has been released to save yourself some pain.
I hope you all had a beautiful 2012 and I'm looking forward to 2013!
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