bests and worsts

Random bests and worsts of 2010:

Worst natural disaster: Haiti earthquake
Worst man-made disaster: BP's Gulf of Mexico three-month oil spill
Best sports team win for a sports I don't give a damn about: Scrappy Giants winning World Series
Best example of how you cannot keep a good athlete down: Return of Wes Welker of my Patriots
Worst example of how you cannot keep a dog killer down: Return of Michael Vick
Best blog: Film Experience Blog
Worst tv show I've never watched a full episode of: The Real Housewives of Something, Keeping Up with Anything about the Kardashians, and Jersey Shore (three-way tie)
Best real life event for tv movie adaptation: Chilean miner rescue
Worst Princess Diana stand-in: Kate Middleton
Best (or worst, same difference) Showgirl stand-in: Burlesque
Best discovery: Garrett Hedlund as a country singer
Best evolution from child star to future A-list actress: Emma Watson
Best evolution from child star to soon-to-be Oscar winning actress: Natalie Portman (she'll win for Black Swan, but what'll she wear to work with that baby bump?)
Worst cheater: Tiger Woods and Jesse James, tied
Best class act: Sandra Bullock
Best second wind: Betty White
Worst second wind: Cloris Leachman
Best drool-worthy invention: iPad (I am so getting one when the next generation comes out)
Best/worst splurge of the year: My BMW
Worst nightmare come true: Got drafted for review at work requiring at least six weeks of travel
Worst overexposure: Lady Gaga - enough already; her explanation of the meat dress on Ellen is non-sensical and exposes to me that, contrary to public belief, there is no art/substance behind the weirdness
Worst loss of a legend: JD Salinger
Best Korean I've never heard of til this year: Kim Yu-Na
Worst Korean I've never heard of til this year: Kim Jon-Un
Worst decline of a show I liked not too long ago: Glee (the writing is just so uneven, and the characters increasingly unlikable)
Worst gay: Kurt/Chris Colfer on Glee (so freaking whiny and tortured)
Best gay: Blaine/Darren Criss on Glee, particularly the two minutes when he is performing Teenage Dream
Worst sequel to a good movie: Iron Man 2
Best two-plus hours spent: Watching Billy Elliot the musical on Broadway in NYC
Best color: Orange
Best breakout, female: Emma Stone in Easy A
Best breakout, male: Tom Hardy in Inception
Worst breakouts: Jayden Smith and Willow Smith - dang, they spawn
Best scene, fictional: Joseph Gordon Levitt anti-gravity scene in Inception
Best scene, reality show: Watermelon sling on Amazing Race 17
Best freakout: Steven Slater of Jet Blue
Worst freakout: Mel Gibson
Worst literary phenomenon I don't get: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Millennium series by Stieg Larsson
Best literary pheonmenon I know nothing about: The Hunger Games series by Suzanne Collins
Best music video: Arcade Fire, We Used To Wait
Best tv series not from America: Skins
Best tv series I forgot to put on my top ten list: So You Think You Can Dance
Worst curse: All the troubles befalling on The Hobbit production
Worst curse part deux: All the troubles befalling on Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark production
Best food trend: Food trucks
Best food truck: Biryani Cart in Manhattan NYC
Best customer service: Dexter from Schweetboks
Worst customer service: Shuttle driver/asshole on trip from hotel to JFK in May
Worst use of Johnny Depp: Alice in Wonderland and The Tourist, tied
Best use of a few minutes on screen: Rooney Mara in The Social Network
Best use of time: James Franco, who acts in soaps, makes movies, write books, goes to college, guest stars on sitcoms, hosts Oscars, and cuts off his arms in 127 hours.
Best Oprah giveaway: VW Beetle to every audience member
Worst Oprah giveaway: Free flight to Australia to every audience member, but piloted by...John Travolta (I mean, flying is scary enough - I don't have the utmost confidence in crossing the ocean with a celebrity pilot. Granted, if Oprah is on the flight, it's probably like flying in Air Force One.)
Best onscreen couple: Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine
Best drink: Horchata, especially in December
Best musical news about 2011: Fiona Apple is back!!!
Best movie news about 2011: That it's only one year away from 2012, which is when The Hobbit and The Dark Knight Rises are coming!!!!!!