Year End Wrapup?

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Best book of 2005: Altered Carbon and sequels by R. Morgan
Best new bookstore: Cody's at Union Square
Best new coffee place (retail espresso) Blue Bottle Coffee, Hayes Valley
" " " " (roaster) Bona Vita, San Rafael (Spinelli's is BACK!)
Best new Mesopotamian restaurant: YaYa (on Van Ness, near Union)

To be continued if i think of anything else.

[cranefly]

Okay, this is belated, but better than never.

Top Ten Movies of 2005 & Early 2006

Kung Fu Hustle: about a gay martial artist who likes metal bracelets
Capote: about a gay writer who likes hardened criminals
Survival Style 5+: about a gay teenage hoodlum who breaks into houses
Brokeback Mountain: about gay cowboys who like to marry women and raise families
The Wayward Cloud: about a gay guy who passes time fucking an unconscious woman
Shaolin Dolomite: about gay gold- and silver-painted guys who like climbing atop one another
Wild Zero: about a groupie who turns gay when his girlfriend sprouts a dick
Tom Yum Goong: about a gay underling to an evil dominatrix
Cutie Honey: come on, Cutie Honey and the policewoman were gay; they just wouldn't admit it
Lord of War: only saw the poster, but it had a strong gay ambience to it

[Haggis Killer]

Best Book: Captain Alatriste
Best Movie: Curse of the Were Rabbit
Best Cartoon: Still "Crac!" 1981
Best Fish: Smoked Salmon, natch
Best Restaurant: Club 33
Best Day At Work: Meeting Frederick Back
Best Fight: Ben refusing to poop (6+ days)
Best ATM: 2nd & A St. B of A
Best Drive: John Wayne airport to Disneyland
Best Song: "Change" Tracy Chapman
Best Podcast: Tartan Podcast
Best Website: Cartoon Brew
Best Night: Burns Night
Best History: Disney´s Giant and the Artist´s Model (book) by Adrienne Tytla

[Drunk Monk]

Best CD: Bob Dylan Modern Times.
Best Musical Moment: Heavyweight Dub Champion @ ROTR.
Best Film: TIE A Scanner Darkly & Tsotsi.
Best Book: American Shaolin by Matt Polly, with an honorable mention to Red Pine's translation of The Platform Sutra.
Best Drink: Guinness, with an honorable mention to Smithwicks.
Best Interview: Jet Li, with an honorable mention to Ronny Yu and Lou Reed.
Best Night Drop: DM payback on BLBP for Halloween over a decade ago on Halloween 2006.
Best new poster: LCF with two whole posts....oh wait, that's 2007. Nevermind. Maybe next year LCF.
Best TV show: TIE The Office & Heroes
Best DVD: The Addams Family Season One
Sillest pet: Redbell, the tamed feral
Mellowest pet: Alice, the white rabbit
Best Fight Scene: Tom Yum Goong - the one-continuous shot staircase fight
Best Real Fight: Heavyweight Dub Champion @ ROTR

[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

Worst Film: Eragon (Could be worst best film)
Best Film: Thank you for Smoking
Best Animated Film: Cars
Best TV: Heroes rocks. It should be on every night.
Best Sporting Moment: Romo drops the ball during the kick. Ouch
Best New Activity: Scuba Diving
Best New Activity I might not do again: Scuba Diving.
Oddest Event: Ken Wedding
Favorite Piece of Software: Flash 8
Favorite Piece of Software I probably won't use to it's fullest: Flash 8
Least Visited Website: Ninjadoom.com
Best Pizza: Jakes's What did you think it was?
Best New TV: Check out the living room when you visit
Best New Sound System: See the note on the TV
Biggest Fiscal Dare: Buying a second house to fix up(Do you see the Moron in the mirror?)
Best Dog Porn: Cuchulain learns about sex with Preston!
Best Books: The Prince of Nothing Trilogy

[El Dingo]

Best PC Game: Call of Cthulu
Worst PC Game: American McGee's Bad Day L.A.
Best Console Game: Guitar Hero (yeah - I'm a year late.)
Best Film: Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (Lot of 2006 films still in my Netflix queue - I hear 'Children of Men' is awesome.)
Worst Film: Beerfest (or 'Must Love Dogs')
Best TV Show: Heroes
Worst TV Show: Knights of Prosperity
Best Book: Stephen King - "Cell" (Actually the only book from 2006 I read)
Best Pizza: Zachary's
Best Album: Grandaddy - "Just Like the Fambly Cat"
Worst Album: Neil Young - "Living With War" (I think there is a great album in there somewhere, but the over-the-top backup choir makes my ears hurt).
Best thing I bought: Scepter 22" Widescreen LCD monitor.
Best political moment: When the Dems too both the house and Senate.
Best Concert: The Pogues @ The Fillmore
Best Blended Irish Whisky: Tullamore Dew beat out Bushmill's this year.

[Dr. Ivor Yeti]

Best Irish Whisky: Bushmill's 21 year-old
Best real whisky: Talisker Distillers reserve
Best roadtrip: Two wheels through Big Sur
Best "trip" trip: Sydney
Best espresso: still Blue Bottle on Linden Alley in Hayes Valley
Best news of 2006: Family still healthy and happy (midterm elections came a close second).
Best TV: Daily Show, the new Doctor Who
Best book/author: Inspector Montalbano Mysteries by Andrea Camilleri
Knight and Wizard by Gene Wolfe