The Bloggy Awards 2010

K, so 2010 is nearly over, a month to go, so Im going to bet that everything decent thats going to happen this year has pretty much happened. So I figure I'd do a top 5 of the year for various categories. The awards I will term 'The Bloggies' and will obviously be highly prestigious

So the top stuff of the year according to me is:

Album of the Year
1. Pershing - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (I heard it in 2010)
2. Sigh No More - Mumford and Sons
3. Infinite Arms - Band of Horses
4. Five Ghosts - Stars
5. Passive Me Aggressive You - Naked and Famous


Song of the Year
1. Empire State of Mind - Jay Z
2. Young Blood - Naked and Famous
3. NW Apt - Band of Horses
4. Sweet Disposition - Temper Trap
5. Back in the Saddle - Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin


Movie of the Year
1. The Social Network
2. The Town
3. The Expendables
4. Inception
5. The Other Guys


TV Show of the Year
1. The Big Bang Theory
2. The Mentalist
3. Survivor Heroes vs Villains
4. Teen Mom
5. How I met your Mother


Book of the Year (I don't read many)
1. Scott Pilgrim Series - Brian Lee O'Malley
2. Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
3. Have a Little Faith - Mitch Albom


Video Game of the Year (I dont play many)
1. Super Mario Brothers - Wii
2. Pokemon Gold - DS
3. Mario Kart - DS

Calvin and Hobbes

Ok, we'll start with a small history lesson. I first saw Calvin and Hobbes when I was around 8 or 9 years old and my Canadian friend round the corner had some comics. Of course we had the bunk bed sleepovers going, and between playing original gameboy and trading cards I got to read my first Calvin and Hobbes.
Calvin and Hobbes is written by Bill Watterson is are named after John Calvin, a 16th century french theologian and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th century English philosopher The comic series provides glimpses at the modern world through the eyes of a boy and his 'come to life' tiger.


Its quite an escape when you pick one up, and for me its got those back to childhood nostalgic touches about it too.
Bill Watterson was a clever writer and was able to capture the exuberance of childhood and mix it with stories that kids and adults would enjoy. The drawing is great also and some of the books have colour and I think those are the best. Just by one expression you can grasp exactly what he's trying to tell you.
Some of his best work is when Calvin's imagination takes over and he becomes one of his alter ego's Spaceman Spiff (my blog pic), Stupendous Man or Tracer Bullet.
Maybe my favourite strips ever are when Calvin and Hobbes explore a regular cardboard box and are transported to various adventures. In one strip the box or 'transmogrifier' is used to change them into any form or shape they choose, to which Hobbes remarks 'Its amazing what they can do with cardboard boxes these days!'


I own all the books I think, and its hard to choose my favourite, but I've listed a few below. i would highly recommend getting your hands on one for Xmas or just for a lazy Sunday afternoon.


Happy reading


Scientific Progess Goes Boink
The Indispensible Calvin and Hobbes
Its A Magical World
Theres Treasure Everywhere

A list of who I would be in certain groups

So, we are all part of certain circles, teams, groups, clicks etc. its a natural way of life. And we all have a feeling about ourselves and how we fit within certain groups, we may even act very differently depending which group we are in at the time.
I know I'm probably quite different when I'm in my work circles to when I'm in my 'watching the Warriors while having a few beers circle'.
And as kids we all played out our favourtite characters from movies, tv, books etc, and when you were playing you wanted to be the character that you wanted to be most like! Do you remember those days - you'd proabably also spend most of lunch break arguing about who gets to be who.

So anyway, here is a list of the characters that I would be in groups

The Smurfs - Jokey Smurf
Friends - Ross
Sesame Street - Mr Snufelupagus
Full House - Uncle Jessy
CSI Miami -Horatio Caine
Charlie Brown - Woodstock
Calvin and Hobbes - Calvin
Seinfeld - Kramer
Simpsons - Ned Flanders
Pokemon - Charmeleon
Samurai Pizza Cats - The one dressed in white
South park - Stan
Star Wars - R2D2
Step by Step - Cody
Captain Planet - The guy who does Fire
The Justice League - Batman

Go team!