(Sun, Dec 23, 2007)
An abbreviated year-end list:
- Best movie of 2007: Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- Worst movie of 2007: Saw 4
- Most disappointing movie of 2007: Spiderman 3
- Most overrated movie of 2007: Transformers
- Best music of 2007: We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Modest Mouse (I swear I wore grooves into my hard-drive listening to those tracks)
- Worst music of 2007: Anything by anyone from American Idol
- Most disappointing music of 2007: Neon Bible, Arcade Fire
- Most overrated music of 2007: Amy Crackhouse
- Most surprising music of 2007: In Rainbows, Radiohead (due to the manner of its distribution)
- Best book of 2007: Harry Potter 7
- Best TV of 2007: Ken Burns' The War
- Best TV of 2007 (runner-up): Doctor Who: Blink
- Worst TV of 2007: Deal or No Deal
- Most disappointing TV of 2007: Flash Gordon
- Most overrated TV of 2007: Battlestar Galactica
- Most surprising TV of 2007: Burn Notice (a USA Network original series that was actually pretty good)
- Most surprising Person of 2007: Barack Obama (last year he was my most overrated -- I guess I was wrong)
- Worst Politics of 2007: SCHIP bill to tax unpopular habits to pay for the chilllllldren!
- Most disappointing Politics of 2007: Once again the choices for next President of USA are bad bad bad!
- Worst announcement of 2007: Al Gore wins Nobel Prize
- Most surprising announcement of 2007: China declares that Tibetan Buddhist monks must have official permission to reincarnate
- Best Country of 2007: USA
- Worst Country of 2007: Zimbabwe