Welcome to 2017! It’s time to take stock. Look at all this stock. Let’s take it.<\/p>\n
In 2016, aside from the celebrity deaths and political quagmire, what happened personally? (We’ll set aside for now how politics felt more personal this past year than they have in a long time.) Well, Cecily emerged from her super-shy stage and now will start talking your ear off if you come visit. Simon has taken to fancy clothing – we got him a button-up white shirt and suit jacket that he wears more often than not – and has started to have to deal with some real schoolin’ in first grade. Katie and I visited Chicago and Hawaii this year, along with driving up to Portland overnight one weekend. We celebrated 10 years of marriage. Katie jumped out a window. What a year.<\/p>\n
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Let’s take a quick look at last year’s resolutions. Remember – we’re not here to judge. We’re just here to have a quick laugh and then move on, all right? Let’s just keep that in mind. OK, what did I say I’d try to do a year ago?<\/p>\n
What about 2017? What am I going to try to do for 2017, after the banner year of resolution-keeping where I batted 0.688? What, even, is left? Shouldn’t I just give up now? A lesser man would. I am no lesser man.<\/p>\n
It’s all going to happen this year.<\/p>\n
OK, that’s enough stock-taking. Time to turn to opinion-spewing, in list form!
\nBest Movie I Saw in Theaters:<\/b> Moonlight
\nBest Movie I Saw with Singing:<\/b> La La Land
\nBest Movie I Saw with Lin-Manuel Miranda Singing:<\/b> Moana
\nBest Movie I Saw on Netflix:<\/b> Philomena
\nBest Movie I Saw on an Airplane Because Simon Was Really Insistent and I Paid Twice For:<\/b> Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip
\nBest TV Show (new):<\/b> Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
\nBest TV Show (old):<\/b> Gilmore Girls
\nBest TV Show (pulp):<\/b> Timeless
\nBest TV Show Other Than CEG with Singing:<\/b> The Get Down
\nBest TV Show with Lin-Manuel Miranda Singing:<\/b> Hamilton’s America
\nBest Album:<\/b> La La Land Soundtrack
\nBest Album with Lin-Manuel Miranda Singing:<\/b> The Hamilton Mixtape
\nBest AAA Game:<\/b> Uncharted 4
\nBest Indie Game:<\/b> Oxenfree
\nBest Mobile Game:<\/b> Rodeo Stampede
\nBest Game to Play with the Kids:<\/b> LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens
\nBest Game I Would Totally Already Have Beaten If It Were 5 Years Ago:<\/b> The Last Guardian
\nBest Game Where I Got Lost in a Cave and Died:<\/b> No Man’s Sky
\nBest UGT Game:<\/b> Real Human Basketball
\nBest Book (new):<\/b> The Seven Good Years
\nBest Book (really really old):<\/b>Jane Eyre
\nBest New Podcast:<\/b> In the Dark
\nBest New (to Me) Podcast:<\/b> You Must Remember This
\nBest Old Podcast:<\/b> Invisibilia
\nBest Fiction Podcast:<\/b> Homecoming
\nBest Stage Show:<\/b> Twelfth Night (OSF)
\nBest Stage Show Where I Got Rained On:<\/b> The Winter’s Tale (OSF)
\nBest Stage Show Where I Got to Be Severus Snape:<\/b> Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Reading, Dai Family Theatre)
\nBest Pokemon Namer:<\/b> Cecily
\nBest Fancypants:<\/b> Simon<\/p>\n
OK, that’s it. We’re zipping up 2016 and barreling forward in time until we discover a time machine and unravel all our realities. If nothing else, this will be the year when I get to see Hamilton staged.<\/p>\n
Good night and good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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