Sequel – For me personally it was GTA Vice City.

Decision – Filling a pop can full of lighter fluid and standing over it while I dropped a match in it.

2010! – Starting my own business…….

Best Sequel – Ninja Turtles 2 : The secret of the Ooze (Movie).
I can’t think of a good one, but Tekken 2 (Video Game) was good.

Worst Decision: Pulling a Ted Moseby a telling a girl right off the bat that she’s a better fit for a perfect girl then even I could think of.

Plans for 2010: Applying to Law School. Which probably means a move to New York, Chicago, DC, or maybe a stay in Seattle at UW. We’ll see how this stupid test on Dec. 5th goes. If I get an early acceptance (March), I may plan a trip like hiking from UW to California, or hiking across China for 6 months. Or rhinoplasty.

1. Terminator 2
2. Aliens
3. Empire Strikes Back

Just days after receiving BB guns for Christmas, and getting the whole safety spiel from my dad on gun safety, my brother and I thought it would be a good idea to shoot our neighbor’s metal shed. Our neighbor happened to be a cop, and my dad happened to be very serious about gun safety.

He smashed our BB guns into the ground.

Purchase feeble cable access show and exploit it.

Best Sequel – Blade 2, it has to be one of the best pure action movies ever

Worst Decision – 16 shots of 100 proof vodka in 20 minutes one night in college

2010 plans – Finally get a job with the USGS and get started on my career

Best Sequel:
For movies, I’m thinking the Road Warrior. One of the few I can think that’s leaps and bounds better than the original. T2, Aliens, ESB, Godfather 2 are all awesome, but they’re drawing off good material and there’s debate about which is better – sequel or original. Mad Max is such a forgettable movie in every way, the only reason people even remember it is because of Road Warrior.

For games, I was always more of a Mortal Kombat fanboy than Street Fighter, so when MKII came out that rocked my world. I missed out on all the superior Nintendo games and was stuck with the sub-par Sega during my childhood simply because I HAD to have the gore version of MK.

Worst Decision:
For me, it was law school. Not so much the decision to go, but the decision to stick with it after realizing it simply wasn’t for me (ignoring everything I know about sunk costs). I was miserable for 3 solid years. I ended up working in a field where I didn’t even need the degree.

Plans for 2010:
Nothing earth-shattering. Would love to have a vacation in Scandanavia/Northern Europe. Really interests me, but haven’t had the chance to visit yet.

And its only going to cost me a $1000 for 2 people for 12 nights!

Temple of Doom was a terrible sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark, but the Last Crusade was awesome.

Best sequel: 100% by Paul Pope. I consider it a de facto sequel to Heavy Liquid, as they were conceived concurrently and are so similar stylistically.

Worst Decision: some years back, getting drunk at my neighborhood bar and taking up some girl’s offer to go watch satanic pornography at her apartment, with the worst drunk goggles I’ve ever had. That was an epic walk of shame, but even worse was when I went back to the bar a few days later and discovered that she had been leaving erotic notes for me with the bartenders. Which they proceeded to read aloud.

Plans for 2010: take a late honeymoon to Ireland, move, get a dog.

Sequel: Dark Knight, Vice City.

Worst Decision: Not properly securing a mattress that I tied down on the back of a truck that I was following on I-5 south. The hot girl driving the truck had no idea the mattress flew off the back of it. I was swerving and breaking with traffic behind me, trying to guess when this king size pillow top was going to stop doing fucking cart wheels. Thing finally fell flat and I managed to drag it across three lanes with out getting splattered.

2010: Get a promotion at work and see Queens of the Stone Age.

Best sequel: Aliens.

Worst Decison: I worked on a crab fishing boat in high school one summer…in Alaska.

Plans: this time next year I’ll be at Columbia. As a last hoorah I’m backpacking the Brookes Range for 3 weeks.

Because I’m going to.

Best sequel: The Stooge’s album Funhouse, their self titled debut was a great album – but Funhouse is a work of fucking art. In producing it they decided to try and capture their raw and explosive live sound, and they nailed it. Every song on this album delivers. Tom Waits wishes he could croon like Iggy does on Dirt.

Worst decision: I was clicking really well with this girl I met in my hostel in Barcelona, and I’m pretty sure we could have had amazing sex on my birthday but I couldn’t pull the trigger.

Plans for 2010: Finish my first year of school out here in Steeler country, get an awesome internship with the ACLU, find a way to see Pavement.

Best Sequel – Airplane 2 (seriously I liked that movie).

Worst Decision: I need more time to make really bad decisions.

Plans for 2010: Graduating high school, moving my blog to its own domain, and then world domination.

I’m considering Ender’s Game as a separate book, then Speaker for the Dead as book number one in the follow up series, with Xenocide as number 2 and Children of the Mind as number 3. Both my brother and I hated it at first but after the 5th or 10th time or whatever through the series agreed that it’s the best of the series.
And I forever love XKCD for mentioned it in a cartoon: http://www.xkcd.com/304/

You friend Stacy’s last name isn’t Vege is it?

Godfather 2
Toy Story 2
Aliens
T2
Empire Strikes Back

Worst decision: Getting a job at Walmart right out of high school. 4 years later, I’m still wondering what the hell I’m doing here.

Plans for 2010: I’m terrible at planning that far ahead, so I’m leaving this space blank.

Empire Strikes back. Don’t forget that it followed up the most commercially successful movie of all time, and was certainly dealing with a mind-blowing amount of hype. Too much hype usually hurts a movie, and yet today, most critics agree it was better than its predecessor, which is pretty amazing. It was significant because it was the 2nd movie, not the 1st, that really got the story rolling.

If I had to mention a sequel that hasn’t been mentioned yet, I’d say Hot Shot part deux. Hilarious movie, especially in the early 90s.

I did Sasquatch for the first time last year and loved it. I’m hoping to do it again this year but the real 2010 plan for me is a move to San Francisco for chiropractic school.

Best sequel — I can’t believe nobody said Super Mario Brothers.

Movie— younger version of me agrees with the Aliens sentiment. My buddies and I used to imagine we were characters from the movie and fight together against invisible aliens. I, not surprisingly, gravitated to Hudson. Also, the director’s cut of that movie explains so much more, I highly recommend it…

Older me says I’ve got a gem— “The Color of Money.” Tom Cruise and Paul Newman were just tremendous together, fantastic script, soundtrack, and plot. Just a legendary movie.

Worst decision— Oh boy, so many, so very very many… let’s go with one from 19, in 1995. My gf at the time was a senior, 17, it was spring of my frosh year in college. I was… experimenting…. with, shall we say, mind altering chemical substances. My parents were hippies, I wanted to figure out why some of my childhood books included this weird cartoonist baned Peter Max. Anyway, for those that don’t know, not surprisingly your judgment the next day is less than sterling. You sort of go through the motions… her parents owned a diary farm, and we never “did anything” at her house (hell, I had an apartment, after all) until this particular day when my boundaries were down and my ability to process lessened.

Her parents had their anniversary that day, and were to be off the farm all day for a rarity. We got crazy intimate (one of the upsides of such mindstates— I was feeling like Paul Rudd in 40 year old virgin), “It was like our souls become one” type stuff…

Yeah, so anyway, we wrapped up and took a shower, together. Our clothes in her room.

That’s when we heard the front door close. And her dad, a physically imposing (6’2" 280 lb) classic blue collar, church going, gun-toting republican start yelling for us to open the god damn door to the bathroom before he broke it down.

Needless to say, after much verbal abuse (i think the only reason he didn’t physically attack me is that I was essentially naked) I left the house in a bath towel, holding my clothes, with the explicit instruction to never return again or I would be shot on site.

That pretty much ended that relationship…

Plans for 2010— get my shit together and rebuild my life. (I thought I was going to marry my last girl, she broke up with me on a Sunday, that Tuesday I got laid off. I’ve just sort of been floating through life trying to rebuild since that ubiquitously Worst. Week. Ever.)

Best sequel: Movies seem to be well covered, so I’m gonna go with a video game and say Super Smash Brothers: Melee. The first game was awesome but Melee was so much faster and smoother….the total amount of time I spent playing that game probably measures in months.

Worst decision: Drunken condomless sex with a chick who I didn’t have strong feelings for. She got her period eventually, but that was one nerve-wracking week.

Plans for 2010: Getting married. Boo-yah!

Best Sequel: Gremlins 2. I haven’t seen either these movies in ages, but I remember having nightmares about the first one. It’s just not kosher to lure a child in with a critter as fuzzy and lovable as Gizmo, only to suddenly have the movie taken over by scaly razor-toothed hellbeasts killing old ladies and being incinerated in microwaves. The sequel toned down the nastiness, upped the zaniness, and gave the Gremlins the gift of speech, making for much better children’s viewing.

2nd best sequel: Big Black’s Bulldozer EP. Even Steve Albini hates Lungs.

Worst Decision: Deciding not to wear my retainer after getting my braces off in early adolescence. By the time I was in my mid-20’s, my formerly straight teeth were again a crowded mess. Took thousands of dollars (on top of my parents’ original investment) in orthodontia to correct everything.

2010 Plans: Finish my UW Extension program, and polish the business plan for my boutique consulting business. Taking the wife to Disney World in January. Learn to play the banjo. Read John Morgan’s book.

Best Sequel: Civ IV.

Worst Decision: Using my real name on the internet everywhere, makes writing other bad decisions harder.

Plans for 2010: Enjoy restarting my relationship with my wife after getting my 1 year old to stop sleeping in our bed.

Best Sequel: Halflife 2

Worst decision: I have made many bad decisions. Fortunately they rarely bite me in the ass but most recently I ground up table salt and snorted it through a twenty dollar bill. Made my boogers runny and taste like the ocean all of last night.

Plans for 2010: I want to go back to Europe, either Germany for Oktoberfest or parts of the old Austrian Hungarian Empire but who knows if I can swing it. Otherwise the only thing that I have set is me getting Sounders season tickets and going up to the Olympics for a weekend.