Odd year. Time for the year-end review. Odd year. Not a great year, not a bad year. Not terrible either. A lot happened and with the bads came some goods. Canned goods and even fake cans*. Everything evened itself out this year. As for the decade, my three favorite years were 2004, 2006 and 2002. I'd probably take one year in the next ten as good as those three.

I'm going to give out some awards. I do the song one every year.

SONG OF THE YEAR: I could have gone with some unknown folk band song that I feel really described my year in 2009 but instead, I'm giving this award to the Black Eyed Peas. Yep. "Tonight's Going to be a Good Night." When I hear that song in the future, I'll always think of 2009.

BAR OF THE YEAR: It's The Little Bar. Unanimous choice which is cool because I'm the only one voting on this award. Bad year for bars all around. I don't really remember much of summer. Where did I go? But don't really have any bad experiences. Spread the wealth at Club 185, Bar Louie, Patio and Callahans. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart from the High Beck which wins ...

GERMAN VILLAGE BAR OF THE YEAR: The High Beck (by default)

WORST BAR OF THE YEAR: Club 185. This is odd because I have a man/lady crush on 95 percent of the people who work there, but the televisions and back room meetings (for real) have totally soured us on the experience. Now, I can't really say I'll ever boycott the place entirely (one or two nights a month, it just happens) but it's no longer an "option" for any purpose. I'd rather support another bar any day of the week. First time ever Lindey's didn't win this designation from me.

WHAT?! BAR AWARD: I spent time at Moziak and The Godfather/Chancellor hung out at Mynt. These are one-time deals.

CRAZIEST CHICK OF THE DECADE: Alamanda. Not only did she pen an entire blog post about me (I'd say about 500 words), she went on to go insane on me every time we hung out, once called me 23 times in a row because I did not congratulate her on a win over Mississippi State and eventually cussed me out and told me to fuck off after sending this text on the day after Thanksgiving. "Good luck against Auburn this afternoon." Certifiably nuts. Had some damn good nights though.

TV SHOW: Favorite new new show is "Modern Family." Favorite show show is "The Wire." Without doubt the greatest television show of all-time, I implore anyone with 60-hours to kill to watch the entire series. You're immediate reaction will be "HOW THE FUCK WASN'T I WATCHING THIS SHOW?!"

MOVIE: I saw a lot of movies this year at the theatre ... I'm guessing about 15 and "Up in the Air" easily is the best I've seen ... maybe even this decade. Other goodies during the year were "Jennifer's Body," "Drag Me to Hell," and "Brothers not the bar."

WEB SITE: The Big Lead (dot com). The comments are fantastic, there are no bizarre inside jokes that no one gets and the writing is about shit I care about. I fucking love that Web site. It blows away Deadspin by about 4,000 miles.

TEAM: Ah ... my teams let me down this year. Tribe sucked. Browns were awful. The Yankees, Penguins and Steelers (maybe my three most hated professional teams) all won titles and the Cavs went 66-16 before shitting the bed in the ECF when Orlando made 78 percent of their 3-point shots. Don't worry, Orlando went back to making 17 percent against the Lakers in the finals. No team wins that award this year. Oh yeah, Ohio State missed five shots to beat Siena in the NCAA tournament (SIENA not the crayon) and the football Buckeyes lost their two big marquee OOC games.

SPORTS MOMENT: 1. Firing of Eric Wedge, 2. Barclay's kick to beat Iowa, 3. LeBron's shot against the Magic, 4. Beating Penn State in football, 5. Ohio State's march to the NCAA tournament.

There you have it. Didn't get into the more personal stuff because that's been a freaking roller coaster but overall a pretty solid year. I'd give it a B-.

- AMG

* - titties