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I hope all of you had a great holiday. It's time! My year-end awards are here! To get the full effect of these, play the song from 2001: A Space Odyssey (Ric Flair's music for all the kids out there) in the background while reading. Today I bring you The Best of 2008 - Miscellaneous Awards. In this one, we got awards submitted from readers, my miscellaneous awards, my top moments of the year, TV show of the year, and the top 5 movies of the year. To make this even more fun, I got a little contest:

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Reader Submitted Awards

I gave the opportunity for the readers of this blog to submit their own choices for The Best of 2008. Here's what the had to say. Thanks to those who helped out. Remember, it's their choices, not mine.

Ryan of TheCDP.net:

-Film of the Year: The Dark Knight
-Album of the Year: 'Feed The Animals' by Girl Talk
-TV Show of the Year: Lost
-Game of the Year: Guitar Hero IV

The Profitt:

-I would like to nominate Sarah Palin for the 2008 "Person I wouldn't mind, getting hit by a bus" award and 2008 Role Model / Man of the Year award goes to my governor of IL, Rob Blagojevich. LOL!!!
-Sexiest Chick of the Year: Vida Guerra. (Note from Mike: She is quite lovely, but my pick will be coming up shortly)

John S.:

Biggest Jerk in SWF - Wiggly

Aaron B.:

-The suicide award (The award given to anyone whose "Talents" would make anyone want to shoot themselves) goes to---DANE COOK
-Sarah Palin gets best Moose owner of the year.
-Brutus Beefcake gets the "Where the Hell Have You Been" award for keeping himself out of the public eye since 1995, only to comeback to "Celebrity Championship Wrestling." (One more note from Mike: Remember him as The Disciple during the latter years of WCW? He has done those autograph appearances now and then.)
-Mike Knox gets the Grizzly Adams award, for biggest facial hair.
-Tina Fey gets Best Sarah Palin impersonation award.
-2008 Lifetime Achievement Award: George Carlin
-2008 Best Stand-Up special: "George Carlin: "It's Bad For Ya."

Beltran of SWF:

-Best use of Adult Diapers: Wiggly on the Smart Wrestling Fan.

Dean P.:

-2008 wrestler of the year: Mike Quackenbush
-Game of the year: Fallout 3
-Song of the year: Wheels by AC/DC
-Movie: The Dark Knight
-Chikara of the Year: Chikara.
-Cow of the year: Stephanie McMoooooohon
-Annoying phrase of the year i can't stop saying: "I'm just sayin'"

Drakeo:

-The Future Mrs Drakeo (Tie): Sara Del Rey and Gina Carano :D
-The "PLEASE SAVE US" Award: Steve Corino becomes a booker in WWC in Puerto Rico (HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET GOOD MATCHES!!)
-Wishes that they would do a Puerto Rican Tour(TIE): ROH AND CHIKARA!
-Best Podcast/Webshow of 2008 (Tie): The Debbie Show and Smart Wrestling Fan
-Best Purchase Online (at least for me so far): All 3 Nights of King Of Trios 2008!!

Boney the Dog:

-Internet Sensation of the Year: Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along-Blog
-Worst Cross-Over in a Video Game: Snake in Super Smash Bros Brawl (Final note from Mike: WHAT?! Unless you mean him not being relevant to today's youth, I thought he was incorporated very well. They had the stage, the correct voice actor, the radio transmissions and the fantastic music from the series.)
-Biggest Non-Shock: Curry Man getting fired as a result of TNA's Feast or Fired match
-Biggest Actual Shock: TIE; Cena returns at the Royal Rumble and wins it & Jeff Hardy actually becomes the WWE Champion
-Best SWF Mod: ~~Jess~~
-Best in-joke/running gag/catchphrase: (TIE) "That's relevant to today's youth", "It's better than being in the arenas", and "Barney, me fruity pee-balls!"
-Biggest Head Scratcher Moment: Bull Pain's appearance in CHIKARA... what was the point, anyway?
-Most Entertaining Irrational Hatred: CHIKARA audiences vs. Derek Sabato
-Ref of the Year: Bryce Remsburg
-Spiky-Haired Lad of the Year: Louden Noxious
-CHIKARA Debut of the Year: Da Soul Touchaz
-Proclamation of the year: "That shirt will give you a rash and that one will make your nipples fall off." - Crossbones to Wigglycito and his brother in regards to their Hydra and Tim Donst shirts.

My Miscellaneous Awards

Here's my little miscellaneous awards of categories, besides TV and movies, which we'll get to later. You might call these the brown-noser awards. I got a few ideas from the submitted awards, so here's my odd list:

-Sports Moment of the Year: The Philadelphia Phillies win the World Series
-Best Family Guy Episode of the Year: "I Dream of Jesus"
-Most Interesting New TV Show of the Year: Time Warp
-Most Disappointing New TV Show of the Year: Spaceballs: The Animated Series
-Hardest Thing to Watch This Year: Tie between TNA Impact and Drew Carey on The Price is Right
-Album of the Year: "soliloquy" by Hayley Jane
-YouTube Video of the Year: Where were you?! Where were you?!
-Best Short-Lived Return of the Year: Terry Tate, Office Linebacker
-Epic Fail of the Year: Sarah Palin
-Best Teen Fad of 2008 That Will No Longer Be Popular By 2010: The Jonas Brothers
-Most Bogus Product of the Year: ShamWow
-New New Podcast of the Year: The Mike and Joel Show
-Best Wrestling Intro Music of the Year: Team IPW:UK using "Vindaloo"
-Sexiest Chick of the Year: Megan Fox
-Magazine Cover of the Year: Megan Fox on the cover of GQ

Top Moments of the Year

Here we go to begin my best stuff of 2008. No real winner for this category. It's just my favorite moments of the year:

-In early 2008, CHIKARA brought us the epic King of Trios 2008. So much happened in this awesome weekend: Team IPW:UK, UltraMantis Black and Dr. Cube become allies, Mecha Mummy, Da Soul Touchaz's huge ovation, Team IWS vs. Team F1RST, One Man Gang vs. Larry Sweeney in the strut-off of the millennium, and Demolition earning their first point toward the CHIKARA Campeonatos de Parejas. My favorite moment all weekend was meeting one of my favorite wrestlers ever, Glacier. Back in 1996, this guy was my favorite and as corny as it might sound, this was the most excited I've ever been about meeting a wrestler.


-Me and my brother went to Game Stop for the midnight launch of Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

-On May 2, "Mike's Place For Words" was born. I've always done my blogging on MySpace. I have friends who use Blogspot, so I figured I can get more readers over here. So far, I think it's successful. It's a much better set-up and it's great for when I just feel like typing.

-For the first time, I went to Wizard World Philly. I had a lot of fun, got to see a lot of artwork from artists and got to meet Marvel Comics editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada. I would love to go next year dressed up as The Comedian from Watchmen.

-I won a contest to design the front-page graphic for wrestler Mercedes Martinez's website, www.TheLatinaSensation.com.


-I went to my first-ever concert, none other than "Weird Al" Yankovic!

-On July 22, I celebrated 21st birthday!

-In the summer time, I signed up for Westwood College. It's in online college and I'm working towards my Bachelor's Degree in Visual Communication. It's a lot of work and the best part is that I don't have to travel anywhere.

-In August, I took a day trip with my other brother to New York City and went to an ROH show in the historic Hammerstein Ballroom. This turned out to be my favorite wrestling event ever. (Spoiler alert for the wrestling awards).

-All of the events this year can't be positive, besides nothing big for me happened between August and the end of the year. My Pontiac got a broken head gasket, so I decided to ditch that one and try to find a decent used car. Right now I'm driving an Oldsmobile we got from my uncle. It likes to stall, but it gets me to where I need to go.

TV Show of the Year

I've always liked to sit down and watch some TV. I like to watch the cartoons like Family Guy, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Metalocalypse. I never really got into any series like 24, House, Lost or Fringe. So here's my pick for Best TV Show of 2008.

Runner-Up: ECW on Sci-Fi

I still enjoy to watch the wrestling on television. TNA is just plain unwatchable, Raw has John Cena and SmackDown has Triple H. I watch the lesser of evils here with only one hour of wrestling. I don't mind Mark Henry or Finlay, John Morrison and The Miz are great together, Jack Swagger is a very good up-and-comer, Matt Sydal (Evan Bourne) is able to do his own thing, but sadly got injured, and Matt Hardy got a much-deserved world title.

Winner: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

This is the only series recently that I was able to get into. I'm pleasantly surprised that it hasn't been canceled. It is on Fox after all. I love the first two movies, Terminator 3 was neh, and Terminator Salvation looks alright. Two long seasons were released this year. A big "WTF?" at the season finale of the second season, though. I enjoy the storylines (if you didn't know, it's on a separate timeline than the third film) and the acting is pretty good. Summer Glau is lovely and it's worth watching just for her. I love the reveals at the end of each episode, like discovering that Weaver is a T-1000. We got to wait just a short time for the third season in February. I recommend it if you like science-fiction.

Top 5 Movies of the Year

I've always enjoyed going to the movies. I felt this was a pretty good year for movies. All of them were reviewed here, with the exception of one. Here's my Top 5 Movies of the year.

5. Tropic Thunder

This is a very funny movie. Story and acting are pretty good. I absolutely love Robert Downey, Jr. in this movie. Tom Cruises's character is hilarious, too.

4. Cloverfield

I have a full review on the MySpace if you want to look for it. I thought it was a good story and liked how it was one person's point-of-view. I didn't see The Blair Witch Project, so I can't say if it was a rip-off or not. Be prepared to get a headache from all the motion.

3. Hellboy II: The Golden Army

I'm glad this one turned out to be good. I loved the first movie and was anxiously awaiting this one. Fun story, good acting, and very good special effects. I also loved Seth MacFarlane as the voice of Johann Krauss.

2. Iron Man

This movie was incredible. I'm glad that Marvel had full control over this movie. Excellent character development and a very good performance by Robert Downey, Jr. On top of that, awesome special effects. I really hope the sequels will be as awesome as this movie.

1. The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight was hands-down the best movie of 2008, and also probably the greatest superhero movie ever made. Great story, great acting, great special effects, great everything else. Heath Ledger's Joker is so awesome and will be remembered for a long time.

Movies that I saw which didn't make the cut: Semi-Pro, Speed Racer, Indiana Jones, The Incredible Hulk, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Quantum of Solace. I didn't get the chance to see The Spirit before this was posted.

That was a lot longer than I thought it would be. Coming tomorrow: The Best of 2008 - Video Game Awards! Comment below to discuss my choices. I'll reply to them, so check back.