Happy New Year!!

Another year has come and gone, 2008 will now officially come to a close, and looking back It was all in all a year filled with sadness, love, history, excitement, and utter boredom near the end.

For all those people driving tonight we urge you to be safe and have rides planned or have an alternate way to get home if you choose to get drunk which apparently everybody does on New Years except me 'cause I'm a loser, case in point I'm blogging just as if it were any other day(seriously I'm not even watching the New Year's special). Why do people romanticize New Years? everybody always wants to go to Times Square and watch the ball drop but its really overrated trust me, one it sucks if your by yourself or the third wheel in a group 'cause you're surrounded by couples everywhere, and two after the ball drops its like "now what?" and people wanna go home 'cause they've been waiting in the streets for 6 hours and absolute bedlam ensues. New Years is like Valentines Day 2.0 + Oktoberfest 2.0, two things always happen you either get drunk or spend the day with your significant other or if your like me you just don't really care and just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and watch a movie 'cause really does anyone ever come through on their resolutions? not me.

As for the year 2008 itself we here at Arbitrary Opinions would just like to remind everyone how devastating this year was to the entertainment industry as we lost countless legends such as: Heath Ledger (will win a much deserved Oscar for sure), Tim Russert (one of the greatest journalists and a great interviewer), Paul Newman (Oscar winner), Bernie Mac (one of the greatest comics ever), Roy Scheider (Chief Brody in Jaws), Charlton Heston (Oscar winner), Eddy Arnold (country music hall of fame member), Sydney Pollack (Oscar winning director), Isaac Hayes (soul music legend and chef on South Park), George Carlin (greatest funny man ever?), and many more; sorry to those who were left out you will all be remembered.

However 2008 had its upsides too with possibly the greatest sports year ever with the Olympics (Michael Phelps with 8 gold medals and Usain Bolt just making fun of the fastest men in the world as he shattered every sprint record), the heartbreak of the Patriots losing in the Super Bowl (carry over from '07) and Tom Brady, who's getting married to Gisele Bundchen (sorry ladies), getting injured on the first play of the '08 season. The Red Wings just making a mockery of the NHL and showing Bettman that the salary cap won't do anything for parity in the NHL as they dominated the league and won the cup. The Boston Celtics finally win a championship again and against the arch rival Lakers no less. Kansas upsets Memphis in the NCAA basketball championship after they were about to lose. LSU wins another BCS title. Tiger Woods wins the US Open on a broken knee as he was playing with a torn ACL (is he human?). Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer at Wimbledon in an epic matchup. So for sports it was an awesome year filled with intrigue.

However the biggest story of 2008 however was made when a nation stood up for change and let hope be brought in by the name of Barack Obama. Okay so his first day as the President won't be until '09 but he was elected in '08 in a political race that was fierce as he battled party rival Hillary Clinton (is SHE human!?) and eventually beat her and then demolished John McCain when everybody thought it was going to be a tighter race and the pundits were claiming they were neck in neck after each made their vice president picks. Sarah Palin will forever be remembered thanks to Tina Fey and most people will probably forget about Joe Biden who actually is the vice-president elect.

Anyways I hope 2008 was a good year for you and that 2009 is no less exciting for you enjoy the night though you probably won't remember any of it and be safe, I'm gonna go play video games now by the way 2k sports can't call their games "2k10" and EA can't call theirs "'10" for next year 'cause neither sounds good at all.

Peace and Much Love To Ya