Best of Q

It is year-end and the Calgary Herald Q blog editors have asked all of the contributors to submit their two favourite posts from 2008 to highlight the best work.

This was definitely a hard choice, what with all the elections, provincial, federal and American, flying penises and flying shoes, hypothetical Canadian sex scandals, Coalition governments and the $21,000 bathroom in Tompkins park...how's a gal to choose?

1. "Lessons from Russia" Maclean Kay's post about chess legend Garry Kasparov being “attacked” by a flying penis. A favourite, not only because of the absurdity and hilarity of the situation itself, but also because of Maclean's all-too-accurate depiction of how a similar incident would wreak absolute havoc in Canada. Brilliant.

2. My pencahnt for the absurd can only mean that my second choice is Colin Horgan's "I Wear My Sunglasses on TV." This post about the irreverent Austalian teen and its attached and most entertaining news footage made me LAUGH OUT LOUD. Still does. And like Colin said, "Every once in a while someone on Planet Earth stands up and stands above all the other try-hards and morons out there, and proves that being a total jackass is sometimes hilarious."

Indeed.

And I really just can't stop at two: Third choice would be Maclean's post "NHL Trade Deadline, for the Entertainment Weekly Crowd." Because, well. That's me. And Maclean almost had me understanding hockey for a second there.

Man, it was fun skimming all the articles again. Good year, good times, good work, everyone!