BEST OF UTAH

Last week ended on a bit of down note, so let's have some fun this week, shall we?

I'm getting things in order for the Top 5 of 2013 videos, so hopefully those will be up and running before the end of the month, but first, let's talk about the City Weekly Best of Utah awards.

City Weekly is a local weekly newspaper that I occasionally write for. I started out writing comic book reviews back in 2004 and I've done a little bit of everything over the last 10 years. Every year they open a readers poll for some of the best things in Utah and there are a few categories that I'd like to throw my hat in the ring for. I probably won't actually win, but if you want to help boost my ego a little bit, feel free.

Best Local Blog - Why, http://www.trevorhale.com of course.
Best Local on Twitter - @trevorhale, even though I'm only really firing on all cylinders a few times a week.
Best Local Podcast - The Fucking Reserves! Show us some love.
Best Utahn - I don't deserve it at all, but go ahead and throw me in there.
Best Mixologist - I want to be thrown in this category just to fuck with all the bartenders that take it incredibly seriously.

Head over to the City Weekly site, create an account (so people can't vote a thousand times from a single computer) and vote for me for some things. Let's have some fun here.

Also, I've got a bunch of posts half-finished and sitting in the draft folder that I hope to get to this week and next. Keep checking back and I'll make sure there's something here for you worth checking out.

Thanks!

NEAL PAGE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

It was a close one, but Steve Martin pulled out ahead at the last minute.

Neal Page - Planes, Trains and Automobiles - 5 (55%)

Clark W. Griswald - Christmas Vacation - 4 (44%)

BEST HOLIDAY FREAK-OUT

First up on A Very TrevorHale.com Holiday—how about a Christmas poll? We used to do these quite a bit over on the GCA and they were always pretty fun.

I watched both of these movies last Thursday—CHRISTMAS VACATION was shown for the awesome Cathedral Tattoo shop party and PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES was shown for the SLCFF HEFFE'FILM'IN series—and forgot how much I love both of them.

I tried to think of a few other holiday meltdowns/freakouts/rants, but couldn't. If you know of any drop them in and maybe I'll edit them in. But for now, it's going to be between these two. I'll keep the poll running until Christmas day (give or take). 

Contestant #1 - Clark W. Griswold - CHRISTMAS VACATION

Contestant #2 - Neal Page - PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES