Until 2012 came along. So far this year is off to a bang. 

But, despite it being the lowest grossing year of my entire adult life, 2011 wasn’t ALL bad. 

Here’s a quick rundown of things that I discovered, experienced and liked in 2011:

• Childish Gambino!

• Working with two of my favorite directors this year:

David Fincher

and Christopher Nolan. 

• Living in the Hollywood Hills.

• Beautiful weather.

• Teaming up with Ariescope for my first writing credit ever on the web pilot for Sexy Nightmare Slayers. Great people, great experience. 

• That time a mini van got hit so hard it rolled up into the air and onto my truck’s hood.

• Starting Back to One Films and producing my own comedy shorts!

• San Diego Comic Con!

• The ladies of San Diego Comic Con 

• Meeting Walt Simonson!

• Thanksgiving. (i.e. Drinking beers around a campfire by my uncle’s lake with a good majority of my family.) 

• Van Jones (It’s a 10 minute clip. Don’t watch it all, folks. Start at 4:30 in)

• Hearing the Hollywood Bowl from my window

• Getting to work, period. Especially on Parks & Recreation. 

• Community and Happy Endings. Two shows that I don’t work on that you still need to watch. Hulu and Netflix are your friends. And so are these two shows. 

• Game of Thrones

• Homeland

• Pretty much anything on Adult Swim.

• Psych.

• Getting a new bed that lets me sleep and doesn’t hurt me even though it says it loves me

• Eating my first hard boiled egg

• Seeing Dog, the Bounty Hunter walking around shopping on Melrose

• Seeing Jesus walking around in Hollywood. Yeah, think about THAT.

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes

• The Adjustment Bureau

• Crazy Stupid Love

• The Descendants

• Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in IMAX

• Drive

• Young Adult

• Doug Jones

• Reminiscing about the Facebook format from 2 years ago

• The death of Osama Bin Laden

• This poor teased dog video

• Golden Apple Comics

• The (almost) resurgence of Dolph Lundgren. 

• Stealing from my roommate’s DC Comics comp box for the first half of the year. 

• My grumpy (sigh… and awesome) roommate. He didn’t kick me out this year.

• Frederick, my roommate’s dog, whom I will steal whenever I become an adult and can afford my own place. 

• Eating sushi. More, please!

• Batman: Arkham City

• Uncharted 3

• Neil DeGrasse Tyson

• Joe the Barbarian

• Captain America & Bucky: The Life Story of Bucky Barnes

• Mark Waid’s run on Daredevil

• Twitter > Facebook

• All of the friends I got to see, wherever and whenever. More, please!

• This photo:

• This .gif:

• Sabor Y Cultura

• The return of Archer

• Blair Butler’s Heart

• Christmastime in Los Angeles

• This kid, this kid and this kid and being reminded that intelligent, rational people still exist. And amazingly, but not surprisingly, they’re all kids. Not greedy old, closeted self-loathers.

• Dr. Cornel West

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and lastly…

• Shaving my head!

• For Halloween!!

Thanks 2011. We had some good times but in the end… you just didn’t put out enough. 

Here’s to 2012!!!