2009

Dec 31, 2009

After seeing Ben’s excellent post wrapping up 2009 with some photos and links to some awesome happenings in his life, I’m just going to have to do the same as we chill this afternoon with some bowl games, pre-NYE dinner.

I started off ‘09 by getting (well, until the wedding) out of my “old” debt that had been racked up over the years, and parted ways (well, officially) with what had been my most successful blog to date, The Media Drop. Soon after, I found myself contributing to Google’s bottom line, getting a column with PRWeek online, and complaining about my car getting broken into again.

May and June were frantic months, as I headed out to LA for the MTV Movie Awards (huge shout outs to the MTV crew – miss you all!), which was just amazing, followed by leading the press charge on the launch of MTV’s “It’s On with Alexa Chung,” my first live, daily show that I got to be a part of, and the cause of my addiction to the Overheard in the Control Room Facebook group.

Lara and I got married on June 20, had a great time at Whistler in Canada, and had to come back to a home state that didn’t have pitchers of Kokanee Gold for our beer-drinking pleasure. Oh, and Lara made this impromptu “commercial” for the Fairmont in Seattle before we headed home from the honeymoon. I realized that I had a sports talk radio addiction, one that has carried forth to my time in Seattle, got to see a ton of my favorite artists on “It’s On” over the summer, including the Silversun Pickups. Prepping for the VMAs was a little crazy as we knew that the move to the Emerald City was coming in just a few months, and summer was coming to a close. I got my VMAs on, Phoenix put a great spin on a Cadillac commercial (sorry, I miss writing AdJab), and we shared the news that Seattle was on the horizon at the end of October.

Drinking like “Mad Men” characters was proven impossible, we drove across the country and saw some awesomeness in a lot of states, including South Dakota, and I realized that my brand new iPhone 3Gs was pretty much the same size as the cellphone I had in 1998.

This past month or so, I finished a year of taking a daily photo of myself and started a new one, Nike put some ads on TV that rivaled, at least in my head, those awesome “nothing but net” commercials that McDonald’s did in the early 90’s, and I certainly verified that my musical tastes are a little random.

There’s lots of awesomeness to look forward to in 2010, as my new employer has given me an amazing opportunity to hit the ground running here in Seattle, Lara and I are both getting used to the West Coast, and Molly the Super Puppy Face has decided that she wanted to hang around and torment Riff the Cat, so we’ll see how that goes.

And since I have no shame and just have to follow Ben Wagner’s lead on this – he has, after all, led the crew that’s turned MTV News into a visitor and pageview power in our digital age – here are some of my favorite photos from this past year, for your viewing pleasure.

Mount Rushmore at night