Top 16 of 2016

In no particular order:

Podcast

Pardon My Take

Movies

Moonlight

Fences

Sausage Party

30 for 30: This Magic Moment

Music

Lies – Plague

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree

Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker

Busted Outlook – Not Defined By Violence

David Bowie – Blackstar

photo by Brian Anderson (from KQED)

John Carpenter at the Fox Theater in Oakland, CA – June 17, 2016

TV

Westworld

Insecure

Sports

Bartolo Colon’s home run

Photo by Michael Reeves of Getty Images

Andre Ward vs. Sergey Kovalev – November 19, 2016

Photo by Michael Steele of Getty Images

Usain Bolt’s 2016 Olympics performance

Top 15 of 2015

15 of my favorite things about 2015

Besides getting married, and in no particular order, pretty much.

Photo by Timothy A. Clary from the NY Times

Golden State Warriors win the NBA Finals

Sean Price – Songs in the Key of Price

Sicario

Zomes – Near Unison

BB King/UGK  – The Trill is Gone (produced by Amerigo Gazaway)

Try the Pie – Domestication

Photo from BaySportsNet.com

San Jose Sabercats with the ArenaBowl

Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me

From threeontheteeth’s YouTube video

Burn at 924 Gilman

Photo by Michael Ares from SFWeekly.com

Millennium opening in Oakland

Master of None

Jim Trotter – Junior Seau: The Life and Death of a Football Icon

Better Call Saul

Czarface – Every Hero Needs a Villain

Fell To Low – Low In the Dust

 

Honorable mention

Marlon James – A Brief History of Seven Killings

This is an “honorable mention” because it came out in 2014 and I didn’t get around to reading it until this year.

Posts 4/17/15-12/10/15

Here’s a link to all posts 4/17/15-12/10/15 – https://medium.com/the-bonus-beat/