Ok, I know this is obscenely dorky, but — well this was the year that I indulged myself in every gizmo I could get my hands on …

1. Nintendo Wii (I’ve only had it two days, and I’m already firmly addicted)
2. Verizon’s new VZ Navigator GPS system (which came on my new free Motorola v325 phone)
3. iPod Nano
4. Macbook
5. Olympus DS-2200 digital voice recorder

Need more evidence that the Wii is one of the sweetest gadgets of all time? I present you with Stephen Colbert vs. Nancy Pelosi in Wii Sports boxing:

Because I can’t pick just five …

1. Lost
2. Weeds
3. Big Love
4. The Colbert Report
5. Heros
6. The Daily Show
7. The Office
8. 30 Rock
9. The Sopranos It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
10. The View (which I never actually watch live or TiVo, but has put on an awful good show judging by the umpteen YouTube segments I’ve seen while researching for Suburbarazzi)

Damn, I watch a lot of TV, don’t I?

1. “The Areas of My Expertise,” by John Hodgeman (If you haven’t read this yet, drop whatever the f your doing and go get it. Now. It’s the funniest book you’ll ever read.)
2. “Under the Banner of Heaven,” by John Krakauer
3. “Guests of the Ayatollah,” by Mark Bowden
4. “1491,” by Charles C. Mann (and no, I’m not just saying this because he’s my cousin)
5. “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs,” by Chuck Klosterman

Because I don’t buy full albums anymore …

1. “On the Radio,” Regina Spektor (or really, anything by Regina Spektor)
2. “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,” KT Tunstall (or anything else by KT, with the exception of “Suddenly I See,” which was in just about every TV pilot this year and got totally played into the ground)
3. “Save Room,” John Legend (my favorite off the new album)
4. “Busting up a Starbucks,” Mike Doughty
5. “Let Me Go,” Sonya Kitchell

1. Borat
2. Little Children
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. The Departed
5. United 93

(My favorites are determined, more or less, by how much water-cooler conversation I got out of them. Actually, by that standard I should also give the #6 slot to The Devil Wears Prada — an especially good one given that I work at an office full of fashion conscious women.)