OK, kids. It's time for the first installment of

THE DAVE MCGEE AWARDS FOR SHIT THAT HAPPENED IN 2002!

I'll continue to add to these as I think of categories! These are pretty biased, 'cause I can't remember everything that happened in the year!

We'll start with movies:

My favorite film of 2002: Punch-Drunk Love. Wonderful film-making.

My least favorite film of 2002: Just the ads for Sweet Home Alabama and Maid in Manhattan.

The best film of the year that got absolutely fucking raked by critics: Reign of Fire. Come on, it was the bomb. I honestly loved it.

Best single acting job of the year: Jack Nicholson, About Schmidt.

Actor who most realized how quickly fortunes can change so got into every fucking movie he could fit in his schedule: Colin Farrell.

Best performance by a kick-ass actor wearing a mullet: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Punch-Drunk Love

Best performance by a cast member of the West Wing in other material:
NOMINEES: Well, we got Allison Janney in "The Hours"; Martin Sheen in "Catch Me if You Can"; Rob Lowe in "Austin Powers 3"; and special mention Mary-Louise Parker in "Red Dragon".

The winner by a fucking longshot is Richard Schiff, as the Subway Driver in "Speed." True, this movie is eight years old. But we just fucking noticed it was him. Brilliant turn. (ok, seriously, think about how far is career has come in eight years!)

Best ensemble work when the cast had nothing had to work with of any interest: The Hours. It's amazing these actors can work with that shit and make it sort of interesting.

Best editing-- and you know it's good when you're like "holy shit, this is cut together better than it should be"-- Chicago (Martin Walsh, editor)

Best TV show: Fucking Alias. If you don't watch it, get out of my house.

Most exhilirating sports moment of the year: Robert Horry nailing the three pointer at the buzzer of Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals.

Least exhilirating sports moment of the year: The San Francisco Giants fucking blowing the World Series.

Best video game of the year-- actually, ever: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

Video game I'm most looking forward to: War of the Monsters

Video game I'm least looking forward to: BMX XXX. Who the fuck thought of that?

OK, that's it for today... more to follow. Lots more to follow. I'll keep 'em coming. Suggestions for categories? Let me know!