Not the Year in Review

Ok, i've been a little busy and have been neglecting my fans; all eight of you. But here is a little content, and i promise i'll do a year in review at some point. This is a top ten list. Everyone likes those.

The 10 most awesome people

10. Isaac Newton

Isaac was probably the second smartest person to ever live, coming in second to the creator of calculus, Gottfried Leibniz. But Gottfried didn't use alchemy to save the English treasury. If you've got the time to spare read the Baroque Cycle by number 9 on the list. Anyone who uses knitting needles to pry back his eye lids so he can sketch his own eye is awesome.

9. Neal Stephenson

The first thirty pages of Snow Crash are the most exciting thing i have ever read and the only thing happening is a pizza being delivered. The Diamond Age is my favorite novel. Neal is the man. If you like nonfiction try reading In the Beginning There Was The Command Line, and don't worry about Microsoft or Google. Five straight 900+ page awsome books make for one awesome author.

8. Jon Finkel

Richard Garfield created Magic the Gathering. Peter Adikson is responsible for bring the game to life. Skaff Elias and Mark Rosewater created the Pro Tour. But Finkel is the Man. Spend a few bucks, buy Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids : how a gang of geeks beat the odds and stormed Las Vegas, read it, and see for yourself: Jon Finkel is awesome.

7. Bob Kane

Whether you prefer Neal Adams, Frank Miller, or Grant Morrison as your writer, the fact remains that Bob Kane created Batman. Batman is the greatest fictional character ever created. Bob Kane is awesome, but not as awesome as Batman.

6. Sting

He can sing. Anyone who doesn't like the Police please leave and never come back. He can act.
The man was Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, the best thing in David Lynch's Dune. He can sell Jaguars. He can have sex for eight hours straight. Sting is pretty awesome.

5. Alexander Hamilton

America is the most awesome nation ever. Nearly every Founding Father is awesome. (Except Thomas Jefferson, he is a tool.) Nearly any Founder could have made this list, especially Ben Frankin. But Alexander Hamilton wrote the most and the best of the Federalist Papers. He more than anyone else is responsible for getting the American People to accept the Constitution. And the man knew the place of the commoners, Alexander Hamilton is awesome.

4. Neil Patrick Harris

NPH personifies awesome. Whether he is womanizing in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle or in How I met Your Mother, no one does it better or funnier; and he doesn't even like women. NPH is a one man argument for tolerance. Anyone who voted for Prop 8 must not have seen Dr. Horrible. Anyone who has seen the Scuba Diver or the Music Meister knows that NPH is awesome.

3. David Gemmell

Every little boy needs to learn to become a man. I can think of no better way than to have your son read the books of David Gemmell. There is no one who has ever written better heroic fantasy literature. Gemmells novels are primers in virtue theory. The man created Jaim Grymauch, Skillgannon the Damned, Waylander, and Druss the Legend. David Gemmell is awesome.

2. William Shatner

I have written at length about the sheer awesomeness of William Shatner. Shatner has made one of my favorite albums of all time. James T. Kirk, Denny Crane, Don S. Carter, Shatner knows how to portray awesome, probably because he is awesome.

And now on to number one...







You probably expect Batman to be here if you know anything about me. But you have to be real to make the list, otherwise your expectations would be met. So without further adieu...




1. Ronald Wilson Reagan

Ok this one was close, as i said you have to be a person to make the list so Reagan was close. The man is unreal, i suspect later generations will realize that he was some kind of demigod and one of my descendants will need to revise the list. Ronald Wilson Reagan was and remains awesome. He gave us back our faith that America is special, a shining city on the hill. Without Reagan's conservatism, leadership, courage, and steadfast faith in both God and Country we might all be no better than Europeans. Even worse we might all be bowing to foreign leaders like our soon to be ex-President obama. Ronald Wilson Reagan is my hero. He is the man we ought to look to when uncertainty looms. He saved the world from communism. He saved America from Liberalism. Ronald Wilson Reagan is simply the most awesome man to ever live.


Later

Bob

Post Script

Erin did not make the list. As i said you had to be a person and it is my suspicion that Erin is an avatar of the virtue of Grace. How else could she put up with me and my ramblings?







Post Post Script

I am not on the list. I thought it would be presumptuous and arrogant to place myself on the list along side these luminary figures of history. But if i were to be total honest and listen to my minions i'd probably come in somewhere around ninth place.