My Year in Review 2004

Hello everyone and welcome to the last day of 2004 and for most of you this means a time to reflect on the year's doings and laugh , cry or whatever it is you do . I am here to help you guys remember the year's high's and low's so without further babbling ..here we go ...

2004 was a very good one for The Daily Column in general . We more thjan doubled our membership from last year . The forums are better than ever , We got into our 1st Internet Battle with another website and held our own being it was our first one . We lost Peter somewhere along the way but I hope he makes his return in 2005 because I know I speak for all of you when I say we miss him and his great columns .

We had a couple new additions from Sirchief, Mr Crabapplemcnasty and a couple others . I had a subtraction in my car because I totaled it and broke my wife's leg in a horrible accident where the airbags saved us . We attempted to have 2 separate gatherings and both were scraped so we need to get that done in 2005 ...but all in all it was a good year in DC land.

Now let's move on to people we lost in 2004 ...

Tug McGraw 1/5/04 - Great pitcher back in the day and father of Country Star Tim McGraw .

Mary Ellis Bunim 1/20/04 - Creator of the Real World sensation and pioneer of reality TV

Captain Kangaroo 1/23/04 - The Captain & Mr Green Jeans made us laugh from 1955 to 1985 on CBS.

J J Jackson 3 /17/ 04 - One of the 1st MTV VJ's .

Pat Tillman 4 / 22/ 04 - NFL star gave up millions to fight for our country only to be killed by friendly fire ..what a shame.

Estee Lauder 4/ 24/ 04 - Controls the cosmetics buisness in the world today

Tony Randall 5/17/04 - One half of the Odd Couple

Ronald Reagan 6/5/04 - Former President won the Cold War and gave birth to the modern Republkican movement for smaller goverment .

Ray Charles 6/10/04 - Blind musical legend .

Marlon Brando 7/1/04 - Brando revolutionized American ?Cinema with Streetcar named desire, On the Waterfront and the Godfather.

Rick James 8/6/04 - The Superfreak has partied his last party.

Julia Child 8/13/04 - Credited with bringing French cuisine to America

Johnny Ramone 9/15/04 - intrical part of the Punk Rock Legends

Janet Leigh 10/03/04 - Can anyone ever forget the shower scene in Psycho ?

Rodney Dangerfield 10/05/04 - "I get no respect" became a 80's staple.

Christopher Reeve 10/10/04 - Once known as Superman , he became the nationsface for Spinal Cord Research .

Yassar Arafat 11/11/04 - Good Riddance

O.D.B 11/ 13 /04 - Founding member of the Wu Tang Clan was also the most contreversial.

Dimebag Darrell Abbott 12/08/04 - Founding member of Pantera was shot on stage by crazy fan .

Let's take a look at some of the Fad's in 2004 ...

Live Strong Bracelets - these frigin things were the hottest things around this year . You know when the arab marts make them up they are something special.

UGG Boots - I think they are ugly but they were all the nrave this year

The Kaballah String - This was another thing that was way out of control with Madonna, Britney , and Paris ( who had no idea why she was wearing it when asked) all sported them in 2004.

Von Dutch hats - If I see one more Von Dutch hat at the bar I am going to kill someone ...these things were everywhere ...Thanks Aston !@

Poncho's - Ponchos made a huge comeback in 2004 and I hope they make a quick exot too .

Vintage Tshirt's were in this year . Early shirts fronm the 70's and 80's were hot items this year too .

Lets take a look at some Celebrity Scandals ..

ASHLEE-GATE
It was a Milli Vanilli moment: Ashlee Simpson, whose first album, Autobiography, debuted at No. 1 in August, fled Saturday Night Live's stage Oct. 24 after a prerecorded vocal track began playing while she wasn't holding up a microphone. Simpson (pictured with host Jude Law) blamed the incident on a bout with acid reflux: "It was something I had never done and I didn't want to do," she told PEOPLE of lip-synching. "(But) my voice wasn't strong enough."

NAKED AMBITION
Who is the most exposed star? Tara Reid and Paris Hilton unwittingly competed for the title at P. Diddy's 35th birthday party on Nov. 4 when both flashed some extra skin on the red carpet. First, Reid's dress strap fell, revealing her left breast while she posed unaware for several seconds. Then Hilton, whose X-rated sex tape One Night in Paris hit video stores earlier this year, proved to be lacking certain undergarments

FAIR AND BALANCED?
FOX News host Bill O'Reilly settled a legal dispute in late October with producer Andrea Mackris, who accused him of sexual harassment, including uninvited phone sex. Mackris's suit came hours after O'Reilly and FOX had preemptively sued her and her lawyer Benedict Morelli for extortion. Details of the agreement were not revealed, but the married O'Reilly said: "All I can say to you is please do not believe everything you hear and read."

BLAME IT ON VEGAS!
Call her a trendsetter. Before she met hubby Kevin Federline, Britney Spears wed hometown pal Jason Alexander Jan. 3 in Las Vegas after an evening of what Alexander called "just chilling." The marriage lasted a full 55 hours before it was annulled. Nicky Hilton followed the pop star's example, marrying New York businessman Todd Meister in an Aug. 15 Sin City ceremony and annulling it a few months later.

THE SECRET DAUGHTER
Gwen Stefani got some surprising news in October from her husband of two years, Gavin Rossdale: that the Bush frontman is the father of his 15-year-old goddaughter, Daisy Lowe. Results of a DNA test proved the parentage of the aspiring model, whose mother is Rossdale's longtime friend Pearl Lowe. "If you look at Daisy, there's an acute likeness to Gavin," said a source.

SEXUAL POLITICS
"I am a gay American," New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey said, dropping a political bombshell in August. With wife Dina Matos by his side, the Democrat resigned his elected position and admitted to an adulterous affair with a man, aide Golan Cipel, who had reportedly threatened to sue the governor for sexual harassment. Since leaving office Nov. 15, McGreevey has been living alone in a two-bedroom apartment and begun work at a private law firm

OH, SEE CAN YOU SAY?
What was Anna Nicole Smith's excuse for slurring her words, stumbling offstage and generally being loopy at the Nov. 14 American Music Awards? Nearsightedness. When she apparently couldn't read the TelePrompTer, the TrimSpa spokeswoman shimmied to the podium to introduce Kanye West and asked, "Like my body?," then declared the rapper a "freakin' genius." A rep for the newly svelte bombshell, 37, denied rumors that drugs or alcohol were to blame

FORBIDDEN LOVE
Two months after she was released from prison, Mary Kay Letourneau was planning a walk down the aisle – with the former student she was convicted of raping more than seven years ago. Letourneau, who's 42, announced her engagement to Vili Fualaau on Larry King Live on Oct. 11. The ex-schoolteacher, who first had sex with Fualaau eight years ago when he was 13 and has two children by him, said she's been "blessed" and shares "a deep spiritual oneness" with him.

THE RANTER
Elton John unleashed his inner diva in September, calling the Taiwanese media "rude, vile pigs" after photographers greeted him at the Taipei airport with a wall of flashbulbs. The following month, John directed his ire at Madonna. At London's Q Awards, the singer accused Madge of lip-synching on her Re-Invention tour. "Anyone who lip-synchs in public onstage when you pay 75 pounds ($134) to see them should be shot," he said. Madonna's spokeswoman denied the allegation.

ENEMIES: A LOVE STORY
Tatum O'Neal, 41, released her tell-all memoir, A Paper Life, in October, revealing sordid personal details about underage sex, drug use and parental neglect. In the shocking book, O'Neal, who became the youngest Oscar winner at age 10 for Paper Moon in 1974, described her father, actor Ryan O'Neal, as a bully who often punched her, and her mother, actress Joanna Moore, as an addict who would lock her in the garage without food.

BAD SPORTS
The sports world took a beating in November when it was revealed that the New York Yankees' $120 million-earning first baseman Jason Giambi had admitted to using steroids for at least three seasons. The revelation came out of a federal investigation of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), and included doping accusations against San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds and five-time Olympic track medalist Marion Jones (who who both deny using illegal performance-enhancing drugs).

SO SUE ME!
It was a busy year for Liza Minnelli's lawyer. The Cabaret star faced two lawsuits: one from ex-husband David Gest , who is seeking $10 million and claims she assaulted him during drunken rages (she denies it); and another from her former bodyguard and chauffeur, M'hammed Soumayah, who sued Minnelli for $100 million and has accused her of forcing him to have sex with her. In response, Minnelli has countersued and said she will "vigorously" defend herself against the charges brought by Soumayah, but stopped short of addressing the sex claims.

THE BREAST OF TIMES, THE WORST OF TIMES
It was the moment America learned what a nipple shield was: On live television during the MTV-produced 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, Justin Timberlake tore off part of Janet Jackson's costume, revealing a metal sunburst on her breast. But CBS bore the worst of the fallout from the "wardrobe malfunction": The Federal Communications Commission penalized the network with a $550,000 fine, the highest ever levied aga

How about the year around here ....

The Sox finally beat the Yankees and went on to win a World Series , now many of you can die in peace.

Remember exit 26 on I91 on 3/25/04 when a crappy Toyota Corolla cut off a tanker carrying fuel and made the truck tip and it melted the highway

On April 5th the Uconn men defeated Georgia Tech to win the National Championship in basketball , The next night the women beat Tennesse to take the womens crown .It's the 1st time the same school has taken both in the same year .

Ahh Govenor Rowland getting caught in lie after lie .

And everythng else ..

4 storms in 6 weeks . Hurricane Charley hit Fla aug 13th , followed by Frnaces Sept 5th, Ivan Sept 16th and Jeanne Sept 26th .

Martha Stewart getting put in the slammer for her inside stock trading scandal ..how good is that ?

Another Wacko Jacko child molestation charge in 2004 . When is someone jujst going to put a bullet in his head ?

The Howard Dean Scream..that was classic.

Kobe Bryant getting aquitted of Rape after the girl said she attemped to get money for fake boobs and a koala ...why would I make that up ?

The Iraq War ...will it ever end ?

How bout some good and bad music of 2004 ..

I personally think that Jet - Get Born is the best disc of 2004 hands down but that's just me .there are a couple of other really good onnes ..

Kanye West - The College Dropout disc is great . The appeal is universal , the lyrics are cleverand relatable.

Green Day - American Idiot is a disc everyone should own because Green Day has really outdone themselves with us

U2 - How to dismantle a bomb should be the disc of the year.

Now some of the bad ...

Eminem - "Just lose it" back to the studio with the garbage fest of a song.

Ashlee Simpson - Pieces of me , I think Im going to be sick .....

HoobaStank - The Reason . What happened to this band , granted they have the worst band name ever ,that used to rock!

Avril Lavigne - My happy Ending .. I'll give her a happy ending all right , or she will give me one , either way ?

Bowling for Soup - 1985 ....Cute for cute's sake is always painful especially when it's a bunch of Generation Y dummy's rehearsing stuff theyve seen on VH1 .

Motley Crue - If I die tommorw ....Didnt your careers already die ?

Ok enough of that ....

We lost Friends , Sex in the City , Frasier and worst of all My Big Fat Obnoxious husband..damn you networks.

We gained IKEA and morons slept out to get into this furniture stores..Furniture stores people !

Dave Chappelle blew up in 2004 , the is the man !

We lost Beniffer , We gained a piece of shit white trash boy in Britney's life but who really cares ?

So all in all , it was a very good year for all of us and I hope 2005 is even better ..From me to you guys ...HAPPY NEW YEAR !