Best of '09

I'm compiling this list in January of 2011, more than a year and a half since I last wrote for Sucks. It's interesting to look back on this material from so far in the future, since so little of it is relevant now. So many things that I found positively infuriating amounted to absolutely nothing. 

However, good bitching is good bitching, and I bitched up good in the first half of the year.

On January 20, I posted one what might be my favorite post in the history of Sucks, the pinnacle of my achievements in griping. I give you Things that Piss Me Off: Measurement. 

In This Week in Your, My and Our Kids' America, I talked about the state of Major League Baseball and accountability in the public eye. 

On Friday, February 13th, a special angel kept my Friday the 13th streak alive. 

The next day, I got the dreaded Red Ring of Death on my Xbox 360. My mind said "class action lawsuit" and my heart said "pizza."

Maybe I was a little harsh in this evaluation of an article about the all-time top video games, but reading it over made me smile.

I squealed with delight as the new "V" TV series came together. 

Jon Stewart said it best, but I chimed in. Warning: this is a semi-political post, something I try to avoid at all costs. But we'd just come off a divisive election and the economy had just crashed. 

I pimped out a video by Palette-Swap Ninja, a.k.a. my buddy Dan Amrich and some other guy. I can say that, because I'm the "some other guy" in everything I do with Seth. I'm sure "some other guy" is very cool and nice and maybe has his own blog and deserves respect. But since I never get any, I will give none to him. And that will have to do. Um...I pimped them again later that spring. 

Well now here's the difference between the old Hugh and the new Hugh. Old Hugh would have finished this list, re-read the paragraph above and added some more vitriol, like calling the unnamed guy a douche and inventing reasons that he's ruining my happiness. New Hugh felt guilty, realized the guy was probably the bee's knees because he's a friend of a friend, and followed links to find out more about him. Jude Kelley, I apologize. Even though we've never met, I consider our feud officially over and will hear no more of it. But let me warn you-- I do not want to have this conversation again. You can find out more about Jude, Dan and Palette-Swap Ninja here. 

I'm coming to realize that new Hugh's blog might be a lot less interesting than old Hugh's blog. Anyway...

On March 29th, I got the Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death AGAIN.

I only posted once in April. It was a rant against Twitter. And man, it was dark. 

I've always had a love/terrified relationship with werewolves, and it's inspired me to a lot of creative and insightful thoughts. I'll be writing a lot, lot more about them in the coming months, so I thought I should put a landmark down on a rant about CGI effects and the amazing achievements in special effects that werewolves have inspired. I claim to have seven billion examples of how CGI has ruined movies, but I'll bet I was totally lying. In fact, I probably didn't even have 12. Dumb me. STUPID ME!!!

And on June 24th, 2009, I suddenly and inexplicably ended the magic of It Sucks to be Hugh with a post dripping with unintended irony. Play Hugh off, Keyboard Cat. 

For nearly two years, that post sat atop the blog. It was under this logo... 

...which offered a mysterious hint about where I might have gone.

Did I defeat the Ko-Dan Armada? You'll just have to wonder.

You bet your damn ass I did.