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Jane Catherine Collins of The Houston Press offers the top 5 holiday hangover cures. SEE THEM

Stay safe out there tonight!

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Things move fast in the Internet video world, why not showcase it that way?:

Between pranks, sports, tech, video games, singing, dancing, and television— there was a lot to choose from. These are the top 100 videos that became famous on the web in 2009, all in less than three minutes. WATCH

(Thanks Brian)

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Why would I post this on New Year’s Eve? OK, it totally makes sense. SEE THE LIST

(Thanks Brian)

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Uncle Barky ranks the top 10 national TV developments of 2009:

Icons dying off. Major players signing off or shifting venues. Scandals, buyouts, additions, subtractions. And that doesn’t even include Tiger Woods, whose year-ending travails have yet to play out and technically aren’t a television story per se.

So we’re going to leave Tiger out of this TV year in review — along with the White House State dinner-crashing Salahis and Palin family scourge Levi Johnston. Let the TV rag mags have at ‘em — again and again and again. SEE THE LIST

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You won’t see much of these anymore since I left abc13.com KTRK, but enjoy some of my photo assignments from 2009. I got to flex my photo skills (and sometimes Flash work) in what I considered to be the favorite part of my job.

PICS: Body Art Expo Houston (tattoo photos)
This was like taking photos while balancing on a tight rope! I worked for a family friendly site, not The Houston Press.  There was a lot of stuff around there that wasn’t necessarily family friendly! Don’t worry, I think I pulled it off.

Houston Texans Cheerleader tryouts part 1-4
Every guy (and maybe some girls) enjoyed my week of award winning Houston Texas cheerleader tryout photography. The web traffic doesn’t lie my friend.

X-treme skaters and BMXers
I went out to Magnolia High School and photographed some extreme sports dudes who have participated in the X Games (including Koji Kraft (Chicago, Illinois), Jay Eggleston (Denver, Colorado), Trevor Meyer (St. Park, Minnesota), Anthony Furlong (Tampa, Florida), Jay Stevason (Toronto, Canada) and Marc Englehart).

Buffalo Bayou Houston pictures
I took a history boat ride down Buffalo Bayou and discovered a hidden view of Houston. It’s where nature meets urban life. We went only miles from downtown Houston, but from the photos you’d think we were in the middle of nowhere.

Historic Texas maps
One of my personal projects for abc13.com involved restored historical maps of Texas. That includes an early 1900s map of Houston and a late 1800s map of Harris County! If you love Texas history, you should like this.

Spring break on Galveston’s beach
We saw how the Houston Chronicle was doing this and no doubt raking in the page views.

Remembering the Shamrock Hotel
For St. Patrick’s day I decided to put together a multimedia project for abc13.com about the Shamrock Hotel. My parents used to take me there for dinner. Or at least we went once and I can remember looking out at the massive pool and diving boards. It was a special time. I gathered interviews with Tom Horan who was the PR guy, raw video and photos of the giant Houston hotel.

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo photos
Always a fun time shooting the carnival and rodeo. I was down on the floor of Reliant Stadium and got some great action shots for not knowing what I was doing. Carnival photos | Rodeo photos

Houston Auto Show Pictures
I had the pleasure of taking photos of the Houston Auto Show at Reliant Center. It’s always fun seeing the new car, concept and classic cars that fill the massive floor.

Chevron Houston Marathon 2009 photos
It became a yearly tradition for me to wake up at 3am and head downtown for the epic work day. Was it a marathon for the runners or for me when I left work at 7pm each time?

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Just want to let you know I will be on “The World According to Garf” on 950 KPRC (listen live online at the950.com) to talk about my Top Houston media moments of 2009 (also recently featured on CultureMap.com by Caroline Gallay). Tune in around 9:20am to hear this big event.

Do you think Garfield will want me to talk about my Top Houston media moments of 2009 PART 2?

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Randy Tatano offers the top 10 bonehead broadcasting decisions and trends of the oughts:

We’ve seen the biggest changes in the history of the business, bigger than when we went from film to video, from tape-to-tape to non-linear. TV News will never be the same, and if anyone is trying to predict what it will look like in the next ten years, well, fuhgeddaboudit. Meanwhile, time to look back at the decade, and we’re going to start with the worst decisions of the past ten years.

SEE THE LIST

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Robb Walsh of The Houston Press breaks down the top 11 Houston restaurant openings of the decade. SEE THEM

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A more positive follow up to yesterday’s bummer post. SEE THE LIST

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A thing I saved for this week was the fact that Michael Garfield aka “The High Tech Texan” moved into all kinds of new endeavors this year.

First he went Monday through Friday on 950 KPRC from 9-11am.

Then he became a Houston Chronicle City brights contributor.

Now he is writing for CultureMap.

How does he find the time to do all of this? Don’t forget his Saturday morning show which he graciously lets me appear on from time to time.

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