YEAR IN REVIEW: ZONINO! Award 2009

The 2009 ZONINO! AWARD (which is both invaluable and worthless at the same time) goes to...

Jake Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld of Jake & Amir. Their College Humor hosted site and crazy webisodes have amused us for hours on end and turned us into those annoying quote spouting friends you want to muzzle...if you weren't laugh along so hard. It's FTW.

CONGRATULATIONS FOR ALL OF US HERE AT ZONINO!!!

Sergio del Limonar
Mrs. Fitz 1 (and 2)
AmErica
Buzzy
Bee

YEAR IN REVIEW: WEBSITES

This is the eighth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Get an intelligent dose of smarts from the cutting-edge writers at Racialicious.
2 Learn something today at Listverse.
3 Who knew cakes could be so funny? Cakewrecks, that's who!
4 Feel better about your handy work at There, I Fixed It!
5 Be glad it's not your family at Awkward Family Photos...or is it?

YEAR IN REVIEW: BOOKS

This is the seventh in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers
2 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
3 Tales From the Town of Widows by James Cañon
4 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
5 The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

YEAR IN REVIEW: MOVIE

This is the sixth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Awards-darling Precious
2 Kathryn Bigelow's award-winning The Hurt Locker
3 French film Entre Les Murs (The Class)
4 Sci-Fi thriller District 9
5 Michael Jackson's last hurrah This Is It

YEAR IN REVIEW: RECIPES

This is the fifth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 Strawberry Spinach Summer Salad
2 Sad Apple Pizza
3 Coconut Banana Bread
4 Chicken Pesto Pizza
5 Fries Cuatro Queso Dos Fritos

YEAR IN REVIEW: WORDS

This is the fourth in the YEAR IN REVIEW series. Each day we will profile a different topic and choose out top 5 recommendations for the year. The ZONINO-iest, if you will.

1 loquacious
2 palpate
3 emporium
4 apoplectic
5 pernicious

ON HOLIDAY

ZONINO! is on holiday for the 24th and 25th of December baking cookies for Santa and then curling up in the fetal position on the couch the day after with a sick stomach after being forced to eat said cookies when he didn't show. Something about not being "good" enough...

MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY BOXING DAY!