Persevere/Cease

Here is a list of things I think should persevere into 2005, and a few that should cease to be--

PERSEVERE

• The TV show "Lost" on ABC
• Cartoon Network's Samurai Jack--we need new episodes
• Pitch Black Mountain Dew--savory
• The bands Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand
• The four or five programmers worldwide who are still writing programs for the Sega Dreamcast--The Dreamcast Lives!
• Classic videogame emulators for PC
• Pixar Studios--keep surprising and delighting audiences
• Ame Agaru and The Blog That Goes Ping!
• Superior sequels such as Spider-Man 2 and Shrek 2
• Good news
• The Truth

CEASE

• "Reality" TV shows
• Hybrid soft drinks--except for Pitch Black Mountain Dew
• The use of the phrase "ATM machine"
• The use of the suffixes "-gate" and "-aholic"
• Knee-jerk reactions
• Influx of spam on the Net
• Rising gas prices
• Throwing away ice cubes into trash cans
• The release of four or five versions of the same movie on DVD
• Road construction in Michigan
• Bad news
• Misinformation