A year ago I began a new tradition and posted ten predictions for the upcoming year. And you know what? I was actually fairly accurate!
Among other things, I predicted the Giants would win the World Series, the economy would slowly improve, Obama would win the election, the Mayan apocalypse would not happen, the London Olympics would be great, China will keep growing, and the Occupy folks would lose steam. Not bad!
Of course, I missed it on the Priceline Transporter, Hawaii seceding from the Union, and the Kanye West marriage to Taylor Swift. But hey, you didn’t really take those seriously, did you?
So here are my ten predictions for 2013:
1. America will survive the Fiscal Cliff. It’s not a cliff anyway. More of a sloping hill we have to climb. Like a fat under taxed over eating belly. Think of it as exercise to work off all the holiday pie.
2. Real estate is going to come roaring back. Buy your house now. You can thank me latter with a bottle of wine. Unless I’m wrong. In which case I’ll just remind you not to take financial advice from a blog.
3. Flying cars will finally become affordable! Apple Maps will be accurate for the skies because, well, because there are no one way streets in the skies.
4. There will be tensions in the Middle East (hey, I need to get at least one right).
5. The top movie of the year will be about a guy who writes a blog on books, wine, Belize, olive oil, and junkyards. There are rumors it will be called Plunger Games.
6. You know that Priceline Transporter technology that I predicted last year? The iPhone 6 will arrive and have an app for that.
7. Nate Silver will use hard data to predict that Hillary Clinton will be elected President in 2016. Republican strategists will publicly dismiss it as voodoo science but begin anxious back room conversations about seceding from the union.
8. A second Gangham Style video will be released that features Lindsay Lohan. Nobody will care. But I’ve found it’s easy to increase traffic to my blog by mentioning stupid celebrity names.
9. Clint Eastwood will not talk to an empty chair, Facebook will continue to lose its “coolness” factor, I will read fewer books, and the Higgs boson particle will help us discover the perfect Cabernet Sauvignon.
10. The Dodgers will buy the World Series (and pay extra for the parking).