One of my more embarrassing habits involves a compulsion to build personal top five lists, like a character out of High Fidelity. I even have a document full of lists on my iPhone, which I can bring out and tinker with whenever I can't sleep or am otherwise in need of distraction.

So what the hell. A few top fives.

Favorite Doctor Who episodes (all from the 2005 revival, because I haven't seen enough of the old show to pick favorites):
1. "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead"
2. "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood"
3. "The Doctor's Wife"
4. "The Eleventh Hour"
5. "Vincent and the Doctor"

Favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
1. "Once More, With Feeling"
2. "The Body"
3. "Restless"
4. "Graduation Day"
5. "Becoming"

Favorite Grant Morrison comic books:
1. The Invisibles, vol. 3, #1: "Glitterdammerung!"
2. All-Star Superman #6: "Funeral in Smallville"
3. Seven Soldiers of Victory: Mister Miracle #4: "Forever Flavored Man"
4. The Invisibles, vol. 1, #12: "Best Man Fall"
5. Animal Man #26: "Deus Ex Machina"

Favorite science fiction/fantasy short fiction:
1. "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin
2. "The Lucky Strike" by Kim Stanley Robinson
3. "Fondly Fahrenheit" by Alfred Bester
4. "A Momentary Taste of Being" by James Tiptree Jr.
5. "The Situation" by Jeff VanderMeer