a few of my favorite things

• audio
• comics
• movies
• tv shows
• novels
• short stories
• places

 

favorite audio

• This American Life, by Ira Glass
• Alice's Restaurant, by Arlo Guthrie
• Free to be you and me, by Marlo Thomas and Friends

 

favorite comics

• Bloom County, by Berke Breathed
• Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson
• Sally Forth, by Greg Howard
• Dilbert, by Scott Adams
• Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau
• The Far Side, by Gary Larson

favorite movies

• Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The
• Alien & Aliens
• American Movie
• Beautiful Girls
• Big
• Blade Runner
• Blood Simple
• Brazil
• Buckaroo Banzai
• Chasing Amy
• City of Lost Children, The
• Contact
• Crumb
• Dark Star
• Dead Poets Society, The
• Dead Ringers
• Die Hard
• Don Juan DeMarco
• Fugitive, The
• Gandhi
• Grosse Pointe Blanke
• Groundhog Day
• Harold and Maude
• Heathers
• House of Games
• Hudsucker Proxy, The
• Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls In Love, The
• Labyrinth
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Player, The
• Princess Bride, The
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Roger & Me
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• Say Anything...
• Schindler's List
• sex, lies, and videotape
• Shallow Grave
• Shawshank Redemption, The
• Sick
• Sixth Sense
• Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back
• Stunt Man, The
• This Is Spinal Tap
• Time Bandits
• Wrong Trousers, The

favorite tv shows

• My So Called Life
• Hill Street Blues
• Star Trek: The Next Generation

 

favorite novels

• The Lathe of Heaven, by Ursula LeGuin
• Maus and Maus II, by Art Spiegelman
• The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (comments)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
• The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
• Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
• Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, by Orson Scott Card
• The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Ringworld Trilogy, by (Larry Niven?)
• Time Enough for Love, by Robert Heinlein
• Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Spider Garden, by Michael Manning
• Melting Point, by Pat Califia
• The Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising, by Tom Clancy

 

favorite short stories

• Beggars in Spain, by Nancy Kress
• Genesis, by Poul Anderson
• The Beautiful and the Sublime, by Bruce Sterling
• The Last Article, by Harry Turtledove
• A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• England Underway, by Terry Bisson
• Tower of Babylon, by Ted Chiang
• Inertia, by Nancy Kress
• Protection, by Maureen F. McHugh
• The Last of the Winnebagoes, by Connie Willis
• Down and Out in the Year 2000, by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Dust, by Greg Egan
• The Spade of Reason, by Jim Cowan
• A Long Night's Vigil at the Temple, by Robert Silverberg
• Naming the Flowers, by Kate Wilhelm
• Think Like a Dinosaur, by James Patrick Kelly

 

favorite places

• the garden behind the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.
• Death Valley, California
• Ben Nevis -- Scotland
• the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
• my Grandmother's farm near Marysville, Kansas
• the Chapel at the Sea Ranch in California
• the 24-hour coin operated Church of Elvis in Portland, Oregon
• Victoria Station in London, England
• the foyer of the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
• the tropical greenhouse in the park in the outskirts of Dundee, Scotland
• the Billy-Goat Trail near Great Falls on the Potomac River in Maryland
• the Yuri Gagarin memorial in Moscow, Russia
• almost any movie theater
• almost any airport
• any bridge leaving Manhattan, New York
• the "dish" behind Stanford University in California
• the Safeway in Menlo Park, California
• the subway in Washington, D.C.
• the troll under the bridge in Fremont, Washington

 

 

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