100 things to eat before you die

From the Good Taste Blog, via Michele comes this excellent timewaster.

The rules:
1) Copy this list into your blog.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.

1.Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream--Rather overrated, in my opinion and it wouldn't be my first ice cream of choice.
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese--I'm with Michele on this one.
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi--I have had sweet lassi.
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar--I've had cognac and I've had cigars but I've never had the two together.
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu--I don't like eating foods that "could kill you if prepared incorrectly."
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin. Not a fan of the uni. It's the texture that creeps me out.
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin--I tend to try to avoid eating dirt. But that's just me.
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant--I haven't yet, but I'd like to.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Our turn

Via Miriam by way of Lileks:

Prius drivers reeking of sanctimony, community college professors, slow food cultists, Unitarians, expatriates wearing Obama buttons, Earth Firsters, celebrity friends of Fidel, granola-chomping birkenstock wearers, feminazis for the burqa, PBS contributors, poetasters for peace ...

Movie meme

Via Sheila, a movie meme.

The rules:
Bold movies you have watched and liked.
Turn red movies you have watched and loved.
Italicize movies you saw and didn’t like.
Leave as is movies you haven’t seen.
AND, since Sheila added the RED, I'll use blue for movies I saw but don't give a fig about one way or the other.

The Godfather (1972)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Schindler’s List (1993)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Casablanca (1942)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Star Wars (1977)
12 Angry Men (1957)
Rear Window (1954)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Goodfellas (1990)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
City of God (2002)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Psycho (1960)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Fight Club (1999
Memento (2000))
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Matrix (1999)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Se7en (1995)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
American Beauty (1999)
Vertigo (1958)
Amélie (2001)
The Departed (2006)
Paths of Glory (1957)
American History X (1998)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Chinatown (1974)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Third Man (1949)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Alien (1979)
The Pianist (2002)
The Shining (1980)
Double Indemnity (1944)
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Leben der Anderen, Das [The Lives of Others] (2006)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Boot, Das (1981)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Metropolis (1927)
Aliens (1986)
Raging Bull (1980)
Rashômon (1950)
Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
Rebecca (1940)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Sin City (2005)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
All About Eve (1950)
Modern Times (1936)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Great Escape (1963)
Amadeus (1984)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Prestige (2006)
Vita è bella, La [Life Is Beautiful] (1997)
Jaws (1975)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Sting (1973)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
The Apartment (1960)
City Lights (1931)
Braveheart (1995)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Batman Begins (2005)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Blade Runner (1982)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Notorious (1946)
Salaire de la peur, Le [The Wages of Fear](1953)
High Noon (1952)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Fargo (1996)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Unforgiven (1992)
Back to the Future (1985)
Ran (1985)
Oldboy (2003)
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Green Mile (1999)
Annie Hall (1977)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Gladiator (2000)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Diaboliques, Les [The Devils] (1955)
Ben-Hur (1959)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Life of Brian (1979)
Die Hard (1988)
The General (1927)
American Gangster (2007)
Platoon (1986)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Graduate (1967)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Crash (2004/I)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Heat (1995)
Gandhi (1982)
Harvey (1950)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The African Queen (1951)
Stand by Me (1986)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Conversation (1974)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Wo hu cang long [Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ] (2000)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Cabinet des Dr. Caligari., Das [The Cabinet of Dr Caligari] (1920)
The Thing (1982)
Groundhog Day (1993)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Sleuth (1972)
Patton (1970)
Toy Story (1995)
Glory (1989)
Out of the Past (1947)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Ed Wood (1994)
Spartacus (1960)
The Terminator (1984)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Exorcist (1973)
Frankenstein (1931)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Hustler (1961)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
The Lion King (1994)
Big Fish (2003)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Magnolia (1999)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Roman Holiday (1953)
A Christmas Story (1983)
Casino (1995)
Manhattan (1979)
Ying xiong [Hero] (2002)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Rope (1948)
Cinderella Man (2005)
The Searchers (1956)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
His Girl Friday (1940)
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

I don't know whether this is good or bad

That's more than most of these guys can say. Then again, they have a lot more readers than I do.

5 X 5

OGIC recommends five fictional series. She already picked Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time, which would certainly be in my top five, but I'm flexible.

1. Chronicles of Barset by Anthony Trollope. There are six novels in all: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington and The Last Chronicle of Barset, which is my favorite. The books mostly revolve around the lives of clergymen in Trollope's invented county of Barset. Any one of them can be read alone, but if you're like me you won't be able to stop there. The tales concern misappropriation of church funds, illegitimacy, theft and the rivalry between the low church followers of Mrs. Proudie--the Bishop's wife, a nasty piece of work, and high church partisans Even if you're not delighted by discussions of how many orphreys should be on a clergyman's chasuble, as I am, you'll love the books for their characters. Quite simply, they live.

2. The Carl Wilcox mysteries by Harold Adams. Wilcox is a former convict and itinerant sign painter who travels around small towns in 1930s South Dakota trying to sell his services and, inevitably, getting involved in murders. The books are spare, almost terse, and that's a good thing. With a couple of words, Adams brings to life a lost world of farmers on the brink of despair, of steamy nights at dance halls and frigid South Dakota winters.

3. Another Wilcox, James Wilcox, takes his readers to the fictional town of Tula Springs, Louisiana in a series of books beginning with Modern Baptists, North Gladiola and Mrs. Undine's Living Room--all of which I can recommend without reservation. Wilcox strayed from Tula Springs in one novel, Plain and Simple, which took place in New York City, and he never quite recovered his sparkle thereafter. And although I enjoyed his later works, they don't hold a candle to the first three.

4. Lee Child's books featuring former Army MP Jack Reacher are my current favorite mysteries. Reacher, a drifter who owns nothing but the clothes on his back and a toothbrush, is 6' 5" and apparently invincible. He's an irresistible hero in the Jack Bauer mode, though Reacher makes Bauer look like a chatterbox and a flibbertigibbet.

5. In making her list OGIC was giving succor to Harry Potter addicts who have finished the series, so I'll add a dash of children's literature to finish off. I won't go with the obvious choice--the Narnia books--instead I pick the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. There's nothing particularly magical about the life of the Ingalls family. Instead, they spend most of their time trying to eke out a living and they never really succeed. Unlike the insipid TV series, these books are not all sweetness and light. In The Long Winter, the family only manages to avoid starvation by eating their seed corn. Yet the books aren't depressing and they offer a glimpse into a world that's as unlike our current world as anything found in Harry Potter.

I have a feeling I've done this before

Benevolent Director

Not a benevolent dictator, but a director.

Via Chaz.

I'm kinda disappointed

Believe it or not, the word gun, appearing three times, and the word hell, one appearance, pushed me into the parental-caution category.

Via McQ.

Crazy eights

Meme from Robbo, eight things about me.

1) I startle easily at loud noises. Really easily--even when I'm expecting the noise. For example, if I hear someone climbing the stairs to my apartment--and I'm expecting a visitor--it's not unusual for me to give a little start when that person knocks. If I'm not expecting anyone and I'm locked into concentration mode--and don't hear a thing outside my own thoughts--and someone knocks on the door, I'll jump in my seat and give out a little yelp.

2) Nyquil and other medications that are supposed to make you drowsy have the opposite effect on me.

3) I love taking off my shoes as much as I love shoes. I do it unconsciously: At home, at work, or at the movies. My feet, apparently, have a need to be free. You know how some people are always looking for their keys? Or their glasses? I'm always looking for my shoes. The first thing I do when I get home is take off my shoes and put on a pair of slippers or flip flops. (If my shoes are particularly binding, I might take them off in the car. I tend to have at least one or two pairs of shoes in my car at any given time.) Later, I'll unconsciously slip out of my flip flops, get up to perform some stupid task, notice that my feet are unshod and go into my closet for another pair. This can go on for hours until at the end of the night I look around and see that I've left a trail of shoes around the house, some of them kicked off in mid-stride as though the person wearing them had suddenly been vaporized while heading to the kitchen,

4) I don't like potato chips.

5) A co-worker and I got fired for writing a newspaper parody about the pretend exploits of three of our superiors, who weren't mentioned by name but whose identity was obvious to anyone who worked there. A third co-worker found the offending articles and turned us in.

6) I can't stand Robin Williams.

7)When feeling glum, I tend to do something drastic--to my hair.

8) I never forget a face, but I'll be damned if I can attach that face to a name.

Five questions

From the Shadow of Diogenes:

(1) When was the last time you hollered at another driver while driving? Yesterday. I haven't been out on the road yet today.

(2) Name one place you will never visit again. Why? Liberty Science Center, for the reasons outlined here.

(3) When you think of the South what first comes to your mind? Spanish Moss.

(4) Do you ever feel like there aren't enough hours in your day? Lately, yes. At my last job, however, 8 hours seemed like an eternity.

(5) What is the last good book that you read? Imperium by Robert Harris.

Reading

Via Jordana, comes a book meme.

Look at the list of books below. Bold the ones you’ve read, italicize the ones you want to read, cross out the ones you won’t touch with a 10 foot pole, underline the ones on your book shelf, and asterisk* the ones you’ve never heard of.

It's an idiosyncratic list, but what the heck.

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
5. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)
6. The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)
7. The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)
8. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)*
10. A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)*
11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire(Rowling)
12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)*
13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
14. A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)
17. Fall on Your Knees* (Ann-Marie MacDonald)
18. The Stand (Stephen King)
19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
20. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
21. The Hobbit (Tolkien)
22. The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
23. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
24. The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)
25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
27. Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
28. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)
29. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)
31. Dune (Frank Herbert)
32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks)
33. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
34. 1984 (Orwell)
35. The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)
36. The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)
37. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)*
38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)*
39. The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)
40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
41. The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel) Actually, I just know this as a movie starring Daryl Hannah, which is why I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.
42. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella)
44. The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom)
45. Bible
46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
48. Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)
49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)--I'm not sure I ever read it all the way through.
50. She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)*
51. The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)
53. Ender’s Game(Orson Scott Card)*
54. Great Expectations (Dickens)
55. The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)*
57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
58. The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)--I've read part of her series on Rome, which I enjoyed very much so this is on the get around to it list.
59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)
61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
62. The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)
64. Interview With The Vampire (Anne Rice)
65. Fifth Business (Robertson Davis)
66. One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
67. The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares)
68. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
69. Les Miserables (Hugo)
70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding)
72. Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)
73. Shogun (James Clavell)
74. The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje)--Again I won't touch on the strength of the abominable and interminable movie. To quote Elaine Benes: "Die already!"
75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
76. The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)*
77. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
78. The World According To Garp (John Irving)
79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)*
80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)
81. Not Wanted On The Voyage (Timothy Findley)*
82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)
83. Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)
84. Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)*
85. Emma (Jane Austen)
86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)
87. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)*
89. Blindness (Jose Saramago)*
90. Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)*
91. In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)--See The English Patient.
92. Lord of the Flies (Golding)
93. The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
94. The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)
95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)
96. The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)
98. A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)
99. The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)
100. Ulysses (James Joyce)

Two things

Two Names You Go By:
1. Rachel
2. Rachel

Two Parts of Your Heritage:
1. Jewish
2. Irish

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Jeans
2. Red boots

Two Things You Would Want in a Relationship:
1. Humor
2. Romance

Two of Your Favorite Hobbies:
1. Cooking
2. Shopping

Two Things You Want Really Badly At The Moment:
1. New job
2. Household help

Two Pets You Had/Have:
1. Cat
2. Fish

Two people you talked to today:
1. Myself
2. UPS guy

Two things you did last night:
1. Laundry
2. Ate dinner

Two people that live in your house:
1. Me
2. Son

Two things you ate today:
1. Coffee
2. Eggs

Two people you miss:
1. Nephew
2. Sister

Two things you're doing tomorrow:
1. Cleaning
2. Navel gazing

Two vacations you've been on:
1. London
2. Key West

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Thanksgiving
2. Passover

Two favorite Alcoholic beverages:
1. Qupé Syrah
2. Mint julep

Two things you will do after you finish this survey:
1. Go home
2. Make dinner

Via CalTechGirl.

Nuns and priests at the movies

Jordana, who's apparently suffering from a devastating case of Turner-Classic-Movies-deprivation syndrome, was tagged with a movie meme that left both her her and her tagger at a loss to come up with movie nuns and priests. Here's my contribution:

• Favorite movie with a religious theme: Black Narcissus--Deborah Kerr, who also played a nun in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison, leads a group of Anglican nuns to build a mission in the Himalayas but the air is too thin up there. Gorgeous, gorgeous movie.
  
  
• Favorite movie nun: You can keep Julie Andrews. Audrey Hepburn in A Nun's story wins the movie nun title hands down. Sister Luke, who becomes a nun in order to work in a hospital in Africa, struggles with the vows of obedience and pride from the beginning. And then the Nazis come. Audrey is brilliant.
  
  
• Favorite movie priest: Has got to be Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan in Boys Town. His motto: There's no such thing as a bad boy. Runners up: Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald in Going My Way.

Meme time: 39 things about me

1. Were you named after anyone?
No.

2. Do you wish on stars?
No.

3. Do you like your hand writing?
No. I think I've lost the ability to write by hand.

4. What is your favorite meat?
Bacon.

5. What is the most embarrassing CD on your shelf?
Well, somebody gave me Chicago's Christmas album.

6. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
Why not.

7. Are you a daredevil?
Occasionally.

8. When was the last time you cried?
I've been known to cry at TV commercials.

9. Did you ever tell a secret you weren't supposed to?
I'll never tell.

10. How do you release anger?
Sometimes, if someone annoys me at work, I make funny faces behind their back a la Lucky Jim.

11. Where is your second home?
Loehmann's.

12. Do you trust others easily?
Mmm, depends.

13. What class in college do you think is totally useless?
Physics for poets.

14. Have you ever been in a mosh pit?
No.

15. What do you look for in a guy?
Sentience.

16. Would you do a bungee jump?
No.

17. What's your favorite ice cream flavor?
Starbucks Java Chip--absolutely obscene.

18. What is your least favorite thing?
Know-it-alls.

19. How many people do you have a crush on right now?
Two.

20. What do you miss most right now?
My 4-year-old nephew.

21. What are you listening to right now?
The panel on Fox's "Special Report."

22. What is the weather like right now?
Sunny and cool.

23. Last person you talked to on the phone?
My mother.

24. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Eyes.

25.Favorite drink non-alcoholic?
Diet Coke

26.Favorite alcoholic drink?
Champagne.

27. Haircolor?
Blond.

28. Eyecolor?
Green.

29. Wear contacts?
No.

30. Last movie you watched?
The Importance of Being Earnest.

31. Favorite day of the year?
Thanksgiving.

32. How many people have a crush on you right now?
No one.

33. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy endings, hence my reluctance to see United 93 (see below)>

34. Summer or winter?
Summer. I hate the cold.

35. What book/magazine are you reading at the moment?
I'm working my way through about a year's worth of back issues of the New Criterion. Also Barrel Fever by David Sedaris.

36. What's on your mouse pad?
My mouse.

37. What did you watch on TV last night?
The OC.

37.Favorite Smell?
The beach.

38. Do you regret ever breaking up with someone?
No.

39.Favorite actor/actress?
Cary Grant

Via Cardinal Martini.