Timely as always, Bobby. Tard.

Y’all should be able to guess by now that I have a bit of a mania for list-making. It’s the Virgo Rising thing. I have lists in notebooks, lists on scratch paper, lists in neat word files on my computer, and lists crammed in bags where I’ll never find them and will merely list anew.

So, inspired by one of the chat threads at one of the post-Fametracker places, here’re some of my random lists of random stuff. Just ‘cos!

Kinds of Pencils in my Desk Holder

1. Two types of Pucca pencils
2. A Chococat Pencil
3. A souvenir pencil from the Hemingway House in Key West
4. A souvenir pencil from the Laura Ingalls Wilder House in Mansfield
5. 5 “Deep Valley High School Class of 1910” pencils
6. 4 “Carnegie Library” pencils
7. A “Hi-Bi-Ma-Ru” pencil
8. 6 Paul Frank pencils given to me by my friend Rad
9. 2 “Deery Lou” pencils
10. A pencil with the slogan “It’s the Cheese!”
11. 3 “RaaRaa Bear” pencils
12. A Buttercup Powerpuff Girls pencil
13. 3 pencils covered with glitter
14. A sparkly purple pencil with a Skipper-knockoff doll head on it

The Bestest Things THTM Has Cooked for Me:

1. Belgian waffles (light and crisp: he sifted the flour three times and beat the egg whites) with cinnamon syrup
2. Cornish game hen with orange glaze, stuffed with wild rice
3. Grilled goat cheese and chive sandwiches on sourdough
4. Wilted spinach salad with applewood smoked bacon, goat cheese and chopped Mediterranean grilled chicken breasts
5. Homemade giant soft pretzels
6. Homemade burnt-caramelized sugar and espresso sauce served over chocolate ice cream
7. Feta, garlic and pine nut spread with French bread
8. Banana-nut bread (His grandma’s recipe)
9. Cocoanut-hot fudge sauce
10. Barbecued chicken pizza
11. Thai chicken pizza
12. Chilled cranberry soup
13. Christmas shortbread cookies (I have NEVER had better shortbread!)
14. Pumpkin bread pudding
15. Polenta with mascarpone, gorgonzola and walnuts

Books I Really Should Have Read By Now

1. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
2. A Room with a View – E. M. Forster
3. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
4. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
5. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
6. An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
7. Women in Love – D. H. Lawrence
8. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
9. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
10. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
11. Ulysses – James Joyce
12. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
13. Most of Shakespeare’s plays
14. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
15. The Outsiders – S. E. Hinton

Names The Husband-Type Man and I Have Considered for our Future Spawn

1. Reileigh-Rheagan Briannananana’Na
2. BraeLynne MacKenzie
3. Grithyn Roq
4. Satan’s Last Dance
5. Dante-Nightwolf
6. Frodo
7. Dickon
8. Gynaphür

Bad “Ear Crack” (TM Birmie) Songs I Love

1. "Livin’ La Vida Loca" – Ricky Martin
2. "Jenny from the Block" – Jennifer Lopez
3. "You Drive Me Crazy" – Britney Spears
4. "Milkshake" – Kelis
5. "Intuition" – Jewel
6. "Tom Jones International" – Tom Jones
7. "Don’t Stop Movin’" – SClub7
8. "Rock Your Body" – Justin Timberlake
9. "Let’s Get it Started" – Black Eyed Peas
10. "Do Me" and "Poison" – Bel Biv Devoe
11. "Girlfriend" – Victoria Beckham
12. "Dirrty" – Christina Aguilara
13. "Upside Down (Bouncing Off The Ceiling)" – A-Teens
14. " Wherever, Whenever"– Shakira
15. "Ain’t it Funny" – Jennifer Lopez
16. "Sexbomb" – Tom Jones
17. Pretty much anything by Ace of Base

Bad “Ear Crack” Songs I, Believe it or Not, DON’T Love

1. "Toxic" – Britney Spears
2. "Some Girls (Dance With Women)" – J.C. Chasez
3. "Hot in Herre" – Nelly
4. "Hollaback Girl" – Gwen Stefani
5. "Steal My Sunshine" – Len
6. "Don’t Phunk with My Heart" – Black Eyed Peas
7. "Bootylicious" – Destiny’s Child
8. "Drop it Like it’s Hot" – Snoop Dogg
9. "Barbie Girl" – Aqua
10. "Back that Azz Up" - Juvenile
11. "Mmm-Bop" – Hanson
12. "Baby Got Back" – Sir Mix-a-lot
13. "Grease Megamix" - Olivia Newton John and John Travolta
14. "La La" - Ashlee Simpson
15. "Hangin’ Tough" – New Kids on the Block
16. Anything by Aaron Carter or Kelly Clarkson

Words I Overuse:

1. So!
2. Moreover
3. Ostensibly
4. Furthermore
5. Y’all
6. Fuck
7. Dickwad
8. Cocksucker
9. Batshit crazy
10. Dude

Words I Hate

1. Papal
2. Gubernatorial
3. Snatch
4. Incentivize
5. Boyfriend
6. Potty
7. Normalcy
8. Pop (as a verb)
9. Davenport
10. Slacks
11. Panties
12. Blog
13. Closure
14. Tummy
15. Pussy
16. “InWhySee,” “La-La Land” and “Hell-Ay” instead of NYC and LA
17. Irregardless
18. Gal and lady
19. Galpal
20. Jizz/jism

For Some Reason, Sugarbear and I Can Have Entire Conversations Quoting from These Movies:

1. Weird Science
2. The Jerk
3. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
4. Back to the Future
5. Star Wars, ESB and ROTJ
6. Johnny Dangerously
7. Silence of the Lambs
8. Airplane!

Dorky Nicknames I have for THTM

1. The Husband-Type Man
2. Luscious Husband-Type Man
3. Mister Man
4. Dorky Boy!
5. Stinky!
6. Spikey-Hair’d Boy
7. Fart Boy
8. Poopy Head
9. Tall Maaaaaaan
10. Rotter

Bad 80s Songs I Unabashedly Love

1. "Let's Get Serious" - Jermaine Jackson
2. "Break My Stride" – Matthew Wilder
3. "Ya Mo Be There" - Michael McDonald and James Ingram
4. "Separate Ways" – Journey
5. "Holding Out for a Hero" - Bonnie Tyler
6. "Out Here On My Own" – Irena Cara
7. "I’m Alright" – Kenny Loggins
8. "Easy Lover" – Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
9. "Celebrate Youth" - Rick Springfield
10. "Maniac" – Michael Sembello
11. "Any Way You Want It" – Journey
12. "Far From Over" – Frank Stallone
13. "Dream On"– Aerosmith
14. "Double Vision" – Foreigner
15. "Family Man" – Hall & Oats
16. "Black Velvet" – Alannah Myles
17. "Abracadabra" – Steve Miller Band
18. "Bop ‘Til You Drop" – Rick Springfield

Duran Duran Songs (not including covers) I Hate:

1. PL You
2. Salt on the Rainbow
3. Violence of Summer
4. Can You Deal With It
5. Drowning Man
6. First Impression
7. Taste the Summer
8. Shotgun
9. Read My Lips
10. To Whom it May Concern
11. Sin of the City

Books I’m Currently Reading/Re-Reading

1. The Beloved Vagabond – William J. Locke
2. Black Reconstruction in America: 1860-1880 – W.E.B. Du Bois
3. Daddy Long-Legs – Jean Webster
4. Barbie: The Icon, the Image, the Ideal: an Analytical Interpretation of the Barbie Doll in Popular Culture – Kristin Noelle Weissman
5. Art, Culture, and the Dialectics of Form: Frederic Jameson and American Marxist Criticism Today – Frederic Jameson
6. The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence – Henry A. Giroux
7. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
8. Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 – Shari Benstock
9. Little City by the Lake – Celia Wilkins

Some Things Simon Le Bon Has Said to Me on Several Different Occasions:

1. Helloooo Dawwwn
2. Lookit Warren’s hair!
3. What do you think of me glasses?
4. Oh, I’ve heard of him! (i.e. Joseph Campbell)
5. Have you read his [Jorge Luis Borges] book Labyrinths?
6. Thank you
7. That would have been mine (His response to “Whose idea was it to do ‘Secret Oktober’ live?”)
8. *tight smile*
9. *impatient sigh*
10. *silence*
11. Excuse me, I have to be over there now.

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