30 Things I feel Oddly Passionate About
1. Making things like pie crust from scratch
2. I dislike digital coloring on comic strips
3. The 30’s as a better age than the 20’s
4. Driving across the US—everyone should do it.
5. Mickey Mouse ears should not have themes like "rasta mickey" or "pirate mickey"
6. We create what we believe
7. Buttermilk frosting on red velvet cake over cream cheese frosting
8. The right to 1/2 & 1/2 over milk any day
9. Making things by hand—or at least knowing how.
10. I hate all pre-shredded, packaged cheese
11. I hate fat free versions of naturally fat things like ice cream & cheese & half & half—just eat less of it. It’s better than eating a lot of the other crap—and it tastes better.
12. IBM typewriters have the most delicious textural sound. I could write on them all day.
13. David Gray’s A Century Ends over David Gray’s White Ladder
14. Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees BEFORE you read Pigs in Heaven
15. Mixed Tapes are better than mixed CDs
16. I dislike using e-mail as way for resolving conflict—it’s a pussy way to do it & it takes longer. If you are close to someone, just call the person for Pete’s sake!
17. I believe that there should be an automatic service blocker on cell phones for every theater, museum, & library. I once saw Vanessa Redgrave give the DIRTIEST look from the stage at someone whose phone had gone off during a monologue.
18. Poetry sections being correctly alphabetized in large stores like Borders and Barnes and Noble. My dad calls this my “dormant OCD” behavior—I can’t go into those stores without checking the poetry sections, because they are usually disasters. I then alphabetize them. It’s a compulsion I can’t shake entirely.
19. The taste of blueberries & lime zest together
20. I hate the Oprah’s Book Club emblem printed on the covers of books.
21. This picture. (it KILLS ME)
22. Giving up your subway seat to people who need it
23. Giving panhandlers food not money
24. Coney Island in November
25. Yellowstone National Park is the most magical place EVER.
26. Elfquest before Marvel took it on
27. Fountain soda over canned or bottled soda
28. We should have a workday system that honors the natural rhythms of people. Some people work better in the early morning (like me), and some people are better in the afternoons and late at night (like so many people I know).
29. Butter over margarine
30. Part-time work is the key to life!
2. I dislike digital coloring on comic strips
3. The 30’s as a better age than the 20’s
4. Driving across the US—everyone should do it.
5. Mickey Mouse ears should not have themes like "rasta mickey" or "pirate mickey"
6. We create what we believe
7. Buttermilk frosting on red velvet cake over cream cheese frosting
8. The right to 1/2 & 1/2 over milk any day
9. Making things by hand—or at least knowing how.
10. I hate all pre-shredded, packaged cheese
11. I hate fat free versions of naturally fat things like ice cream & cheese & half & half—just eat less of it. It’s better than eating a lot of the other crap—and it tastes better.
12. IBM typewriters have the most delicious textural sound. I could write on them all day.
13. David Gray’s A Century Ends over David Gray’s White Ladder
14. Reading Barbara Kingsolver’s the Bean Trees BEFORE you read Pigs in Heaven
15. Mixed Tapes are better than mixed CDs
16. I dislike using e-mail as way for resolving conflict—it’s a pussy way to do it & it takes longer. If you are close to someone, just call the person for Pete’s sake!
17. I believe that there should be an automatic service blocker on cell phones for every theater, museum, & library. I once saw Vanessa Redgrave give the DIRTIEST look from the stage at someone whose phone had gone off during a monologue.
18. Poetry sections being correctly alphabetized in large stores like Borders and Barnes and Noble. My dad calls this my “dormant OCD” behavior—I can’t go into those stores without checking the poetry sections, because they are usually disasters. I then alphabetize them. It’s a compulsion I can’t shake entirely.
19. The taste of blueberries & lime zest together
20. I hate the Oprah’s Book Club emblem printed on the covers of books.
21. This picture. (it KILLS ME)
22. Giving up your subway seat to people who need it
23. Giving panhandlers food not money
24. Coney Island in November
25. Yellowstone National Park is the most magical place EVER.
26. Elfquest before Marvel took it on
27. Fountain soda over canned or bottled soda
28. We should have a workday system that honors the natural rhythms of people. Some people work better in the early morning (like me), and some people are better in the afternoons and late at night (like so many people I know).
29. Butter over margarine
30. Part-time work is the key to life!
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