Coming up with blog subjects can be a bit of a chore. Luckily, one of my friends from Nevermore Edits has been similarly searching for blog subjects, and was advised by people-in-the-know that creating a list of 100 things you love is a great way to send a jolt through your entries. Naturally, when she shared this with us, it became a free-for-all to finish our own lists. Here's mine, in some particular order. Some will notice that my wife, Lora is listed first, but Batman comes in a close second. That seems fair, although I have loved Batman for far longer...
Some of these have already been blog posts, others may yet become posts. Some are absurd, but probably more truthful than I would like to admit (I'm looking in your direction, freshly starched shirts...).
1. Lora
2. Batman
3. Wrath of Khan
4. The West Wing
5. Buffy
6. Nicholas Meyer
7. The Twilight Zone
8. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman
9. 30 Rock
10. Not being in Law School
11. Not being in middle management (This has been on my mind quite profoundly as of late, see my argument with myself from a few weeks back to see how that discussion has been going nowhere)
12. Black and white monster movies (If James Whale made it, assume I love it)
13. Pretzels
14. Tea
15. Pepsi?
16. Community
17. Chicken (fried)
18. The Reuben at Margaret's
19. Rick and Morty
20. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
21. Unbreakable
22. Schmidt (From New Girl. Really, all three of the guys on that show feel like parts of me split up into the cast of a sitcom, but the echo was far more important than anything else. Sorry, Nick Miller.)
23. Woody Allen movies... (I know...)
24. Sherlock Holmes
25. James Bond
26. Cheers
27. Wheel of Fortune (I'm not kidding... I'm developing a real problem. Happy to report my Vannamania is still under control. For the moment. Although, my next great creative undertaking may be an audition video to be a contestant on the show.)
28. Movie scores
29. Fountain pens
30. Typewriters
31. Fargo
32. Don Draper (take that to mean what you will)
33. Orson Welles
34. Charlie Chaplin
35. Time Travel (it's a living...)
36. DVDs
37. Writing
38. Writing group
39. Michael Keaton
40. Ice cubes
41. Jon Stewart
42. Billy Joel's "The Stranger"
43. Ron Funches
44. Drive-in movie theaters
45. Pinball
46. Star Wars (all of it? The prequels are often a drag, but the larger tableau of the Skywalker clan has always been and will always be quite strong)
47. Productive days
48. Comic books
49. CJ the Labradane
50. Really Good Man
51. That feeling after a final exam/publishing a book
52. Scarves on ladies (is that my kink?)
53. Journey
54. ...Enya
55. The Simpsons
56. David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian
57. Pinky and the Brain
58. Mark Twain
59. Primary Colors (the book and the concept)
60. Doctor Who
61. Adele (I'd ask you not to judge me, but if you don't love Adele, I judge you)
62. Breaking Bad
63. The Rancher's Club in Stillwater
64. House of Greek
65. My writing room
66. Sushi
67. Fish eggs
68. Used book sales/flea markets
69. The Marx Brothers
70. Boobs (I could try to be a little more evolved, but that would be pretty disingenuous)
71. Stephen King
72. A freshly starched shirt
73. Johnny Carson
74. Walter Mondale
75. Dill pickles
76. Breakfast foods
77. Ribs
78. House of Cards
79. When my co-workers have interests outside of work (Just hearing about the singers, football players, and rodeo queens with whom I work makes the world make a little bit more sense)
80. Alfred Hitchcock
81. The Universal logo they started using in Back to the Future III and stopped using with the Lost World
82. Back scratches
83. Naps (or as I like to call it, leisure time)
84. Reading
85. Bacon
86. The random feature on the FXNOW app's "The Simpsons" section (Netflix, get with the times!)
87. Cinnamon things
88. Beer
89. Wine
90. The Apollo program
91. Pop vinyls (I tripped over a rare bloody variant Leatherface this weekend. It's like hitting the jackpot on a slot machine)
92. Lego
93. Kisses (I'm not without my romantic notions)
94. Murphy Brown (start releasing those DVDs already, Warner Bros., will ya?)
95. Murder, She Wrote
96. Playing lizard people in RPGs
97. Politics
98. Being released by surgeons (95, 97, and 98 paint a decidedly geriatric picture of me)
99. GPS (it's saved me from having to learn how streets work)
100. Die Hard
A couple of other items have occurred to me since putting the list together on Wednesday night. I really love not accepting as important what other people would insist are important. That feeds into a lot of the other items on the list, but it is often the overriding motivation for the big decisions in my life.
Also, I really like selling a book to somebody. It only happens every once in a while (although it is, thankfully, happening more and more often) but the little money I get from those efforts are far more important than the rather good living I make from my day job.
Got a list of your own? Share it in the comments! Or, better yet, blog about it yourself and link to it in the comments.