• A Tale of Two Cities--Dickens

• Bedtime Stories

• I turned 40
• My daughter had her poem published
• I took my first trip to D-World
• I flew first class for the 1st time
• My wife finished her Masters Thesis
• I am still employed
• My nephew graduated high school
• Our insurance settlement came
• My car is no longer my primary means of transportation
• My son finally decided to learn how to ride a bike
• Obama won!
• I saw train girl

• "Markinsons dead. There is no Markinson"-A Few Good Men
• "A little bit of heaven for me. A little bit of hell for everyone else"-said after taking my shoes off.
• "Hey, why the long face?"-to anyone who happens to have an elongated face.
• "The real diggety" or "The real deal Holyfield"-in response to my wifes query, Is that for real?
• "Now are these really the questions I was called here to answer? Phone c...

• I have run out of things to list
• My favorites have run out of things to list
• Has Listing gone the way of CountryWide and Lehman Bros?
• Or Markinson for that matter (hey that reminds me of a list i can make)
• Does Santa use Listography?
• Did anybody else watch the muppets Christmas special last night?
• Did anyone else kick their kids out of the room because they were just too off the wall to allow me to enjo...

• Citizen Kane
• The Godfather
• Casablanca
• Raging Bull
• Singin' in the Rain
• Gone With the Wind
• Lawrence of Arabia
• Schindler's List
• Vertigo
• The Wizard of Oz
• City Lights
• The Searchers
• Star Wars
• Psycho
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Graduate
• The General
• On the Waterfront
• It's A Wonderful Life
• Chinatown
• Some Like It Hot
• The Grapes of Wrath
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
• High...

• starts at 4:58 am
• bike ride 8 to 11 minutes to station
• train arrives 5:26
• arrives in Newark at 6:03
• board Path train
• depart at 6:06 to WTC
• arrive WTC at 6:29
• walk to other side of Island
• arrive at office at approx 6:44
• I'm starting to hate this commute
• Especially when train girl isnt around

The BCS is a farce. A college football playoff is long overdue. My top ten.

• USC
• Texas
• Florida
• Oklahoma
• Alabama
• Texas Tech
• Utah
• Penn State
• Boise State
• Ohio State

• The sound of my son talking to my wife in the kitchen on Saturday mornings
• My daughter talking in her sleep
• The quiet that surrounds me in the dark of the morning while I ride my bike
• Natalie Maines voice
• The first wave I hear, on the first evening at my beach house in Maine
• My childrens laughter
• Play Ball!
• Linda Eder singing The Bells of St. Paul

• Hot Dog carts
• Halal food stands
• Duane Reade drug stores
• shoe repair shops
• locksmiths
• Newspaper stands

• Still --The Commodores
• Easy --The Commodores
• Hello --Lionel Ritchie
• Truly --Lionel Ritchie
• Something --The Beatles
• Something in the way she moves --J. Taylor
• Annies Song --J. Denver
• It Might be You --Stephen Bishop
• Life Support --Rent Soundtrack
• Finale B --Rent soundtrack
• Lyin Eyes --Eagles
• Despperado --Eagles
• Ave Maria --Harry Connick Jr.
• Snow Angel --Over the Rhine
• Without You --Rent Soundtrack

• Let There Be Peace on Earth
• And So This Is Christmas--s. mclachlan
• Peace on Earth--bing crosby/david bowie
• My Grownup Christmas List--natalie cole
• It Wont Be The Same this Year--v. gill
• The Peace Carol--j. denver/muppets
• Merry Christmas Darling--the Carpenters
• Run Run Rudolph--holiday express
• Christmas Time is Here--c.brown
• The Bells of St. Paul--Linda Eder

• Back Home Again
• For You
• Calypso
• Annies Song
• Take me Home, Country Roads
• Leaving on a Jet Plane
• For Bobbie
• Poems, Prayers and Promises
• Fly Away
• I'm Sorry

Just in a J.Denver mood these days.

• Don Rickles
• DL Hughley
• Henry Rollins
• Sarah Silverman
• George Carlin
• Chris Rock
• Steve Martin
• Rita Rudner
• Joe Anthony

• motor vehicles I have owned
• 2009 lineups for sox,yanks, mets
• 2009 baseball predictions
• my survival pool pics

• Joe Torre
• Doug Flynn
• Petra Nemcova
• Vincent Curatola (Johnny Sacks)
• Mariano Rivera
• Ed Kranepool
• John Valentine
• Mike Krzyzewski
• Phi Rizzuto

• Bluesman - @ quitsmokeless - This Buckeye's "The secret of our success" was the life preserver I needed to quit tobacco. I don't think I will read a more important blog.
• La Petite chic - I rolled onto her site looking for running stories. What i got was a great blog about food, drink and fun vacations.
• Elise Carter - @ elise.blogs - a beautiful wordsmith.
• jubyred - @typepad - smart and relevant. In h...

• has saved me 4 miles per day of wear and tear on my car.
• has helped me avoid paying for any gas all summer long.
• has saved me $3.00 per day for parking
• has built up my quads so that now my patella tendonitis doesnt bother me when i run.
• has helped me detox after lousy train rides home.
• has given me time to think about what list to write next.
• hopefully I have inspired others to keep their cars in their ...

• "I don't believe what I just saw"--jack buck, 1988 WS call of K. Gibsons HR
• "A little roller up along first, behind the bag! It gets through buckner! Here comes Knight and the Mets win it!!--vin scully, game 6, 1986 WS
• "A ground ball, trickling, it's a fair ball! Gets by Buckner! Rounding third Knight! The Mets will win the ballgame! The Mets Win! They Win! --the incomparable Bob Murphy, game 6, 198...

• The World According to Garp
• The Godfather
• The Kennedys
• Bring the Jubilee
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Tales of the South Pacific
• A Clockwork Orange
• LA Confidential
• War & Peace
• Gone with the Wind

Books from this years list that didnt get read:

• Dutch
• Last of the Mohicans
• Middlesex
• The World is Flat

• Buffalo 16 Tennessee 22 --2000 WC game (the music city miracle)
• Boston 6 New York 4 --2004 ALCS, game 4 (millar walks, roberts steals second, Mueller singles and I was asleep)
• New York 2 Arizona 3 --2001 WS, game 7
• Tampa Bay 7 Boston 8 --2008 ALCS, game 5 (I'm not alone on this one)

• Indians 22 Yankees 0 (8/31/2004)
• Indians 2 Yankees 1 --2007 WC, game 2 (the midge game)
• Boston 5 New York 4 --2004 ALCS, game 5
• Boston 4 New York 2 --2004 ALCS, game 6 (the bloody sock game)
• Boston 10 New York 3 --2004 ALCS, game 7
• Oilers 38 Bills 41 --1993 WC game
• Boston 5 Mets 6 --1986 WS, game 6
• Boston 3 St.Louis 0 --2004 WS, game 4
• NYGiants 17 NEngland 14 --Superbowl 42
• StLouis 23 Tennessee 16 --Superb...

• Washington DC
• Gettysburg
• Cooperstown
• Biddeford Pool, ME

• Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC
• Naval Technical Training Center, Corry Station, Pensacola Fl.
• US Naval Station Rota, Spain
• 2nd Radio Battalion, Camp Lejeune, NC
• USS Nassau
• Fort Bragg, NC
• Marine Corps Base, Quantico, VA
• The desert, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia

• 1979 Toyota Corona (broke down after 2 weeks)
• 1981 Mazda GLC (took me on my first drive to NJ from Houston, barely...left in parking lot prior to bootcamp)
• SEAT (say-at) Malaga (spanish beauty sold for 350 pesatas before departing Rota)
• 1987 Toyota P/U Truck (bought from my brother for 3k and forced to sell in 2000)
• 1996 Honda Accord (for this car that i hardly use now)
• 1999 Toyota Sienna (best vehicle...