just things I want to do, eventually

• watch Coldplay live again
• see Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory in person (it was on loan when I went to the MoMA)
• see Rembrandt's Return of the Prodigal Son in person (at the State Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg, Russia)
• attend tapings of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report
• be in New York for Restaurant Week to eat my heart out
• learn how to compost and commit to doing it permanently
• grow my own vegetables (i'm trying, i'm trying)
• write thank you notes to the teachers in college i learned from the most
• marathon the extended editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
• learn letterpress

• grosgrain ribbon
• blank notebooks
• Muji pens
• pretty packaging
• the smell of freshly baked bread
• starting a new book
• trailers for upcoming movies
• paper!
• The Daily Show tosses :D

• Hunger is the best sauce. (Cervantes)
• The belly rules the mind. (Spanish proverb)
• If you don't like the skin, get out of the chicken.
• Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself. (Anthony Bourdain)
• There are no bad foods, only bad food habits. (Alton Brown)
• Good service can save a bad meal, but there is no level of food that can save bad service. (Alton Brown)
• You know we fixate on the food so much itself: “Oh, the ultimate brownie or the ultimate this or that” -- well, let me tell you something: It’s all poop in ab...

• accoutrements
• clandestine
• hobnob
• kumquat
• disenfranchise
• saffron
• bamboozle
• onomatopoeia
• flux
• schadenfreude
• chutzpah
• panache
• flogging
• zeitgeist
• banana
• beseech
• perplexed
• ostensibly
• amputate
• hoity-toity
• smarmy

because he wins at life.

• Charlene (I'm Right Behind You) music vi...
• Nights in Rodanthe
• Stephen's Laws of Love
• ThreatDown: Killer iPhones
• Spida of Love
• SexyBack
• Business Syphilis
• Jane Fonda
• Maniloooooow!
• Emmy, Please! 2007
• Emmy, Please! 2008
• We Won An Emmy!
• He's Singin' In Korean
• Rain Rivalry Challenge
• Mitch Albom
• Even Stevphen: The Clinton Years
• Even Stevphen: Halloween
• Even Stevphen: Elian Gonzalez
• Glamour Women of the Year Awards
• Amy Sedaris