• vaud
• trebizond
• samarkand
• tashkent

• talullah bankhead
• gore vidal
• norman mailer
• mahalia jackson
• truman capote
• samuel barber
• diahann carroll
• joan miro

• you move around excel spreadsheets very efficiently
• you look like you took a lot of time hanging up art in your house
• how are you thin but you also have a big ass?

• introduction of fleur in tracks
• boxing match in night watchman
• first two paragraphs of larose
• bus ride in larose
• revelation of landreaux’s conspiracy in larose
• mother describes the incident in the round house
• transfiguration of agnes into damien in little no horse
• lightning-struck preacher and weight gain in plague of doves
• sleeping in the car in antelope wife
• wedding night in antelope wife
• leaving the hospital in living god
• pie fight in love medicine
• car slipping into water in love medicine
• choking on a heart in love medicine
• fleur’s threat in four souls (I’ll kill your spirit, too”)

been a while since I read beet queen…

• mary doria russell
• benjamín labatut
• nathanael west
• gunter grass
• joe rosenthal

• paul dune
• bob dylan
• edward scissorhands
• that twink in italy
• a cannibal
• willy wonka???

• st vincent
• gore vidal
• eminem
• john lennon
• john mayer
• judge judy
• oscar wilde
• gandhi
• gritty
• snoop dogg

• sights
  • mapparium
  • emerald necklace
  • minuteman trail
  • slutcracker
  • that little fairy structure in the woods
• food
  • ✔ pammys
  • ✔ myers n chang
  • nigerian
  • ✔ zoe's chinese (nearby, dumplings, sadly disappointing)
  • home taste (hand pulled noodle)
  • ✔ artifact cider
  • monicas mercato north end subs
  • ✔ spoke wine bar, davis
  • ✔ barra hipster mex, somerville
  • ✔ dragon pizza
  • but still santarpios

• sufjan stevens
• oliver sacks
• princess diana
• angela merkel
• robin wall kimmerer
• chasten buttigieg
• natalie wood
• ryu from street fighter ii
• courtney love
• chelsea
• dave
• matthieu
• koko the gorilla

• sylvia plath
• margaret atwood
• patti harrison
• hillary clinton
• björk (triple)
• julia roberts
• patsy stone
• marie curie
• brent corrigan
• joni mitchell

• fourier transforms
• jazz harmony
• japanese food

• a walgreen's receipt
• money laundering with blockchain stapled to it
• that one time I said to jeff, "I put a copyright on your butt and you have to pay me every time you fart"
• that episode of judge judy with the eBay scammer, where the scammer put really fine print in the eBay listing that said "I'm selling you two pictures of cell phones for $200, not the actual cell phones"
• via a kotaku commenter: "tulip mania in the hopes people don’t know what tulip mania was, and before people realise that tulips aren’t that important and that you don’t actually own any tulips"

• candy left over from halloween, a unified theory of everything
• I could open up my heart and fall in, I could blame it all on dust

• jeff tweedy
• bernie sanders
• arvo pärt
• cathy guisewite
• werner herzog
• bob newhart
• steve sando
• stephen jay gould
• mary oliver
• temple grandin
• john cage
• kate beaton

• basil
• chervil
• sesame
• capers
• brown butter
• shiso
• chives
• scallions
• red onion
• sunflower sprouts
• vanilla
• mint
• almond

• siskel & ebert
• outkast
• elizabeth holmes and sunny balwani
• ellen degeneres and anne heche
• daniels (movie director duo)
• philip glass and allen ginsberg ("wichita vortex sutra")
• chelsea's mom and dad (divorced)
• elizabeth and mary-kate/ashley olsen
• delta work and raja gemini

• alice waters
• katharine hepburn
• queen elizabeth ii
• tsar nicholas ii
• bea arthur
• candace bergen
• allie brosh
• tina fey
• adrienne rich
• jared
• shana
• enya
• lizzo
• kenan
• david byrne
• thom filicia, ted allen, and kyan douglas
• aidy bryant’s character in shrill

• jewel, you know how much I hate it when you leave wet towels on the floor
• baroque moves me... I love mozart.
• (takes drag from cigarette) can you stop strumming your guitar so clumsily? I am trying to talk of my loved ones
• your hands are so small. they are mine.

• those dehydrated citrus cocktail rounds
• every dish has anchovies or fish sauce
• pasta recipes that use 12 oz of pasta, leaving you with 4 oz of pasta hanging out in the box
• cutting lemon into some weird shape that's not a wedge, what do you do with the rest of the lemon, no one ever said "I hate this lemon, it's too wedgy"
• also, let's face it, s'mores have always been bad
• non-emulsified salad dressings

• vance sindelar (iowa)
• david schneider (pennsylvania)
• jay parker (north carolina)
• gabe markey (colorado)
• loren steele (florida)
• bryce radke (arizona)
• daniel winter (michigan)
• andre miller (georgia)
• joshua case (south carolina)

• tiger king
• animal crossing
• the bon appetit focaccia recipe
• regrowing scallions
• alison roman's cancellation
• fiona apple, fetch the bolt cutters
• hair decisions
• the election
• total destruction of bon appetit to the point where it needs to be encased in a nuclear sarcophagus

• worst
  • NVISBL HAND
  • I JGALT
  • MSC4MSC
  • L8R PLEB
  • SO ALPHA
  • _PLEBEZ
• best
  • XD HAHA
  • IM GASSY
  • JZZ HANZ
  • AC CK

• on a field, sable, the letter a, jules
• he loved big brother
• have you ever heard of something called a moon???
• where will you be, my darling, the last time it snows on earth?

• steamed broccoli
• the movie face/off
• the news
• public transit
• scrubbing the toilet bowl
• all books, literally reading any book
  • also owning books
• ordering from catalogs
• orangeade
• magazine subscriptions
  • ordering magazine subscriptions from catalogs
• knowing all the state nicknames and like state birds and flowers
• computer shortcuts, especially using the F1-F12 keys
• motivational posters
• putting a water bottle in the freezer overnight so it stays cold the next day

• hermaphroditus, greek mythology
• jondayla, clan of the cave bear series

• new deal
• cuban missile crisis
• haitian revolution / french revolution
• creation of yosemite national park
• coronavirus

• provocateur
• generalist
• autodidact

• t’challa / killmonger / colonialism
• bikes and pedestrians / scooters / car infrastructure
• schulmerich handbells / malmark handbells / public ignorance of handbell music
• everyone in game of thrones / everyone else in game of thrones / thrones
• beszel / ul qoma / the military industrial academic complex
• aiden zhane / brita / rupaul's fracking empire
• alison roman / chrissy teigen / gwyneth paltrow

• snap your fingers
• check your email
• go to the bathroom
• clean the kitchen
• ask a question about the other person
• talk about the weather
• put a pot of boiling water on the stove
• eat pierogies
• check covid statistics in your area
• astrology!
• try a new, restrictive diet
• subscribe to a conspiracy theory
• nationalism

• da shi???
• luo ji's wife and child
• the third wallfacer
• cheng xin's aboriginal friend
• guy who fell in love with the black hole
• jason, the guy with the boat in norway
• the fish that got sucked into the whirlpool on fire
• the ant that overheard the conversation about cosmic sociology
• the sophons--do they fear death?
• the first trisolaran fleet
• hugh jackman and nicole kidman

• ✔ kirby cove
• ✔ bicentennial campground
• ✔ steep ravine (and cabins)
• ✔ samuel p taylor
• ✔ china camp
• point pinole?

• caramel tofu
• whole wheat scones
• favorite pancakes
• magic sauce
• spicy turmeric oil
• broccoli gribiche
• brussels sprouts
• turmeric pad thai
• spicy tahini noodles

• david eagleman
• murtaza hussain

• apples
• peppers
• little gem lettuce
• new potatoes

• what really killed the dinosaurs? meeeeeee --giant brain
• that kid in sweden named Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116
• elizabeth warren having spilled coffee on herself
• one house please
• skeleton harvester
• thick thighs big booty contact lenses made out of necco wafers bunch of chocolate sauce in her hair because she fell asleep in her sundae again
• the satanic temple christmas diorama
• the caramel golem

• son of sam, elliott smith
• sweet adeline, elliott smith
• beauty and the beast, david bowie
• five years, david bowie
• I am trying to break your heart, wilco
• at least that's what you said, wilco
• the abandoned hospital ship, flaming lips
• death on 2 legs, queen
• foi na cruz, nick cave
• wild creatures, neko case
• sat in your lap, kate bush
• brill bruisers, new pornographers
• the space program, a tribe called quest
• excursions, a tribe called quest

• the skies belong to us, love and terror in the golden age of hijacking
• magic for beginners
• o pioneers
• bicycle diaries
• hot, living through the next 50 years on earth
• sixth extinction
• ida: a sword among lions
• fire on the mountain
• handmaid's tale
• no one belongs here more than you
• time's arrow time's cycle
• the righteous mind
• clan of the cave bear
• river of shadows
• the undoing project
• sand county almanac
• dancing in the streets, history of collective joy
• starlight and storm

• put gloves on before starting
• check tire direction closely before putting it on
• easier to get the tire back on by using mostly your hand to push it on and just one tire lever, vs. two or three
• on brakes, pushing screws in will push the brake outward, and vice versa
• check tire for tacks!!

• please mr kennedy -- jt, poe dameron, and kylo ren
• fart so loud -- jenna maroney
• stan (grammys performance) -- eminem and elton john
• ms. lefevre -- maow

• the kt
• caltrain
• marguerite-rp
• caltrain
• the 48
• BART
• the N
• the 47
• the 49
• the L

• tadu ethiopian
• chile lindo empanadas, after mission drinking
• ✔ revisit pizzetta 211
• san tung wings
• craftsman and wolves cookie
• craftsman and wolves high tea
• lovejoy's tea room
• ✔ arlequin wine merchant / wine cafe
• ✔ bow bow cocktail karaoke
• cholo soy ceviche
• taste of jiangnan wuxi specialties
• scullery welsh rarebit
• 20th century cafe honey cake
• salumeria vegetarian sandwich
• word for word cafe @ z space
• ✔ cityscape lounge at the hilton
• sunset reservoir brewing (again)... perhaps before pizzetta or jiangnin
• ✔ house of shields... why not?
• seoul kalbi in san bruno

• celery
• parsnips
• prawns

• paso robles
  • halder
  • stillwaters
• los olivos
  • daniel geahrs -- cloooosed??
  • coquelicot
  • carhartt -- but too sceney now?
• mendocino
  • mcnab -- infinite taste
  • rivino
  • husch -- wide price range
  • toulouse -- petit sirah, pinot noir
• sonoma
  • red car -- pricey but great, bro
  • porter bass -- just charming
• auburn

• clay aiken came out as gay
• andy rooney died
• david bowie died on my birthday
• theranos dissolved

• oakland food crawl, starting at beauty's bagels at macarthur
• ✔ sf chinatown, cheap drinks and jook at sam wo
• ocean beach, judahlicious, trouble coffee, stern grove
• biking around heron's head park, dogpatch faves
• cocktails at eureka, castro theatre show
• alameda island adventure (faction brewing, alameda island brewing, bakeries, etc)
• ✔ cocktails at 15 romolo, l'osteria del forno, 9 PM saturday show of beach blanket babylon
• ✔ hearth WRF three-course night with wine
• dinner at alfred's!
• ✔ anchor distillery tasting room on a friday afternoon
• sf flower mart and soma shenanigans
• somewhere reviewed in east bay express, like togi's mongolian, or that rice noodle...

• let's have a tree-tree
• strike a pose and join the chorus
• god and sinners, get ready to reconcile at our third-annual party for the late holiday season
• mary had a baby and we decided to marry, so let's make merry
• dash, dance, or prance your way down to the castro
• so come o come emmanuel, but please follow our one house rule and DO NOT BRING RED WINE--otherwise you'll find yourself mourning in lonely exile
• so, no matter where the rest of your night is half-spent, you and your lineage should plan on coming over

• chickpea stew or white bean stew
• frittata with onions and/or potatoes
• caramelized tofu
• cooked down in garlic with poached egg, fried bread
  • spicy, with vinegar
• mixed into panisse or falafel, with a side dish
• pureed into pesto for pasta or grain salad
• stirred into a risotto
  • poached or scrambled egg
  • hard or soft cheese
  • walnuts or other nut
• root vegetable hash in the morning
• mixed into a peanut sauce with tofu or meat
• salad topping for socca
• salad with flavorful croutons and wine/li...

• no myth, michael penn
• no rain, blind melon
• no reply, the beatles
• no quarter, led zeppelin
• no poetry, wilco
• no code (entire pearl jam album)
• no doubt (entire discography)
• no scrubs, tlc
• no depression, carter family song / uncle tupelo album

• suicide in an airplane, ornstein
• from the swimmers, ives
• cinq rechants, messaien
• mondestrunken, schoenberg
• arc-en-ciel, ligeti
• knoxville summer of 1915, barber
• one ever hangs, britten
• the crucifixion, barber
• sonata for flute and harp, iii: rondo, mozetich

• the prophet's song, queen
• to the last whale / wind on the water, stills and nash
• all we have is now, flaming lips
  • (hopefully not, fingers crossed)
• fire, the crazy world of arthur brown
• o superman, laurie anderson
• I am not afraid, owen pallett
• satan is my motor, cake
• water fountain, tune-yards
• nowadays, from chicago
• all the things that go to make heaven and earth, new pornographers
• the water shrew that rends its pray, margaret atwood
• theme song to blossom
• my heart’s in the highlands, arvo pärt
• hot sun cold shroud, wilco

• billy joel
• journey
• matchbox 20
• savage garden
• the tallest man on earth
• system of a down

• the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
• you've been fooled by april, AND SHE'S GONE----
• he came all so still, where his mother lay / as dew in aprille, that falleth on the spray

• st. elmo's fire (brian eno)
• piazza, new york catcher
• impossible germany
• miss misery
• the bleeding heart show
• mykonos
• water fountain
• the crucifixion (barber)
• miracle drug
• quia respexit humilitatem (bach magnificat)

• a new hope / oryx & crake
  • introduction to new and awesome world
  • stands alone from other parts pretty well
• empire strikes back / year of the flood
  • best entry in trilogy
  • unfortunately not recommendable as first entry into series, since it can't stand apart from prequel and sequel
• return of the jedi / maddaddam
  • begins with possibly most memorable set piece of entire trilogy (jabba's palace/bearlift)
  • ending feels like it was written in a hurry, doesn't entirely make sense
  • leia+luke/adam+zeb are arbitrarily siblings
  • key to defeating galactic empire/painball...

• buenos aires
  • accommodations
    • ✔ first two days (sat-sun)
      • rooney's hotel, san telmo
    • ✔ second six days (sun-sat)
      • aníbal airbnb, san telmo
  • city activities
    • ✔ xul solar museo -- sounds like jurassic technology
    • plane-fucking-tario
    • ✔ biking around in a park, rent bikes
    • ✔ http://www.espaciomemoria.ar/
  • day trips?
    • le tigre -- hanging around a river delta on boats, eating food, supposed to be a n...

• staples in jeff's scalp
• full windsor knot in reverse on mr. johnson
• walking around before the ceremony to decompress and looking at the menu for nick's crispy tacos and remembering how we used to go for tacos every tuesday and nick's crispy tacos wasn't good at all
• "be careful."
  • "you too."
• "meet you at the statue in an hour."
• "sam, old friend, oh man"
• eating gross food in front of 100 friends--what a good idea.
• everybody, everybody getting down to "move your feet" and knowing all the words, and doing all the call-and-response
  • and feel united, whoa-oh-oh
• mom getting seconds of mashed potatoes

• the art of dying, george harrison
• galileo, indigo girls
• seahorse, devendra banhart

• spring = junipero
• summer = hendrick's (and pimm's no. 1)
• autumn = half moon orchard
• winter = terroir

• flip flops
• jorts
• shredded lettuce
• refrigerated stone fruit
• box croutons
• cheap veggie burgers
• really dark roast coffee
• overdressed salads
• really mayo-slathered pasta and macaroni salads
• mr goodbar
• subway sweet onion sauce
• manspreading (courteously, in private)
• bacon bits

• against all odds, phil collins
  • TURN AROUND AND SEE ME CRY
• alone, heart
  • I NEVER REALLY CARED UNTIL I MET YOU
  • HOW DO I GET YOU ALONE
• night still comes, neko case
  • YOU NEVER HELD IT
• desperado, eagles
  • LET SOMEBODY LOVE YOU
• hail holy queen, sister act
  • CHERUBIM
  • SWEEEEEEET SERAPHIM
  • sister mary robert forever
• the chain, fleetwood mac
  • STILL HEAR YOU SAY'N

• laurie anderson / lou reed
• yuka honda / nels cline

• don't ride your bike on the sidewalk!
• don't ride your bike very slowly on the three-foot wide expanse of temporary sidewalk set up during castro street construction, basically forcing people who are walking the opposite direction to take refuge in local businesses!
• don't ride your bike into that sushi restaurant!
• hey, don't drive your car on the sidewalk!

• Joel renamed the conversation "Jane Leeves (of Grass)".
• "You got the zip code wrong on my address! Was that a joke about Björk?"
• "you are the bob hartley to my dick loudon."

• walt whitman
• glenn greenwald
• allen ginsberg
• chloe sevigny*

• xmas party
  • hot toddies
    • cognac
    • bourbon
    • brown-butter infused $4 rum from trader joe's
  • mulled white wine
  • baguette and cheese
  • compost cookies
    • dark chocolate
    • dried cherries
    • coffee grounds
    • pine nuts
    • toasted quinoa
    • salt and vinegar chips
    • captain crunch with crunchberries
  • pa dutch sugar cookies
  • dan savage's mom's snowballs

• colonialism
  • in africa
• napoleonic wars
• antarctica
  • discovery
  • shackleton

• ritual of making cocktails
• excuse to use kitchen scale
• excuse to read cocktail blogs
• chilled glass
• garnish
• think about buying mezcal someday

• labor day 2013
• drinks
  • pimm's cups
    • pimm's mix
    • cut fruit
    • ice
    • lemonade
    • soda
  • rose wine, white wine
  • case or two of beer
• food
  • ina garten ultimate cornbread
  • bean salad?
  • pork ribs, maybe on a grill
  • guacamole

• ✔ mount diablo
  • but now you must bike up!
• ✔ mount davidson (iconic cross, clint eastwood)
• tire swing
• ✔ camp at point reyes
• railroad museum in sacramento
• ✔ warehouse cafe in point costa
• henry coe backpacking
• ✔ treasure island
• palace of fine arts
• ✔ bike riding generally

• that's what you get for trying to exercise.
• are you right-handed?
• did you see that louisville player?
• how much longer are you in the sling?
• what kind of metal is inside your arm? (chemical engineers only)
• what about airport security?
• did you get hit by a car making an illegal right turn at market and octavia? (urban planners only)

• host the french chef
• sing "the winner takes it all"
• enter into a lesbian relationship with allison janney

• midnight clear
• skarlett letter

• trivial pursuit
• bowling
• secret santa
• gingerbread sculpting
• figs on toast
• egg whites in a cocktail
• brandade
• noodle soups
• magical realism
• jethro tull
• an egg poached in soup broth
• a gibson
• braided breads
• skillet cookies
• fondant potatoes

• sazerac
  • 2 oz rye
  • 4 dashes peychaud's
  • dash of water
  • light tsp sugar
  • pastis
  • mason jar; lemon peel
• martini (3:1)
  • 2.1 oz gin
  • .7 oz vermouth
  • up; 2 olives, w/ pit
• boulevardier
  • 2 oz rye
  • 1 oz vermouth
  • 1 oz campari
  • neat or up; orange peel, cherry, or both
• manhattan

• programming
• guitar playing
  • especially finger-picking
  • especially thumb-using
• spices

• scrub
  • to offer comments on someone's resume
• dank
  • pleasing, to a stoner

• ✔ pastis and poetry (9/29/12)
  • dinner
    • bean stew
    • polenta
    • green beans
    • red wine
    • cider
  • invocation -- you fit into me
  • you must change your life
• ✔ surprise mac 'n' cheese bakeoff
  • jeff's b-day 2012
  • yodeling pickle prize
• 27th birthday party => zaireeka party
  • yoshimi was very important to me at 17
  • so I have wanted to listen to this album for 10 years
  • desyncing is part of experience (physical...

• london (june 15 - june 20)
  • sum of 2 squares southstand apartments.
  • st. john?
  • seasalter? worth it?
• berlin (june 21 - june 26)
  • the cylinder of nabonidus at the pergamon
  • kaiserwilhelmsgedächtniskirche
    • super hahn doner
  • currywurst
• amsterdam (june 27 - june 29)
  • staying on a boat!!
  • june 28, 10 am -- the anne frank house
  • arendsnest (1000 beers)
  • biking
  • fries
  • van gogh museum?

• what is liberia?
• who is richard nixon?
• what is pygmalion?
• what is gone with the wind?
• what is pitcairn island?
• who is george iii?
• what are the knights templar?
• who is lafayette?
• who are the copts?
• who is otis, the inventor of the elevator?
• what is our american cousin?
• what is the battle hymn of the republic?

• waking up at 7 AM
• rushing to catch a bus
• time passing slowly
• time passing quickly
• thinking about time
• rushing in a group of people
• meeting a group of russian people
• eating cereal out of a bowl
• looking for a bowl to eat cereal out of
• looking for a bowl to eat anything out of
• making my mind up, trying to choose a seat
• making my mind up in general, especially if the decision involves a verb that rhymes with "take"
  • which slides can I make?
  • which pie can I bake?
  • which leaves can I rake?
  • which snow can it flake? -- this is how y...

• simply irresistible
• the ramen girl
• like water for chocolate

• "sounds like it could be awesome/a scam"
• "I am amazed/judgmental that this person stocks coors light"
• “He sounds like a remarkably creepy and forgiving person.”

• tahini, red miso, honey
• tahini, red miso, maple syrup
• tahini, apple butter
• peanut butter, apple butter
• peanut butter, maple syrup
• peanut butter, fruit jam
• peanut butter, bananas, walnuts, maple syrup, milk
• olive oil, maple syrup
• caramelized onions, poached egg
• brown butter, maple syrup, poached egg, chives

to try

• soffrito

• find out about bear canisters
• concoct a first-aid kit
• check weather
  • obsessively
• ✔ get a couchsurfing host!!
  • ohhhh yeah matt in portland
• how is the snowpack?
  • crampons rentals??
  • call rental company -- 406-888-5454
    • are crampons step-in?
    • are you renting a lot right now? how many do you have?
  • mostly play it by ear, consult with park rangers regarding what hikes are snowy, be honest about your limited snow navigation abilities
• how do we pick up our backpacking permit?...

• flaming lips
• polaris
• MIA
• david byrne (solo or talking heads, sometimes both)
• neko case (solo or new pornographers)
• prince
• white stripes
• owen pallett
• outkast

seriously, I just make the same mix cd over and over with different songs

• stevia
• lumpia
• nutria
• zambia

• consomme
  • the "consummate" stock
• supremes
  • of a citrus fruit
• ultimate pancakes
  • from vivian's millenium cafe in studio city
  • definitely really good pancakes
• perfection salad
  • http://jellypress.com/article/perfection...
• perfect food dietary supplement
  • if it is the perfect food, why is it only a supplement and not the basis of your entire diet?
• julie's ultimate blend from philz

• samuel barber / aaron copland
• heidi swanson psychological thriller
  • about a crazy obsessed vegetarian food blogger
  • julie and julia meets notes on a scandal
• walt whitman / abraham lincoln

• ethnobotanist

• a sea ghost
• a cherry ghost
• the murdering ghost that you cannot ignore
• a ghost on the bottom of a top (spinning)
• the ghost bird of lincoln's inn
• the ghost at number one

• For years, sake has been the Leonard Cohen of drinks: passionately adored by a small cadre of loyalists, but relegated to the category of “mysterious obscurity” among the masses.
• ACROSS the United States, artisanal pizza joints are opening faster than Natalie Portman movies. But inside those imported ovens, pepperoni — by far America’s most popular pizza topping — is as rare as a black swan.
• Because the dining room is in daylight at this time of year, it reminded me of Cloris Leachman without makeup or stage lighting.
• And lobes of dismal-flavored sea urchin served over thick lardo and heavy toast were just dreadful: the eighth band after Nirvana to write loud-soft-loud music and call it new.
• a “charred” flatiron steak with the t...

• batter my heart, three-person'd god
• tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe
• spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top
• cruelly, love, walk the autumn long

• sine / cosine
  • odd numbers / even numbers
• dog / cat
• red wine / white wine

• the winner takes it all, abba
• cold war, janelle monae
• lewis takes off his shirt, final fantasy
• little girl, julian casablancas
• i want to be well, sufjan stevens
• vesuvius, sufjan stevens
• ol' man river, as performed by judy garland

• life and times of harry truman
• richard feynman (I have been a bad nerd)
• toba event
• seal
• balkans
• black sea
• knot-tying

I did not really succeed in doing any of these, but I did read the shipping news

• taking the elevator the maximum possible number of floors in a building
• extreme upper and lower floors in a building that are not accessible by elevator
• taking the elevator a reasonable number of floors, but for an unusual trip that no doubt inconveniences anyone else who might be in the elevator (ex. B to 2, 3 to 6)
• elevators with separate front and back doors--so you plan your trip such that you enter on one side and leave on the other
• an elevator whose doors are blocked by a filing cabinet on one floor
• elevators where you need a key to access certain floors or to summon them at all
• dumbwaiters

• flutes
• skirts
• pearls
• needle and thread
• gift certificates
  • chick fil a
  • in n out
  • sports basement
• guitar picks
• sport watches
• calculator
• colored pencils
• russian notes
• pencil sharpener
• hole punch
• kleenex and toilet paper
• old cd's
  • andrew pants
• cables

• the son of man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_of_... )
• bret michaels + ho
• socialist butterfly
• day of the dead
• land o lakes girl
• gold diggers
• skinny drag colonel sanders
• calvin and hobbes
• charlie chaplin drag king
• voldemort
• slash ("actually, this is my real hair.")
• hobo with glass eye (not really a costume)

• dizzle
• alex
• colin 1
• hung
• earring couchsurfer
• caroline

• schmaltz
• lard
• tallow
• suet
• duck fat
• blubber

• less than jake / better than ezra
• cat power / elf power / british sea power
  • also power station, if they ever become ironically hip

• somebody to love
• love, reign o'er me
• gloria
• letter from an occupant
• five years
• the shrine/an argument
• how can I ease the pain

• ✔ water purification
• ✔ coffee thing
  • thanks dack
• ✔ sleeping pad
• first aid kit, particularly:
  • aspirin
  • sunblock
  • blister stuff
  • chapstick
  • bandaids

• toy story
• wok and roll
• bee movie
• ringtone cycle

• wagon wheel
• amma, the hugging saint
• cow parade
• oberlin
• urban coyotes
• taping together cardboard boxes to make a giant cardboard box
• ecstatic dancing and unkempt hair
• garth brooks’ “friends in low places”
• the binturong
• dire straits' "money for nothing"
• toledo, ohio

• red: porn star look-alike
• black: washed-up child star
• yellow: cautionary tale for seat belt wearing
• pink: felicity cast member and basic cable star
• blue: well-adjusted middle-aged gay man
• green: ultimate fighter

• blackberry milkshake
• rose wine
• tang
• iced lemon verbena tea with honey

• judge judy dubbed in other languages
• drag queens who dress up like patti smith
• oregon trail parody where you go to portland and end up as a hipster

• torontopian
• assange
  • verb derived from julian's name

• I'd like to be a gallery, put you all inside my show
• my brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
• I wish you could swim like dolphins can swim

• caramel tofu, dark greens
• pan-roasted potatoes
• squash soup
• fried brussels sprouts

• it's in the detonator
• the bride punching her way out of the coffin
• nick cave: THERE IS A WAR COMING!
• my name is ellen james
• laura dern hyperspace
• the droplet
• pleasantville, the tree bursts into flames

that already exist

• gayby
• gaymer
• gaysian

that ought to be in broader usage

• pennsylgaynia
• gaycation
• drivegay
• thanksgayving
• speed gayting
• gayrizona
• daily affirgaytion
• snowmosexual
• gaybeas corpus
• gayverner

• bogoroditse devo, rachmaninoff
• samson, regina spektor

• "bogoroditse devo" from rachmaninoff's vespers
• "sandwich day"
• a poached egg
• blue lake green beans
• "america" from west side story (movie)
• "annabel lee"
• a pizza, a salad, rose wine, friends

• thisiswhyyourefat.com
• lady gaga
• oprah

• sky
• woe
• dew

"people have to learn to distinguish between a 'need' and a 'want'" -hvn

• FEDORA (brown)

I actually hate watching movies

• ✔ gates of heaven
• ✔ grizzly man
• ✔ minority report
• I'm not there
• the searchers
• enter the dragon
• tampopo
• ✔ night of the hunter
• ✔ dog day afternoon
• suddenly last summer
• whatever happened to baby jane
• richard iii
• thirty two short films about glenn gould
• ✔ true stories
• rabbit hole
• ✔ paris is burning
• the big combo
• the dead
• police story
• ✔ babette's feast

• blizzard of '96, central PA
• supertyphoon of '09, california

• unseasonable warmth
• wearing glasses
• stalking people
• asparagus season

• bjork covering "touch me" (the doors)
• mariachi cover of "one more cup of coffee" (bob dylan)
• white stripes covering "(not your) steppin' stone" (monkees)
• devendra banhart covering "the origin of love" (hedwig)
• mary j blige covering "psycho killer" (talking heads)
• jazz band that plays at cheeseboard covering third movement of beethoven's pathetique
• patti smith covering "cactus" (the pixies)
• peaches covering "when doves cry" (prince)
• prince covering "friday" (rebecca black)
• cher covering "yoshimi battles the pink robots pt. 1" (flaming lips)
• sufjan stevens on banjo covering "rolling in the deep" (adele)

• tina fey
• jim croce
• girl from the blair witch project

• bombs over baghdad (outkast)
• quia respexit humilitatem (bach's magnificat)
• st. elmo's fire (brian eno)
• reckoner (radiohead)
• return of the frog queen (jeremy enigk)
• most of quatuor pour la fin du temps (messiaen)
  • also joie du sang des etoiles (messiaen)
• the crucifixion (britten)
• peaches en regalia (zappa)
• art of almost (wilco)
• most of tune-yards catalog
• hotline bling
• player piano studies (conlon nancarrow)
• most of missy elliott catalog

• "marrakesh express"
  • by crosby, stills, and nash
  • not the grateful dead
• "i will get by"
  • by the grateful dead
  • not the traveling wilburys
  • and is actually called "touch of grey"
• "do you love me"
  • by the hollies
  • I did not actually know that the band that performed this had a name.
• "teeth"
  • by lady gaga
  • I thought it was sung by a man named alex

• walt whitman
• gogo yubari
  • the bride
• mothra + two girls that summon mothra
• flo and kay, world's only living autistic savant twins

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/catego...

• group costume: all the robots from mega man 2
• ✔ julia child
• werewolf bar mitzvah
• octopus michael jackson
• beavis and butthead (and cher)
• lucy and ethel
• the grinch, stealing christmas
• benjamin franklin
• wile e coyote and roadrunner
• little mac (punch out!)
• judge judy

• "I'm not gonna be sick anymore, because an angel told me."
• Prince had a spiritual epiphany that the album was evil and had the album recalled.
• in its current 4m there is a feeling that the NPGMC gone as far as it can go. In a world without limitations and infinite possibilities, has the time come 2 once again make a leap of faith and begin anew? These r ?s we in the NPG need 2 answer.

• gary danko
• garment district
• god damn

• gilgamesh (gil for short)
• malaria vaccine
• copernicus laser
• cleopatra laser
• bart and muni (twins of different genders)
• rudielle
• vowel
• eel
• catharsha
• shock
• poopology

• crepes on cole
• walk of shame
• moss on trees
• mouse brain juice
• drunk fried rice
• james k. polk

• enter a competitive eating contest
• bike to stanford and back

• washing dishes
• salty fried potatoes
• warm lava-like egg yolks
• multivitamins (placebo)
• mint tea

• cataclysmic earthquake
• laptop power supply exploding
• gas leak destroying house when I turn on the stove
• drive-by shooting
• plane crashes
  • plane I'm in crashing into other plane in midair
  • midair two-plane crash above me raining debris onto me
• teeth cracking / falling out of my head
• squeezing a quarter in my palm so hard that it travels through my skin
• being pierced through a soft spot in my head
• pyrex dishes exploding
• implosions
• cracking xiphoid process
• balloons popping
• ferris wheels

• are passing cars running their windshield wipers?
• are people carrying umbrellas?
• are there raindrops falling into standing pools of water?

• benjamin britten, war requiem: "recordare jesu pie quod sum causa tuae viae"
• mozart, requiem: "ne absorbeat eas tartarus ne cadant in obscurum"
• nirvana, lithium: entire song
• yes, roundabout: bass riff introducing the bridge

• yummy
• slurp
• gooey
• unctuous
• aioli
• bivalve
  • why would you ever use this word in a restaurant review
• protein
  • mostly when used synecdochically, e.g. the protein was overcooked

• trachimbrod
• lakefront brewery in milwaukee on a friday
• beacon street on the first of may when all the flowering trees are in bloom
• washington square park on a summer night

• is living on a houseboat a good idea?
• is "snow in august" a good book?
• can there be irony in facial hair?
• is mortality a turn-on?
• is galaxy quest a good movie?

• telegraph avenue (berkeley) and haight street (sf)
• solano avenue (berkeley/albany) and college ave below ashby (oakland)
• palo alto and walnut creek
• union city and alameda

• howard
• caroline
• joe
• jed
• bethany

• tell them "this might be on the exam"
• tell them the only time available for extra office hours is 7:30 AM
• use the urinal next to them

• cauliflower soup with red beet chips
• caramelized scallops with marble potatoes and radishes in a lemon vinaigrette
• cassoulet, duck confit, leek bread pudding
• cheese course
• chocolate mousse, theo's coffee chocolate

plus

• tooter, dan, adam

• I like to wear ties sometimes
• lots of colors
• threadless t-shirts
• impressive outer layers
• my glasses are blue

• wearing a bicycle helmet
• flossing daily
• washing hands after using restroom
• taking a multivitamin

• the world according to garp
• snow in august
• extremely loud and incredibly close
• brave new world
• maddaddam
• a prayer for owen meany (thanks shana!)

• mondays: chamber chorus (5:30 pm)
• tuesdays: listening to savage lovecast
• wednesdays: donuts (3:30 pm)
• thursdays: nothing (soon to be 30 rock)
• fridays: sleep

I wish I had thought of first

• sofa so good
• adam's ribs
• joanie loves tchotchkes
• desperate housewares
  • or disparate housewares?

I actually did think of first

• loaves and fashions

• more cushion for the pushin'
• stupider than Jupiter
• I'm down with that
• bros before hos
• batshit crazy
• 
  and
  
  go together like ice cream and an onion
• she looks like she fell out of the ugly tree and hit her face on every branch on the way down
• girl you need to chill out because right now you are a hot cup of cuckoo

• sufjan and marzuki stevens
• lukas podolski
• mark wahlberg (c. 1991)
• prince caspian
• russ tamblyn (c. 1961)
• raphael barker
• bearded jake gyllenhaal
• samuel klayman
• orson welles in his 20s
• halle berry
• shakira
• heidi klum
• paula radcliffe
• judi dench
• blythe danner (c. 1972)
• kathleen and graham, hosts of checkpoint

edited after watching all too well (taylor's version)

• have food delivered
• enroll in a program that lets me get through a security line faster in an airport
• use a credit card with an annual fee
• own a car

• appropraite
• suddently
• weighted
• saturday (trying to write saturated)
• withing

• the tin drum
• the sympathizer
• luster

• why are there so many photos of midcentury americans taken by carl van vechten on wikipedia?
• where did the cool s come from?

• scali
• anadama
• bulkie
• origin only
  • parker house roll
  • graham bread/craker

• less cheese than you think you need--3 oz is good
• grate the gruyere fine and mix it in as you fold the egg whites
• 30 minutes at 400 F, convection if available
  • or 15 min at 400 then 20 min at 350
• no collar
• run a knife around the inside of the dish
• it doesn't just need to be a bechamel, it can be 11 oz of any substrate, add a little roux if it's wet

• wordle: never lose
  • subgoal: make distribution of success results into a perfect bell curve
• dordle: never lose again
• quordle: 95% win rate
• worldle: 60% win rate
• squareword: 8.00 average guesses
• xordle: never lose again
• fibble: 90% win rate

• flight behaviors / the overstory
• a tale for the time being / extremely loud and incredibly close
• detransition baby / luster

• aging
• mortality
• parents
• communication
• covid
• cruise ships
• west wing erotic fanfic
• water dispensers in fridges

• pontoon boat
• city cake
• dream stove
• burning religion
• juneteenth cookies
• condiment ramekins

• sam oneil, jeff goldblum, and laura dern
• ac newman, dan bejar, neko case
• niles, marty, and frasier

• leonardo da vinci's the last supper
• the mural that elliott smith is standing in front of on the cover of "figure 8"

• what was the largest city in the confederacy?
• who is the only person who has won an academy award for both acting and writing?
• who was the most-photographed man of the 19th century?

• ✔ tomato and apple salad
• ✔ tomato brown butter shiso salad
• ✔ tomato mustard tart from smitten kitchen
  • took 2 extra years
• ✔ laurie colwin tomato pie
• ✔ al-son r-man tomato fennel salad again
• ✔ pan con tomate

• wuthering heights
• once in a lifetime
• end of the world as we know it
• bachelorette

• a prayer for owen meany
• extremely loud and incredibly close
• calvin and hobbes
• x-men

• kate mckinnon
• kamala harris
• paul simon
• prince?
• rob schneider
• joan crawford
• patton oswalt

• husky -- weird need for vengeance
• shepherd, rottweiler -- avoid and repel
• retriever -- angry that they're having too much fun
• bulldog, pug -- does not recognize as a fellow dog
• doodle, poodle -- decided they're okay now, unless they're too fun
• terrier -- trust, but verify
• dachshund -- does not represent me

• the last words of david, randall thompson
• song of democracy, howard hanson
• hear my prayer o lord, henry purcell
• bogoroditse devo, sergei rachmaninoff
• concerning them which are asleep, john harbison
• sephardisms ii, jorge lidermann
• miserere mei deus, allegri
• seven last words from the cross, james macmillan
• the guest, sara kirkland snider
• paanyaya iii, robin estrada
• without words, huang ruo
• path of miracles, joby talbot

• rupaul's drag race
• tidying up
• mountain climbing
• rural cookery
• solving sudokus
• the self
• astrology

• the keurig coffee pod
• the labradoodle
• inbox zero
• the term "dad-rock"
• the term "manic pixie dream girl"
• angel numbers

• “equal protection under the claw”
• “time to enact seasonal claw”
  • (beginning of summer ads)
• “I’m lucy lawless, and I’m never caught clawless”
• “I don’t make the claw, I just enjoy it”
• "other drinks can't compete with our claws"
  • (pun on "non-compete clause")
• "asked her her drink, she said claw claw claw"
  • (biz markie advertisement)

• oscar isaac’s character in llewyn davis while singing “please mr kennedy”
• madonna in the god control video
• lena dunham in the bad blood video
• da shi in the entire three body problem trilogy
• sammy clay in the last section of kavalier & clay, smoking a cigarette while reading a comic book about the golem and eating an egg salad sandwich
• bebe glazer's monologue on frasier

• green beans with caper vinaigrette
• tomatoes with shallots and lime
• charred scallion white bean dip
• green tahini dip
• pea pesto with ricotta
• carrot walnut muhamarra
• winter vegetables with buttermilk dressing
• thai salad with coconut and tofu
• horta kale salad with feta
• acorn squash and broccoli rabe salad with ricotta
• spinach salad with chickpeas and yams
• cucumber and corn soup with buttermilk
• ✔ caramelized broccoli soup
• eggplant and tomato calette
• butternut squash ribbon and meyer lemon pizza
• ✔ tofu fried rice with snap peas
• thai fried rice with sausage
• pomegranate quinoa with chickpeas

• watching someone cut fruit in the palm of their hand
• watching those goats that climb up 85 degree slopes to lick salt deposits
• watching the blue angels
• watching cheerleading shows
• seeing pictures of that cheese rolling race where people have to run down a hill super fast

• list of all amino acids
• how to read plainchant
• significance of the dreyfus affaire
• what does the dew point mean
• how does the water table work

• the universe tends toward chaos and disorder
• there are limits to the fidelity of communication

• My will
  • everything is illuminated
• In CLAY.
  • kavalier & clay
• The space.
  • three-body problem trilogy
• To view.
  • the satanic verses
• Long waiting.
  • the beet queen

• toby on the west wing revealing his girlfriend is pregnant with two children: holding up two fingers facing one direction, then immediately rotating your hand 180 degrees while mouthing “two”
• carson kressley being stunned by violet’s tartan reveal: leaning back while shaking head, flailing hands uselessly and staring into the middle distance
• angry beavers: wiggling one finger back and forth to signify “no”
• german-language mcdonald’s commercial starring heidi klum: point two fingers at my eyes and then yours to signify I’m watching you

• I should not have to observe poverty while spending this much money
  • no, really, let me explain how much money I am spending here
  • I just recently visited san francisco and did not previously know poverty existed
• ugh, look how mad the internet got when I was just dropping truth-bombs
  • something, something, johnstown pa, 2016 election
• you don’t understand; free speech means all speech in all venues
  • history shows that the noblest ideas will prevail in the marketplace
• the important thing about this tragedy is that I was right 10 years ago
  • if you weren’t writing snarky articles ...

• mussels
• prawns
• mushrooms (except morel)
• eggplant
  • always ready as of 2020)
• turnip
• parsnip

• executed
  • artichokes, raisins, pine nuts, mint pesto, lillet vinaigrette
  • fava beans, celery pesto, meyer lemon
  • breadcrumbs, rosemary carrots, chili oil, and parsley
  • green beans, pluots, tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, honey vinaigrette
  • nectarines, pickled onions, shiso, mitsuba, poppy seeds
  • tomatoes, basil, and garlic oil
  • corn, jalapenos, lemon, and tarragon
  • english peas and beet chips
  • salted melon, roasted red peppers, red onions, sorrel, and mint
  • simmered kabocha, mirin, maple syrup, scallions, lemon zest
  • celery root puree and sage oil
  • ma po cauliflower, pine nuts
  • caramelized sunchokes and wasabi arugula

• intj
• capricorn
• millennial
• wilco fan
• conscientiousness mode

• liquor before pouring it
• spices before using them
• my hands after washing them
• empty water bottle: is it moldy?

• zen
• calm
• refresh
• passion
• awake

• california avenue
• esa-pekka salonen
• berkeley egyptologist
• antixenophobia
• watermelon radishes
• 28 by 51
• salmonberry gradients
• discontinued pair of pants
• minnesota timberwolves
• angels in america
• isothiazolinones
• sacramento matriarch
• buttigieg and klobuchar
• palatino linotype
• differential calculus
• minneola tangelos
• ninja megafalconzord
• president garofalo
• cauliflower pizza crust
• ovid's metamorphoses
• warren has a plan for that

• michelle obama
• lin-manuel miranda
• david bowie
• annie lennox
• susan sontag
• dolly parton
• patti smith
• pa ingalls
• greta thunberg

• borderline
• la isla bonita
• vogue
• drowned world
• beautiful stranger
• hung up

• people who have been married for longer than I have
• my dog when he runs faster than I do
• people who have their vacations planned earlier in the year than I do
• people whose files or e-mails are more organized on their computers
• people who have a reading book on the train when I don't have one
• people who use the word "epistolary" or "serialized" in a sentence without having to think super hard first
• people who sign off of the zoom call faster than I do after saying goodbye
• people who are really into seasonality and know like the different kinds of apricots that come into the market or the exact week that tayberries are in season
• left-handed people

• half moon bay
  • bart to daly city
  • inland one way, coast the other way
  • stay at a b&b
  • dinner in montara?
• ✔ santa rosa and guerneville
  • take golden gate transit to santa rosa, fully laden
  • wineries, breweries, etc
• scenic wineries of livermore
  • probably a day trip
  • or camp/staycate in east bay?
• ✔ samuel p taylor and nicasio
  • a first try at bike camping!
• ✔ china camp
  • this one too

everybody freak out!!

• ice-9 in cat's cradle / polywater
• the china syndrome / three-mile island
• octavia butler's "parable of the talents" / trump presidency
• talking heads "psycho killer" / son of sam
• bombs over baghdad
• donald glover makes lando calrissian gender fluid / billy dee williams was gender fluid all along
• the wreck of the titan: or, futility / the wreck of the titanic

• bullitt
• the maltese falcon
• harold and maude
• the worst james bond film
• vertigo
• san francisco

• sherry good
  • 1 oz mezcal, 1 oz sherry, 1 oz gran classico
  • 1 oz gin, 1 oz sherry, 1 oz cocchi, dash cointreau
  • 1.5 oz bourbon, 1 oz sherry, 0.5 oz cynar
  • 1 oz sloe gin, 1 oz sherry, 1 oz campari, orange twist
• sherry indifferent
  • 2 oz tequila, 0.5 oz sherry, 0.25 oz coffee, 0.25 oz benedictine
• sherry bad
  • 2 oz gin, 0.75 oz sherry ("shartini")