Things I Like

Every day, I’ll add one thing to this list:

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, toast with butter, Apollo 8, Garfield, the "slightly pull the car up while someone's trying to get in" gag, dogs with their heads sticking out car windows, wood paneling, pork egg foo young, rain, Roadrunner (Modern Lovers), the green type in Hulu’s search bar, Marah, Without Feathers, hour 3 of a wedding reception, French women, Rob Brydon, Indiana high school basketball, whenever anyone else cancels an appointment, The Star-Spangled Girl (the play not the movie), Cheaper by the Dozen (the book not the movie grrrrr), 1995, Camille Claudel, the perfect pen, hotels, witnessing the slow-moving car crash of when some guy replies to "I'm ______ and I'll be your waitress" with "I'm ______ and I'll be your customer!", The Red Green Show, dinner parties at 100 Metro, Robert Kennedy, the first warm sock out of the dryer, the #7, honest waiters, Russell Edson, Rankin/Bass animation, Soup (the books not the “food”), Queen Elizabeth II (sorry, I),"Bobby Jean", my orange bear hat, Ball Four, The Steven Banks Show, French Vanilla anything, Porridge (the sitcom not the disgusting "food"), a paperback with the perfect floppiness to it, oranges, Downton Abbey, shag carpet, the first 3 Ed Burns movies, peas, knowing it's about to rain, Paul McCartney, Peter Tinniswood, Cheerios, the Starbucks mobile ordering app, any toaster with more than two slots, bears, watching car tail lights crossing a bridge at night, refrigerator ice machines that work, nodding & saying "fellas" whenever I walk by two dogs together, rye bread, That Thing You Do!, Martin Short, Square Books in Oxford Mississippi, Hayday, my feet in the grass, Jeff Lamp, the thrill of an upcoming rest stop with several great fast food options, women, 7/06/1957, vintage 1970s Pizza Hut, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (obviously the UK one and not the awful US version), kids who actually try to be funny, The Replacements, great straws, "What's Happening!!", Rocco DiSpirito's "The Restaurant", Christmas lights, Carol Burnett, The Turkey's Nest, thunder, "Only Fools and Horses", the fries at the bottom of the bag, the first "Mad Men" office, the Williamsburg Softball League 2003-2012, Coach Bobby Finstock, "Animal Farm" by The Kinks, London Fog, cloth couches, DT & the Shakes, Norman Lear, taking the train, a sportcoat you don’t want to take off, frozen waffles, Bill Russell, Stove Top stuffing, the mingling of generations at weddings, carpeting, BritBox, front porches, Stephen Merchant, sheepdog drone work videos, Ralph Malph, canceled meetings, the word “shenanigans”, the first time I ever pulled off saying “bodega” after moving to Brooklyn, my friend Riley, Joy Garden, David Spade doing his impression of Dennis Miller calling him "Spudly", Bob Uecker, when a sitcom pairs off two unlikely characters, "Uncle", the first Autumn issue of "The New Yorker", Johnny Hart, Doritos & peanut butter, Joe Strummer, people who don’t always pretend they have better things to do, Teen Wolf, Dancing On My Own (the song not the activity), mushy peas, St. Paul (the sandwich not the city)(sorry city I've just never been), Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, R.E.M., old men only too happy to give their thoughts on the bowl of ice cream they’re eating, Bulleit bottles, Wally my cat friend, asking "what if it's a puppy?" whenever anyone gets a box in the mail, saying the word "mouse", saying “mousey mousey”, the 1995 PBS doc on rock & roll, sausage wheels, Monopoly, provolone, very old monarchies that are without actual power but still are charming enough to let you believe just a little bit in magic, oranges, Steve Jones, chicken planks from Long John Silver's, ivy, green, Love in Vain, Wayne Federman, Magic Shell, the off-off Broadway classic La Cocina, a classic barn jacket, The Great Brain, funny raccoon pictures, raw onion, every time Principal Ava on “Abbot Elementary” walks into a scene, Mr. Submarine, whatever it is I think 1970s architecture looks like, The Clissold Arms, The Wonder Years reboot, my first cronut, podcasting, Teenage Riot, Liev Schrieber narrating anything, brown, any kind of "melt" when they can still keep the mayo/tomatoes cold, Bloom County, Baby Come Back (The Equals not Player), Geoff Esper, a party mix with as close to zero pretzels as we can get at the moment, Derry Girls, John Lennon chewing gum onstage, a trail mix with as close to zero raisins as we can get at the moment, Cheez Whiz, October baseball, Lou Reed's "New York", funny Karl Mueller, The Vacant Lot, Saturday, notebooks, novels that go into great detail about what murderers on the run eat at roadside diners, Rick Sebak's "A Hot Dog Program", Arthur Nersesian's "The Fuck Up", crinkle-cut fries, "Gavin and Stacey", Graham Linehan before he lost his mind, Alison Steadman, Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", candy corn, Father Ted, day drinking, The Killer, the Hallmark Christmas Channel's refusal to spend more than a dime on fake snow, Young Frankenstein, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown", Revolver, WIA (the show not the actual address), the first time of Fall when dead leaves fall like rain, “Planes, Trains and Automobiles”, “Clerks”, Dave Attell, being the only person on an entire corporate floor, Chuck Klosterman, the podcast "Let it Roll", stumbling onto terrestrial radio while in a cabin in the woods, Cardinal Point Winery, hash browns, seeing the first Christmas tree of the season, the mid-late 1990s, free office coffee no matter if it's shitty or fine, coming in from the cold, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, thinking "wow that's the hardest I've laughed in forever", Bedford & N 7th, Tony Shalhoub, 15 years of Xmastime, rubbing dogs’ butts, the first “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” hearing of the season, recliners that swivel, the constant blizzard of fat jokes in any episode of "What's Happening!!", when kids make cookies, Catherine Reitman, luxuriating in bed, "Le Morte d'Arthur", "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney, Irish stereotypes about horses, tater tots, the unrelenting rock & roll of Peter Buck, "Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals", orange, brake lights afar in the dark, over-the-top reenactment actors, reading books, Take My Teenage Head, writing books, the first bad weather of winter, Jon Lovitz, Alex P. Keaton, Dunkin' Donuts grilled cheese sandwich, Ralf Little, closing the work laptop to start a long vacation, Christmas Eve, basements, lasagna soup, funny sharks, crunchy Raisin Bran, Frank's West Italian Restaurant Pizzeria, Graceland (the place not the album), flannel shirts, "Suicaine Gratifaction", Thursday night, "Bored to Death", Ken Marino,