Things I like

Because Ace's 'Things I Dislike" made me think of it

1. Netflix
2. Books by Cormac McCarthy
3. and David Foster Wallace
4. No-limit Poker with a 100 dollar max buy-in
5. Seeing the Pacific Ocean from my window
6. 94 Silver Oak Napa
7. with a medium rare NY strip and lyonaise potatos
8. Leonard Cohen
9. and Ella Fitzgerald
10. Bulldogs

 

oh ...
and Monty Python and Blazing Saddles.

 

hemingway's dialogue

chapter 14 of cannery row

matt taibbi

my mashed potatoes

girls who play point guard

making googlie googlie conversation with babies and having them smile

audacity

playing in the pacific ocean

the train ride from central jersey into penn station

the way jd drew ran the bases

no-hitters being broken up with 2 outs in the 9th

4th and 1 from the 2, and seeing which coach has the balls to go for it

new york city at 5 o'clock

people with dark-chocolate layers

 

oh, and the way oasis makes me feel: goddamn fantastic.

 

sunsets

good Mexican food

nerds

the interwebs

 

The aroma of the Carnegie Deli at 2 a.m. on a cold winter night.

Old baseball players who tell funny stories that are also accurate.

Buying books at The Strand book store, and paying a little extra to have them shipped home.

The ballpark before the gates open.

Old Steve and Garry radio shows.

The Dick Van Dyke show.

Baseball card stores that have a "junk" box of 5/$1 cards that include some from the '60s.

Bacon.

 

Punk compilations

Kung Fu movies

The river near my house

Laughing out of frustration

 

Body surfing in Maui.

Reminiscing about days as a traveling baseball writer.

Erin Andrews' sideline reporting.

Grilled top sirloin.

Frozen margaritas on a warm day.

 

ESPN SEC football on Saturday evenings - it's even better if you are coming back from another game, flip on the screen and have the replay starting up at 10 p.m. (1 a.m. Eastern) and you don't know the score.

Diet Coke

long drives on desolate roads

finishing one book and starting another.

 

Cotton candy

spring days at Keeneland

nights on the couch, laughing and watching movies

slow jams

Curling up in a ball under an electric blanket

Reality TV

Laughing

Fighting

Loving

Air-popped popcorn

Inside jokes

People who have known me long enough to know too much, but love me anyway

People who haven't known me long, but still have dirt and like me anyway.

Aquariums

Zoos

My mom

Sales

Shoes

 

Pain

Good Mexican food

A frosty mason jar full of my favorite beer

Going back to the freezer and getting another mason jar.......

Watching my son grow up

The sound of a perfectly struck golf shot on a still day

Rain

The Rocky Mountains

 

Comic books (more specifically DC's "Wednesday Comics" a 12-week-run of a few stories done on newsprint, oversized along with anything done by Darwyn Cooke)

Discovering new but old post-punk pop like Cannonball Jane, Rocketship and Talulah Gosh

Listening to American Forces Radio on 873 AM in Germany and hearing the PSAs and news (reminds of home and my childhood spent as an Army brat)

Watching SEC football in the fall.

Hearing my 4-year-old son walk up to me and say: "Hey, my Dad!"

Hearing my 2-year-old daughter tell me when I get home from work "Hi, Daaadee!"

Walking around a new city and finding a great used record shop.

Taking the 06:14 a.m. morning Sprinter between Frankfurt and Berlin. Almost always empty and the free coffee is good.