Things you love for no good reason

"In a Big Country" by Big Country

"Tubthumping" by Chumbawumba

"I'll Never Let You Go" by Steelheart

Old Chargers uniforms

Old issues of "The National" and other National merchandise.

 

Overdone SportsJournalists.com phrases

 

When my 65-year-old mom sends me a text message from her iPhone

The gruff voice all quarterbacks use at the line of scrimmage

The way a coach I cover starts every answer to one of my questions with "Again, ..." — even when it's the first thing I've asked him.

 

Sound a car's tires make on a metal bridge roadway.

Those very odd moments when a song you've been thinking about suddenly comes on the car radio. Bonus points if you turn on the radio or switch to the station and ... there it is!

Opportunities to make like that delinquent kid on The Simpsons and say, "Hah hah!" at just the right moment when someone screws up. Breaks the tension every time. Or quadruples it.

And this guy:

 

Hot showers

Digital video recorders

Sugar-free Slurpees

NFL gamebooks

Mark Wahlberg's bad acting

Smell of chimney smoke on a crisp autumn day

Sandals, even when it's cold outside

Driving

Reading the newspaper while standing up in the kitchen, eating a bowl of cereal

 

There is no shame in liking that song. NONE!!!!

 

--Disco
--Walking on city streets
--Watching telenovelas with the sound off
--A cigar about twice a year

 

Rainy days

Tv shows on DVD

Fireplaces in studio apartments

text messaging

Quiznos

 

taibbi on politics

bucky on baseball

zooey deschanel's eyes and the way every girl smiles

slappy's top 25 pollery

jones' storytelling

and people rebelling just cuz they feel like it

boswell on the skins

and bosworth's autobiography in the 99-cent bin

red bull galore

and really just a whole lotta things more ...

but not so much the monkey losing control of the elephant. i don't like that anymore.

but when it does happen, it's never a bore.

oh, and oasis.

 

If mastrubation has ceased to be a good reason for anything, the terrorists bankers have won.

 

Being reminded of rap songs from college

"Do Anything" (hi BYH!)

Pixy Stix

really soft socks

 

trains

walking on train tracks

dirt track racing

"goin muddin"

camping

my imagination

perfume