Cartooning , playing with my children, cooking, traveling, and romantic getaways with my wife
Harpo Marx, Charles Schulz, Jeff MacNelly, Chuck Jones, Walt Kelly, Theodore Geisel, Bill Hicks, and Harry Houdini. Wait a minute! They're all dead. Wonder what that means ...
Okay, now for some living, breathing people: Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, Bob Newhart, Brad Bird, John Lasseter, George Lucas, Tim Burton, Bill Amend, Berkeley Breathed, and the ever-elusive Bill Watterson.
Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music, Elvis Costello, Rosanne Cash, Nicholas Payton, Dexter Gordon, U2, and UB40
The Godfather I and II (no III), Star Wars, Some Like It Hot, The Searchers, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, This Is Spinal Tap, The Incredibles, Blazing Saddles, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, and Monkey Business
Star Trek, Stargate SG-1, M*A*S*H, Frasier, Rome, and Pushing Daisies
Anything by Ethan Canin, 1776 by David McCullough, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, A Confederacy of Dunces, and guilty-pleasure Harry Potter
My father