Books, movies, cooking, tennis, good/bad television, the Internets
new friends
Lara Ewen and the Unstrung Orchestra , The Smiths, Elvis Costello, The Shins, Pavement, Gillian Welch, Beastie Boys, Beck, Cake, Clap Your Hands, Divine Comedy, Fiona Apple
P.O.V., NewsHour, Daily Show, Frontline, Independent Lens, Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Gallactica, Top Chef (all hail Padma), Veronica Mars, Alias, Antiques Roadshow (esp. when people think they have valuable stuff and it's not and vice versa when a cute old lady is involved), Masterpiece Theatre, Mystery, Prime Suspect, 30 Rock, How I Met My Mother, The Office, Nigella
Ernest Hemingway, E.M. Forster, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Joan Didion, Jane Austen, Hermann Hesse, P.D. James, William S. Gibson, Neil Stephenson, J.K. Rowling, Steven Johnson, Henry Jenkins, Malcolm Gladwell, Salman Rushdie, Dorothy Parker, Michael Pollan
Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Edward R. Murrow, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Sanger, Frank Lloyd Wright, Bob Dylan, Fred Wiseman, Shirley Chisholm, Woodward and Bernstein, Jane Jacobs, Bill Moyers