Magoo

"The Game", 2012, 24-Hour Cafés, the Abandoned Highway, Accents, Accordion, Adult Content, Adventure, Ah-Hah Moments, Air Hockey, the Alaskan Way Viaduct, the Alligator Game (or any other game where you get to bop something on the head with a big mallet), Alphabetizing, Altars, Amusement Parks, Animals (prehistoric-current), Answers, Antonio Banderas Street, Arcades, Art, Atlases, A and W Sparkling Cream Soda, Autumn, Baby Pancakes, the Bad Luck Lullaby, Badminton, Balloons, Bars, Beaches, Beauty, Belly Dancing, the Big Rock Candy Mountain, Biographies and Autobiographies, Bird(s of prey) Watching, Blankets, Bluegrass, Bluntness, Bouncy Balls, Bowling, Boxing, Bravery, Breakfast at J's (in Monmouth, OR), Bubbles and Bubble Wrap, Buenos Aires, Candy, Carbonated Fruit Juice, Carnivorous Plants, Carousels (especially the one at the pier with my favorite horse, Robin Hood), Cartoons, Catacombs, Celebrity Gossip, Charm, Chasing Fireflies and Geese, Chilean Time and the Chilean Cold, Chuck Norris Jokes, el Chupacabra, Cities, City Punch, Clarity, the Classic Arts Showcase, the Claw Machines at the Seattle Center (because all other claw machines are designed to rob you of both your money and your joy), close encounters with hawks and snow geese and that robin that just kept on flying into our kitchen window, Cloudy Weather, Cincinnati, Coelacanths and Giant Squids, Colloquialism, Color, Condiments, the Cone of Silence, Confidence, Connect Four, Connections, Country, Creamsicles, Crimes of Passion, Crump, crying at media loan, Culture(s), Dalmation Plantations, Dance, Dander, Decisiveness, deja a mis juevas, Delis, Diversity, Doilies, Donut Stalks, Doodling, Dreams, Dromornis Stirtoni (the Demon Duck of Doom), that earnest security guard, the Elbow, Elizabeth Beth, El Tambo, Empathy, Enlightenment, Eye Contact, Faith, Family, Fashion, Feelings, Fiddle, Fiddler Crab Season, Figurative Language, Figure Eights, Film, finally fulfilling my childhood dream of leaving my seatbelt unbuckled during take-off and landing, Fine Baritones, Finger Traps, Fireworks, Fitness, Flipping over boxes of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake to FIGHT THE MAN, Floom, Flowers, Folk, the Food Court of the Gods, Forgiveness, Freedom, Freelard, Frost, Frosting and Cracker Sandwiches, Fruit, Gardens, Gelato, Geography, Ghosts, Gleb, the Glue, Gluesticks, Good Friends and Good Times, Goodwill (and, how at any moment, you can expect to find anything from a rare beanie baby to a pristine arrangement of Apollo 13 tapes among an otherwise scattered video section), Grandiose Hand Gestures, Graphic Novels, Greensleeves, the Grodin, Happiness, Hats (in theory), Haystacks, Heaven, Hide and Seek, High Fives and Low Fives, Highway 2, Holidays, Honesty, Hope, Horseback Riding, Hot Sauces, how I used to leave the door open while taking a bath because I was afraid that gremlins would attack me, Humanization, Ice Cream Soup and Ice Cream Trucks, the idea of snorting pixie stix, Imagination, Ingaham, Instantaneous Personal Magnetism, Interactive Art, Interior and Exterior Decorating, Intimacy, Iron-Rich Foods, Jinkies, Jollies, Jorge (the Spanish George), Juice, Junkos, Jukeboxes, Jurassic Park and Independence Day and Groundhog Day and When Harry Met Sally and Twister and Speed and The Fugitive and Kindergarten Cop (and all of those other movies that never get old), Karaoke, Kevin Bacon's Son, King Cat Comics, Kite-Flying, Korean Soap Operas, Lace, Land Sea Monsters, Laughter, Leading Lines, Leaves, Legumes, Letters, Life Gems, Lighthouses, Listening, the look inside peoples' houses game, Loon Call Cassette Tapes, Low Lighting, Lullabies, Madness, Magazines, Magic and the Magic Hour, Maps, the Mario Moment, Marshmallow Bushes and Marshmallow Fields, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Meat Peeps, memories like the one where Jenna and I ran into Peru on the escalators, Mentos and Diet Coke, Military Time, Mini Golf, Mischief, Misfortune Cookies, Missuss Marinara Milkshake, Mix CDs, Model Railroads, Molasses, Momentum, Monsters, Mountains, the Muppet Disease, Museums, Music, my fickle relationship with cinnamon toast, Mythology, Names and Nicknames, Natural Disasters, Nature, New Mexico, Nicktoons, Nirvana, Nonfiction, North Dakota, Norwegian Trolls, Notes, NPR, Nursery Rhymes, Oddities, Old Maid, One Acts, Onomatopoeia, Oral History, Orchards, Organic Food, Pagliacci's Pizza, Paisley, Parades, Parks, Parrots of the Sea, Patches, Pat the Runaway Calico Cat, Payrod, PBS, Peach Flats, Pen Pals, People, Perspective, Pet Stores, Philosophy, Photobooths, Photography, Picnics, Pillows, Pinatas, Pinball, Pisco Sour, Places, Playgrounds, Poetry, Popcorn Trees, Portland, Postage Stamps, Potpurri, Presents, Pretense, Procrastination, Public Transportation, Puppetry, the Puppy Bowl (and, to a lesser degree, the Kitty Half-Time Show), Purity, Pushing the Envelope, Questions, Quips, Quirks, Quizzes, Rain, the Real Deal, Respect, Rest, Ribbons, Rides, ripping out my hair, Rock and/or Roll, Rockets in Pockets, Rollercoasters, Rolling Down Hills, the rosebush in my backyard, Rubber Stamps, Rubs, Run-on Sentences, Sacredness, Salvation, Sand, Sass, the scent of wet pavement and the smell of the Sound, Scissors, Scopin' for Hotties, the Sea, Seashells, Seasons, Seattle, Secret Spots, Seeing and Understanding the World, Shadows and Hand Shadows, Shapenotes, Short Stories, Shpadoinkle, Sidewalk Chalk, Simplicity, Sincerity, Singing, sitting on heaters and in front of fireplaces, Skating, Skyscrapers, Sledding, Slides, Snacking (the art of discarding food on a doorstep), Snail Mail, Snow, Soft Ice, Solitude, Soul, Spice, Spiderwebs, Spirits, Spirituality, Spontaneity and Spontaneous Combustion, spraying pests with windex so that you can safely return them to the wild, Sprinklers, Stargazing, Stickers, Stockholm, Storms, Strength, Stubble, Style, Swagger, Substance, Sunshine, Sunrises and Sunsets, Surprises, the swans of Copenhagen, Swearing like a Sailor, the Sweetest Burn This Side of The Cascades, Swings, taking down TESC one bus sticker at a time, Tango, Tape, Tapioca Bubbles (though they're a poor substitute for furniture foam), Tattoos, Tea, Television, Tenderness, Terms of Endearment, Themed Parties, This American Life, Tofu Mash Sauce, the Tooth Opera, Topiary, Towns, Toys, Trains, Trampolines, Tranquility, Trinkets, Tunnels, Twang, the Twist, Unconditional Love, Urban Exploration, the Vegetable Scale, Vending Machines, Venomous Snakes, Video Games, Video Production, Vulnerability, Waffle Cones, Walking, Warmth, Waterfalls, Whimsy, Whistling, Wind, Windows and Window Displays, Wonder, Wooden Guitars (that's right, wooden guitars), Wrestling, Writing, Xylophone, Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe, Zoos and Aquariums, and nothing else.