Landscape and Wildlife Photography ~ Travel (foreign and domestic) ~ Cinema ~ Bowling and Card-Playing (with folks that take neither seriously) ~ Thinking About Restoring My 1940 Buick Super-Eight ~ Shooting and Fishing ~ Early 20th-Century English Mystery Novels ~ Mechanical and DIY Tinkering ~ Well-Crafted Beers and Whiskies ~ Self-Mockery ~ Board Games (the classics, plus a few new ones by Bruno Faidutti and Reiner Knizia) ~ Fireworks (the big illegal kind) ~ Things That Make You Go Hmmmmm ~ Collecting Art of Indigenous Peoples ~ Naps in Hammocks ~ Camping and Backpacking and Hikes (Oh my!) ~ Maps ~ Books, Books, Books ~ Dining (Gourmet and Otherwise) ~ Natural History and Sciences ~ Genealogy ~ Antique Tobacco Tins ~ Basketball and Weightlifting (except lately…) ~ “Bad†Weather ~ Noticing Things
Alien Autopsy ~ Big Fun ~ Crucial Taunt ~ Deathtöngue ~ Eddie and the Cruisers ~ Figrin D'an and the Modal Nodes ~ Garfunkel, Messina, Oates, and Lisa ~ Hedwig and the Angry Inch ~ Ian Pearson Band ~ Josie and the Pussycats ~ The Kinda Long Haired Band ~ The Lone Rangers ~ The Monkees ~ Not Tony Bennett ~ Otis Day and the Knights ~ The Partridge Family ~ Raise your hand only if you recognized that these are all fake band names from films and TV, arranged one-per-letter in alphabetical order. Come on, be honest...
The Most Dangerous Game ~ Captain Blood ~ The Four Feathers ~ Double Indemnity ~ The Big Sleep ~ The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ~ Rope ~ High Noon ~ The Bridge on the River Kwai ~ To Kill a Mockingbird ~ Goldfinger ~ Dr. Strangelove ~ The Dirty Dozen ~ Kelly’s Heroes ~ The Sting ~ Chinatown ~ Star Wars ~ Animal House ~ Alien ~ My Dinner With André ~ Raiders of the Lost Ark ~ Never Cry Wolf ~ The Terminator ~ Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ~ Hoosiers ~ The Untouchables ~ Dogfight ~ My Cousin Vinny ~ Dazed and Confused ~ Clerks ~ The Shawshank Redemption ~ Fargo ~ L.A. Confidential ~ Best In Show ~ Shadow of the Vampire ~ Wonder Boys ~ Ocean’s Eleven ~ Insomnia ~ Lost In Translation
I almost never watch television, except infrequent news or sporting events. On occasion (mostly on DVD), I’ve enjoyed: Foyle’s War (U.K.) ~ The X-Files ~ Family Guy ~ The Simpsons ~ Spooks (U.K.) ~ The first half of The Colbert Report (before the nightly guest)
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~ Frankenstein ~ Walden ~ Empire Falls ~ Lord of the Flies ~ On the Road ~ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ~ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ~ Galen Rowell's Vision ~ Exile From the Land of Snows ~ Parliament of Whores ~ A Modest Proposal ~ A River Runs Through It (and Other Stories) ~ To Kill a Mockingbird ~ The Time Machine ~ The Complete Far Side ~ hundreds more...
John Muir ~ Leonardo da Vinci ~ Jeanie Van Valkenberg ~ Han Solo ~ Tenzin Gyatso ~ Hugh Thompson Jr. ~ Jim Abbott ~ Weird Al Yankovic ~ Pat Tillman ~ Doug Tompkins ~ Hon. John Baker