I like: Arabs, meat-replacement technologies, bowling, new card games, being an American citizen--despite our domestic and foreign policy problems, This American Life from WBEZ in Chicago, my fiancé Jeff, my mother and father, typewriters, organic gardening, the memory of my late Grandmother, wireless network compatible devices, spinach, Ubuntu Linux those pictures that people put up on MySpace of themselves out of which they have clearly cut their friend or girlfriend, local businesses, swearing like it is punctuation.
I dislike: television, reality television, American Idol, American Idol fans, people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're", policies or laws that are either nonsensical or not apparent, meter-maids and parking service workers, bacon, all things unsolicited, restaurateurs, unnecessary new traffic signs and signals, flowers which have no medicinal or culinary value, automobile engineers, shallow-buried telephone cables, poor grammatical skills due to ignorant laziness, ill-conceived trivia-game questions, lazy postal employees, cinnamon gum, spinach-phobes, Florida, politically correct speech.
The Cher Robot, David Sedaris' boyfriend Hugh Hamrick, the Fidel Castro Robot, Ira Glass.
"My religion prohibits music because if there are two people dancing the third person dancing with them is the devil." "Yeah?" "Yeah."
I never used to, but I like shitty American films overdubbed in Arabic. It makes me feel like I'm at home or some shit.
Read a fuckin' book.
I will read anything with words printed on pages as long as it is in a language that I can understand, or barely understand, especially if it is about: aliens, vampires, zombies, distant-future Earth follies, dead prophets, bad political decisions, gay cowboys, or food. I also read a great deal of non-fiction, by virtue of being a grad student as well as for my own personal intellectual growth.
Those brave souls presently imprisoned without charges, evidence, rights, or habeas corpus at Guantanamo Bay and other secret detention facilities in the United States. Your mom.