cooking, reading about cooking, thinking about cooking, my shiny guitar, my shiny bicycle, books, shooting, learning to play "Hallelujah" on the piano.
Slow cyclists, the un-hip, nice people, old friends, people who think about cooking as much as I do. If Anthony Bourdain contacted me that would be very nice and surprising.
most of it
most of them
the backyardigins, Flight of the Conchords
your standard high school/jr. college requirements, and all David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris "I Like You, Hospitality Under the Influence", The Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, Raymond Carver, Colette, cookbooks with pictures, Fine Cooking magazine
The Saturday morning kick boxing instructor