thunder storms, introspection, sleeping, vegetation, showering, awkward social encounters, wino vs. dracula, q-tips, dancing, portland polar bears, food, "Jumble", pinball, squash, cheap beer taste tests, shuffleboard, scrabble, john stamos, bourbon, moxie, frege, winter, snowboarding, bonsai, jumping off of stuff, air conditioning, words of super-compoundiness, paradoxes, over-analyzing interpersonal behavior, not being able to decide, invisibility, craigslist, deviance, skepticism.
since i've been so generous as to list lots of things i like, i think there should be a profile section for things i don't like. here are some:
new england weather, the way the ocean tastes, being hungry, religion, black jujyfruits, walking as a mode of transportation, sweating, the fucker who stole my bike wheel, hallmark holidays, crying babies, christmas music, nationalism, flakiness, blue laws, needing to get a haircut, losing or breaking things, not being in college, pollution, loud dogs, trying to sleep on an airplane, forgetting every joke i hear, the lack of trash cans in boston, superstition, superficial social niceties, wet bike seats, celebrities, pests and vermin, long bus rides, waiting, rushing
the exciting
in general: 80s pop, butt rock, funk and soul.
on repeat rotation lately: act 1 - friends or lovers, clarence reid - along came a woman, professor and the efficiency experts - i gotta stand for somethin'.
star wars, pi, planet of the apes, friday, dead alive, gory horror movies, charles bronson movies, documentaries.
lost, prison break, the sopranos, the simpsons, seinfeld, the oc, twin peaks, the daily show, talk soup, magnum p.i., macgyver.
naming and necessity, inquiry, context and content, on the plurality of worlds, the foundations of arithmetic, logic and conversation, the varieties of reference, an enquiry concerning human understanding, the man who mistook his wife for a hat, counterfactuals, and some real books, too: confederacy of dunces, the trial, catch-22, the dark tower series, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, cat's cradle. there should be a section for my favorite articles. here are some: frege - on sense and reference, burge - other bodies, geach - intentional identity, lewis - scorekeeping in a language game, kripke - a puzzle about belief, quine - on what there is, stalnaker - belief attribution and context, salmon - how to measure the standard metre, kaplan - demonstratives, russell - on denoting
charles bronson, john stamos, saul kripke. ..