What are my interests?
Friends, family, writing, laughing, books, baseball (Let's Go Mets!),plays, musicals, traveling, Shadowbox Cabaret, Harry Potter!!, books, long walks in the woods of Glen Helen, history, NPR, PBS, movies, Bollywood films, good TV (I know it's rare, but I dream -- and frequently indulge in mindless brain candy), books, cooking, politcal cartoons, crossword puzzles, Sudoku, board games, trivia, books, mysteries, dogs, cats, wine, food, science fiction, coffee, tea, teapots, teacups and mugs, um, did I mention books?,....
My favorite games are: Settlers of Cataan, Monopoly, Clue, Scrabble, Set http://www.setgame.com/, Quiddler, Kill Dr. Lucky, Fluxx, Acquire, Sequence,Trivial Pursuit, Quoridor, Quarto, Robo Rally. The comics I particularly like and read every day they are available are: Girl Genius from Studio Foglio; Boondocks from Aaron McGruder; Mikhaela Reid's The Boiling Point; Non Sequitur by Wiley; Tom Toles; Dreamland Chronicles; The Real Life; For Better or Worse; Six Chix. Listening to or reading the writing of intelligent conversationalists and good story tellers is always fun for me. I loved Molly Ivins. I also like Ellen Goodman; Studs Turkel, talking about anything he feels like; Scott Simon; Daniel Schorr; Daniel Pinkwater; Jim Hightower; Gwen Maxie; The Splendid Table folks; the late Shelby Foote; the late Buck O'Neill; Charlie Rose and Tavis Smiley interviews. Since I love to laugh I'm always looking for folks of wit such as Tom Joyner, J. Anthony Brown, Russel Peters, Roy Blunt Jr.,Paula Poundstone, the show Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me, to name just a few!
Set ® Daily Puzzle
I'd like to meet:
Folks of wit and intelligence. Those with open minds and good hearts. I like people who are thoughtful and tolerant. I believe in shades of grey and think there are very few things that have black and white answers.
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Music:
SHOWTUNES particularly SONDHEIM (Passion [just awesome]), Company, Into the Woods, Assassins); BRUCE SPINGSTEEN!!; Marc Cohn; Simply Red; David Baerwald; Todd (the rock god) Rundgren; Dinah Washington; Sheryl Crowe; Civil War concept album; Audra McDonald; Brian Setzer; Prince; Peter Gabriel; Meredith Brooks; Melissa Etheridge; Dido; Ella Fitzgerald; Etta James; Michael Buble; Bonnie Raitt; Brian Stokes Mitchell; early Bette Midler; Rick Wakeman; Alan Parsons; Aretha; Luther; Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes; Cat Stevens; Norah Jones; Sarah McLaughlan; Heather Headley; Lemon http://www.myspace.com/lemonmusic; Storm Large.
Movies:
12 Angry Men (both versions); 1776; 7 Brides for 7 Brothers; Animal House; Asoka; the 80's movies of Scots director Bill Forsyth; Bringing Up Baby; Bugsy Malone; Commitments; Dead Again; Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge; Dr. Strangelove; Earth 1947; ET; Ever After; Good Night & Good Luck; Harold & Maude; Harry Potter & ...(tho, I was disappointed with Goblet of Fire & slightly with Phoenix); Harvey; Hepburn & Tracey movies; Holiday; Inherit the Wind (both versions); It's a Wonderful Life; any John Sayles; Kal Ho Naa Ho; King of Hearts; Labyrinth; Lady in the Lake; Laura; Life is Beautiful; Lord of the Rings; Madwoman of Chaillot; Mating Habits of the Earth Bound Human; Mr. Roberts; Much Ado About Nothing (Brannaugh version); Oliver; Rear Window; Schindler's List; Secret Life of Walter Mitty; Secretary; Shadow of a Doubt; Some Like It Hot; Sullivan's Travels; Support Your Local Sheriff; That Thing You Do!; The Assassination Bureau; The Court Jester; The Great Race; The Philadelphia Story; The Rutles; The Third Man; The Uninvited; They Might be Giants; Thin Man series; To Kill a Mockingbird; West Side Story; White Christmas; Young Sherlock Holmes.
Television:
Current:
Bones; Boston Legal; Chuck; Criminal Minds; CSI; Desperate Housewives; Heroes; My Name is Earl; Mythbusters; Pushing Daisies; The Daily Show; The Colbert Show; The Root of All Evil.
Gone But Not Forgotten:
Angel; Brisco County Jr.; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Dark Angel; Firefly; Glory Days; God the Devil & Bob; Greg the Bunny; Jericho; John Doe; Max Headroom; Maximum Bob; Night Court; Square Pegs; Sports Night; Star Trek (orig. & TNG); The Avengers (I so wanted to be Emma Peel); The Lone Gunmen; Veronica Mars; Wild Wild West (I so wanted to be Artemis Gordon's companion); Wizards & Warriors; WKRP in Cincinnati; Young Indiana Jones.
Books:
Just Finished: Civil Blood Ann McMillan. Third in a series. Excellent! Civil War mystery series.
Recently read: Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House by Valerie Plame Wilson. I HIGHLY recommend this book. As if I wasn't disgusted by the whole affair already this book really ticked me off. Scooter Libby should be in jail for treason with Karl Rove as his cellmate. Dick Cheney should be impeached. The arrogance of the current White House administration is shameful. But that is the problem - our Society no longer has any real sense of shame.
Book on tape listening to:
in house: Jennifer Crusie Trilogy
Harpo Speaks; Diary of Anne Frank; It Can't Happen Here; the Harry Potter series; The Princess Bride; T.Tryon's Lady; author & poet: Marge Piercy (City of Darkness, City of Light; Mars & Her Children); The Once & Future King; The Persian Pickle Club; The Human Comedy by William Saroyan; Tracey Chevallier- Falling Angels, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Virgin Blue; Girl Genius Comics; auth: Anne Lamott-esp. Bird By Bird; The Dark Materials Trilogy; Eragon and Eldest; Light by Eva Figes; Briar Rose and The Devil's Arithmatic by Jane Yolen; The Sunday Philosophy Club; Maus; Rebecca by DuMaurier; Jasper Fford's "Thursday Next" series.
Brain Candy reading:
auth:Kasey Michaels; Mary Jo Davidson's Undead and ... series;Janet Evanovich's Plum series.
Heroes:
Harpo Marx
Bob Geldof
Ann Richards
Mario Cuomo
