Cooking, gambling, superheroes, mysterious hatches, hapless musicians from New Zealand and Alton Brown.
I'm not sure I really want to meet anyone. Is that bad? OK, maybe I want to meet Chicago folks, Winona Ryder, people involved in the monkey's riding on dogs rodeo, Shaq and people who can get me a discount at Starbucks. That's it. Ok, maybe Midwesterners in general are fine, Natalie Portman if Winona's not available, I'd settle for a monkey on a tricycle, Dirk Novitski and a discount at Coffee Bean. You know come to think of it, you don't even have to be from the US, if you're a doe-eyed aspiring actress who likes monkeys, can go to your left and brew a pot of joe, that's cool. Also I'd kind of like to meet Alton Brown.
If I tell you... you tell someone else... next thing you know, everybody knows.
Remember the Peter Sellers - Shirley MacLaine "love scene" in Being There? That was great.
I like shows with Alton Brown in them. Also, I like TV shows that have a healthy amount of cooking, gambling, superheroes, mysterious hatches or hapless musicians from New Zealand in them.
Nelson Algren is damn good. Plus there's a fountain right by my old place in Chicago named after him. It used to be a really dirty and crappy fountain. Then the city cleaned it.
When I was growing up all of my heroes were people who had died in a pool of their own vomit. As I've aged I've realized that they might not be appropriate "heroes" but I have yet to replace them. I'm considering Alton Brown.