Reading, traveling, big words, analogies, dining, mullet hunting, shopping, going out, The Twins, the Gophers, the Timberwolves, college basketball, dating, politics, trying new things, catching up with all my beautiful MN and NYC girls and Schulte and Wheeler, hearing funny stories about my nephews (see below), meeting Irish people, getting in trouble
Mariah Carey (anyone who knows me, knows this). CoCo Chanel, Chelsea Handler (loves her), Anderson Cooper, Dan Abrams, The Hoff, Harmon Killebrew (see above), Joe Mauer, Wally S., Channing Frye and Andy Roddick (again). People who like sports as much as me, old friends from home, school, and where ever my travels have taken me. Not interested in getting tons of super random friend requests from bands or creepy people. NYC and Minneapolis people in Chicago, fellow people watchers (it should be an Olympic Sport), people who have sweet skills and anyone who can make me laugh........
Damien Rice, Gavin DeGraw, John Mayer, Jack Johnson, OAR, The Fray (awesome live), The Dixie Chicks, Martina McBride, Tricia Yearwood, Mariah Carey (stop laughing), Madonna(80's stuff only), Fiona Apple, Gretchen Wilson, Liz Phair, Nora Jones, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flats, Cheryl Crow, Britney, Maroon 5, Bush, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Minneapolis local bands like Tim Mahoney, Panoramic Blue and Leep 27
The Wedding Date, Love Actually, Mean Girls (I'm a mouse, duh!), The Constant Gardner, Top Gun, Shag (LOVE IT), How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Unfaithful, Down to You, Mystic River, Little Big League, Tommy Boy, Old School, Closer, Napolean Dynamite, The Notebook, Crash, Derailed, Copycat, cheesy LifeTime movies, The Notebook, Finding Nemo, Wedding Crashers (you shut your mouth when you're talking to me!), Anchorman (Baxter, you know I don't speak Spanish)
Sports Center, PTI, Colbert Report, Daily Show, Meet the Press, Entourage, SNL (no I'm never home on Sat. nights, I DVR it of course), Grey's Anatomy, Project Runway (make it work), Access Hollywood, Real World, Desperate Houswives, General Hospital, Da Ali G Show, Girls Behaving Badly, Brother's and Sisters, What About Brian (is it really off the air??!!), The Chelsea Handler Show or Chelsea Lately (she's truly amazing)
Kite Runner, Devil in the White City, Middlesex, My Horiontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands, Straight Up and Dirty, Memoirs of a Geisha, He's Just Not That Into You, Chick Lit, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Where the Sidewalk Ends, JFK: An Unfinished Life, David Sedaris and Jack Krakauer books, anything on political history. Daily I read PageSix.com, CNN.com, the RedEye, Pink is The New Blog. Love the Sunday New York Times(especially the Sunday Styles Section), Time Out Chicago, Star Tribune and The Onion. 'W' is my fave magazine
My dad, Iron Jawed Angels, my grandmothers and of course Joe Mauer :~) He is #2 overall on SI's list of 50 (current)Baseball MVP'sNo. 2. Joe Mauer, C, Twins, Age 24 (6) Everyone in the Top 10 is in rarified air, but there has probably never been a baseball player like Mauer. As everyone knows by now, he was the first American League catcher to win a batting title, but that's really just the start of his skill set. Mauer also takes walks, hits plenty of doubles, plays Gold Glove-caliber defense, has 25 steals in 29 lifetime attempts and is big and strong enough to develop into a 20-homer threat. Combine any two of those skills in one package, and you have a potential All-Star catcher. Mauer has all of them. There's some concern that Mauer is too tall to stay at the catcher position, but considering how unique he is in every other department, why fret about that?