Travel Channel, Taxi, Top Chef, Iron Chef, the Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, NOVA, Cheers, Frasier, Band of Brothers, Project Runway, Anthony Bourdain/No Reservations and Globe Trekker (Lonely Planet) when I had cable. Malcolm in the Middle & Scrubs (Gawd it's hilarious!). Andy Griffith Show, Beverly Hillbillies & Star Trek (the original series)
Books
Shakespeare and Tolkien. National Geographic and anything published by Lonely Planet or Frommers.
Heroes
Jesus Christ, My Parents, Anthony Bourdain, William Shakespeare, John Hughes, Our Men and Women in Uniform, War photographers,Robert Young Pelton, Edward R. Murrow, Peter Jennings, Frank Reynolds, Coco Chanel, Jacques Cousteau, Lawrence of Arabia, Theodore Geisel, Bugs Bunny, Leonardo DaVinci, Amelia Earhart, Chuck Yeager, Marco Polo, John Wayne, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Gregory Peck, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, Albert Einstein, the lost lovers of Verona and those with the courage to say 'NO'. . .
IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
They taste even better if they're rhomboid shaped. But most places have to go with the rectangular quadrilateral because the pizza guy doesn't have a college education.
A suitcase, that's funny but true! here is my latest stab... Episode 22 of the Circular Music podcast drops on ya’ll right about now! Oh, you didn’t know? Well now you know! This one features old favorites like Esthero, Radiohead and new favorites like Hanne Hukkleberg and so many more, more great groups and exactly 59 minutes (give or take a few seconds) of other musical goodness! Support these groups with actual purchases at your local indie music store if you are out and about sipping that lollicup or buy them at iTunes, eMusic or Amazon! You can click on the logo below to go to iTunes, or you can stream it on Podnova or Digg (just search on Circular Music). Fasten headphones on left side of head, repeat for right side and enjoy!
Awesome New Orleans pictures Gary. I enjoyed looking at them. Impressive. I think they're more impressive having been there for awhile, and then seeing you, Gary, swoop in and get those results.
Gary! You are wonderful. That photo is silly. I hope you liked the movie last night. Thanks for thinking of me. My phone is acting up. Talk to you soon, or maybe see you at Stardust.
