User:Crunchydillpickle/Things I love
Nonexhaustive list of my favorite things:
- Balderdash
- The New Yorker
- Jeopardy!
- Writers like Mary Roach, Randall Munroe, and Jia Tolentino
- Cartoons like The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cartoons
- James Thurber! I want to watch My World and Welcome to It, his short-lived Emmy-winning sitcom
- Postcards
- I make great use of my newspapers.com subscription (and the New York Times archives, which are annoyingly separate), and I particularly like the Hazel Felleman who worked at the Times from 1915 to 1955 and ran the "Notes and Queries" section, where people published fragments of half-remembered poems in the hopes that some reader would recognize them and share the name. She published an anthology in 1936 of the poems that people kept trying to remember!
- Pickles, mochi, beet juice, Manchego cheese, coffee, kombucha
- bikes
- old newspapers (mostly accessed via newspapers.com)
- podcasts like 99% Invisible, Normal Gossip, the "Super Tech Support" episodes of Reply All
- I like odd music, like Jet Lady, Moondog, and other Songs in the Key of Z stuff. I do not always like actually listening to it.
- Women in early aviation are usually interesting to me. They're often fascinating in all sorts of other areas of their lives besides flight! See: Jeannette Piccard.
Books I have enjoyed recently:
- Stiff by Mary Roach
- Raw Dog by Jamie Loftus
- Word by Word by Kory Stamper
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Things I love to watch:
- Hands on a Hardbody: The Documentary
- How To with John Wilson
- Amélie
- Weird 2000s reality shows that probably shouldn't have been made, like Black White
Things I want to consume
- The 1994 movie Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle since I'm in a Algonquin Round Table rabbit hole
- Franklin Pierce Adams’s newspaper columns (if I can find them!)
- Joe Gould's Secret (1965 book) and Joe Gould's Secret (2000 film directed by Stanley Tucci!) and subject of a Jill Lepore article and 2017 book called Joe Gould's Teeth! I am intrigued!!!!
- The Mathematical Magpie book
- Vernon, Florida (film)
- Wesley Willis
- weird reality show Big!
- The Secret History of Hacking
- BBS: The Documentary
- Shattered Glass (film) — wikipedia article was created by Aaron Swartz :(