List #181: 7 (possibly/ partially/ pretend) True Facts about Hannah

List #181: 7 (possibly/ partially/ pretend) True Facts about Hannah

1. Is the Mab Darogan (despite being not being anyone's son)
2. Missed our HS graduation because she joined the French Foreign Legion
3. Can use her Doctorate to Disemvowel you
4. Has a David Bowie cover band called Queen B****
5. Only weakness is lasers
6. Once considered a career designing pencils
7. Is really really old (today)

List #180: Role-Playing Games I have owned (and possibly even played)

List #180: Role-Playing Games I have owned (and possibly even played)

1. Dungeons and Dragons (Red Box)
2. AD&D Dragonlance
3. AD&D Forgotten Realms
4. Middle Earth Roleplaying (MERP)
5. Werewolf: The Apocalypse

List #179: Things that come to my mind as answers first when asked any question

List #179: Things that come to my mind as answers first when asked any question (before my mind comes up with the correct answer (i.e. this is probably what I'd always have to say in free-association if I played honestly))

1. Lasers
2. Baked Potato Pizza
3. Potato Pancake
4. Ninjas
5. 3
6. Double Decker Soul Wrecker (though I stole it from Julio)

List #178: List 74 Revisited

List #178: List 74 ("Things I can do with my Summer") Revisited

1. Work at Camp Alexander with Travis for a week or two: DONE!
2. Hang out with my awesome grandpa: DONE!
3. Learn useful real-life skills from my uncle: no
4. Finally visit Jonathan Miller in the cities again: no
5. Road trip to Montana(?): no
6. Enjoy Duluth unrushed: Enjoy, YES; Unrushed: NO
7. Be at all of Preseason and go to Virginia Beach: N/A
8. figure out how to stay in shape and not eat crap (that's a big loss): Not so well
9. Miss the daycampers: Yes but also NO (see #1)
10.Try to keep my family alive: mostly

List #177: Stuff I still want to do this summer

List #177: Stuff I still want to do this summer, but am really running out of time! in no particular order

1. Go to Sven and Ole's Pizza
2. Go to Park Point
3. Disc Golf more/ across the lake
4. Go to the Zoo
5. Start reading _any_ of the required reading for work
6. See a Twins game at the Metrodome one last time
7. Bike in Hartley
8. Go to the Library
9. Play Settlers of Catan
10. Hear my Dad's band play again
11. Go up to Lake Vermillion again
12. See my Harris Cousins (again)
13. Record some music with my brother
14. Organize/downsize a bit of stuff from my mom's house
15. Eat Walleye

List #176: Hypothetical Ultimate DMB Setlist

List #176: Hypothetical Ultimate DMB Setlist

1. Pantala Naga Pampa > Rapunzel
2. Lie in our Graves*
3. Why I Am
4. When the World Ends
5. The Stone
6. Sugar Will
7. What You Are
8. Warehouse
9. Two Step*
10. Crush
11. #36
12. #41*
13. Big Eyed Fish
14. Proudest Monkey
15. Grey Street
Encore:
16. Granny (Dave and Tim)
17. Watchtower
2nd Encore:
18. Ants Marching*

* would obviously feature one or more members of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones and would be longer extended-jams.
both Tim and Butch would be invited

List #175: DMB albums in order of preference

List #175: DMB albums in order of preference (taken as whole albums, favorite individual songs notwithstanding)

1. Before these Crowded Streets
2. Crash
3. Under the Table and Dreaming
3.5 The Lillywhite Sessions
4. Everyday
5. Busted Stuff
6. Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux king
7. Stand Up

List #174: My Life according to Faith No More

List #174: My Life according to Faith No More

1.Are you a male or female: Just a Man

2. Describe yourself: Naked in front of the Computer

3. How do you feel: Epic

4. Describe where you currently live: Edge of the World

5. If you could go anywhere, where would you go: Home Sick Home

6. Your favorite form of transportation: Caralho Voador or "RV"

7. Your best friend is: A Small Victory

8. You and your best friends are: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

9. What's the weather like: What a Day

10. Favorite time of day: Ugly in the morning

11. If your life was a TV show, what would it be called: King for a Day, Fool for a lifetime

12. What is life to you: She Loves Me Not

13. Your fear: Midlife Crisis

14. What is the best advice you have to give: Be Aggressive

15. Thought for the day: I Started a Joke

16. How I would like to die: Suprise! You're Dead.

17. My soul's present condition: Evidence

18. My motto: The Real Thing

From the Following Facebook Meme: Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)"

List #173: DMB songs I've seen live the most times

List #173: DMB songs I've seen live the most times (out of 6 total shows)

1. Grey Street 6 (6 for 6!)
2. Ants Marching 4
3. So Much To Say 4
4. Too Much 4
5. Rapunzel 4
6. Pantala Naga Pampa 4
7. What You Are 3
8. You Never Know 3
9. Recently 2
(10). Pig 1 (plus 5 teases at the Infamous Pig Show 7-7-01)

List #172: Webcomics I like

List #172: Webcomics I like

1. Unshelved
2. xkcd
3. perry bible fellowship
4. Wapsi Square
5. Home on the Strange

List #171: Great Camp Skit Performances I have seen or been part of

List #171: Great Camp Skit Performances (as requested by Chadbob, and assisted by Gumball) (in no order after the first one)

1. The Forrest Gump ILAC (1995: "I shoulda died Forrest!" --- ILAC= I'd Like a Choc'lit... Still the greatest campfire skit performance of all time)

2. The Thug version of the Gunfighter (Flower and NateDawg)
3. Tula botching the Gunfighter (on the Broken Campfire)
4. Bee skit: the Musical
5. Bee Skit: the fake backwards version
6. Bee Skit: fast, furious and as few words as possible
7. Travis messing up the Lunch break
8. Cousins (the first time at miller)
9. The Worm Skit (GNails with ND&Flower)
10. The Worm Skit (Molly Spang!)
11. Bee Skit: (123 No, 456 Yes... muffin loses it)
12. Any time Scott did the Undertaker in "If I weren't a"
13. The Severe Beating of a High School Janitor (BANNED!)
14. The Jerry Maguire/Bee Skit/Camper in a Box/that's all I remember
15. Any Reversed "Lemme"s
16. Pencils (can't think of a specific one)
17. Bee Skit: The slip
18. Bee Skit: Muffin's Revenge

List #170: Things I don't like about driving

List #170: Things I don't like about driving

1. City Driving
2. Parking
3. Parking lots
4. People that don't use turn signals
5. Vehicles with sirens that change the rules
6. School busses
7. Worrying about the car
8. Pollution

List #169: Places I have seen DMB or Bela Fleck perform

List #169: Places I have seen DMB or Bela Fleck perform

Bela
1. Big Top Chataqua (many times)
2. Delfest (Cumberland, MD)
3. Toronto
4. Falls Church, VA
5. Minneapolis

DMB
1. Chicago
2. Minneapolis
3. Philadelphia
4. Alpine Valley
5. Toronto

List #168: Favorite Green Lanterns

List #168: Favorite Green Lanterns

1. Hal Jordan
2. Guy Gardner
3. Mogo
4. Alan Scott
5. John Stewart
6. Kyle Rayner
7. Kilowog
8. Rot Lop Fan (F# Bell)
9. Sodam Yat
10. Soranik Natu

List #167: The order of a Taco

List #167: The order of a Taco

1. Soft shell
2. Refried Beans
3. Hard Shell
4. Cheese
5. meat
6. tomato
7. Tabasco
8. Sour Cream
9. Lettuce

List #166 Things I've really enjoyed so far this week at Camp Alexander

List #166: Things I really enjoyed this week at Camp Alexander

1. Being a Camp Counselor for the 15th consecutive summer
2. Working with super great bosses
3. Meeting cool new camp staff and realizing the universality of counselor coolness
4. Playing with new daycampers and realizing the universality of daycamper coolness
5. follwoing 3&4: realizing that it's now only the physical grounds of Camp Miller that I'm really still missing this summer.
6. learning that the correct response to "everybody stand up" is "I love to stand up, it's my favorite thing to do."
7. Singing all my camp songs and teaching all my camp games to kids to whom they were new, original and exciting
8. Shooting an arrow from a bow
9. My daycamp group (the Agents of Orange) and their rhyming names
10. Losing to Gumball in ping-pong
11. Another cool co-counselor (it's like I'm a magnet for them)
12. Remembering that, yes, in fact, despite what the Duluth Y people thought, I am actually pretty dadgum good at what I do.
13. Dinner with the Fountaines and talking to Summer and Gavin about books.
14. Doing the Bee Skit
15. Running around and Yelling and Singing things with reckless abandon
16. Getting a size Medium Staff Shirt
17. Initiatives
18. Learning some new songs (I hope I remember them)
19. living in a ridiculously posh cabin

and most importantly

20. Getting to be freaking MUFFIN (or Mr. Muffin, which "Say Goodnight" Gracie called me (though I missed little Alex a bit when she did)) again!

List #165: Favorite Norwegian or Norwegian Americans

List #165: Favorite Norwegian or Norwegian Americans

1. Will Dack
2. Amanda Dock Martorana
3. Bill Tormondsen
4. Hurra Torpedo
5. post if you're Norwegian and I think you're cool...

List #164: Ways to make it through the wall

List #164: Ways to make it through the wall

1. Wait for catastrophe
2. a door
3. yell open sesame

List #163: Cities I have lived in, and one note about each

List #163: Cities I have lived in

1. Duluth - furthest inland ocean shipping port
2. Proctor - HS mascot: the Rails
3. Sturgeon Lake - I miss it
4. Northfield - Cows, Colleges and Contentment
5. Bangor, Wales - my first beer
6. Washington, D.C. - lived on the Red Line
7. Seattle, WA - I'd live hear again
8. Columbia, MD - convenient for work

List #162: 7 made up, but partially true, facts about Lindsay

List #162: 7 made up ( but, on a granular level, somewhat true) facts about Lindsay

1. Once beat Kevin Sorbo in an arm wrestling match
2. Carried a billy-club to protect her stash of Bacon from her roommate
3. Is on the governing board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
4. Her voice, if raised above normal speaking volume, has the power to demolish buildings and shatter steel
5. Can roll her eyes 360degrees backwards
6. Washes her hair with gyro cucumber sauce
7. is 75% Chinese, 25% Minnesotan

List #161: Standing offers of money or goods for potential services rendered or goals accomplished

List 161: Standing offers of money or goods for potential services rendered or goals accomplished

1. Cousin Delaney -- 200$: Dunk a basketball either a) unaided or b)in a game (aided)
2. J.P. Zieger (or any Carleton friend) -- A Gas Grill: introduce me to my future wife
3. Ned Netzel -- 15$: eat an entire head of broccoli, uncooked, stem included (mom's permission required)
4. Everyone in the world -- my friendship for a day: give me one Nickel
5. Andrew Burtless -- 10$: Drink a bottle of A1

List #160: Projects my Grandpa has had me do so far this summer

List #160: Projects my Grandpa has had me do, or help him do, so far this summer

1. Drive the Pontoon boat
2. Test the Pontoon Anchor
3. Check the sensor for the depth finder
4. Level out the patio stairs
5. Scrape and paint the garage trim, windows and planter boxes
6. Plant grass seed
7. Help my uncle make pea soup
8. Discover tears in the pontoon cover
9. Attach a new clamp to the pontoon rope
10. Pick up sticks in the yard
11. Cut a pineapple
12. Figure out why the remote control stopped working

List #159: Favorite Chords

List #159: Favorite Chords (guitar)

1. Fmaj7 133210
2. Cadd9 032033
3. Emaj 022100
4. Dsus4 x00233
5. G6 320000
6. C#m7 9-11-11-x-(12)-(12)
7. F#7add11
or Bmaj9sus 244300
8. Amaj7 002120
9. Amaj9 006600
10. Emaj6 076604

LIst #158: 7 facts about Jody Peterman

List #158: 7 facts about Jody Peterman

1. Her birthday was one month and a day ago
2. She owes me some freaking mittens
3. She has an imaginary friend
4. Her feet are what some might call stinky
5. She has a secret alter ego
6. She is almost as strong as me, and, once, threw me in the snow
7. We used to run at the same speed.

List #157: Epic Fantasy or Sci-Fi Series that I enjoye/d

List #157: Epic Fantasy or Sci-Fi Series that I enjoye/d

1. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
2. Dune (Frank Herbert)
3. Song of Ice and Fire (George R.R. Martin)
4. The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan)
5. The Books of the Fey (Kristine Kathryn Rusch)
6. The Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends (Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman) as well as many of the other Dragonlance books
7. The Drizzt books (R.A. Salvatore) esp. The Dark Elf and Icewind Dale trilogies
8. The Cleric Quintet (R.A. Salvatore) and most of the other Forgotten Realms books too.
9.The Ender books (Orson Scott Card)

List #156: Favorite Bass Players

List #156: Favorite Bass Players

1. Jaco Pastorius
2,3,4. See #1
5. Victor Wooten
6. Stanley Clarke
7. Marcus Miller
8. Chris Squire
9. Michael Manring
10. Bakithi Khumalo
11. Dad and Ned
12. Edgar Meyer
13. Nathan Peterson
14. Oteil Burbridge
15. Dave Holland
16. Ron Carter
17. James Jamerson
18. Charlie Haden
19. Les Claypool
20. Sting (of the Police, not Sting of Sting)

List #155: Favorite Jaco musical moments/songs

List #155: Favorite Jaco musical moments

1. "Three Views of a Secret"
2. "Blackbird"
3. "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" from Live in New York vol. 4 (the double time Liberty City lick)
4. "The Chicken"
5. "Portrait of Tracy"
6. "Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" (Joni Mitchell)
7. "Talk To Me" (Joni Mitchell -- the chicken squawk part)
8. "Reza" (birthday concert, because of the French Horns)
9. "Raca"
10. "Amerika"
11. "Birdland" (the 8:30 version)
12. "Dear Prudence"
13. "Havona" (the Solo)
14. "John and Mary"
15. "Ant Steps on an Elephant's Toe" (Alber Manglesdorff)
16. "Slang" (8:30)
17. "Okonole y Trompa"
18. "Liberty City"
19. "Donna Lee"
20. "Continuum"

Bonus: Favorite non-Jaco Jaco moment
1. when Victor Wooten quotes "Continuum" in "Big Country"

List #154: Things I like about my Grandpa's house

List #154: Things I like about my Grandpa's house

1. Grandpa (duh!)
2. Pontoon Boat
3. The Gold Room
4. The Brown Couch
5. Sitting on the Deck watching Loons, Osprey, Eagles and Hummingbirds
6. the "keep smilin'" on the chalkboard
7. Sailboat
8. The porch 'swing'
9. The Laundry Chute
10. The chairs in the sewing room
11. The TV when baseball is on
12. Running down the sidewalk (even though it's dangerous)
13. The wooden bird by the upstairs fireplace
14. lots of pop in the closet
15. The Lake (duh!)
16. Chocolate Milk, Half-n-half, peanuts, meatballburgers, etc.



Bonus list: Things that scare me at Grandpa's house
1. The basement at night
2. The Tiger/Owl tapestry thing

List #153: Favorite Simpsons Characters

List #153: Favorite Simpsons Characters

1. Maggie
2. Otto
3. Homer
4. Ralph Wiggum
5. Dr. Nick
6. Inanimate Carbon Rod
7. Groundskeeper Willie
8. Comic. Book. Guy.
9. Moe
10. Mr. Burns

List #152: Random Objects I can see from the computer chair in my mother's basement (which is also my temporary home)

List #152: Random Objects I can see from the computer chair in my mother's basement (which is also my temporary home)

1. Pull-out Loveseat (aka Bed)
2. My old trumpet
3. A wooden Robot
4. A Hammond Organ
5. "Dune" paperbacks
6. Reading glasses
7. A Swedish wooden horse
8. A print of big cats and butterflies (that belongs to me, and is waaaayyy more manlier and aweseome than it sounds)
9. A wood and metal tulip
10. Phonebooks and Dictionaries
11. My incomplete "complete Peanuts" set
12. The Boombox (w/Turbo Bass) that I got in 5th grade
13. Many Many Books and Record Albums
14. All of the stuff I brought with me from Maryland
15. The door to the garage
16. A Marge Simpson Pez dispenser
17. 1987 World Book Encyclopedia
18. A photoshopped picture of me and my brother (circa 1996) fighting a Djinn on a Patagonia Catalog cover
19. The Complete X-Files
20. The new Humidifier (only can hear it, and it's much softer than the previous one)

List #151: Favorite sandwiches

List #151: Favorite sandwiches

1. Reuben
2. Peanut Butter and Banana
3. Mozarella, tomato, basil
4. #3 with salami and/or prociutto
5. Peanut Butter and Jelly
6. Cuban
7. Roast Beef and Tomato
8. Tuna (With dill)
9. Smoked Salmon and Avocado
10. Chicken Salad