List #673: Halloween Costumes of the Last Decade

List #673: Halloween Costumes of the Last Decade

2002: Clark Kent

2003: Clark Kent

2004: Clark Kent

2005: Obi Wan Kenobi

2006: Lord Licorice / Clark Kent

2007: Clark Kent

2008: Clark Kent

2009: Clark Kent

2010: Hal Jordan

2011: Clark Kent

List #672: 5 Snow or Winter Words that I like

List #672: 5 Snow or Winter Words that I like

1. Niveous

2. Death Cookies

3. Sleet

4. Dissnowlusionment

5. Hibernal

List #671: Favorite Parts of Selected Broken Social Scene Songs

List #671: Favorite Parts of Selected Broken Social Scene Songs

1. The intro guitar riff to "ibi dreams of pavement"

2. The horn riff in the later part of "It's All Gonna Break" (not the fanfare at the end, which is also good)

3. The pitch shifter in the second half of "Anthems for a 17 year old girl"

4. Feist in " 7/4 (Shoreline)"

5. The riff over 'gold and red her colors change' in "Looks Just Like the Sun" (also all of the talking)

6. That all three girls are on "Sentimental Xs"

7. When everyone sings all at once on "Churches Under The Stairs"

8. The guitar lead near the end of "Cause=Time"

9. The intro bassline and drumbeat of "Stars and Sons"

10. The video* for "Fire Eye'd Boy" ('Are you scared')

* Man they have cool videos.

List #670: 5 Thoughts on Fall or Autumn

List #670: 5 Thoughts on Fall or Autumn

1. Fall isn't a very good first name.

2. I like the way it smells when it starts to get cold

3. There is potential for Snow

4. Pumpkins are delicious, and fall soups are great

5. The Fall Colors in northern Minnesota are great

List #669: Awesome Stuff about October 1991

List #669: Awesome Stuff about October 1991

1. Twins win the 'worst-to-first' World Series over Atlanta in a dramatic 10 inning shutout complete game by Jack Morris in game 7.

2. The Halloween Blizzard (my brain had forgotten that the World Series and this were in the same week)

3. I got to go to the World Series (game 2) and also the ALCS (game 2)

4. Matthew Sweet's Girlfriend, Del the Funkee Homosapien's I Wish My Brother George Was Here

5. Bill Clinton announces Presidential Run

6. My brother turned 1

List #668: 5 Things I know about Wine

List #668: 5 Things I know about Wine

1. Some of the White ones taste like liquid candy (Well played, Germany)

2. I can't really tell the difference between 'good' and 'bad'

3. Wines are good with foods

4. They make me sleepy, but not full (which I can't say about beer)

5. Space Wine is the best reward

List #667:3 Interdisciplinary Courses I'd Like To Teach if I Had the Knowledge and Skills

List #667:3 Interdisciplinary Courses I'd Like To Teach if I Had the Knowledge and Skills

1. A class on "Games and Creative Play" that would involve everything from equipmentless games, initiatives, word games, math/logic games, board games and video games and discuss the history and psychology of games, game theory, and end with designing/programming our own games.

2. A class on "The Book" that would combine creative writing, book binding, creative commons, copyright and the history and future of publication (with liberal cribbing from LIS508)

3. A version of my Comic Class with a greater tie to the historical context of 20th century America and a greater focus on illustration

4. A survey course on the history and cultures of the African continent using music/dance and art as the lens through which to view it

5. A Class on the History, Chemistry, Art and Culture of Food.

List #666: 6 National or World Problems that I am Concerned About

List #666: 6 National or World Problems that I am Concerned About

1. Mexican Drug Cartels

2. The Greed of the "Haves" / The corruption of "American Dream"

3. Polar Ice Cap melt

4. Food Crises

5. Partisan Politics

6. iPhone commercials

List #665: 5 Things that I Can't Say 'No' To

List #665: 5 Things that I Can't Say 'No' To

1. Macaroni and Cheese

2. Broken Social Scene (headlining) shows

3. Doughnuts

4. Sandwiches

5. Pontoon rides

List #664: 5 Thoughts on Theatre

List #664: 5 Thoughts on Theatre

1. I only like plays I've seen (but I'll give new ones a chance )

2. I have no desire to ever play another person or follow scripted dialogue

3. I love clever, minimalist, set and costume design

4. My favorite part about Shakespeare is seeing different interpretations (all plays are like cover songs)

5. I was in a summer-school Drama course for exactly 1 day

List #663: 5 Books I'm Going to Read (or Finish) Soon

List #663: 5 Books I'm Going to Read (or Finish) Soon

1. The Campus Trilogy (David Lodge)

2. The Magician King (Lev Grossman)

3. The Information (James Gleick)

4. The Heroes (Joe Abercrombie)

5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Sherman Alexie)

List #662: Things I Read as a Teen or Young Adult That I Didn't Like

List #662: Things I Read as a Teen or Young Adult That I Didn't Like

1. Ethan Frome (but Age of Innocence was pretty good)

2. Beloved

3. Gary Paulson (sorry Minnesota, I couldn't get through 'Dogsong' either time)

4. Slave Dancer

5. The Tortilla Curtain (sorry Carleton College New Student Week Reading... at least you picked Persepolis a few years later)

List #661: Thoughts on "The Baby Sitter's Club"

List #661: Thoughts on "The Baby Sitter's Club"

List #661: Thoughts on "The Baby Sitter's Club"

1. In the age of "Bronies", I don't feel being a BSC fan besmirches my manliness.

2. I started when book 1 came out and read the first 40 or so

3. Stacey scared me because she had Diabetes and had to take shots

4. The Super-Special about summer camp was the 2nd most influential book in making me want to go to summer camp, which despite my lingering bitterness, was pretty important to me on the whole

5. One of the most enraging interactions I've had with a colleague in my profession involved her specifically dissing the BSC as trash. I had to give the "BSC #1 was the book that hooked me on reading, and I'm here where I stand today as an 'effin' School Librarian because of that" (minus the 'effin' part) and just walk away before I had to get my gat'.

6. The graphic novelizations by Raina Telgemeier are really good.

7. I never saw any of the movies. Movies rarely live up to the books.

List #660: 5 Book Series I Enjoyed in my Youth

List #660: 5 Book Series I Enjoyed in my Youth

1. The Baby Sitters' Club

2. The Dragonlance Books (I started with the Heroes trilogy, but my all-in-one "Chronicles" is one of the best christmas presents I ever got)

3. Encyclopedia Brown

4. The Hardy Boys

5. The Lord of the Rings (was scared by the cartoon of The Hobbit in 1st grade, so I resisted it until it was forced upon me in 5th grade. Can't imagine life not having read it)

List #659: 5 Book or Reading Related Experiences of My Youth

List #659: 5 Book or Reading Related Experiences of My Youth (6th grade or younger)

1. Being told I wasn't allowed to read under a tree during open field as a camper / being laughed at by cabinmates for wanting to read before lights out (because I said that I came to camp, in part, to relax and read)

2. Winning the Read-A-Thon for my school in 3rd or 4th grade

3. Writing and making books (with wallpaper scrap covers) in 1st and 2nd grade

4. The first book I ever read alone: "Monsters Come in Many Colors" ~Kindergarten?

5. Trying to read "The Silmarillion" as a 6th grader (and needing an extra encyclopedia/compendium to 'get it.'... still one of my favorite books. Glad I challenged myself)

List #658: 5 Books That Were Important to Me as a Teen

List #658: 5 Books That Were Important to Me as a Teen

1. Catcher in the Rye (I purposely read it before it was assigned for school. I liked it less as I got older (and actually 'understood it')

2. This book of Ayn Rand quotations (because it was really useful for debate)

3. Miles Davis' Biography

4. The Drake Raft Field Trip

5. Les Miserables (because it turned into a super fun project)

List #657: 5 Thoughts in Eye Glasses

List #657: 5 Thoughts in Eye Glasses

1. They are, first and foremost, for vision, not fashion

2. That said, they're tremendously attractive

3. My great fear is that a lens will pop out while driving

4. I like the ones that are bendy

5. I vastly prefer wearing them to wearing contacts

List #656: Countries I'd Like To Travel To

List #656: Countries I'd Like To Travel To (currently)

1. Iceland

2. New Zealand

3. Argentina

4. Sweden (again)

5. Wales (again)

6. Canada (either the far west or far east)

7. Finland (again)

8. Norway

9. Bulgaria

10. Bermuda

11. Australia (but far away from venomous animals)

12. Poland

List #655: Social Events I Don't Understand

List #655: Social Events I Don't Understand

1. Tailgating (barbecue in a parking lot?)

2. Debutante balls

3. Showers (not the bathing kind)

List #654: Favorite Legumes

List #654: Favorite Legumes

1. Chickpeas

2. Peanuts

3. Peas

4. Black Beans

5. Cacao

6. Soybeans

7. Lentils

8. Cannellini

9. Great Northern

10. Butter bean

List #653: 21 Things About My Brother That are Cool

List #653: 21 Things About My Brother That are Cool

1. I once started a religion about him

2. He got his name because we thought it was funny

3. He had crazy hair

4. He has crazy hair

5. His pajamas had a lot of static electricity

6. He wore out my Leopard costume (which he deserved to do)

7. He quit trumpet to join choir

8. He can sing pretty Metal

9. He can sing pretty

10. Sometimes he beats me at Magic a lot

11. He was a swim team captain

12. He used to play accordion

13. He's better than me at playing most instruments

14. His band went on Tour

15. He's a really good songwriter

16. He writes Spanish Poetry about trees

17. He goes to a rival college

18. He's a pretty mean Bass player, and Pianist and Ukuleleist

19. He's a legit musician

20. He does not like frosted animal crackers

21. He turns 21 today (10-11-2011)

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape

List #652: Songs From a Elementary School Soccer Pump Up Tape, IIRC (West End Piedmont Wingers, AYSA Silver Division Champions U12, circa 1991)

1. Run Riot -- Def Lepard

2. Rocket -- Def Lepard

3. Kickstart My Heart -- Motley Crue (self edited for profanity)

4. Dr. Feelgood -- Motley Crue

5. something by Poison, I think.

List #651: 5 Thoughts on Teeth

List #651: 5 Thoughts on Teeth

1. I don't like when mine are chipped

2. I like brushing them a lot more now that I have a sonic care

3. I used to dream about them falling out of my mouth in mass quantities

4. I wish I liked flossing them more

5. I never needed braces

List #650:Highlights from an attended Wedding

List #650:Highlights from an attended Wedding

1. Brief, meaningful, ceremony

2. Free Jam!

3. Candles and gravel

4. Pistachio cake

5. Meeting cool new people

6. Good looking Groom's-woman

List #649: Favorite Socks

List #649: Favorite Socks

1. Big socks with blue and gold stripes from grandpa's house (used for field hockey, now ripped)

2. The red Under Armor socks I got for dancing

3. The two pair of quick drying travel socks I got for my trip to scandinavia

4. not wearing socks at all

5. The kind made into puppets

List #648: 5 Thoughts on Macaroni and Cheese

List #648: 5 Thoughts on Macaroni and Cheese

1. It's one of the foods that I will eat until I become sick (and love it!)

2. When I used to work at a summer camp, the kitchen would make me my own serving-bowlful

3. At home I like it from a box with Tuna and Peas or with hot dogs

4. The only kind I really don't like is Velveeta Shells and Cheese

5. It's a great topping for chicken burgers

List #647: Bicycles I have Owned

List #647: Bicycles I have Owned

1. A blue bmx bike that I learned to ride when I was like 7

2. A teal Peugot mountain bike (my mom and dad had almost the same ones) that I got when I was maybe in 4th grade

3. A purple and black Diamondback Topanga that I still have and that also rules and I will ride for the rest of my life, even if it needs non-duct-tape hand grips

4. A heavy, teal, bike of undisclosed manufacture that I bought used and was my Seattle bike

5. An LL Bean bike that I used to ride to work in MD.

List #646: Favorite Places to get a Sandwich

List #646: Favorite Places to get a Sandwich

1. Isabella's Brick Oven Pizza, Baltimore

2. Krupin's/Morty's Deli (now defunct), D.C.

3. Hogan Brothers, Northfield MN

4. Greg and Kristen's house, Catonsville, MD

5. the catering at professional days at work, usually

List #645: Frustrations I'd Like to Vent Publicly, But Won't

List #645: Frustrations I'd Like to Vent Publicly, But Won't

1. The loss of ___ _______ _________

2. The potential reestablishment of _________ __________

3. Inability to ________ __ ________

4. __________ Presidential Candidates

5. _______ testing

6. People that don't __ _____ _____ and ____ ___ ___ _____

List #644: Races I Have Run

List #644: Races I Have Run (for J.P. Zieger)

1. A race at my Dad's company picnic once

2. Midnight Sun Midnight Run 5k (Duluth) 2009, 2010, 2011

3. Horsin' Around 5k (somewhere at a horsefarm in MD) 2010

4. GCS Dragon Dash 5k (Ellicott City, MD) 2010, 2011

5. SoWeBo Landmark 5k (Baltimore) 2011

List #643: 5 Ways I'd Fix Basketball

List #643: 5 Ways I'd Fix Basketball

1. 15 second shot clock

2. Each team may only use 1 time out in the last 2 minutes of a half

3. Fouls in the last 2 minutes are automatic points for the other team OR the team shooting free throws in the last 2 minutes maintains possession regardless of the outcome of the free throw

4. Players committing fouls must be subbed out for 30 seconds

5. Add two rounds (plus 90 'play-in' games ) to the Spring Basketball Insanity tournament and make the round of 256 be unseeded.