List #612: 5 Things I like about Minneapolis

List #612: 5 Things I like about Minneapolis

1. The Metrodome

2. First Ave.

3. The Golden Gophers

4. Skyways

5. State Theater/ Orpheum Theater

List #611: Things I Remembered from the First Time I read Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

List #611: Things I Remembered from the First Time I read Hithchiker's Guide to the Galaxy (which I recently re-'read' via audiobook)

1. Characters named "Ford Prefect"

2. That '42' is the answer

3. Don't Panic

4. Don't forget your Towel

5. Dolphins saying "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"

6. Not the plot, aside from the earth getting blown up.

List #610: Stuff I've Bought at Target in the Last Week

List #610: Stuff I've Bought at Target in the Last Week

1. Vacuum Cleaner

2. Bookshelves

3. Other Shelves

4. Broom

5. Dustpan

6. Protein Bars

7. Milk Crate

8. Wipe-off board

9. Magic Bullet blender

10. Document Holder and folders

11. Toilet Cleaner

12. Laundry Detergent

13. Two Bath Towels

14. Towel Hangar

15. Waste Basket

16. Bath mat

List #609: 5 Thoughts on Hair

List #609: 5 Thoughts on Hair

1. I don't like to have to think about it much, as long as it's clean

2. It makes a mess when it's not connected to a body

3. I think it looks nicer longer on girls

4. I haven't combed or brushed mine since 1998

5. I won't pay more than 10$ to have it cut (not including Tip)

List #608: Books Read This Summer

List #608: Books Read This Summer

1. Born to Run

2. A Dance With Dragons

3. Embassytown

4. Power of Play

5. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (on Audiobook)

List #607: Favorite ways to play with G.I.Joes

List #607: Favorite ways to play with G.I.Joes

1. Build mighty Construx fortresses for them

2. Hold Olympic Games (I have notebooks full of detailed results)

3. Make Dioramas or staged scenes (especially in the snow, or underwater)

4. Not generally "Joe vs. Cobra War". (most of mine got new names and personalities)

List #606: Favorite G.I.Joes

List #606: Favorite G.I.Joes (Toys, Show or Comics)

Joes

1. Scarlett

2. Jinx

3. Shipwreck

4. Roadblock

5. Muskrat

6. Lifeline

7. Mainframe

8. Blizzard

Cobra

1. Hydro-Viper

2. Croc Master

3. Baroness

4. Nemesis Enforcer

5. Alley Viper

6. Serpentor

List #605: Smoothies So Far This Week

List #605: Smoothies So Far This Week (courtesy of a Blender, and then the Magic Bullet)

1. Peanut Butter, Banana, Honey, Oatmeal, Chia, Milk, Greek Yogurt (forgot cinnamon!)

2. Spinach, Blueberry, Chia, Lemon, Milk, GYogurt (only so so... not sure if I'm sold on the taste of the yogurt)

3. Oatmeal, Milk, Strawberry, Banana, Chia, Honey, GYogurt

4. Spinach, Cucumber, Chia, Lemon, Yogurt, Blueberry, Water, Agave

List #604: Things I Thought the Earthquake was

List #604: Things I Thought the Earthquake was as I was in a parked car in the Safeway Parking Lot

1. Fluids in my recently turned-off car combining to make it explode

2. Some sort of gaseous explosion building up beneath the pavement

3. A twitching body of an animal or person in the undercarriage of my vehicle

4. An awakening formerly-unconscious body that someone might have stuffed in my trunk

List #603: Non-Foil Cards in my Shiny Vampires EDH deck

List #603: Non-Foil Cards in my Shiny Vampires EDH deck (known as Team Edward, due to sparkly vampires)

1. Shizo, Death's Storehouse

2. Exhume*

3. Spike Cannibal*

4. Gauntlet of Might

5. Nirkana Cutthroat

6. Dark Depths

7. Beseech The Queen

8. Caged Sun

9. Baron Sengir*

10. Tormod's Crypt

11. Extinction*

12. Necrologia*

13. Phyrexian Arena

14. Nevinyrral's Disk

15. Sorin' Markov

16. Dark Ritual (it is foreign though, and I have a foil one)

17.Krovikan Vampire*

*Not available in Foil.

List #602: Favorite M:tG Planeswalkers

List #602: Favorite M:tG Planeswalkers (That I've actually Used)

1. Elspeth, Knight Errant

2. Venser, the Sojourner

3. Liliana Vess

4. Sorin Markov

5. Ajani Goldmane

6. Chandra Ablaze

7. Chanra Nalaar

8. Elspeth Tirel

9. Tezzeret the Seeker

List #601: A Half-Dozen Other Things I Like

List #601: A Half-Dozen Other Things I Like

1. Other-Town (in Duluth)

2. The fact that there are 12.1 BILLION hits on Google for the word "other"

3. Those other guys

4. Juliet Burke

5. Other Nic (me, when I play games at FGS)

6. Other Truths, Do Make Say Think

List #600: Favorite International Flags

List #600: Favorite International Flags (visually)

1. Wales

2. Seychelles

3. Greenland

4. Sweden

5. Gabon

6. Barbados

List #599: Least Favorite Snakes

List #599: Least Favorite (or Scariest!) Snakes

1. Timber Rattlesnake

2. Inland Taipan

3. Black Mamba

4. King Cobra

5. Sea snakes (all of them)

6. Copperhead

7. Coral Snake

8. Banded Krait

9. Russell's Viper

10. Cottonmouth

List #598: Favorite Snakes

List #598: Favorite Snakes (even though snakes really scare me a lot!)

1. Reticulated Python

2. Emerald Boa

3. Anaconda

4. Boomslang (name)

5. Fer-de-lance (also name)

List #597: Things that make the trip back to MD okay

List #597: Things that make the trip back to MD okay

1. A good co-pilot

2. Field Hockey is the first thing

3. I missed my big computer

4. Grocery Shopping gets to happen soon

5. I have more friends in MD than MN right now

6. West Virginia is pretty to drive through

7. The weather is good

List #596 Goals for the Summer Revisited

List #596 Goals for the Summer Revisited (see earlier List)

1. Be Barefoot or Five-Fingers-ed as much as possible (YES!)

2. Run more often (NO)

3. Read 8 Books (more like 5)

4. At Least 3 Trips to Vermillion (NO)

5. At least 3 times seeing the Trio at Blackwater (Yes)

6. Eat smarter (Sometimes)

7. Go to the Twin Cities (NO)

8. Go up the Shore at least once (YES)

9. Disc Golf (3 Times)

10. Make a video with my brother (NO)

11.Suggestions? ('Go to Pike Lake a lot and hang out with My Grandpa.... YES)

List #595: New EDH Decks Made This Summer

List #595: New EDH Decks Made This Summer

1. Animar, Soul of Elements and his wacky menagerie

2. Riku of the Two Reflections: Mine and More

3. Vish Kal, the Blood Arbiter: My Life

4. Lady of the Mountain: Pauper Giants

5. Jasmine Boreal: The Fair Maiden

List #594: 5 Thoughts on Coffee

List #594: 5 Thoughts on Coffee

1. I have consumed ~1.5 Cups in my life

2. It would have been <1, but I didn't understand the way the hot water/coffee machine worked in Denmark and didnt' want to waste (though I couldn't finish it)

3. Sometimes the beans smell good. Don't let it fool you.

4. It tastes like burnt water

5. Some people are crazy fiends for it and depend on it to function.

List #593: 5 Thoughts on My Favorite Backpacks or Bookbags

List #593: 5 Thoughts on My Favorite Backpacks

1. Duluth Pack Bookbag: I've had it for almost 15 years, and it's been patched up twice. Has Welsh Flag, MN Northstars and Superman patches as well.

2. Patagonia backpack: I got it in 6th grade. It must have shrunk. They fixed the zipper for free 12 years after we bought it, and even sent a note back with it that it was fun to work on an old bag.

3. L.L. Bean backpack: A pre-Scandinavia-trip gift. I lived out of it for 16 days. Now it mostly hauls my nerdy hobbies, though it's been my beach bag this summer

4. B.E.T Jazz backpack: From my dad through his old job. Fake leather exterior. TONS of space. Used to be my travel bag pre L.L. Bean. Carries the heavy groceries when I walk.

5. L.L. Bean bookbag: Brightly colored. Christmas present. Has my name on it. Used to carry games until it wore out.

List #592: Favorite Characters from the Street Fighter II Video Games

List #592: Favorite Characters from the Street Fighter II Video Games (in order)

1. Chun-Li

2. Fei Long

3. Blanka

4. Ryu

5. Dhalsim

6. Cammy

7. Vega

8. Guile

9. M. Bison

10. Sagat

11. Ken

12. E. Honda

13. Zangief

14. Balrog

15. T. Hawk

16. Dee Jay

List #591: 5 Cool Things about 1991

List #591: 5 Cool Things about 1991

1. The Twins won the World Series (including the 2nd Greatest Game of the modern era)

2. I got to go to World Series, Game 2

3. I went to A Summer Camp for the first time

4. We moved to Northfield St.

5. Pearl Jam's "Ten" released (also Nirvana's "Nevermind", RHCP's "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" AND A Tribe Called Quest's "Low End Theory," the three of which were released on the same day)

List #590: Names I Might Give A Dog If I Were Ever Going to Own One (which is very very unlikely)

List #59X: Names I Might Give A Dog If I Were Ever Going to Own One (which is very very unlikely) (also, not all names work for all breeds)

1. Page

2. Mr. Poopytimes

3. Ogden (Oggy-Doggy)

4. Molly

5. Rerun

6. The Beast

List #589: 5 Thoughts on "Order of the Stick"

List #589: 5 Thoughts on "Order of the Stick"

1. It's probably for sure my favorite Webcomic, it's dangerously close to being my favorite fantasy series in any medium

2. I haven't played (A)D&D since 2nd edition (in High school), and I still think it rules

3. Elan and Haley are my favorite characters, but I enjoy Belkar too

4. It's almost too epic for its own good. There is so much story to tell, but it comes out too infrequently

5. SNEAK ATTACK!

List #588: 5 Thoughts about Corn

List #588: 5 Thoughts about Corn

1. I'm sure it's probably bad for the environment to grow it or something (isn't what all that food-panic documentaries are about?), but it's so useful!

2. Polenta!

3. I only discovered Hominy this year, but it's fun to throw in to things

4. Corn on the cob, when it's sweet, doesn't even need butter or salt or anything!

5. Those corn-puff things are pretty addictive.

List #587: Stuff to do in the last week of vacation

List #587: Stuff to do in the last week of vacation

1. Get a wild rice burger at the brewhouse

2. Watch the triathalon

3. Get the oil changed in the car

4. Ride my bicycle

5. Swim in the lake more

6. More pontoon rides

7. Go to the Farmer's Market

8. Play EDH group game

9. Look through 2 more bins

10. Get stuff ready to pack in the car

List #586: 5 Thoughts on the Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Show Last Night

List #586: 10 Thoughts on the Bela Fleck and the Flecktones Show Last Night

1. Even if I still miss Jeff Coffin (grrrrrr.... DMB), it's nice to have Howard Levy back because he wails on the harp, and the piano fills out the sound

2. I must be polytheist, because both Victor Wooten and Bela Fleck both have the Right Hand of God

3. Future Man had a new Drumitar

4. They played "Big Country" which is my favorite, and was unexpected (and was the only song from the Coffin Era)

5. The 4th row isn't a bad place to see them from (though last time I was in the 4th row, Bela sat down next to me and played the Big Country solo)

6. The Big Top is a fun Venue

7. Victor had more groove and less slap than normal (and was channeling Stanley Clarke throughout the evening)

8. There were no Hippos thrown (and I was even in range... sadface)

9. Quotations from "Caravan", "Well You Needn't," and "A Night in Tunisia" from Howard, and a ton of classical references from Bela

10. I didn't notice any references to "The Wizard of Oz" this show

List #585: 5 Thoughts about Arby's

List #585: 5 Thoughts about Arby's

1. The 5 For 5 is incomparable

2. The nicest fast food worker in the history of the world works at an Arby's outside of St. Louis

3. The Arby's employees in Williamsburg VA are also quite nice

4. Andrew is terrifying at Arby's

5. The Horsey sauce is only okay

List #584: 5 Thoughts on the DC reboot

List #584: 5 Thoughts on the DC Relaunch/Reboot/Re-diculousness

1. The DC Relaunch has pretty much put me off DC comics (might even sell some old stuff)

2. If DC messes up any of the really good Vertigo stuff, I'll be really mad.

3. I feel like it's all a way to screw over the Siegel and Schuster families even more

4. Barbara Gordon is Oracle, and she's in a Wheelchair

5. I was looking forward to Action #1,000. Action #96 isnt going to cut it.

List #583: Fake Player Names Made Up For Backyard Football

List #583: Fake Player Names Made Up For Backyard Football (which was really just throwing a nerf ball around in the snow and making up cool names for when we made good throws or catches) circa 1992

1. Saxafon von Schalooberfookenwooken

2. Emilio Capuccino Barachauga

3. Farfagnugen Volkswagen

4. Teabag Elbogreese

5. Sergio Goikache

6. Dmitri Aaorn

7. Frau Bluer

8. Chau Main

List #582: Stuff I Did Today

List #582: Stuff I Did Today

1. Slept in

2. Had an early dinner at Lake Avenue Cafe with family and Grandpa

3. Ate a Jerk Falafel Burger, Chorizo-stuffed Dates, Polenta, Iced Tea

4. Drove the pontoon so family could fish

5. Got rained on

6. Ate Blueberry Pie

7. Played Magic

8. Played Banjo

9. Saw sister, back of my head, and mom's credit card on the 10pm News

10. Came home to find pulled pork shoulder and polenta courtesy of booker!