it's never a bad time to appreciate the best worth living for
Dennys at sunrise
Choc chip cookies at subway Donuts at 7 11 Dunkin donut holes Poppy seed muffin tops Central time zone
Marx bros
Raisinets Junior mints Choc covered joyva halavah
Really good crushed ice
Hebrew National Hot Dogs Seven layer cake Bbq ruffles Bbq fritos
The first time I smelled bacon frying Sun new york times
New yorker
Free press sports section Si swimsuit, year in pictures and sportsman issues The front porch at 4440
the back deck of 822
Hockey’s playoff beards, three stars of the game and post game handshake Bob ryan Dick schaap Shirley povich Red smith George vescey Kornheiser on radio Ernie harwell George kell Van patrick Bruce martyn Curt gowdy Mel allen Red barber Vin scully Jack buck
Gammons writing in the globe and at espn
Baseball tonite but only when tigers win
’68 Tigers ’84 Tigers starting 35 and 5 Attending ’84 Tigers World Series\
Attending last game at Tiger Stadium and scooping dirt out of the infield
Box seat from Tiger Stadium following me wherever i move for last 25 years Attending Red Wings clinching 2002 Cup Game – The “Believe” Year Pistons Bad Boys in the Finals 3 Years Running, Winning last two Meltdowns by coaches and managers after losing Frozen kit kats, reeses, milanos and peanut m and m’s
Dq vanilla dipped in choc
Baskin robbins choc chip Toll house choc chip cookie ice cream sandwich Honeycomb, lucky charms, sugar pops, alpha bits, apple jacks, super sugar crisp Nostalgia for drive in theaters Just about any city in the fall
A new pair of skechers
Quintessential 70s movies like Serpico, Shampoo, Last Detail
Great little movies of the 70s like Taking of Pelham 123, Joe Uptown theater Warner theater 9 30 club
Weiner’s Circle
Birchmere WXRT WOZ WDET WABX Heeb magazine
Tiger stadium Olympia stadium Fenway Wrigley Monument park at Yankee Stadium Going to 68 Tigers Fantasy Camp and going 0 for the camp until final at bat Crosley, Forbes, ebbets, connie mack stadium, polo grounds, and all the others I did not get to see Ipod/itunes (especially fun to pretend you are listening just so you can covertly listen in on people’s conversations)
riding the bus to work Satellite radio London Italy
Israel
big sam’s funky nation
John lee hooker
the doors (and seeing half of them play together) using first bar mitzvah check to buy concert for Bangladesh and then going right to theater to see it Houstons hawaiian ribeye Five guys Watching the yankees foiled Atm’s Loathing republicans Vegas
Halle berry in monsters ball Halle berry in catwoman
Halle Berry in…oh, you get the point
That roxy music album cover
That carly simon album cover
Pefect albums like every picture tells a story Keith olberman show and commentaries Meet the press The daily show Bill maher Bob costas George carlin Sam kinison at full throttle
Lewis Black getting indignant
Mitch Hedberg
Entourage
Dennis Hopper (on screen)
Dennis Hopper (off screen) Rolling rock commercials
The writings of Michael Kinsley
The writingmanship of charles Krauthammer even though I agree on almost nothing
David broder columns
Books by david halberstam
David halberstam talking about his books
Interviews conducted by Charlie rose (the part where he stops talking)
Interviews conducted by brian lamb
Nike ads “italian” movies in high school and college
Rocky and bullwinkle Johnny bravo, doug Toy story, aladdin, fantasia All in the family
Ed Sullivan Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Seinfeld (the show not the stand up act)
Get Smart
Larry Sanders Show
Mel Brooks
Robert Klein
Rodney Daingerfield
Don Rickles
Bogart Paul newman
Steve mcqueen
Nicholson in his prime Peter otoole in big movies like lawrence of Arabia. Peter o’toole in small movies like my favorite year and stuntman
Susan Sarandon at any age
George Clooney
ChrisTOpHer Walk-en
Blaxploitation flicks
Pam Grier
Netflix
Graceland (the actual place, not the album)
Lena Horne Albert kings ill play the blues for you Bobby blue blands Stormy Monday
Elvis 1956-1958 and 1968-1970
TCB SRV B B King aretha Johnny cash Ray charles Van morrisons wavelength, leave on john donne (live), I just wanna make love to you (live) Every version of help me from sonny boy williamson to van morrison joan osborne and harry manx
Chest fever, the weight and it makes no difference and back to back Stones’ sympathy for the devil, can’t you hear me knockin’ and brown sugar everything from let it bleed Leon russell’s jumpin jack flash/youngblood from concert for bangladesh The band’s the last waltz Going tieless
the shot of the first moon landing
Canvas Nikes
Converse All Stars
my uncle’s herb albert album with the chick in the whipped cream Uniforms of tigers lions red wings and wolverines 1980 u s olympic hockey team Magic johnson when I was at msu
ESPN Classic
Jimmy the Greek
Joe Louis
Ali vs Frazier
Tommy Hearns
Mike Tyson at the beginning
Gary Thorne doing hockey
Don Cherry
Bryant Gumbel’s “Real Sports”
Tim Kurkjian baseball analysis
Marv albert
Offbeat flicks like Being John Malkovich, the Hal Hartley stuff, and the Wes Anderson stuff The heyday of Mad, Rolling Stone, SI, Esquire, SNL, National Lampoon magazine
Soul Train
Team America Fuck Yeah Festivus Ducksoupstation.net Watching o j simpson walter payton gale sayers barry sanders billy sims and earl campbell run in the nfl Gordie howe Johnny unitas Brett favre Jackie robinson black people and culture in general
Dean Smith
John Wooden
George Plimpton
Paper Lion
The post-series handshake at center ice in NHL playoffs
van gogh (and the museum in Amsterdam)
Picasso (and the museum in Barcelona) Chagall Modigliani Henri Cartier Bresson Robert Mapplethorpe Weegee Diane Arbus JFK, RFK hagiography
Character actors, esp Steve Buscemi, Jeff Goldblum, Harvey Keitel)
Perfect movies like Casablanca, Manhattan and The Royal Tennenbaums, Raging Bull
Chauncey Gardiner
“Does your dog bite?”
“Is that your minkey?
Natalie wood
NYC cabbies
Republican sex scandals
Rocky & Bullwinkle and The Way Back Machine
Tennessee Tuxedo Michael jordan in his emerging nba years
Noam Pitlik but not Noam Chomsky
Rockford Files
Hawaii Five-O
Harry-O
McCloud
Barney Miller
Dick Van Dyke Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Larry sanders show
Taxi after Rev Jim came on
Cheers
Mind of the Married Man
First years of MASH til both trapper and henry were gone The Office (both versions)
Mel Brooks
Albert Brooks
30 Rock
Plowing through a huge stack of leaves in the street
Bill Murray’s “serious movies”
Gene Hackman
The chance that I might get to know what it’s like to survive a plane crash
The chance that I might get to know what it’s like to survive getting shot
Muddy waters’ mannish boy
Any version of mystery train
Louis and ella doing summertime
Herbie hancock’s cantaloupe island
xm
Vegas until the 1990s Because you never know
And I Could Do Without
Gwenneth Paltrow
Sheryl Crow
Jewel
Just about every country album ever made
Minnie Driver
Mira Sorvino
Paul Simon/Simon and Garfunkel
Billy Joel
Jimmy Buffett
Michael mcdonald
Oprah
The View
Katie Couric
Bryant Gumbel doing anything other than Real Sports
Renee Zelwegger
Whoopi Goldberg
Mike Lupica
Bobby Knight
Julia Roberts
Diane Keaton
James Taylor
Asia (the group, not the continent)
Geometry
Calculus
Kevin Costner
Russell Crowe
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