alcohol,
all the king's men, autumn sundays,
bay cities,
beatles,
beauty,
bill of rights,
books,
bookstores, bruckner's os justi gradual,
cats,
chicago,
chicago bears,
comic books,
computers, cozy december nights,
culture,
dark corners,
dark taverns,
depression, depressos,
dorothy parker,
dreaming,
drinking,
driving at night,
dry humor,
dysthymia, educating fat flatworms, evil dave sheldon,
f scott fitzgerald, fancy schmancy restaurants,
fedoras,
film,
food,
genealogy,
gentoo,
global domination,
good conversation,
grand romantic gestures,
gut-wrenching love, healing properties of claret,
hiding under the covers,
hitchcock,
imaginary colors, individual histories,
insanity,
irc,
john lennon,
kate winslet,
kibology,
knowledge,
late night confessions,
life,
mahler, make money fast schemes,
making merry, mayo and mustard,
media,
mennonites,
mike royko,
mitochondria,
motives,
movies,
music, my neighbor mr gilleran,
never growing up,
newspapers,
northwestern wildcats, numb alum,
ocean,
oddtodd,
old movies,
pablo neruda, people named obediah,
phi mu alpha sinfonia,
politics,
procrastination,
public drunkenness,
questions,
reading,
romantics, sadder-but-wiser girls,
sandman,
seedy diners,
serendipity,
shopping,
showtunes,
sincerity,
sleeping,
spilling your guts,
spongebob,
switzerland,
the zero effect,
theatre,
things we don't say,
thinking,
thunderstorms,
trumpet,
truth, underground wonderbar,
usenet,
wit,
woody allen,
writing