Nonexhaustive list of my favorite things:
- Balderdash
- The New Yorker
- Jeopardy!
- Writers like Mary Roach, Randall Munroe, and Jia Tolentino
- Cartoons like The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cartoons
- James Thurber! I want to watch My World and Welcome to It, his short-lived Emmy-winning sitcom
- Postcards
- I make great use of my newspapers.com subscription (and the New York Times archives, which are annoyingly separate), and I particularly like the Hazel Felleman who worked at the Times from 1915 to 1955 and ran the "Notes and Queries" section, where people published fragments of half-remembered poems in the hopes that some reader would recognize them and share the name. She published an anthology in 1936 of the poems that people kept trying to remember!
- Pickles, mochi, beet juice, Manchego cheese, coffee, kombucha
- bikes
- old newspapers (mostly accessed via newspapers.com)
- podcasts like 99% Invisible, Normal Gossip, the "Super Tech Support" episodes of Reply All
- I like odd music, like Jet Lady, Moondog, and other Songs in the Key of Z stuff. I do not always like actually listening to it.
- Women in early aviation are usually interesting to me. They're often fascinating in all sorts of other areas of their lives besides flight! See: Jeannette Piccard.
- The ragtag group of 18th century encyclopedists, specifically including the most prolific contributor Louis de Jaucourt. He wrote eight articles per day for six years straight and his 17k articles make up a full 25% of the Encyclopédie!
- I like recreational linguistics and the journal Word Ways. One of the greats is Dmitri Borgmann (anagram of "damn mad boring trifler") who led a bizarre life that included choosing the name Exxon (he got $10,000!)
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