Name some things that totally don't suck

[Rabrrrrrr]

I'm thinking:

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde

Thunderstormy days spent inside reading and drinking coffee/cocoa

Blizzardy days spent inside reading and drinking coffee/cocoa

Mahler's Symphony Number 2

Playing golf in Hawaii along the coast and watching the humpback whales frolicking offshore

Crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you, and hearing the lamentation of their women

Mom's rhubarb pie (God, I miss it! :cry:)

Bacon

Cats

Going to the favorite coffee shop and there are no assholes, shitwits, gum chewers, loud music emo fucks, loud cackling evangelical platinumed-hair psuedo-educated women doing lia sophia or pop chef (whatever the hell that is) Mary Kay or Avon, and the music on the stereo is mellow, wonderful, and good.

Hemingway

Mark Twain

Poe

Reading Sherlock Holmes while smoking a pipe of Longfellow blend and drinking a snifter of Germain-Robin alembic

Judi Dench

Orson Welles

Shakespeare

Seeing The Tempest at an outside theater in the rain (that was awesome!)

Pink Floyd

Bamboo shoots in season in Kyoto restaurants

Dropping enraged orangutans on the kids at the day care center down the street

[Parche]

1. A hooker with her mouth wired shut

:rofl: :woohoo: :hi:

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. WIndmills. Fans. Whitstles. n/t

[siligut]

3. I like your list, plus pinot gris, minus enraged orangutans.

Where did you see The Tempest at an outside theater in the rain?

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. Pfft - you have no idea of hilarity, then. Harumph.

:rofl:

I saw the Tempest at the American Players Theater in Wisconsin. Great Shakespeare theater. Can't think of the name of the city, but it's the city that Frank Lloyd Wright came from, to the west of Madison.

[RetroLounge]

19. Spring Green

:hi:

RL

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. That's it! Thanks.

[rug]

4. White Castle

[Initech]

6. Frank Zappa

[MissMillie]

7. I'm totally w/ you on Mahler's #2

I'll add:

dark chocolate

clean sheets

my son's smile

thunderstorms (so long as everyone's safe)

jogging around the Charles River at sun-up

[AlCzervik]

8. My favorite Thai Food restaurant, having a library card and using it, Turner Classic movies

Outkast, Edith Wharton novels, David Sedaris books and My Nana's cooking.

[DeepBlueC]

13. ditto on the library card!

and Turner Classic Movies as well. :hi:

[GOPisEvil]

9. Fresh, top quality sushi.

Top Gear

The smell of freshly baked bread.

The feel of a perfectly struck golf shot.

The rumble of a big block V8.

Watching someone passionately involved in creating something.

KEXP (www.kexp.org)

[Pierre.Suave]

10. Minnesota Public Radio

Totally does not suck.

[Roon]

11. My Granparents

[Dr. Strange]

12. To paraphrase one of yours...

Reading the Dune series while chewing spice chiclets and drinking a snifter of freshly poured stillsuit water.

[Chan790]

14. The view from my bedroom window...

totally does not suck. Wish I had a camera so I could share. It's the Hudson River through South Yonkers as viewed from the 11th floor out a picture window.

[Haole Girl]

15. Here are just a few:

Laughter

Hawaii

Cats

A spouse who sticks by you

A best friend who understands you

A motorcycle ride on a slightly warm day

Warm, sunny, lazy days

Sweet dreams

Kona coffee with a touch of cinnamon

Sisters

Long talks with sisters

Long walks on the beach

The ocean

Watching our new President speak

Just feeling satisfied

[Jamastiene]

16. Waking up in the morning, but not to an alarm clock...and

knowing you can turn over and go back to sleep.

Chili

Dr Pepper

The Ramones

Deborah Harry's voice

[siligut]

17. Plus, early blooming crocus.

Lovely and so brief, non-suckiness must be intense.

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Watching your child sleep.

Rainy Sunday afternoons watching movies and enjoying a fire.

A good book.

The Rolling Stones.

Scented candles.

[Odin2005]

20. MPR, the Chinese restaurant across the street, my GF, sex...

:yoiks:

[Sugar Smack]

21. I'm thinking:

Tiny Xmas lights that stay up all year

The second movement of Beethoven's second symphony

Cats

The Marriage of Figaro

Mulholland Drive & the 7000 explanations of its plot summary

Office supply stores & pocket money & free time

Toblerone chocolate

Coffee *ALL* day long

Honey's in Durham, NC

Skeletal use of FaceBook

Lists





:D

[Richardo]

37. Sugar Smack showing up on the freakin' message board.

:hi: :loveya: :pals: :bounce:

[trof]

22. Fritos

[Bluzmann57]

23. Warm weather

About 55 degrees on a consistent basis would be all right.
Good old Rock and Roll. Chuck Berry rules!
My children, even though they are grown and gone.
A new novel by David Baldacci
And of course Baseball season.
Go Cubs!

[Skittles]

24. any way I can get the receipe for your mom's rhubarb pie?

please rabrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. I can see if we have it - I don't know if she ever wrote it down.

If she did, my sister has it.

That was my favorite thing my mom made - and, in my opinion, the best rhubarb pie I ever had. No one else's ever even came close to it.

When she died, I vowed never to eat rhubarb pie again.

[Skittles]

33. I loved my English grandmother's rhubarb pie

but I find store-bought ones not very good so I am interested in a good recipe :D

[3.14158675309]

25. Kicking back on a beach on a warm, summer day, with a cooler full of cold

Sangria, soaking up the sun, and rubbing lotion on your hawt GF.

[flvegan]

26. Today's Top Gear marathon on BBC America.

[Blue Gardener]

27. Flowers

Can brighten anyone's day.

[WinkyDink]

28. Agatha Christie and Diet Coke, John Hurt, "Alfie" and other 60's BritFlicks, Donne, Sedaris, birdie

Christmas ornaments, my own herb garden and tomatoes, and my mom's kiffels!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

29. Off the top of my head

A really good bottle of beer or Bordeaux

Epoisses cheese

A good baguette

Julie Christie in "Far From the Madding Crowd"

Bach's Orchestral Suites

Bill Evans

Fairport Convention

Robert R. McCammon's novel "Boy's Life"

My cat Max

Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending" and 3d Symphony

[Rabrrrrrr]

31. Lark Ascending - yes! Also his Symphonia Antarctica. God, I love that.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

34. As do I, and I also should have mentioned

"Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus" and the Tallis Variations, the latter being the first VW I ever heard. After picking myself up off the floor, I found a version the next time i went music shopping. Sir John Barbirolli's early 1960s recording of the Tallis Variations is unsurpassed as are Marriner's "Lark" and "Dives."

[underpants]

35. the finish line

[Montauk6]

36. Things that DON'T suck, hmmm....

TCM
YouTube without buffering
Homemade smoothies with lots of veggies and frozen fruit (recent convert)
Bruce Lee
That new book smell
William Grant Still
Any Jamerson bassline
Post-coital kissing before rolling over and going to sleep
Discovering that your road trip rental car comes with fully activated satellite radio (COOL! DON'T NEED TO BRING CDS!!!)
Driving from NY to Detroit and seeing the first miles-to-Toledo sign
Fresh unsweetened coffee with half/half (major discovery after years of fooling with pink, blue and yellow packets)

[Richardo]

38. Baroque music

Dog licks to the face

2000 green Ford Ranger pickup

Good crime novels

Funny crime novels

Brass Choirs

Day long rain showers

The ocean

First class upgrades

Brandenberg Concerto #3

A day at the docks

Mark Twain

Catch-22

David McCullogh

The Carne Asada at Alicia's in Houston

The sushi rolls at The Red Fish Grill in Houston

The Mall - Washington

The Golden Gate Bridge

The Chrysler Building

[seaker]

39. Getting it right the 1st time.

[Lex]

40. Driving the Blue Ridge Parkway in autumn.

Watching dolphins play in the surf.

Sleeping in late on a Sunday morning.

Babies (someone else's)

An armful of good books from the library

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. I would love to drive that some day!

Looks so beautiful in pictures.

[PVnRT]

42. The Clash

Using your tax rebate to pay off credit cards and having enough left over for a summer trip out to Colorado

The desert

Statistics

Immersion blenders with multiple attachments

Dave's fire-roasted tomato marinara sauce in the Top Chef Cookbook

Deep-dish pizza

Being able to look south and see the foothills of the Smokies in central Kentucky on my drive to work

Dogs

Beer cheese dip from Banana

Aged cheddar from Carr Valley Cheese

Pabst Blue Ribbon beer

[Rabrrrrrr]

43. You know about Carr Valley cheese? Aren't they wonderful?

Whenever I'm back in Wisconsin, I try to get to their store in Mauston.

Fantastic cheeses.

And their 10 year aged cheddar- wow!

[PVnRT]

44. When we visit the in-laws in Reedsburg, we take U.S. 12 through Sauk City

Pop into the store there, and blow 50-60 dollars. At the very least, we grab a bag of cheese curds from the Kwik Trip.

Their hickory-smoked cheddar spread is awesome. Too bad it comes in such small containers.