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More of My Favorite Things

As I rummage around the corners of my cranium I find many that many people, groups, objects and events stand out as being tops in their field, at least as far as I'm concerned. Here are some specific favorites that come to mind:

ACTOR: Edward Herrmann
ARTIST, ACADEMIC: Bouguereau
ARTIST, REALIST: Norman Rockwell
ARTIST, NATURE: Charles R. Knight
BOOK, MOST RECENTLY READ: Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct"
COMPOSER: Johanne Sebastian Bach
COMPOSITION: Brahm's Violin Concerto
DRAWING: Portrait of a Young Girl, by Diego Velasquez
EXPLORER: Roy Chapman Andrews
GOSPEL GROUP, ACAPELLA: Glad
HISTORIAN OF PHILOSOPHY: Daniel N. Robinson
JAZZ ENSEMBLE, INSTRUMENTAL: The Rippingtons
JAZZ COMPOSER: Raymond Scott
LAW FIRM: Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, LP
MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: Taking a nap
MOVIE: The Golden Compass
MOVIES: Ali G Indahouse, Almost Famous, Amazing Grace, Boys and Girls, Dick, Harold & Maude, Ice Age Series, Milo & Otis, No Time for Sergeants, Serial, Sky Captain and the World of the Future, Something the Lord Made, Something Wild, Splendor in the Grass, Stage Beauty, Stone Cold, Street Kings, Sundays & Cybelle, The Good Shepherd, The Last of the Mohicans, The Parent Trap (with Lindsay Lohan), Training Day, What a Girl Wants
MUSICAL FORM: fugue
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: violin
MUSEUM: American Museum of Natural History
NUMBERS: pi, e, i, phi
PALINDROME: Are we not drawn onward, we few, drawn onward to new era?
PERFORMANCE: Toni Basil singing and dancing "Wham!" on Saturday Night Live
PHILOSOPHER: Plato
PHILOSOPHER OF SCIENCE: Karl Popper
PICTURE: Bouguereau's "First Kiss"
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Perl, JavaScript, PHP, Smalltalk, PL/I
PSYCHOLOGIST: Paul Rosenfels
SAFE SEX TECHNIQUE: Taking a nap
SCI-FI AUTHORS: Fredric Brown, Olaf Stapledon
SCIENCE JOURNALIST: Richard Milner
SCIENCE TOPICS: quantum wierdness, exobiology, nanotechnology, galactic topography
SINGER, FOLK: Stan Rogers
SINGER, COUNTRY: Bonnie Raitt
TV MINISERIES, FICTIONALIZED: Franklin and Eleanor
TV MINISERIES, NON-FICTION: "The Ascent of Man" with Jacob Bronowski, "Civilization" with Kenneth Clark, "500 Nations" with Kevin Costner
TV SERIES, FICTION: Northern Exposure, The Lone Gunmen
VIOLINISTS: David Oistrakh, Aaron Rosand
WRITING INSTRUMENT: 1950-era J-series Esterbrook fountain pen (maroon)
ZOO: Bronx Zoo

 


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