Pulp Fiction Central
Hardboiled Slang
Lurid Paperback of the Week
Avant Pop fiction at Alt-X
David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Barry Yourgrau
Stacy Levine
The Oulipo group
Those wacky, wacky Victorian poets
Edward Lear
Willa Cather
Don Barthelme
Umberto Eco
Walker Percy
Flann O'Brien
Alfred Jarry


COMIX I LIKE

Story Minute by Carol Lay
Troubletown by Lloyd Dangle
Lynda Barry
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Little Dot in the Harveyville Times
John Callahan
Krazy Kat by George Herriman
Nancy
Felix, Then and Now
Milk & Cheese by Evan Dorkin
Betty Boop
Wacky Packages
Ellen Forney
Jim Woodwing
Viz,
the U.K.'s 2nd naughtiest magazine
(after British Cosmo)
Beany and Cecil


MOVIE THINGS I LIKE

The old Psycho
Indian movie songs
Marlene Dietrich
NFL Films
Peter Greenaway
W.C. Fields
Marx Bros.
Harold Lloyd
Mae West
Russ Meyer
Hal Hartley
Maya Deren


TEE VEE THINGS I LIKE

Bill Nye the Science Guy
Coronation Street, greatest soap in the world
All My Kids,
whose characters keep
moving to Seattle
for some reason
Game shows
Game Show Network
Thunderbirds & Supermarionation
Ernie Kovacs
Sid & Marty Krofft
Ed Sullivan
Bob Newhart
Bob and Ray!
PythOnline
Independent Film Channel
Bravo
American Movie Classics
Turner Classic Movies
International Channel,
greatest cable station
on the planet


COMPUTERS I LIKE
Macintosh
(The tool that sets me free!
Or is it entrapping me
without my knowing it?)

Apple Computer
Info-Mac software archive
TidBITS by Adam Engst
Macworld
MacSurfer's Headline News
MacAddict
MacOS Rumors
Mac Design Online
MacintoshOS.com
MacIntouch


FOOD n' DRINK THINGS I LIKE

My favorite food in the world,
hamburgers with fries
(but if you're making one for me,
hold the pickles!)
Dick's Drive-Ins
Ivar's
Hot Dogs
Waffles
Macaroni and Cheese boxes
Exotic Meats
The Other White Meat
Calorie Control Council
Candy Stand
Philly cheese steaks
Safeway
Plastic food models
Haggis!
Margarine!
Miracle Whip
Dr Pepper Museum
Luscious food pix
Dairy cattle pix
Snack Food Association
Jell-O
Spam!
Microbrew beer
(there's still no Hale's Ice,
thank goodness!)
Microwave popcorn
Popcorn Institute
Lemonheads
Coffee
(I like coffee but hate coffee jokes)
Cereal box collecting
Kool-Aid
Otter Pops
Mentos, The Freshmaker!
Pez
A wall of beer
Moxie!
Aplets
(no, not the Java programming kind)
& Cotlets
Candy bar wrapper collecting
Drink recipes
Ramen
Ramen Museum, Yokohama
Tater Tots
Onion-soup-mix dip
CheeseNet
Vegemite,
Australia's gift to a hungry world
"Jiffy" cake mixes
Clark bars
(hard to find these days but worth it)

Mountain bars
(Brown & Haley Makes 'Em Daily!)


SEATTLE THINGS I LIKE

Offbeat Tour of Seattle
Monuments of Seattle Kitsch
A Seattle Lexicon
Caffe Vita
Bauhaus Books and Coffee
Mama's Mexican Kitchen
Zeek's Pizza
Shorty's
Two Bells Tavern
Linda's Tavern
Lava Lounge
The Homer Spence Memorial Page
The Space Needle
My Alma Mama
Sports at My Alma Mama
BBC Studio and Ola Wyola Boutique
Market Magic Shop
Seattle Goodwill
Costco,
Where Shopping Is A Baffling Ordeal
The Bon Marche
Seattle Dream Homes
Seattle Public Library
Woodland Park Zoo
Pacific Science Center
On the Boards
Seattle Aquarium
Enchanted Parks
Museum-O-Flight
Camp 6 Logging Museum, Tacoma
Walker Rock Garden
Pike Pl. Market

Young Fresh Fellows
Posies
Presidents of the
United States of America
Fastbacks
Black Cat Orchestra
Harvey Danger
Ruston Mire
Peter Parker
Quasi
Death Cab for Cutie
Guardian Alien
Combo Craig
Amy Denio
Neko Case
The Ventures
Sonics
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Kingsmen
Tom Jones
Lawrence Welk
Kurt Weill
Nana Mouskouri
101 Strings
Laguna!
Capitol Records Ultra-Lounge
Eva-Tone flexidiscs!
Ray Charles (official)


SPORTS THINGS I LIKE

Hydroplanes,
Seattle's official outdoor summer
one-day-season sport
Curling,
greatest winter sport
known to humankind
Museum of Roller Skating
Foosball
Air hockey
Bowling
Motorcycle racing
The fighting Beavers!
The Mariners
The Sounders
The Sonix
The Thunderbirds
Seattle Pilots Baseball Team


FUN THINGS I LIKE

View-Master
Fun with Barbie
Crosswords
Puzzle Page
Lego
Scrabble
Hello Kitty
Color Crens!
Pinball
Hot Wheels
Historic video games
Uproar online games


ART THINGS I LIKE

Center on Contemporary Art
Museum of Bad Art
Thrift Store Art


SEXY THINGS I LIKE

Kutie
Society for Human Sexuality
Sex Resources on the Net
Open relationships
Nudism
Highbrow "respectable" erotica at Libido
Fun with mud
Collecting old Playboys
and laughing at
the leisure-suit ads
RetroRaunch
Body in Mind
Nerve
World Art Erotica
More arty nudes at Mythago
Nude Art n' Photography
Jane's Regional Guide


HOME THINGS I LIKE

Shavers and personal appliances
The Toaster Museum
Archie McPhee's,
greatest gift store in
this or any dimension
Lava lamps from Spencer Gifts
Tesla coils
Office supplies
Major appliances
Tupperware
Vacuum cleaners
Plastic tableware
Bubble wrap
Scotch Tape
Carpets
Band-Aids
Simple tenny runners
A free battery every month
As Seen on TV
Old postcards and photos
Retromodern Design
Corrugated cartons
Old maps


TRANSPORT THINGS I LIKE

Scooters
Trains
Inter-city buses
RVs
Pleasure boats
Eco-Motion electric cars
Plymouth Valiant
Ford Falcon
Toyota Tacoma
Goodyear
American Motors and the AMX
Petroliana
Airsick bags from around the world


PLACES I LIKE

Tacoma
Olympia
Bellingham
Mt. St. Helens
Spokane
Portland
Vancouver, USA
Vancouver, BC
Victoria
Scotland
Paris


OTHER THINGS I LIKE

Hotels and motels,
especially with free ice and HBO
Self-sufficient women
Clark forklifts!
Sincere yet trashy magazines
Small supermarkets
Vicks Vapo-Rub
Dentyne and Listerine
Containerized cargo
Fringe theater


and a few THINGS I HATE

Cigarettes
Fascistic cops
Censoring the Net
The alleged "Northwest Lifestyle"
The Dictatorship of the Upscale
The hemp movement:
They really want to
legalize pot smoking,
so why not say so?
Dave Barry,
what yuppies mistake
for "weird" "humor"
Those GE weasels
Dale Chihuly glass "art"
Snowboarding hype
Canonical classic rock
MS,
The Great Crippler of Young Adults
KVI,
the local 24-hour-a-day version of
Orwell's "Two Minutes Hate"
Bellevue
(the suburb not
the NY mental hospital,
though in some ways
there's little difference)
Desperate-to-be-hip magazines
Nordstrom,
a mind-control cult
disguised as a store
Strip malls
People who nevvuh
watch teh-levision
Literature about baseball
The right-wing thought police
The left-wing lifestyle police
Smarmy PR
Wheatgrass juice
The hyperbland aesthetic of NPR
Frisco-centricism
People who whine on about
how radical they were
in The Sixties but
who haven't done a
damn thing since
Laughing at tabloids
Telemarketers