To Quote Wally Exactly

Less a top-one hundred list, more a "Go ahead, ask me about 'blank,'" with "blank" being a thing. On the list. Why? Because sometimes I need to be reminded of the things that I like, the things that keep me going.

Fill in the blanks, folks.

1. "Futurama"

2. Poison Ivy

the supervillain, not the plant

3. The Border Collie (and to a lesser extent, all Border Collies)

4. The Kinks

5. Comic books with social relevance

oh, and social relevance = rape. didn't you know?

6. Anya (or Anya Christina Emmanuelle Jenkins)

7. Raymond Scott and the titles of his compositions (specifically "Bumpy Weather Over Newark," "Yesterday's Ice Cubes" and "New Year's Eve in a Haunted House")

8. Fortnum and Mason

9. The Sedari

that's a whole lot of almost attractive

10-12. "Mulholland Drive," "Blue Velvet" and "Lost Highway"

11. And in a league of its own, "Twin Peaks"

12. Birdo

everyone's favorite cocksuckasaur

13. Bret Easton Ellis' The Rules of Attraction

14. Roger Avary's "The Rules of Attraction"

15. Anteaters

16. Cassowaries


17. Narwhals


18. Maya Rudolph


19. This very blog, blogging in general and the word "blog," which collectively equal one item in my mind.

20. The Dodos that Porky Pig meets on "Looney Tunes"

21. Anything Beck does, basically

22. Devo (the band, not the person)

and totally excluding "whip it," on account of it sucking

23. The Tate Modern

24. Malo malo malo malo.

25-27. "Lady Snowblood," "Policewomen" and "Switchblade Sisters"

28. Scissor Sisters

29. Urban legends

30. Gin

31. Ethan Frome

32. The furniture of Gaetano Pesce

33. All manner of waterfowl

34. The Cremaster Cycle

35. Cyrkle's "Red Rubber Ball"

36. Man... Or Astroman?

37. "Battle Royale"

"every inch of me will resist you!"

38. The interrobang

39. Crossovers, generally

40. Buffalo nickels

(photo not interesting)

41. Ankhenaten

42. Fictional bands that still release albums — for example, the Gorillaz, Spinal Tap and Josie and the Pussycats

43. Pabst Blue Ribbon

44. Walter and Perry



45 and 46. Stephen Colbert and, slightly less so, Steve Carell

47. The Mothman

48-53. Pluots, Loquats, Kumquats, Physalis, Saturnfruit, Durians

54. Why Super Mario Bros. 2 is so weird in comparison to numbers 1 and 3

with birdo making an accidental second appearance

55. The Kit-Kat Clock

you know — the cat who stopped the great depression

56. The hurdy-gurdy, both as a word and as a musical instrument

57. Onomatopoeia

58 and 59. Jimmy Joyce and Billy Faulkner

60. Prof. Waid

61. The word "ptomaine," but not the idea it represents

62. Blondie's Parallel Lines

63. Gale Weathers

64. Etymological trivia

65. (805) 562-9054

66. Studio Ghibli

67. Violent tales of martyrdom

68. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark — and the illustrations therein

69. Perfect Tommy

70. Neko Case and her various bands

71. Zeppelins

not to mention blimps, airships and dirigibles

72. Henry Wallis' "The Death of Chatterton"

73. The two lost chapters of "Kill Bill" —
"Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?" and "Yuki's Revenge"

74. The samisen

and let's not forget the hermaphrodite playing the samisen.

75. The wonderful vocabular of geometry — "rhombus, "parallelogram," "isoceles," etc.

76. Alan Moore


unfrozen caveman comic book writer

77. "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'"

78. Carmen, the mouse who would not move away


see nate? i totally have inside jokes with you that i don't have with kristen and hilly

79. Patrick Warburton's voiceover career


with brock samson on the left and crippled cop joe on the right

80. Works of art or literature that, though completed, were never meant to be viewed by anybody but the creator — for example, the poems of Emily Dickinson or Henry Darger's 15,000-page fantasy novel

pictured: a scene from In the Realms of the Unreal

81. Bettas

george washington carver 2, we miss you

82. The bagpipe solo in the Church's "Under the Milky Way"

83. Weekend Update when it's hosted by two women



84. "Creature from the San Andreas Fault"


kristen, how is this picture not in your myspace profile?

85. "Zang Tumb Tumb"



86. Secret passageways



87. Cryptozoology

88. The "thick line" artwork Genndy Tartakovsky


with the gentlemen on either side and the ladies in the middle

89. Ennio Morricone

this album containing such hits as "the demise of barbara and the return of joe"90. Getting a red shell when you need it most


91. Charlie Kaufman's tendency to frame fictional stories around real people — for example, John Malkovich, Chuck Barris or himself



92. "My Mother, the Car"



93. Boo Boo Tannenbaum and the dysfunctional Glass family



a good band name, perhaps?

94. The paintings of Andrew Wyeth

"christina's world"

95. The Duffer of St. George



96. The eternally comforting sight of dry grass and green oak trees

(home)

97. Scandal, in general

98. "Hookah," especially when used as a verb

99. Joe Meek, in life and in death

100. The Secret of Mana

101. The concept of the "flâneur"


. . .

[ doozy ]