22 Nov 2001
11/22/01
Happy Thanksgiving!
Here are a few things (and people, places, etc.) I’m thankful for. This list is by no means comprehensive.
The Renaissance The Sistine Chapel Modernism Picasso Erik Satie The Revolutionary War outliners The Killers by Ernest Hemingway The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Philip Roth Anjelica Huston movies Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein Susie Bright The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams language The Story of English Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov wild animals butterflies cats earthworms Dogwood trees skyscrapers The Atlantic Ocean The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges Eiffel Tower Romance languages The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Milan Kundera baseball The Decameron Beowulf Star Trek vacuum cleaners gold toe socks guitars Prelude to an Apres-Midi d'un faun by Debussy Stravinsky: Sacre du Printemps Henri Matisse The Web Monty Python Red Dwarf The Democratic Party The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein Martin Amis: The Information Sabbatical by John Barth Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino Daniel J. Boorstin Summer Dahlias, nasturtiums, black-eyed susans, chrysanthemums The Space Needle The Pacific Science Center The Wyeth Museum George Washington Catch-22 Paris London Rome Spain bullfights boxing Blondie The Clash The Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille courtroom dramas Babe Ruth The Mariners steak potato chips The Chesapeake Bay Washington, D.C. Buddy Holly Chuck Berry Martha Reeves and the Vandellas Cocoa hot chocolate Coffee Mac OS X Fantagraphics zoos Leonardo da Vinci Machiavelli Shakespeare pasta ska airplanes dirigibles and blimps the end of the Cold War the defeat of Nazism and Imperial Japan in WWII Philip K. Dick Socrates pasteurization Virgina Woolf Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? by Edward Albee Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Raymond Carver The Roman Empire Roman ruins The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbons comic books the Polio vaccine Camille Paglia Scotch on the rocks Bloody Marys Queen Elizabeth I Sherlock Holmes squirrels eagles Richard P. Feynman Casablanca Humphrey Bogart Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Douglas Engelbart Linux Python Frontier Handspring Visors Clay flower pots Cordless telephones Regular trash, recyclables, and yard waste collection Email democracy free speech Einstein Pilot Razor Point pens Ancient Egyptian civilization The Sphinx The Library of Alexandria (wish it hadn't burned down) Marco Polo garages Doc Martens colleges garlic tomatoes potatoes French fries oregano electricity indoor plumbing indoor lighting Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation Umberto Eco Avalon, New Jersey laptops BBEdit The Audubon Society LCD monitors Trinitron monitors Carbon Alexander the Great The Canterbury Tales violins drums frogs gravity rakes The Marquis de Sade The Story of O barbecues curtains jeans firemen police photographs The Moon Landing Nelson Mandela The Specials Bonnie and Clyde Alexander Hamilton Thomas Jefferson Samuel Adams John Adams Thomas Paine Abraham Lincoln W.E.B. duBois Sojourner Truth The underground railroad The Harlem renaissance Langston Hughes Ralph Ellison White Noise by Don DeLillo Absolutely Fabulous jewelry Jean-Paul Gaultier gold The Washington Monument Descartes Voltaire Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste cheese refried beans radar submarines washing machines digital cameras Harold Bloom Charlie Rose William S. Burroughs ibuprofen soda chocolate ice cream boats Dr. Seuss The Stainless Steel Rat Esperanto Atlases The Athenian republic mosquito-eaters Argentinea Rio The Old Testament CIA John leCarre Eudora Apache fishermen notebooks carpet nylon teflon The Origin of Species Cote d'Azur clocks Arabic numerals The number zero J.D. Salinger porches flags swing sets beaches jokes Henny Youngman Franklin D. Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt stoves and ovens microwave ovens dishwashers Camper van Beethoven Martin Luther King, Jr. pine needles picnics Italian subs office supply stores underground sewer pipes plumbers umbrellas Boeing disposable contact lenses rye bread cheeseburgers The Four Seasons flamenco dancing cardigans various unmentionables The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy In the Beginning was the Command Line compasses Henry the Navigator The Odyssey Aristotle Amerigo Vespucci Christopher Columbus Dashiel Hammett Raymond Chandler Mary McCarthy Dorothy Parker Altoids TastyKakes Johann Sebastian Bach Speed Racer Wings of Desire and Until the End of the World by Wim Wenders Dictionaries The Rosetta Stone The Great Pyramids of Giza Vasco de Gama Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert trains, especially the TGV Cancer researchers AIDS researchers The Center for Disease Control NASA paper clips nail clippers tape measures step-ladders sky lights particle accelerators The Constitution salt and pepper chile peppers cookbooks Frederico Garcia Lorca William Carlos Williams paved roads Roman aqueducts archery kitty litter fences mice dinosaurs Cezanne Jasper Johns Andy Warhol Lou Reed the Pogues travel books CD-RW drives VCRs bookshelves halogen lamps birdbaths cherries Patrick Henry glue catnip Suze Orman The West Wing lawn mowers color printers trauma centers helicopters Stonehenge veterinarians Grand Canyon The Alps Mt. Everest Mars leather satellites the invention of latitude and longitude etc.