I stole this idea from Barb Knowles who got it from Paul who got the idea from Aaron who stole it from Jess. (Whew! It all reminds me of the Tom Lehrer song “I got it from Agnes”–quite possibly the dirtiest song ever written without using a single off-color word. But I digress.)

1. Blogging
2. American football
3. Pizza
4. Economics
5. The color red
6. History
7. Desert landscapes
8. The movie Lawrence of Arabia (combines 6 and 7)
9. Writing
10. The book A Confederacy of Dunces
11. A good scary story.
12. Gilbert and Sullivan operettas
13. Political theory
14. Hazelnut coffee
15. Conspiracy theories
16. Well-written, metered, rhyming satirical poetry.
17. The number 17
18. Thunderstorms
19. Friendly political debates
20. The sound of howling wind.
21. The unutterable melancholy of a winter sunset in a farm field.
22. Pretentious sentences like the one above.
23. Knights of the Old Republic II
24. Halloween
25. The book 1984
26. Niagara Falls
27. The song “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”
28. Pumpkin-flavored cookies. coffee, cake etc.
29. The book The King in Yellow
30. Hats
31. Chess
32. Trivia competitions
33. Numbered lists
34. Mowing lawns
35. The smell of fresh-cut grass
36. Black licorice
37. Beethoven’s 3rd,5th and 9th symphonies
38. The color light blue.
39. Exercise machines
40. My iPad
41. Feta cheese
42. The movie Jane Got a Gun
43. Etymologies
44. Gregorian chants
45. December 23rd
46. The story “The Masque of the Red Death”
47. Mozzarella sticks
48. Leaves in Autumn
49. Long drives in the country
50. Fireworks
51. The song “You Got Me Singin'”
52. The book To Kill a Mockingbird
53. Constitutional republics that derive their powers from the consent of the governed.
54. Strategy games
55. Puns
56. Ice skating
57. My Xbox One
58. The smell of old books
59. Hiking
60. Tall buildings
61. Bookstores
62. Gloves
63. Rational-legal authority, as defined by Max Weber
64. Bagels with cream cheese
65. The Olentangy river
66. The movie The Omen
67. Far Side comics
68. Planescape: Torment
69. The song “Barrytown”
70. Reasonable estimates of the Keynesian multiplier
71. Stories that turn cliches on their heads.
72. Editing movies
73. Really clever epigraphs
74. The movie “Chinatown”
75. Ice water
76. Deus Ex
77. Silly putty
78. Swiss Army Knives
79. Anagrams
80. Wikipedia
81. Radical new models for explaining politics.
82. Weightlifting
83. Lego
84. Madden 17
85. The song “The Saga Begins”
86. Trigonometry
87. Writing “ye” for “the”
88. Well-made suits
89. Popcorn
90. Pasta
91. The word “sesquipedalian”
92. The movie Thor
93. Blackjack
94. The movie The English Patient
95. Pretzels
96. Cello music
97. Bonfires
98. The story “The Hound of the Baskervilles”
99. Soaring rhetoric
100. Astronomy
101. Getting comments on my blog posts.