Drinking beer outside; eating peanuts; bringing your glove to the game; catching a foul ball; drunk fans yelling at Damon to cut his hair; homies; sunshine; double plays; homeruns; fans fighting for homerun balls; spitting; pine tar; fungo's; stealing bases; Safeco Field; Edgar Martinez; Lou Pinella; beating the Yankees; garlic fries; Pinstripes; triples; advancing to 1st after dropped third strike; throwing at a batter; bench clearing brawls; Nolan Ryan; stretching; warning track; robbing homeruns; diving catches; Ozzie Smith back flips; breaking bats over your knee; natural grass; playing softball (extra points for playing with a beer and/or cigar in your hand); minor league ball; worn-in baseball hats that look like you've had them since elementary school; baseball cards; Ken Griffey Jr.; Harold Reynolds; Peter Gammons; when you show up to play some softball without a mitt, because you are either a moron, forgetful, randomly playing some pickup ball, or some other excuse, but you are able to borrow a mitt and still get to play; watching the game of follie and errors that is kids playing ball;

$8 beers; forgetting your glove in your seat; not catching a foul ball; drunk fans still yelling at Damon to cut his hair; sunburn; errors; attitudes; outrageous salaries; ticket prices; steroids; rain delays; batting gloves; chew spit; stupid fans; Yankees; getting beat by Yankees; parking downtown; waiting to pee; peeing next to 30 dudes; garlic breath; intentional walks; balks; fan interference; fans running on the field; one handed catches in the outfield(use two hands damnit); lack of hustle; getting hit in the junk with a grounder; bad hops; wet grass; muddy infield; turf; 80's era domes; striking out in softball; brand new baseball hats; Ken Griffey Jr.; Peter Gammons; not having cable, thus, no ESPN; all those damn Braves games I watched on TNT while growing up, merely because I wanted to watch some baseball and they were always on, even though I didn't give a shit about the Braves, or even the National League in general; using someone else's mitt;

wavepools; old mr.t footage; margaritas!; guy ledouche; MXC; skull-head bowling balls; bowling alleys with speedometers to tell you how fast you have just thrown your ball (friggin awesome!); the words "friggin'" and "awesome"; carl from ATHF; tiki mugs; camping; the presidents of the united states of america (c'mon, you know you love 'em. hit the road, pop in some PUSA!); the swish of corduroys when you walk; Tom Petty; that Tom Petty lyric "I'll be the boy, in the corduroy pants, you be the girl, at the high school dance"; Chris Bachelder; Elvis Costello, especially the song "Allison"; George Clooney; just now watching the first season of Lost on DVD; rewatching the first season of Roseanne on DVD; Grizzly Man; Murderball; Hustle & Flow; The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert; You, Me, and Everyone We Know; Michelle Tea; Firefly, the TV show; learning new songs; writing; Cassette tape sound emulators for digital music software, including the hiss parameter to add hiss and noise BACK into your super clean digital sounds; The Anniversary Party; Phrenology by The Roots; Black Maple Hill bourbon; Capri Sun; John Falk; glue guns; staple guns; the smell of gasoline; Love Liza; Phillip Seymour Hoffman; The Sopranos;murals on trucks and vans; poker night; Gus Hansen; anyone named Gus; bowling in different states; discounts; ice cream trucks; Margaret Atwood (sometimes); Tom Sizemore; the fact that there is a coffee place called "Beaners"; soul food; cereal; chili dogs; rechargable batteries; including, in these lists, suggestions from friends, even when I don't always know what they are or when they contradict themselves

bills; late fees; toilets with low water pressure; weather reporters; the current President; politics; freezing computers; taking a three month hiatus and then still leaving way too much work to do the day before it is due; most blogs; when a blog becomes addictive, and you check it every day, even though you hate it; Elvis Costello, including, specifically, "Allison"; the current mess that is my computer desk; flight delays; nearly everything about Scarlett Johansson in Match Point, except looking at her; Match Point; Good Night and Good Luck; with a few notable exceptions, most of the "True Tales" in the New York Times Magazine (see: when you want something to be funny but it just isn't); when high hopes in a movie only lead to being disappointed (see: Match Point); Firefly, the movie; not writing; not learning new songs; root canals; the fact that Rudy Giuliani and Bono are peace prize nominees; George Carlin's latest HBO snoozefest; dandruff; wearing the beast in 90 degree weather, constipation; power outages, leprosy; warts, all ages venues; Tom Sizemore; the fact that no CD player in this apartment works -- CD's played through my computer end up freezing it, the "hi fi" "Hello Kitty" CD players works, well, when it feels like it; the stereo I've had since jr. high? definitely on its last leg. listening to music is a friggin' chore; the lack of any really great Mexican food in Michigan; when you look outside and see nothing but sunshine, so dress accordingly, forgetting for a minute that the sun might be out but it is still February in Michigan, so you really aren't dressed accordingly at all; rechargable batteries