101 Things

It’s true: I love EVERYTHING.

If you take my friends, pets, and family out of the equation, here are 101 things I find totally tubular.

1. Things that look like pizza
2. Sunglasses from the gas station
3. Cajun slang
4. Orchids
5. Decorative fire hydrants
6. Bad Brains
7. Drinking Mexican soda out of champagne glasses (sublime experience, really)
8. Faith healers
9. Neil Young impressions
10. The 4H club
11. Hospital ships
12. The Hawaii 5-0 theme song
13. Water towers painted to look like golf balls
14. Cement trucks painted to look like footballs
15. Hot rods
16. Burning sage
17. Inventive spelling
18. A-frames
19. Osmosis
20. Reverse osmosis
21. Checking out DVDs from the library
22. Sonny Chiba
23. The Kiss Army
24. Salvation Army bands
25. Mad Magazine
26. Mall nostalgia
27. Epic solos
28. “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits
29. Construction boots
30. Feathers
31. High school letterman jackets
32. Licorice
33. Ginger ale cough drops
34. The straws from McDonalds
35. The LA Clippers
36. Palindromes
37. Pictures of cacti playing guitars
38. Pictures of animals playing guitars
39. Beehives (the hair-do)
40. Beehives (the structures)
41. The punk rock shouts at the end of nearly any Springsteen song
42. Color copies
43. Mavis Staples
44. The Doppler radar
45. Trying to dance like James Brown
46. Chubby waitresses
47. Peacocks
48. Pee-Wee’s Playhouse
49. Gaucho hats
50. Holidays
51. Jodie Foster
52. Courtesy
53. Calliopes
54. Manila envelopes
55. Multitasking
56. The Talking Heads
57. Jukeboxes that look like cigarette machines
58. Juice boxes
59. Snail mail
60. Conch shells
61. Abalone shells
62. Butternut squash soup
63. Yoo Hoo
64. The Hamburglar
65. Vivid dreams
66. Mustaches
67. Rhino Records
68. Making up band names
69. Korean food
70. Legends
71. Mysteries
72. Lists
73. Calligraphy
74. Bullhorns
75. Longhorns
76. Foghorn Leghorn
77. French horns
78. Hydrangeas
79. David Lee Roth
80. Marble slabs
81. The Marble Slab
82. Dinosaurs
83. The Partridge Family
84. Cellos
85. When people play “Whole Lotta Love” on the cello
86. Antique microphones
87. Wooden wheelchairs
88. Food that probably shouldn’t be canned but is anyway
89. Pop-up books
90. Murals on the sides of 99 cent stores in Oxnard
91. Bahia del Mar in Oxnard
92. Animal crackers
93. Harpo Marx
94. Slim Harpo
95. Watching Obama play basketball
96. Owls in graduation caps
97. The WWF of the 80’s
98. Ann Wilson
99. Practicing my autograph
100. Time travel
101. Rocking out