Read the list title on the feed.
The Narnia Books if Told From the Point of View of Some Turkish Delight
Note: Edward is the lion in this version. A metaphorical lion monster. Read more…
The List App Archive (Page 11)
The List App, later rebranded li.st, was a short-lived social media app from, of all people, B.J. Novak of The Office fame. A friend of mine who’s way more looped in to this kind of thing than I am sent me an invitation during the pre-release beta period, when The List App was tiny and finding its footing.
The app was something like twitter for lists of things. There were lists, likes, re-lists, and trends. But the content of a post was always a list—bulleted, numbered, reverse-numbers, but always a list of things. I think Novak envisioned things like “My favorite restaurants in LA” and “Best albums of the year” or whatever, but TLA pretty quickly turned in to a weird sometimes beautiful place where a core of likeminded and somewhat bookish people shared things that made them happy, gave encouragement, and evolved a subculture. It was fun while it lasted (and it did not last long).
When the app shut down I archived all my posts because I’m a digital hoarder. You can find them all here.
My Lists
How to Read a List
Check the lister’s name.
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Movies I Will Always Stop Flipping Channels to Watch
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My Ideal Makeover
If I could control my appearance with no limitations. Come on science make these happen. Read more…
How to Perform the Heimlich Maneuver on a Stranger Who Is Not Choking
This is something I do a lot of. Read more…
My Favorite Holiday 👯
#7 of my last minute sharing week dump. Inspired by @ChrisK Read more…
Things I Don't Like Knowing About Myself ?
#6 of my last minute sharing week dump. Inspired by @ChrisK Read more…
Where I Would Go if I Could Time Travel?
#4 of my last minute sharing week dump. Inspired by @ChrisK Read more…
Parallel Universes
The one where Kim Davis is a fundamentalist Mormon customs official who won’t allow coffee into the country.
The one where Kim Davis is a fundamentalist naturalist game and fish official who refuses to issue hunting licenses to anyone who wants to kill animals.
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Things on My Messy Desk Right Now
I’m sure this is very inspiring for all you little people. Read more…
Things to Add to Rice Krispy Treats to Make Them 💯
This is a very short list because Rice Krispy treats are near-perfect for what they are: The treat with the highest yum:easy ratio on earth. Read more…
Favorite Web Sites
etymonline.com 🔗 The Online Etymology Dictionary
I look stuff up here all the time because it is endlessly fascinating. Like just now I looked up “story” after reading @THEToughCookie’s list because I wondered why we call floors of a building a “story” and of course the answer was neat.
xkcd.com 🔗 xkcd
The only web comic I read (since Home Star Runner is no more). Definitely geeky, often geared toward programmers and engineers, occasionally over my head but almost always funny. And sometimes also deeply beautiful. Some favorites are the database-hilarious 327, the lovely 1489, and the touching 695 and the darkly funny 542. But really there are hundreds that are wonderful.
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Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Ranked
Salt Lake City
I think 80 percent of Utahns have weapons buried in the back yard and stockpiles of food in the house. The state even has a giant granite mountain panic room. Add to that a population of Eagle Scouts and a wicked army of stay at home moms and you have, bar none, the safest place in the country if the world is overrun with ravaging bands of mindless monsters.
Chapel Hill
A well-intentioned group of YA authors, Salinger experts and academics attempt to understand the zombies and open a dialog. This would of course yield devastating results except that you are still in North Carolina so, like, the cavalry’s coming, baby. You’ll be ok.
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Things I Suck At
Obligatory follow up to my previous list. Read more…
Things That Are Bad for Most People but Mild for Me
Dunno why. I just always get lucky. Read more…
Things I'm Not Allergic To
This is a partial list. Full disclosure: I am mildly allergic to formaldehyde and chlorine. Swimming pools make me feel kind of gross for a few hours. Read more…
Parts of My Name That Are Weird
To keep it simple, I never correct people or try to make it accurate unless it’s important. I couldn’t care less if the gal at the restaurant puts me down as Jeff Coffee. Read more…
Children's Television Questions
What was up with Caillou’s hair? Also what was up with Caillou?
So, can Ernie and Bert get married now?
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Collective Nouns
A few of the lesser-knowns. Read more…
Lists I Couldn't Pull Off
Add your own. Read more…
Names My Cat Goes By
Our cat was named by my daughters years ago, squarely in the goofy kids phase. They named her Biscus because they loved the idea of coming home from school and saying, “Hi Biscus!” Like all pets, she goes by many names. Read more…
Favorite iPhone Apps, Ranked
My Fitness Pal
I’m hardly alone with this one, but this app helped me lose 55 pounds and I’ve continued to track my calories ever since because it just works well. Also integrates with fitness trackers like Apple Watch. This app may have added years to my life.
Paprika
This is my favorite recipe app. Nicely designed, easy data entry, and syncs with all my devices including my Mac.
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Things Lucinda Williams Was Blessed By
According to her beautiful song, “Blessed”. Read more…
Cookie Butter: A Personal History
In my defense I have never been an eat-the-raw-cookie-dough type. I think chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was the darkest period in human dessert fad history. This may have tainted my expectations. Read more…
Things That Are Hard
Diamond
Advanced Algebra
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Sometimes
Assorted musings from my journal, shortened and reworded for consistency. Read more…
Degrees It Was in Phoenix This Week
It’s always hot in the summer in Phoenix but 117 is a special kind of hot. Read more…
Super Heroes in a Parallel Universe
Spider Man was bitten by a radioactive mosquito instead
Rather than fight crime he just annoys people constantly. Signature move: Sneaks up behind you and hisses in your ear. Gear: Malaria-misters on his wrists.
Incredible Hulk was hit with alpha radiation instead
Still just Bruce Banner but kind of has a temper anyway.
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I Forgot My Wallet: A Step by Step Guide to Stupidity
Yes this really just happened. Yes I had to go back to pay. Read more…
Lines From Joe vs. The Volcano
I love this underrated movie. It’s silly and a little weird but that’s because it is a fairy tale about capitalist greed subjugating the common man and distracting him with consumerism, which was ahead of its time for the ’80s. Best of all it is funny and even a little touching and has Meg Ryan in three parts. Read more…
Things on Phoenix Public Transit
I used to ride the light rail to my office every day and sometimes came home late at night. For the most part fellow riders were normal, friendly folks. But there were a few weirdos. Read more…
Things I Say Sarcastically
I’m kind of a jerk. Read more…
Books I Remember Fondly From My Childhood
Inspired by my feed right now. I limited this to fiction but I read mostly non-fiction as a kid. Read more…
Spelling: My Private Battle
I was a lousy speller as a kid. And it spilled over to an inability to sort out strangely spelled words. This is the story of my suffering. Read more…
Iconic U2 Guitar Hooks
I Will Follow
Sunday Bloody Sunday
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Music I Listened to With My Parents Growing Up
Inspired by @originalamericantreat and @gabimoskowitz Read more…
Ways I Tell My Daughter to Stop Talking So Much
Girl can talk. Read more…
The Real Best of Phoenix According to Me
This list is light on high end dining because I’m not a big partaker of fancy restaurants. Also it skews heavily toward stuff around my house. But everything on this list is 💯. I guarantee it. Read more…
Things My Cat and I Have in Common
Would prefer to stay home
Mammal
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Things That Don't Mean What We Think They Mean
The Road Not Taken
This poem is about not following the crowd but instead striking out in our own direction and finding our true selves, right?! No. “Though as for that the passing there / Had worn them really about the same, / And both that morning equally lay / In leaves no step had trodden black.” It pointedly makes fun of our tendency to think past decisions are more important than they really are. “I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence…And that has made all the difference.” Indeed.
If music is the food of love, play on.
Because I love being in love and I want to feed my love! Play! Play! Play! Ahh yummy love! Lol no. The next line: “Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die.” The notion that music is the “food of love” is proverbial and Shakespeare subverts this by having the Duke ask to be so overfed on it that he becomes sickened turning his love for Olivia into disgust. He’s tired of being in love.
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Reasons to Eat Lunch at Panera While My House Is Uninhabitable
Decent WiFi
The wifi at this crap hole always works reliably.
Spacious
There’s lots of room between tables and lots of nooks and crannies for semi-privacy.
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A List About Love and Punctuation
Who remembers this song from my senior year of high school? Read more…
Things I Said to My Daughter to Talk Her Out of Making Me Take Her to Minions
I have now seen minions but I did not want to. Read more…
Malapropisms an Acquaintance Has Actually Spoken Over the Last Couple of Years
I used to think Shakespeare’s malapropism-spewing characters were over the top. Then I met this guy…
[ed: To be clear, this man was dear to me. But he really had a way with words.]
Read more…Pros/Cons of the New "Open List" Feature
What is good about it? What is bad about it? Read more…
Good Sports➕
The drive through cashier at Hardee’s in West Lafayette Indiana ca 1993
In college my friend was driving me somewhere and decided to be a dumb teen. He went to the drive through and said, “I’d like one french fry please.” Without skipping a beat the cashier said “that will be 4¢, please drive around.” He accepted a dollar, returned 96¢ and handed my friend a small french fry bag with a single fry. To this day I am amazed by this whole experience.
Goosebumps author R. L. Stine appearing on a nerdist video about the “Gersbermps” meme
Here he is explaining his appearance: Link
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What I Would Do if I Had a Time Machine
Revisit my most painful memory.
Kill the mother of my mortal enemy.
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