Things I like and don't like — Page 2

Things I like:

Good theatre
Good movies
Good books
Good sleep

Things I don't like:
The astonishing absence of correct spelling in so many of the postings on these message boards. The occasional typo is one thing, but come on...

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Dear PJ--

Are you trying to make disparaging remarks about me? I am "smart" (I hold an MA in Victorian Literature) and one would assume that every part of my anatomy shares in my acute intelligence. Therefore, your reference to a "smart ass" may indeed apply to me.

Dear Albin--

I think you are trying to crudely imply that I am PJ's biological mother. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Yes, I do like to listen to Carol Channing recordings during my more intimate moments, but you and I have NEVER had a tryst. Remember, I am far too discriminating to stoop to a creature as low as you.

No, as I recall it, PJ is the fruit of your one night liason with DiannaBancroft. You remember Dianna, don't you? She was a charter member of the "Surgery of the Month Club". When last I heard, she had so many surgical scars that she looked like a zipper!

Ah, poor Dianna!

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Updated On: 8/8/03 at 12:31 PM

I think Dollypop just likes making enemies and sitting at home listening to Carol.

Another thing I don't like:
How a fun and generic topic can turn into a personal conversation between 2 or 3 people; leaving others to feel awekward if they post...though I have been guilty of doing that myself (making it a personal conversation I mean).

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Another thing I hate:
Mayor Bloomberg!

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Things I love:

THWM
my two sons
TGC
ripe garden-grown tomatoes
LA BOHEME
The smell of laundry taken off the clothesline
mussels marinara
TSMrW
TAMrMcC
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops
The New York Mets
Patti LuPone
the smell of new carpeting
Christmas
European Fanta (the American version is disgusting!)
manicotti
Jonathan the bartender at the Town House
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Tyler Florence ("Food 911")
Mozart's LE NOZZE DI FIGARO
Michelangelo's "David"
Christopher Radko (and his balls)
the Pyrenees Mountains
the plays of William Shakespeare
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tenneseee Williams
swiss chard
arugula

Things I hate:

fat women in stretch pants
pink flamingos on front lawns
people who rattle cellophane in the opera house
cellphones
girls named Shaquanna
people who talk through religious services
doo rags
people who talk through the overtures of operas or musicals
movies
people who are always carrying around bottled water (what are they, camels?)
That Streisand Woman
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Billings, Montana
crepe paper on a humid day
Barry Manilow
Eminem
cupcakes
bling blings
people with blue or green hair (don't tell me "it's natural!")
people who keep icicle lights on their homes year-round
Albin's taste in clothes
Wayne Newton
Scott Peterson
political campaigns
Martha Stewart
THE CELESTENE PROPHECY
Rosie O'Donnell
Ruta Lee
Bobbi Battista
The Oxygen Network
people who think wearing black is chic
large women wearing floral prints (they look like slipcovers!)
kids who are named after sleepwear

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Bling blings are those cumbersome silver chains that my ghetto rats wear around their necks. Often they have a crucifix or a marijuana leaf attached (what's the relationship?) and they are far more important to these kids than decent grades or intellectual curiosity. Oh, I take that back. Maybe their doo rags are more important.

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"Preston" is a very distinguished-sounding name.

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Please don't tell me you're terminally ill! Is there anything I can do to help?

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Now, Preston, don't get testy. I'm deeply concerned about yoour well-being. I'm "filled with the milk of human kindness"

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Break??? Now you merely want to break that finger instead of cutting it off?

Make up your mind!

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Kit Kat Bar? Do they sell them at the Kit Kat Klub?

Inquiring minds want to know

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