1. That beaming technology existed (a la Star Trek)
2. That my friend Katie Brock lived closer than Auburn
3. That Mel Gibson would make Mad Max 4: Fury Road
4. That Toyota Forerunners would go over 65mph without shaking violently
5. That wifi was ubiquitous
1. Dogville
2. The Neverending Story
3. National Security
4. Daredevil
5. The Neverending Story II
1. Benton Sans
2. Klavika
3. News Gothic
4. Whitney
5. Reservation Wide
1. A helmet to wear while riding my unicycle
2. Some Tom’s Shoes
3. At least one Godfather sandwich with green peppers at The Corner Bagel Shop
4. A stainless steel water bottle
5. Part of my wife’s birthday present
*Truth be told, most of this money will go towards paying off debt. Such is the life of young married couples who have moved cross country twice in their first year of wedded bliss and been stiffed by a few clients.
In no particular order:
1. M.A. Turner
2. Derek Nelson
3. Matthew Wahl
4. Josh Boston
5. Aaron Martin
1. Seeing the first tomato of the season growing in our garden
2. Today’s mid-morning nap
3. Using conditioned air
4. Finishing all the rebranded wayfinding signage for NewSpring Church’s campuses
5. Realizing after beginning this post that it is actually Saturday
1. W
2. American Craft
3. I.D.
4. Vanity Fair
5. (British) Esquire
Honorable time machine-dependent mention: Dwell (from ‘02—late ‘06)
1. When people use Twitter to pimp new blog posts
2. Anything that disrespects the user by taking away their control
3. Omission of generous line-height on text-heavy sites
4. Anonymity
5. Blogs
1. Pascal Blanchet
2. Curtis Jinkins
3. Oliver Munday
4. Mike Krol
5. Jesse Kaczmarek
1. Dave Matthews
2. Carter Beauford
3. Steffan Lessard
4. LeRoi Moore
5. Butch Taylor
1. Tom Waits
2. Tom Peters
3. J.D. Salinger
4. Rob Lowe (in character as Sam Seaborn from The West Wing)
5. Ron Perlman
1. Shower curtains
2. Text messages written in the all-caps, shorthand style of a 12 year old girl
3. Uncomfortable chairs
4. Ben Stiller movies
5. The rampant usage of ridiculous puns in article titles (I’m looking at you, Dwell)
1. Foo Fighters
2. Vigilantes of Love
3. The Beatles
4. Queens of the Stone Age
5. U2
*I suppose there’s hope; if I had written this two years ago it might have included Wilco, Radiohead, Cat Power, or the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
1. John Doe Torso
2. Kazimir The Great Destroyer
3. Finnegan Bell
4. Khan Singh
5. Donnelly Donoghue
1. Collision Theory t-shirts
2. Olaf Hajek illustration
3. Alki1’s Flickr stream of vintage artwork
4. A History of Evil on YouTube
5. Apostrophe Atrophy
1. Comic book artist
2. Comic book artist
3. Comic book artist
4. Comic book artist
5. Professional hobo
1. Packing and Moving
2. Being a jerkface
3. Getting hit by moving vehicles
4. Inadvertently whittling your own finger
5. DTR talks*
* I don’t miss this one. At all. Not even a little.
1. Slipping through sidewalk grates
2. Being found out (yes, it’s that ambiguous)
3. Falling while ice skating, then having multiple digits severed by passing skaters
4. Being fired (I’m just saying that you get gun-shy eventually)
5. Appearing in a public place sans pants
1. Nothing
2. Eating roast, salad w/ homemade croutons, and rosemary mashed potatoes
3. Sleeping
4. Playing Scrabble
5. Walking
1. Tremors
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. the first 45 minutes of The Return of the Jedi
4. Airborne
5. The Golden Child
1. The Boys Are Back in Town — Thin Lizzy
2. Spanish Joint — D’Angelo
3. Call My Name — Prince
4. Stay — Chaka Kahn
5. Use Me — Bill Withers