Things That You Love

Here is a list of things that you love. Whether you pretend to hate them, feign indifference or actually believe that you dislike these things, OR if you've never heard of them and so can have no opinion on them, I'm telling you now: actually, you love them. They're your favorite.

- The Dick van Dyke show. Lord, that man was a genius.

- cuteoverload.com.

- Adverbs, by Daniel Handler. Excerpted from page 165: "He thought she knew what he meant, but the biggest mistake you can make is thinking they know what you mean. If you mean that you are also exhausted and feel dead in the park, and that you ache for a love to pull you to your feet and make you human again, then you must say so. If you have soup to sell you must write it on the chalkboard or no one will buy your homemade soup."

- The A-Team. Who doesn't love Howling Mad Murdock? The answer is NO ONE.

- Netflix. The movies come right to your house. AND you don't feel like you're wasting packaging or manpower (as you would if you were receiving Amazon.com packages every few days) because their delivery system is in a nice, simple, thin, flat, no-nonsense/cushioning materials envelope. And you don't have to be home to sign fer nuthin'!

- lists of things on VH1, such as "Top 40 Dumb Celebrity Quotes," "Top 100 Celebrity Oops," and of course, the perennial favorites "I love the 80s/90s/etc." Addictive and deliciously mind-numbing and non-purpose serving in a way that only shows based solely around pop culture can be.

- Project Runway. Addictive, but centering on design and fostering creative impulse, so not mind-numbingly useless and still magically delicious.

- Ice cream. I've heard of people who don't really like chocolate all that much, but anyone who says they don't like ice cream is just a damn liar.

- Little Britain, brainchild of silly lovely David Walliams and Matt Lucas.

- the cello. Easily the sexiest instrument ever. Ever. No, shut up. It's the cello. I don't care.