Top 23 March 2008
Favorite upcoming movie (trailer): Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I will be at the premiere.
Favorite cd in rotation in the Scion: Rancid. Let’s Go.
Favorite Dr. Seuss: Zax. Oh, stubborn Zax. Dumb stubborn Zax.
Favorite TV show: America’s Best Dance Crew.
Favorite saying: “Pretty is as pretty does”
Favorite thing about beach weddings: The view. Yeah, the view.
Favorite karaoke song: Island in the Sun, Zero
Favorite scripture: Love is patient, love is kind and is not
jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act
unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take
into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but
rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes
all things, endures all things. Love never fails; 1 COR 13
Favorite wardrobe selection: Skinny ties.. Love you grandpa!!!
Favorite fascination with numbers: 23. February 3, seat 23F after a 23rd birthday seated at a table waiting on number 23.
Favorite thought to ponder: If bad things don’t happen for a reason, why do good things?
Favorite film project: We are all a product of our environment,
forgiving other's social retardations is the first step to tolerance,
educating the second. Only thing is, who is educating!?
Favorite religion: None
Favorite song from Rent: In Your Eyes, Missing You
Favorite perception: Geniuses are underrated. Most aren’t
appreciated until they are dead. Van Gogh sold one painting in his
lifetime.
Favorite chill spot: North Cape Starbucks
Favorite karaoke spot: Mona Lisas. Then, Jalepenos.
Favorite food creation: Personal pan Raddatz pizza.. you will not get the recipe but maybe a taste :)
Favorite reality: Stages of grief.
Favorite quality in a friend: The ability to communicate. It is a
sign of maturity, intelligence and the glue that will keep a
relationship together. Without it you're screwed.
Favorite speech: Barack’s unity speech.
Favorite Sex in the City episode: Relationship ghosts
Favorite support: Nonviolent Dalai Lama in Tibet
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Top 15 February 2008
Latest fortune cookie read: "To accept imperfection is maturity."
Favorite TV show moment: 2008 Grammys performances by Kanye, Rihanna & Love Beatles
Favorite day: 21
Favorite relationship to ponder: Scarlett & Rhett. They deserved each other. Then Bonnie and Clyde. Then Kathryn Hepburnn and Spencer Tracy. Then Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.
Favorite historical website: www.swedenroots.com. I can imagine my ancestors in Sweden three hundred years ago...
Favorite lyrics: Umbrella.
Yeah the song is catchy but if you listen to the words they are so
great. You can stand under my umberella, ella, ella, hey, hey... (
When the sun shines
We’ll shine together
Told you I'll be here forever
Said I'll always be your friend
Took an oath
I'mma stick it out 'till the end
Now that it's raining more than ever
Know that we still have each other
You can stand under my Umbrella
You can stand under my Umbrella
Favorite philisophical conversation piece: Negotiation table-If you're a no show-it's a no go.
Favorite line: "If the writers
can find a way to resolve their strike, surely you can fix this." Also
"Just go the hell home and be glad you don't have to worry about anyone
else's problems."
Favorite recent dining experience: Perkins Pot Pie. Yeah, it's not 5th avenue, and oh yeah, maybe that's why it was so good. Oh plus kids eat free on Tuesdays!
Favorite songs that remind me of grandpa (r.i.p.): Let Em In, Hey Jude, Memories, Afternoon Delight, Tie a Yellow Ribbon.
Favorite wardrobe choice: Grandpa's Ralph Lauren polos with matching colored Ralph Lauren socks.
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Top 18 January 2008
Favorite weekend vacation spot: Asheville, N.C. The crisp chilly winter town near the Blue Mountains seems like the perfect hybrid of small town and hippy where people care, seem to know each other and still manage to stay out of each other’s business.
Favorite discussion on flirting: Is it really just like 'taking out mating insurance?'
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Top 19 December 2007 gift wish list
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Top 9 November 2007
Favorite day of the month: 3
Favorite moment: Beautiful Florida winters watching my children play in the backyard. I think 71 degrees is the perfect temperature.
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Top 10 October 2007
Favorite tree in my backyard: Florida Black Olive
Favorite Nascar instruction coach: Dan Amon
Favorite couple: Bonnie and Clyde
Favorite morning moment: Tracy Wildenhaus on Fox Morning blend with Astrid Martinez
Favorite gimmicky phrase to make fun of when people use it: "Take it to the next level"
Favorite Dane Cook SNL skit: This one from Saturday Night Live (corrected)!
Favorite news site: BBC
Favorite discussion of why Florida is an economic mess right now: '... blame it all on talentless, greedy, real estate agents—you know who you are.'
Favorite night spot: Valerie's Lounge on Fort Myers Beach with Modulation
Favorite day of the month: Full moon evening Oct 26
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Top 15 September 2007
Favorite day of the month: 26
Favorite color combo: Brown and black. They belong together, there, I said it.
Favorite thought: Best friends shoot straight, are there when you need them and talk good about you behind your back.
Favorite breakfast value meal: Banana@Target ... 18 cents.
Favorite new Sunday breakfast staple (not completely replacing banana pancakes just yet): French Toast
Favorite World Series hope: Go Cubbies
Favorite jazz in town: Dan Miller Trio on Sanibel at Ellington's. Welcome back Modulation (Heather Brooks band with Mike Rogers and Darrell Nutt just renamed reuniting in town next month if you love soulful, hip and jazzy R&B.)
Favorite trifecta of a Wednesday workout: Treadmill cardio, hip-hop with Tracy Wildenhaus and chill yoga all at NCH, Naples. Add an at-home workout and the quad is like a grand slam Wednesday.
Favorite moments: Special time with my children and huney buney.
Favorite trip: Miami sunrise, pinot noir, barbecue pizza, long-ass taxi drives, the smell of the beach, the texture of tanned skin mixed with the smell of tanning lotion, live scallop sushi, club hustlers
Favorite smell: The first scent of Florida winter. Not a better place in the world this time of year.
Favorite attempts at naming the best couples of all time: Romeo & Juliet, Spencer Tracy & Kathryn Hepburn, Howard & Rachael Raddatz, Bonnie & Clyde, ... yeah, still scratching my head on this one, email me suggestions
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Top 31 July/August 2007
Favorite thought: My heart is bigger than you can even accept or contain.
Favorite drink: Raspberry cider, raspberry iced tea. Hard cider favorite? Magners
Favorite cuisine creation of mine: Ok, secret out of the bag here... Chicken Tika Marsala Pizza (copyright pending)
Favorite Tea: P.G. Tips, although a raspberry iced tea is quite refreshing in the summer Florida heat.
Favorite North Cape Coral improvement: I know it sounds sad but Publix, Target and Starbucks. Go North Cape!
Favorite way to change the world: Solar solutions to the ongoing energy crisis.
Favorite view on religion: "Religion is a snare and a racket." J. Rutherford. Also how come Henry VIII was not allowed to divorce his wives because of his religious beliefs but beheading them was a-ok?
Favorite topic for discusison: Why is the pound so much stronger than the dollar right now? Plus the Henry VIII question from the previous favorite.
Favorite music producer: Timberland or Will.I.Am.
Favorite music mismatch: Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent. It's like Mickey Mouse visits prison man. Love them each seperately and respectively but, yeah, maybe it will grow on me.
Favorite non-swear words: Bloody, bugger and wanker.
Favorite funny YouTube moment: Thai prisoners dancing to Thriller. Jennifer Garner did the Thriller dance in "13 Going on 30" pretty weirdly. Wierd Al did it even funnier with his parody "Eat It," though.
Favorite jeans: Lucky You
Favorite birthday wish: World peace and love for all who show love. Next that all my friends pay tribute with a karaoke song for me Sept. 8 at Mona Lisa's starting at 9 p.m. If you are reading this you are invited. You don't have to buy me a gift, just sing a song. Oh, LaCoste cologne, a stingy brimmed pork pie dent fedora hat size 7 1/2, anything Bears (RADDATZ personalized jersey would be so sweet,) Cubs gear or candles would do just fine if you are shy on the mic.
Favorite pie: Apple, then raspberry. Apple raspberry maybe even, where can I get that around Lee County though, I don't know.
Favorite XM station: XM Chill. With a coffee on a long ride in the Scion on a lazy Sunday down I-75 makes my soul melt a little.
Favorite turnoff: Ignorant, unreasonable, egotistical and prejudicial folks.
Favorite quote: "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Favorite emailed story: Who is financially benefitting from the war?
Favorite indy movie: The Hottest State, Twisted Sister
Favorite online game: Scrabulous.com
Favorite lotto numbers (if I played): 12.13.11.3.18.36 or 34.23.21.17.18.13 or 9.8.7.1.35.3
Latest fortune cookie: Your are kind and broadminded
Favorite video: Whatever you like and Lovestoned
Favorite evening: The full moon August 28.
Last song heard: Sarah Smile. (Watching Serendipity again.)
Favorite characteristic: Positivity. I've concluded if you are negative just go away, man. I don't have time for you. Life is too short.
Favorite psychological wonder: The power (and study) of attraction!
Favorite Cheese: Brie
Favorie recent photoshoppery scandal: Faith Hill on Redbook or French President Sarkozy's love handle removal... No wonder everyone aspires for some impossible image of what is beautiful in this country. We are being misled visually to believe it is normal for women to be way too thin and impossibly 'perfect 'when in fact it is no more normal than aliens. No offense to Faith, who looks really pretty good in the unphotoshopped image to me. (Of course, she is no Rebecca Loveridge.) I'm reading the Stars, US and People shots where celebrities are shown the way they really look lately. Not that I believe in the insanely ridiculious paparazzi. Surely there can be a happy medium, right?
Favorite trip: The UK for the Edinburgh's 61 Annual Film Festival
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Top 17 -- June 2007
Favorite educational video: The truth about photo manipulation and why many have unrealistic and damaging images as to what constitutes beauty today. It is really awful.
Favorite pet peave: I'm turning pretty hard core about limited photo manipulation where not artistically necessary. Andy Roddick and Men's Fitness can tell you about it. Jezebel.com offers $10,000 for the best woman's magazine unaltered photo cover.
Favorite cause to change the world: ACT (Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin and ACT (Amazon Conservation Team) are working with Indian tribes to protect their region, environment and culture, which will have a long-term impact on a global level. With the Amazon Rainforest producing and responsible for nearly 25 percent of the world's fresh waters, its preservation is vital to the ecological balance and survival for generations to come. Through education by ACT, indigenous peoples have managed to thwart greedy destruction of this irreplaceable resevior by using GPS markers to map their region and technology including Google Earth to show tribes when and where their land is subject to violation, sparking quick tribal protection. Beyond the delicate eco-structure and housing of precious endangered species the rainforest supports, there is a human face, culture of families and curative intelligence that Plotkin desires to protect. It is this medicinal shamanic wisdom that he claims could also benefit the treatment of diseases very common in this advanced Western civilization, such as cancer, diabetes and blood-clotting, to name just a few. Learning from these ancient tribes of conjured remedies including the use of chemicals found in animals and plants native to and found only in the Amazon will shed light not seen perhaps in this hemisphere of the planet.)
Favorite Thai: Suriya Thai curry puffs. For preferential treatment take me out for some --you say when---I'm there.
Favorite TV show. "On the Lot" (Burnett and Spielberg is like George and Ira, Abbott and Costello, Fred and Ginger, Bonnie and Clyde, Beyonce and Jay Z, Hepburn and Tracy, Jordan and Pippen. Ok, maybe I'm getting carried away. Also "So You Think You Can Dance" has got to be the most entertaining thing in the world right now. Unless you love Second Life.
Favorite new fashion twist: Skinny ties. Wear them. They are fun.
Favorite local writers: Amy Bennett and Roger Williams
Favorite fruit: Raspberry. I think I could eat four pounds.
Favorite pitcher: Orlando Hernandez. By the way I like the Mets but love the Yankees. Oh, and go Cubbies!!
Favorite quotes: "Here is the secret to happiness. Be happy." Also: "Misfortune shows those who are not really friends." --Aristotle
Favorite quality: Truthful. Make a promise, keep a promise. ALWAYS
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Top 11 --- May, 2007
Favorite soap stars: ALEXANDRA CHANDO, VAN HANSIS and ZACH ROERIG. Loved partying with them in Marco. When I say party with I mean a charity dinner for a good cause with which we all made some fun. Shout out to Alexandra -- congrats on your Emmy nomination and I hope you find true love one day... Also Karin Freeland gets my vote for friendliest. She should be rising more and more. Go get 'em Karin.
Favorite motivation: Love. Other reasons are worthless.
Favorite walk: First Street, Fort Myers Saturday, May 5 when the warm rain fell and the street was silent.
Favorite movie watched recently: Russian Dolls. You have to see this one. I'm certain I do not totally agree with the final metaphoric ending but the intense honesty about relationships is inspiring.
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Top 15 --- April, 2007
Favorite hairstylist: Vesa. Dude thank you for understanding Croatian/German/Italian/Swedish/Polish hair.
Favorite tequila: Herrandura.. for now.. more to come, man,
Favorite wish: I'd like to clone nine of me. I'd set them all to task.
Favorite craving: All wheat Teddy Graham's, spelt blueberry muffins and cranberry pacific raspberry... I love Wild Oats!
Favorite spotted wild animal: Deer in Illinois. They are everywhere in Chicago right now. My brother hit one, my bro-in-law did too and I almost hit three on two separate occasions in one weekend. Come on deer. Watch out!
Favorite local musician: Kelsey Merritt. She's only gonna get better and more famous, man. Watch her to sizzle in "Barely a Chance" premiering Summer 2007 in Southwest Florida.
Favorite point of view on American journalism: An Ohio newspaper recently let go a photographer for photoshopping a small pair of rather insignificant legs in a very small portion of a sports photo because of their 'integrity' to journalism. Newspapers across the nation, including this one, however, did not let anyone go for their failure to ask the bigger questions regarding the war in Iraq, nor their incompetence to find out the truth about what the real reason for the war was in the first place.
Favorite sandwich: Combo roast beef, sausage with grilled vegetables, mozzarella, roasted garlic tomato paste on the side at Buona Beef
Favorite day of the month: 17
Favorite meal: Becca's Indian Curried Chicken
Favorite wings: Lee Roy Selmon's. Man those suckers are tenderly smoked, with a delicious sauce. I've never had better wings in my life. Go to the one in Fort Myers for pickup.
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Top 13 --- March, 2007
Favorite local award show: Angel of the Arts Awards, Sunday, March 25 @ 5 p.m. at the Broadway Dinner Theater, Fort Myers, Florida (I'm nominated...)
Favorite apple: Granny Smith
Favorite journalist: Matthew Cooper.. then Ann Curry
Favorite drink: St. Patty's punch
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Top 14 --- February, 2007
Favorite thing to do: Hug, it's very healthy for you too...
Favorite recent moment: A chilly moment with the fam and friends at a Tampa Bay park , Gasparilla parade, and a long relaxing ride home in the Scion... THank you B! And Charlie C...
Favorite lunchtime desitination: PFChangs
Favorite thing about a friend: Nice, just be nice
Favorite mental state: "Enjoy the process. The satisfaction derived from getting there may be greater than that felt in the final outcome." -- Me
Favorite donut spot?: Home Cut donuts.. SHout out here JOLIET!!!
Favorite quote: "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." --Albert Einstein
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Top 13 January, 2007
Favorite moments: With the children
Favorite ice cream: Mocha chocolate almont gelato
Favorite pattern: Houndstooth
Favorite recent celebrity encounter: Molly Ringwald at the Naples Grande ...
Biggest wish right now: True love, endure forever...
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Top 13 December, 2006
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Favorite day of the month: 13
Favorite Chicago, IL or Cape Coral, FL: Florida. I mean the snow is so great to visit, but 75 degrees through the winter is so gravy compared to 5.
Favorite phrase: Still 'gravy.' Defining it's all gravy for the masses <----------
Favorite party spot: Love Opium Garden/Prive oh yeah.. can't forget Envie and Knuckleheads, where the best band in Fort Myers, Heather Brooks plays every Friday.
Favorite beach: Captiva and Miami.. tie for first, yo. Yeah, I'm living in paradise.
Last movie seen in the theater: "Happy Feet" ---Savion Glover is so under rated. "Running with Scissors" offered a unique theater experience in Bonita Springs
Favorite female musician: Gwen Stefani, still... Fergie has been warming it up too... Wind it up Fergiliscious
Favorite drummer: Ali Jackson, Wynton Marsalis' drummer ...
Favorite quote: "Balance, you need balance." --- DL
Favorite TV show: SNL, always SNL.. although how do you lose Fey, Parnell, Horatio and Mitchell without suffering a bit ... the show is looking more like the era before Farley, Spade and Sandler. I guess Michaels has been busy with 30 Rock.
Favorite team: Da Bears.......... see them in the playoffs!! DA BEARS
Favorite combo: French wine and a comfy couch OR strawberries and blueberries... Both are really the perfect match .... Plus they are soo good for you
Favorite conert: Badfish
TOP 13 November
Favorite Naples restaurant: Naples Tomato, try their enomatic wine tasting machines.
Favorite thing to be thankful for: True friends, my children and the capacity/ablility to comprehend satisfying love
Favorite song: Money Maker
Favorite artistic experience: Art Royale, 2006 Mixed media, video, art, music, fashion, dance, theater, poetry readings, acrobatics, fire torches, cirque de soliel style stage swinging, juggling, graffiti, wine, champagne, djs, funk, soul, hip-hop, the brightest, artistic and creative minds in Lee/Collier counties were there to light up the night ...
Favorite Bible story: Joseph and his brothers
Favorite word: hope
Greatest inspiration lately? Hip-hop Tracy Wildenhaus
TOP 10 -- September 2006
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Favorite movie right now: "Serendipity" Favorite smell? Trailing confederate jasmine
Favorite line of reasoning used on you? Have fun, go and have fun Favorite moment lately? Laying on freshly cut grass at my parent's home in Chicago watching the clouds form imaginative creations while my happy family played croquet.
Hottest catch phrase right now: ONATHEESA!!
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TOP 18 -- August 2006
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Favorite movie right now: "Amelie" Favorite sandwich? Turkey, swiss, avacado panini
Favorite quote from a movie? "This is true love. Do you think this happens everyday?" --Wesly; from the movie "Princess Bride"
Favorite TV channel? A&E
Favorite recent moment? Sunset hot dogs on the beach
Favorite drink? Champagne & French Beaujolais
Last TV show watched? Tabloid Wars. Man this is so great watching the stress and frustration of a day-to-day newspaper and not actually having to worry about making the deadline. I love it. Cheers Michael Cook & James Smith! Also bravo Bravo!
Recent pet peeve? Naples happy hour--"Hello I'll be barely taking care of you tonight. Can I offer you some pricey watered down drinks and sloppy service?" (Not you Naples Grande--you rock.)
Friend you miss the most right now? Al
Favorite sport lately?: Golf
Favorite thing in a friend?: Loyalty & fun
Unique culinary experience?: Made a swiss cheese, romaine omelete, strawberry jam panini today. Delish.
Favorite philanthropic move by an A-List celebrity: Madonna helping orphans in Malawi
Favorite song right now: "Summertime in the LBC"
Most admirable quality in a partner: The ability to communicate. Being in love is so important, feeling an exchange of love is awesome but when communication is unreachable or unenjoyable the relationship ends. The best relationships are ones that have an open and positive exchange where vulnerablities are offered and protected, where there is an emotionally nourishing, mutally benefitial and extrememely enjoyable interchange. It is for these relationships we must give everything and anything we have for.
Make a wish?: No more war!
TOP 18 -- July 2006
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Most recent movie watched? "Frida"
Favorite color? Brown. (Test your favorite color ...)
Favorite ice cream? Chocolate. (I am digging on Bryers Orange Sherbet/Vanilla lately though....)
Favorite TV channel? A&E
Favorite songs heard live? "Tennessee" by Heather Brooks band set the crowd off. "Don't let the sun go down without a kiss" still my favorite and moves me everytime I hear it.
Favorite drink? Ocean Spray Cranberry/Pacific Raspberry
Last TV show watched? Whose Line is it Anyway marathon, (total joy,) So You Think You Can Dance & Project Runway. (I have not seen so many talented routines performed with such passion, feeling and artistic precision as I have on the last few episodes of "So You Think You Can Dance.") Did I mention my dissappoiontment with The Hills? L.C. was so great on Laguna. What happened? She just seems so dull without Kristin around! Oh, did I mention I'm getting hooked on 24? Oh and this crazy ping pong clip cracked me up.
Last person talked to? My children, only my favorite people in the world.
Favorite person in the world: See last question. Also Mom, Dad, bro & sis. Grams and Gramps. Ok, I know they are all blood relatives but that's all I'm giving away ;)
What you'd like to name your next child? Emily
Favorite movie right now: Serendipity
Unique culinary experience?: Mantafreezes. Man I miss them.
Favorite quote: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder." Still, both must be committed.
Favorite song right now: Mas Que Nada, with Sergio Mendes and the Black Eyed Peas
Most admirable quality in a partner: The ability to communicate. Being in love is so important, feeling an exchange of love is awesome but when communication is unreachable or unenjoyable the relationship ends. The best relationships are ones that have an open and positive exchange where vulnerablities are offered and protected, where there is an emotionally nourishing, mutally benefitial and extrememely enjoyable interchange. It is for these relationships we must give everything and anything we have for.
Make a wish?: True love find your way. Stay with me, because I am there for you. |
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