Saturday 9/2/23
Favorite place: Rockport, MA
Favorite season: Autumn
Favorite holiday: Christmas
Favorite book: William Sloane's To Walk the Night
Favorite poem: John Clare's "I Am"
Favorite sport: Baseball
Favorite film: Scrooge (1951)
Favorite color: Aquamarine
Favorite animal: Beaver
Favorite drink: Black coffee
Favorite album: The Beatles
Favorite song: "Strawberry Fields Forever" (w/overdubs)
Favorite instrument: Human voice
Favorite quality: Authenticity
Favorite TV show: The Wind in the Willows (1984-1990)
Favorite athlete: Carlton Fisk
Favorite ballet: Onegin
Favorite ghost story: Richard Middleton's "The Ghost Ship"
Favorite painter: Fitz Henry Lane
Favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald story: "Basil and Cleopatra"
Favorite radio broadcast: "The Shady Lane Matter" (Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar)
Favorite Orson Welles movie: Chimes at Midnight
Favorite bird: House sparrow
Favorite smell: The Atlantic off of New England
Favorite turtle: Snapping
Favorite fish: Pike
Favorite tree: Cedar
Favorite Universal horror: Dracula (1931)
Favorite Hammer horror: Dracula (1958)
Favorite part of the Museum of Fine Arts: Second floor, American wing
Favorite hockey player: Mike Bossy
Favorite excuse: None
Favorite Christmas special: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)
Favorite actor: Robert Mitchum
Favorite jazz singer: Billie Holiday
Favorite Peanuts special: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Favorite Buster Keaton film: Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Favorite American sitcom: Cheers
Favorite TV Western: The Rifleman
Favorite fruit: Granny Smith apples
Favorite video game: King's Quest
Favorite exercise: Stairs
Favorite work by Thoreau: Journals
Favorite book series: The Three Investigators
Favorite basketball player: Dominique Wilkins
Favorite team: Boston Red Sox
Favorite edition of Boston Red Sox: 2013
Favorite jazz album: Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch!
Favorite short film: Return to Glennascaul
Favorite John Peel session: Nick Drake, August 5, 1969
Favorite sports personality: Rabbit Maranville
Favorite guitar solo: Pete Townshend, "Young Man Blues," Live at Leeds, after Roger Daltrey says, "Git it!"
Favorite duet: John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "Hey Jude"
Favorite hawk: Red-tailed
Favorite Smiths song: "Some Girls are Bigger Than Others"
Favorite Howard Hawks film: Rio Bravo
Favorite instrumentalist: Keith Moon
Favorite M.R. James story: "Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad"
Favorite field trip: To Sandwich
Favorite mountain range: Berkshires
Favorite kind of bridge: Covered
Favorite obelisk: Bunker Hill Monument
Favorite Pyrrhic victory: Battle of Bunker Hill
Favorite "Dark Star": Cleveland 10/31/71
Favorite sculptor: David Smith
Favorite living pianist: Paul Lewis
Favorite announcer: Fred Cusick
Favorite riff: "Day Tripper"
Favorite TV theme song: Newhart
Favorite power forward: Cam Neely
Favorite home run hitter: Dave Kingman
Favorite Rolling Stones song: "Shine a Light"
Favorite Powell and Pressburger film: A Canterbury Tale
Favorite fielder: Luis Aparicio
Favorite coat: Pea
Favorite football player: Andre Tippett
Favorite postmodern novel: Laurence Sterne's Tristam Shandy
Favorite Sherlock Holmes story: "The Blue Carbuncle"
Favorite blues guitarist: Otis Rush
Favorite film writer: James Agee
Favorite Joy Division song: "Ceremony"
Favorite John Keats poem: "Ode to a Nightingale"
Favorite resident of the Hundred Acre Wood: Eeyore
Favorite Vincent Price vehicle: House on Haunted Hill
Favorite Victorian novel: Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White
Favorite session: Beatles July 16, 1963 at the BBC
Favorite Bob Dylan album: Blonde on Blonde
Favorite jazz pianist: Bud Powell
Favorite flower: Sunflower
Favorite snake: Black racer
Favorite pitcher: Roger Clemens
Favorite landlord: Mr. Roper
Favorite singer: John Lennon
Favorite essay: F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Crack Up"
Favorite Star Wars movie: Star Wars
Favorite crustacean: Hermit crab
Favorite guitarist: Jeff Beck
Favorite version of Gunsmoke: radio
Favorite baseball card series: Diamond Stars (1934-1936)
Favorite baseball card: Jimmie Foxx Diamond Stars
Favorite diary: Pepys'
Favorite juice: Cranberry (real kind)
Favorite film book: This is Orson Welles
Favorite Grateful Dead album: American Beauty
Favorite cover version: The Beatles' "Solider of Love (Lay Down Your Arms)"
Favorite haunted house movie: The Uninvited
Favorite Nick Drake album: Pink Moon
Favorite goalie: Grant Fuhr
Favorite game: Game 2, 1987 Canada Cup Finals
Favorite sport to attend: College football
Favorite comic novel: Booth Tarkington's Penrod
Favorite Miles Davis album: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965
Favorite mystery novel: J. Jefferson Farjeon's Mystery in White
Favorite form of apparel: Sweatshirt
Favorite quarterback: Dan Marino
Favorite jazz drummer: Tony Williams
Favorite sports books: Lawrence Ritter's The Glory of Their Times
Favorite garage album: Psychotic Reaction
Favorite Laurel and Hardy film: Sons of the Desert
Favorite bootleg: The Beatles' The Complete BBC Sessions/The BBC Archives
Favorite science fiction film: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Favorite quote: "The only unforgivable sin is weakness." (from To Walk the Night)

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