... with soccer things
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... with other things
- a nice (i.e., not Jacquin's) bottle of peach-flavored brandy with which to prepare fish house punch
- a slim wallet made out of woven stainless steel
- a handsome pink button-down shirt
- bow ties, particularly fun ones from Lee Allison in navy, or silver, or purple, or magenta, or ... banana
rock climbing shoesa black leather belt, with simple silver or nickel hardware, for formal wear- a wall-mounting metal flagpole
a Flickr "pro" account -- the longer, the better
a bumbakpak
an electric egg beater
aquele redezinho com pesos que cobre vasos de água
beautiful, sturdy umbrella
a mail box -- crazy or plain vanilla, just not gold-tone -- to mount to the outside of my house
USPS "Black History Month" postcards of Marian Anderson
Under Armour cold gear mock turtleneck (color black, size medium) or lo-cut socks (white with gray or black accents)
Under Armour knee-length socks for soccer
- 3' x 5' outdoor flags -- of the United States of America, of Brazil, of France, of Taiwan, of Tibet
Tibetan prayer flags or banners
- mix CD of what you move to (à la "M+N Mix 2002")
an Opinel folding knife, preferably with a four- to five-inch long pearwood handle
- a taste of what you savor
Pele: The Master & His Method DVD
- The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus Megaset DVD
- a string of solar-powered lights
- a flat, double burner griddle (grill)
- a telescoping ladder at least ten feet tall
a telephone headset that really amplifies well
- a battery-free light for my bike
- a self-charging smoke alarm
- candles: skinny beeswax ones, stout ones
a Polaroid camera
- brush guards to mount to my bike's handlebars to break the winter wind before it chills my hands
- dark chocolate
a music stand
- a meditation cushion or seat
- a headboard for my queen-sized bed, or even a full-blown frame with roll-away storage compartments hung underneath
- tickets to a performance -- a Pittsburgh Steelers football game, a Pig Iron Theatre performance, a Pittsburh Penguins hockey game, dance at the Annenberg Center, soccer anywhere
- Miles Davis' Bitches' Brew
- Aerosmith's Greatest Hits I
- Aerosmith's Greatest Hits II
- Van Halen's Van Halen (debut)
- Mosaic Sextet's Today, this Moment
- Blue Note Records' The Blue Box
- soundtrack to Triplets of Belleville
- any Oscar Peterson albums
- any Genesis or Phil Collins albums
- anything featuring DJ Muggs, e.g., 7A3 or Cypress Hill or House of Pain
- John C. Ryan's Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. (ISBN 1886093040)
- Chet Bowers' The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools (ISBN 0791434648)
- Chet Bowers' Educating for an Ecologically Sustainable Culture
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