Progressive politics, design, family, youth education, environmental issues, reading, cycling, hiking, great conversations, laughter, spirituality and ethics.

Alternative rock-n-roll, and hip-hop, classical and jazz. Current favorites include Foo Fighters, Mountaineers, Greenskeepers, Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Beethoven, Queen Latifa, old Led Zep, BoDeans, John Mellencamp,Coltrane, Miles Davis, KRS One, Public Enemy, Dave Matthews Band, Ben Harper, Lupe Fiasco, Manu Chaou, The Fray, David Bowie, Funkadelic, Breakistra, Classified, the Horde, Sweatshop Union, Busdriver.

Any Monty Python, Good Night and Good Luck, Buckaroo Banzai, Highlander, American Beauty, Iron Man, The Dark Knight, Sounder, all Sidney Poitier / Bill Cosby movies, most Richard Pryor / Gene Wilder movies, Jean Marais' Orpheus, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Right Stuff, About Schmidt, Terms of Endearment, Do The Right Thing, Farenheit 9/11, When the Levees Broke, Summer of Sam, Forbidden Planet, Ed Wood, The Aviator, any Ray Harryhausen flick.

Heroes, Life (RIP), Chuck.

The Magus, The Darker Mask Anthology, From Bauhaus to Our House, City Life, Watchmen graphic novel, Maus graphic novel, Harry Potter, Wildcards anthologies, Landscapes of Man, Walter Moseley's books, The Corps and the Shore, On Adam's House in Paradise, Invisible Man, Why Black People Tend to Shout, Books on Frederick Law Olmsted, Uncommon Ground

"Who ever promised that logic would solve all your problems?" -- me.