The Rule of Four

The Rule of Four

Everybody else is doing it. Why can't I?

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:

Grocery Bagger, hotel bellman, Donations Supervisor, Assistant Manager.

I am a superhero in my spare time, and I do not receive financial compensation.

Four movies you could [and do] watch over and over:

Star Wars, the Shawshank Redemption, Blazing Saddles, Dr. Strangelove

Four places you’ve lived:

One house, another house, a dorm and an apartment.

Four fiction books you can’t live without:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain;
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole;
The Bottoms, by Joe R. Lansdale;
The Stand, by Stephen King

Four non-fiction books you consider essential:

Ball Four, by Jim Bouton;
A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson;
Rock of Ages, by Stephen Jay Gould;
Shelby Foote's narrative history of the Civil War (which is several books, but is some fine reading nonetheless)

Four TV shows you love to watch:

The Simpsons; The Daily Show; the Colbert Report; Arrested Development

Four places you’ve been on vacation:

Wildwood, New Jersey
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Orlando, Florida
Cooperstown, New York

Four websites you visit daily:

Fark
Boing Boing
Coast to Coast
Internet Movie Database

If not daily, almost daily.

Also, a goodly number of the blogs on the sidebar.

Four of your favorite foods:

A grilled cheeseburger with bacon;
the fried pickle chips from Toot's;
A nice medium rare New York Strip;
sweet potato casserole...

Four places you’d rather be:

Somewhere where it's baseball season;
Up in the mountains;
the year 1947;
I'd like to be at a movie theater today, but it ain't gonna happen.

Four albums you can’t live without:

Today we'll say:

Johnny Cash, Live at Folsom Prison
R.E.M.'s Out of Time
Robert Earl Keen's Gravitational Forces
Allison Krauss and Union Station's Lonely Runs Both Ways....