Stuff I'm Thankful For

All this plus my health and my family, obviously.

Stuff I’m Thankful For:

The fact that so many white folks gamble their money away at reservation casinos; CuteOverload.com; Tim Goodman; The Barenaked Ladies; “Buffy,” “Angel,” “Firefly,” and the upcoming “Dollhouse”; the fact that my indoor voice is the same as my outdoor voice; short hair on girls; short hair on girls with tattoos; The Roloffs from “Little People, Big World”; Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, and Pink; The Wolfman-Perez-era Teen Titans; Neil Gaiman, JK Rowling, and Philip Pullman; the “peek-a-boo” view from my apartment in Twin Peaks; Bob the Waiter at Sparky’s on Church St.; the falafel at Taboun on Parnassus; the Butch bar at Hot Cookie on Castro; the smell of bookstores; restaurant supply store Kamei on Clement; “Project Runway” and “America’s Next Top Model”; Robert Johnson; Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughn; Rosemary Clooney and Doris Day;  Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly; bluegrass music featuring banjo or fiddle pickin’; chocolate covered pretzels; chocolate and peanut butter Haagen-Dazs; tap water, or water from a garden hose; the first shower I take after I get home from camping; the quilt on my bed that my grandma made; the assertiveness I get from my mother; bunnies and kitties and puppies; Professor Corless Smith at San Francisco State; my third grade teacher Ms. DeAlbequerque; my Aunt Renee; baby-smell and those teeny tiny socks they wear; Huxley’s Brave New World and Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next; plus physics, literature, biology, sociology, and the internet.  And $20 Mexican blankets you buy on the beach in San Diego.

Originally written 11.07