Things I am Addicted To

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Good coffee, edamame, Welch’s grape juice, San Pellegrino Chinotto, wasabi peas, listening to my cat Emma say, “maht!”, loud, obnoxious music that only a hair farmer could enjoy, secretly doing my best imitation of Pete Townsend playing guitar while no one is around, Miss Vickie’s potato chips, Mac OS X, stealth smooches, McSweeney’s, the surprised look francophones sometimes get when I start speaking French when they were just talking about me (in French), waking up every morning even more in love and feeling like the luckiest bastard ever, CSI (but only the original - David Caruso is a punk), Amelié Poulain, butter chicken roti from Ghandi Roti on Bathurst, being a big, goddamn softie on the inside but pretending to be a hard-ass because it’s the manly thing to do, wearing the pocket protector in the family, riding the subway while listening to A Girl Called Eddy and pretending I’m a pensive ne’er-do-well living in Paris, working from home in my underwear (just because), laughing so hard I can’t breathe while watching The Family Guy, attempting to grow a scraggly, David Suzuki beard and failing miserably, feeling mildly superior whenever a Windows user starts complaining about how much spyware they found on their machines, chewing way too much Trident White in the futile hopes it will erase fifteen years of coffee and cigarettes.

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1 | Steve Chambers said on December 13, 2004 6:13 PM

Interesting train of thought. If the links don't work copy and paste them in the address field. For some reason the dots are commas: fritolay,com instead of fritolay.com. Perhaps he is overly fond of his favorite Starbucks substitute...

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2 | Christopher Chuckry said on December 13, 2004 7:04 PM

You are a lucky bastard in many ways I'm sure, and you would totally rock in a David Suzuki beard.

When are you and Reneé coming back to wpg. for the holiday?

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3 | Rob said on December 16, 2004 1:43 PM

that's a great list. we sare at least a few of them. OSX, Amelie, & Who riffs to name a few. glad i happened across your site.

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4 | ustin said on December 22, 2004 8:12 PM

yeah i hear ya man, Welch’s grape juice is the new coccaine! :)

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5 | Brent said on December 27, 2004 12:27 PM

Quicktime trailers (currently, the trailer for Sin City). Slashdot, MacSurfer, etc. (You know, the Interweb thing.) Bagels & cream cheese. Doubt. World of Warcraft, potentially. Recommending Band of Brothers to everyone. Quoting Withnail & I. Sleeping in my waterbed. Staring at a really big picture of Andromeda which serves as the background picture on my Cinema Display. Google image search. Searching for new (non-fake) pictures of Jennifer Connelly on Google image search. Astronomy picture of the day archive (once you start, it's hard to stop).

OS X, however, is not an addiction, anymore than the air one breathes is an addiction ... although considering the content of the air I breathe, maybe that's a bad analogy.

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6 | Chris Knight said on January 9, 2005 6:04 PM

Like Chinotto--I do too, so much so that I hope to plant a Chinotto in my backyard this coming summer. You should try Moxie (the original flavor, not the crappy cherry cola or other flavors by the same brand.) It has that same bitter overtone, yum.

Also, regarding wasabi peas--tentea.com sells wasabi peanuts. They're a nice change of pace, but surely more fattening as they're breaded peanuts that are fried. But not that greasy, so I dunno how bad they are for you.

Anyways, had to pass it on.

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