The Top 50 Things, as selected by Mike Sugarbaker
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  1. Stop Making Sense (DVD)
  2. That's right: it's the Street Hawk fan site.
  3. Elephone, The Shivering
  4. Alton Brown's Gear For Your Kitchen, by Alton Brown
  5. Brunetto T-Shirts gives you the power. Unless they don't want to.
  6. Shaolin Soccer
  7. The Believer

  8. What is a Geek?


  9. The Name Of The World, by Denis Johnson
  10. The New Pornographers, Electric Version
  11. The turkey Dripper at Steve's
  12. It Must Have Been Something I Ate: The Further Adventures Of The Man Who Ate Everything, by Jeffrey Steingarten
  13. REJECTED (DVD)
  14. Bubbies Bread & Butter Pickles
  15. The Work of Director Spike Jonze (DVD)
  16. Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
  17. The Raymond Brake, Piles of Dirty Winters
  18. Rocketship, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
  19. The Passion, by Jeanette Winterson
  20. STUNT HAMSTERS
  21. Yo La Tengo, The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science (I was at the show!)
  22. Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
  23. The first DVD I got myself wasn't Lord of the Rings, or even the once-obligatory Matrix. It was Waking Life.
  24. A.C. Newman, The Slow Wonder
  25. Death Cab For Cutie, Something About Airplanes
  26. Garlic fries should be had at Gordon Biersch or, perhaps, not at all
  27. brainstorms, a third place.
  28. Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
  29. Prefuse 73, One Word Extinguisher
  30. Does that thought ever get you anything? Why keep thinking it?
  31. Schizopolis
  32. You can see yourself the way others see you, if you allow yourself to be transformed by how they see you.Human behavior is mostly pretending.
  33. Prefuse 73, Extinguished: Outtakes, Alternate Takes and Beats from One Word Extinguisher
  34. Lay's Salt and Vinegar flavor potato chips
  35. Tillamook Swiss cheese slices
  36. I'm Just Here For The Food, by Alton Brown
  37. 20 Minute Loop, Yawn + House = Explosion
  38. Is it that nothing like this existed before, or that I didn't know how to stumble into it accidentally?
  39. Koyaanisqatsi
  40. Maker's Mark brand Kentucky bourbon
  41. www.wunderland.com I cannot overstate how incredible this site is. Check out the game designs. Read the cool elliptical comic. Look at the pictures of Rubik's Cube art and roller coasters. Buy a stuffed broccoli. Seize the time. Just do it. Et cetera.
  42. This could mean starting a movement. Do you have that kind of time?
  43. Hicksville, by Dylan Horrocks
  44. Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, 2nd edition, by Danny Goodman
  45. The Work of Director Michel Gondry (DVD)
  46. 1554 Brussels Style Black Ale, New Belgium Brewing Company
  47. Optiganally Yours, Spotlight on Optiganally Yours
  49. tyranny/biology
  50. Home Movies Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD

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