I generally discount the term favorite; however with the qualifications on this list, I am happy to present first installment of the Restaurant Refugee’s Favorite Five Friday.
Favorite Things That Various Ex’s Have Pilfered from Me I Have Left at Their Places
- My high school letterman sweater
- A pair of antique Tiffany cufflinks
- The best cashmere sweater ever
- A limited edition Parker fountain pen
- My dignity
Favorite Bloggers I’ve Never met but with Whom I’d love to Cocktail
- The Barmaid and her girlfriend
- The improbably logically named Candy Sandwich
- The Blogess
- The entire Daily Kos Crew
- The Wonkette
Favorite Moments when I Smoked a Cigar
- After I finally got the corner office
- After I got married
- After I got divorced
- After I chose life over career
- When I met this woman
Favorite Things I miss About the 80s
- No cell phones
- High School football games
- Reality Television free programming
- Robert Hoderney – I’ve never had a better teacher, mentor, or role model for how to be a stand-up guy – R.I.P.
- A black Michael Jackson
Favorite Lessons Learned in the Last Year
- When you finally meet the one, even if s/he breaks your heart, you realize that all the “ones that got away” weren’t actually ones.
- Never pass on the opportunity to pay the honest compliment
- There is nothing wrong with a principled line in the sand
- Among the things that are great about working for yourself, the ability to have a beer… in your pajamas… at two in the afternoon… is near the top
- Blogging is cheaper than therapy
Favorite Reasons Why Cocktail Should Be Used as a Verb
- Sidecar
- Manhattan
- Long Kiss Goodnight
- Santero
- Bellini
Favorite Women I have Kissed
- Beth – I know that you were and still are a lesbian, but damn I am waiting for your seven year itch to return
- Double M – a redheaded art teacher who plays sax in an all girl band – my only defense is the stupidity of youth
- Maureen, Maureen – a Sade song, but we never could make anything work outside the bedroom
- LP – you are the reason I started this little slice of internet therapy
- The Blogger Who Shall Rename Nameless – I wish you blue birds in the spring, and I wish that I had the tools to climb your protective walls
Favorite Musicians You Probably Don’t Know
- Terri Lynne Carrington – Arsenio Hall’s former band leader has a smoking hot jazz band
- Nikki Gonzales – how I wish that you would reunite with your brother. The clichéd phrase “greater than the sum of your parts” comes to mind.
- Ira Gonzales – how I wish that you would reunite with your sister. The clichéd phrase “greater than the sum of your parts” comes to mind.
- Alfredo Mojica – an extroidinary percussionist who I once saw play salt and pepper shakers to AfroBlue
- Kevin Spacey – yeah, you know him; but did you know that he can really swing
Favorite Regrets… I’ve Had a Few; But Then Again Too Few to Mention… Except Here
- Not taking a job with AOL in 1995 because I didn’t want the commute
- Never having dinner at Jean Louis
- Never telling Tracy Henderson from undergrad how I felt about her because of she had a loser boyfriend… who happened to be a teammate of mine on the football team
- Never having served in the armed forces – mostly because I hate when right wingers who have served use that service as a trump card in an argument and I have no match
- The previous post on this teeny slice of the internet wherein I took the nuclear option when someone angered me.
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