If you were wondering and, I'm sure you were, now you know that I:

• Love to read beautifully meaningful poetry out loud
• Love a good work of fiction
• Like discussing a storyline
• Hate to read manuals but find them a necessary evil (particularly after I break something)
• Must read non-fiction periodically to refill the cup
• Really like comic books (Marvel rocks!)
• Love Mozart, Bach, Chopin and Haydn
• Wild for John Coltrane
• Mad for Oscar Peterson
• Titillated by Thelonious Monk
• Hot for Mark Whitfield
• Love traditional/classic jazz
• In awe of traditional/classic jazz vocalists
• Don't care for jazz fusion
• Not sure but I may hate opera
• Like country, rock and blues
• Will not listen to heavy metal or punk (or anything with a twang and/or crash in it)
• Lovin' Alicia Keys, Beyonce Knowles, Pink, John Legend, Jill Scott, Chrisette Michelle, Dave Matthews, Daughtry, Nickelback, Diana Krall, Duffy, Estelle, Fergie, Georgie Fame, Steve Tyrell, Gretchen Wilson, Holly Cole, Joy Delalane, Kanye West, Keyshia Cole, Lisa Lavie, Macy Gray, The Manhatten Transfer, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Matt Dusk, Lou Rawls, Justin Timberlake, Melody Gardot, Mose Allison, Prince, Queen Latifa, Renee Olstead, Al Green. Okay, there are more but I'm out of breath.
• Love the bright, hot sunshine
• Adore full moon nights
• Crazy for a cool breeze in any season
• Truly impressed by the magic of a thunderstorm
• Love the sound of trains rolling down the track late at night
• Like going to the movies
• Don't really care to see the same movie twice
• Enjoy a good black and white mystery and comedy once in a while
• Not gung-ho on melodrama or true to life movies or stories
• Can't handle gory horror though vamps and werewolves -- yay. Go figger.
• Prefer the extraordinary and fantastic to the real and/or mundane
• Really get into fast paced adventure and/or jammed-to-the-gills-with-special-effects sci-fi movies. (Yes, people, this is my time! Special effects these days are awesomely awesome!
• Love magic
• Hate television, party and nightclub magicians
• Love to burn scented candles
• Moved by a deep, sexy voice
• Thrilled by the huskiness of an urgent whisper
• Love the many stories to be found in a beautiful painting
• Adore live theater
• Frequently fantasize about becoming an actor
• Often dream of becoming a singer
• Realize I cannot consistently hold a tune or remember a line
• Regularly sing along anyway and, continue to may-tend.
• Often fantasize about living in another country and/or on another planet
• Really like a good cuddle
• Really like my own space
• Like to caress
• Like being caressed
• Don't care for t.v. sports
• Don't care for live sports
• Don't care for sports period
• Like to swim
• Love white sand and crystal blue waters
• Like watching the news (except when it makes me sick or paranoid and it frequently makes me sick and paranoid
• Enjoy the Discovery and explorer channels
• Think the Discovery and explorer channels are obsessed with animal sex
• Think I might be obsessed with watching animal sex on the Discovery and explorer channels
• Think I might not get enough sex
• Hate the television show, C.O.P.S., (my 2 cents: Big Brother Propaganda)and yet, am frequently mesmerized by it.
• Love to cybersurf
• Hate the cyber ads
• Love to get e-mail
• Would love a cyber romance
• Would be leery about a cyber romance
• Would take the chance on a cyber romance (if I was not otherwise committed!)
• Respect the need for law and order
• Respect the need for a little healthy chaos
• Don't care for garage or yard sales or thrift stores or second hand stuff
• Think another man's junk is another man's junk
• Love playing computer word games
• Love playing computer hidden object games
• Like playing Second Life (if you have to ask ...
• Like TombRaider games
• Think TombRaider games and others like them really objectify women
• Don't care. I think Lara Croft is hot (chill. I'm not into women)
• Not thrilled about most other shoot 'em up computer games
• Not thrilled about losing
• Not skilled at most computer games (or sports)
• Really like to win
• Like exercising when I'm 'into it'
• Hate getting 'into it'
• Really like the texture of linen stationery
• Enjoy talk radio periodically
• Don't care for d.j.'s because they get in the way of the music
• Love the Tom Joyner morning show
• Love Steve Harvey show
• Hate commercials
• Detest automobile commercials
• Cannot tolerate political ad commercials
• Think the Republicans acted like a bunch of spoiled kids at the ' 99 State of the Union Address (yeah, okay. It still piques me!)
• Think politicians are generally dishonest people and their only true loyalty is to $$
• Think politicians should be ousted regularly and forced to get honest jobs (i.e., do not vote for incumbents!)
• Think Ted Kennedy should be arrested for Chappequidick
• Think Ted Kennedy will die from natural causes without ever having been judged for that girl's death. Wait til God finds out!
• Think Hilary is too politically correct to be effective in bringing about change.
• Think Jesse Jackson really disappointed me when he dissed (President) Barack Obama
• Think Obama has a shot (we SO need change!)
• Think lobbyists should be charged with criminal behavior and jailed regularly for GP
• Think corporations own government
• Think corporations own George Bush.
• Think the dairy industry is poisoned
• Wonder who thought of drinking milk out of a cow anyway?
• Think train of thought thinking rocks

Current Favorite Authors

• Charlaine Harris
• Jim Butcher
• Kim Harrison
• Rachel Caine
• Tina McElroy Ansa
• Octavia Butler
• Toni Morrison
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Anne Rice
• Dorothy West
• Terry Brooks
• Kathleen O'Neal Gear
• Gloria Naylor
• Richard Perry
• James Clemens
• Tananarive Due
• Tina McElroy Ansa
• Laura K Hamilton
• David Brin

Current Fav Books

• Wildseed by Octavia Butler
• Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago (xenogenesis series) by Octavia Butler
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Soloman's Song by Toni Morrison
• Sula by Toni Morrison
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• Let the Dead Bury Their Dead by Randall Kenan
• Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
• Quicksand by Nella Larsen
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
• A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines

Fav Poets

• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Robert Earl Price
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Ntozake Shange
• Margaret Walker
• Nikky Finney
• Gloria Gade Wayles
• Mari Evans
• Sonia Sanchez
• Claude McKay
• Nikki Giovanni
• Gil Scott-Heron
• Etheridge Knight
• Kanye West

Opinions I respect

• My Own
• Yours

Opinions with which I will always agree

• My Own
• Yours if ever it becomes My Own