Wired magazine recently had a story on Things That Suck, so I thought I would start my own:

Things That Suck

• People who politicize everything.  You need a more productive hobby.  I suggest stamp collecting.
• drivers on cell phones, or texting (a bad, bad thing)
• cookie-cutter suburbs
• raw tomatoes (I cannot fathom biting into a tomatoe.)
• weak coffee
• Uppity Dell computers
• Comcast cable - love my AT&T U-verse (when it works)
• Setting up HDTV - call Nasa, this is truly f*cking rocket science
• Getting laid off - but that can also be A Good Thing.  I will never go back in the closet, deny who I am or compromise My Belief Structure for money.  I promise.

Things that Rock (My Own Damn Favorite Things)

• Working out
• My husband (15 years and counting)
• My dog (neurotic but she has a lot of love to give)
• Ray Ban aviators
• my Honda CRV
• my iPhone -- when it works
• Whataburger -- exceptionally good at 2AM!
• Becks Prime
• good sushi
• grocery shopping at Fiesta (way too many normal people at Kroger - it scares me)
• The Palmer Episcopal Choir
• Lower Westheimer
• HDTV (when it works...I see a theme here)
• my family, my friends and you - my website visitors!

One other weird trait, is that I love to surf Wikipedia.  The other day, I was thinking about how New York always gets blown up or destroyed in the movies.  What about other cities?  Can you help me add to these lists?

Real Cities Destroyed in Works of Fiction and Methods

Baltimore
The Sum of All Fears (movie) (atomic bomb, terrorists)
Charleston, SC
Special Bulletin (TV) (atomic bomb, terrorists)
Chicago
Jericho (atomic bomb, terrorists)
Buck Rogers in the 25th-century  (TV)
Dallas
Jericho (atomic bomb, terrorists)
Denver
Jericho (atomic bomb, terrorists)
The Sum of All Fears (novel) (atomic bomb, terrorists)
Houston
10.5 Apocalypse (TV) earthquake  
Independance Day (atomic bomb trying to destroy alien spaceship)
Kansas City, MO
The Day After (TV) (atomic bomb, nuclear war)
Las Vegas
10.5 Apocalypse (TV) earthquake    
The Stand (novel) (atomic bomb, hand of God)
Los Angeles
10.5 (TV) (earthquake)
Independance Day (alien laser)
Lucifer's Hammer (novel) (tsunami after asteroid strike)
Moscow
Fail Safe (novel) (atomic bomb, accidental deployment)
New York 
Independance Day
The Day After Tomorrow (rising waves, ice storm)
Fail Safe (novel) (atomic bomb, sacrifical lamb for accidental bombing of Moscow)
Heroes
San Antonio
Warday, novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka (atomic bomb, nuclear war)
San Francisco
10.5 (TV) (earthquake)
Sydney
Mad Max Beyone the Thunderdome (collapse of civilization)
Washington DC, 
Independance Day (alien laser)
Jericho (atomic bomb, terrorists)
Warday (atomic bomb, nuclear war)




Fictional Cities Destroyed in Works of Fiction

Asgard, in The Iron Heel by Jack London
Everytown (London) Things to Come (film)

Things I love:  FOOTBALL!