• “A Change Is Gonna Come”
  • the Apollo program
  • Barbara Stanwyck
  • Bob Dylan
  • Calvin Trillin
  • Claude Shannon and information theory
  • Different Trains
  • Do The Right Thing
  • Dwight Garner’s book reviews
  • eggs Benedict
  • Ernest Hemingway’s novels and short stories
  • Francis Ford Coppola’s run of films in the 1970s
  • The Great Gatsby
  • hip-hop
  • heavier-than-air flight
  • the Hollywood career of Alfred Hitchcock
  • Joe Gould’s Secret
  • kottke.org
  • the LaTeX typesetting system
  • the MacBook Pro, circa 2013
  • Nighthawks
  • “One Art”
  • Partita for 8 Voices
  • the old Penn station
  • The New Yorker
  • Nina Simone
  • “Pine Barrens” (Sopranos episode)
  • Richard Avedon’s photographs
  • RSS feeds
  • the screwball comedy; the comedy of remarriage; film noir
  • the simplex algorithm
  • Sufjan Stevens (especially Illinois and the Christmas albums)
  • This American Life
  • Tiger Woods’s shot at the 16th hole of the 2005 Masters
  • the view of Manhattan from the Staten Island ferry at dusk
  • The West Wing, seasons 1–4
  • “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…”

Happy 250th! Sorry for spelling “favourite” with a U.