lists of likable things at the
present moment of
hormonal time


  • Not much different, just a few little tweaks here and there:
  • Lucinda Williams
  • Performance artist Bobby Baker (Ginny, but Barbara is interested)
  • Goran Ivanisevic's legs
  • Susan Sarandon
  • Hot weather
  • Very cold weather (Ginny)
  • Jim Crace. Actually, Being Dead.
  • Chang-rae Lee. Everything so far.
  • Patti Smith
  • Neil Young
  • Tom Waits
  • Billy Collins (Barbara) ("Who??" Gin says. "A poet," says B. "Ah, poetry," says G. " A bit like jazz. Yig." "Hmmph," says B.)
  • Anne Sexton ("Oh, her. Poetry," says G. "Well in that case.")
  • Charles Simic ("Oh yes. I liked him too," says G. "You see? says B. "Ha.")
  • Raymond Carver. (Yum, says G. Well, yes, says B. In fact, says G, he looks a little like Neil Macoll.)
  • Buffy (Barbara. Big fan.)
  • The L Word (ditto)
  • Annie Proulx
  • Cary Grant
  • James Stewart (B.)
  • Samuel L. Jackson (Barbara has fainted)
  • Clive Owen (there goes Gin)
  • Harry Belafonte (B.)
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Katharine Hepburn (Both. How could it be any other way?)
  • and Spencer
  • Alice Munro
  • Nightmares on Wax (B.)
  • John Cusack
  • Joan Cusack
  • Cissy Spacek
  • John Thaw (Dear John Thaw)
  • David Morrisey (G)
  • Ian Hart
  • Miranda Richardson
  • Helen Mirren
  • Patrick Hamilton (B)
  • Bill Hicks
  • Bill Bailey (B)
  • Johnny Vegas (B)
  • Pina Bausch
  • Sweet Smell of Success
  • Burt Lancaster
  • Rio Bravo (B)
  • Marilyn Monroe
  • Ann Baxter (B)
  • Doris Day
  • Raw fish
  • Tequila
  • Cranes
  • Bubble wrap
  • Grace is this a boring list?
  • non-vanilla sex
  • hang on, hang on -- Jeff Bridges (They sigh.)