{"id":5084,"date":"2011-11-05T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2012-02-06T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T19:52:23","slug":"picking-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=5084","title":{"rendered":"Picking Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like most people have a favorite this and a favorite that. I don&#8217;t. I have a hard time making decisions on even on the most inconsequential subjects. So today, as an exercise in decision-making, I&#8217;m going to try to pick some favorites. It will be interesting to see how I feel about them after a week, a month, a year. Will they feel all wrong, or will I finally be able to say that I have a favorite <em>something<\/em>?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Color: Green. People who know me might say, &#8220;But hasn&#8217;t green always been your favorite?&#8221; Once upon a time it was purple, actually. In recent years I have gone back and forth between blue and green. I&#8217;m going to take a stand now, though, and go with green.<\/li>\n<li>Month: September. Of course!<\/li>\n<li>TV show: <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Band: Coldplay. How mainstream! I know. Once upon a time, I might have said Metallica was my favorite band. That was long before they hit the mainstream. There&#8217;s nothing inherently wrong with being mainstream, though. Metallica and Coldplay got there by being very good. I just hope that Coldplay continues to be good (reviews of their recent album make me wonder&#8230;). Metallica stopped being good, oh, some time between 1991 (&#8220;The Black Album&#8221;) and 1996 (<em>Load<\/em>), and, as far as I know, they haven&#8217;t looked back. Shame.<\/li>\n<li>Ice-cream flavor: mint chocolate chip. I&#8217;ve been thinking about this one for weeks. It&#8217;s actually what got me on the subject of &#8220;picking favorites.&#8221; I realized that I didn&#8217;t have a favorite ice-cream flavor, and I thought to myself, &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t everyone have a favorite? And shouldn&#8217;t they? I mean, if I were about to die and someone offered me my pick of ice-cream flavors, and it would be the last thing I tasted before dying, which would I choose?&#8221; So I decided on mint chocolate chip, but I hope to eat many more bowls of ice cream before I die. For the record, I am also quite fond of black raspberry, cookie dough, and Cherry Garcia.<\/li>\n<li>Book: Oh, this question is cruel. I love so many of them! Falling back on that hackneyed idea of the &#8220;desert island,&#8221; if I were going to be stuck on such an island, and I could only have one book, it would be . . . <em>The Little White Horse<\/em> by Elizabeth Goudge. I once read it three times back-to-back and did not get bored with it.<\/li>\n<li>Movie: Another cruel question. So many to choose from. I&#8217;m going with <em>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em>. The music, literary allusions, humor, special effects, beloved characters, and Ricardo Montalban&#8217;s chest&#8212;all combine to make this such a wonderful movie. If I ever got tired of watching it, I could just listen to the music and be happy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like most people have a favorite this and a favorite that. I don&#8217;t. I have a hard time making decisions on even on the most inconsequential subjects. 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