I don’t play favourites, but this month I do play My Favourites…
1. My favourite Hollywood actor/short story writer: Matt Damon Runyan…
2. My favourite Peruvian writer/way of catching stray dogies: Mario Vargas Lasso…
3. My favourite Arabian nights hero/middle eastern food: Ali Baba Ghanoush…
4. My favourite hip hop song about a British/Nigerian singer: “The Real Slim Sade…”
5. My favourite Jewish holiday/Star Wars hero: Hanukkah Solo…
6. My favourite dancer/IMF-imposed economic regime: Fred Austere…
7. My favourite place to live in the far North/ fictional journalist: Igloo Grant…
8. My favourite film about a corrupt cops who love a Jewish delicacy: Blintz of the City…
9. My favourite James Patterson thriller featuring an American actor: Along Came a Spader…
10. My favourite Shakespearean play about a teen detective: The Two Gentlemen of Veronica Mars…
11. My favourite Milan Kundera novel about crooner Crosby: The Unbearable Lightness of Bing…
12. My favourite film about 1960s Arab swingers: Kebab and Carol and Ted and Alice…
13. My favourite story about a boy who never grew up and stopped making outrageous jokes: Peter Pun…
14. My favourite East European character set/alcoholic beverage/Star Wars actor: Cyrillic Guinness…
15. My favourite 1960s actor/Gold Rush area: Dick van Klondike…
16. My favourite Sondheim musical about the rock the Canadian Shield is made out of: A Little Granite Music…
17. My favourite time travel movie about pork: Bacon to the Future…
18. My favourite Middle Eastern country that makes German cars: Audi Arabia…
19. My favourite Melies film about going off Earth to eat turkey: A Tryptophan to the Moon…
20. My favourite martial art practiced by my favourite Egyptian pharaoh: Karate Cheops…
21. My favourite Eagles song about a useful lubricant: “Life in the Vaseline…”
22. My favourite Japanese cartoon about a doctor who treats environmental sensitivities: Full Metal Allergist…
23. My favourite whitefish/1960s vocalist: Scrod Stewart…
24. My favourite 1960s psychedelic band/description of the cast of Gilligan’s Island: The Grateful Stranded…
25. My favourite underwear catalogue/Joseph Conrad novel: Victoria’s Secret Agent…
26. My favourite author of vampire novels/food wrap: Anne Rice paper…
27. My favourite family car/journalist: seDan Rather…
28. My favourite older British actor/Canadian publishing company: Ian McClelland Stewart…
29. My favourite method of colouring my hair so that it’s psychedelic: a tie dye job…
30. My favourite way of starting to talk about my love of cheese: “Here we asiago!”
31. My favourite Bob Seger song about a mythical bird: “Like a Roc…”
If you’re tired of a Few of my favourite Things, feel free to tweet your own.
1. My favourite female silent film star/method of chastising people: Theda Berate…
2. My favourite American actor/French composer: Gary Debussy…
3. My favourite soft drink to have in Florida that was named after a biblical character: Sarah Soda…
4. My favourite Mongol leader/female Hollywood actor: Genghis Hawn…
5. My favourite military movie about the filling of a Chicago hockey player’s pillow: Blackhawks’ Down…
6. My favourite manga about an Australian singer: All You Need is Kylie Minogue…
7. My favourite nonsense about running trees: alder dash…
8. My favourite science fiction movie about lighting a movie underwater: 20,000 Kliegs Under the Sea…
9. My favourite reality TV show featuring competition between raptors: America’s Got Talons…
10. My favourite female comedian/prince of Hell: Lucille Baal…
11. My favourite Web site for cheaters/Monopoly property: Ashley Madison Avenue…
12. My favourite actor/places to hide during a tornado: Peter Storm Cellars…
13. My favourite science fiction writer who is brusque with fools: Curt Vonnegut…
14. My favourite boy who never grows up, but does it with great style: Peter Panache…
15. My favourite Looney Tunes reality TV show: Duck Dodgers Dynasty in the 25th 1/2 Century…
16. My favourite actor with a twinkle in his eye: Glint Eastwood…
17. My favourite Dick van Dyke Show actor/Mercury Theater on the Air actor: Agnes Mary Tyler Moorehead…
18. My favourite classical string instrument/rapper: Cello Green…
19. My favourite highest form of love/mystery author: Agape Christie…
20. My favourite all you can eat restaurant/teen monster killer: Buffet the Vampire Slayer…
21. My favourite WKRP in Cincinnati star/bit of nonsense: Gordon Claptrap…
22. My favourite former Toronto mayor/ long, narrow inlet with steep sides: Rob Fjord…
23. My favourite musical drama/ connection between Afghanistan and Pakistan: the Cabaret Pass…
24. My favourite cheers for my favourite DC Comics villain: Rahs al Ghul…
25. My favourite French author/American science fiction editor: Victor Hugo Gernsback…
26. My favourite physics research facility/Roman Polanski film : the NASA Jet Repulsion Labs…
27. My favourite rap group/copyright protection law: Run-D.M.C.A…
28. My favourite Republican Presidential candidate/3-D art technique: Donald Trompe-Loeil…
29. My favourite film director/document heading: Stanley Rubric…
30. My favourite horror film about my favourite kind of soup: Bride of Chunky Chicken…
31. My favourite insurance company/sex act: Mutual of Omaha masturbation…