Well, I never! A Few of My Favourite Things doesn’t need your permission!
1. My favourite newspaper/skeletal Shakespearean character: The New Yorick Times…
2. My favourite Quebecois film and theatre director/satirical Web site: Robert Lepage aux Folles…
3. My favourite gossip columnist/soft hat: Rona Beret…
4. My favourite Shakespearean spirit/song by The Refreshments: Cali”Banditos…”
5. My favourite rock band/place to collect water: Twisted Cistern…
6. My favourite Venetian merchant traveller/crippling disease: Marco Polio…
7. My favourite jazz pianist and singer/opening prayer of the service on the eve of Yom Kippur: Nat King Kol Nidre…
8. My favourite Echo and the Bunnymen song about a punctuation mark: “Ellipse Like Sugar”
9. My favourite TV series about a Vietnamese Communist leader starring an east Asian woman: The Ho Chi Mindy Project…
10. My favourite Ghostbuster/Salieri portrayer: Bill F. Murray Abraham…
11. My favourite Atlanta Brave/television writer: Hank Aaron Sorkin…
12. My favourite The Martian actor/1930s writer: Matt Damon Runyon…
13. My favourite Batman character/Newfoundland actor: Commissioner Gordon Pinsent…
14. My favourite song and dance man/fantasy author: Gene Kelley Armstrong…
15. My favourite Roseanne Barr spouse/golf pro: Tom Arnold Palmer…
16. My favourite piano man/screenwriter and film producer: Billy Joel Coen…
17. My favourite sitcom curmudgeon/original Man from U.N.C.L.E. star: Larry David McCallum…
18. My favourite TV series set in the 60s about the power of pastries to spark memories: Madeleine Men…
19. My favourite mystery writer/source of illumination: Raymond Chandelier…
20. My favourite Marvel character/bread made by native Canadians: Bruce Bannock…
21. My favourite newspaper/Mr. Robot actor: The Globe and Malek…
22. My favourite children’s game/feminist theatre experience: The Heidi and Go Seek Chronicles…
23. My favourite TV spin-off series/right-wing’s radical leftie bogeyman: Better Call Saul Alinsky…
24. My favourite brand of gin/comic book film adaptation: Tanqueray Girl…
25. My favourite comedienne/boss: Kristen bigWiig…
26. My favourite gonzo rock star/mathematician: Ted Ramanujan…
27. My favourite actor in Sex and the City/form of free running: Sarah Jessica Parkour…
28. My favourite undoubtedly historically accurate figure/pop singer: Baldrick Astley…
29. My favourite Extant performer/Ethiopian emperor: Haile Berry Selassie..
30. My favourite director of Beatles films/musical about the French revolution: Richard Lester Miserables…
31. My favourite Ricky Martin song dedicated to a Norse trickster god: “Ma Vida Loki…”
A Few of My Favourite Things could become a few of your favourite things this month, if you’d only let them…
1. My favourite Canadian actor/long-legged freshwater and coastal bird: Don Heron…
2. My favourite novel about a nobody who rises to power through modern communications networks: A Face in the Cloud…
3. My favourite powder to spread on sore skin/black power activist: Talcum X…
4. My favourite dessert/TV nanny: Flan Drescher…
5. My favourite Daily Show correspondent/jeans material: Rob Corduroy…
6. My favourite Ultravox member/place to graze cattle: Midge Pasture…
7. My favourite original cast ghostbuster/Donald Trump supporter: Harold Ignoramus…
8. My favourite breakfast cereal/way to tie my hair: Captain Scrunchie…
9. My favourite photo finish/American spy: Matte Helm…
10. My favourite adventure writer/way of diverting water: Robert Sluice Stevenson…
11. My favourite Canadian media mogul/phrase indicating the same old same old: Izzy As Per Usual…
12. My favourite modernist poet/portrayer of Phillip Marlowe: T. S. Eliot Gould…
13. My favourite fairy/female comedian: Tina Fae…
14. My favourite TV series about a lawyer who cut Samson’s hair: L.A. Delilah…
15. My favourite Latina actor/vacation drink: Elizabeth Pena Coloda…
16. My favourite heavy metal band/Beverly Hills, 90210 star: Judas Priestley…
17. My favourite antidote to right wing media: a cure for what Roger Ailes you…
18. My favourite insect/American actress: Samantha Praying Mathis…
19. My favourite hair dye/Borscht Belt comedian: Henna Youngman…
20. My favourite side dish to eat on top of a mosque: Minaret Rice…
21. My favourite tent material/Murphy Brown actress: Canvas Bergen…
22. My favourite road on which to drive to a New Orleans post-secondary school: a Tulane highway…
23. My favourite Flash villain/beachwear: Eobart Thong…
24. My favourite Martin Scorsese film character/October holiday avatar: Rupert Pumpkin…
25. My favourite medical condition about a French boy adventurer: Tintinitus…
26. My favourite way for a horror writer to barely make a living: Stephen Eking…
27. My favourite college football team/magician team: Penn State and Teller…
28. My favourite political number cruncher before he was born: Neonate Silver…
29. My favourite Robert Altman film set in Scotland: Come Back to the Five and Dime, Aberdeen, Aberdeen…
30. My favourite Saturday Night Live cast member/unpleasant smell: Dan Acrid…
31. My favourite Greek goddess/deli delight: a Hera sandwich…