UPDATE: This post has become a permanent page on the site that will be updated occasionally.
As a writer and really just a curious person, there are a ton of topics that I find interesting. I’m gonna use this post, which I will update or re-post with updates or probably end up just making a page on my site and update it whenever I feel like it. I might come in and tidy it up and put examples under some of these, which are really broad topics.
Sitcoms
Westerns, book & film
Highbrow soccer journalism
Data journalism
Author biographies/biopics
Surfing
Herman Melville
Liverpool Football Club
Texas history
Coming-of-age stories
Musician biographies
Books and/or essays on writing
Essay collections
Short story collections
Stats-based soccer analysis
Sports writing by novelists/literary authors
Books by comedians
Books about books
Indie films
Classic film
Classic Hollywood
Film history
The Classical World -Ancient Greece, Ancient Greek language, Ancient Rome
David Foster Wallace
iPad games that don’t require IAP
Playing with my dog
Homebrewing
Kombucha
IPAs
William Faulkner
Craft coffee roasters
Literary criticism
Scandinavian mythology
TCU Football
Seattle Seahawks
Instagram photographers
Hiking
The mountains
The beach
Staying indoors
Hard cider that isn’t disgusting
Trader Joe’s
#longreads, longform journalism, etc
Rhetoric, classical and otherwise
Aristotle
Plato
Nietzsche
Poetry, but not all poetry
the podcast, Literary Disco
Sitting on my roof, reading and drinking beer
Bourbon
Scotch
Regular whiskey
Texas barbecue
Old-fashioneds
Buying flowers for my wife
Browsing bookstores
Trying new bars/restaurants
Baked goods
Premium cable dramas
The occasional action movie
Kafka
Literary memoirs
Star Wars
David Mitchell
U2
Scandinavian music
Mellow electronic music to work to
Old school hip hop
Kanye West
The Beatles
English history
Genealogy
Wales
Thoreau
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Iliad/The Odyssey
The Aeneid
Shakespeare
Ovid’s The Metamorphoses
Native American culture and history
World War I & II stories that aren’t popular
Weird wikipedia pages
Investigative journalism
Fort Worth, TX
Austin, TX
Los Angeles
Inland Empire (CA)
Seattle, WA
The Texas-Mexico border
Europe
Anglo culture
Highbrow graphic novels
getpocket.com
Short sci fi films
Literary blogs
Screenwriting
Small presses
Hops
Cooking/baking
Harry Potter
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Wes Anderson films
Movies that Keira Knightley is in
90s-early 00s comedies
Premium cable comedies that aren’t popular
Most movies that Brad Pitt is in
Cilantro-based dishes
Good burritos
A few specific fast food/casual dining places
Beer bars
Whiskey bars
The ocean
Shipwrecks
Buried/Sunken treasure stories