Favorite...
Movie? Oh, that’s hard, I like all sorts, from dark and twisted to sweet and uplifting, from serious to down right goofy including but not limited to: Trainspotting, Fargo, Amelie, Babe, Elf, Princess Bride, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Philadelphia Story, Casablanca, The Right Stuff, Strictly Ballroom, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Bicycle Thief, Goodbye Lenin, and yes, LOTR
TV show? Travel shows (I’m travel bug after all) like Rick Steves’ Travels in Europe, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, Globetrekker; British comedies and dramas, science and documentaries, and Dr. Who! (yeah, I’m a geek
) on PBS; Community, 30 Rock, Grey’s Anatomy, and Project Runway.
Web Show? :dontknow:
Music Genre? Really and truly, I love at least some of everything – all genres and eras - even including some rap which has been much maligned here
New Gadget? My Nokia Nuron which is a poor man’s (a really poor man’s) IPhone, but I love it.
Radio Station? RMF-FM Poland
Website other than CWE? Lonely Planet, Rick Steve’s Europe Through the Back Door, NBTS
Hobby? Travel – not much of that lately
, photography, reading, knocking the rust off my very rusty French and Spanish (basically relearning
), doting on my precious puppy
, puzzles (travel scenes of course), doing tai chi very poorly.
Book/Author? Classics, especially Jane Austen and E.M. Forster. More recent stuff: Anything by Roddy Doyle, Nick Hornby, Terry Pratchett, Bill Bryson, the late great Douglas Adams, and of course Tolkien and Rowling.
Magazine? National Geographic Traveler
Dwarf name? I should be either Cranky or Dorky