Favorite people
Wallace Stegner, Rod Serling, Cab Calloway, Bob Odenkirk, W. Edwards Deming, Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Alvin Toffler, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Kurt Vonnegut, Bob Saunders, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Alan Saunders, R. William Gosper, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, J.R.R. Tolkien, Gary Gygax, Bertrand Russell, Hermes Trismegistus, Aleister Crowley, Paracelsus, Antoine Faivre, Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Favorite philosophers
Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Zeno, Wittgenstein, and Bertrand Russell
Favorite musical artists
America, Andrew Gold, Artie Shaw, Barbara Lewis, Bee Gees, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Billy Joel, Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Bobby Darin, Buddy Holly, Cab Calloway, Canned Heat, Carole King, Carpenters, Chet Baker, Chicago, Crosby Stills and Nash, Danny and the Juniors, Dion and the Belmonts, Django Reinhardt, Donny Osmond, Duke Ellington, Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Presley, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Fats Waller, Fleetwood Mac, Foreigner, Four Tops, Frankie Valli, George Harrison, Glenn Miller, Grass Roots, Jan and Dean, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, Joe Cocker, John Denver, Joni Mitchell, Jo Stafford, Kansas, Kay Kyser, Linda Ronstadt, Lou Christie, Marvin Gaye, Neil Sedaka, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Steely Dan, Steve Miller Band, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Styx, Tavares, The 5th Dimension, The Andrews Sisters, The Archies, The Association, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Boswell Sisters, The Byrds, The Chordettes, The Del Vikings, The Four Seasons, The Hollies, The Ink Spots, The Mamas and The Papas, The Merry Macs, The Miracles, The Modernaires, The Monkees, The Moody Blues, The Osmonds, The Pied Pipers, The Police, The Rascals, The Seekers, The Supremes, The Turtles, The Who, The Yardbirds, The Zombies, Todd Rundgren, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tommy James and the Shondells, Toto, Wings, Woody Guthrie
Favorite words and phrases
Agog, Anodyne, Aplomb, Avarice, Besotted, Bucolic, Bumptious, Burgeoning, Cacophony, Carceral, Ceteris paribus, Chironomia, Chrysalism, Churlish, Coterie, Crestfallen, De rigueur, Defenestration, Demurely, Dendrophile, Detritus, Détente, Doyen, Eponymous, Erudite, Erstwhile, Eudaemonia, Evanescent, Evince, Exculpate, Façon de parler, Factotum, Ferrier, Fledgling, Funambulist, Gestalt, Gimcrack, Glib, Homophily, In situ, Incorrigible, Jeremiad, Latibulate, Lilt, Loquacious, Lugubrious, Maudlin, Mellifluous, Mendacity, Mercurial, Memento mori, Merited, Mise en place, Modus vivendi, Nadir, Nescient, Obsequious, Ostentatious, Paean, Pangloss, Panopticon, Parochial, Paucity, Peerless, Perdurable, Pleonastic, Preternatural, Prim, Quel dommage, Recherche, Repartee, Ruefully, Salubrious, Salve, Sardonic, Sciolist, Sesquipedalian, Settee, Simpliciter, Sobriquet, Soi-disant, Somnambulant, Sonorous, Specious, Stentorian, Suum cuique, Tabouret, Tendentious, Twee, Vestige, Virgule, Vituperative, Weltanschauung, Þetta reddast, Rue, Sciolism
Favorite nonfiction books
- Microcosmographia Academica by F. M. Cornford
- Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
- Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies by Charles Perrow
- The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
- Esotericism in Western Culture: Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge by Wouter J. Hanegraaff
- Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming
- The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
- Anything by Wallace Stegner
Favorite science fiction and fantasy
- Conan the Barbarian by Robert E. Howard
- The fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
- The Lord of the Rings
- Dragonlance
- Forgotten Realms
- Neuromancer
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Brave New World
- Frankenstein
- Dracula
Favorite movies
Back to the Future, Conan the Barbarian (1982), Star Wars, Star Trek, Dead Poet's Society, Good Will Hunting
Favorite television shows
Twilight Zone, MASH, The Office, Mad Men, Rick and Morty, The Simpsons, Parks and Recreation, Perry Mason (HBO), Family Guy, Bob’s Burgers, Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Severance, Morning Show, Silicon Valley, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad
Favorite poems
- "Hellas," by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- "Kubla Khan," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Favorite places
Southern Utah, San Francisco, New Orleans