Top Five, September 15, 2015

1. E.C. Large, Sugar in the Air

2. Ample Hills Creamery Peppermint Pattie Ice Cream

3. Everything bagel with scallion cream cheese

4. Monarch butterflies in the garden, sipping on butterfly weed

5. The opening credits of Poirot

Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios.

Top Five, August 11, 2015

1. You Must Remember This, a podcast about Hollywood's "first hundred years" that combines cultural, social, political, and cinematic history, super smart and well-written

2. Superiority Burger's little veggie burgers wrapped up in brown paper, and everything else there. This is how I put it on Twitter, and it's true: eating a superiority burger is like eating a baby, if a baby were a veggie burger: unctuous, tender, delightful, and swaddled in a soft bun.

3. Running in Prospect Park

4. Orange wine

5. Anteater in a sweater and baby kangaroo, dramatic music: https://youtu.be/RV1kNamIR7M

Top Five, October 16, 2014

  1. Real fall weather
  2. Raymond Burr as an intensely calm, intensely terrifying stalker in Pitfall (1948)
  3. Lizabeth Scott, playing hope and resignation with equal precision in Pitfall (1948), leading one to wonder why she was never as big as Lauren Bacall 
  4. Cecil Beaton, The Glass of Fashion
  5. Fievel Mousekewitz, "Somewhere Out There"

An American Tail was Jimmy Stewart's final film.