Ward's links & favorites page
Authors/Books, TV & Movies, Music, Quotes
Useful sites:
Favorite sites:
Mount Washington
Observatory photo pages
Margaritaville
Despair, Inc.
You gotta love those Demotivators!
Chocolate sites:
Web
Seventypercent.com all you ever wanted to know about quality Chocolates
Local:
J
Dorian in Addison
Brief moment of fame:
Ward's brief glimpse thanks to a favorite author
Favorite Things...books, authors, TV shows, movies, musicians, quotes.
Favorite Authors and books
Stephen White
Harlan Coben
Patricia Cornwell
Jeffrey
Deaver
Dick
Francis
Carl Hiaasen
Jonathan Kellerman
Pat Conroy
Douglas
Adams
C. S. Lewis
Richard Adams Watership Down; The
Plague Dogs
R. L. Delderfield
To Serve Them All My Days
Richard Matheson Bid Time Return
(Somewhere in Time); What Dreams May Come
Robert Pirsig Zen and the Art of
Motorcycle Maintenance
TELEVISION SHOWS AND MOVIES
Favorite Television Shows (none of which are still
on the air; what does that say about my tastes?)
China Beach
Northern Exposure (Rob Morrow episodes)
Sports
Night
Mystery Science Theater 3000
(Joel Robinson episodes)
Twin Peaks
Ally McBeal
Joan
of Arcadia
Pushing Daisies -- can't believe they cancelled this. AND Eli
Stone! What are those idiots at ABC programming thinking? Let's cater to the
lowest levels...
Current
Friday Night Lights
Glee
The Simpsons
The Daily Show
Thanks to Michael, just started watching Dead Like
Me.
Favorite Movies, some classics, some not exactly
Older movies:
Casablanca
Harvey
(1950)
Creature from the Black
Lagoon (1954) underwater scenes shot at Wakulla Springs
Mr. Roberts
(1955)
Witness for the
Prosecution (1957)
Inherit the Wind
(1960)
The
Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Philadelphia Story
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
(1972)
Westerns
The Searchers
(1956)
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Sports
Bend it Like Beckham
Bull Durham
Chariots of Fire
Field of Dreams
Major League
More Recent Releases:
The Princess Bride
(if you want to buy or rent one from the list, this is the one)
Airplane
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai across the 8th Dimension
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Chocolat
Cold Mountain
Con Air
Fools Rush In
Gettysburg (Great historical novel - The Killer Angels -
faithfully made
into a movie, great music)
Groundhog Day
Her Alibi
Last of the Mohicans (lame story; great music, cast, and
scenery - the Biltmore, Blowing Rock)
My Cousin Vinny
Nobody's Fool
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Shawshank Redemption
Shrek
Somewhere in Time
Spanglish
The Sixth Sense
The Wedding Date
The Whole Nine Yards
Under Seige & Under Seige 2 Dark Territory
(Yes, they are Steven Seagal movies, but they are still
entertaining)
Wild Things
Yulee's Gold
(shot in North Florida)
ALMOST RECOMMENDED:
Bye Bye Love
Once Upon a Time in
Mexico - a bit gory, but I like Antonio Banderas
Working Girl
Shane - classic western, 1953
MUSICIANS AND MUSIC--favorite and recommended Musicians and Music links
Classical music on the radio:
WRR-101FM The City of Dallas-owned radio station not only pioneered the
local airwaves; WRR was the first licensed broadcast station
in Texas and one of the nation's five inaugural stations.
KING-FM Seattle's Classical Music station, available on-line.
Jimmy Buffett - The One and Only! Far and away, the Main Man
Mary
Chapin Carpenter
Leonard
Cohen
Secret Garden
Lesiem
Era
Gordon Lightfoot
Van
Morrison
Paul
Schwartz [Aria, Aria 2, State of Grace, State of Grace II, State of Grace
3...]
Bob Seger
Bruce
Springsteen
Dar Williams
Lucinda
Williams
Ian & Sylvia
Patsy Cline
Giovanni Gabrielli
Henryk Gorecki Symphony No 3; London Sinfonietta
version
QUOTATIONS & SAYINGS--a collection of notable quotations and utterances:
An Institutional Researcher's credo from Bob Seger's Against the Wind:
"Well, those drifter's days are past me now, I've got so much more to think about;
deadlines and commitments, what to leave in, what to leave out."
More Bob Seger: "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then..."
Albert Einstein: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and
expecting different results"
Franklin Covey: "If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."
C. S. Lewis: "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."
Mr. Spock
"Live Long and Prosper"
Airplane (audio
file)
"Surely you can't be serious."
"I am serious. And don't call me Shirley"
Douglas
Adams: The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
"So Long... and Thanks For All The Fish!"
"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
Ladislas Farago: Patton
"History would not be what it is, the record of man's crimes and follies, if
logic and decency governed its events and great decisions."
Groucho Marx:
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark
to read."
Yogi Berra:
"It ain't over 'till it's over"
"Did you know that ignorance and apathy are two of the biggest problems facing
us today?"
"I don't know and I don't care..."
A pessimist is seldom disappointed, an optimist frequently is.
On the inside of an Honest Tea bottlecap:
"No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway."