Paul Ford. Novels with spacemen. Anything starchy. Kittens. Budweiser in the bottle. Cigars. The Core. XML-related technologies. And I read one of those Left Behind books, where people are suctioned to heaven and the remaining folks form the “Tribulation Force” to bring the message of armageddon to the people and fight the antichrist.

Rebecca Dravos . (1) Adorable kitten calendars. April is a kitten in a frog hat. It's a sort of frog raincoat, actually. I'm looking at it right now. Why is it so sweet to dress one animal up as another? A little tree frog in a kitten outfit would be sweet, too. And ducklings, I like ducklings. I like to think about having my fingers nibbled by ducklings. (2) Kournikova. (3) Hold me closer, tiny dancer.

Scott Rahin . Shaved-bald women with herpes simplex. Believing in God. The time I did lines with a bunch of grad students upstate and we ran around in the woods naked firing guns at each other at random. Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers.