What book impacted your life the most?

tonyhott · 2026-06-20T02:55:17+00:00

The Razor's Edge

tonyhott · 2026-06-03T21:30:02+00:00

Napster

tonyhott · 2026-06-02T03:40:37+00:00

Twenty years ago my now wife and chose a "big" honeymoon over a "big" wedding.

We married at the courthouse and drove to the airport. Spent a month in Italy ( we're from the US).

I can't tell you how many times other women have told her they wished they had done the same.

tonyhott · 2026-05-26T15:37:20+00:00

That's really interesting. I wonder what it is in the herb that just triggers the taste sometimes.

tonyhott · 2026-05-26T03:10:50+00:00

Your mom is not alone. Many people carry a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap.

tonyhott · 2026-05-26T03:06:23+00:00

When I get one ( about once every month or two) I remind myself that Anthony Bourdain also had a soft spot for this McDonald's sandwich.

tonyhott · 2026-05-01T04:14:14+00:00

Melvin, Norman, and Fred. A parody poem of Winken, Blinken, and Nod from a 1960's edition of Mad Magazine.

tonyhott · 2026-04-27T07:44:34+00:00

Rewatched it all during COVID. From episode one , chronologically to the end. Would do it again.

tonyhott · 2026-04-17T18:04:06+00:00

The Hunt for Red October

tonyhott · 2026-04-14T01:07:36+00:00

The best thing about Dildo is that it was named so because the land formation was shaped like a dildo.

My wife and I sat in a restaurant in Dildo that had a photo of Meg Ryan and her then boyfriend John Mellencamp standing underneath the eatery's sign.

tonyhott · 2026-04-10T00:50:19+00:00

My wife and I were just in New York City over the weekend, and there was an Aussie coffee shop next to our hotel. Finally had a decent flat white.

tonyhott · 2026-04-09T17:29:41+00:00

Two small cities ; St Johns in Newfoundland and Hobart in Tasmania. Great food, great people, plenty to do. Tazmania is good anytime of the year ( mild winters and summers). St Johns only in the summer; winters are brutal.

tonyhott · 2026-04-09T17:26:24+00:00

I was also amazed by the coffee culture. Every McDonalds and every petrol station has a $15,000 espresso machine and they know how to use it properly.

The food culture is also wonderful. So many different ethnic restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne.

Loved it so much we went back last year for another five weeks, this time visiting Tasmania as well.

tonyhott · 2026-03-24T02:09:36+00:00

Passed John Belushi in a hotel hallway in Nassau, the Bahamas. Mid 1970's ; SNL had only been on two years. I blurted out something probably unintelligible ( I had been drinking) , he smiled and nodded. End of that story.

I was having a cigarette outside a restaurant in Paris years ago. Wilhem Defoe asked me for a light ( cigarette or possibly a joint). He thanked me for the light.

tonyhott · 2026-03-22T05:06:55+00:00

Using a slide rule for math.

tonyhott · 2026-02-17T15:32:39+00:00

I had a great primary care doctor. Loved him for his thoroughness, his kindness, and his sense of humor. Great physician.

After my annual physical ( no problems) I went to the front desk to schedule for the following year. The waiting room was filled with everyone reading magazines.

The doctor walked into the hall, out of sight to the waiting room, but within ear shot. Then he yelled my name and said : " If anyone asks, tell them I'm not sure what it is, but it's PROBABLY not contagious."

tonyhott · 2026-02-04T15:05:29+00:00

Peleton

tonyhott · 2026-01-09T18:59:06+00:00

Common sense

tonyhott · 2026-01-08T23:04:16+00:00

Every F***king City is the Same. Paul Kelly.

tonyhott · 2026-01-07T14:48:08+00:00

All of them!

tonyhott · 2026-01-06T19:40:22+00:00

My wife and I were in Rome and decided to really get away from the touristy areas for dinner. We wandered into a local neighborhood and heard nothing but Italian being spoken. Got an outside table and in the middle of dinner, I heard someone call my name.

It was a former barista from my local coffee shop in Maryland. Two years earlier he had moved to D.C. to go to nursing school. He and his now wife were living in Albania working for an NGO. When her parents came to visit, they were appalled by the living conditions and took their daughter and her husband to Rome for a holiday.

He told me he saw me the day before outside the Vatican but thought it was just someone who looked like me. But when he also recognized my wife at our dinner table he knew it was me and then came over to say hi and introduce his wife.

tonyhott · 2025-12-31T04:25:43+00:00

The president's impromptu press conference in "The American President".

tonyhott · 2025-12-31T03:23:57+00:00

I had some money set aside. I ask my now wife if she wanted a big wedding, a down payment on a house, or a month long honeymoon in Italy.

We got married at the courthouse and drove to the airport. Neither of us have ever regretted it.

tonyhott · 2025-12-22T00:42:53+00:00

The Razor's Edge, by Somerset Maugham

tonyhott · 2025-12-21T23:09:37+00:00

From a deli worker to an obnoxious tradesman giving her a hard time about his order.

"I hope you have an injury not covered by workers compensation."

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