Oh, this is tough...okay, here goes: I like stargazing, bird-watching, bike-riding, bridge, and hiking; arguing about ideas; Monk and Cassandra Wilson, Velasquez and Cezanne, W. C. Fields and the Marx Brothers, "Breaking Bad" and "The Good Wife" and "Supernatural," food and wine and conversation; and bunches of other stuff. I don't like hypocrisy, posturing, and born-again right-wing yahoos. There's more, but talking about it works better. Oh...I'm good at technology, but not big on cell phones and social media.

I like to travel when possible; movies are a necessity; friends are a constant. Some freelance work. And let's not underestimate the value of indolence.

Writing, discovering both beauty and humor in situations, picking good restaurants, and finding parking places. I'm trying to become a better photographer.

The bandolier. Just kidding. I really don't know.

Is this a marooned-on-a-desert-island question? All of Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Hopkins, and Yeats; all of Bach, Monk, Rodgers & Hart, Sondheim, Dylan, Mitchell, Robert Johnson, and the Stones; all of Sturges, Hawks, Scorcese, Bergman, and Fellini; and Italian food and wine. And a good woman. And maybe a butler.

Friends and family, of course. As to the rest, see above.

This misbegotten farce that passes for civilization. We live in "interesting times." And for something completely different, consider what life would be like if we could perceive time in as many dimensions as we do space.

This is Gotham. What's typical?

I love being a curmudgeon.

You're into bandoliers.